Patent GB-211901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fare handling apparatus
IPC: G07B11/09
Filed: 1922-08-28
Abstract: 211,901. White, A. E., (Doldt Fare Handling Machine Co.). Aug. 28, 1922. Token systems and apparatus for checking and registering. - The passenger on boarding the vehicles receives a token, characteristic of the zone in which he enters, which, on leaving, he inserts in a collecting device that traverses the token through a distance proportional to the distance travelled and delivers it into a receptacle characteristic of the zone in which the passenger leaves, the traverse of the token automatically controlling mechanism to assess the fare. In a modification, the passenger may insert his boarding token at the beginning of the journey in a collecting device which is operated by the conductor to traverse the token to the leaving zone receptacle and so to assess the fare. When the fare is paid at the end of the journey the boarding token, that has been delivered by a distributing device as described in Specification 211,900 is dropped by the passenger in the particular one of a number of differently sized slots 34 in the collecting device that corresponds to the zone in which he boarded the car. The slots 34 are formed in a table 33 adapted to be intermittently rotated by a crank shaft 30 as the vehicle enters the various zones. A visual zone indicator and a token receiving turret 25 similar to that described in Specification 211,900 are simultaneously rotated. The token after falling through the slot 34 takes up the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4 in which it rests upon a table 43 and is held in vertical position by radial slots in discs 37, 41. The disc 37 is secured to a shaft 49 which is adapted to be rotated to traverse the token from its entrance point to a delivery shoot 60 by a hand-operated lever 45 and sector 50. From the shoot 60 the token falls into the proper receiving tube in the turret 25. During the traversing movement of the token, the length of which depends upon the number of zones through which the passenger has travelled, the token connects the disc 37 to the disc 41 which is carried by a hub rotating freely on the shaft 49 and provided with a large gear wheel 72. This wheel, through a pinion and mitre gear, drives a barrel cam 76 having a cam slot engaging a pin on a sliding rack 86, Fig. 2. The rack 86 drives a trip indicator shaft 90 actuating an indicator 94 by which the trip fare is assessed and shown and also, through a one-way clutch, a totalizing indicator shaft 98. After the fare has been registered and the token deposited in the appropriate tube in the turret 25 the discs are returned to their initial position by a spring 104, the disc 37 pushing the disc 41 by a lug engaging a pin. A stop controls the initial position of the discs, this stop being movable to pernit a complete revolution of the discs. To permit a token to be discharged from the receiving apparatus without entering one of the zone tubes in the turret 25 the shoot 60 is pivoted so that it may be swung outwards to discharge the token into a cup 116. To separate the tokens received in each tube in the turret 25 from those received in the following trips of the vehicle a trip token stack 125 is mounted at one side of the frame and a rotary transfer plate with diametrically opposite openings is adapted to deliver special tokens from the bottom of the stack into each tube in the turret 25 as it moves into token-receiving position. The delivering is automatically accomplished by providing a gear connection between the transfer plate and the turret 25. When the fare is to be prepaid the passenger obtains a boarding zone token as before and tells the conductor the zone in which he desires to leave the vehicle. The conductor rotates the table 43, the shoot 60, and its associated mechanism in the upper part of the collecting apparatus by a crank 180 until the desired one of a number of prepayment token tubes secured in the collection apparatus, and moved with the table 43, is brought above the delivery cup 116. The boarding zone token is then dropped into its appropriate slot, and carried to the shoot 60 by operation of the lever 45 as before. The fare is thus indicated and on receipt of the same the conductor operates a lever 196 connected by a pin and slot to an ejector plate which is adapted to push a prepayment token from the appropriate tube into the cup 116. The cam barrel 76 may be detachable and reversible; it is preferably formed as a sleeve splined upon a hub. The visual indicator, Fig. 10, is mounted upon a. post 140 and is actuated by a shaft 154 secured to the crank shaft 30. It comprises a casing 142 carrying a stationary din@ having a series of circumferentially disposed openings 146 formed therein. An inner rotating dial driven by the shaft 154 two series of indications 149, 150. The outer series 149, corresponding to the zones through which the vehicle passes is exposed at all times through the openings 146 but only one, corresponding to the zone in which the vehicle is at the moment. is exposed of the indications of the inner serious through an opening 152. Figures showing the fares to the zone in which the vehicle is a printed on the outer dial opposite each of the apertures. The dial is preferably transparent and is illuminated by an electric lamp within the casing. To permit ready and accurate attachment of the shaft 154 to the shaft 30@ the co@ ling shown in Fig. 12 is used, in which pins projecting from discs 162, 165 on the shafts @ and 30 respectively engage spaced openings in a flexible connecting disc 169.