Improvements in Fare-indicating and Registering Apparatus for Cabs and other Vehicles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1899
TRUVIDIONAL
Improvements in Fare-indicating and Registering Apparatus for Cabs
and other Vehicles.
I, FRIEDRICH WILHELM GUSTAV BRUHN, of No. 1, Schaper Strasse, Berlin, in
the Empire of Germany, Director, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in fare-indicating and registering appar-
atus for cabs and other public vehicles; and the objects of my improvements
are first to adapt such apparatus to tariffs, according to which the fare to be paid
is not increased in equal fractions; and second to provide an efficient controlling
or registering device for such unequally increasing fares.
For obtaining these objects the main indicating disc, which may have a
jerking or intermittent rotation by any suitable source of power-a clockwork,
a rotating wheel of the vehicle or the like is provided with equidistant indications
corresponding with the tariff, viz. if the tariff increases for instance for each
quarter of an hour by 8d. and, when a full hour is completed, only 30d.=2s. 6d.
are to be charged, the inscriptions on the disc should be 8d., 1s. 4d., 2s., 2s. 6d.,.
and so on.
As the intermittent rotation of the disc is regular, the said inscrip-
tions will be visible one after the other through a corresponding opening in a
main covering plate, thus, although the rotation of the disc is regular, the
indications of fare will be irregular viz. in conformity with the tariff in force.
If instead of such rotating disc a fixed dial and a rotating hand is used, the
dial must show the irregular inscriptions, while the hand rotates. as usual.
The controlling or registering device connected with such irregular disc or
with the hand on such irregular dial ought to indicate on the first registering
disc only the number of jerks, which are to be counted extra by the controller.
In the above mentioned example the three first jerks are to be counted separately,
and only the fourth jerk may turn the second controlling disc, viz. when the full
hour is to be charged with 2s. 6d.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Fare-indicating and Registering Apparatus for Cabs
and other Vehicles.
I, FRIEDRICH WILHELM GUSTAV BRUHN, of No. 1, Schaper Strasse, Berlin, in
the Empire of Germany, Director, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in fare-indicating and registering appar-
atus for cabs and other public vehicles; and the objects of my improvements
are first to adapt such apparatus to tariffs, according to which the fare to be paid
is not increased in equal fractions; and second to provide an efficient controlling
or registering device for such unequally increasing fares.
I obtain these objects by the device shown in the accompanying drawing,
in which Figure 1 is a front view of a fare indicating and registering apparatus
provided with my said improvements: Figure 2 is a rear view of the fare-
indicating disc and the registering device connected therewith; and Figure 3
is a front view of the fare-indicating disc.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
The disea, which is given a step by step rotation by means of any suitable
source of power such as a clock work mechanism, a rotating wheel of the
vehicle etc., is provided with equidistant indications corresponding with the
tariff, viz., if the tariff increases for instance for each quarter of an hour with 8d.
and when a full hour is completed, only 30d.=2s. 6d. are to be charged, the
inscriptions on the disc ought to be 8d., Is. 4d.. 2s., 2s. 6d., etc. As the step by
step rotation of the disc a is regular, the said inscriptions will be visible one
after the other through a corresponding opening in the main covering plate b₁
thus, although the rotation of the disc a is regular, the indications of fare will
be irregular, viz., in conformity with the tariff in force.
If instead of such rotating disc a fixed dial and a rotating hand is used, the
dial must show the irregular inscriptions, while the hand rotates as usual.
The controlling or registering device connected with such irregular disc or
with the hand on such irregular dial ought to indicate on the first registering
disc e only the number of steps or jerks, which are to be counted extra by the
controller. In the above example the three first steps or jerks are to be counted
separately, and only the fourth step or jerk is to turn the second controlling
dise d, viz., when the full hour is to be charged with 2s. 6d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In fare-indicating and registering apparatus for cabs and other public
vehicles the combination with the driving work of a dial or indicating disc pro-
vided with irregularly increasing, equidistant inscription, substantially as and
for the purpose specified.
2. In fare-indicating and registering apparatus for cabs and other public
vehicles the combination of a dial or indicating disc provided with irregularly
increasing, equidistant inscriptions with a controlling or registering device, the
first disc of which indicates up to a certain number only the number of the
jerks made by the indicating disc or the indicating hand, substantially as
specified.
Dated this 20th day of March 1900.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co..
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.