IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO APPARATUS EMPLOYED AS A TICKET REGISTER
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Rodolph Solomon, junior, of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, and Marcus Bebro, of the same Place,
Merchants, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO APPARATUS
EMPLOYED AS A TICKET REGISTER."
Sealed the 12th May 1868, and dated the 15th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Rodolph Solomon
and Marcus Bebro at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 15th November 1867.
We, GEORGE RODOLPH SOLOMON, junior, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, and MARCUS BEBRO, of the same Place, Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO
APPARATUS EMPLOYED AS A TICKET REGISTER," to be as follows:-
to
The Invention relates to improvements upon and addition to certain
apparatus for which application for Letters Patent has been previously made
by George Rodolph Solomon, junior, dated September 28, A.D. 1867,
No. 2740, which said apparatus was designed as a "ticket register
ascertain the number of persons travelling by public vehicles, or for similar
purposes, as passing in or out of public places of amusement or resort, and
the said apparatus consists of a box or case containing a continuous strip,

page_text: ribbon, or roll of tickets consecutively numbered, which strip is coiled round a
central drum or shaft, and the box is locked by an authorized person so that
the collector has no access thereto excepting to obtain tickets therefrom in the
proper manner by the mechanism arranged for the purpose. In the side of
the box a slit is provided through which the ticket strip is caused to pass out
by means of a knob or handle outside and a pair of elastic covered feed rollers
within the box between which it passes, and which are geared together and
provided with a ratchet pawl so as to prevent any reverse motion.
The present improvements consist, first, in the adaptation and combination
of a dial and finger and gearing to indicate the collective number of tickets
issued from the box or case in a certain time. A toothed wheel forming one of a
multiplying train of gearing is secured to the shaft of one of the elastic delivery
rollers through and by which the consecutively numbered tickets are
delivered, and as the wheels rotate they actuate a finger, beneath which is a
dial plate numbered in accordance.
Secondly. The improvements consist in the adaptation and combination of a
bell within the box which is struck by a spring hammer actuated by studs or
equivalents so arranged on one of the said delivery rollers or its shaft that the
hammer strikes the bell as the roller rotates at the delivery of every ticket.
Thirdly. The improvements consist in combining the the whole apparatus
constituting the ticket register or parts thereof with a bag or satchel so
constructed that the box or "register" may be readily attached or detached,
and has also two pockets or compartments, one locked, into which the tickets
when collected are to be passed through the slot or opening provided, so that the
collector has no further access to them, and into the other pocket the money
received is to be placed, so that the consecutive numbers of the tickets, the
finger and dial, and numbers of collected tickets, and the cash in the bag must
all correspond or any informality will be detected.
Lastly. The improvements consist in the application and combination of a
small lamp with the satchel and other apparatus to enable the ticket distri-
butor to perform his duties correctly at night. The apparatus described for
registering either alone or in combination with the dial light, satchel, or bell
may be used and applied for registering the number of persons travelling in
vehicles, passing in or out of places of amusement or resort, or for any other
similar purpose where the number of persons or number of articles distributed
is desired to be ascertained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Rodolph Solomon and Marcus Bebro in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 15th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
RODOLPH SOLOMON, junior, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
and MARCUS BEBRO, of the same Place, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, and Marcus Bebro, Her special
license that we, the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, and Marcus Bebro,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
George Rodolph Solomon, junior, and Marcus Bebro, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO APPARATUS EMPLOYED AS A TICKET
REGISTER," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George
Rodolph Solomon, junior, and Marcus Bebro, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 Marcus Bebro, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
:-
The Invention relates to improvements upon and additions to certain
apparatus for which application for Letters Patent have been previously made
by George Rodolph Solomon, junior, dated September 28th, 1867, No. 2740,
which said apparatus was designed as a "ticket register" to ascertain the
number of persons travelling by public vehicles or similar purposes, as passing
in and out of places of amusement or resort, and the said apparatus consists in
the employment and use of a box or case containing a continuous strip, ribbon,

page_text: or roll of tickets consecutively numbered, which strip is coiled round a central
drum or shaft, and the box is locked by an authorized person so that the collector
has no access thereto excepting to obtain tickets therefrom in the proper manner
by the mechanism arranged for the purpose. In the side of the box a slit is
provided through which the ticket strip is caused to pass out by means of a
knob or handle outside and a pair of elastic covered feed rollers within the box,
between which it passes, and which are geared together and provided with a
ratchet pawl so as to prevent any reverse motion.
The present improvements consist, first, in the adaptation and combination
of a dial and finger and gearing to indicate the collective number of tickets
issued from the box or case in a certain time, a toothed wheel forming one of
a multiplying train of gearing is secured to the shaft of one of the elastic
delivery rollers, through and by which the consecutively numbered tickets are
delivered, and as the wheels rotate they actuate a finger beneath which moves
on a dial plate numbered in accordance.
Secondly. The improvements consist in the adaptation and combination of a
bell within the box which is struck by a spring hammer actuated by studs or
equivalents so arranged on one of the said delivery rollers or its shaft that the
hammer strikes the bell as the roller rotates at the delivery of every ticket.
Thirdly. The improvements consist in combining the whole apparatus con-
stituting the ticket register or parts with a bag or satchel so constructed that
the box or "register" may be readily attached or detached, and has also two
pockets or compartments, one locked, into which the tickets when collected
are to be passed through the slot or opening provided, so that the collector
has no further access to them, and into the other pocket the money received is
to be placed so that the consecutive numbers of the tickets, the finger and dial,
and numbers of collected tickets, and the cash in the bag must all correspond
or any informality will be detected.
And, lastly. The improvements consist in the application and combination
of a small lamp with a satchel and other apparatus to enable the ticket
distributor to perform his duties correctly at night. The apparatus described
for registering either alone or in combination with the dial bell, satchel, or
light may be used and applied for registering the number of persons travelling
in vehicles, passing in or out of places of amusement or resort, or for any other
similar purposes where the number of persons or the number of articles
distributed is desired to be ascertained.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in detail
we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, Figs. 1, 2, being made about
the full size, and Figs. 3 and 4 about half size.

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the improved form of a box in which is
contained an arrangement of apparatos that will deliver when in action three
separate class of tickets which are issued therefrom and delivered to persons
entering public vehicles, places of amusement, or when leaving articles in the
custody of a keeper. In connection with this apparatus is also shewn an
arrangement of bell that is caused (simultaneously with the delivery of each
ticket) to sound an alarm. Fig. 2 represents an arrangement of index or
dial indicator in connection with the delivery rollers that indicates or checks
the number of consecutively numbered tickets that are caused to issue, and are
delivered from the box; Fig. 8 represents a front elevation of the improved
satchel or receptacle to be employed by "bus " conductors, and to which the
ticket register is attached, and in which pockets or compartments are con-
structed, one being for the purpose of containing cash and the other for
receiving and containing tickets which are to be placed therein by the
passengers; and Fig. 4 represents the pocket, box, or receptacle in which used
tickets are placed and contained, and may be detached from the satchel when
it is desired to be used as an independent or separate collector of tickets
eks.
En
lu Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the box or receptacle containing the delivery rollers
b, b, and coils of continuous and consecutively numbered tickets c, c, all of
which together with the employment and use thereof have been clearly
illustrated and fully described in the before recited Letters Patent granted to
George Rodolph Solomon.
The present improvements consist, first, in the adaptation and combination
of the dial and finger registering apparatus shewn in Fig. 2, in which a¹, a²,
are a train of gearing in connection with and actuated by the pinion 6¹
secured to the spindle or shaft of one of the delivery rollers b. The said
gearing being contained in the lid of the box and in connection with a finger
and dial outside, the finger of such dial as the tickets are delivered indicates
the collective number of tickets issued from the registering apparatus during
a certain time.
In Fig. 1 is shewn an arrangement of sliding bar e in connection with a
spring hammer f, the said bar being drawn back and relieved with each, and
every revolution of the delivery rollers is caused on such release to actuate the
spring hammer f so that it strikes the bell, giving thereby an alarm with
every ticket delivered from the box a.
In Fig. 3 an arrangement of satchel is shewn which is to be worn and used
by omnibus guards or others employing the ticket register. g is the upper
part of the satchel, to which the box or register seen in Fig. 1 may be readily

page_text: attached or detached. Beneath this box or "register" two pockets or com-
partments h and i are constructed, the pocket i being locked is provided with
a slit or hole in the top through which the tickets when collected are to be
passed into the box i, so that the collector has no further access to them, and
into the other pocket h the money received is to be placed so that the con-
secutive numbers of tickets, the finger and dial, and numbers of collected
tickets, and the cash in the bag, must all correspond, or any informality will be
detected.
In Fig. 4 the receptacle or box i is shewn detached from the satchel in
order that it may be employed for the purpose of collecting the tickets or
checks independently and separately.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be distinctly
understood that we claim the general arrangement, construction, and combi-
nation of the apparatus, as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marcus Bebro, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witnessed by
JNO. HUGHES,
Clerk to Jno. Davies & Son,
Office for Patents,
MARCUS BEBRO. (L.B.)
Manchester.