IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING OR INDICATING APPARATUS, APPLICABLE TO THE REGISTRATION OR INDICATION OF FARES, THE DISTANCES PASSED OVER BY VEHICLES, THE REVOLUTIONS OF MACHINES OR PARTS OF MACHINES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Clegg, of Islington, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING
OR INDICATING APPARATUS, APPLICABLE TO THE REGISTRATION OR INDICATION OF
FARES, THE DISTANCES PASSED OVER BY VEHICLES, THE REVOLUTIONS OF
MACHINES OR PARTS OF MACHINES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 14th May 1858, and dated the 18th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Clegg at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th November 1857.
I, ROBERT CLEGG, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
REGISTERING OR INDICATING APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO THE REGISTRATION OR IN-
DICATION OF FARES, THE DISTANCES PASSED OVER BY VEHICLES, THE REVOLUTIONS
OF MACHINES OR PARTS OF MACHINES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in attaching to or connecting with vehicles, machines
or parts of machines, and other objects, which or parts of which rotate, certain
apparatus or contrivances arranged and made to operate essentially as follows:-
I affix to or form upon an axle or other rotating part of a vehicle, machine, or
other object, a pin, stud, or other equivalent contrivance, and upon a non-
rotating part of such vehicle, machine, or other object, I centre a lever, one

page_text: extremity of which lies within the range of such pin, stud, or other contrivance
as it rotates, and receives an intermittent motion therefrom. To the other end
of the said lever a short spring, lever arm, or other contrivanco is attached in
such manner that when the first-named lever is moved it shall impart a corre-
sponding motion to a ratchet wheel, against which the said spring, lever arm,
or other contrivance is pressed. With this ratchet wheel is combined another
wheel or other wheels, which transmit motion intermittently to a hand or
hands moving in front of a suitable dial or dials. Tho operation of the parts is as
follows-Each time the part which carries the pin, stud, or other contrivanco
rotates, the lever and its appendages move the ratchet wheel round one tooth,
and when the ratchet wheel has thus been moved through a distanco corre-
sponding to any given number of its teeth, it moves the adjacent wheel round
one tooth, and this wheel either carries the hand round with it, or moves a
third wheel which does so, or a third wheel and other wheels which do so. It
is manifest that by properly forming and adjusting the wheels the hand may
be made to move at any required intervals, and thus register or indicate fares,
the distances passed over by vehicles, the revolutions of machines or parts of
machines, and other similar quantities. Any suitable case may be employed
with the parts before described, and the dials may be marked or graduated in
any required manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Clegg in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the
18th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
CLEGG, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Clegg, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Clegg, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Clegg, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING OR

page_text: INDICATING APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO THE REGISTRATION OR INDICATION OF FARES,
THE DISTANCES PASSED OVER BY VEHICLES, THE REVOLUTIONS OF MACHINES OR
PARTS OF MACHINES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst:
others) that I, the said Robert Clegg, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals;
should particularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters. Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Clegg, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is.
to say:-
My Invention consists in attaching to or connecting with vehicles, machines
or parts of machines, and other objects, which or parts of which rotate or other-
wise move, certain apparatus or contrivances arranged and made to operate
essentially as follows:-I affix to or form upon an axle or other rotating part
of a machine; vehicle; or other object, a pin, stud,. or other equivalent con-
trivance, and upon a non-rotating part of such vehicle, machine, or other
object I centre a lever, one extremity of which lies within the range of such
pin, stud, or other equivalent contrivance as it rotates, and receives an inter-
mittent motion therefrom. To the other end of the said lever a short spring,
lever, arm, or other contrivance is attached in such manner that when the
first-named lever is moved it shall impart a corresponding motion to a ratchet
wheel, against which the said spring, lever arm, or other contrivance is pressed.
With this ratchet wheel is combined another wheel or other wheels, which
transmit motion intermittently to a hand or hands. moving in front of a suitable
dial or dials. The operation of the parts is as follows:-Each time the part
which carries the pin, stud, or other contrivance rotates, the lever and its
appendages move the ratchet wheel round one tooth, and when the ratchet
wheel has thus been moved through a distance corresponding to any given
number of its teeth, it moves the adjacent wheel round one tooth, and this
wheel either carries the band round with it or moves a third wheel which
does so, or a third wheel and other wheels which do so. It is manifest that
by properly forming and adjusting the wheels the hand may be made to move
at any required intervals, and thus register or indicate fares, the distances
passed over by vehicles, the revolutions of machines or parts of machines, and
other similar quantities. Any suitable case may be employed with the parts.

page_text: Delore described, and the dais may be marked or graduated in any required
manner.
In the Drawings hereunto annexed I havo illustrated the manner in which
I prefer to apply niy improvements in constructing a registering apparatus to
be used on vehicles for registering the distances passed over by them, and the
fares which correspond to the said distances. Figure 1 is a view of the dial
face of the apparatus; Figure 2 is a view of the interior parts of the apparatus
with tho dial and the front plato removed; Figure 3 is a view of the samo
parts with the back plate removed; and Figure 4 is a side view of the same
parts. Upon the nave of the wheel I fix, at an angle, the jointed stud or pin
shewn in Figures 3 and 6, which is composed of two parts A and B, connected
by a pin a, and furuished with a spring b, which, after the two parts have been
partially folded together, presses them open again into the position shewn in
the said Figures, and keeps them in that position. The apparatus shewn in
Figures 1 to 4 is attached by any convenient means to the body or other non-
rotating part of the vehicle, and in such a position that as the nave revolves
the part A of the stud (Figures 5 and 6) shall come against the end of the
lever C and move it in the direction of the arrow. This lever C moves about
a pin c, and carries at its upper end a short inclined arm, to which is pinned a
pallet d, which is pressed by a spring e into the teeth of a toothed wheel D;
mounted upon a suitable axis or arbor. Upon the axis of the wheel D is at
pinion f, which gears into a toothed wheel E. The axis of this wheel carries.
n second pinion 9, which gears into a toothed wheel F, and the axis of this last
wheel has pinned upon it the finger or pointer G on the outside of the dial
face (Figure 1). On the side of the wheel D, opposite to that on which the
pallet dis, a second pallet h, attached to a spring i, is applied, and when the
lever C is moved, the two pallets drive the various wheels and pinions, after
the manner of ordinary clockwork. The teeth of the wheels and pinions are
so arranged and combined, as to number and position, that while the vehicle is
travelling one mile the finger G shall move round from one of the figures upon
the dial to the next figure, the figures upon the dial being arranged to indicato
both fares and distances, as shown. In Figure 1 the London cab fares are
marked, but any other code of fares may of course be employed, according to
the place and servico in which the vehiclo may be employed. The object of
jointing the stud or pin A, B, is that when the vehicle is backed the part A
may yield on touching the lever C, and pass it without moving it.
part of the lever C, with the aru, pallet, and spring attached to it, is shewn in
the separate views, Figures 7 and 8. A spring , Figure 2, is applied to force
the lover C back to its first position after it has been moved by the stud A, B.
The upper

page_text: An apparatus of the foregoing, or any equivalent and similar description,
may be so arranged that the driver or other person may set it anew at each
journey, or so that it shall be inaccessible to him, and under the control of the
owner or other person in charge of the vehicle; or one of each kind may be
applied, if desired, to the same vehicle.
Although I have confined my detailed description to an apparatus to be
used with vehicles, I wish it to be understood that the said apparatus may be
varied as regards the arrangement of its levers, springs, and wheels, both in
form and number, and that apparatuses of a substantially similar kind are to
be applied by me to many other purposes, such as to printing presses, for
registering the number of sheets, quires, or reams of paper printed; to calico
printing machines, for registering the number of yards operated upon; and to
any and all revolving and other machines, or parts of revolving and other
machines, to which the same are or may be applicable.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the construction
and employment of registering or indicating apparatus applicable to the
registration or indication of fares, the distances passed over by vehicles, the
revolutions of machines or parts of machines, and other similar purposes,
essentially as herein-before described, and illustrated in the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Clegg, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight.