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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1980
John E Toth, San Diego, CA (US);
Cubic Western Data, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A stock feed and shear system which may be utilized in an automatic ticket vending machine for cutting tickets from different rolls of stock and delivering the tickets to other components such as a printer and a magnetic encoding transport. The rolls are supported on reels having releasable clamp mechanisms for allowing rapid replacement of spent reels while providing a predetermined drag between the roll cores and the reels. The reels are spring loaded so that stock can be unwound from the rolls only by positively driving the same with selectively driven pinch rollers. Guide tracks direct the stock to a rotary shear which cuts single ticket lengths from the stock without metal to metal contact, thereby achieving excellent service life. Sensors provide an indication of spent rolls, completion of a cutting operation, and presence of a ticket in the shear. In another embodiment paper or plastic tickets are pre-cut by a two-way rotary shear and are held in escrow. Thereafter either type of ticket may be selectively driven past a print head by a special drive connection to a single motor. A replacement ticket is cut and held in escrow, thereby eliminating feeding and cutting time in the ticket dispensing operation.