US2951438A - Machines for printing and issuing - Google Patents

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Sept. 6, 1960 R. l. N. WEINGART 2,951,438

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l 66o 6102 A604 Fg37 \594 INVENTORl RICHARD I.N.WE|NGART MACS FR PRENTING AND ISSUHG TICKETS AND BUSENESS FGRMS Richard I. N. Weiugart, Brookville, NN., assignor to Burroughs Corporation, Detroit, Mich., a corporation of Michigan Filed Dec. 17, 1954, Ser. No. 475,940

22 Claims. (Cl. lill- 63) This invention relates to machines and methods for issuing business forms and to forms or tickets issued by the machine and in accordance with said methods.

The general objects of the present invention relate to the issuance of business forms and particularly transportation tickets in such fashion as to avoid the necessity for carrying on hand stocks of preprinted tickets which, by Virtue of their nature, represent documents of value, to provide accounting records of the tickets issued from which all essential data may be secured, to insure against falsification of records, and to facilitate the issuance of tickets. In accordance with the invention, a mechanism for issuing tickets and maintaining records is provided Which is relatively simple and inexpensive and, hence, is particularly adapted for use at stations, airports, relatively small ticket agencies, etc., where the number of sales of tickets made would not Warrant the cost of more elaborate machines. However, as will become apparent hereafter, machines of the type herein disclosed are by 11o means so limited in their capabilities that they would be inapplicable even to stations, or the like, where large volume sales are involved. Furthermore, the machines are adapted to other than transportation use, though for consistency of description they will be hereafter referred to as for that use.

In brief, the machines of the present invention are arranged to print tickets from sheet stock, which may be in part preprinted, through the use of removable slugs corresponding to particular ltickets to be issued. These slugs not only print suitable matters on the ticket strip to form the tickets to be issued, but additionally provide complete printed records of the transactions involved. Furthermore, the machine is arranged to issue, and record the issuance of, tickets of write-in type in which certain information must vbe written in the ticket by the ticketissuing agent. Such tickets may -be involved, for example, when it does not pay to provide at the station of issuance slugs involving the issuance of tickets to small stations or destination-s to which the tra'ic from the issuing station may be quantitatively very low. Write-in operation may also be involved in the case of issuance of pullman or coach reservation tickets, in which instances the ticket issuing agent may be required to ascertain space available and identify on the ticket the particular space sold.

The general objects of the invention outlined above, as well as other objects relating particularly to details of the machine, its operation, procedure in issuing tickets, and the tickets themselves, will become apparent from the following description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a general plan view of the operating mechanism of a preferred type of machine, showing, in particular, the mechanism located below a top plate of the machine, with various par-ts broken away to show details of construction;

Figure 2 is a partial elevation taken on the plane indi- VPatented Sept..` 196@ 2 Y cated at 2 2 in Figure 1, the view being taken in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 3 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 3 3 in Figure l;

Figure 4 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 4 4 in Figure l;

Figure 5 is a vertical section taken on the plate indicated at 5 5 in Figure 1;

Figure 6 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 6 6 in Figure l;

Figure 7 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 7 7 in Figure 1 Figure 8 is an elevation viewed from the plane indicated at 8 8 in Figure 1 in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 9 is an elevation, with part of the casing broken away, of a printing box located above the main top plate of the machine and containing various printing elements and devices associated therewith;

Figure 10 is an inverted plan view of the printing box shown in Figure 9;

Figure 11 is a Vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 11 11 in Figure 9;

Figure 12 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 1.2 12 in Figure 9;

Figure 13 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 13 13 in Figure 9; Y

Figure 14 is a vertical section taken on the plane indicated at 14 14 in Figure 9;

Figure 15 is in part a section and in part an elevation taken on the broken surface indicated at 15-15 in Figure 9;

Figure 16 is a plan view of the machine with the top plate removed and various other parts broken away to show details;

Figure 17 is a plan view of the top of the machine but with portions of the printing box broken away to show elements therebeneath; p

Figure 18 is a vertical section through the machine particularly showing the storage provisions for the ticket strip and record members and illustrating the paths thereof through the operating mechanism; Y

Figure 19 is a perspective view or the upper` portion of the machine particularly showing the printing box in opened position for write-in purposes;

Figure 20 is a perspective view of the machine showing the printing box in its normal partially tilted position in which it is ready to receive a slug;

Figure 21 is a plan view showing a typical preprinted ticket stock;

Figure 22 is a top plan view of a typical slug provided for use in the machine;

Figure 23 is a front elevation of the slug;

Figure 24 is a bottom plan view of the slug;

Figure 25 is a plan view showing the matter printed by a slug on one type of ticket;

Figure 26 is a plan View showing the matter printed on -a ticket by a slug which is arranged for the issuance of a round-trip interline ticket;

Figure 27 is a plan view showing matter typically printed on a ticket by `a slug designed for the issuance of pullman or similar reservations;

Figure 28 is a plan View of a ticket which is typical of tickets issued for one-way transportation;

Figure 29 is a plan View of a ticket typical of tickets issued for round-trip transportation on a single line;

Figures 30 and 31 are plan views showing coupon elements which are associated with the ticket strip for the production of a round-trip interline ticket;

Figure 32 is a plan view showing an assembly of coupon elements associated to provide a round-trip interline ticket;

Figure 33 is a fragmentary plan view showing a portion of a ticket journal strip as printed in the machine, there being indicated in this figure certain legends indicative of types of sale;

Figure 34 is a planview with portions broken away illustrative of a three-ply pullman lreservation ticket stock of preprinted type; Y A

' Figure 35 is a plan View showing associated pullman reservation coupons as provided by the machine and with certain data written therein;

VFigure 36 is a, fragmentary plan viewof a pullman reservation ticket journal as printed in the machine; and

. Figure 37 is a plan view of a commutation ticket which may be issued by the machine. f Y t .The preferred form of machine provided in accordance with the invention will be first described, this description being followed by a description of the machine operation and by a description of the types of tickets and the various alternative ticket issuing` methods which may be employed in accordance with the invention.

The machine comprises a housing which incorporates various supporting frame elements the arrangement of which willbecome clear as the description proceeds without the necessity for detailed descriptionrof these elements.

.Power for operation is provided by a motor 2 the shaft of which through its pinion 4 drives gear6 which, in turn, is connected to rotate with a pinion 8. A clutch arrangement is provided by a gear arranged to mesh with pinion 8but having a portion of its circumference cut away to be completed by the teeth on a lever 12 pivoted at 14 to the gear 10 and urged in a counterclockwise direction, as viewed in Figure 3, by a spring 16. The gear 10 is carried by a shaft 11 which furnishes drive to certain parts of the machine as will hereafter appear. The lever 12 is provided with a pin 18 with which is engageable the hook end of a lever 22 pivoted at 24 and normally urged in a clockwise direction, as viewed in Figure 3, by a spring 26. The lever 22 is held in engagement with the pin 18 by means of a lever 28 to which further reference will hereafter be made.

The gear 10 meshes with a gear 38 which is secured to a shaft -32 from which various operations of the mechanism are derived. v

A pin 34 carried by lever 22 is arranged to engage a movable switch member 36 to produce circuit closure through the motor 2 by engagement of contacts 38. The shaft 11 is provided with a cam 40 arranged to act upon the roller42 carried by the pivoted lever 44 which is urged by spring 46 to produce contact between roller 42 and-cam 40. The lower end of the lever 44 is also .arranged to engage the switch member 36 to close the contacts. The switch member is normally urged into circuit opening position by a spring 45.

Secured to the shaft 32 is a gear segmentA 48 subtending 180 and arranged to drive through half of a cycle of operation a pinion 50 secured to a shaft to which there is also secured a sprocket wheel 52 over which a chain 54 is trained to drive a second sprocket wheel 56 secured to a transverse shaft 58. A disk 51 secured to pinion 50 is provided with a notch to receive a detent roller S3 carried by a lever 55 urged by a spring 57 to providea yielding detent action. The shaft 58 is provided vwith a pair of pinwheels 60 each carrying pins 62 for the drive of a ticket strip T. Edge stripping members 64 embrace portions of the circumferences of the pinwheels 60 to remove and deliver downwardly the perforated edge portions T of the ticket strip T. A plate 66 is arranged to divert the central main portion of the ticket strip T outwardly of the machine.

The shaft 58 carries the Geneva drive 'member 68 which cooperates with a driven member 78 to which is secured a pinion 72 meshing witha gear 74 secured to a second transverse shaft 76. The shaft 76 islongitudinally slidable and is urged toward the left, as viewed in Figure l, by means of a spring 78 to engage a pin Si? carried by shaft 76 a notch in theend of a sleeve 82. It will be noted that the pinion '72 is provided with a wide face so that the lengthwise movements of shaft 76 will not disengage the pinion 72 and gear 74. For the purpose of imparting movements to the shaft 76 toward the right, as viewed in Figure l, to disengage pin 80 from sleeve 32 there is guided in the frame a pin 77 engageable with a head 75 formed on the end of shaft 76. This arrangement permits manual axial movement of the shaft while preventing the projection through the housing of the rotating shaft. The arrangement thus prevents manual interference with the shaft rotation.

The sleeve 82 is provided with a pair of pinwheels 84 provided with pins 86 for the feed of a pair of record strips R and lR which are perforated at their edges. A member 88 serves to hold Ithese strips in engagement with the pins and forms together with a plate 90 an outlet opening for the delivery at the rear of the machine of the record strip R.

The ticket strip T is provided from a bin 92 -in the housing, as shown in Figure 18. The severed edges T' of this strip, are received in a bin 94. A bin 96 supplies the record strips R and R' which are fan-folded in parallel in the bin. The record strip R is ultimately delivered to a receiving bin 98 wherein it is automatically refolded. To prevent interference of the several strips with each other, they are fedpast spacing rollers 100 and 182 and over plate 103. The edge portions T are guided toi the bin 94 through guide members 104, while a plate 106 strip R to the bin 98.

Secured to the shaft 32 are a pair of eccentrics 188 the straps of which are pivoted at 112 to a carriage 114 which is mounted for horizontal sliding movements in the machine frame. A shaft 116 mounted in this carriage is provided with a pinion 118 which meshes with another pinion 120 carried by the carriage and which, in turn,

meshes with a Xed rack 122 mounted on a machineA frame. The shaft 116 carries a semicircularV platen 124 of yielding rubber material which, as will appear, serves to press the several strips against type to effect printing. The carriage 114 is provided with a pla-te 126 which provides a backing for the writing of information on tickets. A housing 128, which Will be referred to hereafter as a printing box, is provided with ears which serve to mount it pivotally on the ends of shaft 5S, this being merely a convenient mounting. The bottom of the printing box 128 is open and mounted therein is a plate 132 provided with lips 134 for the guidance of an introduced slug S. A pair of magnets 136 are fixed above the plate 132 and are arranged to attract and hold upwardly a slug S inserted below the plate 132 which is of non-magnetic material. To the rear of the plate 132 and in position to be engaged by an inserted slug is a slide 138 which is slotted for guidance by pins 140, the slide being urged in a forward direction by springs 143. The slide 138v is provided at one end with a projection 142 which is arranged to cooperate with a shoulder 154 formed on an arcuate link 144 which is slotted at 146 for the passage of a screw 148 to secure it slidably to the printing box 128. The depending portion of the link 144 is provided' with an arcuate slot 150 embracing a pin 152 fixed to the machine frame.

A pairof rollers 156 and '158 serve to mount the reeled ends of an inked ribbon C. Knobs 160 and 162 serve for control of movement of the ribbon C. While its movement could be made automatic in obvious fashion, this is unnecessary, the ribbon being advanced manually through manipulation of the knobs as required. The ribbon is guided about rollers 164'and y'166 and also about guide strips 168 and 170 provided with slidable guide pins which are urged downwardly by leaf springs 169 and i171 carried by the printing box. The members 168 and 170 also serve for the guidance of a slug S by cooperation with guide slots 172 and 174.- In normal conditions prior to actual printing, the space between the plate 132 and

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