US1395279A - Sans souci - Google Patents

Description

. G. A. JULIUS AND F. A. WILKINSON.

TICKET ISSUING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. h 1919.

Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

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G. A. JULIUS AND F. A. WILKINSON.. TICKET ISSUING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I, 1919. 1,395,279.

Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

3. SHEETS-SHEEI H e. A. w'uus AND F. A. WlLKlNSdN.

TICKET ISSUING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1. 1919.

Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

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; f/g. if I i r- BALCONY 5 BMOU BOX FEB.1-1.9 THEATRE OFFIC lumen/1701's 6.11. Jwltwsa 171i .Wz'llrtnson B %fdmae. Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GHJRGE ALFRED JULIUS, OF SYDNEY, AND FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WILKINSON, OF

; SANS SOUCI, N EAR SYDNEY,

NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

TIGKET-ISSUING MACHINE.

Specification oi Letters Patent.

To all to 710m it may 0021 new Be it known that we, GEORGE ALFRED JULIUS and FREDERICK Aucns'rns lVmnrNsoN, subjects'of King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Culwulla Chambers, Castlereagh 'stre'et, Sydney, New South W ales, Australia,

and Maidstone Promenade, Sans Souci, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Issuing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to manually controlled machines for printing and detaching and delivering fare checks, and other differentiated tickets and checks, and for open ating and controlling mechanism which records separately the number of issues of such tickets or checks in their respective classes or orders, and the grand total thereof.

The tickets are printed both sides (but if required on one side only) of a strip of blank ticket paper drawn from a reel and are detached from the strip as printed, the issue recorded, and the tickets positively delivered out of the machine upon the completion of each completeprinting and recording oporation.

The machine is direct driven or is geared to a suitable motor; it may be driven by a hand crank or by a trip pedal arranged to apply rotary motion to it. The operative parts of the machine are engaged with its driving shaft by means of a friction clutch, which, if certain electrical locking mechanism hereinafter described is freed, is en gaged through intermediate mechanism when a manual selector key is moved to register with and is plunged in any one of a bank of key pockets onatrackerdesk. When the friction clutch is so engaged, a printing block, being one or" a roup of such blocks mounted on a rocking and sliding sector, which has been selector by the selector key movement is brought into printing position, and mechanism is tirown into gear which inks type-rollers under which the paper strip is drawn, advances the strip one ticket length, impresses differentiation value,nanie, class, and othe necessary .marks on the ticket. cuts oil e printed ticket, makes a separate record in a recorder devicewhich is energized through an electrical or mechanical contact for every ticket issued in its proper c assification, delivers the printed and recorded ticket through a trap gate which prevents backward insertion of ticket blanks fraudulently, and finally de-gears the mechanism from the driving means by opening the clutch, returns the various parts of the mechanism to restarting position, and resets an electrical lock, which frees itself automatically only when all the recording and indicating circuits are complete and the selector key is again manipulated. A contact keycarried by the selector key arm closes a circuit through that one of a bank of contacts which corresponds with the selected printing block.

In the accompanying explanatory drawings, Figure l is a partial top plan of the machine showing the issue indicator dial partly broken away to expose parts located below it, showing also portion of the delivery pocket broken away to expose the ticket ejector mechanism below it; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation across the machine taken on the line 22 Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a detail elevational view of one of the ticket ejector spring drums; Figs. 1 and 5 detail sectional elevations of parts of the ticket ejector mechanism in the released and locked posi tions respectively; Fig. 6 a plan view of the machine taken below the table on the line 6-6 Fig. 2, omitting certain parts which are associated with the dialing mechanism; Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional elevation at right angles to the section in Fig. 2, taken on the line 77 Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a perspective view, in section, of the indicator dial mechanism and selector arm, in operative position, as viewed from the reverse of Fig. 2; Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional elevation of the guillotine and its associated controlling mechanism as viewed from the right of Fig. 6; Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the locking mechanism; and Fig. 11 is an obverse nd reverse view of a printed ticket, as issued rem the machi11e. The machine may be adapted for printing tickets in two, three, four, five or six differ ent denominations. The particular construction shown in the drawings is for a machine designed to issue tickets of four denominanone.

The table 20 of the machine carries a tracker plate 9, in which four tracker cups 10, 11, 12 andl3 accommodate the selector pin 14 which is carried on the end of the selector arm 15, 8 being a handpiece grip on the end of said arm. Said arm is mounted Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

A dial. box 18 is mounted on the rotatable table 52; it carries indlcators, indicator con- 7 trols, and certain mechanical parts hereinafter described, and it is locked to secrete these parts so as to prevent 1ll1e1t interference therewith. The table 20 supports the ticket delivery pocket 19, which is aniopen top receptacle having a horseshoe shape bottom 21 to facilitate removal of issued tickets by purchasers. Theprinted tickets are ejected from the'machine into the pocket 19 and the gap 22 in the bottom thereof offers clearance for the fingers to grip the ticket or tickets. before lifting them from the box, and thereby obviates waste of time and confusion in picking the tickets out of a receptacle or lifting them off a table. The whole of the parts exposed on the table are protected from illicit interference by the operator, who has available to him only the necessary controls for manipulating the mechanism to procure the printing, recording and issuing of tickets. The operative mechanism contained within thedial box 18 and below the table is completely locked up. All of the mechanism is supported on the table 20 which forms the top of a desk. '23 are swing arms the centers 24 of which are 'mounted on the desk sides.

and aline with the'center of the primary drive shaft 25. The back portion 26 of the desk is hinged at 27 and is connected to a the counters.

part of the machine frame by one or more links 28.. When the'table top' is unlocked and tilted upward about the centers 24, the desk back 26 is swung backwardto' provide clearance, and the table top 20' may then be tilted up to lift the machine parts mounted upon it to makeithem accessible for inspection or adjustment, and" for the reading of 1 The primarydrive shaft 25 is maintained in motion continuousl from an electric moslide 38' to which it applies endwise mo-. tion. A helical spring 39 sleeved over the shaft 25'takes an abutment againstthe end of the bearing 31, and acts against a fixed collar 40 on said shaft to force the inner end of it into contact with the stop 35. The

shaft 25 also carries a cone member 41 of a friction clutch. The cup member 42 of said clutch is'freely rotatable on the shaft 25 and is positioned thereon by a fork 43 which sets into a grooved collar 44. Upon the sleeve which carries the collar 44 and the clutch cup 42 a pinion 45 is keyed through which motion of the shaft 25 is transmitted to the mechanism below, when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 6. The shaft 25 is held over to the left hand position by the end stop 35, so thatthe clutch is held open, and the shaft 25 may then turn freely without communicating motion. from the clutch and pinion 45 to the mechanism. The

mechanism is operated only when the yoke arm 36 is moved to the right to allow the shaft 25 to slide endwise andengagethe clutch cup 42 in the clutch cone 41.

V A fork 46 on the tail end of'the selector arm 15 sets into a grooved head 47 on the upper end of 'a hollow plunger 48, which plunger is normally held down by means of a helical spring 49 in compression, so that inthe idle position, the selector arm 15 is always canted up, as indicated 2. The lower end 50 of the plunger 48 operates as a bolt to hold the locking slide 38 in the open or idle position, in which positionithe crank arm 37 is traversed and the yoke arm .36 pressed inward, thus forcing the shaft 25 to the left, and opening the clutch 41-42. The slide 38 immediately jumps under the lower'end 50 of the plunger 48'when said plunger is lifted in its carrier 51, as plainly shown in Fig. 8, which happens when the selcctor arm 15 is plunged to set theselector pin 14 into'one of the tracker cups 10, 11', 12,; 13. In the idle position shown in Figs. 1 and 7, the end of the slide 38 takes against the protruding lower end '50 of the plunger.

48 and so holds the clutch and all the operative mechanism open. Immediately the selector arm 1s depressed, the plunger 48 is raised the slide 38 flies inward fOlClIl the s yoke arm 36 to the right, the shaft 25 moves to the right, the clutcl1'4142 engages,'and the gear train andconnecting parts are set in motion; 7 1

V The pinion 45 which is carried by the cup 7 member 42 of the friction clutch gear with the transfer wheel 55- and so transmits mo tion' from theiprimary shaft to the second ary shaft '56. At the right hand end this shaft 56 carries a collar 57, the inner face of which is formed with a cam piecef57, which co-acts with a roller 58 on they forwardv end of the yoke arm 36; When the second j ary shaft 56 has made one complete rota tion, the cam striking the roller 58, forces the yoke arm 36 outward, as seen in F 6, moving the primary shaft 25 to the left, thus opening the clutch and releasing the drive. At the same time, this motion of the yoke arm 36 is utilized to pull over the slide stop 38, so as to bring the end of it clear of the end 50 of the plunger 48. If, meantime, the selector arm 15 has been allowed to rise, its rising movement being effected by the action of the spring 49, acting through its tail piece 46, the plunger end 50 having come down to the stop position as shown in Figs. 2 and 7, stands as a check to prevent return of the slide stop 38, and so the yoke arm 36 is locked in the idle position with the clutch i12 disengaged as already described. 8 isa bridge which forms a slide rest on which the slide check 38 works.

A push rod operated by mechanism hereinafter described passes up through the tubular center of the plunger 48. its upper end is articulated to the heel lever 61. This heel lever is formed with a- T-end, and its fulcrum 62 in the lower arm of the T is carried in lugs 63 on the rotatable table The heel lever therefore turns with the table 52 when that table is moved through an are by swinging the selector arm 15 to bring it into register with one or other of the tracker cups 1O, 11, 12, 13. A finger 64 on the outer end of the lever 61 is engageable with a bank of staples 66 which are respectively carried by rods 67 which, in turn, are articulated to the respective rocker arms 68 of counters or tally registers 69. When the selector arm 15 is swept through its arc movement, the finger 64 sweeps through the jaws of the staples 66 and it does not apply any motion to the rods 67, so that the counters 69 are not actuated in the traverse movement. When, however, the push rod 60 is raised, the heel lever 61 is tipped upward and carries with it the particular staple 66 with which it is at the moment in register, and so a movement is transmitted to the corresponding counter 69. This movement of the lever 61, itwill be noted, is not effected directly by the downward movement of the selector arm 15, though it is consequent upon the movement of that arm, but it is eiiected through the agency of mechanism associated with the secondary shaft and the parts driven by it, so that the issue of a ticket is only recorded when the printing and'issuing op erations have been actually performed. When the selector arm 15 is moved to register with any one of the tracker cups 16 to 13, and is then plunged, the clutch engages in the manner before described and motion is transmitted to the feeding, printing, ticket issuing, and ticket recording mechani ms, and all these parts are brought to rest imme diately the selector arm 15 is released. After its release and the completion of the print ing operation then in progress the cam 57 acting through the yoke 36 and crank arms 37 opens the clutch and withdraws the looking slide 38, and the plunger &8 is then forced behind the end of said slide by the action of the spring a9 and the parts all come to rest until the. selector arm is again plunged. If the selector arm 15 when plunged is held down, the plunger 48 is held in the elevated position and does not act as a bolt behind the locking slide 38, so that the mechanism continues in operation and two or more tickets are printed, issued, and recorded successively, depending on the length of time during which the selector arm is held down. For the purpose of indicating to the ticket selling clerk the number of tickets which are so issued successively, in order that when the number called for has been reached he may bring the machine to a stop, an issue dial 53 is provided. This dial is located in the dial box 18 consisting of a casing 70 in which an aperture 71 is cut, so that the dial figure can be observed therethrough. The dial is mounted loosely on a stud 72 and is connected thereto through a light helical spring 7 3 under tension. This spring operates to pull the dial back to the zero position, where it is checked by means of a stop 74 on the dial 53, against an inwardly projecting spring finger 174: and fastened below to the table 52. A crown detent wheel 75 is attached on the underside of the dial disk, and the teeth of this detent are engaged by a pair of pawl arms 76 and 77. These arms tend to spring upward, light springs 78 being fitted under them. A tirrup 79 sets a limit to their upward motion. This stirrup is mounted on the top end of the grooved head 4-7. The pawl 76 is pivotally mounted on a bracket 80 which rises from the table 52. The pawl 77 is pivotally mounted in the upper arm of the lever 61. When the lever 61 is kicked upward by the push rod 60, the pawl 77 engaging the crown detent wheel 75 moves it on one notch, and it is checked against reverse movement by the pawl 76. If the plunis held upward, thus raising the stirrup 7 9, which happens when the selector arm 15 is held down to enable the issue of a plurality of tickets of the same denomination, the dial is rotated notch by notch and exhibits to the operator, through the aperture 71, indication of the number oi tickets so issued up to ten. In practice a greater number than ten tickets of the one denomination is not called for at the same time, and it is therefore not necessary to provide an indicator o greater capacity than ten numbers. The

dial 53 is rotated notch-by-notch as the link 160 is oscillated. This link is oscillated by the revolution of the crank pin 161 which is carried on'the end of the printing roller 180, and receives one complete oscillation of each rotation of that roller. The movement of the link 160 is communicated through the pivoted (158) arm 159 to the arm 157 and the push rod 60 and functions to apply a vertical oscillationto said push rod. The push rod which is pivotally connected to the lever 61 which carries the pawl arm 7 7 applies its oscillation to said lever 61 which is mounted on the fulcrum pin 62, with the result that the pawl arm 77 receives a lateral arc movement in which it turns the crown wheel 75 and is therefore turned with it, and the helical spring 72 is thus tensioned. hen the selector arm is permitted to rise, the pawl arm 77 and the check pawl 76 are lowered and the crown released by them. The spring 72 then im mediately acts to return the dial 53 to zero, where it is checked by its stop 7,4 coming in contact with the spring tail 17 1, which functions incidentally to buffer the check action.

F or the purpose ofrendering the machine inoperative, a lock device is provided to hold the selector arm immovable in a neutral position. This lock device is controlled by a barrel lock 82. An eccentric pin 192 on a cam on the rotating element of the barrel lock acts against the tail 193 of a floating lever 81, the head of which is armed with a dog 19% whlch functions to engage and hold the bolt 83 in either upper or lower position.

- The lever 81 is normally held over by a tension spring 195, and isfulcrumed on a fixed stud 196. Its dog 19%: is engageable with either of two collar grooves 198 and 199 formed in the side of a bolt 83 which is movable vertically in a housing in the tracker plate 9; the head of this belt is cupped to embrace the selector 'pin, lei, and

it is upported by a spring 197 which acts to ralse it so as to embrace the selector pin and hold up the selector arm. To lock up the machine, the selector arm is brought to register with the selector pin above the cup head'of the bolt 83, and the barrel lock 82 is turned by means of a control key so as to throw the floating lever to release'its dog from engagement with the. bolt 83. That bolt immediately rises and engages the selector pin. The barrel-lock is now locked, thus bringing the dog 19 i intoengagement with the lower collar groove 198 and so securely holding 'the bolt 83 in upper position as shown in the dotted lines of Fig. 2; To liberate the selector arm, the lock 82 is opened, thereby again freeing the bolt 83 from the dog 19 1; the arm 15 is then plunged,

thus forcing down the now free bolt 83, and while said bolt is held down the lock '82 is again locked thus engaging the dog19e with the upper collar groove 199 on the bolt 83 7 and so holding that bolt in its lower position clear of the elector lever and selector pin 14. The barrel lock is of the Yale or any 77 similar type adapted for interposing any form of check or stop in the path of the arm 81., The selector arm 15 does not move 7 far enough to effect the clutching movement unless the selector pin is sunk in one of the tracker cups. If plunged when in a midway position the clutch i not engaged.

A ear wheel 85 on the secondary shaft ing-cam, the function of which is to bring the operative mechanism to rest in the zero position at the termination of each printing and issuing operation, and to lightly lock it there while the mechanism is idle. The lock consists of a roller 92 carried on the end of a spring loaded arm 93, the roller 7 being adapted to set into the notch portion 1 of the cam 90. 'The lever 95 fulcrumed at 96 and pin connected at 97 to a guillotine knife .98 is reciprocated by an offset roller finger 99 which runs in a cam groove in the side of the disk cam 100. The cam is timed so that the roller 91 will set into the cam notch 90 when the issue movement is just completed, and the disk cam 100 is timed so that the guillotine knife 98 will be reciprocated across the ticket throat plate 101 to sever the ticket immediately after the final printing operation.

On the shaft 87 which carries the pinion V 86 is mounted an interrupted roller10 l faced with vulcanized rubber or like resilient material. One portion of the face is flattened as shown at 105 for a purpose hereinafter to he explained. This resilient face roller supports the back of the cut-off ticket during the final printing operation which is performed by the type face 102, on oneor other of the printing rollers 106107108109,

and rearward of each of" these rollers are mounted in the same carriage ink ng rollers 110 which operate to apply ml: to the face of each of the rollers 106 to 109 once in each rotation thereof. Each one of the rollers 106 to 109 is fitted with a separate gear wheel 112 so that in the machine action'only that particular one of the roller-e106 to 109 which is engaged is rotated, all the others standing idle and being locked. positively by a locating check in the registering posi-' tion, so as to assure gear alinement in rela tion to the pinion 86. This locating check is formed by the top edge of a rail 65 which is interrupted at 185 (seeFig. 6) to clearthe gear teethrof the wheels 112 whenthey are respectively located in meshing register with the pinion 86. The spindle 111' on which all the rollers 106 to 109 are freely'rotatable is supported in brackets 123 on a carriage 113. which is slidable transversely of the. machinein a'guideway 114. The carriage 113 is connected through a pivotal link 115 and swing arm 116 to the spindle 33, to which also is keyed a throw arm 117 which is pivotally connected through a link 118 to the piston arm 119, the hub 120 of which is pinned to the hub of the carrier 51 which carries the rotatable flange table 52 on which the selector arm 15 and the recording mechanism within the case 70 are mounted. When the selector arm is traversed, the piston arm 119 is moved through a corresponding angle and brought to a position corresponding with the particular tracker cup with which the selector pin is in register. This movement of the selector arm is communicated through the link arms 118117 116 and link 115 to the carriage 113, so that the carriage is slid transversely in its guides 114, so as to bring into register with the interrupted roller 104 that one of the printing rollers 106109 which carries the type matter relating to the denomination of ticket to which the selected tracker cup refers; thus, for instance, if the tracker arm be brought to the position shown in Fig. 1 so that the tracker pin 14 is in register with the tracker cup 10, the printing roller 106 is brought into printing alinement with the interrupted roller 104, said printing roller 106 having upon it type corresponding to the denomination of ticket called for when the selector arm is plunged over the tracker cup 10. y The flattened or interrupted portion of the platen roller 104 is provided in order to allow clearance for the teeth of the gear wheels 112, so that said wheels may pass said roller in the traverse movement of the carriage and slide into gear with the pinion 86 on the spindle which carries the roller 104.

With each one of the printing rollers 106-109 is associated a spring backed inking roller 110. As only one of said printing rollers is engaged in any printing motion, inking is effected on that particular roller only immediately before the printing operation, so that aclean print is assured. The type segments on the rollers 106 to 109 are detachable, or the rollers are made interchangeable, so that a quick change of type face may be made, as required at any time, to alter the denomination lettering to be applied to the tickets.

The guillotine knife 98 moves across a table 121 which alines with the top edge of the ticket channel 101 and it is held down to its face by a swinging spring 122, so that when it is reciprocated, its cutting edge coacts with the angular face of the throat plate at the top of the channel 101, and a clean cut of the ticket is assured. The timing is 50 arranged that the ticket is cut by the guillotine knife 98 simultaneously as or immediately after the type face 102 leaves it. In the printing action, the grip of the type face opposed to the interrupted roller 104 bites it sufficiently tight to effect the feeding. Immediately after it is severed, it is caught by the serrated edge 130 of the ejector drum 131. This serrated edge occupies only a sector of the said drum the remainder of the circumference being cir cular and lower than the tooth level; a backing roller 132 supports the ticket 133, as shown in Fig. 5, when it is about to be engaged by the serrated edge 130. The drum 131 is rotated by agear wheel 88 which meshes into the gear wheel 85 on the way shaft 56. The serrated drum turns freely on the spindle 89 to which the wheel 88 is keyed, and the drum 131 and wheel 88 are connected as shown in Fig. 3 by a spiral spring 136. When the wheel 88 is rotated, the drum is held steady by the en agement of stop 134 against a hanging pawl 137 which is fulcrumed on a pin 141 and held over by a spring 138. The stop 134 is so positioned that when it is engaged by the pawl 137 the serrated edge 130 of the drum is just below starting position for the ticketejecting movement, clearance being left for the entering of the leading end of the ticket 133 between the drum and the backing roller 132. The timing is so arranged that the cam 130 releases the pawl 137 very soon after but not simultaneously with the guillo tine knife movement, as it is necessary that the printed ticket be severed from the strip before the ejecting movement takes place. A cam 139 on the spindle 89 is so positioned that it strikes the tappet roller 140 on the hanging pawl 137 when the wheel 88 is turned sufficiently to put the spring 136 under tension. When it strikes the tappet roller 140 it pushes over the pawl 137, thus releasing the stop 134 and permitting the drum to make a quick rotation by reason of the action thereon of the wound up spring 136, thus causing the serrated edge 130 of the drum to engage the ticket 133 and flick it up quickly through the ticket spout 145. The operating position of the ticket flicking drum 131 is best seen in Fig. 5, where the cam 139 has made a one-half rotation, tensioning the spring 136. Vhen the gear wheel 88 has rotated so as to bring the cam 139 beyond the tappet roller 140. at which point the drive from the clutch is disconnected, the drum makes a quick rotation and flicks the ticket upward; the flying ticket is caught between the rapidly rotating rul ber faced roller 147 and a spring tensioned backing roller 148 directly above the ticket spout 145'. The roller 147 is maintained in rapid rotation by a cord belt 149 from a pulley 146 on the constantly running primary shaft 25. Owing to the rapid rotation of these rollers, the ticket which is ejected up through the spout 145 is instantly caught between them and thrown forward against the {ZLIIVQG cap 150 of the delivery pocket 19.

The impetus of the ticket is such that it flies forward and comes to rest against a lip 151 at the front end ofrthisbox, so that it may be readily lifted out of it by the'thumb and forefinger of the purchaser.

In order to provide a record of the total number of tickets issued from the machine, a separate total counter 152 is fitted within the case 7 O. The operating arm 153 of this counter is reciprocated by a connection to the heel lever 61 and consequently once for each separate printing and issuing movement.

The reciprocating movement which is applied to the push rod 60 to operate the registers 69 and 152 is applied to it through a bell crank 157 159 fulcrumed at 158, and by means of a link 160 from a crank pin 161 on the end of the printing roller 180.

The spool of ticketpaper is mounted directly below the friction slipper jaw 170 which applies light friction to it, so that it passes through the machine under a sufficient tension to keep it flat, and't'herefore facilitate clean printing. It passes imme diately between a printing roller 171 here.

inafter described and a platen roller 172. The printing roller 171 and platen roller 172 are geared together through the spur gears 190 and 189 on their respective spindles, and the gear 189 meshes in turn through the idle gear 173 with the gear 188 on the spindle of the printing roller 180, opposed to which is a platen roller 182 having on its spindle a gear wheel 184 Which meshes with said gear 188. The spindle having keyed to it the roller 180 and gear wheel 188, carries another gear (not shown) which meshes with the ear wheel 187 whichin turn meshes b 7 with the gear 186, which is keyed on the sec ondary shaft 56. As already described, the secondary shaft is driven from the-clutch through the gears and 45. The bearings of the platen rollers 172 and 182 are adjustable by means of an eccentric carrier 17 1 so that the printing pressure may beregulated with the necessary nicety. The print ingroller 171 is armed on portion of'its surface with a type face 175, and anrinkino' roller 176 on a spring carrier 177 is fitted to apply ink to it once in each rotation. The type of this printing roller prints certain standard matter at regular intervals on the paper strip as it moves through the machine intermittently; it may, for instance, be set up to print the name of a theater or the name of a ferry or railway company by which the machine is being used. The printing roller 180 is provided for printing a date, a changeable number, or other distinguishing or identifying mark on the other'side of the ticket, either alone or associated with stand ard marks which are not so changeable. The

changeable characters are rinted by type faceson a subsidiary roller 1'81 pocketed in the roller 180 and adapted to be turned'more or less to bring any one of its faces into the printing position. 183 is a spring supported the type matter on one or other of the rollers 106 to 109; This being done, the printed length is cut offby the guillotine-knife 98, flipped upward, caught by the delivery rollers, and thrown into the delivery box. The date 01 other identifying matter is changed at the will of thebusiness manager by appropriately setting the subsidiary roller 181, and the denomination marks on the ticket ar'e'determined by the operators manipulation of thetracker arm 15 to bring a the appropriate printing-roller 106109 to the print ng POSlulOIl, a separate record being made for the tickets of each denomination and for the grand total of all tickets issued.

What we claim as our invention and'desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1; In a strip ticket printing and recording machine, the combination got a selector key arm, a pivotal mountingtherefor adapted to permit traversing and plunging movements of said key arm, a fixed tracker desk with tracker cups therein adapted to receive a locating selector pin on said key, a recording mechanism corresponding with each of said selector cups, an attachment on said tracker arm registering with said recording means respectlvely and also eared to a total counter, means for printing tickets on a continuous strip of paper and numbering same, and severing them from the strip as printed and for ejecting them. means including a clutch for said printing, numbering,

severing, and issuing means to a constantly running clement. means operated by :the plunging of said se ector arm to engage said clutch, and means for disengaging said clutch automatically upon thecom pletion of each ticket producing operation.

2, In a strip'ticket printingand recording mach1ne as claimed HIClfllIll 1 hereof, a number printing device comprising a plurality of printingsurfaces JOYLQSPOIKllIif respectively with the selector and recorder index numbers, and means operated by traversing the selector arm for bringing into the printing position that one of said printing surfaces which corresponds with the selected cup position on which the selector arm is plunged. v

3. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine, the combination of a constantly rotating shaft, ticket printing, numbering, severing, and ejecting devices driven from a separate shaft, a clutch adapted to connect said separate shaft with said constantly rotating shaft, and means controlled by a traversable and plungahle selector arm for closing said clutch when said arm is located and plunged on a selected cup position on a tracker desk, and automatic means for re-opening said clutch after said printing, numbering, severing, and ejecting devices have efieceted one complete movement.

t. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine, a selector arm supported on a rotatable element in such a way that said element is partially rotated when said arm is traversed, and a recorder operating finger responsive to the plunging movement of said selector arm, which finger is mounted on said rotatable element so that it is brought into register with one or other of a group of recorders so as to operate that recorder in such group with which it is for the time being in register when said selector arm is plunged on a cup position on a tracker desk corresponding with such registering recorder.

5. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine, the combination with the elements set forth in claim 4 hereof, of a mechanical connection to a grand total recorder adapted to apply an advance movement to said recorder for every individual movement applied to the respective separate recorders.

6. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine, the combination with the elements set forth in claim 4 hereof, of an inclosing casing covering the rotatable ele ment on which the selector arm is mounted and the connections to the recording devices, an automatically resetting rotatable dial visible through an aperture in said case, and mechanism operatively connecting the printing mechanism to said dial to apply step-by-step advance movement to same while the selector arm remains plunged, so that one such movement is applied to said dial disk for each repeated ticket issuing movement which occurs while said arm is manually held in the plunged position.

7. A ticket printing and recording ma chine including means for feeding a strip of paper forwardly, printing characters and numbers thereon, severing the printed sec tion thereof from the strip, and ejecting said severed section, said means comprising a spring mouth trap, a pair of intergeared rollers with interrupted surfaces, one of said rollers functioning as a platen and the other as a printing surface for printing the obverse side of said strip of paper, another pair of similar rollers intergeared together and intergeared with the beforementioned pair of rollers and arranged for printing the reverse side of said paper strip, inking rollers located in operative relation to said interrupted printing rollers, a guide slot ada )ted to receive the printed paper strip from the latter pair of said rollers, a guih lotine knife intermittently reciprocated across said guide mouth on the completion of each said double printing operation, a gang of number printing rollers movable transversely of the paper strip so as to bring any one of them required into printing register therewith, a platen roller and an inking roller arranged in operative relations to said number printing roller, a spring driven trip pawl controlled. ejector wheel in operative relation to an opposed idle wheel adapted to take the finished severed ticket from the numbering rollers and to throw it rapid y through a delivery chute, and a pair of constantly rotating ecting rollers in opera tive contact at the end of said-chute adapted to receive said ticket therefrom and deliver it.

8. A. strip ticket printing and recording machine characterized in that tickets therein printed and severed from a continuous strip are numbered bypassing under one or another printing roller of a gang of said roll ers mounted transversely of the direction of movement of the ticket through the machine, and respectively brought into printing alinement with the same by transverse movement applied to said of rollers by mechanism connected with a selector key arm.

9. In a strip printing and recording machine, the combination of a traversable and plnngable selector arm, a tracker desk, inclividual total recording mechanisms, a constantly running drive shaft, printin numbering, severing and ejecting devices, and means including a clutch intermediate said constantly rotating shaft and said ticket producing mechanism for gearing the same together wnile the selector arm is plunged and for de-gearing the same on the completion of an ei ective ticket. producing operation after the selector arm is released.

10. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine having rotational movement applied to an element therein from an independent constantly rotating motor, a control arrangement including a selector arm and tracker desk for geering the operative parts of said machine to rid primary drive and for locating the printing elements therein in printing relation to the ticket blank, and for recording the issues of tickets of each order separately and of all issues in a grand total, and a separate self-restoring means for indicating temporarily the nimiber of tickets of one order issued while the selector arm is held in the plunged position over a longer period than is occupied in the production of a single ticket.

11. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine including selector means, printing, numbering, severing, ejecting and recording means, a primary drive shaft maintained in constant rotation, a clutch connection between said shaft and said means, and an automatic device for, opening said clutch at the completion of a ticket producing oper ation unless when the selector means are maintained manually in a selected position for procuring the issue of a plurality of tickets of one order.

12. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine including a plungable and traversable selector arm, means for locking said machine, said means comprising a lever with a lock tooth thereon, and means for moving said lever including a barrel lock in combination with a locking stud engageable with a locking pin on the selector arm and adapted to hold said locking stud in a fixed position thereby preventing traversing or plunging of the selector arm.

13. In a strip ticket printing and recording machine of the type herein described, ticket ejecting means characterized in that the ejecting movement is applied to the ticket by a serrated edge wheel freely rotatable on a winding spindle but connected theretoby a spiral spring and that said wheel is held against rotation during the period of producing the ticket by means of a trip pawl and is released by the tripping of said pawl by an element associated with theticket producing means to release said ejecting wheel in time to'seize the completed ticket and flip it endwise through the chute toward constantly rotating rollers in surface contact

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