IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR USE ON PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Guy Wilson, of 8, Quality Court, Chancery Lane,
London, and of 71, Market Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanical Engineer and Patent Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR USE ON PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by John Wright Fowler
and Daniel Fillmore, Lewis, both of the Firm of Lewis & Fowler, Manu-
facturers, of the City of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, United States
of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Guy Wilson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th August 1881.
"
JOHN GUY WILSON, of 8, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, and of
71, Market Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanical Engineer
and Patent Agent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR USE ON
PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES." A communication from
abroad by John Wright Fowler and Daniel Fillmore Lewis, both of the Firm
of Lewis & Fowler, Manufacturers, of the City of Brooklyn, in the State of
New York, United States of America.
This Invention relates primarily to the completion or improvement of a certain
form of passenger register named the "alarm," and designed especially for
registering or indicating the number of persons carried or fares collected in or on
public conveyances, such as tram-way carriages, which make repeated trips to and
fro between given points or over a given route at a given fixed rate or rates of
fare, the object being to ensure correct returns or settlements by the conductor,
driver, or other agent charged with the collection of fares, and to afford means for
detecting unfaithfulness on his part.
The respective improvements may however be embodied in any passenger
register to which the same may be appropriate, or in other of those mechanical
devices which may be classed as registering apparatus, the same being variously
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page_text: known as €6 registers," "indicators,"
telltales," and "counters," for registering,
indicating, counting, or ascertaining the number of persons, 'parcels, loads, or the
like carried, received, or delivered by a vehicle; the number of persons, animals,
or vehicles passing through a doorway or gateway, or over a bridge, the number of
operations of a machine, such as a printing press, or the amount of fares collected,
or of quantities or the like indicated in given denominations, various forms of which
have heretofore been patented by others and more or less extensively used.
The external characteristics of an illustrative "alarm" register embodying the
several improvements are (1) a circular case composed of a nickel plated sheet
brass drum or rim, a transparent glass faceplate, and a cast-iron back-plate, the
latter united with said rim by screws and constructed with a hook-lug at top and
a hasp lug at bottom to co-act with a pair of staples on a fixed support, and with
a locking-pin and padlock as means for hanging the register; (2) a dial plate
parallel to said face-plate bearing a large "trip-dial" concentric with the case, and
a smaller dial within the former like the seconds dial of a watch, with index hands
between the dial-plate and face-plate concentric with the respective dials, that of
the former termed the "trip-hand," both index hands rotating synchronously step
by step in the registering operation so as to simultaneously indicate or temporarily
register each unit on both dials; (3) an index-orifice in the said dial-plate through
which numbers on a rotary dial are instantaneously exposed in proper succession
to register hundreds; (4) means for "pulling" a spring-retracted main-slide
located within the case to actuate the registering mechanism and to "ring" a bell
within the case after the registration of each unit; (5) means for resetting the said
trip hand at zero independently of the main actuating mechanism; (6) orifices in
the said metallic rim guarded internally by wire-gauze for the escape of sound
from the bell which gives audible notice of each registration; and (7) an orifice in
the said dial-plate through which the visual signal or sign of a " direction-
indicator" is conspicuously displayed to indicate whether the trip-hand has been
duly reset at the beginning of each trip; the mechanism belonging to this direction
indicator being actuated simultaneously or in connection with the resetting of the
trip-hand and by the same external appliances.
This register it will be observed is "duplex;" said trip-hand and its imme-
diate appurtenances constituting an illustrative "trip-register," which indicates
the number of passengers from whom fare has been collected on a given trip or
during a given period, so that the registration as it progresses may be readily
observed by the passengers and the total may be readily noted, after which
this trip register is reset at zero as aforesaid, while the other unit indexhand and
the rotary hundreds dial move forward only and constitute with their appurtenances
& "continuous register," as a check on the former and a convenient indication of
the total of all the trip-indications mechanically ascertained.
In proposed modifications either the said trip register or the said continuous
register may be omitted, so as to render the apparatus "single," the said setting
mechanism being omitted or retained with the former, or either of several
modifications of the said setting-mechanism or substitutes therefor may be used, or
the bell mechanism and direction indicator or either of them may be omitted or
changed, and several major details of construction as well as minor details may be
modified without wholly departing from the present Invention.
This Invention consists more particularly in the below named improved features
of construction and combinations of parts, to wit:-
1. In an improved combination of parts for registering units and subsequently
ringing a bell to attest or give audible notice of each registration, the same com-
prising a distinct bell-lever, having the bell hammer and striking spring attached
thereto, and adapted to remain at rest during the whole of each registering stroke
of the aforesaid main slide or its equivalent to preclude ringing the bell until after
each unit is fully registered.
2. In the combination of a distinct bell lever as afore said with a working pawl
having a bead adapted to engage with said lever during the return stroke of said

page_text: main slide or its equivalent, and a main ratchet-wheel held against retrogression
by a detent-pawl for ringing the bell after each registration.
3. In the combination of a distinct bell lever as aforesaid, adapted to remain
at rest during the whole of each registering-stroke of the main slide or its
equivalent means for actuating said lever during the return stroke of said main-
slide or its equivalent, and a swinging-catch arranged and operated so as to prevent
ringing the bell until the final act of bringing the parts to rest after each
registration.
4. In the combination of a main-slide or its equivalent, a distinct bell-lever, a
single click detent-pawl and their springs, with a working pawl, a main ratchet-
wheel, and a unit registering mechanism actuated by said ratchet-wheel, as improved.
means for returning said mechanism to correct position after incomplete or
excessive actuations of said main-slide or its equivalent.
5. In the combination of a main-slide or its equivalent, a distinct bell lever, a
single click detent-pawl and their springs, with a working-pawl, a main ratchet
wheel and its shaft, the unit shaft of a trip-register, the unit shaft of a continuous
register, and gearing connecting said shafts with the shaft of said main ratchet-
wheel, as improved means for simultaneously correcting the indications of both
registers after incomplete or excessive movements as aforesaid.
6. In the combination of a trip hand or any equivalent thereof adapted to be
reset at will, and improved mechanism for re-setting the same step-by-step, com-
prising a reciprocating setting-slide within the register case, an exposed knob or
its equivalent so connected with said slide as to remain attached to the register,
and a retracting-spring or springs so attached to said slide as to draw the shank
of the said knob or its equivalent into the case in bringing the parts to rest, the
object being to provide for employing an inclosed reciprocating setting-slide having
a long stroke with an "attached" knob or its equivalent exposed externally as means
for actuating the same, without the disadvantages which would attach to a pro-
truding push knob having a shank of the requisite length, owing to its unsightly
appearance, tempting accessibility and liability to accidental actuation, and so as
to secure the advantages of a downward or direct pull for the main setting-stroke,
and freedom from the marring effect and delays incident to inserting a loose key
through a small key-hole in the plated case of the register.
7. In the combination of a reciprocating "setting-slide" arranged vertically
within the lower part of the register-case, an exposed pull-knob or its equivalent
having a vertical shank rod, and a pinion and racks connecting said shank-rod and
slide as means for transmitting motion from one to the other, so as to secure at
once the advantages of a downward pull for the main setting stroke and the aid
of gravity in the return stroke.
8. In a visual signal or "indicator" arranged behind the dial plate of the
register and adapted to rotate on an axis parallel to said dial plate to display.
different indications successively through an orifice in said dial-plate, in combi-
nation with means for transmitting motion thereto from a reciprocating setting
slide as aforesaid, or any reciprocating part of a setting mechanisin adapted to
co-act therewith as improved means for indicating each resetting actuation of the
trip-hand or its equivalent so as to insure the faithful performance on the part of
the conductor or agent of the duty to reset the trip register at the end of each
trip or given period as aforesaid.
9. In an adjustable arm, in combination with a spring and a stop-pin as means
for regulating the presentation of the other arms of a rock-shaft, through which
motion is transmitted to said visual signal so as to insure the proper change of
the latter at each impulse.
10. In the combination of an arm having a laterally yielding spring-finger,
and a part actuated by the main slide aforesaid, or its equivalent, and adapted to
engage with said spring finger for locking said rock-slinft at the end of each
forward movement thereof, so as to prevent repeated actuations of the visual
signal during a given setting operation, and to relieve the setting slide from

page_text: obstruction or additional load during the remainder of such setting operation, and
prevent, the disarrangement of the indicator which would otherwise occur in
setting it by means of a reciprocating setting device requiring an indefinite number
of actuations for its primary work and for unlocking the same at the first
succeeding actuation of said main slide or its equivalent, so as to render the
indicator-mechanisın "at rest as quickly as possible, and to avoid burdening the
main actuating mechanism.
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11. In the combination of a trip-register, a reciprocating device for resetting said
register at the end of each trip, and an indicator-mechanism adapted to be fully
actuated to change the reading or indication of the indicator at the first stroke of
said reciprocating setting-device.
12. In the combination of a trip-register, a reciprocating device for resetting
said register at the end of each trip, an indicator-mechanism adapted to be actuated
by said setting device, and a locking device for preventing repeated actuations
of the indicator by said setting device during the individual setting operation.
13. In the combination of a trip register, a reciprocating device for resetting
said register at the end of each trip, an indicator mechanism adapted to be actuated
by said setting device, a bell mechanism adapted to interlock with said indicator-
mechanism during the setting operation, and a main actuating device as means for
unlocking the indicator mechanism.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Guy Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th January 1882.
JOHN GUY WILSON, of 8, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, and of
71, Market Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanical Engineer
and Patent Agent. “IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR USE ON
PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES." A communication from
abroad by John Wright Fowler and Daniel Fillmore Lewis, both of the Firm
of Lewis and Fowler, Manufacturers, of the City of Brooklyn, in the State of
New York, United States of America.
This Invention relates primarily to the completion or improvement of a certain
form of passenger register named the "alarm," and designed especially for registering
or indicating the number of persons carried or fares collected in or on public
conveyances, such as tramway carriages, which make repeated "trips" back and
forth between given points or over a given route at a given fixed rate or rates of
fare; the object being to insure correct returns or settlements by the conductor,
driver, or other agent charged with the collection of fares, and to afford means for
detecting unfaithfulness on his part.
The respective improvements may however be embodied in any passenger
register to which the same may be appropriate, or in other of those mechanical
devices which may be classed as registering apparatus, the same being variously
known as "registers," "indicators," "tell-tales," and " counters," for registering,
indicating, counting, or ascertaining the number of persons, parcels, loads, or the
like carried, received, or delivered by a vehicle; the number of persons, animals,
or vehicles passing through a doorway or gateway, or over a bridge; the number
of operations of a machine, such as a printing press, or the amount of fares
collected, or of quantities or the like indicated in given denominations, various
forms of which have heretofore been patented by others, and more or less extensively
used.
The external characteristics of an illustrative "alarm" register embodying the
several improvements are (1) a circular case composed of a nickle-plated sheet brass
drum or rim, a transparent glass face-plate, and a cast-iron back-plate, the latter
united with said rim by screws, and constructed with a hook-lug at top and a
hasp-lug at bottom to coact with a pair of staples on a fixed support, and with a
locking pin and padlock as means for hanging the register; (2) a dial-plate parallel
to said face-plate bearing a large "trip-dial" concentric with the case, and a
smaller dial within the former, like the seconds' dial of a watch, with index-hands
between the dial-plate and face-plate concentric with the respective dials, that of
the former termed the "trip-hand," both index hands rotating synchronously step
by step in the registering operation so as to simultaneously indicate or temporarily
register each unit on both dials; (3) an index-orifice in the said dial-plate through
which numbers on a rotary-dial are instantaneously exposed in proper succession
to register hundreds; (4) means for "pulling" a spring-retracted main-slide located
within the case to actuate the registering mechanism and to "ring" a bell within
the case after the registration of each unit; (5) means for resetting the said trip-
hand at zero independently of the main actuating mechanism; (6) orifices in the
said metallic rim, guarded internally by wire-gauze, for the escape of sound from
the bell, which gives audible notice of each registration; and (7) an orifice in the
said dial-plate through which the visual signal or sign of a "direction indicator"
is conspicuously displayed to indicate whether the trip-hand has been duly reset
at the beginning of each trip, the mechanism belonging to this "direction-indicator'

page_text: being actuated simultaneously or in connection with the resetting of the trip-hand
and by the same external appliances.
This register it will be observed is "duplex," said trip-hand and its immediate
appurtenances constituting an illustrative "trip-register" which indicates the
number of passengers from whom fare has been collected on a given trip or during
a given period, so that the registration as it progresses may be readily observed by
the passengers and the total may be readily noted, after which this trip-register is
reset at zero as aforesaid, while the other unit index-band and the rotary hundreds-
dial move forward only and constitute with their appurtenances a continuous-
register as a check on the former and a convenient indication of the total of all
the trip-indications mechanically ascertained.
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In proposed modifications either the said trip-register or the said continuous
register may be omitted, so as to render the apparatus "single," the said setting:
mechanism being omitted or retained with the former; or either of several
modifications of the said setting-mechanism or substitutes therefor may be used;
or the bell-mechanism and direction-indicator, or either of them, may be omitted
or changed, and several major details of construction as well as minor details may
be modified without wholly departing from the present Invention.
This Invention consists more particularly in the improved features of
construction and combinations of parts, which I will now proceed to describe,
to wit:-
1. In an improved combination of parts for registering units and subsequently
ringing a bell to attest or give audible notice of each registration, the same
comprising a distinct bell-lever having the bell-hammer and striking-spring attached
thereto and adapted to remain at rest during the whole of each registering stroke
of the aforesaid main-slide or its equivalent to preclude ringing the bell until after
each unit is fully registered.
2. In the combination of a distinct bell-lever, as aforesaid, with a working
pawl having a head adapted to engage with said lever during the return-stroke of
said main slide or its equivalent, and a main ratchet-wheel held against retrogression
by a detent-pawl for ringing the bell after each registration.
3. In the combination of a distinct bell-lever, as aforesaid, adapted to remain at
rest during the whole of each registering-stroke of the main-slide or its equivalent,
means for actuating said lever during the return-stroke of said main-slide or its
equivalent, and a swinging-catch, arranged and operated so as to prevent
ringing the bell until the final act of bringing the parts to rest after each
registration.
4. In the combination of a main slide or its equivalent, a distinct bell-lever, a
single click detent-pawl and their springs, with a working pawl, a main ratchet-
wheel, and a unit registering mechanism actuated by said ratchet wheel, as
improved means for returning said mechanism to correct position after incomplete
or excessive actuations of said main-slide or its equivalent.
5. In the combination of a main slide or its equivalent, a distinct bell-lever, a
single click detent-pawl and their springs, with a working-pawl, a main ratchet-
wheel and its shaft, the unit shaft of a trip-register, the unit shaft of a
continuous-register, and gearing connecting said shafts with the shaft of the said
main ratchet-wheel, as improved means for simultaneously correcting the indications
of both registers after incomplete or excessive movements, as aforesaid.
6. In the combination of a trip-hand or any equivalent thereof adapted to be
reset at will, and improved mechanism for resetting the same step by step,
comprising a reciprocating setting-slide within the register case, an exposed knob
or its equivalent so connected with said slide as to remain attached to the register,
and a retracting-spring or springs so attached to said slide as to draw the shank of
the said knob or its equivalent into the case in bringing the parts to rest, the
object being to provide for employing an enclosed reciprocating setting-slide having
a long stroke with an "attached" knob or its equivalent exposed externally as
means for actuating the same, without the disadvantages which would attach to a

page_text: protruding push-knob having a shank of the requisite length owing to its unsightly
appearance, tempting accessibility, and liability to accidental actuation, and so as to
secure the advantages of a downward or direct pull for the main setting-stroke
and freedom from the marring effect and delays incident to inserting a loose key
through a small key-hole in the plated case of the register.
7. In the combination of a reciprocating "setting-slide" arranged vertically
within the lower part of the register-case, an exposed pull-knob or its equivalent
having a vertical shank-rod, and a pinion and racks connecting said shank-rod and
slide as means for transmitting motion from one to the other, so as to secure at
once the advantages of a downward pull for the main setting-stroke and the aid
of gravity in the return stroke.
8. In a visual signal or "indicator" arranged behind the dial-plate of the
register, and adapted to rotate on an axis parallel to said dial-plate to display
different indications successively through an orifice in said dial-plate, in combi-
nation with means for transmitting motion thereto from a reciprocating setting-
slide, or any reciprocating part of a setting mechanism adapted to coact therewith,
as improved means for indicating each resetting actuation of the trip-hand or its
equivalent, so as to insure the faithful performance on the part of the conductor
or agent of the duty to reset the trip-register at the end of each trip or given
period, as aforesaid.
9. In an adjustable arm in combination with a spring and a stop pin as means
for regulating the presentation of the other arms of a rock-shaft, through which
motion is transmitted to said visual signal, so as to insure the proper change of the
latter at each impulse.
10. In the combination of an arm having a laterally yielding spring-finger and
a part actuated by the main-slide aforesaid, or its equivalent, and adapted to
engage with said spring-finger for locking said rock-shaft at the end of each
forward movement thereof, so as to prevent repeated actuations of the visual signal
during a given setting operation, and to relieve the setting slide from obstruction
or additional load during the remainder of such setting operation, and prevent the
disarrangement of the indicator which would otherwise occur in setting it by means
of a reciprocating setting-device requiring an indefinite number of actuations for
its primary work, and for unlocking the same at the first succeeding actuation of
said main slide or its equivalent, so as to render the indicator-mechanism "at rest"
as quickly as possible, and to avoid burdening the main actuating mechanism.
11. In the combination of a trip-register a reciprocating device for resetting said
register at the end of each trip, and an indicator-mechanism adapted to be fully
actuated to change the reading or indication of the indicator at the first stroke of
said reciprocating setting-device.
12. In the combination of a trip-register a reciprocating device for resetting said
register at the end of each trip, an indicator-mechanism adapted to be actuated
by said setting device, and a locking device for preventing repeated actuations
of the indicator by said setting-device during the individual setting operation.
13. In the combination of a trip-register a reciprocating device for resetting said
register at the end of each trip, an indicator-mechanism adapted to be actuated by
said setting-device, a bell-mechanism adapted to interlock with said indicator-
mechanism during the setting operation, and a main actuating device as means for
unlocking the indicator-mechanism.
And in order that the said Invention and the aforesaid modifications thereof
may be more clearly understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed, aided
by the accompanying Drawings, more fully to describe the same.
The said Drawings consists of three Sheets, bearing in all thirty-six consecutively
numbered Figures.
Figs. 1 and 2 are small face views of the aforesaid passenger register illustrating
this Invention, and Figs. 3 and 4 are edge views of the same from above and
beneath on the same scale as Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. 5 is a large face view of the same
register, with its drum, index-hands, and dial plate removed, and the exposed parts

page_text: at rest; Fig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal section through all; and Figs. 7 and 8
are sectional face views illustrating the operation of the respective mechanisins;
Fig. 9 is a horizontal section through all, showing an elevation of the direction-
indicator from beneath; Fig. 10 is an elevation of the latter, showing its left hand
end as viewed in Fig. 9, and Fig. 11 is a supplemental sectional view thereof;
Fig. 12 is an edge view of the pull knob setting-mechanism at rest, as shown in
Fig. 5, and in full lines in Fig. 6; Figs. 13 and 14 are face views thereof illus-
trating its operation; and Figs. 15 and 16 are back views respectively of its face-
plate and setting-hub detached. All the above mentioned Figures represent the
aforesaid illustrative register and parts thereof, and Figs. 5 to 16 inclusive are
drawn to one and the same scale.
Fig. 17 is a small external view in perspective of a modified register; Fig. 18, a
face view of the same on the larger scale with drum, index-hands, and dial-plate
removed; and Fig. 19, an elevation of its "push-key."
Fig. 20 is a face view similar to Fig. 18 illustrating another modification;
Fig. 21, an end view of the inverted setting-slide shown in Fig. 20; and Fig. 22,
a perspective view of the two parts of a substitute for the "pull knob" of the
latter.
Fig. 23 is a half face view, showing a rotary-key setting-mechanism as a sub-
stitute for the setting-slides aforesaid; Fig. 24 is an elevation of the said rotary-key
setting-mechanism; Fig. 25, a face view of its end-bracket and key-box, and
Fig. 26 a back view of these parts; Fig. 27 is a section through the trip-hand as
applied to the said rotary-key setting-mechanism; Fig. 28, a partial longitudinal
section of the said mechanism; Fig. 29, an elevation of the rotary-key belonging
thereto, and Fig. 30 a cross-section through its zero stóp.
Fig. 31 is a perspective view of a substitute device for pulling the main-slide of
either register for use on a two-platform tramway-carriage; Fig. 32 is a small face
view of a register, illustrating the mode of hanging the same and connecting said
pulling device therewith; Fig. 33 is a top view of the connecting device; and
Fig. 34 represents a vertical longitudinal section of the opposite end of a tramway
carriage showing the said pulling device in position.
Figs. 35 and 36 are respectively a back-view and an edge-view of the back-plate
of either of said registers provided with a substitute pulling device for use on one
platform tramway-carriages.
Figs. 18 to 31 inclusive are drawn to substantially the same scale as Figs. 5-16,
and Figs. 32 to 36 inclusive to substantially the same scale as Figs. 1 to 4. The
planes of the sections shown in several of the Figures are indicated by broken lines
having the same numbers as the said Figures, with arrows crossing the same in the
direction of vision. Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all
the Figures, and the motions of the respective parts are indicated by arrows
correspondingly numbered in all the Figures.
The external characteristics of the said illustrative alarm register are shown by
Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, in connection with Fig. 32, being, as aforesaid (1), a circular
case having a nickel plated sheet brass drum or rim z provided with a glass face-
plate y, and united by screws a with a cast iron back-plate w, the latter constructed
with a hook lug at top and a hasp lug v³ at bottom to coact with a pair of
staples u, u, on a fixed support U, which in the example is a wooden board
attached by screws to the end-wall of a tramway-carriage, and with a locking pin
and padlock t as means for hanging the register; (2) a dial-plate d parallel to said
face-plate y, bearing a large "trip-dial" d² concentric with the case, and a smaller
dial d within the former, with index-hands H, H, between the dial and face plate
concentric with the respective dials, that of the former termed the "trip-hand,"
both index hands rotating synchronously, step by step, in the registering operation;
(3) an index orifice o in the said dial plate, through which numbers on a rotary
dial H³, termed the "hundreds-dial," are successively exposed to register hundreds;
(4) means for pulling a spring retracted main-slide (S, Fig. 5, et seq.) within the
case, to actuate the registering mechanism and to ring a bell or gong (G, Fig. 5,

page_text: et seq.) within the case after the registration of each unit, consisting in the example
represented by Figs. 1-4 of a bent lever L having a depending hand-strap attached
thereto; (5) means for resetting the said trip-hand at zero (0) independently of the
main actuating.mechanism, consisting in the said example of a pull-knob K at the
bottom of the case; (6) orifices o in the said metallic rim & guarded internally by
wire-gauze, as shown more clearly in Fig. 9, for the escape of sound from the
bell; (7) an orifice o' in the said dial-plate d, through which the visual signal or
sign V of a "direction indicator" is conspicuously displayed, as seen in Figs. 1
and 2.
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The registering mechanisms and bell-mechanism are shown by Figa 5-9 in
connection with Figs. 1 and 2. The respective parts are attached to or have their
bearings or guides formed in or upon said back-plate w, in connection with a spider
frame 8, attached to said back-plate by screws. A and B represent respectively the
unit-shaft of a "trip-register," and that of a "continuous-register" represented
externally respectively by the said "trip-hand" H and "trip-dial" d', and the
said hand H2 and dial d said shafts being perpendicular to the back plate w, and
extending therefrom through the spider frames and dial-plato d to carry said hands,
a frictional "setting hub" I being interposed between the trip-hand and its shaft
to provide for resetting the former independently. A¹ represents a driving shaft
parallel to said shafts A, B, and equidistant therefrom; R, a main ratchet-
wheel and P, a pinion, each of 20 teeth, fast on said shaft A'; and W, W³, spur-
wheels, each of 100 teeth, fast on said shafts A and B respectively; S represents
the main-slide, which is pulled by means of the lever Land retracted by a spring s¹,
as aforesaid; the respective strokes of said lever and slide being indicated by
arrows 1 and 2; F, a feed-pawl or working-pawl, termed the "main-pawl," carried
by said slide S, and coacting with said ratchet-wheel, to impart the registering
impulse indicated by arrow 3 during the outward strokes of said main slide; E, a
distinct bell-lever coacting with said pawl during the return strokos; D, a swinging
catch coacting with said bell-lever; and X, a single-click main-detent, engaging
with said ratchet-wheel, the arrangement, construction, and operation of these
parts being as follows:-
The principal part is the distinct bell-lever E, which is attached to the back-
plate by a pivotal screw immediately above the path of the main-pawl, being
constructed with three limbs e', e³, e³, (Figs. 7 and 8), to the first of which is
attached one end of an efficient striking spring 8 of coiled wire, the other end of
which is attached to a post p³, which projects from the back-plate, while to the
second limb a bell-hammer h having a flat spring shank of the requisite elasticity
is directly attached. This limb e projects forward to the striking plane of the
bell G, and the limb is likewise projected forward above the main pawl F, as
shown in Fig. 6. A stud-pin p' on the back-plate engaging with the limb e' keeps
the bell-hammer out of actual contact with the bell when it is at rest, and it is
adapted to remain at rest, together with the bell-lever proper, as shown in full
lines in Fig. 8 during the whole of each registering stroke of the main slide.
The slide S and the main pawl F, which is carried thereby, are shown in Fig. 8
as approaching the end of a registering stroke which is indicated by arrow 1.
At the completion of the stroke the main detent ✗ enters a succeeding interdental
notch in the main ratchet-wheel R and locks said ratchet-wheel and the remainder
of the unit registering mechanism against retrogression. The main pawl F is
attached to a lug on the main slide S by a pivotal screw, and has a head f³ adapted
to engage with the teeth of the main ratchet-wheel R and extending upward, so
as to engage with said limb of the bell-lever E during the return stroke of
the main slide. Its actuation of the bell-lever is illustrated by Fig. 7, which shows
the main slide in full lines, as at the beginning of and in dotted lines as
approaching the end of a return-stroke indicated by arrow 2. During this stroke
the head of the main pawl in riding over the newly advanced tooth of the
locked ratchet-wheel is caused to rise and press against said limb e³ of the bell-
lever, which is thus caused to move backward, as indicated by arrow 4 elevating

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the bell-hammer 2, and putting the striking-spring 83 under tension, preparatory
to the stroke of the bell indicated by arrow 4. This takes place instantaneously
under the impulse of the striking-spring, when the head of the main pawl drops
behind the newly advanced ratchet tooth, and this rostores the parts to the condition
of rest illustrated in Fig. 5.
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The swinging catch D is attached to the back-plate at its upper end by a pivotal
screw located to the right of the bell-lever E, and has its face towards said bell-
lever constructed with a square shoulder d³ matching the end of the lever limb e³,
and is drawn towards said lever by a small spiral spring &³ stretched to a
post p³. The extended lower end d of the catch crosses the main-slide S, and
the latter is provided with a stud pin 2 to engage therewith. At the beginning
of each return-stroke of the main slide the pawl F, lever E, and catch D are
in substantially the positions indicated by full lines in Fig. 8, those of the
two latter being the positions of rest indicated also in Fig. 5. As soon as the
main pawl moves the bell-lever from said position of rest during the return
stroke, the end of the lever limb e³ rising above the catch-shoulder d³ permits
the catch to spring forward so as to engage with the said limb es of the bell
lever and arrest the bell-hammer beyond striking distance from the bell, as
illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 8, should the motion of the main-slide be
reversed during the return-stroke. At the completion of the return-stroke, Fig. 7,
and simultaneously with the tripping of the bell-lever, as above described, said
stud-pin pon the main-slide completes its work of forcing back the catch D, as
indicated by arrow 2, Fig. 7, and permits a free stroke of the bell (arrow 4).
The main detent X is also attached to the back-plate w by a pivotal screw
conveniently located within the lower part of the case, and is held to its work by a
spiral spring & stretched therefrom to a stud-pin on the back-plate behind the
main ratchet-wheel R, being of the simple form represented. It locks the main
ratchet-wheel at the ond of each completed forward movement, but not before.
Consequently, should an incomplete registering stroke be imparted to the main-
slide, its motion being reversed, for example, when the pawl F is at mid-stroke,
the springs 8', 83, and 8, acting respectively through the main slide and pawl, and
through the bell-lever and said pawl, and through the main-detent, will operate to
turn back the unlocked ratchet-wheel to correct position, and should an excessive
movement be imparted to the ratchet wheel by a violent actuation of the main
slide the same correcting action will follow. The motions of the main ratchet-
wheel R being transmitted to the trip-hand H and the unit-hand H³ of the
continuous register, as aforesaid, it follows that the indications of the former, and
at the same time those of the latter, are corrected by the aforesaid combination of
parts after any incomplete or excessive actuation.
The index-hand H³ is simply attached to the outer end of the unit-shaft B by a
tightly fitting cap, and together with said shaft rotates only in the forward
direction, indicated by arrows 3, serving in connection with the "hundreds-
mechanism," which will now be described, to form a "continuous register," as
aforesaid.
The shaft C of the hundreds-dial H³ is a sleeve-shaft supported by a stud-
shaft C and carrying a ratchet-wheel R³ of twenty teeth fast thereon. The former
has a broad flange at its outer end to support the dial H³, and the inner shaft has
an undercut extremity which engages with a key-hole slot in the dial, and with
the aid of a pair of screws securely attaches the latter, while by the same means
the sleeve shaft is held in place. A cam projection c (Fig. 8) is formed on or
attached to the spur-wheel W2 near its perimeter, and a stud-pin p adapted to
engage with said cam is formed on or attached to one extremity of a rocking bell-
crank C³ which is mounted loosely on the shaft C, a feed-pawl F2 being pivoted
to the other extremity of said crank, with its spring attached to the hub of the
crank and applied to a stud-pin on the pawl, as shown in dotted lines (Fig. 8).
A post p³ projecting from the back-plate w forms a fixed point of attachment for a
spiral springs attached to the pawl end of the bell crank C³ and for a smaller

page_text: spring 8 of the same form which actuates a detent-pawl X³. Said detent-pawl
engages with the ratchet-wheel R³ and is pivoted on a short post or stud p° which
also forms a locking-stop for the feed-pawl F².
In the rotation of the spur-wheel W (indicated by arrows 3) the cam c engages
with the pin ponce per revolution, and thereby turns the bell-crank C³ gradually
in the direction of arrows 5 until the feed-pawl F2 passes over one tooth of the
ratchet-wheel R2, as illustrated in Fig. 8, and as the permanent hand approaches 0
after leaving 99, said cam passes out of contact with said pin, as illustrated by
dotted lines, and receives the effective stroke (arrow 6). This stroke is imparted
by the spring & immediately the bell-crank is released by the cam c, so that the
numbers on the dial H³ will succeed each other instantaneously in the index orifice o
at the proper moments to register hundreds. The step-by-step motion of the
ratchet-wheel R3, shaft C, and dial H³, is indicated by arrows 7. The position of
the parts at the end of a registration is illustrated by dotted lines (Fig. 8), the ond
of the feed-pawl is now in contact with the post 2 so as to preclude forward
motion of the ratchet-wheel R2, while the detent pawl X³ precludes backward
motion of the same, which is thus securely locked against accidental displacement.
The "pull-knob mechanism" for rosetting said trip-hand HI step by step is
shown by Figs. 12-16 in connection with Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 6.
The "setting-hub" I rests against a shoulder at the outer end of the shaft A,
and is retained thereon by a washer and key-pin, omitted in Fig. 14. The inner
end of said hub is a recessed circular disk, and its outer end is a hollow cylinder,
the smaller bore of the latter fitting the outer end of the shaft A. The outer end
of the said bore accommodates three flat spring-plates i which must bend to admit
the shaft between them, and consequently press against the latter with a frictional
energy which is very efficient. Said friction-springs are shown exposed in the
section of the hub, Fig. 6, and also in Fig. 14. The sleeve-hub of the trip-hand
embraces the outer end of the secured setting-hub, and is carried therewith by
friction. The resetting motion is transmitted to said setting-hub through three
tangential arms as acting successively, and pivoted so that motion can be imparted
therethrough in only one direction. The pivots have been so arranged as to render
said arms rigid in a direction which insures turning the trip-hand backward to the
zero-point.
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The inner ends of the arms a³ abut against said smaller cylindrical portion of
the hub, and their outer ends are forced outward by wire springs 8° within. the
recessed back of the disk of said hub acting against stud-pins which project from
the arms through slots in the face of said disk, as shown in Figs. 6 and 16. A
simple round aperture a is formed centrally in the lower edge of the sheet-metal
case-drum z. A perpendicular bracket q is attached to the back plate wat its
lower edge, and a supplemental frame-piece q is supported parallel to the back
plate by said bracket and the spider frame 8, said frame-piece q having openings
to accommodate the shafts A, B, and tapped socket-studs e to receive the screws
which attach the dial-plate d, said dial-plate being supported near its perimeter by
said bracket g and by posts pº. Said frame-piece q' is further provided with two
pairs of lugs r, between which a dovetail guide-way is planed. The setting-slide J
works in this guide-way, and is constructed with slots a¹, b', to accommodate the
shafts A and B, and said slot a¹ is made to stop the slide at the respective
limits of its motion. Normally said slide rests in its lowest or outer position, as
represented in Figs. 5 and 12, and in full lines in Fig. 6. In said normal position
of the slide J the hub I is free to rotate with the shaft A in the direction of
arrows 3, the arms a³ revolving without touching within the upper end of an
opening in the face-platej of said slide, which face-plate is the effective portion of
said slide, and is supported in the plane of said arms. At a lower point said face-
plate; is provided with inwardly-projecting cams be, bb, arranged to come into
effective contact with said arms a when the slide is reciprocated, and the said
pull-knob K and its appurtenances, and a pair of spiral retracting-springs 8b provide
for so actuating said slide. Said springs sb extend from the lugs on the bracket q to

page_text: others on the face-plate of the slide J, and operate to draw said slide evenly
outward, being aided by the gravity of the slide in its described arrangement.
Above the slide Ja loose pinion P is mounted on the unit-shaft B and secured
in place by a pin, and this is meshed by a pair of racks R¹, Rs, the former of
which (R) is connected by a pin-joint to a shank-rod Rº, to the outer extremity
of which the knob K is screwed, through the said aperture a in the drum after
the latter is applied, the rack sliding in a guide-piece g, of 1 shape, in cross-section,
soldered to the top of the slide, while the second rack (R³) is attached by rivets to
the slide. When the parts are in working position and the setting mechanism is
at rest, as shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 6, the knob K, it will be observed, is
supported at or against the lower edge of the case, its shank-rod R° drawn out in
the act of imparting the upstroke to the slide J, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,'
being drawn within the case by the springs sb aided by gravity as aforesaid in
effecting the return-stroke. When the knob K is pulled it acts through the rod Ro
and loose rack R' on the pinion P2, turning said pinion and causing it to propel
the attached rack R³, and therewith the slide J in the opposite direction. The
respective movements of the slide J are indicated by arrows 8 and 8b, and
the resultant backward rotation of the hub I and trip-hand H is indicated by
arrows 8.
The respective limits of the motion of the slide J are illustrated by dotted lines
in Fig. 6, and its upstroke (indicated by arrow 8e) is illustrated by Fig. 13. In
this movement motion is imparted by the pull-knob K to said slide, and through
the cam b and one of the arms as to the setting hub I and trip-hand H. The
return-stroke of the slide J. (indicated by arrow 8b) is illustrated by Fig. 14. In
this movement motion is imparted to the slide by the springs sb, which are put
under tension in the upstroke, and the motion is transmitted to the hub I and
trip-hand H through the cam bb and one of the arms a³. During the concluding
portion of this movement, the cam bb acts by an inclined inner surface, as
represented by Fig. 14, the effect being a slower motion of the trip-hand toward
the end of each actuation, so as to relieve it from undue impulse, and thus to insure
its arrest at the proper points. The action of each cam on one of the arms a³ leaves
another arm in proper position for the other cam.
In the illustration a complete rotation of the trip-hand H is effected by three
reciprocations of the slide J, or three pulls of the knob K. Each first stroke of
the slide moves the trip-hand to the end of a given one-sixth of the circumference
of the dial d'. The trip hand is indicated in Fig. 1 by single dotted lines at the
end of each first movement, and in dotted out lines at the end of each next
succeeding movement effected by the return-stroke of the slide J, the extent of this
being likewise one-sixth of the circumference. When the trip-hand has passed one
of its three stopping points only three or four spaces, the first upstroke will carry
it to the end of the next sixth, and when the trip-hand is more than four and less
than seventeen spaces beyond one of said points, the first upstroke produces_no
effect, but the return or last stroke moves the hand to said point last passed. The
end of one of said last movements is located at zero, as illustrated by Fig. 1, and
consequently the trip-hand is turned backward and reset at zero by one or more
pulls of the knob K, according to the number indicated by the trip-hand at the
beginning of the setting operation.
To insure full strokes of the slide J a guard-flange rx is formed on the back of
the face-plate j at one edge, the same being constructed with ratchet-teeth on its
respective lateral surfaces, and a guard pawl q* is attached by a pivot to the face
of the frame q* and provided with a tail-spring 8, which tends to keep the tooth
of the pawl in line with the guard-flange, so as to engage with either side thereof,
said tooth and the ends of said flange being bevelled, as shown in Figs. 14 and 15,
so as to direct the former. Ratchet-teeth are formed in the outer surface of the
guard-flange * from end to end thereof, and from the beginning of each upstroke
to its end the tooth of the pawl q is in mesh therewith, as illustrated by Fig. 13.
This insures the completion of each upstroke, the slide J and hub I, and con-

page_text: sequently the trip-hand H being locked against any other moveinent until said
stroke is completed. If registrations are made with the trip-hand so locked, the
continuous register alone will receive tho registrations, and a discrepancy between
the indication of the latter and the sum of the indications of the trip hand will
thus be formed insuring detection. The trip-band remains so locked against
forward motion until the slide J returns to its normal position, as in Figs. 5
and 12. During each return stroke of the slide J the tooth of the pawl q rides
against the inner side of the flange r, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 14.
Nothing can possibly be accomplished by reversing the movement of the slide
during this stroke, until the cam ba is in a position to engage with another arm
of the hub I. To prevent such reversal at this point a few ratchet-teeth are
formed in said inner surface of said guard-flange at its upper end, as shown
more clearly by Fig. 15. As soon as the knob is released after the completion
of the up-stroke, the return-stroke of the slide is automatically completed.
Besides preventing and detecting attempts at fraudulent manipulation, the
guards above described are important to prevent accidentally shortened strokes,
which would disarrange the trip-hand with reference to zero. The same serve also
to facilitate setting the trip-hand at zero in assembling the parts, so as to insure its
proper return thereto by the setting device. This is illustrated by Fig. 13. The
slide J is moved upward until its cam ba touches one of the arms a³, the latter
having been left in normal position, as in Fig. 5, by reciprocating said slide, and
said slide is supported in this position by the guard-pawl q. The dial-plate d
being in position the trip-hand H is now applied to the hub I to the left of zero,
and being turned to the right as it is tightened it is readily left in proper
position.
As an additional guard against fraudulent manipulation a "zero-stop" 2' may be
attached on the dial-plate d in the path of the trip-hand, as indicated by dotted
lines in Figs. 6 and 9; but as the trip-hand can only be stopped at 33, and 66%,
besides at zero, the accomplishment of fraud by false indication is practically
impossible without the aid of a zero-stop, and the rapidity with which the
trip-hand is set by this device is superior to any previous device for its purpose.
The indicator mechanism or "direction indicator" is shown by Figs. 9-11
in connection with Figs. 1-7, and is located behind the dial plate d to the left
of the bell G, and above the setting-slide J and bell-lever E, an oblong hori-
zontal orifice (o') being provided in the dial-plate to expose its "indicator" or
visual signal V, as aforesaid. This indicator consists, for example, of a wooden
cylinder of sufficient length covered with paper of a color contrasting with that
of the dial through which the orifice o' is cut, and printed with the illustrative
words "up" and "down" on alternate sides thereof, so that the same appear
successively through the orifice o' when the indicator is turned upon its longi-
tudinal axis, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The indicator V is supported
by means of an axial pivot-rod or shaft Z between the outer ends of a pair
of bearing posts p, p, forming part of a bracket Qattached to the back-
plate w, so that its axis is parallel to and close behind the dial-plate, as shown in
Figs. 6 and 9. A parallel rock-shaft Y is mounted behind the indicator in said
bearing-posts, and has two lever-arms l, m, mado fast thereon in substantially one
and the same radial plane. The arm projects normally in the path of the setting-
slide J as shown in Fig. 5, and in full lines in Fig. 6. The arin m is constructed
with a pivoted finger fand with a rigid projection f', as shown most clearly in
Fig. 11; and a lantern-pinion n and a stop-square n² are formed around the shaft Z
at the corresponding end of the indicator V to co-act with said finger and projection,
said pinion being formed by a series of pins projecting from said "square."
A spring finger f which is attached at one end to said post p' also engages with
said square n³, as shown. The rock-shaft Y is extended through the post p' to
receive an arm T, which has a drilled hub and set screw for clamping it in position.
The arm proper has a deeply notched lug on one side to support the free end of a
spring finger t of elastic wire, which is attached thereto at its inner end, and is

page_text: thus adapted to yield laterally, while it is rendered substantially rigid in the
direction of the movement of the arm; and the bell-lever E is provided with
a projection et having inclined and level surfaces to engage with said finger,
as shown most clearly in Fig. 9. A spring 87 and a stop pin attached to the
post p² coact with an extension of the arm T above the rock-shaft, to return the
several arms of the rock-shaft to their normal positions, represented in Figs. 5
and 9-11, and in full lines in Fig. 6, and to arrest and support them. in these
positions. By adjusting the arm T on the rock-shaft by means of its set-scrow, the
presentation of the other arms may be readily regulated.
With the arms of the rock-shaft Y in said normal positions, the setting slide J
being also at rest, as shown in Fig. 5, and in full lines in Fig. 6, the registering
mechanisms and the bell mechanism are unobstructed and unburdened, and the
registering operation proceeds, as illustrated by full lines in Fig. 1, and by the
arrows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, until a trip (the "up" trip for illustration) is com-
pleted. The trip-hand H is then reset at zero by means of the pull-knob K, as
aforesaid, and the indicator V is simultaneously and by the same means set for
another trip (" down," for example), as illustrated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 6,
and full lines in Figs. 2 and 7, and by the arrows 8º, 8b, 8, 9, and 10. The
operation of setting the indicator is as follows:-During the first of the " ' up
strokes" of the slide J, indicated by arrows 8, said slide comes in contact with the
arm of the rock-shaft Y and imparts to the various parts of the latter, including
the arm T, the movement indicated by arrow 9. The pivoted finger f at the
extremity of the arm m is thus caused to coact with one of the pins of the pinion n,
so as to give the shaft Z of the indicator a one-fourth turn, indicated by arrow 10.
At the completion of this movement the projection f2 comes in contact with one of
the faces of the square n², and stops the indicator with its corresponding lettering
within the orifice o'. The said movement of the arm T causes the spring finger t
to press against the inclined rear surface of the projection until said finger
springs over the laterally projecting edge of said projection, so as to be caught by
its flat outer surface when the slide J recedes. The indicator-mechanism, as
represented in dotted lines in Fig. 6, and in full lines in Fig. 7, is thus "locked"
and remains locked during the remainder of the setting operation, offering no
obstruction nor additional load to the setting slide. The special object of thus
locking the indicator as soon as it is set is however to prevent the disarrangement
thereof, which would otherwise occur in setting it by means of the said setting
slide J or any substitute reciprocating setting device requiring an indefinite
number of actuations (varying in the case of the slide J from 1 to 3) to reset the
trip-hand at zero. The operation of unlocking the indicator and restoring the
parts of the rock-shaft Y to their normal positions preparatory to setting the former
at its next indication at the end of the succeeding trip, is illustrated by dotted lines
in Figs. 2 and 7, and by arrows 2, 4ª, and 11. This is accomplished by the
actuation of the bell-mechanism in the act of registering the first unit belonging to
a new trip, so as to render the indicator-mechanism "at rest" as quickly as
possible, and to avoid burdening the main actuating mechanism (see Fig. 7). As
the bell-lever E moves in the direction of the arrow 4 during the return stroke of
the main slide S, the projection e' is carried from behind the spring finger t, and
the spring & immediately returns the parts of the rock-shaft Y to the positions in
which they are shown in Figs. 5 and 9-11, and in full lines in Fig. 6. The parts
are shown in full lines in Fig. 7 as they appear at the beginning of the said return
stroke of the main-slide, indicated by arrow 2, and in dotted lines as they appear
at the unlocking instant. The detent finger f1 coacting with the square n³
(Fig. 11) continues to hold the indicator V, serving to keep the same from turning
under jars or jolting. The finger f is pivoted to allow it to recede during the
return movement of the arm m, indicated by arrows 11. Arrow 12, Fig. 7,
indicates the next actuation of the indicator, bringing "up," in the example, again
to the front, to be followed by "down" at the end of the next trip, and so on. In
adapting the register for different uses the lettering on the indicator V will vary,

page_text: and said lettering may in fact bo wholly omitted, different contrasting colors, for
example, being well known substitutes therefor. The shape of the indicator V in
cross section may also be varied, for example, said indicator may have three or
more flat sides, the pinion n, "square" n², and coacting parts being correspondingly
modified, and two indications may be displayed in succession at each operation
instead of but one (as "free" and "hired" or the like in a cab-register), by
adapting the detent finger f¹ and spring 87, either or both, by well known means to
impart the required additional movement to the indicator when it is unlocked at
the beginning of the new trip.
The registering capacity of the instrument above described is 2,000, and at the
end of this limit the continuous register begins again at 1. The said capacity can
readily be extended indefinitely by a simple train like those of gas-meters, or by
any preferred mechanism. The graduation of the dials may be varied also, if
preferred, the wheels to be correspondingly modified, and although described and
primarily intended as a passenger register for tramway carriages, it is equally
adapted and is designed for registering fares or uniform payments whenever they
are taken in sufficient number or under such circumstances as to render a register
desirable. It is also adapted and intended for registering the reception or delivery
of packages, loads, and the like, and generally wherever a register is or can be
used.
The modification, illustrated by Figs. 17-19, consists in the omission of the
said indicator-mechanism, and the employment of a "push-key" K¹, and a suitable
projection j on the lower end of the slide J to coact therewith, as substitutes for the
aforesaid pull-knob K and its immediate accessories. The illustrative push-key
(Fig. 19) is made of wire of suitable length and rigidity, and adapted at one end
to be conveniently manipulated. Any form possessing these characteristics may
be employed. Its operation is simply the reverse of that of the pull-knob K, its
thrusts corresponding with the pulls of the latter. It is inserted through a small
round key-hole corresponding with the aperture a, Fig. 6, and through the bracket q,
and is withdrawn at the end of the setting operation. Apart from these changes
the modified register is of the same description as the said illustrative register, and
thus it contains the aforesaid unit-registering-mechanism and bell-mechanism which
embody several of the improvements herein claimed.
The modifications illustrated by Figs. 20-22 relate principally to the form of
the pull-knob setting-mechanism, showing how the same, broadly considered, can
be made without the racks and pinion of the preferred form. In the form shown
in Figs. 20 and 21, a setting slide J2 and a frame-piece q³ therefor are constructed
on the same principle as those shown, J, q in Figs. 5, 6, and 12-15, but so as to conct
with the setting-hub I in inverted position, in connection with a pull-knob K²,
directly attached to the slide. To this end said slide J2 has a face-plate closed at
its square end and opened at its round end to accommodate it to the shaft B, and
its slotted body is extended downward bayond said round end, and is provided at
its lower extremity with a drilled and tapped boss, which receives the screw-
threaded inner end of the knob-shank. (Said boss might obviously be carried
instead by an extension of the face-plate of the slide). The body of the slide
extends above so as to remain between the upper guide-lugs of the frame-piece q²
and the springs 8b, 8b, are stretched upward to a bracket or end-support q² which
is attached at the top of the back-plate, and is constructed so as to clear the path
of the bell-hammer as indicated. The external appearance of this modified register
may be identical with that of the illustrative register first described, as represented
by Figs. 1-4, save that the modified register has been constructed without a
direction-indicator; and the setting operation is the same as that of the said
illustrative register, save that the knob K and the slide J' move together as one
part, the long shank of the former being drawn within the case by the retracting
springs &. A substitute for the setting-knob K is represented by Fig. 21, and a
substitute for the knob K and shank-rod R° may be constructed on the same
principle. The objects of this modification are to prevent unscrewing the slide-

page_text: pull from the working register, and to render its manipulation by unauthorized
persons more difficult. To these ends a flat-pull K³ may be attached at one end
to the slide J2 (or to the rack R') before the drum of the case is applied; the
metallic.rim (s) of the latter to have a hole of corresponding shape instead of the
said round aperture a, and to be adapted to spring over the free end of the pull.
This free end protrudes for enough only to expose a hole therein which receives the
nose of a hook K° carried by the person whose duty it is to reset the trip-registers.
Said modified register, as shown in Fig. 20, differs in another respect internally
from said illustrative register in having an uninproved form of the "alarm" unit-
registering-mechanism and bell-mechanism, in which the bell-hammer * is attached
directly to the head of the main pawl F, and a notched or "double-click" detent
pawl X is employed as means to prevent ringing the bell after incomplete
registering movements of the main slide S¹. This construction is inferior to that
of the improved mechanism for reasons herein before given, but it may be used in
connection with a pull-knob-setting-mechanism of the present Invention, as shown,
or with the aforesaid indicator mechanism of this Invention.
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The modification illustrated by Figs. 23-30 may be described as the omission
of the aforesaid indicator-mechanism, and the substitution of a "rotary-key"
setting-mechanism for the "pull-knob" setting mechanism of the illustrative
register. The modified register is otherwise substantially identical with the one
shown in Figs. 17 and 18. Its setting-mechanism, which is its distinguishing
characteristic, is wholly inclosed save its removable key (Fig. 29). It is shown in
detail in the Drawings, and may be described as follows:-The trip-hand H is
attached by its frictional hub to the outer end of a sleeve 1º, which may be
identical with the central part of the setting-hub I (Fig. 16) of the illustrative
register. At its inner end this sleeve is provided with a pinion or small gear
wheel aº, which is meshed by a similar gear 6° on the inner end of a radial
shaft Do, supported parallel to the back plate W by a modified supplemental
frame q³, q
A key-hole of ordinary shape is cut in the drum opposite the end of the
shaft Do, and is extended in the form of a narrow slot k through a rotary box Bº,
which is swiveled in the end bracket of the frame q³, q*. The opening k in the
bracket itself is of the same shape as the key-hole, its circular portion being
occupied by a cylindrical wrist uniting two circular disks, which complete the
rotary box, as shown in Figs. 25 and 28. The above.devices accommodate a simple
key K, Fig. 29, having a flat lateral bit and a flat shank, to which said key-
hole extensions are fitted, the flat shank occupying the wrist of the box. When
the key is turned the solid portions of the respective disks close the bit-extensions
of the holes in the drum and bracket, so as to prevent assisting the key..
The inner disk of the box B° is extended inward to the end of the shaft Do, so
as to preclude the successful use of skeleton keys. This disk serves also to carry
a series of ratchet-teeth 20, which are engaged by the end of a pawl-spring or
click 8º, the same serving to insure turning the key forward in the proper direction,
and to prevent turning the key backward to the key-hole, and also to give audible
notice of the approach of the trip-hand to zero. Where this last effect is not
considered important, a continuous ratchet-rim may be formed on the box Bº.
When the key is withdrawn the spring 8° remains in mesh with the ratchet, as
shown in Fig. 26, and holds the box in position.
The bit of the key K* terminates in a small projection k parallel to the shank.
Matching this is a single radial slot or hole in a broad circular flange m' at the
outer end of a sliding sleeve E', which is mounted on the outer end of the shaft Dº.
Another sleeve E is arranged within the sleeve E¹, and clamped in position by
means of a set-screw 2, and the sleeve E is caused to rotate therewith by means
of a pair of spline-extensions j' working in notches in a flange on the sleeve E³.
Between the flange and that of the sleeve E' a spiral spring s³ is arranged to
press said sleeve outward.
When the key K is introduced to turn the partially rotated trip-hand it forces

page_text: back the sleeve E¹ before it can enter through the ward formed by the bracket q³.
It can now be turned in the direction of the arrows 8, Figs. 24 and 26, and when
the projection k³ comes opposite the hole h¹ the sleeve E' is projected by the
spring, and the key is coupled to the shaft Do. The trip-hand can now be
moved back and forth at will by means of the key; but the key cannot be
disengaged from the sleeve until the hole h' is again in line with the key-hole, as
shown, and it can only be brought to this position after carrying the trip-hand to
zero in the direction of the arrows 8.
As thus moved the trip-hand is stopped at zero by the contact of a stop-spring 88
with a shoulder in a volute stop flange or collar 20 at the inner end of the sleeve E³,
as clearly shown in Fig. 30. The springs is supported parallel to the shaft Do,
or nearly so, by means of the supplemental frame q which supports the shaft, and
being held at both ends, as shown, it cannot be sprung out of place. It is protected
against undue strains however by the ratchet device 70, 80, as before described.
When the trip-hand is turned forward by registrations to and beyond zero the
zero-stop offers no obstruction, but when the trip-hand is turned back said zero-
stop arrests it, as before stated; and when the hand is at zero the rotation of the
key in either direction is prevented by the zero-stop on one side and the ratchet
device, 80, of the key-guard on the other. The key must then be withdrawn.
The ratchet device 70, 8°, serves also in connection with the inserted key and the
key-clutch E, h', to lock the trip-hand against motion with the shaft A, and thus
insures the detection of any attempt to accomplish any manipulation of the trip-
hand by leaving the key in its box Bº, or to escape detection in this manner after
finding that the hand can only be left at zero. The ratchet device limits the
complete rotation of the key to the direction of the arrows 8, while the movement
of the shaft A would tend to turn it in the direction of the arrows 3.
If preferred, a key with a round shank can be used, its bit in combination with
the inward extensions of the box B° serving to rotate the latter, and with a flat
shank the latter bit may be omitted if desired.
The substitute pulling device, illustrated by Figs. 31-34, consists of a pair of
round leather cords O, O³, terminating in loops outside of the tramway-carriage;
over its respective end-platforms a three armed crank-piece N pivoted in hori-
zontal position on a bracket attached by screws to the end wall which supports
the register, and to two of whose arms the inner ends of said cords are coupled by
wire hooks occupying holes formed to receive them; a connecting bar M attached
by a pivotal pin to the third arm of said crank-piece, and by a socket-hole to a
pin p projecting through a slot in the back-plate w from the main slide (S), a pair
of hooded sheaves S°, S, applied to the respective end-walls as guides and direction
changers for the respective corde, a tension piece To in two parts united by clamp-
screws and applied to the longer cord outside of its end sheave, as shown on the
larger scale in Fig. 31, and hanger-pulleys P° attached to the car lines of the
carriage roof, as shown in Fig. 34, to form bearings between which said longer
cord O can be conveniently pulled by downward pressure to actuate the register
from any point within the carriage.
The pulling device, illustrated by Figs. 35 and 36, is designed for tramway-
carriages and other vehicles on which the fares are collected by the driver or where
fare-boxes are used, and the lever L° which is worked by a hand-strap is pivoted in a
housing on the back of the back-plate so as to project through the end wall of the
vehicle to the driver's platform. The lever in this case projects at right angles to the
Oback-plate of the register, and is connected to the slide (S) through the medium of
a link and bell-crank co, as clearly shown, said bell-crank being connected to the
slide by the said stud-pin projecting through a slot in the back-plate.
The back-plate and slide are preferably cast so as to accommodate either of the
pulling devices above described, and other pulling devices may be employed, if
5 preferred, in connection with a register, having either of the features of internal
construction herein claimed.
"Any equivalent" of a rotary trip-hand is intended to mean any rotary or

page_text: oscillatory index-hand; which for any purpose is adapted to be set at zero at will
independently of the main actuating mechanism of the register in which it is used,
and also rotary or oscillatory dials and indicator-wheels adapted to be so set at
zero for the same or other purposes.
.
The contemplated "equivalent" of the main slide is a rocking lever carrying
the main pawl, which is a substitute device commonly used.
The parts for which no materials are specified are intended to be made of
suitable metals by ordinary modes of manufacture.
In will be apparent that the trip-hand (H) with the dial (d) and the "setting
mechanism" of either form coacting therewith, and also, if desired, its special
gearing and shaft (W, A,) may be simply omitted in the construction of a "single
(continuous) register embodying the improved "bell-mechanism;" or as an
equivalent modification the hand H and dial d³ may be omitted with the setting
mechanism, the remaining hand becoming the unit-index of the continuous register;
or said band H and dial d' with or without the hundreds-register and the gearing
and shafts W³, B, C, C³, may be omitted, leaving the remainder intact as a "single
(trip) register, a substitute support for the pinion P2 being supplied in this case
if the first form of mechanism be used. Modified and substitute setting-mechanism
is shown in Figs. 17, 19, 20-22, and 23-30; the employment of substitute bell-
mechanism is illustrated by Fig. 20, and immaterial changes thereof by Fig. 23;
and the omission of the direction indicator is illustrated by Figs. 17-19 and the
succeeding Figures, as before described. The omission of the bell mechanism
(exclusive of the main pawl) and the retention at the same time of the retention-
indicator, if desired, by supplying a projection on said main pawl, for example,
to carry the locking-projection e will be readily understood by skilled
machinists.
Having thus described the said illustrative register embodying all the several
improvements which constitute this Invention, and also certain modifications
illustrating the separate use of certain of said improvements, I would have it
understood that I claim herein and desire to protect under the aforesaid Letters
Patent the said thirteen improvements in registering apparatus herein before
stated, and each of said improvements, substantially as herein specified for the
purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Guy Wilson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sights two