Ax IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AND REGISTERING THE ISSUE OF CHECKS OR TICKETS FOR ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK ON THE SALE OR ISSUE OF SUCH TICKETS IS DESIRABLE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward de Jong, of Manchester. in the County of
Lancaster. for the Invention of "Ax IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING
AND REGISTERING THE ISSUE OF CHECKS OR TICKETS FOR ADMISSION TO PUBLIC
ENTERTAINMENTS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK ON THE SALE OR ISSUE
OF SUCH TICKETS IS DESIRABLE."
Sealed the 10th May 1878, and dated the 19th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward de Jong at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th March 1878.
EDWARD DE JOxe, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AND REGISTERING THE ISSUE OF CHECKS OR TICKETS
FOR ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK
ON THE SALE OR ISSUE OF SUCH TICKETS IS DESIRABLE."
This Invention is designed for the purpose of preventing persons employed for
the sale of tickets of admission to places of public entertainment or to other places
where such tickets are sold from issuing the same otherwise than by means of a
self-registering apparatus, and thus rendering it impossible for any persons so em-
ployed to appropriate to their own use (without being therein immediately detected)
any money received for tickets sold and it is furthermore designed to enable pro-
prietors ofplaces ofpublic entertainment.or of other placeswheretickets ofadmission
are sold, to ascertain at any moment the number of tickets which have been issued.
The window or opening of the " pay office is covered in with wire netting or
other perforated screen, and is provided with a sill or counter at the bottom for the
payment of the money.
On a level with this sill or counter there is an opening or series of openings in or
below the wirework or screen sufficiently large to admit of the passage of the
largest coin in use (say a crown piece), and the checks or tickets employed are made
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page_text: of metal, ivory, or other hard substance, and are larger than the largest coin. so
that they cannot be passed out or returned through the money openings above
named.
At one side of the "pay window " (or at each side) there is an opening sufficiently
large to allow of the passing out of the checks or tickets one at a time, and this
opening is fitted with a revolving or reciprocating disc, wheel, shutter, slide, or
other equivalent device in such a manner that no check or ticket can be passed
through without communicating a circular, oscillating, or reciprocating motion to
such disc, wheel, shutter, slide, or other equivalent device; and this being connected
to any ordinary or suitable counting and indicating apparatus it is evident that no
tickets or checks can be issued otherwise than by means of the apparatus, and that
each ticket or check so issued will be counted and registered on passing through the
aperture.
The particular device to be applied to the aperture through which the checks or
tickets are passed out may be varied considerably without departing from the dis-
tinctive features of my Invention. which are, that the tickets, cannot be issued
through the same openings through which the money is received, nor otherwise than
through the special aperture or apertures provided for that purpose, and that no
check or ticket can pass through the latter without being registered by the
apparatus.
All that is necessary is to provide the said aperture with a movable disc, slide,
or other device so arranged that no check can be issued through the aperture without
communicating movement to the said moveable device, which in moving actuates the
counting and registering apparatus.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward de Jong in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th Septem-
ber 1878.
EDWARD DE JONG, of Manchester. in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED
APPARATIS FOR CONTROLLING AND REGISTERING THE ISSUE OF CHECKS OR TICKETS
FOR ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK
ON THE SALE OR ISSUE OF SUCH TICKETS IS DESIRABLE."
This Invention is designed for the purpose of preventing persons employed for
the sale of tickets of admission to places of entertainment, or to other places where
such tickets are sold. from issuing the same otherwise than by means of a self-
registering apparatus, and thus rendering it impossible for any persons so
employed to appropriate to their own use (without being therein immediately
detected) any money received for tickets sold: and it is furthermore designed
to enable proprietors of places of public entertainment or of other places where
tickets of admission are sold to ascertain at any moment the number of tickets
which have been issued.
The window or opening A, A. of the pay office (see interior elevation, Fig. 1,
horizontal section. Fig. 2, and vertical section, Fig. 3. in the annexed Drawings) is
covered in with wire netting or other perforated screen a, a, and is provided with a
sill or counter b, b. at the bottom for the payment of the money.
On a levelwith this sill or counter there in an opening.or a series of openings c,c,c,
in or below the wirework or screen a, a, sufficiently large to admit of the passage of
the largest coin in use (say a crown piece). and the checks or tickets employed are
made of metal, ivory, or other hard substance, and are larger than the largest
coin, so that they cannot be passed out or returned through the money openings c,,c,
above named.
At one side of the "pay window A. A. (or at each side) there is an opening at
d. d, sufficiently large to allow of the passage out of the checks or tickets one at a
time, and this opening is provided with a sill . ', and is fitted with a revolving or
reciprocating disc. wheel, shutter, slide, or other equivalent device in such a manner
that no check or ticket can be passed through without communicating a circular.
oscillating, or reciprocating motion to such disc. wheel, shutter, slide, or other
equivalent device, and this being connected to any ordinary or suitable counting
and indicating apparatus, it is evident that no tickets or checks can be issued other-
wise than by means of the apparatus, and that each ticket or check so issued will
be counted and registered on passing through the aperture.
The particular device to be applied to the aperture d. d. through which the checks
or tickets are passed out may be varied considerably without departing from the
distinctive features of my Invention, which are. that the tickets cannot he issued
through the same openings through which the money is received, nor otherwise than
through the special aperture or apparatus provided for that purpose, and that no
check or ticket can pass through the latter without being registered by the
apparatus.
All that is necessary is to provide the said aperture with a movable disc, slide.
wheel, or other device so arranged that no check can be issued through the aperture
without communicating movement to the said movable device, which in moving
actuates the counting and registering apparatus.
I will however here describe an apparatus which I have specially designed for
this purpose, the construction and application of which will be readily understood
on reference to Figs. 4. 5. 6, and 7 of the annexed Drawings and the following
explanation thereof.
Fig. represents on an enlarged scale an elevation of the interior of the window
or opening of the "
pay office. constructed and arranged as above described, and
having fitted thereto my improved registering apparatus: Fig. 5 is a plan or hori-

page_text: zontal section through the line A.B; Fig.6,a vertical section through the line C-D;
and Fig. 7 is a similar section through the line E-F, in Fig. 4.
Inside the opening dd, by which the tickets are issued I mount a wheel or disce,e,
provided with teeth or projections corresponding to openings or notches formed in
the tickets f, f, so that as the latter are pushed by hand along the slide g. g. and
issued through the opening d, d, each one in passing causes the wheel or disc e, e, to
make (say) one-third of a revolution. The form of the tickets f. f. and of the cor-
responding projections or teeth on the wheel or disc e, e, may be considerably varied,
as illustrated by the Figs. 8. 9. 10. 11. and 12, and so forth, and in order further to
prevent fraud the wheel or disc e, e, may be removable, and by substituting wheels
or dises with corresponding projections or teeth the form of the ticket used may be
varied each day, or as often as thought desirable.
The revolving wheel or disc e, e, is fixed on one end of an axle h, h, the other end
ofwhich actuates the first wheel of any ordinarycounting or registering apparatus ii.
On one side of the wheel or disc e, e. is a ratchet wheel k, k. acted on by a catch 1, 1,
which prevents the wheel e, c, from being turned round excepting when the presence
of a ticket f, f. beneath the lower point of the catch raises it out of the teeth of
the ratchet wheel k, k, and on the other side is a second ratchet wheel m, m, with
teeth reversed, acted on by a catch n. n, which prevents the wheel e. e. from being
turned back so as to introduce any tickets that may have been once issued.
The whole apparatus is enclosed in a box o. o, so that it cannot be tampered
with.
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In some cases to reduce the number of tickets or checks required I propose
to provide the “ pay office" with another opening, through which the "check
taker can return the tickets (as he receives them) to the money taker, and to
provide this opening with similar registering apparatus so as to register the
number of tickets so returned, and by this means the same tickets or checks
can be sold and issued over and over again, at the same time that a perfect
record is kent of the aggregate number of tickets or checks issued from the
pay office."
"
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practical effect. T wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention.―
First. Providing the "
pay office
with an opening or openings for the receipt of
money just sufficiently large to allow the largest coin to pass through, but not large
enough for the passage of the tickets or checks employed, and providing the said
office with a separate and larger opening for the issue of tickets or checks, such
second or ticket opening being fitted with a revolving or reciprocating disc, wheel,
shutter, slide, or other equivalent device in such a manner that each ticket or check
passed through shall communicate a revolving or reciprocating motion thereto,
which can be thereby transmitted to any ordinary counting and registering
apparatus.
And.Secondly. I claim the particular arrangement of mechanism for such purpose
as herein-before described, and illustrated by the Drawings annexed, or any mere
modification or imitation thereof. constructed and operating in substantially the
same or a similar manner.
In witness whereof, T. the said Edward de Jong. have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventeenth day of September. in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
EDWARD DE JONG. (L.S.)