IMPROVE- MENTS IN COLLECTING FARES OR PAYMENTS ON TRAMWAY CABS, OMNIBUSES, AND ON RAILWAYS, AND IN THE APPARATUS OR MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED FOR COLLECTING MONEY AT PLACES OF AMUSE MENT AND ELSEWHERE
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William McAdam at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
December 1869.
I, WILLIAM MCADAM, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COLLECTING FARES OR PAYMENTS ON TRAMWAY CABS, OMNIBUSES, AND
ON RAILWAYS, AND IN THE APPARATUS OR MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR, WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED FOR COLLECTING MONEY AT PLACES OF AMUSE
MENT AND ELSEWHERE," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in collecting fares or
payments in tramway cars, omnibuses, and on railways, at places of
amusement, and elsewhere, has for its object the prevention of fraud on
the part of those collecting the money and the securing of the full
amount of money paid to be received by the proprietor, and it consists
of a box divided into compartments, the upper one of which is made
partly of glass or it may be made a section or a segment of a hollow glass
globe. In the top of this upper compartment a slit or opening is made
to admit the money into the middle or next compartment which is made
of wood or any other suitable material. Between the first and second

page_text: compartments herein-before referred to a table fixed on pivots or a
moveable or fixed platform is situated. The object of the glass in the
upper compartment is to allow the person collecting the fares to see
that the person paying puts in the correct amount of money, which
when passed through the slit or opening falls on to the table or platform
herein-before referred to, after which the attendant turns the table on
its pivot or throws the money off it by means of a wire or lever, and
the money falls therefrom into the second compartment, which is fitted
with a shoot or duct by which it is guided to the compartment below.
This lower compartment is provided with a box having two locks on it,
one by which it is locked into the collecting apparatus, the other that
by which the lid is secured and prevented from being opened except
by the proprietor or person possessing the key. When the box is
unlocked from the lower compartment the lock acts upon a spring,
which pushes forward a closing slide fitted underneath the cover of
the box; this shuts the opening therein by which the money is received
from the middle compartment. At night the glass case is illuminated
by a lamp or otherwise. It is to be understood that the apparatus
herein-before referred to may be fixed into the vehicle or elsewhere
where the money is collected or it may be carried by the person appointed
to collect. Under a second modification the apparatus may consist of
the first and second compartments only, the lower being the receiving
compartment, and which is locked and only can be opened by the
proprietor or persons possessing the key. In this case the lower
compartment may consist of a bag.