IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INDICATING, CHECKING, AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY, ALSO THE RECEIPTS AND DELIVERY OF PARCELS OR GOODS, AND FOR REGISTERING THE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Henry Robinson, of the City of Dublin,'
Gentleman, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
INDICATING, CHECKING, AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY, ALSO THE
RECEIPTS AND DELIVERY OF PARCELS OR GOODS, AND FOR REGISTERING THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Henry Robinson,
at. the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th September 1872.
·I, ARTHUR HENRY ROBINSON, of the City of Dublin, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN'
APPARATUS FOR INDICATING, CHECKING, AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY,
ALSO THE RECEIPTS AND DELIVERY OF PARCELS OR GOODS, AND FOR REGISTERING THE
NUMBER OF PERSONS CARRIED IN PUBLIC CONVEYANCES," to be as follows
This Invention relates partly to a peculiar construction and arrange-
ment of apparatus for indicating, checking, and registering the fare or
amount due and to be paid by passenger's in tramway cars and other
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page_text: conveyances, whether on land or water, or by persons entering places of
públic resort, and is applicable in all cases where it is desired that the
receipts of money or the taking and delivering of parcels or other goods
shall be checked and registered.
According to one arrangement of the apparatus constructed under my
Invention as intended to be used by the conductors or collectors of fares
in tramway cars, steamboats, and other public conveyances, the said
apparatus consists of a box or case intended to be carried by the
conductor, the said box or case being closed at the front and partially
closed at the top and sides, whilst the back which rests against the body
of the conductor is left open. A door, drawer, or rotatory drum or
turntable is fitted to the front of the box through or into which all
moneys have to be paid. On the top of the box or case there is
suspended a row of plates, each containing on the face thereof a number
or figure corresponding to the various fares to be paid. These plates
are enclosed in a locked cover having a glass front for enabling each
passenger to see the particular amount to be paid by him, for which
purpose the conductor elevates the plate corresponding to the fare or
fares to be paid by means of a slide or lever, the rest of the plates being
concealed from view.
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The act of raising or bringing into view the figure indicating the
amount to be paid registers the said amount; either by a ratchet motion
or otherwise, as for example, by allowing a ball or counter to drop at
the time of raising the figure into one of a series of compartments in a
receiver below them being a separate compartment for each figure.
Thus suppose the single fare to be 4d., the figure 4 will be raised and
the ball or counter will drop into the compartment for receiving the.
checks for the fares of that particular amount, thus registering one
passenger. If again supposing one passenger be paying for himself,
and say two others, a fare at 4d. each, the conductor will raise the
figure 12, and the ball or counter thereby released will drop into the
compartment beneath for the receipt of checks for that: particular
amount, thus, registering three passengers, and, so on:,
Each time the door or other appliance in front is opened or rotated
by the passenger in the act of passing in his fare or amount to be paid
it acts upon a spring or lever, which by moving one or two slides in a
vertical tube allows a flat counter or a small ball to descend from the
tube: into a second receiver beneath the bottom of the box or case,

page_text: thereby registering each payment of a sum of money passed through
the door but not the amount so paid. Or in lieu of using counters or
balls in a tube or case the door or other appliance may be made to
operate by a ratchet motion or otherwise upon a numbered disc. The
number of checks in the second or bottom receiver should of course
correspond to the sum total of those in the several compartments
previously referred to. The opening of the door also returns the slide
or lever to its normal position, and thereby ensures the dropping out of
sight the figure which had been last elevated.
For the facility of giving change a slit or opening may be formed in
the bottom of the box communicating with an inclined shoot which
delivers it convenient to the hand of the passenger. A removeable sunk
pocket may be provided at one or both ends of the bottom or platform
of the apparatus, into which the sums received are removed so as to
keep the platform clear. This apparatus may either be suspended by a
strap from the neck of the conductor, or it may be fixed into any con-
venient part of the conveyance. It is obvious that the same kind of
apparatus may be used for the box offices of theatres, booking offices of
railways, and other places of public resort.
If desired the upper part containing the figures and slides may be
used as a separate apparatus for simply registering the various amount
of monies received.
For registering the receipt and delivery of parcels the apparatus is'
slightly modified and may be fitted with a turnstile for receiving the
parcels, such turnstile being made to act upon the registering or counting
SPECIFICATION an pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Henry Robinson in the Great Seal Patent"
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. . Office on the 7th March 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR-
HENRY ROBINSON, of the City of Dublin, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the 36th:
year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
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page_text: grant unto me, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, Her special license.
that I, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and all times thereafter during the
terra 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR INDICATING, CHECKING, AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY,
ALSO THE RECEIPTS AND DELIVERY. OF PARCELS OR GOODS, AND FOR REGISTERING
THE NUMBER OF PERSONS CARRIED IN PUBLIC CONVEYANCES,” upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and scal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 accompanying
Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say :-
My said Invention relates to apparatus for indicating, checking, and
registering the number of passengers, as well as the fare or amount due,
and to be paid by them, in tramway cars and other conveyances whether
on land or water, which apparatus is equally applicable to places of
public resort, and in fact in all cases where it is desired that the receipts
of money, or the taking and delivery of parcels or other goods, shall
be checked and registered..
According to one arrangement of my improved apparatus as intended
to be used by the conductors or collectors of fares in tramway cars,
steamboats, and other public conveyances; the said apparatus consists:
of a box' or case intended to be carried by the conductor, the said box
or case being closed at the front, and partially closed at the top and.
sides; whilst the back which rests against the body of the conductor is
left open A-door,. drawer, or rotatory drum or turnstile is fitted to the

page_text: front of the box, through or into which all monies have to be paid. On
the top or other convenient part of the box or case there is suspended a
row of indicating plates each containing on the face or faces thereof the
number of fares and the amount of such fares. These plates are situate
behind a glass front for enabling each passenger to see the particular
amount to be paid by him whether for one or more fares by the con-
ductor elevating the plate corresponding to the fare or fares to be paid.
The act of raising or bringing into view the figure on the plate
indicating the amount to be paid registers the said amount (as also the
number of persons to be paid for) either by a ratchet motion or other-
wise, as for example, by allowing a ball or counter to drop at the time
of raising the indicating plate into one of a series of compartments in a
receiver below, there being a separate compartment for each plate. The
indicating plates are raised by means of a double slide or a slide and
cutter, one of which closes and the other opens the bottom of a tube or
receiver containing balls or counters, and when pushed forward in order
to elevate a figure or plate one ball or counter which has previously
descended on to the lower slide is allowed to drop, whilst the rest of the
balls or counters in the. tube are retained by the upper slide. Thus
suppose the single fare to be 4d., the single fare plate indicating the
figure 4 will be raised, and the ball or counter will drop into the com-
partment for receiving the checks for the fares of that particular amount,
thereby at the same time registering one passenger. If again, supposing
one passenger be paying for himself and say two others, a fare at 4d.
each, the conductor will raise the three fare plate, thereby exhibiting
the figure 12, and the ball or counter thus released will drop into the
compartment beneath for the receipt of checks for that particular
amount, thereby registering three passengers.
Each time the door or other appliance in front is opened or rotated.
by the passenger in the act of passing in his fare or amount to be paid
it acts upon a spring or lever, which by moving one or two slides in.
another vertical tube allows a flat counter or a small ball to descend
from the said tube into a second receiver beneath the bottom of the box
or case, thereby registering each payment of a sum of money passed.
5.through the door, but not the amount so paid. Or in lieu of using
counters or balls in a tube or case, the door or other appliance may be:
made to operate by a ratchet motion upon one or more numbered. discs.
or dials as herein-after described and illustrated by my Drawings. The
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number of checks in the second or bottom receiver when balls or counters
are used, should of course correspond to the sum total of those in the
several compartments previously referred to, thereby checking each
other. The opening of the door also returns the mechanism to its
normal position, and thereby ensures the lowering or dropping out of
sight of the plate or figure which had been last elevated, the door in
fact becomes locked until the plate is allowed to drop.
For the facility of giving change a slit or opening may be formed in
the bottom of the box communicating with an inclined shoot which
delivers it convenient to the hand of the passenger. A removable sunk
pocket may be provided at one or both ends of the bottom or platformi
of the apparatus, into which the sums received may be removed so as
to keep the platform clear. This apparatus may either be suspended by
a strap from the neck of the conductor, or it may be fixed into any
convenient part of the conveyance. It is obvious that the same kind
of apparatus may be used for the box offices of theatres, booking offices
of railways, and other places of public resort.
If desired the part containing the indicating plates and slides may be
used as a separate apparatus for simply registering the various amounts
or sums of monies received.
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For registering the receipt and delivery of parcels the apparatus is
slightly modified and may be fitted with a turnstile for receiving the
parcels, such turnstile being made to act upon the registering or counting
apparatus.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose
shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheets of Drawings,
the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the
corresponding Figures.
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Figure 1 (Sheet 1) of my Drawings represents a front elevation of one g
arrangement of my said apparatus as adapted for use by the conductors
or collectors on tramway cars and other public conveyances; Figure 2
is a corresponding end elevation of the same; Figure 3 is a half plan
and horizontal section taken immediately below the table or platform;
Figure 4 is a vertical section taken along the line 1, 2, in Figure 3; 3
Figure 5 is a sectional plan taken along the line 3, 4, in Figure 4; and
Figure 6 is a detail which I shall herein-after more particularly
describe and refer to.

page_text: A is the casing of 'apparatus, and B is the table or platform which
receives the monies paid by the passengers, whether the same be for one
or more fares. In some cases, if desired, a drawer or compartment,
accessible to the conductor or collector, may be used for receiving the
monies, which may be dropped through one or more slits or openings
in the table. This table or platform is enclosed in the front or
foremost part, being surmounted by a registering glass door C and
step D, and partially enclosed at the sides by the side pieces or
cheeks D', D'. Behind the door the table or platform is entirely open
to admit of the receipts being taken up. This registering door C is
suspended rigidly from a rod or spindle E at its upper edge. The lower
edge of this door (which may be of strong plate glass or other material)
works in close proximity to a curved step D, such step being slightly
elevated above the platform. The door, after every opening or operation,
is pushed outwards to its normal position, as shewn in the Drawing,
by a spring or springs F acting upon one or both the side levers G, G,
herein-after more particularly referred to and illustrated in detail at
Figure 6. Underneath the step D, and behind the front G₁ of the casing
(which is of glass) there is suspended from a rod H a row of angular or
bent indicating plates I, having engraved or printed thereon on the top
or uppermost surface the number of fares, videlicet, one fare, two fares,
three fares, and on the lower surface the amount of such fare or fares,
videlicet, 2d., 4d., 6d.; 3d., 6d., 9d., three of the angular plates being
applicable to 2d. fares only, and three to 3d. fares. These plates when
hanging in their normal position exhibit only the number of fares as
shewn or indicated on the upper surfaces of the plates above referred to
(see Figure 1), the lower surfaces having the amounts in figures thereon
being concealed from view. Immediately behind these plates and close
under the platform B there is carried in their own framework a row of
slides K, each slide acting independently and operating upon the plate
immediately in front of it, as shewn in dotted lines in Figure 4. These
slides work in tubular slotted guides L (Figures 3 and 4), and are each'
fitted with a pin or projection M on the upper side for operating the
same, such pin or projections passing through the table or platform,
which has slots corresponding with those in the uppermost side of the
tubular guides above referred to and shewn in the Drawing. When any
one of these slides is pushed forward or outwards by the conductor or
collector in tramway cars or other public vehicles or conveyances in the
act of operating the apparatus the corresponding plate immediately in

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front of said slide, and no other, is elevated, as shewn in dotted lines in
Figure 4, thereby indicating to the person about to pay not only the
amount to be paid (whether the payment be a 2d. or 3d. fare, or for one
or more passengers,) but also shewing whether such indication and
registration be for the number of passengers it is desired to pay for,
thus enabling the person about to pay to judge beforehand whether
the sum so demanded is correct, who, when paying the said amount,
registers the same independently of the collector, without any trouble
being imposed beyond the mere handing of the amount through the
door C. A projection or driving pin N (Figure 4) is fitted to the under
side of each slide and works in a slot on the under side of the
tubular guide or casing before referred to. This pin, when the slide
is moved forward, presses against a weigh bar O carried on the pall
levers P and Q, which are mounted on an axis R. The spring pall
of the lever arm P engages with the teeth of a small ratchet wheel S
fast on the axis R, so that when pushed forward by the driving pin N it
rotates the said ratchet wheel and axis one or more teeth, according to
the slide pushed forward. T is a larger ratchet wheel, also fast on the
same axis R, which engages with a spring detent U, which detent
actuates a striking arm V, which sounds the gong W as many times as
there are teeth passed on the ratchet, each tooth indicating one fare.
There is also mounted on the axis R a pinion X, which drives the
counting mechanism of a set of dials at Y similar to those shewn at Y',
in Figure 2, thereby registering on such dials Y the number of fares or
passengers to be paid for of a given class, in this case threepenny fares.
The number thus indicated on the dials at Y represents the number of
fares to be paid for as well as the number of passengers, and by simply
multiplying the said number by three the amount received is ascertained.
When any slide is pushed forward it remains in that position, keeping
the corresponding plate elevated and the amount so demanded in view
until the passenger, in the act of passing in his money through the door,
causes the slide to recede and the plate to fall by the action of one of the
door levers G striking the slotted connecting rod or bar Z (Figure 6), in
connection with the corresponding weigh bar O which had been pushed
forward. The before-mentioned connecting rod or bar Z has a slot a
made therein, in which slot works a pin 6 on the lower end of the door
lever G herein-before referred to. A projection or shoulder is formed at
in the said slot, against which strikes the pin b above referred to on
the opening of the door, and as the said pin is carried forward by the

page_text: door lever it presses against the shoulder of the connecting bar Z-and
drives it back, which carries with it the weigh bar O back to its normal
position again. During this backward motion of the weigh bar O the
pall of the lever Q engages with the ratchet wheel d, which is fast on
the end of the. independent axis e, which carries a pinion f for driving
the counting mechanism of the independent set of registering dials g
(Figure 2). These last-mentioned dials, which also indicate and register
the numbers of fares received of a given class, and consequently the
number of passengers paid for, are operated solely by the passenger on
causing the door to recede when paying in the amount, and are a check
on the set of dials Y operated by the conductor. The throw of the door
and the width of the step are so arranged that the above-mentioned
registration by the passenger must first be effected before any opening
is formed to admit the passage of the money to the receiving table. The
requisite amount of opening of the door after the registration has been
effected is allowed for by the extension a¹ of the slot a in the slotted
connecting rod or bar Z behind the projection or shoulder c herein-
before referred to. In its normal position the door is locked by the
lever catch acting against the plate i attached to one of the door
levers G, which catch can only be released by the pushing forward of
one or other of the slides K. This, release is effected by the travelling
bar shewn dotted in Figure 5 in the following manner, which bar
carries a rigid arm projected forwards and inclined on its under side,
and passing through a guide piece fitted between two of the slotteḍ
tubular guides, but not seen in my Drawings. This travelling bar with
its rigid arm is driven forward by any one of the driving pins or arms N,
and moves simultaneously with the slide and weigh bar operated upon
by the guard or collector, thereby causing the incline to depress the
tail end of the lever catch hand elevate the opposite end so as to free
the door lever. The door lever acted upon by the catch carries a guard
or plate to prevent the catch from again descending until the door has
returned to its closed position.
The mechanism herein-before described has reference solely to the set
of three plates indicating one, two, and three 3d. fares. The second set of
three plates for corresponding fares of 2d. for example are operated upon'
by similar mechanism marked with corresponding accented letters of
reference, but in order to bring the driving arms or pins N which
actuate the weigh bar motion of this mechanism in the same line with
those already described, I couple the pall levers P¹ and Q¹ by means of

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links m, m, with their corresponding weigh bar O', which is carried by
the lever arms n, n, working loosely on the axis e, which arrangement
is simply adopted for the sake of compactness. The registering dials.
at g, g², and Y, Y., on both sides of the box or case are protected by
glass covers and concealed from view by locked doors or leather flaps o,
of which the proprietor or other authorised person alone possesses the
key; p is an inclined shoot fitted to the side of the casing and opening
into a delivery cup 7 in the front through which change is to be passed,
thus obviating the necessity for the hands of the conductor and passenger
coming at all in contact even when giving change, the payments being
received on the platform through the door. The entire apparatus may
be carried in front of the conductor or collector by straps r, r, or other-
wise as found most convenient, or it may be fitted or attached to any
.convenient part of the vehicle or conveyance.
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In using this apparatus suppose one 3d. fare is to be demanded the
conductor or collector elevates the plate indicating on its upper or top
surface one fare, and in doing so brings the lower plate into view,
'thereby indicating the amount of that fare (namely three pence), and
registers one 3d. fare on the dial plate Y for the 3d. fares by moving the
ratchet wheel S one tooth, which opération and registration is first
performed before the plate I is lifted. Then the passenger in passing
the amount so demanded through the door O causes an independent
registration of a single fare of that amount having been paid on the
separate dial g on the opposite side of the apparatus, and in doing so the
elevated plate I is caused to drop. Again supposing three fares of 2d.
each are to be demanded, the conductor or collector elevates the plate I
indicating three fares of that class on the upper or top surface, and in
'doing so exhibits the amount to be paid on the lower plate (videlicet 6d.),
and at the same time registers the three fares on the dial plate Y' for
the 2d. fares by moving the ratchet wheel S₁ three teeth, which operation
and registration is first performed before the plate I is lifted.
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The passenger in paying in the amount so demanded through the
door causes an independent registration to be made of that number of
fares having been paid on the separate dial g' for the 2d. fares, and by
the act of so doing causes the elevated plate which had been elevated
by the guard to drop to its normal position.
It is important to observe that before any plate can be elevated the
number of fares-indicated thereon must be registered, and that no two

page_text: payments can be received on the same indication for the reason that
the act of opening the door causes the elevated figure to drop to its
normal position and resets the apparatus for the next operation, also
that the door must be allowed to close after each opening before another
plate can be elevated, and that any attempt at retaining any of the
plates in an elevated position bars the door against opening.
payments can be received on the same indication for the reason that
the act of opening the door causes the elevated figure to drop to its
normal position and resets the apparatus for the next operation, also
that the door must be allowed to close after each opening before another
plate can be elevated, and that any attempt at retaining any of the
plates in an elevated position bars the door against opening.
It is also important to observe that the passenger is only bound to pay.
the sum demanded as indicated by the elevated plate shewing the amount
as well as the number of fares to be paid for.
The foregoing apparatus may be made to indicate and register any
class of fares and the plates to indicate any amounts according to
pleasure.
The said apparatus may also be employed in cash offices, in which
case it may be set in any convenient or appropriate place as a fixture
(or may be used portably if preferred), the entire being enclosed by
wire or wooden lattice sufficiently close to prevent anything being
passed through the same, the only opening left for the receipt of monies
being the registering door or doors or their equivalents through which
all sums, cheques, bills, or other papers must be passed to the person
within having charge of the working of the said apparatus.
: Over or under the said door or doors or their equivalents or in
any other convenient place there are fitted the indicating, checking,
registering, and locking portions of the said apparatus arranged and
operated substantially as herein-before described and illustrated on.
Sheet 1 of my Drawings, there being one set of plates and slides.
extending from one pound to ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, or more
pounds, all indicating and registering on one set of dials, substantially
as herein-before described.
In like manner there are arranged below the pounds or in any other
convenient place the plates and slides for the shillings, extending from
one shilling to nineteen shillings, and operated upon substantially as
herein-before described, and all registering on a distinct set of dials of
their own. Below the shillings or in any other convenient place the
plates and slides for indicating pence and extending from one penny to
eleven pence are arranged and operated substantially as herein-before
described, and likewise registering on a distinct set of dials of their own.

page_text: There is also an independent plate and slide and registering index or
dial for registering the receipt of cheques, bills, or other papers operating
substantially as herein-before described.
All or any of the aforesaid plates and sides are affected and operated
upon by the opening of the door or its equivalent substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated in my Drawings.
The door or its equivalent is also operated in a similar manner
and is acted upon by the latch or lock substantially as herein-before
described.
The shoot for the convenience of passing out change, receipts, or other
papers is also attached as herein-before described, and if desired one or
more of the indicating plates in this arrangement of apparatus may be
elevated at the same time.
It is obvious that the herein-before described apparatus may also be
used in theatres or other places of amusement or of public, resort as a
cheque in the following manner :-The said apparatus would in such
case be enclosed substantially in the manner herein-before described
with reference to a cash office, the charges or fares being indicated on'
application by plates and slides subsequently as herein-before described
and illustrated on Sheet 1 of the Drawings, the registering door or its
equivalent being the only opening or means of paying the charges or
fares indicated, the same being operated substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated. In conjunction with this application of the
apparatus I prefer to use a set of tubes or cases affixed in a perpendicular
manner at the side of the door or other convenient place (as many as
may be required), which contain the tickets or passes requisite to admit
the applicant to that particular part of the house or other public place
of resort for which he has paid or to enable him to proceed by rail or
steamboat to his destination. On operating the slides and plates
substantially in the manner herein-before described the indication of
the amount to be paid is effected and is also recorded on a dial, and
simultaneously with such operation one or more of the tickets or passes
referred to according to the number applied for is or are ejected from
the tube in connection with that particular slide and plate. It is
therefore evident from the foregoing that.. no entrance or passage can be.
effected by means of the regular tickets, cheques, .o
.or passes, without the
registration of the same having been delivered and duly recorded..on
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page_text: the dials, thereby ensuring a perfect check on all amounts paid, and on
the tickets, checks, or passes issued through this application of the
apparatus.
It is also evident from the foregoing illustrations that the apparatus
may be used and applied in all places where a check on the receipt of
cash is requisite.
A special slide and plate may be added for registering on separate
dials the delivery of pass-out and cheques, if desired.
The door and table portions of the aforesaid apparatus, together with
their registering dials and mechanism, may be used independently of
any other portion, or the other portion with its mechanism may be used
independently of the former.
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Figure 1 (Sheet 2) of my Drawings represents a front elevation and
partial section of another arrangement of apparatus for exhibiting,
indicating, and registering the various fares and amounts to be paid by
a passenger in a public conveyance, and Figure 2 is a corresponding
transverse vertical section of the same. Portions of the mechanism in
use in No. 1 apparatus may be applied to this modification.
A is the casing of the apparatus, which may be carried in front of the
conductor or collector, or fixed in any convenient part of the vehicle
or public conveyance; the upper part of this casing which contains the
registering and indicating mechanism is entirely closed in, whilst the
lower part, into which the.fares are paid through the door B, is left open.
at each end for the entrance of the hands of the conductor or collector..
when operating the mechanism and receiving the money. A cover plate.
C. having a number of apertures therein is fitted to the front of the
upper part of the case, and behind this cover plate are arranged the
various indicating slides D. corresponding to the plates I, which I have..
herein-before described, which when in their normal position exhibit
only the number of. fares that each one relates to (as shewn clearly.in.
Figure 1), the entire series of slides according to this particular arrange-,
ment being for one class of fare only. (say 2d.), and ranging from one..
to six fares. The upper or concealed part of each slide bears the par-
ticular amount according to the number of fares represented, to be paid
by it. Each slide has an eye or slotted piece E. on the back working,
in a guiding slot on an inner plate F, which extends across the front..
immediately inside the slides referred to, which eye may in some cases

page_text: be connected by a link to a lever, which lever is again connected by
another link to the lower or tail end of one of a series of operating levers
G. A row or series of such levers extend across the apparatus behind
the weigh bar H, they being mounted loosely on the axis I common to
the series. Some of the other slides, the levers of which have a longer
travel in proportion to the number of fares they each indicate, may be,
connected, as shewn in reference to No. 6, slide by a link K. directly to
the operating levers G. The object of the slotted piece E in the slide
is to allow of the lever G making a portion of its travel and actuating
the registering mechanism before it brings into view the figure on the
slide shewing the amount to be paid. The weigh bar H herein referred
to is somewhat similar to that referred to in the apparatus No. 1, it
being carried by two lever arms L, L, mounted loosely on the axis I,
one of such lever arms carrying a driving spring pall M, which engages
with the ratchet wheel N, fast on the end of the axis or spindle I. This
axis carries also the pinion which actuates the index or registering
mechanism contained within the case O.
This form of apparatus may be made to indicate different classes of
fares, and may be used for any of the purposes herein-before referred
to, and may be supplied with one or more doors or their equivalents. If
desired the top or upper part of this apparatus may be used without
the lower or door portion, or the lower part with a door or doors, or
their equivalents, may be used without the top or upper portion. The
registering dials for the door or doors in this case would be carried
above the door or other convenient part in a locked compartment. The
whole of the operating levers G are held up in their normal position
by the weigh bar H, which is kept elevated by helical or other springs P,
a rod Q at the back serving to prevent the levers from turning the
other way. To the upper end of each operating lever there is attached.
a rod or piece of catgut R. passing over and in front of the weigh bar,
which cord is guided by the guide pulleys S, and enters the lower
compartment beneath the door B, where it carries a knob or handle R¹
for enabling the conductor or collector to readily draw down any one
of the said cords and operating levers G, and with it the corresponding
indicating slide D, thereby operating the weigh bar H, and indicating
the amount to be paid, and at the same time registering on the dials
at O the number of such fares by means of the ratchet N and pall M
in the manner herein-before described..
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page_text: The door B is caused to register on corresponding dials at O¹ on the
opposite side of the apparatus the number of payments made, for which
purpose a ratchet wheel T and a pinion for driving the counting
mechanism are mounted loosely on the axis of the door, and a pall
lever U fixed on such axis, the pall engaging into the teeth of the
ratchet wheel T and turning it one tooth each time the door is opened,
a spring V-attached to the tail of the lever U returning the door to its
normal position again, and a spring detent W preventing any back
motion of the ratchet wheel.
Supposing one fare of 2d. is to be paid by a passenger the conductor
pulls down the cord R corresponding to the lever and slide indicating"
one fare, and thereby exhibits the amount (videlicet 2d.) in the aperture
in the cover plate C, and at the same time registers one fare on the
dial at O; the same operations are repeated with any of the other
plates, but when more than one fare is to be paid at one payment, the.
lever G requires to be drawn to a corresponding degree before the figure
can be exhibited, the increased throw of the lever causing two or more.
(as the case may be) of the ratchet teeth in the wheel N to be turned..
The passenger on paying in the amount, through the door causes such
door to register the payment on the dials connected therewith at O¹.
For registering receipts and deliveries of parcels or goods I employ an'
apparatus either portable or stationary similar to that herein-before
described as a cash office, but of larger dimensions, and I substitute for
the registering door therein described a registering turnstile or a double
leaved door or their equivalents placed either vertically or horizontally:
and operating substantially as herein-before described, on or through.
which turnstile or double door the parcels or goods are received or delivered
as the case may be, the turning or opening of the same caused by the act
of the receipt or delivery of the parcels effecting the registration of such
operation by mechanism in connection with dials as herein-before,
described, whilst the amount to be paid on each parcel is indicated and
registered in the manner herein-before described with reference to the
cash office arrangement.
It is obvious that on the said indicating plates there may be engraved,
cwts., qrs., and lbs. in lieu of pounds, shillings, and pence, which appli-.
cation of the apparatus would be employed in conjunction with a:
weighing machine, so that the sum total of the weight of the several,
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page_text: weighed parcels, or any particular set of parcels received or denvered
during the day may be registered.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion, that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
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First. The construction and use of apparatus for indicating, checking,
and registering receipts of monies when such apparatus is so arranged
and operated as that a double registration of the amounts paid is effected,
the one by the receiver and the other by the payer, the mechanism
being arranged, combined, and operated substantially in the manner.
herein-before described and illustrated on Sheet 1 of my Drawings.
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Second. The construction and use of apparatus for registering the
number of passengers in public conveyances, and of persons entering
places of public resort, when such apparatus is constructed and arranged
so as to effect a double registration on dials or otherwise of the total
number of fares received by the conductor or collector, the mechanism
'being arranged, combined, and operated substantially in the manner
and for the purpose herein-before described and illustrated on Sheet 1
of the Drawings annexed.
Third. The construction and use of apparatus for registering and.
checking receipts of monies provided with a registering door or doors.
or their equivalents, operating substantially in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before described and illustrated on Sheet 1 of my
Drawings.
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Fourth. The application and use to and in apparatus for the purposes
herein specified of one or a series of plates and actuating slides for
indicating or exhibiting to the payer the amount to be paid for one
or more fares or charges, such plates and slides being operated substan-
tially in the manner and for the purpose' herein-before described and
illustrated on both Sheets of my Drawings.
Fifth. The locking of a registering door or doors or their equivalents,
when in their normal position, by a catch or stop which is released only
by the act of exhibiting or indicating and registering any particular
amount or number of fares to be paid, also the retaining the said door
or doors in a locked-condition-should any resistance be offered to the

page_text: backward motion of the slide, substantially in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before described and illustrated on Sheet 1 of my
Drawings:
Sixth. The combination of one or more registering doors or their
equivalent with an apparatus for registering and checking receipts. of
monies when such apparatus is constructed with an open money table
or platform, or its equivalent, affording the receiver immediate access
to the coin or monies paid in to the said apparatus, substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
Seventh. The combination of slides or their equivalents with indicating
plates; a registering door or doors and registering balls or counters
which are caused to drop into separate compartments, the whole being
arranged and operated substantially in the manner and for the purpose
herein-before described.
Eighth. The peculiar combination of a series of slides or their equivalent
with a series of exhibiting or indicating plates and with a registering
door or doors, weigh bars, lever palls, ratchets, and dials, the whole being
arranged, combined, and operated together substantially as and for the
purposes herein-before described and illustrated by my Drawings.
Ninth. The combination of registering doors or turnstiles with the
peculiar indicating, checking, and registering apparatus described as
applicable to a cash office, and partly illustrated on Sheet 1 of my
Drawings for the purpose of registering the receipts and deliveries of
parcels or goods, and the amounts or charges to be paid thereon,
substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Henry Robinson, have to this
my Specification set my hand and seal, this First day of March
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
ARTHUR H. ROBINSON. (L.S.)