AN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING AND CHECKING ENTRIES AND EXITS TO AND FROM TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSES, OR OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Marshall Arthur Wier at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th July 1872.
I, MARSHALL ARTHUR WIER, of No. 9, Great Winchester Street, in
the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING AND CHECKING ENTRIES AND EXITS TO
AND FROM TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSES, OR OTHER CARRIAGES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates to a novel arrangement and adaptation of appa-
ratus consisting of a turnstile or turnstiles connected with a registering
or counting and indicating apparatus by pneumatic, mechanical, or other
suitable means, whereby the numbers and places of entry and exit are
clearly shown, thus affording an easy check upon the amount of fares
paid.
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In cases where convenient I employ an ordinary turnstile to register
the entrance of passengers; and another to register their exit, or a single
turnstile may be arranged to register both the entrance and exit of
passengers.

page_text: In other cases, where there is not sufficient room for an ordinary
turnstile, I employ a turnstile the arms of which that are not required
to stand across the opening are caused by means of a cam or cams, or
other suitable mechanism caused to operate by the rotation of the turn-
stile, to slide through a pillar thereof, or to be otherwise closed up out
of the way, each one being successively thrust out or placed across the
opening, and withdrawn as the turnstile revolves the quarter revolution
to admit a passenger.
I prefer to connect the turnstile. or turnstiles with the registering
mechanism by means of suitably arranged pneumatic apparatus in such
manner that on a passenger entering or leaving the carriage a corre-
sponding air compressing instrument is operated by tho turnstile,
whereby air is forced through a pipe or pipes and acts upon appropriate
parts of the registering apparatus.
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The registering apparatus exhibits a dial in which there are holes
arranged in the following manner :-The first horizontal row of holes
represents the whole of the stations to be started from or stopped at in
the entire journey, the first hole representing the original starting point,
and the last the destination; the next horizontal line of holes represents
all the starting and stopping stations except the first starting station;
the next row all except the first and second stations, and so on, each
successive horizontal row of holes containing one less as the end of the
journey is approached, until the last contains only one representing the
station at the end of the journey. Behind each of the holes in this
dial there is a small counting apparatus set in motion from the turnstile.
By pneumatic, mechanical, or other suitable means, motion is conveyed
automatically from a wheel or axle of the car or carriage to a governing
apparatus, which as the car approaches or arrives at a particular station
throws the turnstile out of gear with the counting apparatus belonging
to the hole representing the last starting station, putting it in gear with
the hole representing the station now being approached or arrived at:
Thus it will be seen that the numbers entering the car or carriage at or
between that and the last passed station, will be registered at the hole
on the dial which is the first of that horizontal row corresponding to
the said station.
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In order to register the place and number of passengers alighting
I employ a stage composed of a series of what may be called platforms,
one above the other, corresponding to the number of stations on the

page_text: line, and horizontal rows of holes on the dial plate representing them.
This stage has on each of its platforms a small pneumatic or othér
apparatus suitable for moving any one of the counting apparatuses in
connection with which it may be brought on receiving an impulse or
motion from the turnstile by which the exit of the passengers is to be
registered. The stage is moved behind the dial and counting apparatuses
by mechanism connected with the governing apparatus above mentioned
in such manner that on, or say, just before the arrival of the car at a
station it shall be moved from the vertical row of holes on. the dial
representing the last passed stopping station to that representing the
one about to be or actually reached. There is on the registering
apparatus another dial face on which all the stations on the journey
are marked, and over which a pointer is moved. When the pointer is
turned to the station at which a passenger who is about to alight entered
the turnstile is placed by pneumatic or other means connected with it
in communication with the mechanism on that platform of the stage
corresponding to the station at or near which he entered, and its motion
will then cause the said mechanism to operate that counting apparatus
in the vertical row of holes corresponding to the station at which he
alights, which is in the horizontal row of holes corresponding to the
station at which he entered.
. Instead of the stage being moved automatically by the wheel or axle
as above described it may be arranged so that the conductor by turning
a pointer forwards shall move it, by hand, so as to register on the vertical
row of holes in the dial appropriate to the station at or beyond which
the exit is made, and by turning the same pointer backwards to the
name on a dial face of the station from which a passenger started the
governing mechanism is so operated as to place the exit turnstile in
communication with the registering mechanism on the stage corre-
sponding to the horizontal row of holes appropriate to the station from
which the passenger started.
If desired the apparatus may be arranged to register the numbers
entering, or alighting by perforating slips of paper instead of or as well
as indicating by counting apparatuses in connection with a dial as
above described.
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