Ticket issuing device for a ticket preparing and issuing machine
AssigneeSchlumberger Industries
InventorsMaurice Fillod, Daniel Gautherot
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Abstract
A device for preparing and issuing tickets, especially travel tickets. The preparing means comprise a flywheel cooperating with a belt to feed a cut ticket in front of a magnetic writing head and a magnetic reading head and a printing roller. Outside the region of entrainment of the tickets by the flywheel, the tickets move in channels formed by the plates.
Claims23
A device for preparing and issuing tickets carrying information in magnetic form comprising means for providing portions of recording physical medium having the length of a ticket, means for recording magnetic information on the recording medium and means for issuing tickets, wherein the ticket preparing means comprise magnetic writing means which comprise:
- a flywheel pivotally mounted about an axis and having a peripheral surface;
- a flexible, endless belt for entraining portions of ticket medium;
- entraining means for causing displacement of one of the two parts constituted by the belt and said flywheel,
- guide means for said belt such that the path followed by said belt has a part in which it is applied under pressure to a peripheral part of the peripheral surface of the flywheel, through which the two parts are entrained by mutual friction;
- means for engaging a first end of a portion of ticket medium between the part of said belt that is in contact with the periphery of said flywheel and the peripheral surface of said flywheel, whereby said portion of medium is entrained by the rotation of said flywheel through nipping between the belt and the peripheral surface over the part of its periphery to which said belt is applied, then freed outside said peripheral part;
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- magnetic recording means disposed opposite the part of the peripheral surface of the flywheel to which said belt is applied.
A roll of physical medium strip for a device for preparing and issuing tickets which comprises means for cutting off the strip of physical medium to the length of a ticket, means for recording information identifying an employee maintaining said device and means for printing said identifying information on the initial end portion of said strip, wherein said initial end portion of the strip carries a special mark.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.