AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO CARRIAGES FOR CONTROLLING OR INDICATING THE TIME ENGAGED AND THE AMOUNT OF FARES
Year: 1864

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Juste Pinaud, at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th November
1864.
I, JUSTE PINAUD, of Paris, Rue Richelieu, No. 89, Householder, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
TO BE APPLIED TO CARRIAGES FOR CONTROLLING OR INDICATING THE TIME ENGAGED
AND THE AMOUNT OF FARES," to be as follows:-
My improved apparatus is intended to be fitted to cabs and other public
vehicles, for the purpose of affording means of checking the amounts of money
received by the driver during the day.
The chief feature of the apparatus is a movable card or dial, which is
pricked or marked as hereafter described. The card or dial is moved by
clockwork, and receives on its face, opposite the passenger, marks or indica-
tions of stoppages, journeys when engaged by time, and by the "course," or
distance.
I fit in a box or case a clockwork movement, which can be wound up from
the outside. The clockwork produces the rotation of a card or dial outside
the box, and the card is replaced by a fresh card each day. The face of the
card is divided into say 24 equal parts for the 24 hours of the day, and each
division may be subdivided for the minutes. There are also drawn on the
face of the card three circles, by preference of different colors, in order that
they may be the better distinguished. The largest circle, on which the word

page_text: "hour" may be written, is intended to show the number and duration of jour-
neys taken when the cab has been engaged by the hour. The middle circle is
intended to indicate stoppages and their duration, and the innermost circle to
show the number and length of journeys when the cab has been engaged by
the "course" or distance.
The following is the arrangement I prefer for obtaining the results just
mentioned To the upper part of the box containing the clockwork I fit three
handles or knobs, one of which the driver pressés in order to impart a
rectilinear movement to one of three pointers or markers which correspond
respectively to the three circles on the card; from the rectilinear movement
thus imparted to the pointer a mark or indication is made on the correspond-
ing circle of the card. The three handles and pointers are respectively intended
to indicate stoppages, journeys by time, and journeys by the "course" or
distance.
The pointers are by preference actuated as follows: In the interior
of each handle I fit a rod free to move in a tube fixed to the top of the box
and drawing with it the corresponding handle, which is furnished with a tube
which fits over the tube on the box. Above the tube on the box a spring is
fitted round the rod which returns the handle to its first position, after having
been pushed down by the driver. For the middle handle the rod acts inside
the box on an arm in connection with the pointer which is thereby moved; it
is guided in its motion between two metal plates, a spring returns the pointer
to its normal position. To actuate the other two pointers, each of the rods in
the corresponding handles presses on a rod in the box, bent at a right angle
and held in the box on a plate by guides; this bent rod actuates the corre-
sponding pointer by coming below a bent part of the pointer; the two outer
pointers are also returned to their normal positions by springs..
The working of the apparatus is as follows:-Supposing a person engages a
cab by distance or "course," the driver presses down the handle corresponding
to the course or distance circle on the card, whereby a mark or indication is
made on the card, which at the same time registers the time of the day, owing
to the clockwork constantly imparting rotary motion to the card. When the
cab arrives at its destination the driver presses down the handle corresponding
to the stoppage circle on the card; thus, the distance between the two marks
or indications shows the time occupied during the journey. The length of the S
stoppage
ör the time the cab is disengaged continues until a fresh mark or
indication is made. At the end of the day the card contains a complete
register of the day's work, and the amount of fares paid to the driver may be
accurately ascertained.

page_text: A double check may be obtained by shewing the number of journeys
performed during the day. I attain this object by the employment of a
ratchet wheel, which advances one tooth for every journey. This movement
is imparted by the handle corresponding to the stoppage circle, which the
driver is always compelled to move after every journey, whether by time or
distance. On the axis of the ratchet wheel is a dial plate, the numbers on
which in their rotary movement pass successively before an indicating
pointer.
Instead of employing one ratchet wheel for obtaining the double check, as
just explained, two wheels may be employed, and actuated either by the hour-
handle or the distance handle.
Instead of employing handles or knobs for working the pointers they may
be worked by buttons at the top, back, or side of the apparatus, or in any
other convenient manner.