Autelca, Ag

Hasler Ag

Ascom Autelca Ag

Werner Wuthrich

A device for dispensing a sheetlike object, especially a card with magnetic strip, from a stack has a storage compartment for the stack and an object removal unit on a lower side of the storage compartment. The object removal unit has a conveying element movable back and forth under control perpendicular to the stack, i.e., in dispensing direction (x). According to the invention, the conveying element has a supporting surface concave in dispensing direction (x) and/or convex in a transverse direction (y) which is orthogonal to dispensing direction (x). With an element thus shaped, cards already used and bent in various ways can be reused for automatic card dispensing.

Device for dispensing a sheetlike object from a stack

A cashier's safe for banks is disclosed in which money cassettes in vertical columns are held in storage spaces on rotatable racks disposed on opposite sides of the vertical traveling path of a cassette carrier. Each cassette selectively can be brought up to a money receiving and withdrawal point at the top of the safe and returned to its proper storage space by the cassette carrier. Cassettes containing larger sums of money are moved more slowly to the withdrawal point than those containing lesser sums to reduce the probability of robbery. Storage units in the safe for bank notes include bank note storage belts wound on storage drums. The storage units are located on opposite sides of a vertical covered belt conveyor for bank notes which transfer them from the storage units to a bank note receiving and withdrawal point at the top of the safe. Bank note switches associated with the storage units are provided along the covered belt conveyor. The cashier's safe may be automated and a microprocessor may be employed to control the receiving or issuance of money in specified denominations and amounts.

Cashier's safe

The pneumatic tube carrier comprises a belt conveyor with two conveyor belts (4, 5), the working faces (6, 7) of which extend in close proximity to each other from one end of the carrier to the other, for pulling, for example, a bundle of paper money (23) by frictional contact between the working faces (6, 7) into the carrier, retaining the bundle in the latter, and ejecting the bundle again from the carrier. The belt conveyor is driven, in the pneumatic tube conveyor station, via a disengageable shaft coupling, of which one coupling element (13) is arranged hidden at the carrier jacket and the other is drivable by a drive mechanism provided in the pneumatic tube conveyor station. A chamber (15) serves for accommodating hard cash, for example, this chamber exhibiting a flip lid (17) forming part of the carrier jacket (1) and equipped with a locking device, which latter is released for opening the lid (17) in the pneumatic tube conveyor station.

Pneumatic tube carrier and pneumatic tube conveyor station

The material to be folded (a, b) and consisting of one or several sheets is introduced into a flat cartridge (1) up to the point (A) of the fold to be formed by means of a pair of supply rollers (29, 30). Subsequently, the cartridge (1) is turned around an axis (2) in a right angle to the introductory direction whereby a feed roll (9) presses temporarily the point (A) of the material to be folded (a, b) against the edge (6) of the cartridge at which it was introduced and folds the material to be folded (a, b) thus over the edge (6) at this point (A). Finally, the material to be folded (a, b) is taken over by a pair of folding rollers (11, 12) with the top of the thus formed fold leading which presses the fold together. During this process, the portion (a) of the material to be folded introduced into the cartridge (1) remains constantly plane so that, for example, a credit card or a flat sample can be attached with paper clips at this portion without impeding the operation of the folding station or making it more difficult.

Folding machine

An inked-ribbon feed mechanism comprises an electric drive motor (5), reversible for reversing the ribbon feed direction, and a reversing switch (32) for the motor (5). A roller (31) operating the reversing switch (32) travels along a cam (28, 29) formed on one arm (21) of a lever (19, 20, 21). A further arm (19) of this lever carries one (14) of two ribbon guides (13, 14) coupled with each other. The motor (5) drives a worm (6). A worm wheel (7) is firmly connected to a pinion (8) and is displaceable together with the latter along the worm (6) in two positions. In one position (8) the pinion meshes with a toothed rim (3) provided on one of the two ribbon spool carriers (1). In the other position (8') the pinion meshes with a toothed rim (4) formed on the other ribbon spool carrier (2).

Ribbon feed mechanism

A pressure applying element, a sheet to be printed, and an ink ribbon, an interchangeable form carrying printing indicia, and a pressure absorption plate are arranged in vertical sequence to be pressed together by the pressure applying element in the printing process whereby the pressure absorption plate absorbs the applied pressure, the ink ribbon being wound on a delivery spool and a wind-up spool mounted for rotation in a cassette housing, the cassette housing forming a guide delivering ribbon from the delivery spool about one free edge of the pressure absorption plate, transversely across the pressure absorption plate in spaced relation thereto, about the opposite free edge of the pressure absorption plate and to the wind-up spool, the cassette being removeable from and insertable in the press in a direction parallel to the spool rotational axes and the free longitudinal edges of the pressure absorption plate.

Letterpress printing press

A roller cage having at least one needle roller on one side and larger rollers having axes parallel thereto on the other side, a print transfer plate having a reciprocal sliding drive means extending through the roller cage with opposite sides in contact with the respectively oppositely disposed rollers, the larger rollers adapted to roll on a plate disposed parallel to a printing form, which plate has lateral recessed grooves into which the rollers roll prior to and after the printing operation to increase the distance between the needle roller and the printing form for inserting sheets to be printed and removing printed sheets which are pressed against a dye support and printing form by the needle roller during the printing process, and an inclined plane and stop mechanism functioning to raise and lower said plate as it moves back and forth under the influence of the reciprocating print transfer plate during the printing operation.

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Werner Wuthrich