US1443771A

US1443771A - Ticket printing and delivering machine

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Publication number: US1443771A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1923-01-30
Anticipated expiration: 1940-01-30

Description

Jan. 30, 1923.

gnome (Y/llMzde 4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

G. N. WADE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL man JAN 19. 1920 Jan. 30, 1923.

c. N. WADE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL FILED JAN. 19, 1920. 4 SHEETSSHEET 2.

Jan. 30, 1923.

C. N. WADE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL FILED JAN. 19, 1920. 4 SHEETSSHEET 3.

""IIIIII 6 ZVTH hde Jan. 30, 1923.

c. N. WADE. TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

ORIGINAL FILED JAN. \9, 1920. 4 SHEET SSHEET 4- Patented Jan. 30, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

Original application filed January 19, 1920, Serial No. 352,322. Divided and this application filed September 16, 1920. Serial No. 410,718.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES N. WADE, citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of P'assaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Printing and Delivering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ticket printing and delivering machine designed primarily to print and deliver, in rapid succession, different tickets of such type as are used by public service organizations.

More particularly, the present invention has reference to mechanism whereby the time of issue is printed upon each ticket.

I am, of co rse, aware that previous to my invention numerous devices have been produced for the purpose of recording on strips of paper or separate cards, the time of issue -r pllm'hlng of the card or strip. However,

. the present application is a continuation in art of the application which eventuated in Letters Patent, No. 1,359,938, granted to me November 23, 1920, and is a division of my application, Serial No. 352,322, filed in the lhiited States Patent Office, January 19, 1920, the subject matter of which is a ticket printing and delivering machine.

The invention provides a particularly efficient time clock and printing mechanism for producing upon a ticket the time of issue of the ticket, such mechanism having means for manually adjusting the same.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ticket printing and delivering machine embodying the present invention,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the mechanism of the machine intact but with the easing removed,

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the time clock and its attendant printing mechanism viewed from the opposite side shown in Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a vertical section on the line -i-4 of Figure 2,

Figure 5 is a vertical section on the line 55 of Figure 2,

Figure 6 is a perspective View of the mechanism for manually adjusting or setting the clock and its attendant printing mechanism.

Inasmuch as the complete machine is fully described in the original application of which this is a division, only that portion of the machine relating to the time printing mechanism will be herein described in detail. It may be briefly stated, however, that a roll of paper 12 is supported at one end of the machine and the ticket printed from the strip forming the roll is delivered through an opening 222 in the casing at the opposite end of the machine. From the roll, the paper is carried under a guide roller 13 and thence through the machine over a vertically movable platen 50, an inking ribbon 32 being arranged longitudinally of the machine between the paper and the printing members which are mounted in the frame of the machine above the inking ribbon. Each revolution of a handle 79 actuates a train of gearing whereby tappets 53' and 54: raise the platen in opposition to springs 82 so that the paper and the inking ribbon will be pressed against the printing faces, the paper strip being then fed forward and the printed tickets severed from the strip by

knives

26 and 27 the platen being meanwhile returned to its lower initial position. The printing faces are of such form and arrangement as to imprint upon the paper legends describing the issuing corporation, firm, or person, the direction in which the transfer or ticket may be used, the place of issue, and other essential data, as well as the exact time of issue.

Forwardly of the central portion of the machine are two uprights 115 which carry the time printing mechanism which comprises, in detail, a backing plate 117 and a front plate 118 between which is mounted a shaft 119 carrying a spring drum 120 containing the coil spring 121 and having the peripheral gear teeth 122. The spring within the drum may be wound by means of a winding spindle 123 carrying a gear 124 which meshes with a gear 125 on the end of the shaft 119, said spindle 123 being supported in the bracket 126, secured in place by screws 127 on the face of the front plate 118, the spindle being further supported by a bracket 128 so that the key engaging end 129 thereof may project through a suitable hole in the casing of the machine. The usual holding ratchet 122' is provided to insure the proper application of the force of the spring 121. The motion of the drum 120 due to the inertia of the spring 121 is communicated to a spindle 130 by a pinion 131 carried on said spindle and meshing with the teeth 122 of the drum, and the other end of said spindle 130 carries a large gear 132 which, in turn, meshes with a gear 133 on an escapement spindle 134 carrying the escapement wheel 135 with the pawl 137 pivoted at 138 and pressed into engagement with the ratchet wheel 136 by a spring 139 so that movement of the escapement wheel in one direction is imparted to the spindle.

The shaft or spindle 134 has keyed thereto.

a cam 140, shaped as shown in Figure 4, which is arranged to actuate a second es capement through the medium of the cam escapement arm 141 bearing on said cam as the latter rotates in the direction of the arrow indicated in Figure 4. This arm 141 is drawn in toward the cam by a s ring 142 connected with the arm at 143 an with the front plate 118 as indicated at 144. The arm is carried loosely upon a shaft 145 upon which is secured the escapement wheel 146 engaged by the

pawls

147, 148 and 149. The pawl 149 also bears upon the periphery of the shaft engaging portion of the arm 141 and is adapted to enter the notch 150 therein, a spring 151 being provided to hold the pawl to the arm 141 and the escapement wheel 146. As the inner end of the arm is pressed down by the cam 140, the lower wall of the notch 150 rides under the pawl 149 and lifts it out of engagement with the escapement wheel, the edge of the arm 141 holding the pawl in released posit-ion until the free end of the arm drops off the high point of the cam and the arm returns to its initial position. The pawl 152 pivoted on the shaft engaging portion of thearm 141 and actuated by a detent lever 153, mounted at 154 on said arm 141, engages the pawl 148 to lift the same out of the notches of the escapement wheel 146 just before-the arm 141 leaves the point 155 of the cam 140 so that the escapement wheel 146 is allowed to move distance requisite to shift elements of the time printing mechanism. The arm 141, of course, carries a pawl 141 which engages the escapement wheel and actuates the same to shift the time-printing discs as the arm drops from the high point to the low point of the cam. A member 152 is provided for disengaging the

pawls

148 and 149 to permit free movement of escapement wheel 146.

The escapements hereinbefore mentioned.-

control three

printing disks

156, 157 and 158 respectively, mounted on the shaft 134 between the two

plates

117 and 118. The escapement wheel 135 controls the printing disk or wheel 157 which carries printing faces corresponding to minutes of time and has sixty faces, while the escapement wheel 146 through the medium of two sets of gears 159 andv 160 locked to the printing disks or

wheels

156 and 158 controls the movement of these last named wheels. The wheel or disk 156 carries hourly designations covering the twenty-four hours of the day while the printing disk or wheel 158 carries A. M. and P. M. designations alignin with the hourly designations of the wheel 156, and the escapement wheel 146 1s, therefore, only actuated by the cam 140 on every sixty minute period or lapse of time as indicated by a complete revolution of the escapement wheel 135 which is controlled in a manner to be hereinafter described. This mechanism, as will be seen, constitutes time printing means which may be automatically governed by clock mechanism. 1

Time clock mec/zam'swa-Thc time clock mechanism consists of the usual clock mechanism having the

plates

161, 162, separated by spacing means 163, and having the usual main spring barrel 164 of a clock mechanism, the spring of which is wound through the medium of a spindle 165 adapted to be engaged at 166 by a suitable key, this end of the said spindle projecting through the front end of the casing. The hour and minute hands 167,168 respectively, are driven from the barrel 164 through the usual gear train 169 to indicate, at the front of the machine, the time which is to be printed on the transfer and such hands are geared back by pinions 170 and a shaft 171 secured at 1.72 to the member 173 carried by the cam 140 so that any setting of the hands of the clock will also set the time printing mecha nism, such printing mechanism being assembled with the clock mechanism in such manner, to be hereinafter described, that the two correspond so that the time printed will be registered also on the face of the clock. The movement of the main spring barrel is communicated to a setting shaft 176, mounted in the

frame plates

161 and 162 near the upper ends thereof, by a pinion 177 slidable with said setting shaft for engagement with the gear 175 carried by the main spring barrel, such pinion 177 being moved by the forked member 178 carried on a support 179 and moved throught the time printing mechanism. hen the shaft v 176 is shifted forwardly to disengage the pinion 177 from the spur 175, the pinion 181 on the front end of the shaft'is caused to engage the pinion 182 on the lower end of a spindle 183 which is provided with a knob 184 above the casing, said spindle 183 being mounted in a bracket 185 at the front of the clock and in the top of the casing and being held against dropping by engagement of the knob 184 with the casing. l/Vhen the knob is rotated,the clock and the time-printing mechanism are set. The setting shaft 176 carries a crank disk 186 at its rear end which is provided with a crank pin 187 engaging in a slot 188 in the upper end of an escapement lever 189, which is pivoted upon the frame plate 118 as at 1.90 and carries the escapement end or tooth 191 engaging the escapement wheel 135 and has a pin 192 engaging in the slotted end 193 of another escapement member 194 pivoted at 195, so that rotative movement of the setting shaft 176 is translated into rocking movement of the two escapement levers, thus permitting minute interval movements of the escapement wheel 135 which, in turn, are transmitted to the minute printing disk 157. In this manner the movements of the hands of the clock are registered on the time printing mechanism. The clock mecha- I11SII1 is supported by uprights 196 secured to the side of the machine frame and which carry the

brackets

197 and 128 for supporting the winding shafts 165 and 1.29 respectively. At the front of the machine is a platform 198 carrying a counting mechanism 199 which is adapted to register the total number of transfers issued by the machine and may be manually set by the knob 200 but is normally automatically actuated through the medium of the counter actuating shaft 201, having secured thereto an arm 202 which is actuated to the downward position by a spring and has its lower end pivoted at 204 to a link 205, the lower end of'said link 205 being pivoted at 206 to the forward end of a lever 207- p-ivotally mounted on the frame at 208 and having its tail arm 200 engaged by a cam 210'mounted on the crank end 78 of the platen cam shaft, so that each revolution of the crank 79 and its cam shaft serves to raise the forward end of the lever 20? thereby elevating the link 205 and actuating the lever 202 to advance the counter mechanism 199 one number. The arm 46 of the ink ribbon mechanism is also pivoted at 210 to the same lever 207 and consequently the cam 210 also serves to elevate the arm 46 and actuate or advance the ribbon, thus providing for the ribbon feed and at the same time providing for registering or tallying the total number of transfers issued by the machine. If desired, the visible counting mechanism- 199 may be set to register coincidently with the number printing mechanism of the transfer printing means so that the conductor will at all times be cognizant of the number of transfers issued and the number of the issuing transfer.

Exterior casi-ng.-The mechanism is enclosed in a case 212 which is provided at the front with a sight opening 213 receiving the face of the clock so as to make the same visible and also is provided with sight openings 214 and 215 for the counter mechanism and clock setting mechanism respectively. The lever 180 of the clock setting mechanism has its knob end projecting through an opening 216 in the casing. Likewise, the side of the casing is suitably formedat 217 to permit the actuation of the dating printing means from the outside of the casing. The side 218 of the casing is removable in any suitable manner. A lock 219 is fixed to the case at 220 to provide for holding the handle 79 in the upright position and looking means 221 is provided on the inside of the casing side 218 to prevent the handle 79 from coming off until released by raising the locking member 221. The face of the casing is open at 222 to permit the expulsion of the transfer.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. The combination of time-printing means, a clock mechanism including a spring drum, means including an escapement whereby the clock mechanism will control the operation of the time-printing means, an endwise movable setting shaft constantly in operative relation to the escapement and manually operable in one position, and means whereby in another posir tion the setting shaft will be operated by the spring drum.

2. The combination of an escapement shaft, means for rotating said shaft, a timeprinting disc driven by said shaft, an escapement wheel on said shaft, an escapement lever pivoted adjacent said wheel and arranged to engage the same, clock mechanism connected with said lever to oscillate the same, and a secondlever pivoted adjacent the escapement wheel and below the first escapement lever, said second lever being provided at one end with a tooth to engage the escapement wheel and at its opposite end having a pin and slot connection with the first lever.

3. The combination of an escapement shaft, means for rotating said shaft, an escapement wheel on said shaft, a ratchet wheel on said shaft at the side of the escapement wheel, a clock controlled escapement lever governing said escapement wheel,

a cam on said shaft, a second escapement shaft, an escapement wheel on said second escapement shaft, a lever mounted on said shaft to drive said escapementwheel and bearing at one end against the cam on the first escapement shaft, upper and lower pawls engaging the escapement wheel on the second shaft, the escapement lever being at its opposite end against the cam whereby provided with a notch to receive the workto actuate the trip and release the lower ing end of the upper pawl, a'trip mounted pawl, and time-printing discs driven by 10 on the side of the esoapement lever and each escapement shaft.

engaging the lower pawl, a detent lever In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. mounted on the side of the escapement lever and bearing at one end upon said trip and CHARLES N. WADE [1). 5.]