AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE FRAUDULENT APPROPRIATION OF THE FARES OF PASSENGERS TRAVELLING TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSSES, PUBLIC VEHICLES, OR OTHER CONVEYANCES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC BARS, RESTAURANTS, OR OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK ON PAYMENTS IS DESIRABLE
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert George Cardozo and
Alfred Walter Taylor at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 22nd March 1872.
WC, HERBERT GEORGE CARDOZO, of No. 2, Bath Place, Upper Holloway,
and ALFRED WALTER TAYLOR, of Seven Sisters Lodge, Holloway, both
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING THE
FRAUDULENT APPROPRIATION OF THE FARES OF PASSENGERS TRAVELLING
TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSSES, PUBLIC VEHICLES, OR OTHER CONVEYANCES, ALSO
APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC BARS, RESTAURANTS, OR OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK ON
PAYMENTS IS DESIRABLE," to be as follows:-
IN
This Invention relates to an improved method of and apparatus for
registering the number and the amount of the fares paid by each
passenger travelling in tramway cars, omnibusses, public vehicles, or
other conveyances, the said method and apparatus being also applicable
to other places where a check on payments is desirable to prevent the
fraudulent appropriation of such payments by the person or persons in .
charge thereof.

page_text: By our Invention, and in applying the same to tramway cars,
omnibusses, public vehicles, or other conveyances, a check of metal or
other material or its equivalent is handed or given by the conductor or
other person or persons in charge thereof to each passenger, the said
check being legibly marked or so arranged as to indicate the amount of
the fare each passenger has to pay, that is to say, a passenger whose fare
amounts to fourpence receives at the time of paying his fare, or after or
previous thereto, a check with that sum marked or otherwise arranged on
it, and the same method is to be observed with passengers whose farc
may be more or less than the amount before mentioned. This check
is dropped or placed by the passenger into a box or other suitable
receptacle with which the conductor or other person or persons in
charge thereof is provided for that purpose, but on no account is the
said check to be placed in the box or other suitable receptacle by the
conductor or other person or persons in charge thereof.
For the box or other receptacle in which the check is dropped or
placed, we give the preferance to one provided at the top with an
aperture sufficiently large for the check to fall easily through, and
arranged with a self-acting weighted sliding stop, so that upon the box
being inverted in attempting to abstract the checks, the aperture becomes
closed by the said sliding stop falling by its own weight over the inner
mouth of the said aperture, from whence the said check passes through
an inverted cone-shaped cavity, falling from thence into a chamber
or till at the bottom of the box or receptacle, this chamber or till
being provided with a hinged door or other suitable appliance which is
fitted with a suitable lock or other fastening, and to which only an
authorised person can have access.
Fig. 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side view of the interior of the box
or receptacle in which the said checks or their equivilents are placed.
A is an aperture sufficiently large for the said check to pass casily:
through; B, B, are two fixed guideing rods on which the sliding stop C
works by means of two corresponding hollow guides B¹, B¹, at its either
end; this sliding stop C is made sufficiently heavy so that, upon the box
being inverted in attempting to abstract the said checks, this sliding
stop falls by its own weight over the inner mouth of the aperture A as
shown at A¹, thus completely preventing any of the said checks from
passing through the said aperture, and the said sliding stop being narrow
at its upper side does not in any way interrupt or stop the passage of the

page_text: said checks when entering the said box. The said checks fall from
thence through a cone-shaped cavity D, Fig. 2, and from thence passing
into a chamber or till E at the bottom of the box. The said box is
provided with a sliding door J, which slides in from the top of the said
box through the slotted spaces K, K, and which is secured by a lock or
other suitable appliance; this lock is fixed at the bottom of the said box
at L, the bolt of the said lock shooting into the said sliding door J at M;
G, G, are moveable pieces and fixed one on either side of the cone-shaped
cavity D, and are hinged at F, F, H, H, being two fixed studs which
keep these two moveable pieces G, G, in position. Now upon the said
box being inverted a number of the said checks fall into the vacant
spaces I, I, and from whence they cannot escape because of the movable
pieces G, G, falling by their own weight upon the said box being
returned to its proper position and securing them, from whence they can
only be extracted by the authorised person or persons withdrawing the
sliding door J, instantly showing them that the said box has been
inverted and tampered with by trying to abstract the said checks.
N, N, N, N, are four receptacles for keeping the said checks in before
they are handed to the passengers to place in the aperture of the said
box. The two top receptacles being for checks marked for 2d and 3d fares,
these being in greater request, and the two lower receptacles for fares
which are not in so great a request. These receptacles are provided with
a lid O which is fitted with a hinge at P, and which allows them to work
as shown at O¹.
Fig. 3 is a view of the top of the said box. Fig. 4 is a
view of the said sliding door J.