6117. Ohmer, W. I., and Kelch, W. M. Dec. 3, A.D. 1897, [date claimed under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Platen presses; dating tickets.-The apparatus prints upon a ticket the time of starting or stopping, the day of the month, the amount of fare, the distinguishing number of the starting or stopping station, and, on the back, an advertisement ; it also shows the time on a clock, the number of the starting or stopping station on a dial, and the value of the fare through an aperture, and on two counters the total number and total value of the fares paid. The printing-platen 45 has time-type 45<a>, Fig. 7, level with its face, the hand being bevel-geared with the clock A as shown at 76, 75, 72, 71, 70, Fig. 3. A little plate 46, adjustable by a knob 46<a>, sets the letter A or P into printing position, so that A.M or P.M. is printed. A type-wheel 15 is adjusted by repeated strokes on the push-rod G, carrying a pawl engaging a ratchet-wheel, so as to print the ' amount of fare.' Each stroke of the rod G rings a bell, actuates the 'total value of fares' counter B', and, by an independent pawl and ratchet mechanism, turns a notched indicating-disc C which shows the value of the fare through an aperture in the casing. The dating-wheels 8, 7a, 7<b>, Fig. 7, are set by hand, the units wheels 7<a> being adjusted by gear operated by a turn-button 9<b>, Fig. 2. The wheel 4 prints the distinguishing-number of the starting and stopping station ; it is bevel-geared, as shown at 2, 3, to a turn-button shaft F, which is attached to a correspondingly-numbered dial moving under a fixed pointer. Supposing now that all the type has been set, the printing is effected by pulling down the rack bar H by means of the handle H<1>. The pin 51, engaging a slot 50 in the bell-crank lever 49, 47, swings an inking-roller 44, carried by a spring-pressed pivoted trough 44<a>, over the face of the type, Fig. 6, and the pin or roller 60 rocks the slotted lever 65, which, by means of a pin 68, raises the pressure pad 63 to take an impression on the ticket strip I<1>. A pin 61 on the bar H rocks the lever 92 at the end of the stroke, and so actuates the counter D<1> showing the number of tickets issued or of persons carried. The return of the bar H is effected by a coiled spring on the sleeve of the pinion 52, which is wound up by the down-stroke. This return stroke, by a pawl and ratchet-wheel, advances the feed-rollers 54, 55, the former of which may be inked by a roller 56 and print an advertisement on the back of the ticket ; the printed ticket is thus fed out of the machine through a slit. A pin 16<d>, Fig. 3, on the roller 54 strikes a lever 16<c> and releases the detent pawl of the type-wheel 15, which is then returned to zero by a spring. The fare-indicating disc C is fitted with a returning-spring, but it is not returned to zero with its corresponding printing- wheel 15, but remains set until the next operation of the machine. For this purpose, two retaining- pawls, engaging respectively the driving-ratchet of, and the notches in, the disc, are so operated by cams while the apparatus is being set and actuated that the indicator disc is free only at the beginning of the first re-setting stroke of the rod G for a new fare the indicating-disc then springs