Patent GB-190020516-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fare and other like Registers.
Inventor: SCHINNELLER JACOB
Filed: 1900-11-14
Granted: 1901-11-14
Abstract: 20,516. Schinneller, J. Nov. 14. Fares, registering ; receipts, checking and recording. - Relates to a fare or cash register for use in public vehicles &c. and arranged so that it is to the advantage of the person making payment to see that the payment is registered. The mechanism is mounted in a frame comprising side plates 1 fixed to a back-plate 2 mounted on the body of the car or other support. The frame may be fastened to the casing 3 hung on lugs 4 at the top and having at the bottom perforated lugs 5, through which and a lug 6 on the back-plate 2, a locking-pin 7 may be passed. This pin has a slotted arm 8, to receive a staple 9 provided with a padlock or other fastening. Two sets of registering - wheels are viewed through glass or transparent plates 10 and 11. The primary registering - wheels 13, 14, and 15 are mounted loosely on a shaft 12, one of their bosses 16 having a radial groove or recess 17 to receive a corresponding pin 18 on the shaft. The pin may be withdrawn against the action of a spring 19 so as to allow the shaft to be operated by a screwed key 20 and cause pins on the shaft to engage projections on the wheel hubs and bring the wheels to zero. These wheels are separated and bounded by friction plates mounted on a rod 25. Each wheel has nine short notches near one side and a long notch right across, or the long notch may be replaced by two short ones. These notches are engaged by a narrow and two broad pawls 40 mounted loosely on a rod 37 carried by bell-crank levers 30 riding loosely on the shaft 12 and connected by a rod 32 to actuating bars or arms 34 connected to cords passing over pulleys 35. The broad pawls project over two adjacent wheels, and have central slots to receive the friction plates, the last pawl being supported by a strip riveted to the adjacent pawl. The frame 30 is returned to its normal position by springs 42 and 43. A shaft 44 carries a ratchet-wheel 46, registering-wheels 47, and a toothed wheel 48 adapted to engage a projection 51 on a shaft 45 carrying a spring-raised bell hammer 50. The transferring-wheels 54 are mounted loosely on this shaft. The ratchet-wheel 46 is operated by a spring-pressed pawl 58, pivoted to an arm 57 mounted loosely on the shaft 44 and connected by an arm 56 to the frame 30. An indicator plate 61, which indicates some advantage to accrue to the person making payment, is carried by arms 62 mounted loosely on the shaft 12 and operated by toothed wheels 63, 64, and 65, the teeth of which are at different distances apart, each wheel having one notch deeper than the rest. These wheels are separated by friction plates mounted on the rod 25, and are actuated by a spring-pressed pawl 68 pivoted at its centre to the frame 30 and having at one end a notch 69 and a projecting pin 70, and at the other end a toe 71 to engage the teeth of the wheels 63, 64, and 65. When the toe 71 falls into the deep recesses, a plate, on a shaft connected by rods to the pawl, lifts the pawls 40 out of action, and the pawl 68 depresses the spring-raised indicator 61, which is held down by a spring catch 77 released by the pawl 68 when the toe 71 is raised or by a spring-push. The wheels 63, 64, and 65 may be actuated by a pawl on the bars 34 or the cord. A stop 82 limits the upward motion of the indicator 61.