Patent GB-190712938-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating Fares, for use on Vehicles.
Inventor: TIRMANN HUGO
Filed: 1907-06-04
Granted: 1908-03-12
Abstract: 12,938. Tirmann, H. June 4. Fares, registering.-Relates to the fare indicators described in Specifications Nos. 19,222 and 27,975, A.D. 1906, and consists in making the racks non-removable from the casing. The outer racks 1, 2, Fig. 4, for exhibiting day and night tariffs are provided with tappets 5, 6 engaging with the head of the central rack 3 to force it partly in, so that a hinged portion of the rack takes up a sloping position and must be completely forced in before the flag is lowered. A plate 11, Fig. 1, carried on the sliding hub 9 of the flag is made wide enough to cover the central and one of the side openings, so that when it is lowered one of the racks is forced i n w a r d. The flag is secured in position by a spring pawl 12 engaging with a notched stationary disk 14. The movement of the rack 3 is preferably facilitated by a spring-controlled knob, from which the counting-rings are zeroized through wheels 18 ... 21 rotating the shaft 31 carrying pinions 22 ... 24 engaging with external teeth on the counting-rings. The owner's control counter, consisting of loose counting-wheels, is actuated on the return of the fore disks to zero through gears 25 ... 27, which are connected to pinions 28 . . . 30 through solid and hollow shafts. To ensure that the totalizer registers whole numbers, the spindle carries pinions 32 ... 34 gearing with wheels provided with gaps corresponding to the numbers on the counters, so that when the spindle 31 is rotated the adding-wbeels are driven by the pinions 32 . . . 34 an amount equal to the space between the gaps. The wheels 25 . . . 27 are connected to to their spindles by pawls, and the pinions 22 ... 24, 32 . . . 34 are secured to the shaft 31 by clutches which are thrown out of gear by the rack 3 striking a lever 35 at the end of its travel and moving the shaft 31 laterally. The indication of the initial fare is effected as in the above Specifications by a wheel 36 secured to the shaft 31 by a clutch. Extra charges are registered and exhibited by pressing in and revolving a knob 37, Fig. 1, carried on a bar 38 bearing gear-wheels 39 ... 41. The wheel 41 actuates the main counter through a clutch 44, and the wheel 39 actuates a counter 42, 43 through a clutch 39'. The part 42 of the counter makes a complete revolution for every number exhibited, and bears a mark 45 which is exhibited only when a complete revolution has been made, thus indicating whether the apparatus has been tampered with. Registration before the initial fare has been worked off is prevented by a pin on a disk 52 engaging in a slot in a plate 49. The disk 52 is mounted on the spindle 48 bearing the tilting lever carrying the driving-wheels for the two tariffs, and the disk 49 is loosely mounted on the shaft 48. To the vehicledriven bevel-wheel 47 is connected a ratchet 53 engaging pawl 54 carried by the disks 52. When being zeroized, the pin is brought to the front end of the slot by revolving the disk 52 through wheels 58, 57 driven by a clutch on the shaft 31. The pawl 54 is thrown out of gear by oblique faces on a disk 55 carried by a spring-pressed link 56 operated by a projection 62 on a slide 60 depressed when the rack 3 is drawn out. The time tariff is brought into gear after turning a disk 64 into view when a cam 65 on the hub of the disk depresses a slide 66 the inclined end 67 of which reciprocates a rack 68, thus rotating the disk 69 and throwing the clutch 71 out of gear with the vehicle. A clock-work 72 always in gear then rotates the counter. In a modification shown in Fig. 8, the central rack is replaced by a double toothed wheel 74 operated by the flagstaff 78 and gearing with two toothed wheels 80, one of which exhibits and registers the initial fare and the other zeroizes the counter. The clutch between the disk 52 and the gear 47 is operated by a bell-crank 81, 82 actuated by a disk 84. The rod 90 rocking the lever 35 is operated by a projection 89 on a rod 88 reciprocated by a tappet 86 on the wheel 74. To allow the time tariff to be thrown into gear only when the day tariff is in use, a pin 98 on the indicating-disk 97 strikes a lever 99 and lifts a rod 100 to free the disk 102. The outer racks are locked in the engaged position by a triangular bolt 91 carrying an indicating-disk. In a second modification, the outer racks 104, 105, Fig. 13, may be operated by a wheel 106 actuated by a revolving indicating-disk 107. The flagstaff is turned down against a spring and is secured in the lowered position by arms 122, 123, on the axis of the wheel 106 engaging in a slot 121 in one arm of a bell-crank carried by the flag spindle 117. The wheel 106 is locked in position by a rod 124 engaging spring arms 125, 126. The wheel 106 may be replaced by a cam engaging with notches in the racks. Fig. 15 shows a modification of the counting-apparatus described in Specification No. 27,975, A.D. 1906, in which the side flanges of the counting-rings are slotted at 141 to correspond with the numbers on the rings. Through these slots pass pins from the number plates 143, each plate having a projection 144 which rests on a projection 145 on the casing until removed therefrom by the end of the slot.