Severing by tearing or breaking – Breaking or tearing apparatus – Web restrainer
Patent
1992-02-07
1994-03-15
Rada, Rinaldi I.
Severing by tearing or breaking
Breaking or tearing apparatus
Web restrainer
225 13, 225 52, G07B 502
Patent
active
052940349
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a ticket dispensing assembly comprising a ticket feeder and a flexible strip of tickets in roll form. The ticket feeder functions to enable tickets to be torn individually from the ticket strip and comprises a casing in which the ticket roll is housed, at least one cover part which is connected pivotally to the casing, and a guide path which is operative to guide a length of continuous strip of tickets taken from the ticket roll. The free end of the continuous strip projects through an outfeed opening in the ticket feeder and serves as a fingergrip by means of which the strip can be pulled from the roll. Means are also provided which, as the free end of the strip is pulled, function to mutually separate parts of strip material which are located between two mutually adjacent tickets and which hold said tickets together. The continuous strip has punched at regular intervals therealong parting lines which define a plurality of tongue-shaped flaps and "flap apertures" and those material parts which hold two mutually adjacent tickets together are located at the ends of respective parting lines and extend approximately transversely to the longitudinal axis of the strip.
An assembly comprising a ticket feeder and a continuous ticket strip of this kind, for instance queue tickets, is known from each of U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,047,652 and 3,885,724. The ticket roll used with these known assemblies comprises a flexible, continuous ticket strip in which respective tickets have punched therein penetrating tongue-shaped flaps which when a ticket located in the outfeed aperture is pulled manually, are brought into contact with guide means, through the medium of a feed path. The guide means functions to guide a tongue-shaped flap in one direction and the remainder of the strip in another direction. In order that an individual ticket can be torn from the strip, it is necessary to provide tear edges against which those parts of the freely protruding ticket are connected to the immediately following ticket can be brought into contact, thereby to separate a ticket from the strip. One drawback with this known assembly is that the continuous ticket strip used therewith can impair the function of the ticket feeder. For instance, the known ticket strip has through "punched" flaps. These flaps are liable to project from the plane of the remainder of the strip, to a greater or lesser extent, and will often fold or buckle before arriving at the outfeed opening of the ticket feeder. When the free end of the ticket strip is torn-off, the following folded flap tends to fasten or jam inside the feeder, making it impossible tear further tickets from the roll until the fault has been remedied, which is irritating to waiting customers.
Furthermore, it is also surprisingly found that with the known ticket feeder, the active tear edges, which are often made of a plastic material, are subjected to considerable wear, which negates the ticket-holding effect otherwise afforded by the feeder. As a result, a pull on the free, exposed end of a ticket strip will result in a continuous strip of tickets being fed through the outfeed aperture and the feeder is unable to separate an individual ticket from the strip.
A further drawback is that the known feeder is only able to accommodate rolls of at most one thousand tickets.
Attempts have been made to increase the dimensions of the known ticket feeder, so that ticket rolls which contain a far larger number of individual ticket can be used, although these attempts have been without success.
Consequently, it is primary object of the present invention to provide an improved assembly which comprises a ticket feeder and a continuous ticket strip of aforedescribed kind and in which the outfeed of a continuous ticket strip and the separation of individual tickets from said strip can take place continually in the absence of any disturbance of the aforesaid kind.
Another object of the invention is to provide an improved assembly in which the ticket feeder is able to readily accommodate
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Rada Rinaldi I.
Turn-O-Matic AB
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