AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF ISSUING TICKETS INDICATING THE NUMBERS AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY IN ALL VEHICLES AND PLACES WHERE TICKETS ARE USED AS A СПЕСК."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Henry Betteley, of 40, Fleet Street, in the City
of London, Engineer, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
AND METHOD OF ISSUING TICKETS INDICATING THE NUMBERS AND REGISTERING
RECEIPTS OF MONEY IN ALL VEHICLES AND PLACES WHERE TICKETS ARE
USED AS A СПЕСК."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Henry Betteley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th October 1880.
JOSEPH HENRY BETTELEY, of 40, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Engineer.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF ISSUING TICKETS INDICATING
THE NUMBERS AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY IN ALL VEHICLES AND
PLACES WHERE TICKETS ARE USED AS A CHECK."
The object of this Invention is the construction and arrangement of an apparatus
whereby the amounts of cash received on any vehicle or in any place are checked
and registered independently of the man in charge.
For the purposes of my Invention I mount one or more (preferably two) rollers
within a casing and at a distance apart that printed or plain strips of paper or
other fabric, which are in superposed coils upon one of the rollers, inay be drawn
off on a thumb button being turned. Between the rollers I fit a stiff plate under
an opening in the upper side of the casing, and I fit a piece of carbonized paper or
chemically prepared fabric in this opening above the stiff plate. I pass the free
end of the lower strip of fabric under the carbonized paper, and that of the upper
strip over it. One end of the lower strip is fastened to the opposite roller, and the
free end of the upper strip passes into and out of an opening or mouth provided
for it in the upper part of the casing, from which pieces of the upper fabric can be
torn to serve as tickets.
In action the attendant or man in charge marks with a pencil the amount
received upon the upper strip at the opening in the casing, and an impression of
the numeral becomes fixed, not only upon the back of the strip so marked, but
upon the surface of the lower strip, which, when the thumb button is turned
(which must be done to enable the marked portion of the upper strip to project
through the mouth), is carried on to the second roller, this being under lock and
key, and out of control of the attendant.
The spindle of the second roller may be arranged with an internal click and dial
to register the movements and to prevent any back motion of the thumb button,
and a bell may be provided that it can be sounded at the taking of each amount.
Instead of the thumb button a sliding catch plate may be used to propel the
strips along.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Henry Betteley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th April 1881.
JOSEPH HENRY BETTELEY, of 40, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Engineer.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF ISSUING TICKETS INDICATING:
THE NUMBERS AND REGISTERING RECEIPTS OF MONEY IN ALL VEHICLES AND
PLACES WHERE TICKETS ARE USED AS A CHECK."
For the purposes of my Invention I mount one or more (preferably two) rollers
within a casing and at a distance apart that printed or plain strips of paper or
other fabric, which are in superposed coils upon one of the rollers, may be drawn
off on a thumb button being turned.
Between the rollers I fit a stiff plate under an opening in the upper side of the
casing, and I fit a piece of carbonized paper or a chemically prepared fabric in this
opening above the stiff plate.
I pass the free end of the lower strip of fabric under the carbonized paper, and
that of the upper strip over it. One end of the lower strip is fastened to the
opposite roller, and the free end of the upper strip passes into and out of an
opening or mouth provided for it in the upper part of the casing, from which
pieces of the upper fabric can be torn to serve as tickets.
In action the attendant or man in charge marks with a pencil the amount
received upon the upper strip at the opening in the casing, and an impression of
the numeral becomes fixed, not only upon the back of the strip so marked, but
upon the surface of the lower strip, which, when the thumb button is turned
(which must be done to enable the marked portion of the upper strip to project
through the mouth), is carried on to the second roller, this being under lock and
key, and out of control of the attendant.
The spindle of the second roller inay be arranged with an internal click and dial
to register the movements and to prevent any back motion of the thumb button,
and a bell may be provided that it can be sounded at the taking of each amount.
Instead of the thumb button a sliding catch plate may be used to propel the
strips along.
My Invention is substantially shown in the annexed Drawings. Figure 1 is a
sido view of an apparatus with the cover removed. A is a central plug, on. which
two strips of paper B, C, are wound in superposed coils. D is another central
plug, onto which the lower strip of paper is rolled when the button head E is
turned in the proper direction. F, F, are two guide plates, and one of these has a
piece of carbonized paper attached that the lower strip of paper C shall pass along
and be in contact with it, the upper paper B at that part being exposed through
an opening G, as seen in the plan view, Figure 2, to enable the conductor to mark
with a pencil or other appliance the numeral of the amount of money he has or is
to receive from a passenger, which mark will be impressed by the carbonized paper
upon the lower strip C.
The conductor then turns the button head, and the lower paper C rolls itself
upon the plug, the end of the upper strip presenting itself that it may be torn off
and given to the passenger. 1 affix a stop paul, and in some cases a sound bell,
that the passenger may know that a ticket is being issued.
The sound bell appliance can be arranged that it is struck once only for each
fare taken or ticket issued, or it may be caused to sound for every penny the
passenger has to pay. Thus the bell may be caused to sound once for one penny,
twice for twopence, three times for threepence, and so on, the ticket issued being
longer or shorter in proportion, the conductor only marking the numeral 1, 2, or
3, which would correspond to the amount.

page_text: Figure 3 is a similar view to Figure 1, except that the two strips of paper are
on different roll plugs A, A'. The two strips of paper in Figure 3 are drawn from
A, A', by a grip roller H, the surface of which puts the upper strip of paper into
contact with an ink or a perforating roller J for dating the ticket, as shown by
Figure 4, or the roller J may be otherwise marked.
The button head E in this apparatus is upon the draw off roller H, and the other
rollers are moved, and also the plug A' by gearing, shown in Figure 5, which
gearing and the sounding bell are upon the side opposite to that on which the
button is arranged, as shown by the plan view, Figure 6.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
"Issuing tickets from strip paper from an apparatus within which a duplicate
marking of the amount received is indicated on a separate strip of paper out of
control of the person in charge to check and register the amount so received, the
apparatus being constructed and the parts arranged and acting substantially as
described and as shown in the annexed Drawings."
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In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Henry Betteley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.