IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING OR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TRAVELLING BY OMNIBUSES OR OTHER VEHICLES, OR WHO MAY HAVE ENTERED IN OR PASSED BY, OUT OF, OR THROUGH ANY PARTICULAR PLACE, VEHICLES, OR BUILDING DURING ANY GIVEN PERIOD
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Bacon Finnemore, of Easy Row,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and
Edwin Daniel Chattaway, of Camden Street, Birmingham
aforesaid, Architect, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING OR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF
PERSONS TRAVELLING BY OMNIBUSES OR OTHER VEHICLES, OR WHO MAY
HAVE ENTERED IN OR PASSED BY, OUT OF, OR THROUGH ANY PARTICULAR
PLACE, VEHICLES, OR BUILDING DURING ANY GIVEN PERIOD."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Bacon
Finnemore and Edwin Daniel Chiattaway at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 11th August
1853.
We, JOSEPH BACON FINNEMORE and EDWIN DANIEL CHATTAWAY, Provisional
Specificatio
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING OR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS
TRAVELLING BY OMNIBUSES OR OTHER VEHICLES, OR WHO MAY HAVE ENTERED

page_text: IN OR PASSED BY, OUT OF, OR THROUGH ANY PARTICULAR PLACE, VEHICLES, OR
BUILDING DURING ANY GIVEN PERIOD," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in fixing to the doors of carriages, vehicles,
vessels, or buildings an apparatus consisting of an upright standard or
pillar, with cross arms or levers, which arms rise and fall by means of
an inclined planc, and are so arranged that one arm must necessarily
always stand across the doorway, whilst the other arms hang parallel to
the upright standard. On a passenger entering the omnibus, vehicle,
or building he pushes forward the arm or lever, which forward motion
brings a second arm across the doorway, and so on ad infinitum; and as
each arm or lever is thus carried forward it registers one on a dial
attached to the apparatus.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Bacon Finnemore and Edwin Daniel
Chattaway in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th February
1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
JOSEPH BACON FINNEMORE, of Easy Row, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, and EDWIN DANIEL. CHATTAWAY, of Camden
Street, Birmingham aforesaid, Architect, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Bacon Finnemore and Edwin
Daniel Chattaway, Her special licence that we, the said Joseph Bacon
Finnemore and Edwin Daniel Chattaway, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Bacon Finnemore
and Edwin Daniel Chattaway, our exccutors, administrators, and as-
signs, 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

page_text: of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAIN-S
ING OR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TRAVELLING BY OMNIBUS
OR OTHER VEHICLES, OR WHO MAY HAVE ENTERED IN, OR PASSED BY, OUT OF,
OR THROUGH ANY PARTICULAR PLACE, VEHICLES, OR BUILDINGS DURING ANY
GIVEN PERIOD," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Joseph Bacon Finnemore and Edwin Daniel Chattaway, by an in-
strument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 we, the said Joseph Bacon Finnemore and
Edwin Daniel Chattaway, do hereby declare the nature of our said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
The nature of our said Invention, as already set forth in the
Provisional Specification filed on the said Eleventh day of Angust, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, consists in fixing to the doors
of carriages, vehicles, buildings, or places an apparatus consisting of
an upright standard or pillar with cross arms or levers, which arins
rise and fall by means of an inclined plane, and are so arranged that
one arm must necessarily always stand across the doorway or entranco,
whilst the other arms hang parallel to the upright standard. On a
passenger entering the omnibus, vehicle, building, or place he pushes
forward the arm or lever, which forward motion brings a second arni
across the doorway, and so on ad infinitum; and as each arm or lever is
thus carried forward it registers on a dial attached to the apparatus.
.
And for the better exemplification of the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and particularly as regards the manner the same is to be performed,
we now exhibit a Sheet of illustrative Drawings attached to these
presents, which are referred to in the following description thereof.
DESITA An
DNA

page_text: - or on entering or leaving any place or building, wo adopt the following.
arrangement of mechanisin as most suitable for the same..
"
Four levers or arins (three of which, marked A, A, A, are shewn in
the annexed Drawing) are attached to a revolving central rod B,
at right angles to each other. These levers are jointed at G, so as to.
allow them to rise freely to a horizontal position when acted upon bý
the inclined plane C; this plane is firmly attached to a pedestal D,
(which is fixed in the doorway of the vehicle or place to which the
registering apparatus is applied,) in such a manner that it always.
necessarily supports one of the levers or arms in a horizontal position
across, the doorway of such vehicle or place. The effect of this
arrangement is this: that when a passenger or visitor enters he neces
sarily pushes forward one of the lovers thus placed across the doorway,
and this forward movement brings a second. lever up the inclined plane
into the same position as that occupied previously by the lever carried.
forward. This second lever, is likewise carried forward on the entrance.
of a second. passenger or visitor, and a third lever is brought up the
inclined plane, and so on. Eacli lever after it has been carried forward,
being no longer supported by the inclined plane, falls down to a position
parallel with the pedestal, by which means a great economy of space is.
effected; the same operation takes place on the egress of passengers or
visitors. It will be seen from this description that one of the four.
levers always occupies a horizontal position across the doorway, while
the remaining three are parallel to the pedestal.
Connected with the central rod is a dial (E), the wheelwork of
which, being of the ordinary character adopted for similar purposes,"
moves freely when motion is communicated to it by the central rod cach-
time a person enters, but is prevented by a spring from moving when
any person leaves the vehicle, building, or place to which the register-
ing apparatus is applied. The dial thus-unerringly registers the ingress,
but not the egress of every passenger or visitor. F, is a break
apparatus, for the purpose of preventing the central rod from being
carried round more than one fourth part of a circle on the entrance or
exit of each passenger. It also prevents any person from entering or
leaving the vehicle or place without the knowledge and consent of the
conductor or doorkeeper.

page_text: Having now described the nature of our said Invention, in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as our
Invention the application of rising and falling levers for the purpose
of registering the number of persons travelling by or in omnibuses or
other vehicles, and in all other cases where it is required to ascertain the
number of persons who may have entered in or passed by or through
any particular placc, vehicle, or building during any given period.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Bacon Finnemore and
Edwin Daniel Chattaway, have hereunto set our hands and
seals, this Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOSEPH BACON FINNEMORE.
(L.S.)
EDWIN DANIEL CHATTAWAY. (L.S.)