An Improved Ticket Drum for Tram Conductors, Railway Guards, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: [Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ticket Drum for Tram Conductors, Railway Guards,
and the like.
I, CARL EIMIL WILHELM HAUER of 21 Gärtnerstrasse, Hamburg-Hoheluft in
the Empire of Germany, Master Brazier, 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:-
This invention relates to ticket drums for tram conductors, railway guards and
the like, and is characterised by the mounting of the rolls of tickets in a receptacle
or holder formed of round bars, in which holder the ends of the strips of tickets
are held by being wound in and out round the bars and thus braked when
drawn off.
In the accompanying drawings:
:-
Figure 1 is a cross section of this improved ticket drum ;
Figure 2 is a partial longitudinal section.
a is an outer drum which is provided along its entire length with a slit b for
allowing the paper strips to pass through. In this drum is inserted a holder or
basket formed of bars to 6 and discs s for holding the paper rolls, and this basket
is retained by a flanged end disc c outside the end of the drum a. In this basket,
the paper roll P with tickets printed thereon is arranged in such a way that the
free ends e of the strips wind in and out round the bars 1, 2 and 3 of the basket
and thus render the unwinding of the roll P more difficult or in other words brake
it. The object of rendering more difficult the drawing out of the paper-strip P is
to enable the conductor to draw the ticket strip out of the drum up to the border
line, without the irregular vertical oscillations of the tramcar and the jolting of the
drum caused thereby having any influence on the exact limitation of the ticket to
be torn off. At the same time any superfluous unwinding of the paper strip
is easily avoided. The drums hitherto employed did not attain their object in this
particular, which the present drum fully accomplishes. The drum a is provided
longitudinally with a flap k carrying a knife like flange m. This flap is pressed
against the drum casing and thus facilitates the tearing-off of the ticket. It must
also be mentioned that, differing from the drawing, the drum may also be provided
with more than 3 paper rolls and that in order to give greater tension to the strips
which are to be drawn out, they may also be wound round more bars of the basket
like holder than is shown in the drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A ticket drum for tram conductors, railway guards, and the like, characterised
by a holder or basket of bars arranged within the drum (a) to receive the rolls of
paper (P) on which the tickets are printed, round the bars (1 and 3) of which
basket the ticket strips are wound in and out in order to produce sufficient friction
to prevent too rapid an unwinding of the said strips, substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.

page_text: 2. The general construction and combination of parts taken as a whole forming
the improved ticket drum, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated this 27th day of April 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.