GB600937A - - Google Patents

Abstract

600,937. Intermittent toothed gearing. COMMERCIAL CONTROLS CORPORATION. April 14, 1945, No. 9362. Convention date, April 15, 1944. [Class 80 (i)] [Also in Group XVI] In a value printing and registering machine (see Group XVI), counters 14, 15 are driven by Geneva mechanism comprising a disc 154 having nine notches 154a, a disc 152 provided with nine radial slots in each of which a toothed member 153 is slidably mounted, and a slotted cover-plate 151, the discs and cover being fixed to a shaft 109 carrying value printing-wheels. During setting of the printing-wheels, a cam 150 is rotated relatively to the members 151, 152, 154, and a cam slot 157 in the cam 150 engaging pins 153b on the members 153 projects one or more of these members into effective positions to rotate a transfer pinion 221 an amount corresponding to the value being printed ; the cam 150 has a raised. part 159 covering the notches 154a not in use. The transfer pinion 221 has alternate wide and narrow teeth, the wide teeth engaging the notches 154a and bearing on the periphery of the disc 154 and the surface 159 to prevent undesired movement of the pinion 221.