AN IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING FRAUDULENT USE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER PASSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Smith and George Wilson, both of Leeds,
in the County of York, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING FRAUDULENT USE OF RAILWAY AND
OTHER PASSES."
Sealed the 25th March 1875, and dated the 1st October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Smith and
George Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 1st October 1874.
We, ALFRED SMITH and GEORGE WILSON, both of Leeds, in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for AN IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING FRAUDULENT USE OF
RAILWAY AND OTHER PASSES," to be as follows:-—
The object of our Invention is to prevent "passes " employed on
railways or other places being used by other persons than those to whom
they were granted, there being up to the present time a great difficulty
in identifying the pass holder with the ticket, owing to the great

page_text: number of passengers and the changes continually taking place in the
persons appointed to examine the "passes
or tickets.
"
We combine railway or other "passes" with a photograph or other
likeness of the person to whom the "pass" is granted, and so secure it
to the ticket or "
pass" that they cannot be separated from each other i
without being defaced thereby.
In some cases we emboss the card containing the photograph or other
likeness and the "pass," thereby preventing the removal of either without
immediate detection. A private stamp or other marks may be put
thereon for the same purpose.
"
Cases or covers similar to those now in use for carrying the " pass
may be used, in which can be secured or fastened the photograph or
other likeness in combination with the "pass.".
"
By the above arrangement those appointed to examine" passes or
tickets can readily compare the photograph or other likeness with
the person shewing the "pass," and thereby detect any fraudulent use
thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Smith and George Wilson in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 1st April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, ALFRED
SMITH and GEORGE WILSON, both of Leeds, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year;
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Alfred Smith and
George Wilson, Her special licence that we, the said Alfred Smith
and George Wilson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or å
such others as we, the said Alfred Smith and George Wilson,
our 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,

page_text: use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD FOR PREVENTING FRAUDULENT USE OF
RAILWAY AND OTHER PASSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Alfred Smith and George Wilson, our executors or ad-
ministrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one
of their hands 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 dato
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Alfred Smith and George Wilson,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
3 ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawing, and to the letters of reference marked
thereon, that is to say:-
The object of our Invention is to prevent "passes " employed on rail-
ways and other places being used by other persons than those to whom
they were granted, there being up to the present time a great difficulty
in identifying the pass holder with the ticket owing to the great number
of passengers and the changes continually taking place in the persons
appointed to examine the "passes" or tickets.
We combine railway or other passes with a photograph or other
likeness of the person to whom the " pass" is granted and so secure it
to the ticket or "pass" that they cannot be separated from each other
without being defaced thereby.
In some cases we emboss the card containing the photograph or
other likeness and the "pass," thereby preventing the removal of either
without immediate detection. A private stamp or other marks
put thereon for the same purpose.
may be
Cases or covers similar to those now in use for carrying the pass may
be used, in which can be secured or fastened the photograph or other
likeness in combination with the "pass."
By the above arrangement those appointed to examine "passes” or
tickets can readily compare the photograph or other likeness' with

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a is the photograph or other likeness of the person to whom the
"pass" has been granted; b, the form of "pass," and c the counterfoil
which is given to the collector the first time of using; d is the case which
is similar to those now in use for carrying the " pass," and to which is
secured or fastened the photograph or other likeness a, over which
is placed the cover e which is attached to the form of the "
pass
A private stamp for other mark may be put thereon, as shewn, which
may be embossed or executed in any convenient manner.
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"
By the above arrangement those appointed to examine "passes or
tickets can readily compare the photograph or other likeness with
the person shewing the "pass," and thereby detect any fraudulent use
.thereof.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we would remark in
conclusion, that we do not limit ourselves to the exact limits, details,
and configurations of the parts we have explained and shown, as the
same may be varied or modified without in any way departing from, the
nature and principle of our Invention; but what we do claim and desire
to be secured to us by Letters Patent is, the arrangement and com-
bination with each " pass "of a photograph or other likeness of the
person to whom each "pass" is granted, for identifying the pass holder
with the ticket and preventing the fraudulent use thereof, all substan-
tially as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Smith and George Wilson,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirtieth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
ALFRED SMITH. (L.S.)
GEO. WILSON.
(L.S.)