US1478159A - Ticket printing and distributing machine - Google Patents

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Dec. 18 ,1923. 1,478,159 i J. M. ZWEIMAN 'Mexm' PNINTING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE Filed April 11, 1922 42 sheets-sheet 1 INVENTOR A TTHNEY 2 ,w u 1d, M n Q.. S du. Mw 1-e um T. |.|.I|., WW2 m Q G m TM U9 Nml Am. mun mnu D.r 9 ZmAp .3 .G MNM Il 'Ti .JWF R P T E K C I T n U 9 1| y 8 .l c m A TTURNEY Patented Dec. 18, 1923.

UNITED STATES JAMES M. ZWEIMAN, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

yTICKET PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

Application filed April 11, 1922.

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Be it known that JAMES M. ZWEIMAN, a citizen of Russia, residing at Brooklyn, New York, has invented a new and useful lmprovement in Ticket Printing and Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in ticket machines and has for its object to provide a machine of that character, which is adapted to hold a supply of paper, and which may be operated to first feed and print a length of the paper and then cut off the completed ticket, and at the same time registering the total number of tickets discharged from the machine.

In connection with self service restaurants, for example, the present machine may be used to print and distribute tickets according to any conventional form, the said tickets being presented and punched in return for food.

Further objects of the invention are first,

to provide a machine of this character,

which is simple in construction, and which may be operated by one single movement of a lever, and second to arrange the parts of the device so as to give ready access thereto when it is necessary to replace printing rolls and a new supply of paper.

The invention is fully described in the following specification and set forth in the appended claims, and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the ticket machine showing parts broken away to disclose otherwise hidden elements.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the ticket machine.

Fig. 3 is a substantially sectional view through the invention and taken on the lines 3--3 of Fig. 2.

shallow and accommodates the tabulating mechanism 15 and printing actuating gear 16. The chamber 15, shown in Fig. 3 accommodates the rollof paper 17, from which the tickets are printed and out.

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Mounted in the extension 11 and operatively connected to the printing gearing 16 is the cutter 18 and spring actuated plunger 19 for resetting the mechanism.

The printing device comprises a type roller 2O mounted transversely of the upper portion of the chamber' 15 and supported in suitable bearings in the casing 10. This roller may be provided with a continuous rubber or metal type denoting the conven tional form of the ticket to be printed, or as the case may be, the type may consist of insertable slugs bearing dates or characters by means of which the checks or tickets may be identified. Movable with the type roller 20 are the impression and ink rollers 21 and 22, the said rollers being disposed at oppositel sides of thetype roller and operated from a gear 23 on a shaft 24 supporting the type roller by means of gears 25 and 26 mounted on the impression and ink rollers 21 and 22, respectively, see Figure 3. The opposite end of the shaft 24 projects into the chamber 14 and receives a Inutilated gear 27 and single toothed wheel 2S, the former being provided with a stop bar 29 adapted to limit rotation of the wheel or gear 27 to a certain number' of degrees determined by the length of the mutilated portion of the gear itself, as hereinafter explained.

Movable longitudinally of the casing 10 through the upper portion of the chamber 14.- and extension 11 is the cutter and print roller actuating mechanism, which com prises an axially movable tooth bar or rack 3() the teeth of which are adapted to mesh with those of the mutilated gear 27. The forward end of the rack bar 30 projects through thecasing 10 and is provided with an angular projection 31, which is used to operate the mechanism, and a downwardly projecting portion 32, which is bent back at its end to lie parallel with the rack 30 and in the path of arcuate movement of the stop bar 29 when the mechanism is in rest posi* tion, shown in Figure 1. The rear projeci tion of the rack 30 consists in a slide member or bar 33 which extends throughout the length of the extension 11 and is then bent at right angles and provided with an open ing 311 adapted to receive a fix guide rod 25 therethrough. The rod 35 is mounted at one end in the rear wall of the extension 11 and at its opposite end in a fixed block 36. Coiled about the yrod 35 and engaged at one end Y against the block 86 and at the other end against the surrounding bent end portion of the slide bar 33 adjacent the opening 34, is a compression spring 37 adapted to rest normally expanded and to be brought under compression when the mechanism is in operation and the handle or angular projection 31 is drawn outwardly. Carried by the slide bar 33 is the cutter 18 comprising an angle piece 38 supporting a cutting blade As previously stated, the roll of paper 17 is mounted in the chamber 15 on a stud pin 40v projecting from the partition 13, and the paper is threaded upwardly between the type roller 2O and the impression roller 21 and thereafter' between parallel guide plates 41. These plates 41 consist of two metal members, of which one is mounted nearer the cutter 18 and is provided with a slot 42 to. receive the knife 39 as it moves towards the front end of the machine. This plate is bent at right angles at the lower end thereof and mounted on ythe upper edges of the outside wall of the casing and partition 13. The other plate is spaced slightly away from the first plate andsecured to a portion of the casing 10. rllhe ticket after being fed, printed and cut is projecting out of the space between the two plates 41, as shown in Figure 3.

In order to calculate the number 0f tickets produced by the machine, the tabulating mechanism mounted in the chamber 14 is operatively connected with the printing mechanism, and comprises a pair of num.

bored discs 44 and 45. These discs are mounted on studs 46 and 47 projecting into the chamber 14 from the partition 13 and one overlaps the other to bring their respective numbers along a common cord in order that they may read through the small port 48 provided in the side wall of the casing 10. For each number on the larger' disc 44 there is a corresponding tooth cna gear wheel 49 which is mounted on the stud 46 and movable with the disc itself. The numbers on this disc 44 are consecutively arranged about a circle, and from 1 to 1GO.. At the radius through the 10.0 mark and projecting beyond the path of the teeth of thegear wheel 59 is a Single tooth 50 carried by the latter. The tooth 50 as it moves through the circular path engages consecutive teeth of a gear 51 movable about the stud 427. and with the disc 4f. Therefore, each revolution ofthe disc 44, the smaller disc 45 will move the distance of one tooth., in which case a third or hundred unit will combine with the numerals on the other disc to present the reading, in the hundreds, atthe port 48.

It has been found necessary when a change in the type. on the roller 2,0 is to be made or a, new ink roller 2 2 is to, he insertedhto providsy a Slidel @over 52j, Whish may be readily inmate removed at any time without disturbing the remainingv portion of the machine.

The invention operates as follows: fissinning a ticket is to be distributed, the oreratoi pulls outwardly on the handle 31 whereby the side bar 3:33 moves against the serine' to compress the latter. lilith the .outward movement of the slide bar and raclr bar 3) the teeth of the latter will rotate the mutilated 27 until the toothless portion moves into the path of the raclr teeth. lotary movement of t ie gear 2i' will i turn the type roller D" and impreslilfew i se ,o sion roller 21 to draw a length of paper from the roll 1i'. The paper in its travel between these rollers receives an impression from the type on the roller after 't been inked by the ink roller 2&2. taneously with the feed of the strip or pager to its full length the blade 39 will have entered the slot 4&2 of the plates 41 and eut olf the ticket, which is projected from the open end ot the plates 41. Vhen the 27 has been'operated to move the toothless portion into the path of the raclr 30, further operation of the parte effected by movement of the 24 will cease and the handle 31 nay be released, whereupon the slide bar with the blade 39 and rack 30 will return to its initialposjition under power of the spring 37. As the latter members move to their initial position the gear 27 will remain stationary until the projection 32 engages the stop plate or bar 29 and moves the gear a su'liicient distance to bring its first tooth into engagement with the teeth on the rack 30.

TWith rotary movement of the shaft 24 the wheel 28 having` the single tooth will rotate and the said tooth will en, age the teeth of thegear 4f) and move the latter the distance of one tooth for each revolution of the wheel 28. This operation will turn the discs 44 and in the manner previously described.

Having fully described the nature o lf the invention and its mode of operation, what l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. ln a machine of the character dcvscribe,f a ticket printingmember, a cutting a type roller, an impression roller movable therewith and an ink roller in contact with said type, the combination with a mutilated gear movable with said type roller, a raclr haiy teeth movable into engagement witlsaid gear for rotating the latter predterlid mined amount to feed ticket material through the printing member, and a spring for returning the rack to its initial position past the mutilated segment of said gear without effecting movement in the latter.

3. In a machine of the cha-racter described, as claimed in claim 2, includinga blade carried by said rack member and capable of movement across the path of travel of said ticket material to cut olf a ticket during the final movement of the rack and simultaneously with the teeth of the latter having become disengaged with the teeth of said mutilated gear.

4:. In a machine of the character described, as claimed in claim 2, having a projection on Said mutilated gear, and a contact member carried by said rack member and movable into engagement with said Contact member to rotate the said gear to engage the first tooth beyond the toothless portion into engagement of said rack.

5. In a machine `for printing and dispensing slips, the combination with a loosely mounted cylinder containingl a roll of ticket material, of a printing device comprising a type roller and an impression roller to receive the ticket material therebetween, and an operating mechanism for the printing device comprising a mutilated gear carried by said type roller, a rack in mesh with said gear and adapted to be moved longitudinally thereof to rotate the gear and feed a length of ticket material between the type and impression rollers, and means for retracting said rack to its initial position when the teeth of the laftter are disengaged from the gear at the mutilated segment thereof.

6. An operating mechanism, as claimed in claim 5, in which the rack comprises a tooth portion and an L shaped extension, a guide Spindle projecting loosely through an Y arm of said L shaped member, said spindle being adapted to receive said means for rei tracting said rack comprising a coiled spring embracing the spindle and fixed at one end while the opposite end thereof yieldably bears against the last named arm of the L shaped member, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, JAMES M. ZwnIMAN has signed his name to this specification this 6th day of April, 1922.

JAMES M. ZWEIMAN.

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