Improvements in Fare-indicators and Registers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fare-indicators and Registers.
I, HEINRICH SCHWABACHER, of 6 Dessauerstrasse, Berlin S. W., in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to fare-indicators and registers which consists of an
additional apparatus connected with the main-apparatus and serving for indicating
and registering special amounts such as extra payments in respect of luggage etc.
that the conductor may receive that cannot be registered on the main apparatus and
would thus cause a loss to the owner. In order to prevent such additional indications
being left on view during the next journey, the additional indicating and controlling
apparatus is connected with the main apparatus in such a manner, that the latter
cannot be brought to its normal or zero-position (thus enabling the fare-indicator at
the beginning of a new journey to start again from zero) unless the additional
apparatus has been brought back to its normal or zero position also.
In the annexed drawing is shown a mode of carrying out these improvements.
As the construction of the main-apparatus is not concerned here its axle a only
is shown, which axle is provided with a nose b. In a box c connected in a suitable
manner with the casing of the main-apparatus lies the additional indicating and
controlling apparatus, which is operated from a sliding rod d provided in the box c
and controlled by a spring. This is effected in such a manner, that the rod d by its
forward movement turns the wheel f fixed upon the shaft g one tooth in the direction
of the arrow, Fig. 1, by means of the nose e, whereby the number-disk (Fig. 2)
also fixed upon the shaft g is also operated and shows through an opening in the
box c the amount of the special sum paid. The wheelf and the shaft g which is under
the influence of the spring lying in the spring-barrel j, is prevented from returning
by two spring-governed-pawls and k the latter k forming one arm of a double-
armed-lever m turnable round the point 1, on the other arm of which lever is arranged
a spring-operated-pawl n, which, provided with an arm n' gears into the wheel o of
the controlling-apparatus. The movement of the number-disk p fixed on the same shaft
as the wheel o is transferred in the known manner to the other number-disks q and r.
The arrangement for effecting a dependance between the main and the additional
apparatus is made in such a manner that by the forward movement of the rod d
operating the additional indicating and controlling-apparatus, a nose S thereon
operates upon the upright standing arm of an angle-lever u pivoted at t and turns
the latter a little downwards, whereby the axle a of the main-apparatus is locked
against revolution in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, by means of the bolt v seated
on the other arm of the lever u and passing through the bottom-plate of the box c.
The position of the lever u is secured by a spring w..
In order to bring the main-apparatus back into its starting position, the bolt & must
be pulled back by operating the additional indicating and controlling apparatus.
This is effected simultaneously, when the additional indicating apparatus is brought
back to its starting position, from the shaft which seated under the lever m and the
angle-lever u can be turned from the outside by means of a crank handle y and is
provided with two projections z and z¹ for lifting the lever m and the angle-lever u.
When the crank handle y, limited in its movement by means of stops, and the shaft a
are turned, the nose comes first into operation, by lifting the pawl n out of the

page_text: wheel o when encountering the arm n' of the pawl n, so that the wheel o is not
revolved by the now effected lifting and the following lowering of the lever m. By
lifting the lever m the pawls i and k are lifted out of the ratchet-wheel f, so that the
latter with the number-disk h is brought back into its starting position by means of
the spring in the spring barrel j, whereupon the spring-operated pawls i and k fall
again into the wheel f. In the meantime also by means of the nose on the shaft a
the angle-lever u is brought back into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, in
which position the bolt leaves the axle a free, so that, after having brought the
additional indicating and controlling apparatus back to its starting position, the
main-apparatus also can be brought into its starting position.
It should also be mentioned, that the additional mechanism may be built into the
main-apparatus, as also the constructive details of the described construction may be
changed variously, without departing from the principle of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. An additional indicating and controlling apparatus for fare-indicators, charac-
terized by an arrangement, whereby the indicator of the main apparatus cannot be
brought to the zero position unless the indicator of the additional apparatus is brought
to its zero position.
2. An additional indicating and controlling apparatus as in Claim 1, in which, by
the operation of the additional apparatus by means of a sliding rod d or the like, the
axle a of the main-apparatus is kept locked by means of a bolt v lying before its
nose b, until by turning a shaft a provided with noses ¹ the ratchet-wheel of the
additional apparatus is brought back to its starting position, whereupon the con-
necting lever u is moved between the rod d and the bolt u in such a manner, that the
latter leaves the axle a free to revolve.
Dated this 12th day of November 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.