Improvements in Printing and Issuing Tickets and the like and for Indicating, Registering and Recording Certain Particulars in connection therewith.

摘要

4221. Ohmer, W. I. Feb. 27. Receipts, checking and recording.-The apparatus is described particularly as applied in checking fares for journeys, but it may be applied in retail business by replacing the names of places and the amounts of fares with the names of articles and their prices ; similar changes adapt it to admission-fees. Tickets, issuing.-A strip of paper is converted into tickets, each bearing the names or initials of the starting-places and destinations it is required for, the amount of the fare charged or the number of units of fare, the date: and time of issue, and sometimes the number of the ticket, while the amount of the fare and the number are also indicated to the public. Arrangements may be made to print a second strip, which is not issued but remains in the casing as a duplicate of all the issued tickets. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the casing, showing the ends of the strap by which it hangs from a conductor's neck. Fig. 18 shows the mechanism from the right side of Fig. 2, and Fig. 19 a corresponding edge view ; Fig. 6 is an inner view in the same direction. Type-wheels I, K, for printing the names of the stations through apertures in the printing-bed H, are turned to present the required names at the apertures by means of milled heads with the aid of pointers i x, kx moving over initials Ix, Kx. The month and the two day-of-the-month wheels are on a common shaft L 1ending in a knob L‹, but the two latter wheels are geared to parallel shafts L', L3 ending in knobs. The time is printed by a type-bearing dial and hands belonging to a clock P. The amount of the fare is printed by a wheel in a plane between two of the other type-wheels, and is indicated by a dial Q3, Fig. 18, visible at an aperture N1 as it is turned by a finger Q'. When a handle D6 attached to a toothed sector in gear with a wheel on a shaft D3 is pushed down, a pair of double racks b2, Fig. 18, is raised, and a roller D in a frame E which is hinged to them applies the paper strip F from a roll to the type-bed H, while an arm 0 or some form of ratchet gear operates a counter 0'. An inking-roller g precedes the platen roller, and both are guided by grooves C into which the shafts project. On releasing the handle, the descending racks drive toothed feeding-rollers M2, M3 at the issue aperture F2 by means of ratchet gear, while the platen roller returns along lower guides C' owing to the action of switches C2, C3 . The indicating-disc Q3 is attached to a spring Q7, which tends to return it to zero, but a click Q6 holds it till a push-rod Q8 is operated, and consequently an arm q12 bearing the click is thrust down. A loose wedge Q10 on the push-rod disengages a detent Q12 from the actuating-gear, and the rack b2 lifts the wedge again by striking a finger q13. If there is a record strip, it is wound up by a reel driven by a slipping clutch. If the number ia printed, the station-printing wheels are arranged on a common shaft. Sometimes the casing contains a separate instrument for each fare value, which is stereotyped on each printing-bed, and the rotary indicator is replaced by separate hanging signals.