Patent GB-190119046-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fare or like Registers.
Inventor: JUSTICE PHILIP MIDDLETON
Filed: 1901-09-24
Granted: 1901-11-30
Abstract: 19,046. Justice, P. M., [St. Louis Register Co.]. Sept.24. Fares, registering and checking. - The register comprises a counter visible to the public, which is set to zero at the commencement of each journey or trip, and a pair of counters on one of which the cash fares and the transfer fares are summed, while on the other only the transfers are summed. At the end of each trip or journey the totals on the counters are printed off on a paper strip, which is torn off by the officials from time to time, and on a card strip which the fare collector inserts when going on duty and withdraws when coming off. The actuation is derived from a sector-shaped handle 5, which is rocked on its pivot to the right and left by means of a cord. A cam 6, Fig. 2, rocking with the handle operates a lever 7 which bears a pawl 9 driving a ratchet-wheel 11, a spring 65<a> being provided to re-set the lever. The visible counter, which consists of concentric units and tens discs with locking carrying-gear, is geared to the shaft 13 of the ratchet-wheel by a train of wheels 24, 23, 15, and the printing counter 21 for summing both kinds of fare is also geared to the same ratchet shaft. The printing-counter 22 for summing only the transfers is geared to an equal ratchet-wheel 12 on a sleeve 14. The lever 8 with pawl 10 for operating this ratchet-wheel is only worked when the handle is rocked to the left, because the cam 6 is partly cut away on the left side, as shown in Fig. 17. By means of the mechanism 46 a word-plate 50, which is coaxial with the handle, is thrown to the right or left to show the kind of fare. A gong is struck by a hammer 57 clicking on the ratchetwheel 11, but, when only transfers are counted, the bell is muffled by an arm 55. In order that the visible counter may read to 199, a shutter 38 is provided. It bears a bell crank 39, one arm of which is attached to a spring 40, while the other ends in a pair of oppositely-directed fingers 41, 42. A pallet 37 on the tens disc catches one of the fingers, and pulls the shutter to a detent 45, while the other finger travels in an # slot 43 in the frame-plate. To cause a fiill stroke of the handle, the pawl 9 is continued upwards in a bar 60, and is kept in engagement by a stud 62 till an oblique groove 61 in it allows a spring 63 to put it on the other side of the stud. Thus the ratchet-wheel is dragged back if the stroke is not complete. When in its lowest position, a spring 64 makes the pawl re-engage, while a pawl 59 prevents a reversal The other driving-pawl 10 is kept in engagement by a pin 65 on its fellow. The paper strip from a roll 102 and the card strip, both on a plate 97, are printed when a key marked ' set' is used to turn a cam 67, which engages pins 69, 76 on vertical slides 70, 77. The former slide drives the feedrollers 73, 110, and the latter slide by a pin 101 under a lever 100 lifts the platen 97. The feeding- slide displaces a pawl 88 out of engagement with the printing-slide, and into engagement with the operating-levers 7, 8. The printing-slide is the frame in which the visible counting-discs are mounted, and its elevation ungears them so that they are returned to zero by toothed sectors 81 pulled by springs. The raised frame is suspended by hooks 84 engaging pins 86 till arms 83 on the sleeves of the disc strike against stops 82 on the hooks, as otherwise the frame might be brought down before the discs were at zero. The shutter 38 is dragged out of engagement with the detent 45. One revolution of the key turns a wheel 93 half a revolution, so that a crank-pin 94 on it raises or lowers a direction indicator to show 'in' or 'out.' The paper strip a, Fig. 16, travels between the casing 2 and a flap 107, which is secured by a padlock on a staple 104, the supply roll 102 being mounted on another flap which is locked by the same means. The card b is inserted beneath a tongue which separates it from the strip and is covered by a flap 108 which is not locked. The pit 75 in the cam 67 causes the first impression. The lower feed-roller 110 is mounted on a tongue 111, which can be pressed down to separate the rollers. A bell-crank detent 115 prevents operation of the handle till the card has been thrust between it and a fixed flanged roller 113.