Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1892--Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
This invention relates to certain detail improvements in machines for printing
railway and like tickets in one or more colours, the tickets being also numbered in
consecutive order while passing through the machine.
The annexed drawings show my invention.
Figure 1 is a front elevation.
Figure 2, plan.
Figure 3, part end elevation from left hand side of machine.
Figure 4, end view of left hand side of machine.
Figure 5, end view from right hand side of machine with fly wheel removed.
Figure 6, plan view below the top plate.
Figure 7, is a part sectional elevation of the appliance by which I effect a
reciprocating action of the ink distributing roller.
Figure 8, shows one end bearing by which the screw is supported.
Figure 9, represents the bearer of the opposite end by which the tube surrounding
the screw is supported for rotation by the band from the main shaft.
The machine consists of a base plate A, above which supported by pillars B, B,
is a plate Con which ticket columns D, D, are fitted for holding tickets of the
required sizes (superposed). The lower ends of the columns are slotted and a
pusher plate E works to and fro by lever F operated from cam G on main shaft H.
The shaft H has another cam I for giving the necessary lift and pressure to the
type box J for printing and numbering, said operations being effected by type
carried in chases and inked by traversing rollers K which take their supply of ink
at cach back travel from a feed roller L. The feed roller L has a reciprocating
end on motion by appliances hereafter described while being rotated by a band R
from the main shaft H.
The tickets in passing from one column to another pass along a slit in a hinged
plate T, which slit when the plate T is locked coincides with those of the columns.
The hinging of the plate facilitates the removal and the replacing of the chases
and the type in position in an easy and expeditious manner.
In the arrangement for effecting the reciprocating motion of the ink distributing
roller, I fix the screw a which has a right and left hand thread upon it, as shown
by a clutch band pin c, said clutch projecting from the bearing d, so that the tube e
is free to rotate upon the end of the screw and supported by it. The opposite end
of the screw a is hollow and a projection of the short spindle g is stepped into
it with two prongs h, i, of the spindle y engaging in notches j, k, of the tube e for
rotation therefrom. Within the feed roller L is a double ended lever / centred
on a sleeve m inside the roller L, the ends of the lever having teeth n, n, to
engage alternately into the threads of the screw a at the termination of each end
on travel of the roller L, the ends of the lever being tapered or inclined to
engage under a stop or collar fixed on the upper plate C for putting the teeth of
that end of the lever into gear with the screw a. The teeth of the lever are so
arranged in relation to the inclines and collars that as one set leaves the threads the
other begins to engage and so on alternately.
Single (railway) tickets as well as return tickets can be printed in the same

page_text: machine and in one or more colours, the necessary inks being used with separate
distributing and feed rollers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. In a railway and like ticket printing machine, the arrangement of levers F F
for operating the ticket pusher E, the lever M for operating the ink distributing
roller K, and the lever J for lifting the printing devices from a compound cam G, I,
on the main shaft H, as herein set forth and substantially as shown on the
drawings.
2. The combination of appliances and their operation as above described for
effecting automatically the reciprocating or end on travel of the inking roller of
railway and like ticket printing machines as described and as shown in the annexed
drawings.
Inis 13th day or July 1892.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John Lewthwaite.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John Lewthwaite.