GB483986A - A new or improved ticket cancelling machine - Google Patents

Abstract

483,986. Ticket printing and cancelling machines. CLAYTON DEWANDRE CO., Ltd., and HARRIS, W. P. July 28, 1936, No. 24497/35. [Class 106 (iii)] [Also in Group XVI] Relates to a portable ticket-marking machine which enables the conductor of a vehicle to prevent the improper use of return tickets, the marking mechanism being adjustable by hand to print a date, number or other identifying mark on the inserted ticket, perforations being simultaneously made in the ticket by elements passing through the inkingribbon, which thereby colours the edges of the perforations. The ticket having been inserted through a slot 13 in the casing 1, the conductor depresses a pivoted lever 8 bearing a plunger 4, which is thus forced downwards against a spring 14 carrying with it a slidable carriage 3 on which are mounted the perforating elements 43, the shaft 11 of the adjustable printing wheels 2, and the spools 16, 17 of the inking ribbon 15, which also extends round guides 19 fixed to the casing. By releasing a locknut 40, part of the casing may be opened and swung about a pivot 38 to permit the hand adjustment of the printing wheels 2, which may be held in position by spring-pressed balls 34 engaging sockets therein. One printing wheel 2a may be adjusted by an external knob 42. The ribbon feed is effected by a pawl 20 which may be swung by a tail 23 into the inoperative position to permit rewinding of the ribbon, a notched pawl 28 holding the pawl 20 in one or other position.