Patent GB-191108499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Registering Fares and the like.
Inventor: OHMER WILFRED IGNATIUS
IPC: G07B13/00
Filed: 1911-04-05
Granted: 1912-03-07
Abstract: 8499. Ohmer, W. J., Whistler, D. B., and McAllister, J. E. April 5. Printing - apparatus combined with fare registering and checking apparatus; cylinder and like machines; inking - apparatus. - A conductor's apparatus for registering fares &c. described in connexion with a road car, is provided with means set and operated by hand for registering and recording (by printing) the number of passengers and of fares of each denomination, and the total cash received. A record of these quantities is printed by the conductor at the end of each trip, and when he goes off duty he effects the printing of a record showing the sums of the various items for all his trips. At the end of the day an inspector may obtain a record giving the totals for the whole of the day. Interlocks to ensure the manipulations taking place in their proper sequence are also described. A series of counters (the trip registers) having type on their peripheries is arranged on a shaft 8 and register the various quantities for a single journey, at the end of which a record is taken and the counters zeroized. On a parallel shaft 14 is provided a similar series of counters (the conductor's totalizers) which totalize the quantities during any one conductor's period of duty, and, after a record has been printed, are zeroized by the conductor on leaving. On a third shaft 118 is another series of counters which sum up the whole of the transactions for the day of other period. This last series (termed the accumulators) is mounted in a frame 119 pivoted at 120, and, when it has been lowered into engagement with the zeroized totalizers and reset, its registrations are transferred to the totalizers and can then be printed. The paper is fed by the rotation of a pinion 233, Fig. 3, in mesh with a pivoted toothed segment 230 rocked by a crank-pin 237 revolved within either of a pair of cam slots 234. These slots are shaped so that, in whichever direction the drive occurs, the segment is moved slightly in one direction before making its proper feeding motion in the other direction. The inking and impression rollers are mounted in toothed plates reciprocated by hand through a shaft 207, Fig. 51, and their trunnions are guided by fixed cam grooves 202. The plates are normally prevented from moving to print from either the trip registers or the totalizers by stops 108, 156, Fig. 2, which however may be removed by means of the conductor's key. The shaft 207 is locked by a spring-controlled key collar 216, Fig. 51, provided with a tooth 219 to engage a recess in the framing 212. To unlock and operate the printing-mechanism, a squared key is pushed on to the squared end of the shaft 207 until a groove in the key is free of a projection 222 and the collar has been sufficiently pushed back, whereupon the shaft may be rotated in either direction. To ensure complete movement of the shaft, it is provided with a mutilated toothed wheel 225 engaged by a spring-controlled pawl. In addition to printing the fare and passenger records from the registers, the apparatus prints certain numbers relating to the line and section on which the car is running, Fig. 57, and also a number for identification of the conductor or other operator of the device. This number is set on a series of printing-wheels 256, Fig. 31, each provided with a stepped snailshaped plate 256 and selectively operated by the conductor's key which frees the printing- mechanism. The number of the car is also printed, the necessary type being set up in a plate adapted to be let into the printing-plate.