Improvements in and relating to Ticket Cases for Facilitating the Issue of Railway and other Tickets.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1888
Specification Accepted, 17th Aug.. 1888
Improvements in and relating to Ticket Cases for Facilitating the
Issue of Railway and other Tickets.
1, FERDINAND HURTER of Wilmere house, Bold, Widnes in the county of Lancaster,
analytical chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My improvements relate to ticket cases, such as are described in the specification
of letters patent numbered 495 A.D. 1885. My improved ticket cases permit a more
rapid and certain issue therefrom of tickets either singly or in greater numbers
at once.
My improvements consist essentially in so arranging the ticket case, that from each
"tube" of the case tickets may be issued in two ways, one serving when only a
single ticket is required; the other when more than one ticket of the same sort are to
be issued at once.
In order that my invention may be better understood I have annexed hereto a sheet
of drawings representing in Fig. I a section and in Fig. 1 an elevation of part of my
improved ticket case.
The case in general consists of a number of rectangular "tubes" formed by the
inclined shelves (5) and the thinner vertical partitions (4). The tubes are rather
higher than the tickets are long, and of a width to permit the tickets to pass in and
out easily. The depth of the tubes is made sufficient to hold any reasonable amount of
tickets, say a packet of 100 tickets, Fig. IV (2). At the back of each tube is
situated a spiral spring (1) Fig. 1, held in position by a suitable peg fastened to the
back of the case, and by a cavity in the block of wood (13) which block can slide
backwards and forwards. The spring acting on this block, in front of which the
tickets are placed, presses these tickets forward.

page_text: The tickots are provented from entirely sliding out of the tube by the small pro-
jecting plates (3) which are fastened at the bottom corners of each tube to the vertical
partitions in such manner, that between them and the hottom shelf of the tube there
is a space left of sufficient width to allow one ticket to slide downwards, if caused to
do so by the booking clerk by means of his moistened thumb Fig. I, (8) shows a
ticket sliding down. The projecting plates (3) are shewn in section at Fig. 1, in
elevation at Fig. 11, and in plan at fig. LII, which last figure also shows a modification
of this arrangement.
These projecting plates alone would however hardly suffice to keep the tickets safely,
and therefore provide a "ticketholder" which slides loosely into the tube above
the tickets. This ticketholder consists simply of a bar of wood to which is
attached the metal piece (g) which projects more or less over the tickets in front. The
ticketholdor may be made entirely of metal.
When
By these simple devices, viz. the inclined tube, the projecting plates (3) and the
ticket holder (4) I obtain the advantages of the ticket case described in the aforesaid
specification No. 495 A.D. 1885, together with those of the older ticket cases.
only one ticket at a time is required it can be obtained by sliding the front ticket
downwards by means of the moistened thumb; when however several tickets require
to be issued of the same sort at the same time, they can be obtained by one simple
manipulation, indicated in Fig. I at the bottom tube. For this purpose the front edges
of the vertical partitions are shaped as indicated by the dotted line (4) Fig. 1. It is
then possible to take hold of several tickets of one tube, by pressing inward the tickets
of the adjacent tubes, inclining the tickets as shown, so as to lift them over the
projecting plates (3).
When the tickets are larger than those in general use at railways, the case may be :
similarly constructed, but I prefer to use several spiral springs in each tube as shown
at Fig. V. when the tickets are much larger.
I would have it understood that ticket cases may be constructed in various ways
without deviating from the principle of my invention, and that I do not confine
myself to the exact details herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is:
In the construction of tickot cases for railway and other tickets the use of the
inclined tubes, the specially shaped vertical partitions, the projecting plates, and
the ticket holder "all substantially as herein described and for the purposes
set forth.
Datad this 98th low of June 1888