IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AND IN THE MODE OF MARKING AND RECORDING PAYMENTS, DATES, AND NUMBERS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Charles Henry Blake, of 12, Buckingham Street,
Strand, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR AND IN THE MODE OF MARKING AND RECORDING PAYMENTS,
DATES, AND NUMBERS."
Sealed the 20th October 1877, and dated the 23rd April 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Charles Henry
Blake at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd April 1877.
EDWARD CHARLES HENRY BLAKE, of 12, Buckingham Street, Strand, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AND IN THE MODE OF
MARKING AND RECORDING PAYMENTS, DATES, AND NUMBERS."
The improvements consist in a box or case furnished with a barrel punch actuated
by a lever and spring, and furnishing said punch with an arrangement of typo for
printing, punching, or perforating dates, number of journey, or other desired par-
ticulars, when printing is used making use of the ordinary inking ribbons.
Sometimes introducing one or more sliding slips with type from the outside of
the box, and printing or stamping from such slips by the same action of the barrel
punch or otherwise, when the matter to be printed or stamped has to be frequently
altered.
Furnishing said box with a drawer or drawers supplied with a passage below the
punch through which and into said drawer the material (which may be a ticket)
punched out is received, and furnishing said passage with a door or contrivance
for closing it when it is necessary to remove the drawer. The said box is to be
supplied with convenient openings or doors for giving free access for the ticket
and to the punch, type, drawers, passages and such like; said doors may be
furnished with locks; the apparatus may be made of metal or other convenient
material.
The mode of marking and recording secured by the use of the above apparatus in.
combination with tickets or such like is as follows:-Tickets are provided and
printed in colors or otherwise with fares, tolls, or such like information, marked
thereon, preferably on the corners; thus, say, two, a 2d and 3d, on the top left-hand.
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page_text: corner and bottom right-hand corner respectively on one side; & on the other
with, say, a 4d and 6d in such manner that either the 2d, 3d, 4d, or 6d, can be punched
out seperately from the rest; the said tickets have numbers, dates, the name of the
proprietor, and any other information printed thereon.
The use of the apparatus and said tickets will be somewhat as follows in the case
of a tram or omnibus:-Passenger enters the vehicle, conductor gives him a ticket,
asks destination, and thereupon, and on receipt of the fare, punches out said fare;
the action of so punching at the said time prints or stamps, by aid of the type
attached to the punch, the date, number of the journey and of the vehicle on the
same side as the marked fare, the other side of said fare being already or at the
time of punching marked with a number which is one of a series or sequence;
immediately the punched piece falls through the passage way into the drawer
or locked receptacle, the key of which is with a recognized official.
The above mode furnishes a check by reason of the consecutive numbering of the
tickets, and also that part which is to be punched out, and which also bears the
amount of the fare and number of the ticket, so that if any ticket is not punched its
counterpart is missed from the box, and the conductor must pay for the punchings
so missing. The check against a passenger is that the tickets are dated the day of
the month and year, the number of the journey, and number of the vehicle, so that
if a passenger tries to repass his ticket even on the same journey and for a higher
fare than he has paid and been punched for, the number of the series, the number
of the journey and vehicle, will convict him.
The adoption of the apparatus, and mode of using for place of entertainment, tolls,
and such like, consists in the application of an apparatus and tickets for each
entrance; or the principle of four more or less varying prices can be embodied
in and by the uso of one apparatus and one system of ticket, as above described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Charles Henry Blake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd October 1877.
EDWARD CHARLES HENRY BLAKE, of 12, Buckingham Street, Strand, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AND IN THE MODE OF
MARKING AND RECORDING PAYMENTS, DATES, AND NUMBERS."
The improvements in the apparatus consist in constructing it with a special
punching, shearing, or cutting device; a special arrangement of type for impressing
dates, numbers, hours and minutes, or other particulars, on a specially prepared or
other ticket; and a registering device for recording the number of said impressed
ticket punchings, shearings, or cuttings, together with a gong, struck on and by the
aforesaid workings being made simultaneously. Also in operating all the aforesaid
devices simultaneously in a convenient and portable case, furnishing them and it
with suitable handles and levers for working the said devices simultaneously therein,
together with an aperture for the insertion and reception of the special or other
ticket to be punched or cut, as also a space for the reception of the said impressed
ticket, punchings, or clippings.
And the improvements in the mode of marking and recording consist in the
manufacture and use with the aforesaid apparatus of tickets or other equivalents
previously marked with the amount of fare, or price of admission, and also with
or without consecutive numbers, or with any device, in such fashion that such
markings are on that part of the tickets punched out or sheared off, registered,
and recorded. All substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein, and in
the Drawings hereunto annexed, described, and set forth. The accompanying Drawing
illustrates the mode of constructing the apparatus, which may be wholly of metal,
and the ticket, which may be of paper, but I do not confine myself to the exact

page_text: shapes and dimensions of the parts therein delineated, as they may be varied without
departing from the nature of my improvements.
Figure 1 is a front sectional elevation taken on line A, B, Figures 9 and 10 of the
improved apparatus employing a punch.
Figure 2 a front elevation of the same apparatus with front cover removed taken
on line C, D, see Figures 9 and 10.
Figure 3, a back elevation of Figures 1 and 2, showing outer case.
Figure 4, a back elevation of apparatus employing shears.
Figure 5, a sectional elevation of Figure 4, at line E, F, see plan, Figures 7
and 8.
Figuro 5A, an elevation showing arrangement for setting outermost dial from
outside.
Figure 6, a sectional elevation of Figure 4, taken on line G, H, seo Figures 7
and 8.
Figure 7, a plan of Figures 4, 5, and 6, with top cover removed.
Figure 8, a sectional plan of Figures 4, 5, and 6, taken at L. M.
Figure 9, a sectional plan of Figures 1, 2, and 3, taken at I, K.
Figure 10, a plan with top cover removed, of Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Figures 11 and 12, are respectively enlarged sectional plan and cross section of
registering and ringing device, and Figure 13, plan of bell or gong.
Figures 14 and 15 are front and back view of special ticket.
In all the Figures like letters indicate corresponding parts.
N is the actuating handle; O, ring holding handle; P, punch shown circular, but
may be made to cut any device; R, upper shears; S, three dial plates for stamping
dates, &c., with raised or sunk devices on their peripheries; other dial plates can be
used instead of or in conjunction with those shown, the use of said dial plates being
to cancel the tickets by impressing devices thereon at the time of punching or
shearing; T, dial face (shown in dotted lines) of the registering apparatus; V, registering
apparatus; X, bell or gong; Y, cavity in apparatus for receiving coupons, counter
parts, or clippings; said cavity may be of any convenient form or size; Z, case or
covering which may be made of parts soldered together, or locked, or otherwise
fastened; Z¹, ticket; Z¹, reverse of same with its respective coupon or detached
picce alongside; said tickets may be of various sizes, providing the space for their
reception be adjusted to the size of ticket in use; a is the bed plate of the punch;
b, space for ticket shown in plan (dotted) in Figures 7, 8, and 9, said space may be
varied to suit different sized tickets; c, bed plate cover and guide, with lip to aperture
c¹ for passage of ticket; e, pin on handle passing through the upper shear or knife R,
and actuating same; f, pin, pivoting R, as shown; g, spring for raising punch P
and handle N; h, spring for raising handle N, and the shear attached thereto;
k, stop having for its object the prevention of the re-punching or re-cutting of
a once punched or cut ticket, and is furnished with a spring v; m, springs for setting
the marking dials as required; n, type piece fixed as shown and actuated by the
handle N; p, an opening which may be made in the case allowing the devices on
the outermost dial to be set, if necessary, by means of a key fitting into the
holes 8, 8, by which means the dial can be moved backwards or forwards.
The device shown, or other set device seen through the opening, will be identical
with that on the periphery of the dial, and which will be the impression on the
ticket.
In conjunction with or in lieu of the dial plates S, moveable type can be inserted
in the bed plate of the apparatus; æ is a covering to dial plates and springs, which
may be wholly covered, or partially only, as shown in dotted lines, when the person
using the apparatus is allowed to set the outerinost dial. 1 (see Figure 1]) is an
arm attached by a jointed connection 2 to the handle N, as shown in Figure 1, at one
end, and at the other pinioned on the plate 3 of the registering apparatus at 4, as
shown; said lever being provided with a knuckle jointed piece 5; 6 is a star pinioned
wheel which is operated by the handle N, which causes the piece 5 to impinge on one of
the star teeth, when the spring pawl 7 is thereby disengaged from the tooth it

page_text: is holding, and becomes engaged and holds another; 8 and 9 are toothed wheels
with pinions attached (extra wheels can of course be added according to the
Figures desired to be recorded) worked by 6, and actuating a series of recording
dials on the plate T; said star wheel 6 is also provided with ten pins, which
when wheel 6 is actuated, release a hammer 11 and its spring 12, and thereupon said
hammer strikes the bell or gong X.
The device used for bringing or setting the registering and recording apparatus to
zero when required is shewn in Figures 8, 10, and 12, where 13 is a rod furnished
with a thumb screw 14, fixed on a toothed wheel 15, engaged with a toothed
wheel 16, whose shaft is fitted with a wheel 17, which engages with the train of
registering and recording wheels, so that on turning the thumb screw 14, the whole
of the registering train and dials are put to zero.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The special or other ticket is inserted
in the machine through the aperture C¹, until it comes in contact with the stop k,
which stop must be pushed entirely by the ticket from under the punch or shears
before any operation can take place. If a ticket already punched or sheared by the
apparatus is employed, the stop k cannot be moved, and so the machine will not
operate; when the lever handle N can then be depressed, and being set in motion
causes the punch or shears to act, and simultaneously with such action depress the
impressing dials S on the ticket; at the moment the punch or shears have
operated, the coupon thereby detached is deposited in the cavity Y, the gong sounded,
and the registering train moved, the dials thereof recording one operation. The
ticket by means of the guides to the ticket space b can only be presented and operated
on in one place.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Charles Henry Blake have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.