Patent GB-190926571-A (GB)
Title: A Waybill Box or Holder particularly for Recording Information relating to Tickets Issued on Railways, Tramways and the like.
Inventor: SECKINGTON EDWARD
IPC: B41L5/00
Filed: 1909-11-16
Granted: 1910-11-16
Abstract: 26,571. Seckington, E., and Cutchey, W. R. Nov. 16. W a y - b i l l s , holders for. The way-bills, mounted on rollers or drums, are arranged to travel under apertures, to allow entries to be made, and then to pass under glass covers so that the entries cannot be tampered with. Shutters are provided so that. when either of the way-bills is advanced, one aperture is closed while the other one is opened, and a bell is sounded. Tablets with the fares, journey stages, or other information a r e fixed to the holder adjacent to the apertures, and wires are placed across the aperture to dispense with the ruling of the paper. The journey way - brill 10, Fig. 4, passes over a roller 12, under an aperture 5, and glass cover 3, on to a roller 15, and is advanced by a thumb-screw 17. The main relief way-bill passes from a roller 18, under an aperture 6 and glass cover 4, to a roller 20 actuated by a thumb-screw 22. Shutters 32, 33, for covering the apertures 5, 6 are fixed at both ends to rods 35, 36 respectively. To open the aperture 5, the thumb-screw 22 is rotated to advance the relief way-bill, and, by means of a rack 37, moves the rods 36 to close the aperture 6. To one of the rods 36 another rod 39 is pivoted, having at its other end a pawl 40 provided with a nose 41, Fig. 3, which engages a surface 42 on one of the rods 35, and which is disengaged therefrom on the movement of the rod 36. The shutter 32 can then be moved by means of its handle 34. The nose 41, when the aperture 5 is open, engages with the side of the rod 35 so that the aperture 6 cannot be opened until the aperture 5 is closed. To allow the rack 37 to return, its gear-wheel 38, Fig. 7, is mounted loosely on the roller 20, and is provided with a ratchet-wheel 47 and pawl 48. To prevent the drum 15, Fig. 4, from being turned when the aperture 5 is uncovered, a sloping-face 50, provided on one of the rods 35, recedes from a pawl 49 which then engages a ratchet-pinion on the drum 15. To protect one conductor from another on a change of duty, duplicating and triplicating strips 23, 24, Fig. 6, are employed, mounted respectively on a sliding frame 25 and a table 26, with carbon sheets between them and the relief way-bill. The strips are fed from drums 27, 28 through slots 29, 30, 31, and are torn off alternately by the different conductors. The new conductor starts with the last record of the previous conductor on one or other of the strips. The strips are so arranged that they receive the impressions alternately on the right and left hand. This is effected by providing the frame 25 and table 26 with pins 59 adapted to be engaged by pins 58, Fig. 3, on a rocking cam 57, which is rocked by a nose 56 on a lever 54 when the rods 36 are moved. A partial opening or closing of a shutter is prevented by a rack 53, on a cross-piece 36<a> attached to the rods 36, and a pawl 52 engaging the teeth. Pins on the rods 35, 36 strike a bell-hammer to sound an alarm when an entry has been made.