Improvements in Registering Apparatus for Use on Public Conveyances, and for other purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1894-Accepted, 4th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Registering Apparatus for Use on Public
Conveyances, and for other purposes.
Communicated from abroad by THE LEWIS AND FOWLER MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, of 28, Sandford Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States of
America, Manufacturer.
I, JOHN CORRY FELL, of the Firm of Fell and Wilding, of 1 Queen Victoria
Street in the City of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING APPARATUS
FOR USE ON PUBLIC CONVEYANCES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES to be as
follows:-
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The primary object of this invention is the construction of an improved
passenger register or fare register embodying certain new and important changes
hereinafter termed "the present improvements together with most of the
fundamental characteristics and some of the patented improvements of the registers
set forth in the Specification filed in pursuance of the conditions of Letters Patent
of A.D. 1881 No. 3493 to John Guy Wilson for "Improvements in Registering
Apparatus for Use on Public Conveyances and for other purposes,"- -a communi-
cation from abroad by John Wright Fowler and Daniel Fillmore Lewis, both of the
firm of Lewis & Fowler, of which firm said Manufacturing Company is successor.
Said improved register is intended primarily, like those set forth in the above
Specification, for use in or on tramway-carriages and other public conveyances which
make repeated trips to and fro between points or over given routes at a fixed rate
or rates of fare; the same being adapted to be operated by the conductor, driver or
other agent charged with the collection of fares, and to be set by him at the end of
each trip, for the trip next following, without liability to fraudulent manipulation.
The present improvements may alternatively be embodied respectively in any
passenger register or fare-register or in other registering apparatus to which the
same may be appropriate; and the improved register may be used alternatively for
registering, indicating, counting, or ascertaining the number of persons, animals,
or vehicles passing through a doorway or gateway, or over a bridge, or for any
other like purpose.
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The external characteristics of said improved register are (1) a circular case
composed of a sheet metal rim or drum, a transparent glass face plate, and a cast
iron back plate, the latter preferably of smaller diameter than said face plate and
so united with said drum as to preclude detaching the latter or any part thereof
without first unbanging or taking down the register; (2) a dial plate, parallel to
said face plate, bearing a large trip dial" concentric with the case, and a smaller
permanent units dial" within said trip dial like the seconds dial of a watch, with
index hands termed respectively the "trip hand" and the "permanent units hand"
between the dial plate and face plate on shafts concentric with the respective dials,
both index hands rotating synchronously step by step in the registering operation,
so as to simultaneously indicate or temporarily register each unit on both dials;
(3) an index orifice in said dial plate through which numbers on a rotary dial,
hereinafter termed the "hundreds dial," are instantaneously exposed in proper
succession to register the completed revolutions of said permanent units hand;
(4) means for pulling a spring retracted main slide, located within the case, to
actuate the registering mechanism and to ring a bell within the case after the
registration of each unit; (5) an inwardly yielding and rotary knob or attached

page_text: key hereinafter termed the "setting knob" intended primarily for setting the trip
hand at zero independently of the main actuating mechanism at the end of each
trip; (6) orifices in said drum for the escape of sound from said bell within the
case; (7) an orifice in said dial plate through which a direction indicating "trip
signal is conspicuously displayed to indicate whether the trip hand has been duly
reset for any given trip; (8) a setting or "not set" signal, actuated by each inward
thrust of said setting knob, and serving to indicate whether or not each individual
setting operation is fully completed.
The present improvements relate to the internal mechanism of the register, and
consist, first, in means for keeping the hundreds dial locked by its actuating pawl
except during a very short period at the completion of each registration of a
hundred units by the permanent units hand, and for insuring its automatic actuation
even if its actuating spring should fail, and this without interfering with the
instantaneous movement of said hundreds dial by said actuating spring ordinarily.
Said spring actuates the hundreds dial through the medium of a pawl and ratchet;
said pawl or its carrier being retracted by a cam projection on what is termed a
"units-wheel" moving synchronously with said permanent units-hand; the
projected pawl wedges itself between the ratchet wheel and a rigid post so as to
prevent any movement of the hundreds dial until the pawl is retracted; and,
according to the present invention, a nearly circular guard-spider, attached to said
units wheel and concentric therewith, keeps said pawl fully projected until said
cam-projection is approaching its effective position, and cams the pawl into its
projected position in case said spring does not instantaneously project it.
Another of the present improvements, relating to the same part of the register,
viz.; its hundreds-mechanism, consists in a re-locking device whereby the shaft of
the hundreds-dial is locked during each retraction of said pawl, and is automatically
unlocked when said pawl is again projected; the effect of this improvement being
to prevent fraudulently turning the hundreds-dial to a false indication by hand
during such retraction of said pawl. A reversed ratchet-wheel, fast on the shaft
of the hundreds-dial, and a locking pawl, having a fixed pivot, and actuated by
connection with said pawl carrier, is a convenient means for so locking said shaft.
Another of the present improvements consists in mounting said trip signal on a
sliding support, which together with a guide at one end thereof, a lever hinged to
its other end, and a crank-wheel connected with said lever by a pitman and a
universal joint coupling, is mounted on the main spider frame of the register, and
serves to transmit motion to said trip signal from a pinion on the rotary setting
shaft actuated by said setting knob, without complication of parts, and so as to
facilitate constructing the register and keeping it in repair.
Another of the present improvements consists in mounting said not-set signal in
like manner, and retracting it by a spiral spring stretched between its lever and its
guide, without complication of parts.
Another and last of the present improvements consists in a spring-retracted
locking detent, engaging with a notch in the main slide of the register whenever
said setting knob is thrust in, whereby it is rendered impossible to register any fares
or to ring the bell of the register after a setting operation is begun until the trip
hand is left at zero and the setting knob is again projected preparatory to the next
operation.
The setting knob is so projected by means of a spring within the register, and is
screwed fast to the outer end of a radial setting shaft the inner end of which is
connected by a clutch and gearing with the hub of said trip hand. When the
setting knob is projected said gearing is unclutched from the setting shaft, and the
trip hand rotates freely with the registering mechanism. When the setting knob is
thrust inward the setting shaft is clutched to said gearing, and serves to transmit
backward motion from the setting knob to the trip hand unless the trip hand is
already at zero.
A pawl and ratchet renders it impossible to turn the trip-hand forward by means
of the setting knob, and a zero-stop, which in the improved register is conveniently

page_text: combined with said clutch prevents turning the trip hand backward beyond zero,
while it permits the trip band to travel freely past zero in the registering operation
as before.
The ratchet wheel of the pawl and ratchet device last mentioned serves
conveniently to coact with said lever of the not-set signal to transmit motion to the
latter from the setting shaft; and a slot therein, in connection with a projection on
an adjacent part prevents the return of the setting knob to its projected position
until the rotation of the setting shaft and trip-hand is completed.
A pinion on said setting shaft meshes with and drives the crank wheel connected
by said pitman and universal joint coupling with said lever of the trip-signal.
Apart from these last-named devices and other like intermediate improvements,
as they may be termed which are not claimed as part of the present improvements,
and apart from the present improvements as herein before set forth, the improved
register may be constructed according to said Specification filed in pursuance of the
conditions of Letters Patent of A.D. 1881 No. 3493.
Dated this 4th day of July 1893.
FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Applicant.
CUMI DILIM DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in Registering Apparatus for Use on Public
Conveyances, and for other purposes.
A communication from abroad by THE LEWIS AND FOWLER MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, of 28, Sandford Street, Brooklyn, in the State of New York,
United States of America, Manufacturers.
I, JOHN CORRY FELL, of the Firm of Fell and Wilding, of 1 Queen Victoria
Street in the City of London, Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the
said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR USE
ON PUBLIC CONVEYANCES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The primary object of this invention is the construction of an improved passenger-
register or fare-register embodying certain new and important changes hereinafter
termed "the present improvements" together with most of the fundamental
characteristics and some of the patented improvements of the registers set forth in
the Specification filed in pursuance of the conditions of Letters Patent of A.D. 1881
No. 3493 to John Guy Wilson for "Improvements in Registering Apparatus for
Use on Public Conveyances and for other purposes," -a communication from abroad
by John Wright Fowler and Daniel Fillmore Lewis, both of the firm of Lewis &
Fowler, of which firm said Manufacturing Company is successor.
"
Said improved register is intended primarily, like those set forth in the above
Specification, for use in or on tramway-carriages and other public conveyances
which make repeated trips to and fro between given points or over given routes at a
fixed rate or rates of fare; the same being adapted to be operated by the conductor
driver or other agent charged with the collection of fares, and to be set by him at
the end of each trip, for the trip next following, without liability to fraudulent
manipulation.
The present improvements may alternatively be embodied respectively in any
passenger register or fare-register or in other registering apparatus to which the
same may be appropriate; and the improved register may be used alternatively for
registering indicating counting or ascertaining the number of persons animals or
ehicles passing through a door-way or gate-way or over a bridge, or for any other
ike purpose.

page_text: In order to particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the invention, and in
what manner it is to be performed, without unnecessary prolixity, reference is at
once made to eight sheets of drawings which accompany this Specification as part
thereof.
Said drawings consist of thirty consecutively numbered figures drawn to one
scale, and like reference letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the figures.
Figures 1 to 26 inclusive (Sheets 1 to 6) represent one and the same improved
register embodying all the aforesaid improvements; and of these figures Figures 1 to 7
inclusive (Sheets 1 2 and 3) show what may be termed the external characteristics of
said improved register; Figure 1 being a face view of the improved register, some
of the parts being represented in an alternative position to illustrate the re-setting
operation; Figure 2 an edge view projected downward from Figure 1; Figures 3
and 4 respectively face and edge views of the hanging-board "detached, showing
the "ringing device"; Figure 5 edge and side views of the padlock detached;
Figure 6 end, side and sectional views of the bolt with which said padlock
connects; and Figure 7 a back view of the register proper as detached from the
banging-board.
The first of said external characteristics of the improved register is a circular
case composed of a sheet-metal rim or drum, hereinafter termed the "drum,"
preferably in two annular parts which are marked respectively A and B, a trans-
parent glass face-plate C Figure 1, and a cast-iron back-plate D Figure 7; the
latter preferably of smaller diameter than said face-plate C, and so united with said
drum A B as to preclude detaching the latter or any part thereof without first
unhanging or taking down the register.
The second of said external characteristics is a dial-plate E Figure 1, behind and
parallel to said face-plate C, bearing a large "trip-dial" concentric with the drum,
which trip-dial consists of the numbered graduations at the perimeter of said dial-
plate, and a smaller "permanent units dial" 31 arranged within said trip-dial
like the seconds-dial of a watch, together with index-hands U and U2, termed
respectively the "trip-hand" and the "permanent units hand," between the dial-
plate and face-plate, on shafts concentric with the respective dials; both index-
hands rotating synchronously step by step in the registering operation, hereinafter
more particularly described, so as to simultaneously indicate or temporarily register
each unit on both dials.
The third of said external characteristics is an index-orifice 32, Figure 1, in said
dial-plate E, through which numbers on a rotary dial H, hereinafter termed the
"hundreds-dial," are instantaneously exposed to view in proper succession to
register the completed revolutions of said permanent units-hand U2, and thus to
indicate the hundreds of the permanent registrations of the machine. (Two
alternative hundreds-indicators are shown respectively at H¹ and H2 in Figures 27
and 28 and Figure 29, and hereinafter more particularly described.)
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The fourth of said external characteristics is means for pulling a spring-retracted
main-slide G, Figure 7, located within the case, to actuate the registering mechanism,
and to ring a bell within the case after the registration of each unit. Such means
is otherwise termed the " ringing-device of the register, and is hereinafter so
termed, and one form of the same, which may suffice as an illustration, is shown in
Figures 3 and 4 as above in connection with Figures 1 and 2 and Figure 7. This
ringing-device is arranged within a recess 33 in the face of a wooden "hanging-
board" F. A "bell-cord " 34, preferably of leather, is attached to the lower end
of a pendent lever 35 which is pivoted to a fulcrum-block attached to the hanging-
board by wood screws, and is further pivoted to a link 36 having a transverse
slot 37 which admits and coacts with a stud-pin 38, Figure 7, projecting through a
slot in the back-plate D from said main-slide G within the case. The free end of
said link 36 has a screw-and-slot guide 39, Figure 3, and a spiral spring 40 is
preferably stretched from a hook on said arm to a screw driven into the hanging-
board to independently retract the parts of the ringing-device after each actuation
of the register. The main-slide and registering mechanism within the case, and the

page_text: bell-mechanism within the case, are hereinafter more particularly described. The
hanging-board F, the description of which may here be completed, is intended to be
attached to convenient woodwork within the tramway carriage, or wherever the
register is to be used, and to be so attached by concealed screws, as indicated by
screw-holes 41 in Figure 3. Its upper extremity is provided with a notch 42 crossed
by a metallic bridge-piece 42* with which a "hook-lug" 43, Figure 7, on the back-
plate D, interlocks; a "hasp-lug" 44, projecting diametrically opposite said hook-
lug, interlocking with a screw-eye 45 on the hanging-board at bottom when the
register is hung. A shouldered bolt 1, Figure 6, is inserted through said screw-
eye 45, and a padlock J, Figure 5, is interlocked with this bolt, as in Figures 1
and 2, to fasten the register in place.
The fifth of said external characteristics is an inwardly yielding rotary knob or
attached key K, Figures 12 and 7, hereinafter termed the "setting knob," intended
primarily for setting the trip-hand U at zero independently of the main actuating
mechanism at the end of each trip, as hereinafter more particularly described.
The sixth of said external characteristics consists of orifices 47, Figure 7, in said
drum A B for the escape of sound from said bell within the case. These sound-
escape orifices may be of any approved pattern and location, but are preferably
small individually, and located in an outwardly-projecting portion of said drum-
part B at the top, and furthermore guarded internally as hereinafter described, in
order to prevent the introduction of dust and other obstructions into the register, as
well as to preclude any manipulation of any of the moving parts therethrough.
The seventh of said external characteristics is an orifice 48, Figure 1, in said
dial-plate E, through which a direction-indicating “trip-signal " T is conspicuously
displayed to indicate whether the trip-hand has been duly reset for any given trip.
As the movable parts are shown in full lines in Figure 1, thirteen (or 113) fares
have been registered during an "up" trip, and as shown in dotted lines in the
figure the trip-hand U is reset to zero for the succeeding "down" trip.
The eighth and last of said external characteristics is a setting or "not-set "
signal S, actuated by each inward thrust of said setting-knob K, and serving to
indicate whether or not each individual setting operation is fully completed. This
signal also is preferably located behind the dial-plate E and exposed to view by an
orifice, 49, in the latter, and, when actuated as above, and as illustrated by dotted
lines in Figure 1, preferably exposes to view a contrasting color as well as the
words "Register not set" shown in dotted lines in Figure 1.
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Some additional details of the particular register case represented in the drawings
may here be pointed out with reference to Figures 8 to 12 inclusive (Sheets 3 and 4)
in connection with said Figures 12 and 7. Figure 8 represents a section through
all on the line 8-8 Figures 7 and 12; Figure 9 a fragmentary section through the
parts of the case, and through an inner glass-supporting ring L within said
drum-part A, on the line 9-9 Figure 7; Figure 10 a similar section on the
line 10-10 Figure 7; Figure 11 a section through the rear drum-part B and back-
plate D on the line 11-11 Figure 7; and Figure 12 a face view of the unhung
register with said setting-knob K, its keeper hereinafter more particularly
described, said front drum-part A, face-plate C, inner ring L, index-hands U and U³,
dial-plate E, and hundreds-dial H, removed, exposing to view the face of said
outwardly projecting portion of the rear drum-part B and portions of the face of
said back-plate D, together with said trip-signal T and said setting signal S, in
addition to other internal parts to be hereinafter described. To further guard said
sound-escape orifices 47 in said drum-part B, said outwardly projecting portion of
the latter is provided internally with an offset guard-plate 50, Figure 12, soldered
fast thereon, a narrow crevice 51 being left between the same and the adjacent
crown flange 52 of said drum-part for the escape of sound from the bell b. Said
rear drum-part B is attached to the back-plate D at several points, 53, by screws
inserted into tapped holes in said back-plate through little knees riveted fast to the
inside of said drum-part. In assembling the parts to complete the register, said
inner ring L is next applied so that its inner edge rests on said outwardly projecting

page_text: portion of said rear drum-part, as in Figures 89 and 10, an opening 54 Figure 8 in
said inrer ring exposing the outer end of the setting-shaft N, into which said setting-
knob K is to be screwed, and the spring O which projects said setting knob and the
parts coupled thereto. The glass face-plate C is next loosely adjusted upon the
top of said ring 24, the register lying upon its back, and the front drum-part A is
then applied so that its lower edge for the time being overlaps said crown-flange 52
of said rear drum-part B, and so that L-shaped notches or open slots 55,
Figures 2 and 10, on said drum-part A coincide with radial pins 56 which are
connected with said flange 52 by U-shaped shackles 57, one of which is shown in
section in Figure 10. These shackles are inserted through slots in said drum-part B
and soldered fast to the inside of said flange 52, and the pins are securely riveted in
place. A short turn of said drum-part A to the right simultaneously interlocks the
several pins 56 and slots 55, and conceals the latter behind the outer ends of said
shackles 57. To keep the drum from being unfastened while the register is hung,
as in Figures 1 and 2, a curved locking-bolt 58, Figures 17 and 9, is inserted
through holes in the upper edge of said drum-part A and in said flange 52 of said
drum-part B, and through a notch in said inner ring L and a counter-sunk smooth
hole 59, Figures 7 9 and 12, in said back-plate D, and, within the hole last named,
said locking-bolt is engaged by a locking-nut 60, Figures 7 and 9, which is guarded
by the hanging-beard when the register is in use, while the shape of the bolt
precludes turning it. For protecting the setting-knob K against being accidentally
or mischievously unscrewed and detached, a keeper M is employed. This keeper is
constructed with a hollow-backed circular body loosely fitted to the hub of the
key, and with attaching projections 61 and 62, Figures 27 and 8, in front and in
rear, and is bifurcated by. an open slot 63 so as to be readily applied to the
contracted shank of the knob before the knob is screwed fast. Said front pro-
jection 61 is inserted in a slot provided therefor in the drum-part A immediately in
front of the circular hole 64, Figure 8, which exposes said outer end of the setting
shaft N and spring O. After the knob is screwed fast, the keeper is fastened in
place by a pair of screws inserted in said rear projections 62, and conveniently
screwed through holes in said outwardly projecting portion of the rear drum-part B
into an internally attached nut-piece 65, Figures 8 and 12, so as to be practically
inaccessible when the register is hung.
The internal mechanism of the register is shown in said Figures 8 and 12
(Sheets 3 and 4) together with Figures 13 to 26 inclusive (Sheets 4 to 6).
Said Figure 13 shows face and sectional views of said hundreds dial H; Figure 14
back and edge views of said trip-signal; and Figure 15 edge and back views of
said not-set signal; Fig. 16 is a face view of the back-plate and those parts of
the mechanism which remain in position after the bridge or spider-plate P,
Figures 8 and 12, and the parts in front of said spider-plate, are detached and
removed, together with said rear drum-part. B; Figures 17 and 18 are fragmentary
face views illustrating the operation of the hundreds-mechanism as hereinafter
set forth; Figures 19 to 24 inclusive are details of said hundreds-mechanism as
hereinafter described; and Figures 25 and 26 are respectively a diagrammatic face
view and a section on the line 26-26, illustrating the construction and operation of
the setting, signal-actuating, and main-slide-locking devices, as hereinafter set forth.
Referring to the figures last mentioned, and more particularly to said Figures 12
and 16, attention is here called to the fundamental features of said internal
mechanism, as follows:-
When the main-slide G is pulled by means of the ringing-device Figures 3 and 4,
as above, a working pawl 66 pivoted to said main-slide coacts with a main ratchet-
wheel 67, and, through the medium of the shaft 68 of said ratchet-wheel and
trains of spur-gearing 69 and 70 and 71 and 72, motion is transmitted to two
rotary arbors, a, a², concentric respectively with said trip-dial and said permanent
units-dial of the dial-plate E, Figure 1, and through the medium of these arbors
to said units-hands U and U2, so as to turn these hands forward step by step for
the registration of units synchronously on the respective dials, as above. After

page_text: each unit is so registered on both dials, said main-slide G is retracted by its
spring 73, and, the ratchet-wheel 67 being locked against retrogression by a detent
pawl 74, said pawl 66 is elevated in riding over a tooth of said ratchet-wheel, and
its head, coacting with a distinct bell-lever 75 which carries the bell-hammer h,
puts in tension a striking spring 76, and, finally dropping behind said tooth of
the ratchet-wheel, permits said striking-spring to actuate the bell-hammer h and
ring the bell b.
A swinging catch 77, projected by a spring 78 and forced back.
by a stud 79 on the main-slide, interlocks with one end of said bell-lever 75 when
said slide is pulled, and prevents ringing the bell until the return stroke of the
slide is completed, and a supplemental bell-guard 80, in one part with said detent-
pawl 74, is projected beneath the other end of said bell-lever by the coaction of
the moving ratchet-wheel with said detent-pawl, and precludes false strokes of
the bell in case said main-slide is suddenly jerked and released without completing
a registering operation. Said bell-guard is retracted by the spring 81 of said
detent-pawl, in the act of bringing the latter to rest.
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As the permanent units-hand U2, Figure 1, approaches zero, a cam 82,
Figures 16 to 19, carried by the "units-wheel" 72 of said train of spur-gearing
by which the arbor a² of said permanent units-hand is actuated, comes into contact
with a stud 83 on a pawl-carrier" 84 to which a pawl 85 is pivoted, and puts in
tension a spring 86 stretched from a projection on said pawl to a post on said
back-plate D; and, when said units-hand U2 reaches zero, and thus indicates the
completion of a hundred registrations, said cam 82 trips said pawl-carrier 84, and
permits said spring 86 to instantaneously project the pawl 85 so as to turn a
ratchet-wheel 87 and therewith the shaft c of said hundreds-dial H, so as to bring
a fresh number in line with said aperture 32, Figure 1, in the dial-plate E. A
detent-pawl 88, in constant mesh with said ratchet-wheel 87, is pivoted to the
bottom of said spider-plate P and actuated by a spring 89 stretched to a
depending projection on said spider-plate. Said Figure 13 shows the detached
hundreds-dial by face and sectional views as aforesaid, the plane of section being
indicated by the line x-x. This dial is conveniently attached to the front end.
of said shaft c by screws, one of which is shown in dotted lines at y in Figure 13,
and the other is inserted at z to align the dial numbers with the teeth of said
ratchet-wheel 87; said Figure 20 represents side and edge views of said pawl-
carrier 84, detached; Figure 21 side and edge views of said pawl 85, detached;
side and edge views respectively of said shaft c and ratchet-wheel 87, detached,
are shown in said Figure 22; and side and edge views of said detent-pawl 88 are
represented by said Figure 23.
The first of the present improvements consists in means for keeping said
hundreds-dial H or its equivalent locked by said pawl 85 except during a very
short period at the completion of the registration of a hundred units by said
permanent units-hand U, and for insuring the automatic actuation of said
hundreds-dial should said actuating spring 86 fail, and this without interfering
with the instantaneous movement of said hundreds-dial by said spring 86 ordinarily
as above. This improvement is illustrated by said Figures 16 to 22 inclusive
(Sheet 5). The projected pawl 85 wedges itself between said ratchet-wheel 87
and a rigid post 90, as in Figure 18, so as to prevent any movement of the
hundreds dial until said pawl 85 is retracted; and, according to the present
invention, a nearly circular guard-spider 91, attached to said units-wheel 72 and
concentric therewith, coacts with the stud 83 of said pawl-carrier 84 to keep said
pawl 85 fully projected until said cam-projection 82 is approaching its effective
position, as in Figure 16, and cams the pawl into its projected position by means
of an incline 92 coacting with said stud 83, in case said spring 86 does not
instantaneously project the pawl. An edge view of said guard-spider, detached,
is shown in Figure 19. It is attached to the spokes of said units-wheel 72 by
little rivets 93, as shown in Figures 16 to 18. Said stud 90 is conveniently cast
on a support 94, which may either be attached by screws to the face of the back-

page_text: plate D, as shown, or cast thereon, and to which said pawl-carrier 84 is pivoted
at 95.
The second of the present improvements, relating to the same part of the
register, riz., its hundreds-mechanism, is illustrated by Figures 16 to 24 inclusive
(Sheet 5) in connection with Figures 12 and 13 (Sheet 4) and consists in a
re-locking device whereby the shaft c of the hundreds-dial H or its equivalent is
locked during each retraction of said pawl 85, and is automatically unlocked when
said pawl is again projected; the effect of this improvement being to prevent
fraudulently turning the hundreds-dial or its equivalent to a false indication by
hand during such retraction of said pawl 85. A reversed ratchet-wheel 96,
Figures 17 18 and 22, fast on said shaft c and preferably pinned fast to said
ratchet-wheel 87, as at 97 Figures 17 and 18, and a locking-pawl 98, Figures 16
17 18 and 24, shown also in Figure 12, having a fixed pivot 99 and actuated by
connection with said pawl-carrier 84, is a convenient means for so locking said
shaft. As shown in the drawings, said locking-pawl is connected with the pawl-
carrier 84 by means of said pawl 85. having a slot-and-screw connection with the
latter at 100. An edge view of said ratchet-wheel 96, detached, is shown in said
Figure 22, and side and edge views of said locking-pawl 98, detached, in said
Figure 24.
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The third of the present improvements is illustrated by said Figures 12 and 14
(Sheet 4) and Figures 25 and 26 (Sheet 6), as above described, in connection
with Figure 1 (Sheet 1), and consists in mounting said trip-signal T on a sliding
supports, Figures 12 14 and 25, which, together with a guide s at one end
thereof, a bell-crank lever hinged to its other end, and a crank-wheel o
nected with said lever by a pitman p and a universal-joint coupling 9, is mounted
on said spider-plate P, and serves to transmit motion to said trip-signal T from
a pinion n on said setting-shaft N, and therethrough from said setting-knob K,
Figure 1, when the latter is turned, as hereinafter set forth. Said guide s¹ and
a support o¹ for said crank-wheel o are attached to said spider-plate by screws,
and a shouldered screw screwed into a boss on said spider-plate forms the pivot
of said lever and completes the support of the trip-signal.
The fourth of said present improvements is illustrated by said Figures 12 and 15
(Sheet 4) and Figures 25 and 26 (Sheet 6) in connection with Figure 1 (Sheet 1)
and Figure 8 (Sheet 3), and consists in mounting said not-set signal Sin like
manner, that is to say, on a sliding support s² having a guides at one end thereof
screwed fast upon said spider-plate P, and a lever 2 hinged to its other end and
supported by a shouldered screw screwed into a boss on said spider-plate as
means for transmitting motion to the signal from said setting shaft N as actuated
by said setting knob K and spring O. The toe of said lever 2² engages with a
locking disc non said shaft N, and said not-set signal S is actuated by the inward
thrust of said shaft by means of said setting knob K, as hereinafter set forth. The
signal is retracted by means of a spiral spring s³, Figures 12 and 25, stretched
between said guide and said lever ².
The fifth and last of the present improvements is illustrated by said Figures 25
and 26 (Sheet 6) in connection with Figure 8 (Sheet 3) Figure 12 (Sheet 4) and
Figure 16 (Sheet 5), and consists in a locking-detent Ź which is pivoted to said
back-plate D by a shouldered screw ¹, Figure 25, and is normally retracted
against a stop on the back-plate by a spring stretched from the detent to a
hooked-pin driven into the back-plate, and engages with a stop-notch g,
Figure 25, in said main-slide G, whenever said setting-knob K is thrust in, whereby
it is rendered impossible to register any fares, or to ring the bell of the register,
after a setting operation is begun, until the trip-hand U is left at zero, and the
setting-knob K is again projected by the spring O, preparatory to the next
operation. Motion is transmitted from said setting-knob K to said locking-detent Z
by means of the setting-shaft N, locking-disc n², and lever r², as above described, a
tappet-arm y² engaged by said lever, a hollow rock-shaft y³ to the front end of

page_text: which said army is clamped, and which turns upon a stud, represented by a dotted
circle at yl Figure 16, which projects from the back-plate D, and a link y' which
connects the crank-arm of said rock-shaft with the heel-end of the locking-detent.
The trip-hand U, Figures 1 and 8, is connected with said setting-knob K, and
the movements of said setting-shaft N by means of said knob K and spring O are
controlled, so as to preclude fraudulent manipulation of the trip-hand, by devices
shown in said Figure 8 (Sheet 3) Figure 12 (Sheet 4) and Figures 25 and 26
(Sheet 6), that is to say: A frictional setting-hub V embraces that portion of the
central arbor a in front of said spider-plate P, and is connected by a pair of pinions
with a rotary sleeve W, the bore of which is in line with said setting-shaft N.
Said sleeve turns within a bearing P₁ attached to the face of the spider-plate, and
is fixedly united with a ring X, having a single ratchet-tooth on its face toward
said setting-knob and a single peripheral ratchet-notch, the latter engaged by a
stop-pawl X', pivoted to said bearing P¹ and also connected therewith by a spiral spring
shown at x', to form what is known as the "zero-stop" of the register. A clutch-
slide Y, fastened on the setting-shaft N by radial screws and sliding therewith, has
as its effective part a clutch-pin, movable endwise and to a limited extent laterally
and held in normal position by a pair of spiral springs at right-angles to each other,
having their abutments on the slide, as shown in Figure 12. The inner end of said
setting-shaft N is supported within said sleeve W by said bearing Pl. Its other
end is supported within a bearing P° attached by screws to the top of the spider-
plate, and having a shouldered recess, seen in the plane of section in Figure 8,
which accommodates the spring O between its shoulder and the inner end of the
hub of the setting-knob, as shown in this figure. Said locking-disc n³, which
adjoins the inner end of this bearing Po, is peripherally a ratchet-wheel and
engaged by a pawl m pivoted to said bearing, whose spring m', Figure 26, is
stretched to a projection on the same part; and the same end of said bearing P° is
provided with a locking projection m², which occupies a notch or "slot" n³ in said
locking-disc n² when said locking-disc is in its normal position, as in Figure 8. In
this position, said locking-disc n is held against said inner end of the bearing P
by the spring O; the trip-signal T is at the end of one of its strokes so as to show
"Up" or "Down" as in Figure 1; the setting-signal S is in its retracted position,
exposing a white surface within the dial-aperture 49, Figure 1; the locking-
detent Z is in its retracted position, indicated in dotted lines in Figure 16; and the
register is thus in condition for the registration of fares, and the attestation of each
registration by ringing the bell, as above described, by means of the ringing-device,
Figures 3 and 4.
To insure starting each trip with the trip-hand U at zero, the conductor or other
person in charge of the register is required to set the trip-signal T for each
succeeding trip. To do this, the setting-knob K is thrust inward and turned in the
direction to which its rotary motion is limited by the pawl and ratchet at m n².
When the setting-knob is thus thrust inward, said locking-disc n³, on the setting-
shaft N, coacts with the toe of the lever, and moves the latter and therewith the
sliding support of the setting-signal S; stretching its retracting spring s*, and
exposing the indication "Register not set" within said dial-aperture 49, as in dotted
lines in Figure 1; and, by the coaction of said lever with said tappet-army,
motion is transmitted through said rock-shaft y and link y' to the locking-detent Z,
causing the latter to engage with the stop-notch g, in the main-slide G, as in
Figure 25. The slightest turn of the knob after it is thrust inward carries the
slot n³ sufficiently out of line with the locking-projection m³ to preclude the retrac-
tion of the knob until its rotation is completed. Such rotation of the knob operates
through the pinion n, crank-wheel o, pitman p, universal-joint 9, and bell-crank
lever r, to shift the trip-signal T to its alternative position, and through said
clutch-slide Y, zero-stop ring X, sleeve W, and setting-hub V, turns the trip-haud U
to zero, if it be not already at zero. In case the trip-hand is already at zero at the
end of a trip, the trip-signal T can still be actuated as above, owing to the fact
that normally the clutch-pin of said clutch-slide Y, is, held by its lateral spring out
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of line with the shoulder of the coacting ratchet-tooth on the ring X, as in
Figure 12, and cannot consequently be thrust behind the same when the trip-hand
When the rotation of the setting-knob is completed, the slot 'n coincides
again with the locking projection m³, permitting the spring O to retract the
locking-disc n³ into contact with the bearing Po, and thus to permit the retracting-
springs and 23 to retract the setting-signal S and locking-detent Z preparatory to
ringing up "the fares of the new trip.
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The trip-hand U has a sleeve-hub adapted to be tightly clamped to the outer
end of said setting-hub V, and is adjusted with reference to zero when the parts
are assembled by turning it on said hub, while said hub, carrying the hand, turns
on the arbor a when it is turned by the setting-knob K. The permanent units-
hand U is pierced to fit the outer end of the arbor a² in one position only, and is
clamped upon a shoulder of the arbor by means of a screw and washer.
"Figures 27 and 28 (Sheet 7) represent, respectively, a partial face view of a
modified register, unhung, and a like view of the same with the setting-knob K
and its keeper M, face-plate C, trip-hand U, permanent units-hand U³, and
dial-plate E, removed. In this modified register, each instantaneous actuation of
the hundreds-arbor c, by the hundreds-mechanism above described with reference
to Sheet 5 of the accompanying drawings, is transmitted by bevel-gearing to a
shaft e of a hundreds-counter Hi having a capacity of 999, so as to increase the
capacity of the register to 99999, or, in round numbers, to one hundred thousand.
This hundreds-counter may be of any approved construction, but is preferably
made with carrying and locking devices on a parallel shaft f, so constructed as to
preclude any movement of either of the numbered wheels independently of said
arbor c, the movements of which are guarded as above set forth. The numbered wheel
at the right is fast on the shaft, and motion is transmitted therefrom to the wheel
next to the left, and from that to the wheel next to its left, in a manner well
· known to those skilled in the art. A modified spider-plate, having an extension to
support said hundreds-counter H³, is represented at P2, and a setting-hub and setting-
shaft sleeve connected by bevel-pinions are represented at V2 and W2, Figure 28; and
the dial-plate E, Figure 27, is represented as provided with separate rectangular
apertures e e e in place of the single hundreds-aperture shown in Figure 1.
Otherwise the modified register is of identically the same construction and mode of
operation as the one above described; and such modifications of the spider-plate,
setting-hub, and setting-shaft sleeve, are not considered essential, apart from the
provision of a suitable support for the hundreds-counter H¹; while bevel-pinions
to connect the setting-hub and setting-shaft sleeve, as here shown, are now.
⚫preferred.
.
Figures 29 and 30 (Sheet 8) represent another modified register by views similar
to those last described. According to this modification, the only apertures in the
dial-plate E are those required to accommodate the arbors a and a² and the screws
by which the dial-plate is held in place, and to expose to view the trip-signal T, as
in Figure 1; said arbor a' is provided with a pinion i which meshes with a large
spur-wheel j provided with a pinion k, which in turn meshes with a large spur-
wheel I mounted on said arbor a² and provided with a hub h². This hub carries a
hundreds-hand H2 in front of said dial 31 of the dial-plate E, and behind the
permanent units-hand U2, so that the latter may be attached as above described.
Pinions of 15 teeth in mesh with spur-wheels of 150 teeth are represented, but the
number of teeth is unimportant so long as the same ratio is preserved. Each
revolution of the permanent units-hand U is registered as one on said dial 31 by
said hundreds-hand H2, and, the capacity of the dial being 100, 100 hundreds can
thus be conveniently registered, giving the machine a capacity of 10000. The
trip-signal S, Figure 1, is omitted in this modification together with its appurtenances,
except that a similar lever is retained together with a retracting-spring s
stretched therefrom to a hooked pin driven into the modified spider-plate. P³, as
parts of the main-slide locking-device. Said spider-plate P is mainly simplified by
Comissions, and its shape is immaterial. The mechanism for actuating the arbors.

page_text: and a synchronously, and the bell-mechanism, together with all the parts actuated
by the setting-knob K and spring O, except said setting-signal, are intended to-
be the same as above described.
It will be understood that the hundreds-indicator may be of any of the forms.
above described with reference to Figures 1 and 13, Figures 27 and 28, and
Figures 29 and 30, respectively, as may be preferred, or of any other approved
pattern, in connection with either of the present improvements; and that my
claims hereinafter stated are not intended to be limited to details and accessories
which are not essential to the respective improvements. Preferred details and
accessories have been described, and are represented in the accompanying drawings,.
in order to set forth to a sufficient extent an operative register complete in all
its parts.
The term "fare" as herein employed means a payment in cash or by ticket or
transfer by a passenger on a public vehicle. When the registration of fares of
different rates, vehicles or animals of different kinds, or the like, is required, at one
and the same point, two or more registers appropriately designated will be hung
side by side, each with its own ringing-device, and preferably with bells of different
tones or dials of different colors.
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) The guard-spider 91 having the incline 92, in combination with the cam-
carrying wheel 72, stud 83, pawl-carrier 84, pawl 85, ratchet-wheel 87, and
post 90, for both guarding and ensuring the actuation of the shaft c of the
hundreds-mechanism, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to
Figures 16 to 22 of the accompanying drawings.
(2) The combination with the cam-retracted pawl-carrier 84, pawl 85, ratchet--
wheel 87, and shaft c, of the reversed ratchet-wheel 96 and locking-pawl 98, or any
mere equivalent thereof, for re-locking the hundreds indicator in the manner and for
the purposes herein before set forth with reference to Figures 16 to 18 inclusive-
and Figures 22 and 24.
(3) The combination with the trip-signal T, and with the setting-knob K setting
shaft N pinion n crank-wheel o pitman p universal-joint coupling q and bell-crank
lever r, of the sliding support s, arranged and operating substantially as herein--
before described with reference to Figures 12 and 14 and Figures 25 and 26.
(4) The combination with the not-set signal S, and with said setting-kuob K
setting-shaft N locking-disc n2 and lever, of the sliding supports its guide s
and spring s*, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 12
and 15 and Figures 25 and 26.
(5) The main-slide-locking device consisting of a spring-retracted locking-detent Z,-
projected by the setting-knob K, in combination with a main-slide having a stop-
notch to coact with the projected detent, substantially as hereinbefore described
with reference to said Figures 25 and 26.
(6) The improved register represented by Figures 1 to 26 inclusive of the
accompanying drawings, substantially as herein before specified.
(7) The improved register represented by Figures 27 and 28 of the accompanying
drawings, substantially as hereinbefore specified.
(8) The improved register represented by Figures 29 and 30 of the accompanying
drawings, substantially as hereinbefore specified.
Dated this 2nd day of May A.D. 1894.
FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Applicant..