616,524. Ticket-issuing machines. HALL, F. W., and H. T. A., Ltd., (formerly HALL TELEPHONE ACCESSORIES (1928), Ltd.). Sept. 4, 1944 No. 16837. [Class 106 (iii)] [Also in Group XVIII] In apparatus for delivering stamps, tickets or the like in strip form, the strip magazine with the delivery mechanism is constructed as a separate interchangeable unit, Fig. 4, which can be disengaged from the operating mechanism 88, Fig. 2, and removed from the apparatus for replenishment, such unit including a Geneva motion for driving the delivery mechanism in order to ensure accuracy of delivery without individual adjustment of each unit as it is installed. The strip is fed forward in successive lengths to a cutter 32 at a delivery opening 33 by stepwise rotation of a drum 136 fast with the driven element 2 of the Geneva motion. The driver 44 has a coupling socket which can be engaged by a bevelled key on the operating mechanism 88 which comprises an escapement 86 loaded by a weighted rack 102. A coin, on insertion, first lifts the rack 102 and then trips a balance lever 95 to release the escapement for half a revolution during which a section of the strip is fed forward by the drum 136.
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