An Improved Ticket or Badge.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ticket or Badge.
WILLIAM HACKETT 100 Drayton Park Highbury N. Jeweller do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A Ticket, l'ass or Badge, suitable for use upon Railways as ordinary or Periodical
Ticket or Pass for Passengers or staff-it is equally applicable to Clubs & Institutions
public and private, also as a Badge for Licensed Men-such as Porters, Cab Drivers
Car and Omnibus Employees and the like.
May be made in Wood-Cardboard-Papier Mache Leather Gutta Percha & other
like materials but is preferable in Metal, with the object of producing an
indistructible article-The said Ticket can be made in various forms such, for
instance, as a charm for the watch chain a Badge for the breast or some form
convenient for carrying in the Pockets-The said Ticket, pass, or Badge contains
interchangeable parts embracing various colours to denote different Places-Dates-
Periods Classes and other requirement.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ticket or Badge.
WILLIAM HACKETT 100 Drayton Park, Highbury, N. Jeweller do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention is specially applicable to season tickets, but is not limited to that
purpose, and supplies in a compact form a ticket or badge in which variable parts are
fitted into and secured in a frame, so that the same frame can be made to serve an
indefinite number of times, for any period and for any part of the line, and also the
particulars necessary to be seen can be easily inspected.
To show how my invention may be carried out I furnish drawings in which the
same letters represent corresponding parts throughout.
Fig. 1 is the front of a ticket with the variable parts inserted.
Fig. 2 is the front of the permanent frame.
Figs. 3-6 are the variable pieces.
Fig. 7 is the back of the ticket.
Fig. 8 is the back piece which secures the variable parts in the frame.
Fig. 9 is the back of the frame.
Fig. 10 shows another form of back.
Fig. 11 shows a third form of back.
Fig. 12 is an additional back piece used with the form shown in Fig. 11.
The variable pieces Figs. 3-6 are inserted in their respective slots in the frame
which is so constructed that when they are laid flat they will not fall through the
front of the frame Fig. 2. This is effected by making the slots & variable pieces with
tapering edges or by allowing the variable pieces to rest on flanges on the frame. In
order to secure the variable pieces in the frame the back plate Fig. 8 is placed with
one lug A in the groove B on the back of the frame & the other lug C is laid in the
notch D on the back of the frame. The groove B is made tapering near to the
notch D so that when the back plate is turned the lugs fit tight in the said groove.
In order to further secure the back plate a stud E on frame fits into notch F on back
plate when the lugs A and C are tight.

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In order to remove the back plate from the frame the central variable piece Fig. 5
is pressed. This action removes the back plate from the stud E and the back plate
can then be turned till the lug is in the notch D and can then be withdrawn.
G is a piece solid with the back plate carrying a fac simile of the signature of
the ticket holder & the number of the ticket or other desirable matter. If desired
G may be a part of the back plate. The back of the plate may be used to contain
information which it is desired to give to the ticket holder. It will be found con-
venient for each kind of ticket to have a clearly marked predominant colour, and
also that the months which are indicated by the central variable piece Fig. 5, should
each be marked by a distinctive colour.
In the modification shown in Fig. 10 the slip G₁ containing the holders name
is separate from the back plate and is fixed under the back plate and seen through
a slit H in the back plate.
In Fig. 11 the back plate J is simply placed in the frame and is secured by an
additional piece K which is shown separately in Fig. 12 and is screwed on to the
frame.
I preferably use metal throughout for the ticket, but I do not limit myself to
the use of metal for the whole or any part but may use wood, bone, ivory or
other suitable material. It will be generally found convenient to have the ticket
of a circular form, but the invention can be equally well carried out in a triangular,
square or other shape.
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 1
claim is :-
An improved ticket or badge in which variable parts are inserted in a permanent
frame & secured in the manner described in the foregoing specification & shown in
the drawings.