Patent GB-190619222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for use on Cabs, and other Hired Vehicles, and the like, for Indicating, Recording, and Checking, Fares.
Inventor: TIRMANN HUGO
Filed: 1906-08-28
Granted: 1907-08-01
Abstract: 19,222. Tirmann, H. Aug. 28. Fares &c., registering and checking; counting- apparatus.-Relates to apparatus for indicating and checking cab-fares &c. of the kind which may be used on distance and time tariff combined, or on time tariff only, and also records the total fares taken. The apparatus is set for use by inserting a combined wedge and toothed rack 35, Fig. 7, into one of two apertures 34, Fig. 1, corresponding to day and night tariff, where it is held by a spring-pressed shoe 37 and locked by a spring bolt. On the introduction of the rack 35, one of the wheels 39, 40, which are connected by bevel-gearing 42, 43, 44, Fig. 11, is turned, thereby actuating the tariff indicating-disk 46 and also a counter 48 through the linkage 76, 77, 78, this counter being operated every time the apparatus is re-set to warn the passenger of any tampering. The driver may supply the passenger with a ticket bearing the number which this counter indicates. The wedge also raises one of the arms 49, 50 to rock the lever 28 about the spindle 27 and tilt the bar 25 to bring either of the wheels 23, 24, Figs. 1 and 3, into gear with the internal teeth of the units drum 2 of the counter. The wedge also raises a lever 65 to raise a slide 62 and tooth 63 to release the clock mechanism 55. The counter-actuating spindle 27 is turned by bevel wheels 33, 53; the latter being turned either from the vehicle wheels through a clutch 61 or by the clock-mechanism through a clutch 60, according to which is tending to turn it the faster. The spindle 27 turns the pinion 24 through wheels 30, 32, and the pinion 23 through wheels 29, 31, Fig. 3. If a fare is to be registered on time tariff only, the rack 35 is inserted through a central aperture, and on entering the aperture 79 in the clock-starting slide 62, Fig. 11, raises it and operates the rod 49 of the tilting-lever 28 through the medium of the rod 81 and lever 82, at the same time depressing another rod to rock a lever and lift the clutch 61 out of action. The rack 35 also turns a wheel 80 on the same spindle as the wheel 39 to actuate the counter 48. A time-tariff indicating-slide 85 is carried by the corresponding shoe 37. If it is required to prevent the rack 35 from being inserted into the time-tariff aperture until a certain fare has been registered on the other tariff, a shutter 86, Fig. 11, rotatable with the shaft 87 closes this aperture until removed by the action of a pinion mounted on the same shaft and gearing with one of the numeral-wheels 2 ... 5. The numeral-wheels 2 ... 5 constitute the fare indicator, the co-axial wheels 6, 7, 8, 9 forming the totalizing counter, these counters being of any type. The units-wheels 2, 6 are connected by internal pinions 11, 12 on a shaft 10, an intervening clutch 13 normally closed by a spring 14 allowing the counter 2 .. 5 to be zeroized without affecting the totalizing-counter. The counter 2.. 5 is returned to zero by means of the pinions 71 frictionally mounted on a spindle 69, which is turned by means of a key, inserted in a sleeve 70, Fig. 1, and passed through a hole 72 in the arm 50, Fig. 11, this hole only being in coincidence with the sleeve 70 before the rack 35 is inserted. A pinion 67, with a similar device for operating it, permits "extras" to be registered before inserting the rack 35. Pinions 74, mounted similarly to the pinions 71 on a shaft 75, allow the totalizing- counter to be zeroized, the shaft 75 being turned by a special key.