CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS OR CONTINUOUS LENGTHS OF PAPER OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marcus Bebro, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS OR CONTINUOUS LENGTHS OF PAPER
OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS."
Sealed the 8th January 1869, and dated the 9th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marcus Bebro at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th July 1868.
I, MARCUS BEBRO, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS OR CONTINUOUS
LENGTHS OF PAPER OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to further improvements upon certain apparatus
for which Letters Patent have been previously granted to George Rodolph
Solomon and myself, dated November 15, 1867, No. 3235, and the present
Invention is designed to enable the guard of public conveyances or

page_text: money takers, or check givers at places of public amusement or resort to
deliver consecutively numbered tickets with greater accuracy and
precision than can be effected by the apparatus described in the
Specification aforesaid.
The Invention relates to two descriptions of apparatus, one intended for
portable purposes and the other stationary, and may be used on a desk,
ledge, or counter.
The first part of the improvements consists in so applying one or more
india-rubber surfaced bowls or delivery rollers, and in using them in
combination with the interior surface of the lid of the box containing the
strip or roll of consecutively numbered tickets, that when the lid is
securely closed it presses on the bowl or bowls, and when the strip of
tickets is between and the shaft of the roller is turned by a handle,
screw head or lever, the issue of the tickets is thereby effected from an
aperture or slot in front of the rollers. In order to ensure the even
delivery of the strip and to prevent its becoming twisted or crumpled
each roller is subdivided into discs, and the divisions so formed in the
rollers are filled with a flat plate made to fit between the discs and to
extend up to the mouth of the aperture, and the rollers are also enclosed
below within a curved shield which combines in form a guide for the
strips; and in order to hold the strip when a ticket is being torn off
plungers are so arranged that when pressed outside by the hand they
act on the strip to hold it. The size and shape of the box and number
of delivery rollers, shafts, and rolls of tickets may vary with require-
ments.
The second part of the improvements, relating to the stationary
apparatus, consists in the application of an intermittent movement to
the said delivery rollers (the ticket guide being as described) by the
use of spur and ratchet gearing actuated by a lever or handle, whereby
a ticket is issued at each downward movement of the handle, and at
the delivery end another roller is arranged by which the strip of tickets
may be set or adjusted to the lines of perforations so as to present
exactly one ticket beyond the opening and so prevent tearing the
following ticket.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Marcus Bebro in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARCUS
BEBRO, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Marcus Bebro, Her special license
that I, the said Marcus Bebro, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Marcus Bebro, 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
Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS OR CONTINUOUS LENGTHS OF PAPER OR OTHER
SIMILAR MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Marcus Bebro, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Marcus Bebro, 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 relates to further improvements upon certain apparatus
for which Letters Patent have been previously granted to George R.
Solomons,
One thousand cight hundred and sixty-seven,
and the present Invention is designed to enable the guard of public
conveyances, or money takers, or check givers at places of public amuse-
ment or resort to deliver consecutively numbered tickets with greater
accuracy and precision than can be effected by the apparatus
described in the Specification aforesaid.

page_text: The Invention relates to two descriptions of apparatus, one intended
or portable purposes and the other stationary, and may be used on a
desk, ledge, or counter.
The first part of the improvements consists in so applying one or more
india-rubber surfaced bowls or delivery rollers, and in using them in
combination with the interior surface of the lid of the box containing
the strips or roll of consecutively numbered tickets, that when the lid
is securely closed it presses on the bowl or bowls, and when the strip of
ticket is between it and the shaft the roller is turned by a handle, screw
head, or lever, the issue of the tickets is thereby effected, from an
aperture or slot in front of the rollers; a guide is also arranged to ensure
the even issue, and a stop plunger to hold the ticket when being torn off.
In order to ensure the even delivery of the strip and to prevent it
becoming twisted or crumpled each roller is subdivided into discs, and
the divisions so formed in the rollers are filled with a flat plate made
to fit between the discs and to extend up to the mouth of the aperture,
and the rollers are also enclosed below and within a curved shield which
combined form a guide for the strips; and in order to hold the strip when
a ticket is being torn off plungers are so arranged that when pressed
outside by the hand they act on the strip and hold it. The size and shape
of the box and number of delivering shafts and rolls of tickets may vary
with requirements..
The second part of the improvement, relating to the stationary
apparatus; count in transmitting an intermittent movement to the said
delivering rollers (the ticket guide being constructed as previously
described) by the use of spur and ratchet gearing actuated by a lever
or handle, which when acted upon expells a ticket from the aperture
in the box with each downward movement of the handle, at the delivery
end another roller is arranged by which the strip of tickets may be set
or adjusted to the lines of perforations so as to present exactly one
ticket beyond the opening and so prevent the ticket following being
damaged..
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made about full
size, similar letters of reference being marked on corresponding parts on
all the Figs. alike..
Fig. 1 represents a sectional elevation of the portable ticket register
applicable to omnibuses and public vehicles or conveyances shewing the

page_text: arrangement of rollers and guide through and by which the previously
prepared continuous strip of tickets is delivered from the box; Fig. 2
represents a plan view of the same; Fig. 3 represents a front sectional
elevation of the stationary ticket register applicable to places of amuse-
ment, and Fig. 4 represents a plan view of the same.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the outer box or receptacle of the ticket
register to be employed for checking the number of passengers entering
public conveyances or for other similar purposes; within this box the india-
rubber rollers b, b, are supported on the spindle, and each rubber
roller being independently turned in one outward direction by means
of the knobs or handles o', c², these bowles when the lid a' of the box a
is closed press upon its interior surface, the box a being made sufficiently
large to contain a required number of continuous tickets, one end of
which when passed between the periphery of the bowls over the guides e
is pressed against the under side of the lid a', so that when the knob or
handle c' or c² is turned the strip of tickets passing over the respective
rollers which they actuate cause such tickets to issue from a slot
provided for the purpose in the outer casing of the box a. In order to
insure the even delivery of the strip f and to prevent its becoming
twisted or crumpled each roller is subdivided into discs, and the divisions
so formed in the rollers are filled with the continuous flat plate e¹
forming a portion of the guides e, the said plate e¹ extending up to the
mouth of the aperture in the outer casing from which the tickets issue,
the said guides also being constructed so as to form a shield that
prevents the roll of tickets in the box coming into contact with the
expelling rollers before being ejected by their revolution from the box;
the said rollers being arranged by catch and ratchet to turn only in one
direction, the small thumb pressers being employed to retain the tickets
whilst one of their number issues from the box a is being torn off; or a
spring knife or scissors may be arranged so that the portion of ticket
ejected may be severed from the continuous length.
The stationary apparatus, shewn in Figs. 3 and 4, employed for
checking persons entering places of public amusement or other places of
public resort is similar in every respect to the one already described,
with this exception, that a top roller is employed in connection with a
bottom serrated or flutod roller between which the tickets are caused
to issue from the box a, and also that such tickets are actuated so
as to issue from the box by an intermittent motion which is trans-

page_text: mitted to the expelling roller through the medium of the lever g and
gearing h.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be
distinctly understood in conclusion I claim,-
First. The general construction and arrangement of the rollers and
upper friction plate between which and the rollers the continuous strip
of paper is delivered.
Secondly. I claim the novel construction and adaptation of guides, as
shewn and described, through which the continuous strip of consecutive
tickets pass from the box.
And, lastly. The general construction, arrangement, and adaptation of
the several parts constituting the ticket register or any slight modi-
fication thereof so long as the principle feature of these present
improvements are retained, as herein-before described, set forth, and
fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, Marcus Bebro, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of January One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.