IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING PASSENGERS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Rodolph Solomon, junior, of Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING PASSENGERS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES."
Sealed the 31st December 1867, and dated the 28th September 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Rodolph Solomon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th September 1867.
I, GEORGE RODOLPH SOLOMON, junior, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING PASSENGERS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC
VEHICLES," to be as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of enabling the proprietors of
omnibuses and other public conveyances to ascertain the number of passengers
carried, in order that they may check the receipt of money in accordance
therewith, and prevent the collectors of fares appropriating the same to their
own use.

page_text: The improvements consist in the employment and use of a box or case
containing a continuous strip, ribbon, or roller of tickets consecutively num-
bered, which strip is coiled round a central drum or shaft, and the box is
locked by an authorized person, so that the collector has no access thereto
excepting to obtain tickets therefrom in the proper manner by the mechanism
arranged for the purpose. In the side of the box a slit is provided through
which the ticket strip is caused to pass out by means of a knob or handle
outside and a pair of elastic covered feed rollers within the box between
which it passes, and which are geared together and provided with a ratchet
pawl so as to prevent any reverse motion. The case may be supplied with
several rolls of tickets representing different amounts and distinguished by
various columns or numbers. When the collector proceeds to collect money
from the passengers he gives to each in exchange a ticket torn from the strip,
and having collected the fares he collects the tickets and delivers to the cashier
the box containing the next consecutive number on the strip and also the
money and tickets torn from the strip, by which means the cashier can ascertain
the number of passengers, with which the cash and used tickets should
agree.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Rodolph Solomon in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
RODOLPH SOLOMON, junior, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, Her special license that I, the said
George Rodolph Solomon, junior, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and

page_text: Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING
PASSENGERS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES," upon the condition. (amongst
others) that I, the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
bands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of enabling the proprietors of
omnibuses and other public conveyances to ascertain the number of passengers
carried, in order that they may check the receipt of money in accordanco
therewith, and prevent the collectors of fares appropriating the same to their
own use.
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The improvements consist in the employment and use of a box or case
containing a continuous strip, ribbon, or roll of tickets consecutively numbered,
which strip is coiled round a central drum or shaft, and this box is locked by
an authorized person so that the collector has no access thereto, excepting to
obtain tickets therefrom in the proper manner by the mechanism arranged
for the purpose.
In the side of the box a slit is provided through which the
ticket strip is caused to pass out, by means of a knob or handle outside, and a:
pair of elastic covered feed rollers within the box between which it passes,
and which are geared together and provided with a ratchet pawl so as to
prevent any reverse motion. The case may be supplied with several rolls of
tickets representing different amounts and distinguished by various colours or
numbers. When the collector proceeds to collect money from the passengers he
gives to each in exchange a ticket torn from the strip, and having collected
the fares he collects the tickets and delivers to the cashier the box containing
the next consecutive number on the strip, and also the money and tickets torn
from the strip, by which means the cashier can ascertain the number of
passengers with which the cash and used tickets should agree.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, made about the full
size.
Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the case or box, the lid of which is removed

page_text: in order to shew more clearly the interior arrangement thereof; Fig. 2
represents a vertical section of the box taken through the line A, B,
Fig. 1.
In Figs. 1 and 2 a, a, is the outer casing or box, to the foundation or base of
which are secured the vertical or upright studs b, b, and also the studs or pins
forming the axles on, which the elastic covered feed rollers c, c, revolve, the
elastic surfaces of each pair of rollers are held closely in contact and are
caused to revolve by means of the gearing d, d, and the milled head or
handle e, e, outside; the ratchet pawls or catches f,f, are employed for the
purpose of preventing a reverse action being given to the rollers c, c; the case
is shewn supplied, as an example, with three separato rolls of consecutively
numbered tickets, although a single roll or any number may be adapted,
each roll representing different amounts, and may also be distinguished
by various colours or numbers, and each continuous length of ticket passes
between the surfaces of the delivery rollers to which it belongs, from whence
it passes out of the box through a slit provided in the side for the purpose.
When the collector proceeds to collect money from the passengers he turns
the milled head which corresponds to the amount of fare he is collecting, and
so gives motion to the elastic rollers c, c, causing thereby the continuous strip
of tickets to issue from the box; they are then torn one by one from the con-
tinuous roll and given to the passengers by the guard in exchange for the
amount of their fares, after which the guard or collector delivers to the cashier
the box locked and containing the next consecutive number on the strip
and also the money and tickets torn from the strip, by which means the cashier
can ascertain the number of passengers, with which the cash and used tickets
should agree.
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I would here remark that although I have described the apparatus applicable
for registering the number of persons travelling by public conveyances, yet the
same apparatus may be used to register the number of persons entering or
leaving places of public amusement, or for registering persons in other places
where the number is desired to be known.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim,-
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First. The novel employment and use of. lengths or ribbons of tickets rolled
around a shaft and caused to issue or unroll as required by means of elastic
surfaced delivery rollers actuated by a handle outside the case containing the
tickets and delivery rollers.

page_text: Secondly. Preventing the rollers turning in a reverse direction, whereby such
tickets might be returned to the box.
And, lastly, the general arrangement, combination, and construction of the
apparatus as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the
Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Rodolph Solomon, junior, have
hereunto set my band and seal, this Nineteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEORGE RODOLPH SOLOMON, JNB. (L.s.)
10 Witnessed by
JNO. HUGHES,
Clerk to Jno. Davies & Son,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.