IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECK REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR ISSUING TICKETS AND FOR REGISTERING FARES OR AMOUNTS RECEIVED
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert Bradley and William
Bull at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 31st December 1874.
WC, HERBERT BRADLEY, of 9, Ormonde Terrace, Regent's Park,
London, Gentleman, and WILLIAM BULL, of Denton House, Victoria
Road, Southsea, in the County of Hampshire, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECK
REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR ISSUING TICKETS AND FOR REGISTERING FARES OR
AMOUNTS RECEIVED," to be as follows:
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This Invention has for its objects a better means of registering the
fares or amounts of monies paid by the passenger or payer to the
conductor or servant employed for the receiving of such monies, either
in tram cars, omnibuses, or offices of public or private companies, or
theatres, or places of public instruction or amusement, in fact in all
cases where persons are employed to receive such monies on behalf of
their employers, which system affords a check against fraud and also
furnishes a ready means of shewing the total amount received at any
period of time, and the seperate amounts that each payer has made.

page_text: The Invention comprises an apparatus for holding a given number of
tickets, which in some cases are numbered consecutively, having the
amount of the fare or price of admission marked thereon, which tickets
upon being withdrawn are made to indicate by a suitable registering
apparatus the number and price so withdrawn, at the same time a bell or
gong is made to ring or sound, which indicates to the payer that
the ticket is properly extracted, and when once withdrawn cannot be
replaced.
In a modification of the foregoing arrangement a series of tickets are
provided which need not be consecutively numbered, but have the fare
or price of admission marked or printed in duplicate or correspondingly
coloured, to be employed the following way:-The payee or receiver
of money upon taking a ticket from the parcel corresponding to the price
to be paid inserts one end of the ticket into a suitable aperture of an
apparatus, which shall on withdrawing the ticket cut off, or sever, or
obliterate a part or portion, having upon it the amount to be paid
marked thereon, this part falls into a suitable receptacle, and the outer
portion also having the amount printed or marked thereon is given to
the payer as a receipt for his payment, but to be given up if required
so to do by an authorized person.
The withdrawal of the ticket after its insertion into the aperture of the
apparatus is recorded by a registering apparatus essentially similar to
the hercin-before mentioned arrangement.
The withdrawing of the ticket referred to above impels an arm or
cscapement wheel, which sets into action the ringing of a bell and the
record of the ticket taken, which by suitable count wheels will give tho
total of the tickets taken in any period.
The modification herein-before referred to is accomplished as follows,
viz. :—On the inner side of the aperture are provided two pressure clips,
which are forced together at a given angle by strong springs, so that
they open on the insertion of the ticket and hold it firmly on its
withdrawal. To withdraw the ticket it is necessary to exert a force
equal to the tearing strength of the paper, this amount being sufficient
to give motion to the arm which carries the pressure clips, and which
motion is employed to ring a bell and indicate. These pressure clips are
sometimes provided with sharp cutting edges, when the tickets are more
casily seperated from the counterfoil; the moving arm in the severing

page_text: of the ticket springs backwards, projecting the counterfoil into a
receptacle fitted at the back of the case for the purpose, or the clips are
made to close on the ticket with a flat surface, which is inked by the
action of inserting the ticket; on the withdrawal the ticket is held by
the closing of the two flat surfaces, which offer sufficient resistance by
friction to cause the arm to move and indicate by the withdrawal of the
ticket, which will have a black or coloured band printed over part of its
surface.