US766649A

US766649A - Ticket printing and registering machine.

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Publication number: US766649A
Application number: US8488101A
Authority: US
Inventors: Wilfred I Ohmer; Joseph Leitschuh; Joseph N Kelly
Original assignee: RECORDING AND COMPUTING MACHINES Co
Current assignee: RECORDING AND COMPUTING MACHINES Co
Priority date: 1901-12-06
Filing date: 1901-12-06
Publication date: 1904-08-02
Anticipated expiration: 1921-08-02

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No. 766,649. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904. W. I. OHMER, J. LEITSGHUH & J. N. KELLY.

TICKET PRINTING AND REGISTERING MACHINE.

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PATENT OFFICE.

\VILFRED I. OHMER, JOSEPH LEITSCHUH, AND JOSEPH N. KELLY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIC'NORS, BY DIREC' AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE RECORDING AND COMPUTING MACHINES COMPANY, OF

DAYTON, OHIO.

TICKET PRINTING AND REGISTERING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,649, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed December 6, 1.901. Serial No. 84,881. (No model.)

To all whom. it 72mg concern:

Be it known that we, \VILFRED I. Ornrcn, JosnPH Lmrsonnn, and JOSEPH N. KELLY, citizens of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Printing and Registering Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to ticket printing and registering machines, and has for its object to provide a portable machine whereby tickets may be printed and issued, said tickets having imprinted thereon in addition to the usual matter, such as the name of the road and the conditions under which the ticket is issued, the amount of the fare received, (such amount being variable to suit the circumstances,) the stations between which the ticket is good, the date of issue of the ticket, and its consecutive number, the machine also registering the number of tickets issued and the total amount of fare units received.

To these ends our invention consists in certain novel features, which we will now proceed to describe and will then particularly point out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the top of the casing. Fig. at is a detail sectional view taken on the line :1 w of Fig. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the mechanism, the outer casing being removed. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the same viewed from the opposite side to that shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line y 1y of Fig. 5 and looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail view of a portion of Fig. 5, illustrating more particularly the construction of the fare printing and registering mechanism. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of what is shown in Fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is a detail sectional view taken on the line of Fig. 10 and looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 12 is a detail sectional view taken on the line w w of Fig. 11 and looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 13 is a detail view of the ticket. Fig. 1a is a sectional view showing the inner face of one of the side plates of the frame; and Figs. 15, 16, and 17 are views of the roll-holder.

Referring to the drawings, it will be understood that the entire mechanism is inclosed within a suitable casing 1, to which more particular reference will be hereinafter made. "ithin the casing l is supported a suitable frame, on which the various portions of the mechanism are mounted, this frame comprising two parallel vertical plates 2, connected by screws 3 and separated by spacing-sleeves 4: in the usual manner. Between these plates 2 is mounted a fixed printing-plate 5,having thereon printing characters, by means of which any suitable legend may be imprinted on the face of the ticket. In the present instance we have shown this plate as having thereon the name of the issuing company, the words From and To above the spaces where the stations are to be printed, and a statement to the effect that the ticket is issued subject to the by-laws of the company. There is formed through the plate an opening6, and across this plate extends a shaft '7, mounted in the plates 2 and carrying thereon printing-wheels for indicating the monthand the day of the month.

The wheel 8 indicates the month, having printing characters thereon for that purpose, while the wheels 9 and 10 indicate the day of the month, having numerals thereon to that end, and the said wheels projecting through the opening 6, so that the faces of the printing characters thereon are when in proper printing position on a level with the printing characters of the plate 5. Each of the wheels 8, 9, and 10 is provided with a detent-wheel 11, and a corresponding series of locking-detents 12 engage with the respective detentwheels and serve to hold the wheels in any position to which they may be turned. Above the opening 6 the plate is provided with a second opening 13, and ashaft 14 extends across said opening between the plates 2 and has loosely mounted thereon a series of numberprinting disks 15,'each of which has on its periphery printing characters consisting of the numbers from O to 9. These printing characters are arranged in the same manner oted on a shaft 20, hung by means of arms or links 21, secured to the shaft 14, and a spring 21 is provided which serves to force the pawl.- plate tow'ard the toothed ratchets of the numbering-wheels.

When the arms 21 and shaft 20 are vibrated by the shaft 14 in the manner hereinafter clescribed, the numbering-disks will be so operated as to indicate and print a number one unit higher for each complete vibration back and forward of the pawl-plate in a manner well known in registers and other devices of this character. A series of detent-pawls 22 engage the toothed ratchets of the numberingdisks and serve to prevent their being rotated accidentally. Above the opening 13 there is formed in the plate an opening 23, across which extends a shaft 24, having thereon a stationprinting wheel 25, which in the present instance is the wheel by means of which the station or station (:lesignation,which is the end of the journey for which the ticket is good,-is printed. This station-printing wheel is associated with the word To, which is a portion of the permanent printing characters on the plate 5. The shaft 24 extends out through the casing 1 and is provided externally of said casing with an indicating-wheel 26, by means of which the shaft may be readily turned, said wheel also indicating at the same time the particular station which is in printing position.

27 indicates a second station-printing wheel mounted loosely on a sleeve 28, which is in turn loosely mounted on the shaft 24. This printing-wheel is provided'with or has formed on it a pinion 27, which meshes with a pinion 27 on a shaft 27, extending through the easing-1 and provided with an indicating-wheel 29, similar in character and functions to the indicating-wheel 26. The station-printing wheel 27 is associated with the word From on the plate, and said wheel is employed to indicatethe station which is the beginning of the trip for which the ticket is good. It will be understood, of course, that both of these printing-wheels extend through the opening 23 in such a manner that when the characters thereon are in proper printingposition they are flush with the printing characters of the plate 5.

In the present instance we have shown the station-printing wheels as carrying letters of its periphery numerals indicating the number of fare units. In the present instance we have shown this wheel as carryingas printing characters the numerals from 1 to 6, the present machine being adapted to print tickets up to six fareunits; but it is obvious that the number of fare units may be increased indefinitely, as desired, according as the range or capacity of the machine is increased. This fare-printing wheel is operated in a manner and by mechanism which will be hereinafter referred to.

In connection with the printing characters and plate just described we employ an inking and printing mechanism which is as follows: 30 indicates a carriage sliding in vertical ways 31 on the inner faces of the plates 2 and provided with a cross-bar 32, on which are pivoted arms 33, in which the shaft 34 of the inking-roller 35 has its bearings. Springs 36, coiled around the shaft and cross-bar 32 and engaging with the arms 33, tend to press the inking-roller against the plate. The back of the inking-roller is covered by a guard 37 to prevent the paper from coming in contact with the said roller. The carriage 30 also carries an impression-roller 38, mounted on a shaft 39,

which has its bearings in arms 40, pivoted to I the carriage at 41. The upper end of each arm 40 is provided with a projection 42, with which engages a dog 43, pivoted to the carriage at 44 and controlled by a spring 45. These dogs will engage with the projections 42 on either side thereof and will tend to hold the arms 40 in position at the limit of their motion in either direction. The impression-rollershaft 39 ex tends through curved slots 46 in the side Walls of the carriage 30, and the extremities of such shaft engage cam-grooves 47 formed in the inner faces of the side plates 2. Each camgroove has a straight working portion 48 parallel with the platenand so located relatively to the same that when the shaft 39 is engaged-with this working portion the impression-roller is held in working relation with the plate; The working portion 48 of the cam-groove merges into an off-bearing incline &9, which serves to carry the impressionroller away from the plate. This off-bearing incline is joined to a straight return portion 50, which holds the impression-roller away from the plate during its return, and this return portion merges into a second incline portion 51, which carries the impression-roller toward the plate again and leaves it in position to engage with the working portion 48 of the cam-groove.

The paper upon which the tickets are printed is in the form of a roll, from which paper is drawn off in a continuous strip, (indicated at 52,) and the roll. which is indicated at 53, is mounted in a roll-holder. (Indicated as a whole by the reference-numeral 54.) This roll-holder, which is shown in detail in Figs. 15, 16, and l Tof the drawings, consists of two side plates and 56, one of which is provided with a central hollow sleeve 57, which forms the axis around which the roll is wound, while the other plate is provided with a stud or pin 58, which fits within the hollow sleeve 57. The plate 55, which carries the sleeve 57, is provided with a marginal lug or projection 59, to which is secured a shaft or axis 60, having projecting ends 61. The side plate 56 is provided with a lug 62, which is adapted to slip over the projecting end 61 of the shaft 60, thus securing the side plate 56 in position relatively to the side plate and at the same time permitting the plates to be readily separated for the insertion or removal of a roll of paper. The roll-holder 54 fits loosely between the side plates 2 at the lower portion thereof, and said plates are provided at their rear edges with recesses 63, into which the projecting ends of the shaft or axis 60 may be slipped, so as to support the rollholder in position between the plates, where it hangs freely on the projections 61 as pivots. The strip 52 passes over the guard or shield 37 and under the impression roller 38 between it and the plate, being carried thence to the feeding and issuing rolls 6st and 65, mounted at the top of the machine. Preferably one of these rolls for instance, the roll 64is of some yielding material, such as rubber, while the other roll, 65, is of hard material, such as steel, and provided with teeth or serrations, so that as the ticket is issued it is spurred or roughened in such a way as to serve as a safeguard against counterfeiting.

In connection with the above mechanism we employ a register 66, the indicating-numbers of which are visible through a sightopening 67 in the face of the casing 1.

Motion is imparted to the devices above described by means of a segment-lever 66, projecting through a slot in the front of the easing and having a finger piece or grip 69, by means of which it may be operated. This segment-lever is pivoted at 70 on the outer face of one of the plates 2 and is provided with a gear-segment 71, which meshes with a' pinion 72, mounted on an axle 73. Secured to the pinion 72 and underlying the same is asecond pinion 7a, which meshes with a rack 75, secured to the carriage 30 and extending through a slot 76 in the side plate 2. By this means a reciprocating motion is imparted to the car-- riage 30, the arrangement being such that when the segment-lever is moved downward the carriage also moves downward and prints the ticket, the return movement of the carriage occurring during the upward movement of the lever. The pinion 7+1 also meshes with a pinion 77, mounted on a bearing stud or screw 78, which also carries a crank-wheel 79, provided with a crank-pin S0. The pinion 77 is provided with a spring-pawl 81, and the e 'ank-wheel 79 is provided with a marginal tooth 82, with which said spring-pawl engages when the gear 77 is rotated in one direction. \Vhen said gear is rotated in the opposite'direction, the pawl does not engage with the crank-wheel,and the latter remains stationary. Connected to the crank-pin 80 is a pitman 83,

slotted longitudinally at its central portion, as.

indicated at 8%, to receive a guide-pin 85. The upper end of the pitman S3 is provided with a pin 86, which Is eccentrically secured in a transverse groove in the face of a pinion,

88, suitably mounted on the outer face of the side plate 2 near the upper end thereof. This pinion meshes with a pinion 89 on the shaft of the issuing-roll 641, and the issuing-roll is provided with a pinion 90, which meshes with the pinion 89. It will be seen that during the downstroke of the segment-lever the crankwheel 78 is not operated, and the issuing-rolls are therefore stationary; but during the return or up stroke of the segment-lever, the ticket having been printed during the downstroke thereof, the feed-rolls are operated so as to issue the ticket which has just been printed, leaving the same projecting in such away that it may be readily torn off and delivered to the passenger.

In order to operate the number-printing,

disks 15 and register 66 each time a ticket is issued, we employ a lever 91, secured on the outer end of the shaft 1% and having one of its ends bifurcated, as indicated at 92, to embrace a pin 93 on the pitman 63. The other end of the lever 91 is pivoted, as indicated at 9st, to a link 95, the lower end of which is connected to the operating-arm 96 of the register 66.

In order to insure the stoppage of the segment-lever at the proper points constituting the limits of its motion in each direction, we employ a locking-dog 97, pivoted at 98 on the outer face of the plate 2 and having teeth 99 and 100 at its opposite extremities. On the axisof this dog is a cam projection 101,which is engaged alternately by pins 102 and 103 on the segment-lever 68. \Vhen the pin 102 comes into contact with the cam projection 101, the tooth 99 is thrown into engagement with rection.

the pinion 74, as shown in Fig. 7 and locks tion into whichit is thus moved,we employ a detent 104, consisting of a lever provided with a spring 105, by means of which its extremity 106 is forced against one side or the other of a projection 107 on the locking-dog,thus serving, as stated, to hold the dog against accidental displacement from either of the two positions into which it may be moved.

Referring to the fare-printing wheel 108 and its operating mechanism, it has already been stated that said wheel is secured on or forms a part of the sleeve 28. This sleeve extends through the side plate 2 and has secured on its projecting extremity a pinion 109, which meshes with a gear-wheel 110. This gear-wheel 110 is secured onashaft 111,which extends out through the casing, being mounted on its inner end on astud or operating-pin 112,which enters a suitable opening in the inner end of the shaft 111. The shaft 111 is provided at its outer end with an arm 113, which serves as an indicating and operatingarm, its free end being provided with apin or projection 114,by means of which it may be readily operated. This free end of the arm extends over a quadrantplate 115, provided with conical depressions 116,with which engages a spring-actuated pin 117 carried by the arm 113. As the arm travels over the quadrant-plate this spring-pin will successively engage the conical depressions therein and will serve to lock the arm in fixed position over the particular depression with which it engages, this locking being suf ,ficiently firm to prevent accidental displacement of the arm. but at the same time permitting it to be readily disengaged when suflicient is set.

the fare-register is moved is variable, while served for it.

force is applied for the purpose. Each depression 116 corresponds with one of the numbers on the fare-printing wheel 108, so that by moving the arm 113 over the quadrant-plate any desired fare-printing character may be brought into printing position and held in such position. In this way the amount of fare may be printed on the ticket in the space re- VVe also provide a register by means of which the amount of fare received in connection with each ticket issued may be duly registered. To this end we employ a register which is operated by the main operating-lever, which operates the ticket printing and issuing devices, said register being advanced a number of fare units corresponding with that to which the fare-printing wheel In other words, the extent to which the throw or movement of the operating-lever is always the same. To accomplish this, we

provide on the side of the carriage 30 opposite to that on which the rack 7 5 is secured a rack 118, which extends through aslot 119 in the side plate 2, corresponding to the slot 7 6 in the other side plate. This rack 118, which partakes of the motion of the carriage 30, meshes with a gear 120, mounted on a bearing-stud 121 and having secured to its hub 122 a smaller gear 123. This latter gear meshes with a gear 124, mounted on a suitable bearing-stud and meshing with a disk 125, provided on the greater portion of its periphery with gear-teeth 126 and forming in effect a mutilated gear. On the under side of the untoothed'portion of the disk 125 and near the periphery thereof there is pivoted at 127 a pawl 128, having an upwardly-projecting pin 129, against which bears a spring 130, carried by the disk 125 and acting to move the pawl normally toward the shaft 111. From the other side of the pawl 128 there extends in the opposite direction a similar pin or projection 131, which cooperates with the tripping-cam, hereinafter described. There is loosely mounted on the shaft 111 a ratchetwheel 132, with the teeth of which the pawl 128 may operatively engage at certain times, 7

and a detent-pawl 133 is employed to prevent any backward rotation of the ratchet-wheel 132. This ratchet-wheel is provided with a sleeve-hub 134, on which thedisk 125 is loosely mounted, the sleeve-hub extending through with the gear-wheel 110 is the tripping-cam plate 139, which lies between the gear 110 and the ratchet-wheel 132, the pin 131 of the pawl 128 lying in the path of said cam.

An examination of Figs. 10 and 12 will show that the periphery of the tripping-cam 139 is composed of a portion 140 of a radius such that when interposed between the pin 131 and ratchet-wheel 132 it will prevent the pawl 128 from engaging the ratchet-wheel, while the remaining portion of the working edge of the cam 139, the same being indicated at 141, is of a diameter such that when it is opposite the pin 131 the pawl 128 is permitted to engage with the ratchet-wheel 132. The two

peripheral portions

140 and 141 are united by an inclined portion 142.

It will be seen that when motion is imparted to the carriage 30 by the segment-lever 68 a corresponding motion, first in one direction and then the other, will be imparted. by the rack 118 and the intermediate gearing to the' disk 125. In the operation of setting the fareprinting wheel by means of the lever 113 the cam 139, the position of which is controlled by the position of said lever, is so moved that during the first or forward movement of the disk 125 the pawl 128 will remain in engagement with the ratchet-wheel 132 during an ex- ICC tent of travel of the parts dependent upon the position of the tripping-cam, and while the pawl is thus in engagement with the ratchetwheel the register 138 will be moved to a corresponding extent and advance a corresponding number of fare units. WV hen the pin 131 comes in contact with the inclined portion 1&2 of the edge of the cam, the pawl will be disengaged from the ratchet-wheel, and during the remainder of the advance or forward movement of rotation of the disk the pin will ride upon the part 141, with the pawl disengaged from the ratchet-wheel. During the return movement of the disk the pawl will not, of course, affect the ratchet-wheel. Thus at each movement of the main operating-lever, which 'actuates the printing and issuing mechanism,

the register 138 will be advanced to a variable extent, depending upon that one of its predetermined positions to which the operating-arm 113 has been moved, and the number of fare units which the register is thus advanced corresponds with the number of fare units printed on the ticket by the fare-printing wheel. The fare-register 138 will thus indicate the total number of fare units received.

In order to provide an audible signal to indicate that afare has been registered, I mount on the side plate 2 a bell 143, with which cooperates a striker 144, carried by a resilient or spring arm 14:5, held normally out of contact with the bell by a stop 14:6. The arm 1 15 is carried by a lever 147, secured to a springactuated shaft 1&8, which holds the lever normally against a stop 149. On the further end of the lever 1617 is pivoted a toe-piece 150, which is permitted to yield downward, but is prevented from yielding upward by means of a stop 151 on the lever 147, against which stop it is normally held by a spring 152. The rack 118 is provided with a pin 153, in the path of which the toe-piece 150 lies, and on the downward movement of said rack the toe-piece yields to permit the passage of the pin, and the bell mechanism is unaffected. On the upper or return movement of the rack the lever 147 is lifted until the toe-piece slips off the pin, whereupon the bell is sounded. It should be noted that the bell does not sound until after the fares have been registered, thus preventing the operation of the signal by a partial operation of the mechanism insuflieient to advance the register.

In the practical operation of the machine the same is connected to the person of the conductor by straps or in any other suitable manner, and when a fare is to be collected, the destination of the passenger being ascertained, the station-printing wheels are set so as to indicate the stations between which the passenger is to travel. In practice that one of the station-printing wheels which indicates the beginning of the journey is advanced one station successively as the several stations are passed. The operating-arm 113 is then moved over the quadrant until it engages with that one of the depressions therein corresponding with the amount of fare to be received. This moves the fare-printing wheel into proper po sition and at the same time sets the trippingcain so as to correspondingly regulate the extent to which the fare-register may be advanced. It will be understood that the dateprinting wheels are to be set at the beginning of each day by any suitable means for that purpose. The fare having been received by the conductor, a single complete movement of the operating-leverto wit, down and back prints and issues the ticket, having thereon, besides what other reading matter may be deemed desirable, the consecutive number of the ticket, the date, the stations between which the ticket is good, and the amount of the fare. At the same time the register 66 is advanced one unit, threby registering the total number of tickets issued, and the register 138 is advanced a number of units corresponding to the fare received, thus registering the total number of fare units received. These registering motions are accomplished by the movement of the main operating-lever, which also actuates the ticket printing and issuing mechanism.

As hereinbefore stated, the entire mechanism is inclosed within a suitable casing 1, and this casing is provided at one side with an extension or bay 151, preferably separable, and serving to inclose the register 138 and its cooperating mechanism. This bay is provided with a sight-opening 155, preferably glazed, and through which the register may be examined.

In machines of this character the tickets are generally issued through a slot formed directly in the wall of the casing, and since the machines are used in crowded places it sometimes occurs that this slot is obstructed or closed in such a way as to prevent the ticket from issuing from the machine. This is disadvantageous, because in attempting to remove the ticket it is frequently damaged or destroyed, and if the ticket is not removed it is necessary to remove the machine from the casing, since otherwise the tickets subsequently issued would be fed into the casing instead of out through the slot. In order to overcome this difficulty, I provide at the top of the casing, above the issuing-rolls, an opening 156 of considerable size and normally closed by a hinged plate 157, fitting therein and provided with a slotted opening 158 immediately above the line of meeting of the issuing-rolls and serving for the passage of the ticket. The plate 157 has rearwardly-extending arms 159 with upstanding lugs 160, connected by a pivot-pin 161. This pivot-pin also passes through lugs 162, extending upward from a plate 163, secured to the top of the casing 1, and the central part of the pivotpin is surrounded by a coiled spring 16%, one

otherend is fastened to a housing 165, inclosing the pin and spring. A guard-plate166, secured to the top of the plate 157, extends upward and outward overthe slot 158. I The plate 157 is normally held in position to close the opening 156 by the spring 164, and the tickets are issued in the usual way through the slotin said plate, being, however, deflected outwardly by the guard-plate, so as to clear the clothingor person of the conductor. This guard-plate also serves to a great extent to prevent obstruction of the issuing-slot from other causes. In case, however, the space between the edge of the guard-plate and the plate 157 is closed by an obstruction the ticket will be fed out into the space between the bodies of the two plates, crumpling upon itself as it advances, and if the ticket cannot be dislodged by the fingers or any other convenient means then the plate 157 may be turned upward and backward against the action of the spring, whereupon the ticket will be drawn through the slot and straightened out without any injury, so that it may be detached and given to the passenger. In case the ticket should not properly pass through the slot access may be had to it at once by lifting up the plate 157, and thus renderingthe opening156 available to give access to the interior of the easing and to the issuing-roll.

In order to give access to the interior of the casing for the purpose of inspecting the machine or renewing the roll of ticket-paper, I provide a removable back 167, having its lateral edges inturned, as indicated at 168, to form grooves, into which extend corresponding ribs 169, formed at the rear edge of each side of the body of the casing. The top of the casing is extended, as indicated at 170, to form a stop, against which the upper end of the sliding back abuts when the latter is in place. The back may be secured by any suitable lock, so as to prevent unauthorized tampering with the interior mechanism.

While we have described our machine as one adapted for use in connection with tickets indicating fares, it is obvious that the mechanism is adapted to issue printed slips in the nature of bills or receipts for any article whatsoever, such as merchandise of all kinds, and to register the number of sales and the amount of money received from such sales. It would only be necessary to increase the number of characters on the wheel, which we have termed the fare-printing wheel,and to correspondingly increase the range of movement and predetermined points of stoppage of the operating-arm 113 to enable the machine to print such bills or receipts and register the amounts thereof to any desired ex-' tent. Furthermore, the particular means whereby the extent of movement of the reglster may be varied without requiring any corresponding variation in the movement of end of which is fastened to the pin, while the l the main operating-lever of the machine may beutilized in connection with other. mechanisms to be operated by the main operatinglever,.as well as in connection with the particular ticket printing and issuing mechanism which we have devised. Furthermore, while we prefer the particular driving connection shown and described between the segmentlever and the-issuing-rolls it is obvious that other intermediate mechanism betweenthese parts may be employed to give the necessary movement to the issuing-rolls during the return movement of the segment-lever. It is further obvious that various modifications in the details of the construction hereinbefore described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, may be made without departing from the principle of our invention, and we therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves strictly to such details.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A machine of the character described, comprising a frame, a paper-strip spool supported at the lower end thereof, feeding-rolls mounted at the upper end thereof, a carriage reciprocating in vertical ways within the frame, a printing-plate arranged adjacent to and parallel with said ways, inking and impression rollers mounted on said carriage, means for moving the impression-roller toward the plate during the movement of the carriage in one direction and away from the plate during the return movement, and an opcrating-lever operatively connected with said carriage and feeding-rollers. substantially as described.

2. A machine of the character described,

comprising a frame, a reciprocating carriage mounted therein and having an inking and an impression roller, a printing-plate located adjacent to the carriage and having openings therethrough, a shaft extending across one of said openings and having station printing wheels and a fare-printing wheel mounted. thereon, means for adjusting said wheels into any desired position, a shaft extending across another of said openings and having dateprinting wheels thereon, a shaft extending across the remaining opening and having number-printing disks thereon, means for advancing said disks one unit for each complete operation of the machine, feeding or issuing rolls, a register, and an operating-lever operatively connected with said carriage, feedingrolls, number-printing disks and register, substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame and printing mechanism carried thereby comprising a reciprocating carriage having inking and impression rollers and a rack, of an operatinglever provided with a toothed segment, intermediate gearing between said segment and rat-k. a pinion driven by said gearing and l ment of the machine, an operating-lever, conprovided with a pawl, a crank-Wheel having a peripheral tooth with which said pawl engages in one direction only, feed-rolls having inter-meshing pinions, a second crank-wheel said pinions, and a pitman connecting said crank-wheels, substantially as described.

4. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame having side plat-es, of a carriage reciprocating between said plates, an impression-roller having projecting journals, arms pivoted to the carriage and having bearings at one end for the impression-roller journals and provided at the other end with a projection, and spring-actuated dogs adapted to engage said projections on either side thereof, the side plates being provided with cam-grooves with which the impression-roller journals engage to hold said roller in operative position during the travel of the carriage in one direction and in inoperative position during the return movement of the carriage, substantially as described.

5. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame and printing mechanism comprising a reciprocating carriage carrying inking and impression rollers, of feeding-rollers, an operating-lever provided with a toothed segment, intermediate gearing for operating the carriage and feedrollers from said segment, and means for locking said segment-lever and gearing at their limit of motion in each direction, substantially as described.

6. In a machine of the characterdescribed, the combination, with a frame, feeding-rolls, and a reciprocating printing-carriage carrying inking and impression rollers, of an operating-lever provided with a toothed segment 7 and pins or projections, gearing driven from said segment and operatively connected with the carriage and feed-rolls, said gearing comprising a gear-wheel located adjacent to the segment, a locking-dog pivoted adjacent to said gear-wheel and provided with teeth at its opposite extremities to alternately engage therewith, and with a lateral projection, an arm connected with said dog and arranged in the path of the pins or projections on the segment-lever, and a spring-detent adapted to engage the lateral projection of the locking-dog on either side thereof, substantially as described.

T. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame having feeding or issuing rolls and printing mechanism comnecting mechanism between said operatinglever and the feed-rolls, comprising two crank-wheels and a eonnectmg-pitman provided with a pin or projection, an arm secured having peripheral teeth meshing with one of prising inking and impression means, and a i printing-plate provided with an opening, of a shaft extending across said opening and provided with number-printing disks thereon, means actuated from said shaft for advancing said disks one unit for each complete moveto the upper printing-disk shaft and engaging said pin or projection, a register, and a link operatively connecting said register and said arm, substantially as described.

8. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame, of printing mechanism comprising inkingand impression devices, a printing-plate provided with an opening, a shaft extending across said opening and carrying a station-printing wheel within said opening and an operating and indicating wheel at one end, a sleeve mounted on said shaft and carryinga fare-printing wheel, means for operating said sleeve to turn the fare-printing wheel into any desired printing position, a second station-printing wheel mounted on said sleeve and provided with a pinion, said fareprinting wheel being located between the two station-printing wheels, and a shaft provided with a pinion to mesh with that of the second station-printing wheel and having on its projecting end an operating and indicating wheel, substantially as described.

9. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a mechanism comprising ticket-issuing rolls, of a casing inelosing the same and having an opening therethrough immediately adjacent to said rolls, a hinged plate normally closing said opening and having a ticket-issuing slot formed therethrough, and a shield or guard located on the outer face of said plate and extending in an outwardlyinclined position over said slot, substantially as described.

10. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame having ticketissuing rolls at its top, of a casing inelosing the same and having in its top a comparatively large opening immediately adjacent to said. rolls, a hinged spring-controlled plate normally closing said opening and provided with a ticket-issuing slot, and a guard or shield extending from said plate in an inclined position upward and forward over said slot, substantially as described.

11. A roll-holder for ticket printing and issuing machines, comprising two separable side plates, one provided with a central hollow sleeve and the other provided with a pin or stud to enter the same, one of said side plates having connected to its periphery a shaft with projecting reduced ends and the other side plate having a peripheral aperture to fit over the corresponding end of the shaft, substantially as described.

12. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with a frame having side plates provided with recesses, of a roll-holder comprising two separable side plates, one provided with a central sleeve and the other with I In testimony whereof we affix oursignatures IO a stud or pin to fit therein, said first-menin presence of two witnesses.

tioned plate having secured to its margin a shaft having projecting reduced ends, and the other plate being provided with a marginal JOSEPH N KELLY.

aperture to fit over the corresponding ends of said shaft, the projecting ends of said shaft l/Vitnesses:

being adapted to engage the recesses-of the EDWARD G. OHMER, frame side plates, substantially as described. l

CHARLES B. NEVIN.