US1190489A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

Description

E, J. VON PEIN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1, 1913.

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Patented July 11, 1916.

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CASH REGISTER.

I APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1' 1913.

Patented July 11, 1916.

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EDWARD J. VON PEIN, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER,

COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented July 11, 1916.

T all whom it may concern 'l acitizen of the United States, residing at.

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. Von Pr m,

Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Cash-Registers, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to cash registers or acounting machines and has particular reference to the printing mechanism of such machines. I v

While one object of the invention is to provide a ticket issuing machine that is simple in construction and can be manufactured at a low cost, and in the following description and the accompanying drawings the inventionis treated as applied to a cash rifgister designed for use in a theater ticket o co, it is not the intention to limit the use of the idea to such machines.

The invention is a broad one and is applicable in various forms to cash register and accounting machine printing mechanisms in general, and not simply to the printing mechanisms of machines designed for one particular line of business.

In previous constructions the value printing type carriers and the paper feeding devices have been entirely separate and distinct, but operated in certain relations one to the other by a main operating mechanism.v

In the present construction, and this is a broad object of the invention, the type carrying and paper feeding functions are combined in one element, thereby greatly simplifying the construction of the printing mechanism and lessening the chances of its getting out of adjustment. It should be understood, however, that it is not the desire to be limited to a feeding element such as is shown in this embodiment of the improvement, as

the idea can be applied to many other forms ofv feeding or impression devices with just as'satisfactory results. 1

In the construction disclosed by this application a paper feeding element carries a plurality of independent type carriers each bearing thecharacters to representone of thekeys on the keyboard.

Another object of the invention is to provide devices which are positively and diiferentially positioned when a key is pressed so that the type carrier corresponding to the key used will be inked and caused to make an impression when the paper is fed by the feeding device.

As applied to show ticket issuing machines one object of the invention is to provide a machine that will print and issue tickets of admission as they are called for by patrons. In thisway the expense of providing and carrying on hand more tickets than may be needed is done away with and there is no possibility of losses on account of valid tickets being stolen from the ticket office.

Another object is to provide a simply constructed ticket issuing machine in which the amounts received for tickets are automatically added on a totalizer as the tickets are issued.

With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims, and a preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of the specification.

-Of said drawings: Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a cash register and shows a part of the improvement assembled in position. Fig. 2 is a left side elevation of a cash register with the outside frame of the printing mechanism removed. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view' of the paper feeding and printing cylinder. Fig. 4: is a rear view partly in section of the paper feeding and printing cylinder and shows the amount printing when in position in the machine. Fig. 6 rep-- resents a ticket issued by the illustrative ma chine.

The cash register in which this embodiment of the invention is shown is the one fully described in United States Letters Patent 580,378 granted April 13th, 1897, to J. P. Cleal and F. A. Reinhard, while the printing cylinder used is shown and described in United States Letters Patent 5 11,2 17 issued June 18th, 1895, to William Murphy. Reference may be had to those patents for a complete description of such parts of the register and cylinder as are not described drum carrying printing plungers, one for each of the keys of the machine, bearing characters corresponding to the captions on their respective keys. Depressin a key to record thesale of a ticket positively positions acam bearing device inside of the drum so-that when the cylinder is rotated in the operation of the machine the plunger corresponding to the key depressed will be ,carried across the projections of the corresponding cam and forced out twice; the first time to receive ink from an ink rol and the next time to print on'the ticket 1 s being fed through. During the operation the' amount received for the ticket is automatically added on a totalizer. The printer is so arranged that the ticket is issued at the rear of the machine. The purpose of this is to' make it possible to place the the front or key side towar and with the receiver into n gister with the operator is issued extending through the ticket wini and 3 respectively (see Fig. 1). hen one is loosely journaled on a shaft .d0w.-- This makes the ticket accessible to and would the patron but not to the oper o resell used make noticeable any attemp= tickets.

Explaining the machine in decal? and with reference to the drawings, the 5e, 1 and 15 keys are represented by the numerals 1, 2

of these keys is pressed in it is held in the depressed position'by a 'd'etent 1 and a retaining bar with the inner end of the key extending into the path of trip 71 for the latch 72 carried by a seg it 73 which Attached to the shaft 74 is a plate 7 5 and attached to the shaft 77, which is one of the main driving shafts of the machine and is given a complete rotation on every operation of the machine, is a crank 78. A link 79 connects the cranks 76 and 78. As the crank 78 is shorter than the crank 76, every 1 the ticket a crank 7 6,

time the shaft 77 rotates the shaft 74 and the plate 75 attached to it are rocked through an arc of about 90. At the beginning of the operation the latch 72 engages the plate 7 5 and the segment 73 is carried up until the latch trip 71 strikes the end of the key de pressed, tripping the latch and disconnecting the segment 73 from the plate 75 and projecting the end of the latch 72 into engagement'with a notch such as shown at 81 in a plate attached to the key frame and holding it in engagement until the operation of the machine is completed. The teeth of the-segment 73 are always in engagement with the teeth of a gear 811 and during the time the segment is moving the gear 811 is rotated, and, of course, it stops when the segment 73 is stopped by the tripping of the latch 72. This differential movementof the segment 73 and the gear 811 is transmitted through av gear 82 and an intermediate pinion 83 to a totalizer wheel 6, causing the totalizer wheel to be rotated the proper number of divisions to represent the value of the key depressed. The gear 811 also transmits the differential motion to an indicator 84 through a pinion (not shown) rigid with the gear 811 and meshing with a gear 85 attached tothe side of an indicator 84. This mechanism is shown and described in greater detail in the Cleal and Reinhard patent cited above and reference may be had to that the register, an impression'roll 9 attached to a shaft 10 journaled in printer side frames 11 and 12 (Figs. 2, 3 and 4), the inking roll 13 turning on azrod 14: supported by the printer side frames 11 and 12, and the knives 15 and 16 for severing tickets from a ticket strip 17. Attached to the shaft 10 and between the inner printer frame 11 and the machine frame 18 is a gear 19 always in mesh with a gear 21 attached to the driving shaft 7. Each time the shaft 7 is rotated both the impression roll 9 and the cylinder 8 are given complete rotations. A supply roll 22 of ticket strip 17 is carried on a stub shaft 23 in the casing of the machine and the paper passes from this supply roll u over a guide 24 between the cylinder 8 an the impression roll 9 and through the slot of a paper guide 25 to the knives 15 and 16.

After the ticket has been printed and fed the proper distance it is severed from the ticketstrip by the knives 15 and 16 and drops in a receiver 26. The ticket strip is fed from the supply roll 22 by the feeding flange 27 attached to the cylinder 8 and a the ticket from top vto bottom depends upon the length'of the flange 27 and plate 28, as the longer they are the. longer they grip the paper and the more paper is pulled from the supply roll on each operation of the machine. Attached to the end nearest the machine of the impression roll 9 is a cam with a groove 31. In this groove there operates an anti-friction roll 32 carried by an arm 33 pivoted at 34 to the inside printer frame 11 and at 35'to a laterally extending plate 36 which is slidably mounted at one side in a guide way 37 which is a part of the inside printer frame 11. Attached to the plate 36 isthe upper knife 16. It will be seen that each time the impression roll isrotated the knife 16 will be'carried down so that it. will act in connection with the lower knife 15,

.which is rigidly attached to the printer frame 11, in such a way as to sever the ticket strip 17, after which the knife 16 is returned to its original position.

. are normally'held against the disks. 43 by As shown in Fig. 3 the cylinder 8 carries wheels 38 for printing the consecutive numbers of the tickets issued and wheels 41 for printingthe date on which the ticket was sold. 1 Above and below the space through which these wheels extend there may be attached type carriers in the form of electros to print advertising matter or announcements such as are shown on the sample ticket in Fig; 6. This construction is fully explained in the Murphy patent above cited and needs no detailed description here. The usual shellofthe cylinder is extended so as to provide a drum or compartment in which the amount printing mechanism of this invention is placed (see Fig. 4).. Mounted in the shell of the drum and extending through suitable holes in the plate 28 are plungers 42. The heads of these plungers springs 40 pressed between the heads of the .plungers and the inside of the plate 28.

The disks 43 and a series of cams 44, 45 and 46 for operating the 5,' 10 and 15 plungers respectively are all rigidly fastened to a shaft 7 which is in axial alinement with the drive shaft 7 and is 'journaled-at one end in the outside printerframe 12, thereby forming one of the supports on which the cylinder turns, and has/the other end rotating freely in a bearing provided in the transverse wall 47 separating the two compartments of the cylinder. The outer end of the compartment in which the amount the teeth of which the gear 49 attached to the shaft 7. lVhen one of the registering printing devices are located is closed after the parts are assembled in position by a cap plate 48. This cap plate is fastened to the cylinder shell and turns with the cylinder independent of the shaft 7 Secured to the shaft 7 and adjoining the cap plate shaft of. the key. When the keys are pressed in these pins strike a lever 52 rigidly attached to a rock shaft 53 'journaled in the key bank frame 50, the casing 24 .and the printer frames 11 and 12. A stop stud 62 holds the lever 52 in the position shown, While a stud 63 serves as a stop to fix the greatest extent of movement possible for the lever. The'lever 52 is so graduated that the pin of each key will impart a different extent of movement to the lever and consequently turn the rock shaft different de grees. Attached to the end of the rock shaft 53 just inside of the outside printer frame 12 isa long gear segment 54 (Fig. 2) are always in mesh with keys is pressed in and the shaft '53 rocked the segment 54 is swung up a distance depending upon which key is pressed, rotating the gear 49, the shaft 7 and the cams attached to the shaft to bring the proper one of the cams into effective position. Vi hen the depressed key is released near the end of the operation of thema chine the force of gravity is depended upon to pull the segment 54 downwardly, thereby restoring it and its associated parts to normal position. It is obvious, of-course, that a spring may also be employed to assist the force of gravity in restoring these parts to normal. The shape and axillary displacement of the cams 44, 45 and 46 on the shaft 7 are bestshown in Fig. 5. Each cam has two operating projections, one to operate its plunger 42 to take ink from. the ink roll 13 and the other to operatethe plunger to make an impression on the ticket. The projections to operate the plungers to take ink are designated by the numeral 55 and the proections to operate them to make the im-' pressionare designated by thenumeral 56 t Fig. 5). When a key is depressed the ink--- ing projection 55, of the corresponding cam will be o posite the oint 57 of the ink roll 13 and the impression-operating projection 56 will be opposite the'printing line 58 of theimpr'ession roll 9. The cams remain in this position while the machine is operated. During the operation the cylinder is rotated. carrying the plungers along and causing them to pass over the projections 55 and 56 of their cams. However, the cams are spirally mounted around the shaft 7*- in such a way that only one of the cams has might rotate the shaft 7 As the segment far enough to bring the feeding ated out of effective position they neither ink nor print.

' As so far described it will be seen that the friction between the plungers 42 and their operatingcamswould have a tendency to cause the cam to be carried along with the plungers'whenthey come in contact. This raising the segment gear 54 and rocking the shaft 53 until the lever 52 was stopped by the stop stud 63, which would result in printing 15 on every operation regardless of the key pressed. To prevent this there is provided a pawl 64 (Fig. 2) loosely pivoted at 65 to the outside printer frame 12 with a nose 66 resting .in the notches of a plate 67 attached to the side of the segment gear 54. I 54 is raised and lowered during operation the nose of the pawl passes idly over the teeth of the plate. However, as soon as the segment gear 54 has been placed by the key and the machine operated plate 28 (Fig. 5) into contact withthe extension 68 of the pawl 64, the nose 66 of the pawl is firmly held in engagement with the teeth of the plate 67 until both the inking and printin movements of the plungers are com pleted. In'this way the drag of the plungers 42 across the projections of their cams is prevented from displacing the cams and causing the wrong amounts to be printed.

To summarize the operation. of the device, a brief description of what occurs when a 15 ticket is sold will next be given. The

15 key 3 (Fig. 1) is pressed in and retained in its depressed position by mechanism provided for that purpose. As the key is forced in it contacts the graduated lever 52 and rocks the shaft 53 to which the lever is attached and carries the gear segment 54 attached to the same shaft a corresponding distance. The gear segment rotates shaft 7 carrying the series of cams each having two projections 55 and 56, the first to ink the type and the latter to print on the ticket aper. These cams are so arranged on their shaft 7 -that the projections of only one of the cams will be at the inking and printing positions during an operation so that while all of the plungers are operated during a rotation of the cylinder which carries them, only one of the plungers will ink'and print. After the cams have been positioned so that the one corresponding to the 15 key has its projections in the effective positions and the mechanism is started the, segment gear is locked in position by the pawl 64 so that it cannot be displaced until near the end of the operation of the machine. Then as the and the gear 49,

susceptible of all coming within the scope of the claims until it reaches the extension 56 on the cam 46, when it is again cammed out so the type make an impression on the ticket paper 17. Further operation serves ticket strip and allows it to drop into the receiver provided for that purpose and the weight of the segment 54 causes it to drop back to normal, thereby returning all of the parts of the device to the positions shown in the drawings.

\Vhile the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfil the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein shown and described, as it is embodiment in various forms,

which follow.

What is claimed is 1. In a machine of the class described, the combination of its type being capable of movement indea movable type carrier,

pendent of movement of the carrier, means for moving the carrier, means for imparting independent movement to all of the type in an invariable sequence during the movement of the carrier, a platen, and means for determining which type is to be moved while take an impression.

2. In a machine of the combination with a driving means, of a type carrier driven by said driving means, the type being capable of movement independent of the movementof their carrier, means for giving the independent movement to all of the type in an invariable sequence, a platen, and means for determining which type is to be moved while in cooperative relation with said platen.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a movable type carrier, its type being capable of movement independent of the movement of the carrier, means for moving the carrier, means for imparting independent movement to all of the type during the movement of their carrier, a platen, an ink supplying device, and manipulative means for determining which tvpe will be moved while in cooperative relation with the inking device and the platen.

4. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a platen, a.movable type carrier, its type class described, the

in cooperative relation with said platen to the ticket from the longitudinally of the type carrier, cams for pro ecting all of the type from the carrier I durlng 'an ,operation of the driving mechcrating devices,

'anism, a platen, and a pluralit whereby said cams may be di eren'tially positioned to project any desired type While in cooperative relation with the platen.

- 6. In a machine of the class described, the combination with operating devices, of a platen, a rotary means for projectingall of the type from the carrier during an operation of the opdetermining the in cooperative relation with the platen.

7. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a ticket issuing mechanism comprlsmg an element having an invariable combination of a ticket issuing mechanism 4 able movement on anism,

movement on every operation of said mecha plurality bodily by said invariably moved element and manipulative means for predetermining which of said type carriers is to print onan operationof the ticket issuing mechanism.

8. In a machine of the class described, the

comprising an element having an invariable movement on every operation of the mechanism, a plurality plungers carried bodily by said invariably moved element, and manipulative means for predetermining whlch of said plungers is to print on said operation. I 9. In a machine of the class described, the

combination of afticket issuing mechanism comprising an element having an. invarievery'operation of the mechanism, a plurality of-type carriers car ried by said invariably moved element, ma

nipulative devices, and vmeans differentially positioned by said manipulative devices to predetermine whichof said type carriers is to print on the ticket issued. w

10. In a machine of the class described,

the combination of a ticket issuing mechaan inkin nism comprising an element having an immovement on every operatlon ofvariable the mechanism, carried by said roll, means di erentially positioned by said ma- ,a plurality of type carriers invariably moved element,

' nipulative devices-to predetermine which of said type carriers is to be inked on tion. of said mechanism. I

of keys ffrom the carrler at an operation type carrier, its type being arranged longitudinally of the type carrier,

and manipulative means 'for type to .beprojected whileerate with the eration of the o crating mechanism.

of type carriers carried .erating all of thetype of type bearing manipulative devices, and

an opera- -manipulat1ve means for 11. In a machine of the combination with printing devices comprising an element havlng an invariable movement on every operation of the mechanism, of a plurality of type carriers carried bodily by said invariably moved elethe class described, I

ment,fdevices for giving said type carrierssaid devices to predetermine which of the typecarriersiS to be given an excursion while in cooperative relation with said platen. v

12. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a type carrier. carrying aplurality of alined type, means for moving alltype of the machine, a platen, and means for determining which type will cooperate with the platen to print on an operation of the operating mechanism. 13. In a machineof the'class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a type carrier carrying a plurality of alined type, means for moving all type from thecarrier at an operation of the machine, a platen, and manipulative devices for predetermining which type will coopplaten to ineof the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a plurality of type, means for opdurin an operation of the operating mechanism ut not simultaneously, a platen,- and means for prede- 14. In a mac print on an optermining which of the operated type is to cooperatewith said platen. 15. In a machine of the class described, the combination-with a ticket feeding element,

ofa plurality of type carriers carried by said 1 feeding element, and manipulative means for determining which of said type carriers is to print on a ing' element.

' 16. Ina machine of the class combination with an operating mechanism, ofa ticket issuing mechanism comprising a feeding evice having an invariable extent of movement, a plurality of n operation of the ticketfeedprinting ele- I described, the

ments carried by said feeding device, and

manipulative means for. predetermining which of said printing elements is to print 17. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a register operating mechanism, of aprinting mechanism comprising an element to feed a recordm aterial on each operation of said register operatingmechanism, a plurality of printing elements carried bodily by said feeding element, and predetermining which of said printing elements is to print an operation of the operating mechanism.

ment. I

.type carriers is to operate the main operating 18. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, ofa ticket issuing mechanism comprising a feeding device having an invariable extent of movement, a plurality of printing elements carried by said feeding device, means for inking said printing elements, and manipulative means for predetermining which of said printing elements 18 to be inked on an operation of the operating mechanism.

19. In a machine of the class described, the combination with ticket issuing devices comprising a rotatable paper feeding cylinder, of a plurality 'of type bearing plungers carried bodily by said feeding cylinder when it rotates, and a plurality of keys for determining which of said plungers is to print on a rotation of the paper feeding cylinder.

20. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main operating mechanism, of a ticket printing mechanism comprising a rotatable paper feeding element, a plurality of type carriers carried bodily by said feeding element when it rotates, and means for predetermining which of said on an operation of mechanism.

21. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a ticket printing mechanism comprising a rotatable paper feeding element, a plurality of normally ineffective printing elements carried bodily by said feeding element when it rotates, and manipulative means for selectively rendering said printing elements effective to print on an operation of the operating mechanism.

22. In a machine of the class described, the

combination with an operating mechanism,

of an accounting device, manipulative devices for determining amounts to be entered in the accounting device by operations of the operating mechanism, ticket issuing devices comprising a feeding element, plurality of independent printing elements carried by said feeding element; and means controlled by the aforesaid manipulative devices for determining which of said printing elements is to print on *an' operation of the operating mechanism. I I

23. In a machine of the. class described, the combination with a registering device, of a ticket issuing mechanism comprising a paper feeding element, a common operating mechanism for said registering device and ticket feeding element, a plurality of type carriers carried by said feeding element, and manipulative means for determining which of said type carriers is to print on an operation of said common operating mechanism.

24. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a registering device, of operating mechanism therefor, manipulative the combination with ticket issuing devices for determining amounts to be entered in the registering device by operations ofan operating mechanism, ticket issuing devices comprising a feeding element, a plural ity of printing elements carried by said feeding element, and means controlled by the aforesaid manipulative devices for predetermining which of said printing elements is to print on an operation of the operating mechanism.

25. In a machine of the class described, devices comprising a rotatable paper feeding cylinder, of a plurality of type bearing plungers carried bodily by said feeding cylinder when it rotates, a plurality of keys, and a plurality of cams differentially positione by said keys to predetermine which of said type bearing plungers is to print on a rotation of the aforesaid paper feeding cylinder.

26. In a. machine of the class described, the combination with a main operating mechanism, of an accounting device, value determining keys under the control of which amounts are entered in said accounting device by operations of the main operating mechanism, a printing mechanism comprising a rotatable cylinder which carries devices to feed a ticket and print thereon the consecutive number, date and amount of each transaction entered in the accounting device, and devices positively positioned by operation of the value determining keys whereby the value represented by the key used will be printed on the ticket when the aforesaid cylinder is rotated.

27. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an accounting device an operating mechanism therefor, of a ticket issuing device comprising an element to feed a ticket on each operation of the accounting device operating mechanism, a plurality of amount printing devices carried by said ticket feeding element, and means for predetermining which of said amount printing devices is to print on an operation of the aforesaid operating mechanism.

28. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a totalizer, of an operating mechanism therefor, means for predetermining the amounts to be entered in the totalizer by operations of the operating mechanism, a ticket issuing mechanism comprising a rotatable feeding element, a plurality of normally ineffective printing elements carried bodily by said feeding element, and devices positively operated by the aforesaid predetermined means for selectively rendering said printing elements effective.

29. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an accounting machine, of a plurality of manipulative devices for entering amounts in said accounting machine, a ticket printing mechanism comprising a rotatable paper feeding device, a plurality of normally ineffective prmtmg elements carried bodily by said rotatable paper feeding device, and means whereby operation of one of aforesaid manipulative devices to enter an amount in the accounting machine will render a certain one of the printing elements effective.

30. In a machine of the class descrlbed, the combination with an account ng machine, of a plurality of manipulative devices for entering amounts in said accounting machine, a ticket printing mechanism comprising a rotatable feeding device having an invariable extent of movement, a plurality of printing elements carried bodily by said rotatable paper feeding device, and means differentially positioned when any of the aforesaid manipulative devices is operated whereby the printing element corresponding to the manipulative device used will be rendered effective to print on an operation of the accounting machine.

31. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a movable type carrier, its type being capable of movement 1ndependent of movement of the carrier, of means for moving the carrier, means for 1mparting independent movement to all of the type in an invariable sequence during the movement of the carrier, a platen, an ink supplying device, and means for determining which type is to be moved while in cooperative relation with said platen and ink supplying device.

32. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a platen, an inking device, ,a movable type carrier, its type being arranged to come simultaneously in cooperative relation to the platen, means for projecting all of the type from the carrier during an operation of the operating mechanism, and means for determining the type to be projected while in cooperative relation with the platen and the inking device.

33. In a machine of the class described, the combination with driving mechanism, of a rotary type carrier, the type being arranged longitudinally of the type carrier, cams for projecting all of the type from the carrier during an operation of the driving mechanism, a platen, and means whereby said cams may be positioned differentially to project any desired type while in cooperative relation with the platen.

34. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a ticket issuing mechanism, comprising an element having an invariable movement on 'every operation of the mechanism, of a plurality of type bearing plungers carried bodily by said invariably moved element, and selectively operated to print and manipulative means for selecting the plungers to print.

35. In a machine of theclass described, I

' ment, of a plurality of type carriers carried by said feeding. element, printing meanscooperating with the type. carriers, an inking device, .and manipulative means for determining Which of said type carriers is to be inked and to print on an operation of the ticket feeding element.

37. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a ticket issuing mechanism, comprising a feeding device having an invariable extent of movement, a plurality of printing elements carried by said feeding device and selectively operated to print on tickets, means for inking the printing elements selected to print, and means for selecting the printing elements to be inked and to print. I

38. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a ticket issuin device, comprising a rotatable paper fee ing cylinder, of a plurality of type bearing plungers carried bodily by said feeding cylinder and selectively operated to print, and means for selecting which of the plungers is to print during a rotation of the paper feeding cylinder.

. 39. In a machine of the class described,

the combination with an operating mechanism, of a ticket printing mechanism comprising a rotatable paper feeding element, a plurality of normally inefi'ective printing elements carried bodily by said feeding element when it rotates, and means for selectively rendering said printing elements effective to print on an operation of the operating mechanism.

40. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a movable type carrier, its type being selectively actuated to print during movement of the carrier, of

means for selectively actuating the type to.

print. I v

41. In a machine of the class described, the combinatlon with a rotatable type carrier, its type being selectively actuated to 43. In a machine of the class described, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature the combination with an inking device, of inthe presence of two witnesses.

a movable type carrier its type being selecv tively actuated to be inl ed and to print dur- EDWARD VON PEIN' 5 ing movement of the carrier, a printing Witnesses:

platen coiiperating with the type carriers, R. G. GLAss, and means for selectively actuating the type. CARL W..BEUST.

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