US1677827A - Coin-controlled ticket printing and delivering scale - Google Patents

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July 17, 1928.

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UNITED STATES 1,677,827 P-ATNT OFFICE.

GUSTAV HOCHRIEM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO RHODES-HOCHRIEM MANUFACTURING CO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COIN-CONTROLLED TICKET PRINTING AND DELIVERING SC'ALE.

Application filed March 11, 1926. Serial No; 93,981.

This invention relates to improvements in coin-controlled ticket-printing and delivering scales, and refers more particularly to improvements in the general type of scale in which a coin is inserted to actuate various mechanisms for printing on a ticket the weight: of a person standing upon the scale platform. which ticket is subsequently completely ejected by manipulation of a handle which simultaneously functions to release the ticket and restore the mechanism to normal position for the next operation.

The present invention contemplates that the weight recording dial will be actuated to printing position by the Weight of a person stepping upon the scale platform. The insertion 'of a coin then trips various mechanisms which causc'a hammer to descend to impress the weight opposite the dial recording mechanism and simultaneouslypartially ejecting said ticket. The ticket is then completely ejected and the mechanism restored to normal position by actuation of the lever.

hen the machine is idle, this manually operated lever is locked against movement and the coin slot is opened. -After the in sertion of a coin. the coin slot is then closed and the manually operated lever released for-operation. I am aware that heretofore many types of coin-operated ticket-printing and delivering scales have been developed and placed in commercial use, but I believe I am the first to incorporate various features which will be hereinafter more particularly brought out.

It will aid in the understanding of the machine if a brief description is made of its chief features of' operation. The person desiring to be weighed steps upon the scale platform which moves downwardly slightly, communicating with a pair of springs and upright rod which balances the persons weight. The downward movement of said rod is communicated to a vertically movable rack in mcsh'with a small pinion on a printing wheel of considerable diameter, having on its periphery numerals beginning with, say. 20. and running up to. say, 300, defining the weighing capacity of the scale in pounds avnirdupois. The printing wheel begins to turn as soon as the person steps upon the plat form and oscillates somewhat just before coming to rest. A pointer rotated through frictional engagement with the periphery of descent of this first mentioned lever releases the printing hammer for gravitational fall aided by a spring, and when the hammer falls, it communicates motion to the ticket feeder to carry it back into position to feed forward another ticket. The falling of the first mentioned lever moves a latch Which releases a lever having a weight on one end, and gravitational tilting of this weighted lever carries the previously operated lever upward into its original position Where it becomes caught for the next weighing operation and at the same time the weighted lever moves and holds out of the way a catch which has been holding up a lever co-operating with a manually operated handle. The downward movement of the Weighted lever also forces downwardly a rod communicating with the closure plate for the manually operated lever and the coin slot opening. Normally, this closure plate prevents the manually operated leverfrom being manipulated. The falling of this rod coincident with the falling of the Weighted lever causes said locking plate to rock from looking engagement with the manually operated lever to a position closing the coin slot opening and releasing the manually operated lever. The raising of the first mentioned lever restores the hammer to normal raised position and partially ejects the ticket.

In order to completely eject the ticket and restore the mechanism to normal position-for the next weighing operation, the manually operated lever is forced downwardly, which releases a catch holding the ticket and allows same to be fully ejected and simultaneously restores the mechanism to normal suspended position. This manually operated lever re" turns to its normal position, aided by a spring, when the hand pressure is released.

In the drawings,

Fig. l is a front elevational view, and Fig.

2 is a rear elevational View of a weighing away and the front door being opened for the purpose of deafness;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevational view, partly in-section, illustrating the assembly in the upper part of the scale, the machine being in normal position;

Fig. 4 is a similar enlarged elevational view with certain parts of the casing and supporting structure omitted for the purpose of clearness, illustrating the position of the mechanisms when the hammer has reached its lowest point of descent;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the. catch for maintaining the gravity operated upright lever in suspended position;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged elcvational View looking at the mechanism mounted on the back of the plate from the rear of the machine.

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6, illustrating the arrangement of the mechanism after the manually operated handle has been manipulated and before said handle has been restored to normal position;

Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the mechanism in normal position;

Fig. 9 is an enlarged perspective view, illustrating the co-operative'engagement between the projections of two levers;

Fig. 10 is a side elevational view, partly in vertical section, of the upper part of the machine;

Fig. 11 is an enlarged side elevational View. partly in vertical section,illustrating the mechanism for normally holding the printed, ticket in partially ejected position;

Fig. 12 is a similar view, illustrating the mechanism for releasing the ticket so that it can be completely ejected;

Fig. 13 is an enlarged elevational View, partly in vertical section, illustrating the manually operated handle mechanism;

Fig. 14 is a cross sectional view taken on line 141-14 of Fig. 13, in which the locking plate is illustrated as locking the lever, the coin slot being open;

Fig. 15 is a similar view to Fig. 14:, illustrating the rocking of the plate tosimultaneously release the manually operated handle and close the coin slot;

Fig. 16 is a cross-sectional view through the pin illustrated in Figs. 14 and 15;

Fig. 17 is an elevational view, illustrating the opening in the cabinet to permit travel of the manually operated handle;

Fig. 18 is an enlar ed front elevational View, partly in vertica section, illustrating the ticket mechanism and ticket ejector and the means for insuring proper travel of the ticket, and

Fig. 19 is acrosssectional View taken on line 19-19 of Fig. 18.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, 1 designates a cabinet or housing, which may be provided with the stationary base 2, movable or stationary front wall 3, and upper A movable platform 9 is mounted on the stationary base 2. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 8, the mechanism is in normal position. \Vhen a person steps ontheinovahle scale platform 9, it is moved downwardly. This downward movement is communicated to an upright rod 10 which may be provided intermediate its length with the weight adjusting mechanism 11 and cushioning dashpot 12. At its upper end, this upright rod 10 may be adjustably connected with a cross arm 13 connected on both ends with the weight adjusting springs 14. Mechanism is shown diagrammatically at 15 for adjusting the relation between the upright rod 10 and the crossbar 13. wardly from the crossbar 13, terminating in a rack 17 (Fig. 2) adapted to mesh with a pinion 18 mounted on shaft 19, which also carries the printing Wheel 20 having on its periphery raised characters indicating pounds and running from, say, 20 to 300, more or less. The shaft 19 is 'journaled in the ball bearings 21 mounted on the rear of the plate-like main support 8 and in the front is mounted in a front bracket or frame 22 secured to the plate 18. It will thus be clear that when a person steps on the scale platform 9, the springs 14 will be extended. the rack bar 16 drawn downwardly, and the printing wheel 20 turned on its axis, the strength of the spring being so co-ordinated with the numbers on the printing wheel that the correct number indicating the weight of the person standing on the scale platform will be directly at the top of the printing wheel when the balance is reached.

A friction disc contacts the periphery of the printing wheel 20, which disc is operatively associated with the pointer 23 on dial 24. In practice this pointer 23 oscillates until the printing wheel has reached a balanced position, at which time the pointer 23 will be stationary and the machine is ready for the insertion of a coin, through the coin slot opening'25. This coin slot opening 25 communicates with the coin chute 26 (Fig. 4). A coin trip lever 27 has one end projecting through the coin chute so that it will be tripped by the weight of the falling coin. This coin trip lever is pivotally mounted at 28 on the stationary bracket 29 which may be connected by means of the pins or rivets 30 to any part of iti the cabinet 1. An upwardly projecting curved stud 31 is also keyed on the pivot shaft 32 adapted to pivot with the coin lever :28.

For the-purpose of adjusting the balance vmaintained on said coin lever 27, I provide the weights 33, adjusting screw 34 and elongated slot 35. The arrangement is such that the weight can be moved forward or backward on the inner end of the cointrip lever to regulate the balance. Also pivotally mounted on the bracket 29 at the end thereof is a stub lever 36 provided adjacent its pivoted end with a dog 37. This lever 36 is pivoted at 38, as shown more clearly in Figs. 4 and 5. to the bracket 29. "When the machine is in normal position, the dog 37 registers'with a notch 39 cut in the edge of a. vertical gravity-operated lever 40. The arrangement is such that the downward movement of one end of the coin trip lever 27. caused by the weight of a descending coin, will cause the dog 31 to rockupwardly to contact the stub lever 36 and release the dog 37 from engagement with the notch 39. This release causes the rod 40 to fall, due. to its own weight. The upper end of the rod 40 has pivotal connection, as shown at t], with a transverse lever 42, pivoted at 4: 3 on the plate-like main support 8. The dmvnward movement of the long end of the lever 42, due to the downward movement of the rod 40, will cause its short end to rock upwardly, thus causing the upright rod 44, which has pivotal connection, as shown at 45, with the opposite end of lever 42, to he pushed upwardly. This upright rod 44 at its upper end has pivotal connection at 46 with a hell crank lever 47 which is pivoted at 48 on the same shaft as the hammer 49. A stud 50 projects outwardly from the surface of one of the arms'forming the bell crank lever, the function of which will now be explained. its clearly shown in Fig. 3 illustrating the normal position of the variousmechanisms, this stud 56 contacts a projection 51 on the hammer located beyond the point of pivotal connection 4.8. When the machine is in i'iorinal position, the contacting of this stud .3!) with the projection 51 on the hammer rauses'said hammer to be forced into raised position. Conversely, as the rod 44 is pushed upwardly, the stud 50 is moved from ngagement with the extension 51 of the litilltliit*l"..tl'1US allowing said hammer to have a gravitational fall aided by the spring 52, one end or" which is anchored at 53 to the plate-like main support 8, and the other end anchored at 54% to the hammer. The other arm oi the hell crank lever 47 has pivotal ngagemcnt, as shown at 55, with a transverse rod 56 pivotally connected at 57 to a downwardly extending vertical rod 58. This vertical rod 58 has pivotal connection, as shown at 59, allowing pivotal movement.

on the plate-like main support 8. The lower end of this rod 58 engages a reciprocating ticket-feeding sliding element shown more particularly in Figs. 18 and 19, which will now be described.

The swinging bar 58 carries on itslower end an arm 60 mounted in a yoke-like support 61, which support 61 is in turn mounted on the surface of the slide 62 by means of rivets or other locking elements, shown diagrammatically at 63. The plate 62 is slidably mounted in the guideways 64 of the supporting plate 65.

Now returning to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, and summing up the operations heretofore described, the insertion of the coin has tripped the lever 27, caused the rod 40 to drop, rocking the lever 42 on the pivot 43. This rocking raised the rod 44 which, through the bell crank lever 47, allowed the hammer 49 to descend and at the same time moved the ticket ejecting mechanism through the rod 56 to its rearward position. The face of the hammer in falling came in contact with the rear face of a ticket 655 which forced the other face of said ticket against a printing ribbon 66 (Figs. 1, 3, 4 and 10), which printing ribbon was forced against the numeral then at the top of the printing wheel. This impressed said numeral on the face of the ticket.

In addition to the above described operations, the gravitational falling of the vertical rod 40 causes the latch 67 to disengage a transverse lever 68. This is caused by the roller 69 riding over the surface of the latch, which latch is pivoted at 70 to a bracket 71 depending from the plate-like main support R. ()ne end of the lever 68 had been held in suspended position by means of the dog 72 on said latch. The lever 68 is pivoted at- 73 to the plate-like main support 8 and is provided at its opposite end with a weight 74 connected by means of the upright rod 75 pivoted at 76. Due to the weight 74, the lever 66 will be rocked on the pivot 73, the end of which was t'or'merly latched being Forced u 'iwardly.

An. upwardly projecting adjustable screw 77 is mounted on the lever 68 and as that end of the lever is forced upwardly, due to the falling of the weight 74, the upper end of said screw will contact the lever 42. Forcing said lever upwardly until the dog 37 again registers with the notch 39, thus restoring the upright rod 40 and lever 42 to normal position. This in turn will force the rod 44 downwardly, and the stud 56 on one arm of the bell crank lever contacting the extension 51 ot' the hammer will force the hammer to a raised position. Simultaneously. the other arm of the hell crank being rocked backward again to normal position will pull the rod 56 and ticket-ejecting mechanism, heretofore ex ilained. forward to eject the ticket. which has been printed as described, into the recepta-cle 7 8. This receptacle 78 is provided with the housing 79 and sight glass 80. The ticket is illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. 11 as 65'. Intermediate the downward length of the receptacle 78 it is slotted, as shown at 81, for a purpose to be herein atter explained. It is to be noted at this point that the ticket is only partially ejected, being held in the receptacle 78 by means of the arm 82 ot'the bell crank lever. designated as a whole 83 (Figs. 11 and 12), as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

Returning to the lever 68 and. referring more particularly to Fig. 9, this lever is provided with an outwardly projecting stud 84. In its upward movement this outwardly projecting stud 8.4 rides along the curved surface of a latch 85 pivoted at 86 on the bracket extension 71 from the plate-like main support 8. This will rock said lever 85 outwardly on its pivot 86, releasing the projecting stud 87 on lever 88 from ei'igagcmcnt with the dog 89 on said latch. This lever 88 is mounted on the rear of the plate 8 and is also pivoted on the pivot 78. It may be pointed out that no further action takes place due to the release of the stud 8*, the latch 85 merely being rocked backward on its pivot.

Simultaneously with the downward movement of the weight 74. the plate for unlocking the lever and closing the coin slot will be actuated, as will now be explained. Intermediate the length of the upright rod 75 may be connected a bracket 90. which in turn is connected to the upright rod 91, shown in Figs. 4, 13 and 1.4. The upper end of this rod 91 is provided with an enlarged head 92 normally contacting a pin 93 held under spring tension by means of the spring 94 in the housing 95 having the removable cap 90. Normally, the upright rod 91 will contact the pin 93 and, through the medium of the bracket 97 pivoted at 98 to the plate 99, will hold said plate in a position to lock the handle 101. This is accomplished by means of a shoulder cut in the upper edge along one side of the plate 99 normally adapted to engage the manually operated lever 101. As the rod 91 is pulled dmvnwardly, the plate 99 will rock forward on the pivot 98, due to the weight of the bracket 97 and the weight. of the pin and housing. This releases the notch 100 from engagement with the lever 101 while simultaneously closing the coin slot in the plate 102 secured by means of rivets, pins or other suitable fastening elements 103 to the main frame. Excess forward movement of the plate 99 is prevented by means of the iiotch 104 registering with the stationary pin 105 mounted on the plate 102.

As shown in Fig. 17, the plate 102 is provided with an elongated slot 106 acting as a guideway for the handle. Also operatively being open.

associated with the handle and shown more particularly in Figs. 14 and 15, is a plate 107 adapted to reciprocate vertically between the guiding studs 108' on the rear of theplate 102. Intermediate its length, one edge of the plate is provided with a cutaway portion 109 to accommodate the lever 101 which is placed therein. The function of this plate is to at all times close the rear of the slot 106 in the plate to prevent moisture, dirt, and other foreign particles from being unintentionally swept in through the slot opening 106.

The ticket 65. is now temporarily held in the rcceptable T8 by the movable arm 82 of the bell crank lever 83. p

'I will now describe the mechanism for moving the arm 82 into opened and closed engagement. A projecting stud 110, adjustable by means of the screw 111, if desired, is mounted intermed'ate the length of the rod 91. The outer enc of this stud 110 is adapted normally to contact a projecting pin 112 mounted on the arm 113 of'the bell crank lever 83. is pivoted at 114 on the bracket 115 secured to the rear wall of the receptacle 78. Spring tension is imposed on said bell crank lever to cause the arm 82 to contact the front face 80 of the receptacle to close said receptacle by means of the coil spring 116, having one end anchored on the pin 112 and the other end on an extension 117 from the wall of the cabinet. Fig. 12 illustrates the normal position of this particular mechanism. The stud 110 contacts the pin 112 and has rocked the bell crank lever 88 on its The bell crank lever 88.

pivot 114 so that the arm 82 has been removed from contact with the front face 80 of the receptacle. said receptacle normally 7 As the rod 91 is pulled downwardly in its first movement, as heretofore described, the stud 110 willbe carried with it. Due to the spring tension imposed by the spring 116, the bell crank lever 83 will rock on its pivot 114 and the arm 82 will then swing through the slot 81 to contact the front face 80 of the receptacle, thus closing it, as clearly shown in Fig. 11.

Summing up, it will be understood that the lever 42, hammer 49, and ticket-ejecting mechanism 58 have been restored to normal position, ready for the next operation. However, it is neccessary to restore certain of the other levers and associated mechanisms to normal suspended position in order to store up power for the next operation, as well as to completely eject the ticket so that the person standing on the scale plat form may receive it. Now is the time when the handle 101 is manually operated to perform these two operations. One of the reasons why the printed ticket is only partially ejected and is held by the arm 82 is to require the person standing on the scale platform to acaaeav operate the handle which restores the mechanism to normal position for the next operation. The handle 101 (Figs. 4 and 13) is keyed on the shaft 118, mounted on the support 119 attached to the plate-like main support 8. A rearwardly projecting arm 119' is pivoted on the other end of the shaft 118 and is pivotally connected at 120 to the upright rod 120 pivoted at 121 to one end. of the lever 88. The plate-like main support 8 is apertured at 122 to allow the arm 119 to project from the front to the rear of the plate in order that some of themechanisms may be disposed on the back of the plate, for convenience. This is more clearly shown in Figs. 2, 6 and 13. A pin 123 projects from the upper end of the rod 120, forming an anchor for a coil spring 124 which is anchored at its other end in the plate 8. The function of this spring 124 will be hereinafter more particularly described.

By pulling down on the handle 101, the. rod

120 is raised, which in turn rocks the lever 88 on its pivot 73, causing the other end of said lever to be forced downwardly. As

before explained, this lever 88 has projecting from one. side a stud 87 which, in its downward movement, contacts the stud 84 carried by the lever 68. The engagement of these projections 87 and 84 forces the lever 68'downwardly at the same time that the lever 88 is being forced downwardly until the end of the lever 68 becomes latched again by the dog 72 in the latch 67. It will be seen that the lever 68 is thus restored to normal position, the weight 74 having been raised. At the same time, due to the raising of the Weight 74 and the upright rod 7 5, the rod 91 will also be forced upwardly.

Referring again to Fig, 12, the upward movement of this rod 91 will cause the stud 110 to contact the pin 112 on the bell crank lever 83, causing said bell crank lever to rock on its pivot, thus releasing the arm 82 and allowing the printed ticket 81 to be released and fall by gravity into the receptacle 125, from which it can be easily removed by a'person standing on the scale platform. The handle 101 is then released and, due to the action of the spring 124, said handle will be forced upwardly, the rod 120 being forced downwardly. This causes the lever 88 to again rock on its pivot, its inner end carrying the dog 87 riding ast the surface of latch 85 until the dog 87 registers with the notch 89, which latches said lever 88 in suspended position. The machine is now ready for another operation.

Connected to the lever 88 is an upright rod 132 having the coiled tension spring 133 interposed intermediate its length and pivoted at 134 to the lever 135. 'The arm 135 is pivoted at 136 to a forwardly projecting plate 137. The arm 138 also may be pivoted at 136, and the other end of said arm may be pivoted at 139 to the pawl 140 guided by the pin 1 41 mounted on the face of the plate 137. The arrangement is such that as the lever 88 is'first rocked downwardly by the rod 120 and lever 101, as explained, the rod 132 will be pulled down wardly, transmitting motion to the pawl 140 and causing said pawl to engage a tooth in the toothed gear 130, rotatingsaid gear and spool for the space of one notch, thus presenting a new surface for printing after each operation of the printing hammer. The arrangement is such that the ribbon strip winds u on the spool 127. When said spool is fille and the spool 126 has entirely unwound, the ribbon may be again Wound on the spool 126 and unwound from spool 127 by manually rotating the spool 126 in a clockwise direction by means of the projection 129. If desired, a date printing wheel, illustrated diagrammatically at 142, may be mounted on the shaft 143 adjacent the upper portion of the printin wheel 20. This wheel 142 may be adjusted by means of the tranverse rod 144 which has communication through the slot 145 with the frame 4 of the machine, the arrangement being such that a key is adapted to be inserted in the slot 145 to ad-- other with the side, which is to have the weight and date impressed upon it facing downwardly. As shown clearly in Fig. 3, the thicket magazine may be open in front. the tickets being held therein by means of an upright rod 148, movable upwardsand sideways in an obvious manner. A weight illustrated diagrammatically at 149, insures uniform pressure and proper feeding of the tickets at all times. In order to replenish the stock of tickets at any time, the rod 148 is removed and a supply of tickets placed in stacked form in the magazine, as heretoforedescribed. The plate 65 may be attached to the plate-like main support 8 by I means offrivets 150, or the like. A guide 151 (Fig. 3) is provided for guiding the travel of the ribbon 66.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 18

and 19, to properly guide the ticket which has been printed and which is being ejected, I provide the arm 152 mounted at 153 on an extension 154 attached to the housing of the receptacle 78. 'I also provide the guide wires 155, the feet of which project downwardly to drop the printed ticket into the receptacle 78. The guide wires 155 also function as. spring tension members to keep the ticket free of the wheel and to force the ticket upwardly for a slight distance after the hammer has impreseed the weight thereon. A coil spring 156, one end of which is anchored on a projection from the latchand the other end of which is anchored on an extension 157* of the projection 71, serves to at all times keep the latch 85 in forward position, tending to engage the dog 87 of the lever 88.

Coins inserted in the machine pass down through the coin chute 26 and are collected in the coin box 158. j A transverse supporting plate 159 may be provided for the cushioning dashpot 12 and the cushioning dashpot 160, cushioning the descent of the weight 74.

Summing up the foregoing description, it will be seen that the weight of a person stepping on the scale platform 9 causes the printing wheel to be rotated to printing position. The insertion of a coin then trips the lever 27 which sets in motion the various mechanisms described for causing the printing hammer to descend and print the ticket and simultaneously move the ticket-ejector mechanism backward so that another ticket may be placed in printing position. The restoration of the hammer to raised position simultaneously functions-to partially eject the printed ticket into the receptacle 78 where it is held until the lever 101 is manually operated to completely eject the ticket and at the same time restore the mechanism to normal position for the next operaation. It is an advantage to lock the lever 101 until the ticket has been partially ejected. The function of this lever is to restore the mechanism to normal position, and when said lever 101 is released, the coin slot is simultaneously closed to prevent the insertion of another coin until the lever has been actuated. This will make the machine foolproof and will prevent further weighing until it has been manipulated'to restore the power necessary for the next operation. This hand operated lever 101 being held under spring tension will be restored to its normal position upon release of the hand pressure used to manipulate it. The restoring of the lever to normal position sets in force mechanism which rocks the plate 99 to open the coin slot and lock the lever. The machine is now ready for the next user.

I claim asmy invention:

1. In a ticket-printing and delivering weight of a person on the platform, a ver-' tically disposed ticket magazine above the plane of the printing wheel, means for feed ing the bottom ticket from the stack in the magazine to the top of the printing wheel, a printing hammer arranged to fall upon a ticket at the top of the printing wheel and associated inking mechanism, means includingcoin operated tripping mechanism for actuating the printing hammer and ticketfeeding mechanism, and means for preventing complete ejection of the printed ticket co-operatively associated with a manually operated handle adapted to be manipulated to restore the weighing mechanisms to nor mal position and completely eject the ticket.

2. In a ticket-printing and delivering weighing scale, the combination with a frame provided with a coin slot opening, movable platform and associated weighing mechanism parts, of a vertically disposed printing wheel actuated by the weight of a person on the platform, a. vertically disposed ticket magazine above the plane of the printing wheel, means for feedmg the bottom ticket from the stack in the magazine to the top of the printing wheel, a printing hammerarranged to fall upon a ticket at the top of the printing wheel and associated inking mechanism, means including coin operated tripping mechanism for actuating tie printing hammer and ticketfeeding mechanism, means for preventing complete ejection of the printed ticket cooperatively associated with a manually operated handle adapted to be manipulated to restore the weighing mechanisms to normal position and completely eject the ticket, and a movable plate, co-operatively associated with said hand operated lever and the coin slot opening actuated to normally lock said lever to prevent manipulation, said plate being cooperatively associated with the coin operated tripping mechanism and adapted, when the latter is actuated, to be gravitationally released from locking engagement with said lever to simultaneously close the coin slot, and means for restoring said plate to locking engagement with the lever when said lever is manually manipulated.

3. In a ticket-printing and delivering weighing scale, the combination with a frame. movable platform and associated weighing mechanism parts, of a vertically disposed printing wheel actuated by the weight of a person on the platform, a vertically disposed ticket magazine above the plane of the printing wheel, means for feeding the bottom ticket from the stack in the magazine to the top of the printing wheel, a printing hammer arranged to fall upon a parts, of a vertically ticket at the top of the printing wheel and adapted to be manipulate associated inking mechanism, means including coin oplerated tripping mechanism for actuating t e printing hammer and ticketfeeding mechanism, movable means functioned by the coin operated tripping mechanism acting to prevent complete ejection of the'ticket, and a manuall to actuate said movable means to completely eject the ticket and simultaneously restore the weighing mechanisms to normal position.

4. In a ticket-printing and deliveringweighing scale, the combination with a frame provided with acoin receiving opening, movable platform and associated weighing mechanism arts, of a vertically disposed printing w eel actuated by the Wei ht of a person on the platform, a vertically isprintin to the top of the printing wheel, a prmting' posed ticket magazine above the plane of the wheeL- means for feeding the bottom tic et from the stack in the magazine operable lever hammer arranged to fall upona ticket atthe top of the printing wheel and associated "inking, mechanism, means including coin 'in to prevent complete 'ejection of the tic et, a manually operated lever adapted to be manipulated to actuate said movable means to completely eject the ticket and simultaneously restore the weighing mecha nisms to normal position, a movable plate normally locking said hand operated lever and functioned by the coin operated trippin mechanism to release said handv operated lever for manual manipulation and simultaneously close the coin receiving opening, and means for restoring said movable plate to lock said hand operated lever and simultaneously open the coin receiving opening when said lever llS manually manipulated.

GUSTAV'F. HOOHRIEM.

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