Improvements in Indicating and Recording Apparatus for Checking Fares, Cash Payments, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
Improvements in Indicating and Recording Apparatus for Checking
Fares, Cash Payments, and the like.
I, FRANZ STEIN, of Koniggratzerstrasse 101, Berlin, S.W., in the German
Empire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to indicating and similar apparatus, such, for example,
as may be employed for indicating the amount of fare due from and the distance
ridden by the person in a cab, or for registering or indicating the amount of
payments into a till, the amounts being checked after being made visible to the
person concerned.
The object of these improvements is to enable such an apparatus to be cheaply
and simply constructed without the use of the complicated devices and arrange-
ments which have hitherto been considered necessary. In the improved apparatus
the indicating part for each figure, unit or character is formed in one with or is
connected to the corresponding checking device so that when the former is moved
the latter has a corresponding motion imparted to it. The use of any complicated
transmitting mechanism is thus obviated.
Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate how this invention
may be carried into effect:-
Figure 1 represents part of the apparatus in side elevation.
Figures 2 and 3 show it respectively in front and back view.
Figures 4 and 5 show in plan and partial front view respectively, apparatus
which may be employed, for example, to indicate time employed, money due, and
distance travelled.
Each part of my apparatus, by means of which a figure, character or the like
is indicated, consists essentially of two segments a and a¹ which may be formed
in one piece or be rigidly connected together. Corresponding numbers of figures
or the like are formed upon or attached to the peripheries of each. Any further
convenient number of these double segments, such as 6, 6' according to the purpose
for which the apparatus is to be employed, may be arranged upon a common
shaft w.
The numbers upon the peripheries of the segments are so arranged that when
any number upon the front segment is brought opposite to an opening in the
casing so as to be visible, the corresponding number upon the back segment is
introduced into a suitable printing or marking device and is impressed upon a
strip of paper when the apparatus is thrown out of action or returned to zero.
The front indicating segments a, b, may be operated in any desired manner and
be held in the required position by the springs k.
The printing of the checking figures upon the back segments may be accom-
plished by leading a strip of paper over them and giving this paper a blow with
a suitable hammer or the like.
In the arrangement shown in the figures the front indicating segments are

page_text: larger and heavier than the back checking ones, and consequently return by
gravity to their zero positions when they are released, but both segments may, if
desired, be of equal size and be returned to their original positions by springs.
The arrangement illustrated, however, is preferred, as the front segments may be
provided with large and easily visible figures and the back ones with small figures
only large enough for printing.
As shown in plan in Figure 4 the indicating ends of the double segments may
be opened out from each other and the checking ends may be close together so as
to be compact for printing.
Improvements in Indicating and Recording Apparatus for Checking
Fares, Cash Payments, and the like.
I, FRANZ STEIN, of Koniggratzerstrasse 101, Berlin, S.W., in the German
Empire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
This invention relates to indicating and similar apparatus, such, for example,
as may be employed for indicating the amount of fare due from and the distance
ridden by a person in a cab, or for registering or indicating the amount of pay-
ments into a till, the amounts being checked and recorded after being made visible
to the person concerned.
The object of these improvements is to enable such an apparatus to be cheaply
and simply constructed without the use of the complicated devices and arrange-
ments which have hitherto been considered necessary. In the improved apparatus
the indicating part for each figure, unit or character is formed in one with or is
connected to the corresponding checking device so that when the former is moved
the latter has a corresponding motion imparted to it. The use of any complicated
transmitting mechanism is thus obviated.
Referring to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification and which
illustrate how this invention may be carried into effect:
Figure 1 represents part of the apparatus in side elevation.
Figures 2 and 3 shew it respectively in front and back view.
Figures 4 and 5 shew in plan and partial front view respectively, apparatus
which may be employed, for example, to indicate time employed, money due, and
distance travelled.
Each part of my apparatus, by means of which a figure, character, or the like
is indicated, consists essentially of two segments a and a¹ which may be formed
in one piece or be rigidly connected together. Corresponding numbers of figures
or the like are formed upon or are attached to the peripheries of each. Any
further number of these double segments, such as 6, 6¹, according to the purpose
for which the apparatus is to be employed, may be arranged upon a common
shaft 1.
The numbers upon the peripheries of the segments are so arranged that when
any number upon the front segment is brought opposite to an opening in the
casing so as to be visible, the corresponding number upon the back segment is
introduced into a suitable printing or marking device and is impressed upon a
strip of paper when the apparatus is thrown out of action or returned to zero.

page_text: The front indicating segments a, b, may be operated in any desired manner
and be held in the required position by the springs k.
The printing of the checking figures upon the back segments may be accom-
plished by leading a strip of paper over them and giving this paper a blow with
a suitable hammer or the like.
In the arrangement shown in the figures the front indicating segments are
larger and heavier than the back checking ones, and consequently return by
gravity to their zero positions against the bar or stop c when they are released,
but both segments may, if desired, be of equal size and be returned to their original
positions by springs. The arrangement illustrated, however, is preferred, as the
front segments may be provided with large and easily visible figures and the back
ones with small figures only large enough for printing.
As shewn in plan in Figure 4 the indicating ends of the double segments may
be opened out from each other and the checking ends may be close together so as
to be compact for printing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In an indicating and checking device for use with carriages, tills, or the like,
the combination with a segmental indicating part of a segmental checking part,
the two being so arranged that when a figure or character upon the indicating
part is made visible a similar figure or character upon the checking part is intro-
duced into a printing or similar device and is recorded, substantially as herein-
before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. A combined indicating and checking device, constructed and arranged
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.