CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FARE REGISTERS
Year: 1875

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FARE
REGISTERS."-A communication from William Hans Hornum,
Engineer, Archibald Hance, Superintendent, and John Devoe
Buckhout, Engineer, residing in the City, County, and State of
New York, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonne-
ville at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th August 1875.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Picca-
dilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FARE
REGISTERS," communicated to me by William Hans Hornum, Engineer,

page_text: Archibald Hance, Superintendent, and John Devoe Buckhout, Engineer,
three persons resident in the City, County, and State of New York,
United States of America, to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to certain improvements in that class of fare
registers in which for each fare received the conductor is expected to
move an index and at the same time strike a bell.
The first part of this Invention consists in the combination of a
moveable dog with a trigger and with two or more anchor levers, each
of which acts on a distinct set of registering wheels, so that by adjusting
the movable dog fares of different amounts can be registered by the
action of one and the same trigger. An index serves to adjust the
movable dog. With the movable dog, the trigger, the anchor levers,
and the several sets of registering wheels are combined a hammer and a
bell, so that whenever the trigger is depressed and a fare is registered on
either of the sets of registering wheels the bell is struck. With the movable
dog, the anchor levers, and the several sets of registering wheels is
further combined a general registering mechanism, which is propelled
cach time the trigger is depressed so as to register the entire number of
passengers independent of the amounts of fares paid by them.
The second part of this Invention consists in combining with the case
which encloses the bell a finger wheel, the face of which is divided in
ten sections, marked with different colors, and bearing figures from 0 to 9
in such a manner that whenever the finger wheel is turned one step the
bell is caused to strike, and a section bearing a different color and a
different figure is brought opposite to an aperture in the face plate of
the case.
On the shank of the hammer is a bright plate, which shows
through an aperture in the case whenever the hammer is moved. A
secondary finger wheel, arranged like the first, serves to indicate and
ring for half fares. The finger wheels act on registering wheels situated
in a separate compartment in the case, and the numbers of full fares
and half fares taken during the day can be read off through openings in
the back plate of the case. From the upper end of the case extends a
receptacle for transfer tickets, said receptacle being provided with a
lever clamp for the purpose of tearing off the transfer tickets at the
proper places.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18,
Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special license
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FARE REGISTERS," communicated to me by
William Hans Hornum, Engineer, Archibald Hance, Superintendent,
and John Devoe Buckhout, Engineer, three persons resident in the City,
County, and State of New York, United States of America, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The Invention relates to certain improvements in that class of fare

page_text: registers in which for each fare received the conductor is expected to
move an index and at the same time strike a bell.
The first part of this Invention consists in the combination of a
moveable dog with a trigger, and with two or more anchor levers, each
of which acts on a distinct set of registering wheels, so that by
adjusting the moveable dog fares of different amounts can be registered
by the action of one and the same trigger. An index serves to adjust
the moveable dog. With the moveable dog, the trigger, the anchor
levers, and the several sets of registering wheels are combined a hammer
and a bell, so that whenever the trigger is depressed and a fare is
registered on either of the sets of registering wheels the bell is struck.
With the moveable dog, the trigger, the anchor levers, and the several
sets of registering wheels is further combined a general registering
mechanism, which is propelled each time the trigger is depressed so as to
register the entire number of passengers independent of the amounts of
fares paid by them.
The second part of this Invention consists in combining with the case
which encloses the bell a finger wheel, the face of which is divided in
ten sections, marked with different colors, and bearing figures from 0 to 9
in such a manner that whenever the finger wheel is turned one step the
bell is caused to strike, and a section bearing a different colour and a
different figure is brought opposite to an aperture in the face plate of
the case.
On the shank of the hammer is a bright plate, which shows
through an aperture in the case whenever the hammer is moved. A
secondary finger wheel, arranged like the first, serves to indicate and
ring for half fares. The finger wheels act on registering wheels situated
in a separate compartment in the case, and the numbers of full fares
and half fares taken during the day can be read off through openings
in the back plate of the case. From the upper end of the case extends
a receptacle for transfer tickets, said receptacle being provided with a
lever clamp for the purpose of tearing off the transfer tickets at the
proper places.

page_text: In these Figures the letter A designates a cylindrical case, which
contains two or more sets of registering wheels B, B1, B2, and which is
fastened to another case C, which is divided by a partition a in two com-
partments b, c. On the front plate D of the case C are marked two or
more figures indicating the different fares for which the indicator is to
be used, for instance, the figures 3 and 5 (as shown in Fig. 1), the
former for half fares and the latter for full fares, or the figures 1, 3,
and 5 (as shown in Fig. 6), the figure 1 indicating extra fares, the
figure 3 half fares, and the figure 5 full fares for a certain portion of
the road. Beneath the front plate D is situated the trigger E, which
turns on pivots d (Fig. 2), and to which is pivoted a dog e, which
engages with a crank secured to an index g that swivels in the front
plate D. When the index is turned the crank traverses a slot / in the
trigger lever, and the dog e is caused to move with it.
In an indicator intended for three sets of fares, as shown in Figs. 6
and 7, the index g moves in a slot in the face plate d, so that it can be
made to point to either of the figures 1, 3, or 5, and in this case the
dog e, which is connected to the index g, slides on a rod c° (Fig. 7) of
the trigger lever, or said trigger lever may be provided with a slot
corresponding. to that in the face plate, so that the index and the dog
can be moved together. Beneath the trigger lever are two or more
levers i, ¹,, each of which serves to actuate one of the sets of regis-
tering wheels B, B², B. Each of these sets of registering wheels consists
of a unit wheel and a ten wheel, or if any two sets of such wheels are
used, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, that set which serves to register the
full fares may be made to consist of a unit wheel, a ten wheel, and a
hundred wheel. The unit wheel in each set is provided with a ratchet
wheel (Fig. 4), and an anchor formed at the inner end of the appro-
priate leverior or serves to propel this ratchet wheel one tooth every

page_text: time the outer end of said lever is depressed. This ratchet wheel has ten
teeth, and whenever the unit wheel has completed nine-tenths of a
revolution, and is moved for the last tenth, the appropriate ten wheel is
moved one step. The mechanism for accomplishing this purpose may
be varied in a great many ways, and there is no need to be confined to
the particular device shown in the Drawing. The device used for this
purpose consists of a ratchet wheel aº secured to the ten wheel. With
this ratchet wheel engages an anchor °, which is actuated once for every
revolution of the appropriate unit wheel by a pin c° projecting from the
inner surface of said unit wheel. The anchor levers i, 1, 2, may be
made in sections, the anchor being detached from its lever without
deviating from the Invention. On the face of each of the registering
wheels are marked the figures from 0 to 9, and consequently each set of
registering wheels composed of a unit and ten wheel is capable of regis-
tering 99 fares, and each set composed of a unit, ten, and hundrel wheel
999 fares. By moving the index g, so that the same points to a certain
set of registering wheels, the dog e is moved over the corresponding
anchor lever or i¹ or ², and by depressing the trigger E the desired fare
is registered.
On one of the inner ends of the trigger lever is secured a spring
pawl q, which engages with a ratchet wheel fastened to a pin wheel F.
Whenever the trigger is depressed therefore the pin wheel moves one
step, and by the action of one of its pins the hammer H is caused to
strike the bell I.
engage
On the periphery of the pin wheel F are formed cogs s, which
with a pinion t (Figs. 3 and 5) mounted on a shaft u, on which
is also mounted a worm wheel which engages with a wheel J situated
in the lower compartment of the case C. This wheel is marked on its
face with Figures from 1 to 100, and for each motion of the trigger it
is propelled one step, so that its Figures are successively brought
opposite to an opening in the back plate of the case C. With the
wheel J is combined an additional wheel K, which is marked on its face
with figures from 1 to 100, and which is propelled one step for each
revolution of the wheel J. The Figures of the wheel K show through
an aperture in the back plate of the case C, and by the combined action
of the two wheels J, K, ten thousand passengers can be registered
independent of the amounts of fares paid by them.

page_text: This device is intended to be secured in a convenient position on the
person of the conductor of a railroad car or train, and for each fare
received by him he is obliged to move the dog e to the corresponding
anchor lever and to depress the trigger E. This operation the conductor
can casily perform with one hand, and the number and amounts of fares
received can be read off at the end of each trip.
The second part of the Invention is illustrated in Figures 8, 9, 10,
and 11, of which Fig. S represents a face view of the register complete;
Fig. 9 is a similar view when the face plate is taken off; Fig. 10 is a
transverse vertical section; and Fig. 11 is a rear view, the back plate
having been removed.
Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.
In these Figures the letter A designates a case which is made of sheet
metal or any other suitable material, and which is divided by a partition
plate a in two compartments. In the outer compartment are situated
two finger wheels B, C, one for full fares and one for half fares. The
face of each of these finger wheels is divided in ten sections, which bear
different colors, and on which are marked the figures from 0 to 9.
The projection of the main finger wheel B acts on the tail end c of
the shank of a hammer D, which is subjected to the action of a spring d,
so that by imparting to the finger wheel B a step-by-step movement
the hammer is alternately raised and then allowed to drop and to strike
the bell E. The finger pieces of said wheel extend out through an
opening in the side of the case, and the edge of this opening forms an
abutment, preventing the wheel from being moved beyond the desired.
distance for each movement imparted to it.
In the front plate of the case A are segmental openings e, e¹,
diametrically opposite to each other, the opening e being of such a
shape that each of the sections of the finger wheel B when turned under
the same is fully exposed to view, together with the figure marked
thereon, while the opening e¹ exposes the section of the finger wheel
diametrically opposite to that exposed by the opening e without however
exposing the figure, said opening being provided with a lip c° which
conceals the Figure on the section beneath it, as shown in Fig. 8. The
sections diametrically opposed to each other bear the same color, so

page_text: that whenever the finger wheel is moved one step the color showing
through the openings e, c¹, is changed, and thereby the fact that the
finger wheel has been moved is rendered apparent even to persons
unable to distinguish the Figures which show through the opening e.
The secondary finger wheel C is constructed similar to the main
finger wheel B, but on its spindle is mounted a tappet wheel f, which
acts on a hammer F for striking the bell. The figures and colors on the
sections of this secondary finger wheel arc exposed through an opening g
in the front plate of the case A.
On the shank of the hammer D is secured a bright plate or disk h,
which shows through an opening in the front plate of the case, so that
the fact that the hammer moves can be observed even if the sound of
the bell is not heard.
The spindles of the finger wheels B, C, are provided with cams j, k,
which act on registering wheels 1, m, situated beneath the partition
plate a, so that for each revolution of one of the finger wheels the
appropriate registering wheel is moved one step. These registering
wheels are provided with a hundred teeth, so that for each thousand
fares marked by one of the finger wheels the appropriate registering
wheel will make one complete revolution, and consequently one thousand
fares can be registered on this wheel.
With the main registering wheels l, m, are combined additional
wheels n, o, to mark tens of thousands, and consequently the apparatus
can be used for an indefinite time without requiring to be opened. These
registering wheels are provided with appropriate figures, which show
through openings in the back plate of the case, so that the number of
fares registered can be readily read off. Instead of moving the
registering wheels by cams j, k, they may be moved by anchors jo, k°, as
shown in Fig. 11*.
On the top of the case A is secured a box G for the reception of a
roll H of transfer tickets. This box is furnished with a hinged lid p
provided with a slotted lip q, and a lever secured to the front side of
said box engages with the slot in this lip. If a ticket is drawn out
of the box for the required distance and the lever is pressed inward
the lid clamps said ticket firmly against the top edge of the box, and
said ticket can be readily torn off.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of the said improvements and the
manner of carrying them into effect, what I claim is,—
With reference to Figures 1 to 7 inclusive,-
1. The combination of a moveable dog with a trigger, and with two
or more levers and the corresponding sets of registering wheels, sub-
stantially in the manner shown and described.
2. The combination of an index with a moveable dog, a trigger, two
or more levers, and the corresponding sets of registering wheels, so that
by turning the index to the proper figure the dog is moved to the desired
lever, and by depressing the trigger the required set of registering
wheels is actuated, substantially as set forth.
3. The combination of a bell and hammer with the moveable dog, the
trigger, two or more levers, and the corresponding sets of registering
wheels, substantially as described.
4. The combination of a general registering mechanism with the
moveable dog, the trigger, two or more levers, and the corresponding
sets of registering wheels, substantially as set forth.
Referring to Figures 8 to 11 inclusive, what I claim is,-
5. The combination with a case containing a bell and striking
mechanism of a finger wheel, the face of which is divided in ten sections
bearing different colors, and marked with the figures from 0 to 9, while
the projections of the finger wheel, whenever the same is turned, act on
the striking mechanism in the case, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
6. The combination with the finger wheel and with the striking
mechanism situated on the back plate of the case, whereby the single
fares taken can be read off through the face plate of the case, while the
number of fares taken during the day can be read off through the
apertures in the back plate of the case, substantially as set forth.
7. The combination of a bright plate or disk with the hammer of the
striking mechanism, with the finger wheel, and with an opening in the
face plate of the case, substantially as described, whereby the motion of
the hammer can be observed, even if the sound of the bell should not be
heard.

page_text: S. The combination of a lever clamp, constructed substantially as
described, with the lid of a receptacle containing transfer tickets for the
purpose of facilitating the operation of tearing off said transfer tickets,
substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this. Twenty-seventh day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six.