715,040. Ticket-issuing machines. BELL PUNCH CO., Ltd. June 30, 1952 [July 23, 1951], No. 17432/51. Class 106 (3) A ticket issuing machine comprises in combination means for feeding a web of paper through the machine in predetermined lengths at a time, for severing in succession each predetermined length of paper from the web, for receiving the leading end of each length of paper as it is severed and printing requisite data on the paper and for receiving at least the leading end of the printed length of paper during the printing operation and directing the same towards a stacker and thereafter feeding the printed length of paper to the stacker after the printing operation has been completed. At each machine cycle the ticket strip 3, Fig. 1, is fed one ticket length by rollers 1, 2 through a channel 35, past the guillotine 4, 5 into the channel 38 between the printing drum 15 and the impression roller 7, then between the rollers 9 and 10 to a stacker 11. The printing drum 15 carries printing members 6, 6<SP>1</SP>, 8 and 8<SP>1</SP> and is driven from an electric motor through a gear train 32, 14. As each ticket is printed its leading edge passes between the roller 10 and a flat 21 of the roller 9 which is driven through a Geneva mechanism so that when the ticket is printed the surface 22 of the roller 9 feeds the ticket into the stacker 11 where it is held by a resiliently mounted pivoted plate 12. The stacker 11 is movable in a shield 31 and is carried by an arm 24 pivoted on a spindle 25 and having a plate 27 carrying a roller 28 which co-operates with a rotating cam 29. The plate 27 carries a latch member 75 which, during a machine cycle is engaged by a latch member 74 so that the stacker 11 is retained at the bottom of the shield 31 and the tickets therein are inaccessible. A pinion 46 carrying a plate with two lobes 47 is rotated from the printing drum through gearing arranged so that after a predetermined number of revolutions of the drum 15, in this case after five tickets have been printed and stacked, a lobe 47 engages a pin 48 on a disc 49 which is moved clockwise to move a lever 71 and disengage the latch members 74, 75 whereupon the roller 28 is moved by the spring 30 to the bottom of the cam 29 and the stacker 11 is thereby raised to the top of the shield 31 so that the tickets may be manually removed. The latch members 74, 75 may be re-engaged by depression of a machine actuating key 13. Guillotine mechanism.-Once every machine cycle before ticket printing a roller 101 attached to the gear 32 rocks counter-clockwise a pivoted shoe 102 which moves a bell-crank 65 clockwise and a rod 67 carried thereby moves the blade 4 over the blade 5 to cut the ticket strip. The blade 4 is returned when the roller 101 engages the arm 104 of the bell-crank 65. Specification 715,041 is referred to.