Device for the processing of a magnetic-track ticket, especially an air transport ticket

Apparatus for the processing of a magnetic-track ticket which has portions thereof provided with a required cut-out and division format and which has weakening lines corresponding to said portions of the ticket, in which the magnetic track information is contained on each of said portions of the ticket, said apparatus comprising:

• a ticket insertion station;
• a magnetic ticket reading/writing station;
• a ticket issuing station comprising a ticket output;
• an internal path extending from the insertion station to the issuing station;
• at least one additional ticket output;
• means for driving said ticket along said path, the drive means being at least partially defined by a plurality of rollers, at least one of which is a driving roller, and a closed-circuit belt wound in a closed loop around said rollers;
• a drum about which the ticket issuing station and said additional ticket output interact, said closed-circuit belt being wound around the drum and extending continuously from the insertion station past the reading/writing station and extending at least as far as said drum;
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• a cutting-out station between the reading/writing station and the drum, in which the ticket is separated into portions at the cutting-out station, and including a movable first switch adjacent the drum whereby the separate cut-out ticket portions are directed towards the issuing station and towards the additional output depending upon the content of the information readable from the said ticket portions by the reading/writing station to control movement of the first switch;
• including at least one storage receptacle to which the additional output is coupled, and a further movable second switch adjacent the drum whereby the ticket portion directed toward the additional output either passes to the additional output or is directed toward the storage receptacle depending upon the content of the information readable from the ticket portion by the reading/writing station to control movement of the second switch, and wherein the ticket is a transport ticket with comprises at least a first boarding card portion directed towards the issuing station and containing magnetic information related to the boarding of a passenger, and a second flight coupon portion directed towards the storage receptacle and containing information relating to the commercial and financial characteristics of the service.

Apparatus for the processing of a magnetic-track ticket which has portions thereof provided with a required cut-out and division format, and which has weakening lines corresponding to said portions of the ticket, in which the magnetic track information is contained on each of said portions of the ticket, said apparatus comprising:

• a ticket insertion station;
• a magnetic ticket reading/writing station;
• a ticket issuing station comprising a ticket output;
• an internal path extending from the insertion station to the issuing station;
• at least one additional ticket output;
• a single belt means for driving said ticket along said path, the driving means comprising a plurality of rollers, at least one of which is a driving roller, and a closed-circuit belt wound in a closed loop around said rollers;
• a drum about which the ticket issuing station and said additional ticket output interact, said closed-loop belt being wound around the drum and extending continuously from the insertion station, past the reading/writing station, and at least as far as said drum, the closed-circuit belt engaging a common face of the tickets while the rollers engage an opposite common face of the tickets;
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• a cutting-out station between the reading/writing station and the drum, in which the continuous closed-circuit belt travels from the reading/writing station and is thereafter deflected at the cutting-out station, to permit a cutting device to sever the ticket into separate cut-out ticket portions, prior to traveling toward the drum, separate cut-out ticket portions being directed by the closed-circuit belt toward the issuing station and toward the additional output, depending upon the content of the information readable on said ticket portions by the reading/writing station;
• the closed-circuit belt transporting the cut-out ticket portions to the ticket issuing station or to said additional ticket output depending upon the position of a deflector controlled by said readable information.