Settable type-bar inking and printing means in ticket issuing machines

Claim 1

A TICKET PRINTING AND DISPENSING MACHINE FOR ALTERNATELY PRINTING A TICKET-LENGTH PORTION OF A TAPE AND ADVANCING THE TAPE TO DELIVER AN IMPRINTED TICKET-LENGTH THEREOF, INCLUDING (A) A STATIONARY TYPE-SUPPORT ARRANGED STATIONARILY TO SUPPORT TYPE-BEARING MEMBERS DURING SUCCESSIVE INKINGS THEREOF AND DURING PRINTING IMPRESSIONS THEREFROM, (B) A PLURALITY OF MULTI-FACE TYPE-BEARING MEMBERS STATIONARILY SUPPORTED BY SAID TYPE-SUPPORT FOR THE SUCCESSIVE INKINGS THEREOF AND PRINTING IMPRESSIONS THEREFROM, AND SAID TYPE-BEARING MEMBERS BEING MOVABLE IN RELATION TO SAID TYPE-SUPPORT TO PERMIT THE SELECTED ONE OF THE TYPE-FACES THEREOF TO BE PRESENTED FACING DOWNWARDLY IN THE PRINTING ZONE OF THE MACHINE WHILE THE OTHER TYPE-FACES THEREOF ARE OUT OF SUCH PRINTING ZONE, (C) AN UPWARDLY-FACING OSCILLATABLY MOUNTED PRESSPLATEN IN OPERATIVE JUXTAPOSITION TO THE SELECTED TYPEFACES OF SAID TYPE-BEARING MEMBERS IN THE PRINTING ZONE, SAID PRESS-PLATEN BEING ARRANGED TO OSCILLATE TO AND FRO BETWEEN AN UPPER PRINTING POSITION THEREOF IN WHICH IT PRESSES THE BELOW-MENTIONED TAPE AGAINST THE SELECTED TYPE-FACES OF SAID TYPE-BEARING MEMBERS AND A LOWER RETRACTED POSITION IN WHICH THE PRESSPLATEN IS WITHDRAWN FROM SUCH TAPE-PRESSING POSITION THEREOF, (D) A TAPE-GUIDE FOR GUIDING TAPE ACROSS SAID PRESSPLATEN AND ARRANGED TO OSCILLATE TO AND FRO IN UNISON THEREWITH, (E) A SUPPORT FOR ROTATABLY SUPPORTING A ROLL OF TICKETTAPE ABOUT A STATIONARY AXIS OF ROTATION AND ARRANGED TO HAVE THE TAPE FROM SUCH ROLL EXTENDED TO AND THROUGH THE OSCILLATABLE TAPE-GUIDE (F) A TAPE-FEEDER IN OPERATIVE JUXTAPOSITION TO SAID PRESS-PLATEN AND TAPE-GUIDE AND ARRANGED TO OSCILLATE TO AND FRO IN UNISON THEREWITH, SAID TAPE-FEEDER BEING ARRANGED INTERMETTENTLY TO ADVANCE THE TAPE THROUGH SAID TAPE-GUIDE BY A TICKET-LENGTH DURING THE RETRACTING MOTION OF THE PRESS-PLATEN AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TO MOVE A TICKET-LENGTH OF THE TAPE INTO A TICKET-DISPENSING POSITION BEYOND THE PRESS-PLATEN, (G) AN OSCILLATABLY MOUNTED INKER HAVING AN INK-PAD AND ARRANGED TO OSCILLATE TO AND FRO BETWEEN AN INKING POSITION THEREOF IN WHICH THE INK-PAD THEREOF IN CONTACT WITH THE TYPE-FACES IN THE PRINTING ZONE AND A RETRACTED POSITION THEREOF IN WHICH THE INK-PAD IS WITHDRAWN FROM SUCH POSITION TO A POSITION CLEAR OF THE OSCILLATING PATH OF THE PRESS-PLATEN. (H) MEANS OPERATIVELY INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE PRESSPLATEN AND THE INKER FOR CAUSING THE LATTER TO OSCILLATE IN TIMED RELATION TO THE OSCILLATIONS OF THE PRESSPLATEN SO THAT THE INKER WILL BE IN ITS RETRACTED POSITION WHEN THE PRESS-PLATEN IS IN ITS PRINTING POSITION AND VICE VERSA.