US2623454A

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Publication number: US2623454A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1952-12-30
Anticipated expiration: 1969-12-30

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Dec. 30, 1952 2,623,454

A. F. JULIUS TICKET PRINTING AND TRANSACTION REGISTERING MEANS FOR RACE TOTALIZATGRS Filed D90. 27, 1951 2 SHEETS-SHEET l Q Q a i QS .M: n Q as w 6 M ii 2 k FORECAST Dec. 30, 1952 A. F. JULIUS 2,623,454

TICKET PRINTING AND TRANSACTION REGISTERING MEANS FOR RACE TOTALIZATCRS Filed Dec. 27, 1951 2 SHEETS--SHEET 2 Patented Dec. 36, 1952 Ul'i'hlD STATES {PATENT QFFICE TICKET PRINTING AND TRANSACTION REGISTERING MEANS FOR RACE TO- TALIZA'EORS Wales Application. December 27,;1951, Serial No. 263,553 In Australia February 2, 1951 4 creams. (Cl. 101-69) This invention relates to race totalisators incorporating ticket issuer machines of the kind comprising a dial plate having a series of competitor numbers (or other indicia) marked thereon, and an operating handle which may be swung over the number series, halted in register with a selected number and then depressed, thus to initiate automatic printing and production. of a ticket bearing the selected competitor number. In. addition to initiating a ticket production cycle, depression of the handle is also instrumental in closing the operating circuit of an adding unit whereby the transaction to which the ticket refers is summed with other transactions (of'like kind) relating to the selected competitor.

Most ticket issuer machines of the kind referred to above make provision for the issue of two kinds of ticket in respect of each competitor; namely, win tickets and place tickets.

To accommodate this dual production, two separate adding units are provided for each competitor. One to sum the win transactions and the other the place transactions for each competitor. It is also necessary to provide change-over switch devices so that only the appropriate win or place adding unit circuit is energised. The change-over switch devices may be operable by additional manipulation of the issuer handle or bymovement of a switch lever or the like which is operable independently of the handle.

The known ticket issuers of the kind discussed above, incorporate a printing type Wheel which carries a series of competitor numbers the same as that on. the dial plate, and is geared to the handle in such manner that movement of the handle and halting it in relation to a selected competitor numb-er on the dial plate, causes similar movement and halting of the type wheel with its same competitor number presented at a printing station in readiness for marking that numbers are not, by themselves, significant. For

example, a forecast transaction is one related to simple means enabling forecast and like transact-ions to be registered, and the printing and issue of tickets in respect of suchtransactions. It will be clear from the description herein and the drawings referred to later herein that 'the present invention is useable somewhat more generally than. merely for forecast transactions as referred to above. However, the invention is described herein with reference to the said drawings mainly in terms of a mechanism specifically designed for eifecting such forecast transactions alternatively to usual win or place transactiOIlS.

? Viewed broadly, the invention consists in a race be selected and rendered solely effective for ticket printing purposes; such means comprising, a plural throw eccentric member which is rotatably mounted on the machine frame or .chassis and whereof the throws are differently directed, type wheels equal in number the throws f'fand respectively freely mounted thereon, drive transmission mechanism whereby the type wheels are rotatable concertedly and in correspondence with turning movement of the machine handle,

and means for turning the eccentricmember so that any one of its throws may be selectively projected towards the printing station forming part of the ticket issuing machine.

In the drawings:

' Figure 1 is a purely diagrammatic plan indicating essential parts of an example of the invention,

Figure 2 is a schematic sectional side elevation taken. along line 22 in. Figure 1. It will be no- 'ticed (by reference to. Figure 1) that the planes or section on opposite sides of the centre line marked .r-ac (in Figure 2) are at right angles.

At the left-hand end of Figure 2 a portion of a well known type of ticket-issuer handle rotor assembly is indicated generally by 3. This rotor assembly is of the kind having a gear wheel 4 fixed thereto for the purpose of turning a printing type wheel in correspondence with the turning of the handle (not shown) which forms part of the rotor assembly.

At the right-hand end of Figure 2 a known ticket printing assembly is shown. It consists of a backing pad 5 furnished with operating means for pushing it towards and withdrawing it from the type carrying elements such as the known code word or number type roller 6, removable printing block I and the usual win-place type arm 8. The space between the pad 5 and the type carrying elements constitutes the printing station, and usual means are provided for the step-by-step feeding of a ticket strip (9) and an inking ribbon (10) through that station.

In the usual ticket printing arrangements of ticket issuing machines of the kind to which this invention is referable, there is a further type carrying element namely a type wheel which is rotatable by gearing meshed with the gear wheel 4. This wheel (which may be called a win-place type wheel) carries a type series consisting of the numbers 1 to 21 (or some other maximum competitor number which the apparatus is designed to accommodate). In the illustrated embodiment of the present invention the type wheel I] is a win-place type wheel. A second type wheel 12 is provided. This second wheel may be called a forecast type wheel. Each of its type faces has two coupled numbers thereon representing all possible combinations of a selected maximum number of competitors taken two at a time. Where the selected maximum number is seven the forecast series would consist of twenty-one pairs of numbers as follows:

The forecast type wheel is of the same diameter as the win-place type wheel and is secured sideby-side thereto being rotatable therewith and capable of lateral translatory movement relative thereto. The win-place wheel is rotatable in consonance with ticket issuer handle movement in conventional manner, for example, by way of idler wheel 13 which meshes wheel 4 and also a pinion l4 fixed to the win-place wheel ill. The forecast wheel is drive connected to the win-place wheel by way (for example) of a driving peg [5 which is fixed to the first wheel and extends into aradialslot l 6 formed in the second wheel.

The two type wheels are centrally and respectively freely revolubly mounted on two eccentric portions of a shaft or sleeve VI 1 which is revolubly mounted on a portion of the issuer machine frame or a pin 18 fixed on that frame. The maximum throw radii of the two eccentric portions are diametrically opposed.

It will be seen that with the above vdescribed diametrically opposed eccentric mounting of the two type wheels, these wheels have two significant positions corresponding to two positions of the eccentric shaft which are 180 apart. In one of these positions (where the eccentric of the winplace wheel has its maximum throw directed towards the printing station) the wineplace wheel is advanced into the printing station in readiness to print, a win or place ticket and the forecast wheel is retracted clear of the printing station, and in the second position (as shown in Figure v2) the forecast wheel isadvanced for printing while the win-place wheel is retracted.

Simple means are provided for turning the eccentric member I1 through 180. These means may consist of a pinion I9 which meshes a rack 20 either directly or indirectly through a convenient idler train as indicated by wheels 2|, 22 and 23 in Figure 1. The rack may be travelled longitudinally by a pull rod or lever or knob 26 within easy reach of the machine operator, suitable stops being provided to limit rotation of the eccentric member to give the two printing positions above referred to.

It will be apparent that the existing win or place adding units could be used for counting forecast transactions, but for preference additional adding units solely for counting forecast transactions are provided. In such case a conventional change-over switch to isolate the win and place adding circuits and at the same time close the main supply line to the forecast adding unit circuits is provided. If desired this change-over switch may be mechanically coupled to the mentioned pull rod or lever for concerted operation therewith. Alternatively, the rack 20 may carry a contact 25 which in either of the limit positions of the rack is able to close the appropriate circuit as indicated in Figure 1.

It will be appreciated that the foregoing .de- ,scription refers to a preferred embodiment of the invention, and that there may be considerable modification of that embodiment without depare ture from the essence of the invention. For ex ample. although it is mechanically convenient for the eccentric throws to be apart theymay be angularly separated by some other amount. Again, if desired, more than two type wheelsmal' be present if the apparatus is required to deal with additional kinds of transaction. In such case the number of eccentric throws and other relevant parts would be correspondingly increased in number.

It will also be understood that the ticket issuer dial plate may be inscribed with the series of number pairs for forecast transaction; .or, if desired, a thin dummy dial plate or sheet inscribed with the forecast coupled numbers may be laid over the ordinary win-place series of numbers on the dial plate.

If desired the win-place type bracket 8 :(furnished with usual operating link 26) may be fur.- ni hed with an extra type face carrying theword forecast; but as the paired numbers on a forefiast ticket render-the nature of the ticket self.- evident the bracket Bmay simply be put out of action when forecast transactions are being dealt with.

The size of the eccentric throws is shown exaggeratedly in the drawings for clearness of illustration. In practice these throws need be no greater than is just sufficient to ensure against printing by the unselected type wheel, and hence it isonly necessary to provide the teeth of wheels 14 and I3 with a slight looseness of intermesh .to avoid tooth jamming when the wheel M is moved eccentrically by reason of its being mounted upon the win-place type wheel.

I claim:

,1. In a race totalisator ticket issuing machine of the kind comprising a dial plate, anoperating handle which may be turned relative to said dial plate, and a ticket printing type wheel which car.- ries an indicia series and which is geared to said handle for rotation in correspondence therewith; means whereby one of a plurality of indicia type series may be selected and rendered solely effective for ticket printing purposes, comprising, a plural-throw eccentric member which is rotatably mounted on the frame of the ticket issuing machine and whereof the throws are differently directed, type wheels equal in number to the said throws and respectively freely mounted thereon, drive transmission mechanism whereby the said type wheels are rotatable concertedly and in correspondence with turning movement of the said operating handle, and means for turning said eccentric member so that any one of its said throws may be selectively directed towards the printing station of said ticket issuing machine.

2. Means according to claim 1 wherein said eccentric member is a sleeve furnished with two diametrically opposed throws.

3. Means according to claim 1 wherein the number of said type wheels is two, and wherein the said drive transmission mechanism comprises a driving peg on one of said type wheels which projects into a radial slot in the other of said type wheels, and a gear pinion which is fixed concentrically on one of said type wheels and is drive connected to a rotor assembly forming part of said ticket issuing machine.

4. Means according to claim 1 wherein the means for turning said eccentric member comprise a pinion fixed on said eccentric member and a longitudinally movable rack drive connected to said pinion.

AWDRY FRANCIS JULIUS.

No references cited.