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US 4,619,197 AGranted
Apparatus for printing and inspecting card tickets
AssigneeElectronique Serge Dassault
InventorAlain L. N. Pailler
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AssigneeElectronique Serge Dassault
InventorAlain L. N. Pailler
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A card ticket, e.g. for travel, is taken from a stack of blanks (101) which it leaves via two wheels (111, 112) travelling along an axis (113) which does not coincide with the common tangent to two touching wheels (135, 175) which receive the ticket taken from the stack. Thus, once the ticket has completely left the stack unit from which it is taken, it may be reversed partially or totally back out between the receiving wheels (135, 175) without re-engaging the stack unit. The same arrangement can be used at the other end of the internal path to receive a ticket at wheels (163, 203). These wheels can both output a ticket towards a user (arrow F3) and receive a ticket from a user for inspection (arrow F4). Apparatus of this nature can thus create new tickets, inspect unused tickets and return them, and inspect used tickets, cancel them and retain them (arrow F5).
Apparatus for processing card tickets, the apparatus being of the type including means for reversibly driving a ticket along an internal path of the apparatus which path passes through at least one processing station, with at least one of the ends of the internal path being defined by a pair of wheels which are substantially tangential to each other, the apparatus further including a first guide and feed unit, outside the internal path, for bringing a ticket to said internal path, the improvement wherein the common tangent of the said pair of wheels is inclined relative to the guide axis of the said guide and feed unit and passes underneath the said unit, with the said axis being substantially tangential to the upper wheel of the said pair, thereby enabling a ticket to be reversed without the ticket returning to the said guide and feed unit, and without any need for switching means to deflect a reversing ticket away from the guide and feed unit, the apparatus further including a second guide and feed unit located at the other end of the internal path and cooperating therewith in the same manner as the first guide the feed unit.
In an apparatus for processing card tickets having means for driving a ticket forwardly and reversely along and internal path one end of which defines a feed end, a processing station to impart indicia to said ticket along the internal path and means for loading a ticket along a separate guide path on to the internal path, the improvement comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.