AN IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND CHECKING THE MONEY PROVISIONAL SPFICATION RECEIVED IN OR ON PUBlic Conveyances AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jane Kaye and Joseph Kaye, both of Kirkstall,
near Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND CHECKING THE MONEY
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jane Kaye and Joseph
Kaye at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 23rd March 1874.
WC, JANE KAYE and Josepи KAYE, both of Kirkstall, near Leeds, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND CHECKING THE
MONEY RECEIVED IN OR ON PUBlic Conveyances AND OTHER PLACES,” to be as
follows:-
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The object of our Invention is to prevent fraud by drivers, conductors,
or other attendants on tram cars, omnibuses, and other vehicles; also;
other places where money is received and is as hereafter described:

page_text: We provide a box made of tin or other suitable material into which is
fitted a hopper through which the money passes into the box, the hopper
being provided with a suitable aperture at the bottom. The top of the
hopper is provided with a swing table or cover, the money is paid on to
this table or cover, counted, and when found correct the table is upturned
and the money precipitated into the hopper, from which it passes into
the box below.
In order to prevent the money being got out through the opening at
the bottom of the hopper, we provide a hinged cover so arranged as to
allow the money to pass through into the box below, but not to return
by the box being upset. The hopper. is secured to the box by a scal,
lock, or other suitable known means, so that they cannot be separated
from each other, except by those appointed to take the money from
within.
In connection with the above described apparatus one or more
indicators may be attached thereto and be actuated by the attendant,
every movement of which may be known by the sound of a small bell in
connection therewith, each ring representing a given amount which
may be as follows:-One ring, one penny; two rings, two pence; and
So on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jane Kayo and Joseph Kaye in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JANE
KAYE and JOSEPH KAYE, both of Kirkstall, near Leeds, in the County
of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Jane Kaye and Joseph Kaye, Her
special licence that we, the said Jane Kaye and Joseph Kaye, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Jane Kayc and Joseph Kaye, our executors, administrators, and assigns,

page_text: should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all. times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should. and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great. Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING
AND CHECKING THE MONEY RECEIVED IN OR ON PUBLIC CONVEYANCES AND OTHER
PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jane
Kaye and Joseph Kaye, our exccutors, or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in. what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jane Kaye and Joseph Kaye,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thercon, that
is to say :-
The object of our Invention is to provide simple and easy means of
collecting fares by drivers, conductors, or other attendants on tram
cars, omnibuses, and other vehicles; also other places where money is
received, thereby preventing any fraudulent abstraction thereof.
We provide a box made of tin, copper, or other suitable material into
which is fitted a hopper through which the money passes into the box,
the hopper being provided with a suitable aperture at the bottom. The
top of the hopper is provided with a swing table or cover; the money is
paid on to this table or cover, counted, and when found correct the table
is turned up and the money precipitated into the hopper from which it
passes into the box below.
In order to prevent the money being got out through the opening at
the bottom of the hopper, we provide a hinged cover so arranged as to
állow the money to pass through into the box below, but not to return
by the box being upset.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a transverse section;
Figure 2 is a front elevation; Figure 3 is a side elevation, and Figure 47

page_text: is a plan of a box or apparatus for collecting fares in or on public
conveyances and other places constructed according to our Invention.
a is the box or that lower portion thereof. to which the money is
conveyed, made of tin, copper, or other suitable material; is the hopper
fitted therein, through or by which the money passes from the table
above, as hereafter described; c is the aperture or opening at the bottom
of hopper ; d is the swing table or platform over the hopper 6, it is
mounted on axis d¹ in connection with the lever e, whereby the table d
is swung upwards into the position shewn by the dotted lines when
required; the lever e is connected at both ends to the axis d', and is
operated on by the attendant at f; p is a piece or plate projecting from
the upper part of the inner side of the box a, and above the swinging
table or platform d in such manner that as the swinging table is raised
the front part or projecting lip of the said swinging table comes over the
plate p, or it may be arranged to come under, and thereby to afford an
additional protection against the introduction of any instrument into the
box between the lower end of the swinging table, and the side of box for
the purpose of attempting to extract therefrom any of the contents,
This plate acts as a guard to prevent the money once placed on the
platform & from falling or slipping off even if the box is not held in a
vertical position; but its use is not absolutely necessary. The swinging
table is shewn drawn in full lines, and in the position it occupies for
receiving a fare, and the dotted lines on the same Figure shew tho
position it occupies when raised by the lever e to deposit the money by
the hopper into the lower part of the box a below; g is the hinged
cover at bottom of hopper to prevent the money coming back out
through the aperture or opening c, so that should the box be turned
upwards or upside down the cover g closes over the aperture or opening c
so that the money cannot return through the said aperture or opening c;
is a hook, and i is a handle whereby the box may be hung up or
carried as may be required.
In some cases when preferred. we make the box in two parts, the
upper part containing the hopper and the lower part the receptacle for
the money. When constructed in this manner we secure them together.
by a seal, lock, or other suitable means.
Our Drawings shew the upper and lower parts combined in one and

page_text: an appointed attendant. This opening is provided with a door
which
is kept locked, so that no one except those authorized to do so can have
'access to the interior.
In order to ascertain whether attempts have been made to extract
from thic box its contents or a portion thereof, or to know whether the
box has been turned upside down, we provide the hollow cone or tube
into which we insert a ball m; on the box being upset or turned upsido
down the ball rolls out of the cone or tube into the box a, whereby
those appointed to examine the box on finding the ball in the box and
not in the conc. or tube will know. at any rate that the box has been
turned upside down. A lanip n at the side of the box gives the required
light at night time for counting the money when it is placed on the
swing table or platform d.
In connection with the above described apparatus one or more
ordinary indicators may be used actuated by the attendant, every
movement of which may be known by the sound of a small bell in
connection therewith, each ring representing a given amount which
may be as follows:-One ring, one penny; two rings, two pence; and
so on.
'It will as a rule 'be found advantageous to use our fare collecting
boxes with an open table or platform as described, at any rate in the
'first instance, and until the passengers and general public become
thoroughly habituated to provide themselves with the exact amount of
money required for the fare; when this is the case it may in some places
be found convenient to cover over or fence round the top of the box or
platform on which the money is placed with perforated and transparent
sides or top, in one of which a convenient slit or opening can be made
for receiving the money; but to this addition to our improved con-
struction of box we make no claim as forming a separate part of our
Invention.
Where it is desirable to cover the platform or box as aforesaid, we
prefer to make the back and ends of perforated metal with a sort of
hopper or slit on the top or back or other convenient part, whereby the
money is introduced to the platform below and subsequently to the box;'
we do not consider the covering of the platform or swing table an
advisable construction, as in many cases where passengers are not
accustomed to get ready their fares the covering would be inconvenient,

page_text: and when it is used so much care is required to be, taken by the passengers
to place the correct fare in the aperture in the platform cover, as if for
exemple more than the amount of fare is inserted.the surplus could not
be withdrawn without access to the interior of the box, whereas on the
contrary with the open platform the fare is paid on to it where both
passenger and conductor have access to it, and. can see that it is
correct, and if incorrect it can be rectified before it is allowed to fall in
the box below, which should be done by the attendant collector allowing
the table or platform to turn in the presence of the passenger or
passengers, as soon as both attendant and passenger are satisfied the
correct amount is deposited on the platform.
• We are aware that boxes have been heretofore proposed to be used for
the purpose of collecting fares in public conveyances, and the fares havo
been placed in hoppers or receptacles and carried down to a platform,
and thence to a locked compartment only accessible to some authorized
person or persons, particularly as described in the Specification of a
Patent granted to John B. Slawson, the 21st October 1857, No. 2687, as
well as in the Specification of a Patent granted to A. V. Newton, the
10th May 1871, No. 1263, both of which Specifications describe boxes or
apparatus for collecting fares into which the money is directly deposited,
and mistakes cannot be rectified except by an examiner or some authorized
person unlocking the box; whereas according to our Invention as we
carry it into effect the money is not deposited in the box until ample
opportunity of examining it is afforded, so as to ascertain if it be quite
correct; we therefore wish it to be distinctly understood that we lay no-
claim to the use of fare collecting boxes generally, but we claim under
this part of our Invention as our improved means or apparatus for
collecting and checking the money received in or on public conveyances
and other places,-
Firstly. The construction of fare collecting boxes in the manner above
mentioned having a table or platform on which the money or particular
fare to be paid by each passenger is placed, so that it may be seen and
counted by attendant or passenger, or by both, while same is on table,
and be subsequently allowed to fall into a receptacle from which it
cannot be extracted except by unlocking the receptacle, the said boxes-
being constructed substantially in the manner herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings or any mere modification
thereof.

page_text: Secondly. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting our
improved apparatus for collecting fares including the table or platform d
in combination with the hopper b, all arranged in box a, substantially as
and for purposes herein described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jane Kaye and Joseph Kaye,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-first day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.
JANE KAYE.
(L.S.)
JOSEPH KAYE. (L.s.)