A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEIPTS OF MONEY-TAKERS AT THEATRES, MUSIC HALLS, CONCERTS, LECTURES, AND RESTAURANTS, AND ON OMNIBUSES AND TRAMWAY CARS, AND AT ANY OR EVERY OTHER PLACE OR PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, OR OTHERWISE, WHERE IT IS DESIRABLE TO CHECK THE RECEIPTS OF MONEY OR GOODS
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Levett Bain and William
Henry Urch at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 16th October 1875.
We, LEVETT BAIN, of 35, Maiden Lanc, Covent Garden, in the
County of Middlesex, Solicitor's Articled Clerk, and WILLIAM HENRY
URCU, of 28, Cambridge Road, Hammersmith, in the said County of
Middlesex, Upholsterer's Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR
CHECKING THE RECEIPTS OF MONEY-TAKERS AT THEATRES, MUSIC HALLS, CONCERTS,
LECTURES, AND RESTAURANTS, AND ON OMNIBUSES AND TRAMWAY CARS, AND AT
ANY OR EVERY OTHER PLACE OR PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, OR
OTHERWISE, WHERE IT IS DESIRABLE TO CHECK THE RECEIPTS OF MONEY OR GOODS,"
to be as follows:-
The money taker will be supplied with a sufficient number of
counters or tallies securely placed in a long metal pipe of a diameter or
bore just sufficient to enable them freely to descend.
The counters or tallies will be numbered consecutively, number one
being at the bottom, and the other numbers running upwards in
succession.

page_text: The money-taker will eject each counter or tally from the pipe in
which it is encased by means of pressure applied to a handle; this
handle connected by means of mechanism with springs and other
requisite machinery will readily perform this task, and having done so
will instantly resume its original position ready for service to discharge
the next counter or tally, it being impossible to discharge more than ono
counter or tally at any one time. Besides ejecting the counter or tally,
the aforesaid machine will at the same time indicate or register on a
plate or dial in any place selected by the proprietor or manager, as the
case may be, every counter or tally so discharged, so that at any period
of the performance or otherwise, the exact number of tallies or counters
disposed of by the money-taker can be seen at a glance. The counter
or tally having been ejected from the before-mentioned machine and
handed to the customer in due course reaches the check-taker, who
deposits the same in a receptacle or machine and the same is instantly
registered, and it is immaterial whether the counters or tallies aro
deposited singly or in batches, the number whether great or small is
immediately registered.
Besides registering the counters or tallies by means of the machinery
used by the check-taker, and on the spot, it will also indicate or register
the same in any other place or part of the house, which may be
selected for that purpose by the proprietor or manager in a similar
manner to that in which it is proposed to register the money-taker's
counters or tallies. Consequently the two plates or dials placed side by
side will if all is going on smoothly register alike, and during the
performance or otherwise will continue to indicate the number of tallies
or counters which have been issued by the money-taker, and which
have as a matter of course reached the check-taker, and by him properly
disposed of.