Machine for issuing tickets for theatres, cinemas and the like with numbered seats

摘要

309,039. A.E.G.-Fahrkartendrucker Ges., (Assignees of Allgemeine Elektricitõts- Ges.). April 3, 1928, [Convention date]. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. Tickets, issuing.-Comprises a machine for issuing tickets for theatres &c. having numbered seats in which a machine A delivering tickets is combined with a numbering typewriter B and an indicator plan C so that on the keyboard of the typewriter being operated, the card supplied from the delivery machine A is printed with the seat number, and at the same time the corresponding seat number is shown as sold on the indicator plan C. The kind of ticket-orchestra stalls, boxes, &c.-is determined by a keyboard D on the delivery machine A. The selected ticket is delivered to the numbering machine B where the purchaser depresses one of the numbered keys E which prints a number on the ticket and causes the corresponding illuminated number on the plan to be obscured. The ticket then falls on to a belt conveyer L and is removed at the opening M. A checking strip is printed by means of an ink ribbon K while the kind of ticket is marked by perforations H at different levels.