Patent GB-190306417-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fare Cash and like Registers
Inventor: OHMER JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1903-03-19
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 6417. Ohmer, J. r. March 19. Fares, registering and checking; receipts, checking and recording. - Relates to fare registers and the like for recording separately a number of different fares, for indicating the fares of each denomination, and for recording and indicating a total of all the fares. Also for directing the attention of passengers of a car to the register when an incomplete registration is made. In the register, Figs. 2 and 3, there are means for operating and locking the primary actuating-bar, through which the inking-roller K is first actuated to ink the type-wheels g, h, g', h<1>, the platen is next actuated to press a sheet against the typewheels, and the feeding-shafts I<1>, I<11> cause an initial feed of the paper after an impression has been taken ; means are provided for operating and controlling the totalizing-wheels R, R<1>, R<11>, for locking the machine during the temporary absence of the conductor, and for indicating the direction of the car. The detail-recording wheels a are loosely mounted in groups on a shaft, and are operated by the vertical slides C and pawls and ratchet-wheels in gear with the actuating-wheels c, which engage with the mutilated gears b on the recording-wheels. Each slide C has a forward arm C<3> that moves an indicator tablet D exhibiting a definite fare. The paper-roll shaft G, the platen, the pressure bar, and feeding-rollers I<1>, I<11> are mounted in the two side plates E hinged at E<1> and held in position by the spring-pressed arms F. The inking-roller K is held normally by the arms K', K", away from the type-wheels. The discs or wheels M, M' are rigidly attached to the pressure bar and have pins p to enter the cam slots n<11> in the roller arms K<1>, K<11>, in the initial movement of the pressure bar. The wheel M', Fig. 13, has a tooth q to engage with the mutilated gear q<1>, which is loose on the feed shaft I<1> and has ratchet-teeth q<11> to engage with the plate r for moving the shaft I<1> and giving an initial feed to the paper. A key is required to unlock the pressure bar, the key being inserted into the keyhole M" in the plate M'. Movement is also imparted to the feed shafts I<1>, I<11>, by turning the finger-piece I<3>. To identify the person taking a statement from the register, the mechanism shown in Fig. 20 is employed. The identification key d<11> is inserted in printing-alignment with the type-wheels, and when the crank Q" is turned, the pressure bar I of the inking-roller K and the feed shafts I', I" are actuated. When identification keys are used, the locking-mechanism shown in Fig. 13 and the keys associated with it are not required. To attract attention when a complete operation has not been made, the movable plate or blind O bearing the words " not registered" is elevated and remains elevated through the medium of the operating- slides C. If a slide C is completely elevated as in proper working, the blind 0 is elevated with the fare tablet D but resumes its low and normal position to leave the tablet exposed. Another concealing-plate or blind T moves in a similar manner in front of the registering-wheels R, R<1>, R<11> upon the shaft R<3>. Movements are imparted to the bellwheel U and to the units-wheel R by the pawl u ; the wheels R<1>, R<11> are actuated by a double pawl. These pawls are mounted on the shaft v on the oscillating arm V and one of the arms which support the blind T. As the oscillating bar P is moved, the shafts v, v<1> are oscillated by links. The registering-wheels are prevented from overthrowing in either direction by the spring-pressed pawls w, w<1>, and can be turned back to zero, when desired, by the finger piece A'. Fig. 27 shows the mechanism by which the machine can be locked temporarily. The lever arm Y locks the oscillating bar P unless it is raised by the enagement of the lever with the pin Y" on the ratchetwheel Z. The movement of the shaft R<3> through the finger-piece A', which permits the removal of the pin Y" from the arm Y, locks the register. The mutilated gear Z<3>, Fig. 29, actuates the gear Z' connected to the shaft of the direction indicator, which is movable with the registering-wheels when being turned to zero, or is movable independently. A movement of the shaft R<3>, after the registering- wheels have been set to zero, does not affect these wheels but effects the rotation of the direction-indicator when the movement is in the direction which moves the pin Y" on the wheel Z towards the arm Y.