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Portable ticket issuing device

  • US 4,828,406 A
  • Filed: 07/16/1986
  • Issued: 05/09/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A device for use in printing and dispensing tickets, such as traffic or parking violations tickets, comprising incombination:

  • a storage magazine for containing a stack of said tickest, said storage magazines including;

    oppsoed sidewalls;

    an endwall;

    and alignment plate providing an opposite end wall;

    a bottom wall providing a platen;

    a nda resiliently loaded pressure palte providing a clsoure for said magazine;

    said alignment plate termintaing adjacent said platen in a convex edge spaced froms aid platen by a distance closely approximating the thickness of a single one of said tickets and thus providing a throat that will permit the passage of only a single ticket therethrough, and which will inhibit the passage of more than one ticket therethrough;

    a manually operable slide mechanism for removing one ticket at a time from said stack of tickets and for transferrign that ticket under manual energy and in the absence of electricl power into a printing an indexing mechanism;

    said manually operable slide emchanism inlcuding a carriage member mounted forl liner sliding movement between said platen;

    feedknives carried by said carriage and extending into said magazine through linear slots in said platen; and

    , drive means for moving said carriage member linearly for said feedkinves to engage an adjacent lateral edge of a single said ticket at the face of a stack of said tickets, and to mvoe said single ticket in a linear manner through said throat and into said printing and indexing mechanism;

    said printing and indexing mechanism being electrically driven from a dirve mechanism common to both the printing and indexing mechanisms, and including;

    an electriclly actuated dot matrix printing head and a mechanical drive mechanism for traversing said printing head along a linear path extending transversely of a said ticket from a first and starting positoin to a second and terminating position and then returning said printing head to said first and starting position under the control of said electrically driven mechanism, and a driving connectio froms aid mechanical drive mechanism to said indexing mechanism which is enabled only during a return mvoment of said printing head from said second and terminating position to said first and starting position, said printing head being operated only during movement from said first and starting positoin to said seocnd and terminating position, said drive to the indexing mechanism being operative upon termination of a printing operation of said printing head;

    whereby, said printing head an said indexing mechanism are operated insequence one with the other from said electrically driven mechanism.

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