US3396657A - Arrangement in receipt-issuing machines - Google Patents

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Aug. 13, 1968 N. E. J. sTAHL ET AL 3,396,657

ARRANGEMENT IN RECEIPT-ISSUING MACHINES Filed July 15, 1963 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Q INVENTORS N. E]. Sta/7 /M=\ 0,1]. 1 arss on aigdiflrhv- ATTO ruvegs Aug. 13, 1968 STAHL ET 3,396,657

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United States Patent 3,396,657 ARRANGEMENT IN RECEIPT-ISSUING MACHINES Nils Evert Johan Stzihl, Hjortstigen 18, Stocksund, Sweden, and Oscar Uno Larsson, Pettersbergsvagen 86, Hagersten, Sweden Filed July 15, 1963, Ser. No. 354,188

Claims priority, application Sweden, July 16, 1962,

7,927/ 62 (Filed under Rule 47(3) and 35 U.S.C. 116) 8 Claims. (Cl. 10166) ABSTRACT on THE DISCLOSURE A receipt-issuing machine includes two printing means which are adapted to print selectively different groups of symbols upon a receipt as well as two indicating means showing to a user symbols selected from the two groups of symbols and means adjusting two printing means so that these printing means will be able to print a symbol selected by the user from the two groups of symbols.

The present invention relates to receipt-issuing machines for the printing of receipts or tickets preferably with the markings of value, time, zone and line, but also for the marking of pre-issued tickets.

An essential feature of the invention consists in that a control member accessible from the outside of the machine can be set displaceably in relation to the indicating means of the machine; another feature is that control members accessible from the outside of the machine as well are adapted to actuate and switch said indicating means in desired direction by means of transmission devices.

An advantageous embodiment of the invention consists of a number of cog wheels rotatably arranged on an axle and of a corresponding number of rotatable indicating wheels and type wheels cooperating directly or indirectly with said cog wheels, each of the cog wheels, indicating wheels and type wheels being arranged in decades and being step-wise rotatable in a desired direction of rotation by means of manually controllable members from the outside of the machine, which members are adapted to actuate the cog wheel in any of the decades.

It is advantageous that the type wheels are rotatably arranged on an axle and that a corresponding number of rotatably arranged indicating wheels are mounted on an axle parallel with the aforementioned axle.

According to the invention the arrangement for rotat ing the cog wheels as well as the type Wheels and indicating wheels cooperating with said cog wheels consists of two parallel axes rotatable in a frame and of means on either axle displaceable and swingable by the rotation of either axle, said means being adapted during alternative swinging for a certain angle of turn to rotate the cog wheels, type Wheels and indicating wheels in opposite directions of rotation.

A ticket machine combined with a device according to the invention renders quick and effective control as well as surveyable statistics of printed and issued tickets and is moreover rapidly fixable for the printing of tickets with different time data.

Hereinafter an embodiment of the invention will be described in greater detail and illustrated by Way of accompanying drawings, and additional features of the invention will be disclosed.

FIGURES 1 and 2 are side views of the receipt-issuing machine according to the invention.

FIGURE 3 shows schematically type wheels and indicating wheels intended for the printing of tickets and cards, as well as means intended for rotating said wheels.

FIGURES 4 and 5 illustrate parts of the rotating means.

FIGURE 6 illustrates the means controllable from the outside of the machine for rotating the type wheels and the indicating wheels.

FIGURES 7, 8 and 9 illustrate parts of the means according to FIG. 6 and, finally,

FIGURES 10 and 11 illustrate a displaceable holder combined with said means, the rotating means being secured on said holder.

The numeral 12 designates the casing of the ticket machine, and 13 an aperture therein for feeding-out ready printed tickets 14. The means intended for the printing and the feeding-out of the ready printed tickets are already known and therefore not objects of the present invention. The numeral 15 designates a flat or substantially fiat frame section, preferably of sheet metal, provided with legs 16 disposed and extending rectangularly to said frame section. The legs ,16 are provided with apertures for carrying therein axles 17 and 18 extending parallel to each other at a certain diametrical distance. Said axles 17, 18 are adapted to extend a certain length beyond the one leg 16 0f the frame section 15. On the end portions of the axles 17 and 18 there are rigidly secured two levers 19 and 20, by means of which the axles 17 and 18 are rotatable to a certain angle of turn. The levers 19 and 20 are provided with U-shaped recesses 21 and 22, into which recesses the means intended for turning the axles are adapted to engage. The means intended for turning the axles 17, 18 are arranged displaceably in the plane of swinging of the levers 19 and 20, respectively, and connected with buttons 23 and 24 accessible from the outside of the machine, as shown in FIG. 1. The means connected with said buttons are well known in the art and are not further illustrated; they are displaceable in the direction of motion as indicated by the arrows 25 and 26.

The axles 17 and 18 are provided, as shown in FIG. 8, with pins 27 and 28 secured at right angles to said axles, said pins being adapted to retain said axles in a certain position of turn against pins 29 and 30, secured on the legs 16. The numeral 31 designates a heliocoidal spring, which is adapted, when turning the axles 17 and 18, to restore said axles to idle turning position.

The numeral 32 designates a holder of sheet metal displaceably arranged on the axles 17, 18. Said holder has a plan section and side walls 33, 34 extending at right angles to said plan section and parallel to each other. The side wall 33 is provided with an aperture 35, while the side wall 34 is provided with an aperture 36, the axle 17 being insertable through said apertures. The side wall 33 is provided with a semi-circular recess 37, which is adapted to fit in a circular groove 38 on a sleeve 39, which is displaceable on the axle 18. The holder 32 is displaceable on the axles 18 and 17 by means of a member 40 embodied in a grip connected with said holder, which member is accessible from the outside of the machine. Said holder is adapted upon its displacement on the axles 17 and 18 to carry along means displaceable on said axles. These means are shown on an enlarged scale in FIGS. 4 and 5. Said means consists of a sleeve-formed nave 41 and of an arm 42 rigidly connected with said nave. Said arm 42 is at a certain distance from the central line of the nave 41 provided with a sleeve 43 rigidly connected with said arm. In said sleeve there is pivotally secured an element 44 by means of an axle-tap 45 mounted in said element. The element 44 is provided with an arm 46 which, when swinging the arm 42 in operative direction of swinging, is adapted to engage against the peripheral portion of the nave 41.

The element 44 is moreover provided with an arm, the end portion of which is embodied in a holding dog 47. A

helicoidal spring 48 arranged about the bearing sleeve 43 is adapted to influence the element 44 during swinging on the arm 42 and to retain said element in a certain position of said element. The axles'17, 18 are bevelled in the longitudinal direction, so that flat parallel side portions 49 are provided on said axles. The means 41, 42 displaceable on the axles 17, 18 are provided on their sleeve-formed naves with inwardly directed warts or projections 50, which prevent the rotation of said means on said axles.

The numerals 51 designate a number of cog wheels, for example twelve cog wheels, rotatably and adjacently arranged on a rigid axle 52. Said cog Wheels are adapted to cooperate with an equal number of indicating wheels, rotatably and adjacently arranged on a rigid axle 53. The cog wheels 51 are also adapted to cooperate with and to rotate an equal number of type wheels 56 rotatably arranged on a rigid axle '55. The axles 52, 53 and 55 are parallel and are mounted on a frame, not shown in the drawings. The indicating wheels 54 and the type wheels 56 are provided with an equal number of spaces 57, 58, for example ten such spaces, for ciphers or letter designations. The numeral 59 designates a printing pad arranged close to the type wheels 56, and 60 designates a paper strip, guidable between said pad and said type wheels, constituting ticket blanks. The designations on the spaces of the type wheels '56, which are directed against the printing pad 59, are controllable on the indicating wheels 54 through a window 61 provided in the casing 12 of the machine.

The holder 32, displaceably arranged on the axles 17, 18, has a fiat wall extending substantially parallel to said axles and provided with approximately rectangular apertures 62, 63. Two opposed edges on said apertures are directed perpendicularly to the axles 17, 18 and are adapted to engage the circular edges of the nave pertaining to the means 41, 42 displaceably arranged on said axles.

The substantially parallel edge portions of the frame section 15 are provided with a number of tooth- shaped projections 64, 65 arranged at a distance from each other. The means 41, 42, swingable by means of the axles 17, 18, are provided with wheels 66 which when swinging in the operative direction penetrate between the projections 64 and 65 respectively. The purpose of the projections 64, 65 is, when swinging the means 41, 42, to prevent displacement of the holder 32 on the axles 17, 18.

The holder 32 is provided with an arresting device, which is intended to facilitate the setting of the swingable means 41, 42 to actuate any of the cog Wheels 51. The arresting device consists of an angular arm 67 which is swingable on an axle-tap 68 provided on the holder 32. The free end-portion of the arm 67 is provided with a tap or roll 69 which is adapted to engage the end portions of a projection situated close thereto, said end portions being rounded-E. A spring 70 is adapted to swing the arm 67 and thereby to press the tap 69 against the recess 64. The holder 32 is combined with an indicator 71, visible in the window 61. The holder 32 is displaced by means of the grip 40 to such a position that the indicator 71 is directed to that indicating wheel 54 which is to be turned in either direction of rotation by depressing one of the members 23, 24.

When depressing, for example, the member 24, the axle combined with said member by means of the motion transmission devices, for example the axle 18, is swung and swings the means 41, 42 upon said axle to the extent of a certain angle, the dog 47 of said means turning the cog wheel 51 one step in one direction of rotation, corresponding to the division of the cogs, and simultaneously the indicating wheel 54 as well as the type wheel 56 are turned one step in the same direction of rotation. When the pressure on the button ceases, the spring 31 will turn the axle in the opposite direction, in which position the arresting pins 28 and 30 engage each other, the means 41, 42 being swung simultaneously to the starting position. During the opposite swinging motion of the means 41, 42, the holding dog 47 actuated by a spring 48 will slide against a cog on the cog wheel 51; thus a rotation of said wheel as well as of the wheels 54 and 56 will not take place. Every time one member is being depressed, the cog wheel as well as the indicating wheel and the type Wheel are turned one step. When the other member 23 is depressed, the cog wheel 51 as well as the indicating wheel 54 and the type wheel 56 are turned in the opposite direction of rotation.

The button 23 is provided with the marking and the button 24 with the marking If it is desired that a cipher of higher value on one of the indicating wheels 54 should become visible in the window 61, the indicator 71 is displaced by the grip 40, whereupon the marked butt-on 23 is depressed. If, however, a cipher of lower value on the indicating wheel should become visible in the window 61, the marked button is depressed.

FIG. 3 shows that the cog wheels 51 cooperate directly with the indicating wheels 54 and the type wheels 56. The arrangement according to the invention can be combined with portable as well as stationary receipt-issuing machines.

Obviously, the invention is not limited to the embodiment described hereinbefore and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, for which reason elements can be varied without departing from the scope of the invention.

What we claim is:

1. A printing machine for receipts, comprising a first printing means serving to print selectively a first plurality of symbols, second printing means serving to print selectively a second plurality of symbols, first indicating means arranged to indicate to a user the symbols selected from said first plurality of symbols, second indicating means arranged to indicate to a user the symbol selected from said second plurality of symbols, adjusting means displaceable relative to the first and second printing means to a selected position which corresponds to a selected one of the first and second printing means and in which said adjusting means cam adjust said selected one to bring said selected one to such a position that it can print the symbol selected from the relevant plurality of symbols, first control means operable from outside the machine and serving to operate the adjusting means to adjust the printing means, and second control means operable from outside the machine and serving to displace said adjusting mmns to said selected position.

2. A machine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising first and second turnable cog wheels mounted on an axle and arranged to be turned stepwise about said axle by said adjusting means, said first and second printing means being first and second type wheels cooperating with the first and second cog Wheels, respectively, and said first and second indicating means being first and second indicating wheels cooperating with said first and second cog wheels, respectively. I

3. A machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein the type wheels are mounted on a second axle and the indicating wheels are mounted on a third axle parallel with the first-mentioned axle and the second axle.

4. A machine as claimed in claim 3, further comprising two parallel axles rotatably mounted in a frame, said adjusting means being displaceable along said two parallel axles and being swingable by turning of said two parallel axles to act on and turn the cog wheels soas to rotate the type wheels and the indicating wheels.

5. A machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said first control means comprises two manually operable buttons operably connected to two arms mounted on the respective two parallel axles, a spring urging said two parallel axles in opposite directions of rotation.

6. A machine according to claim 4, comprising swingable means connected with said axles, a holder displacing said swingable means on said axles and displaceably mounted on said axles, side walls perpendicular to said axles, said side wall being provided with holes for the one axle while one side wall of the holder is provided with a semi-circular recess, a sleeve slidable on one of said axles and having a circular groove, said recess fitting against said groove, the holder on its plan portion being provided with approximately rectangular apertures with opposed parallel edge portions directed perpendicularly to said axles, said edge portions being adapted to move close to a central portion of the swingable means.

7. A machine according to claim 6, wherein the swingable means which are adapted to group-wise turn a cog wheel and cooperate with type wheel and indicating wheel, consists of a sleeve-formed nave displaceably mounted on the adapted axles, and an arm connected therewith, a spring actuated holding dog connected with said arm, the length of the nave depending upon the distance between the opposed edge portions of the apertures provided in the displaceable holder so that said edge portions may engage the end-edges of the nave and at displacement of the holder, carry along the swingable means.

8. A machine according to claim 6, comprising a grip connected with the holder whereby the holder combined with the swing-able means is displaceable by means of said grip and accessible from the outside of the machine, an indicator connected with said holder and visible in the window being located in front of the indicating wheels and adapted to be set upon the indicating wheel of the wheel-group that is to be switched.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 763,195 6/1904 Merz 101-288 828,478 8/1906 Hodge a- 10193 1,393,232 10/1921 Manshcl l0169 2,150,761 3/1939 Craig et a1 l0l66 2,343,721 3/1944 Van Tuyl 101101 FOREIGN PATENTS 807,509 6/1955 Great Britain.

ROBERT E. PULFREY, Primary Examiner.

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