IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING TICKET PUNCHES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING TICKET PUNCHES."-A
communication from abroad by the Foreign Cancelling Punch
Company, Incorporated, of Buffalo, New York, United States of
America.
Sealed the 28th July 1874, and dated the 11th May 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th May 1874.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
5 Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING TICKET
PUNCHES," a communication, to be as follows:-
The said improvements relate to a conductor's ticket punch, such as
is shown and described in the Specification of former Letters Patent,

page_text: dated January 18th, A.D. 1871, No. 124, to which reference is here
made for a full description of the said instrument.
As described in the said Specification the punch proper has com.
bined with it a suitable receptacle for the punch cuttings, and an
alarm bell and a registering mechanism, both simultaneously operated
cach time the punch is used or the handle closed. The bell and
registering device are arranged side by side, separated by a partition
plate within a case located between and attached to one of the handles
of the punch. The two faces of this case are provided with hinged
covers for affording access respectively to the bell and registering
mechanism. These covers in the Specification above referred to are
shown fastened in a closed position by means of a single connecting wire
and soft metal seal.
One part of the present Invention relates more particularly to an
improvement in the construction of the register actuating mechanism
for the purpose of preventing the ringing of the bell without operating
the register, which has sometimes been accomplished by partly closing
the handles of the punch and raising the bell hammer to such a degree
that by suddenly allowing the handles to spring open the bell will be
rung, while this movement of the landles is insufficient to move the
register.
Another part of the said Invention relates to improvements in the
means for locking the covers of the bell and register case.
I combine with the bell hammer and handles of a registering ticket
punch a series of ratchets, a shifting cam, and a spring detent pawl,
which is held in contact with the said ratchets until released at the com-
pletion of the closing movement of the handles whereby the ringing of
the bell by partially closing the handles and then suddenly releasing the
same is prevented. I also combine with the said bell hammer and
handles two series of ratchets, an intermediate shifting cam, and a
reversible spring detent pawl, whereby the movement of closing as well
as opening the handles must be completed before it can be reversed,
and the ringing of the bell by opening the handles partially but not
sufficiently to set the register for the next closing movement is pre-
vented. I also combine with the said bell hammer and handles a cam
engaging with the web of one of the handles for actuating the bell
hammer.

page_text: The bell actuating mechanism has a reversible pawl for returning the.
bell cam to its normal position..
I combine a locking bar with the two oppositely arranged covers of:
the bell and registering case, each provided with a notched hasp which
in closing the covers overlap each other so as to cause the notches;
therein to coincide and permit a single bar to lock both covers, and I
employ a combination lock for securing the covers of the bell and
registering mechanisms.
I combine with the box for the punch cuttings and one of the covers
of the bell and register case a locking bolt or pin, arranged so that when
the said cover is in a closed position it will retain the locking pin in
place and prevent the detachment of the box.
I combine with the unit registering wheel and actuating pawls a
secondary registering wheel having one of its teeth or ratchets cut away
so that said wheel will cease to be actuated by the pawl when the latter
engages in the space so formed in its circumference whereby any
attempt to start the registering mechanism back of the proper starting
point is detected.
I use a combination lock whose locking bar has a movable piece pro-
vided with locking notches and so connected to the locking bar that it
will be moved outwardly and thereby increase the hold or grip of the
bar on the said locking bar when an upward pressure is applied to the
latter in attempting to pick the lock.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
* Office on the 11th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents;
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

page_text: and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special licence
that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING TICKET PUNCHES," a communication to me from
abroad by the Foreign. Cancelling. Punch Company, Incorporated,
of Buffalo, New York, United States of America, upon the 'condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Robert Lake, 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 1
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 William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the 2
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawing forming a part of this Specification.
The said improvements relate to a conductor's ticket punch, such as is
shown and described in the Specification of former Letters Patent, 2
dated January 18th, A.D. 1871, No. 124, to which reference is here
made for a full description of the said instrument.
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As described in the said Specification the punch proper has combined
with it a suitable receptacle for the punch cuttings, and an alarm bell
and a registering mechanism, both simultaneously operated each time
the punch is used or the handle closed. The bell and registering device
are arranged side by side, separated by a partition plate within a case
located between and attached to one of the handles of the punch. The
two faces of this case are provided with hinged covers for affording
access respectively to the bell and registering mechanism. These covers 3
in the Specification above referred to are shown fastened in a closed
position by means of a single connecting wire and soft metal seal.

page_text: One part of the present Invention relates more particularly to an
improvement in the construction of the register actuating mechanism
for the purpose of preventing the ringing of the bell without operating
the register, which has sometimes been accomplished by partly closing
the handles of the punch and raising the bell hammer to such a degree
that by suddenly allowing the handles to spring open the bell will be
rung, while this movement of the handles is insufficient to move the
register.
Another part of the said Invention relates to improvements in the
means for locking the covers of the bell and register case.
I combine with the bell hammer and handles of a registering ticket
punch a series of ratchets, a shifting cam, and a spring detent pawl,
which is held in contact with the said ratchets until released at the
completion of the closing movement of the handles whereby the ringing
of the bell by partially closing the handles and then suddenly releasing
the same is prevented. I also combine with the said bell hammer and
handles two series of ratchets, an intermediate shifting cam, and a
reversible spring detent pawl, whereby the movement of closing as well
às opening the handles must be completed before it can be reversed, and
the ringing of the bell by opening the handles partially 'but not
sufficiently to set the register for the next closing movement is pre-
vented. I also combine with the said bell hammer and handles a cam.
engaging with the web of one of the handles for actuating the bell
hammer.
The bell actuating mechanism has a reversible pawl for returning the
bell cam to its normal position, as herein-after described.
I combine a locking bar with the two oppositely arranged covers of
the bell and registering case, each provided with a notched hasp. These
hasps in closing the covers overlap each other so as to cause the notches
therein to coincide and permit a single bar to lock both covers. And I
employ a combination lock for securing the covers of the bell and
registering mechanism.
I combine with the box for the punch cuttings and. one of the covers
of the bell and register case a locking bolt or pin, so arranged that when
the said cover is in a closed position it will retain the locking pin in
place and prevent the detachment of the box...

page_text: I combine with the unit registering wheel and actuating pawl a
secondary registering wheel having one of its teeth or ratchets cut away
so that said wheel will cease to be actuated by the pawl when the latter
engages in the space so formed in its circumference, whereby any
attempt to start the registering mechanism behind the proper starting
point is detected, as herein-after fully described.
I use a combination lock whose locking bar has a movable piece pro-
vided with locking notches and so connected to the locking bar that it
will be moved outwardly and thereby increase the hold or grip of the
bar on the said locking bar when an upward pressure is applied to the
latter in attempting to pick the lock.

page_text: A is the upper and B the lower handle of the instrument, hinged
together and provided with a punch tool in a common manner; O is the
case containing the bell and register mechanism on opposite sides of.
the partition thereof; D, D¹, are the covers of this case; E, E', are the
register wheels, and ƒ the stepped pawl for actuating the same; it is
attached to the radial arm f' swinging on the arbor of the register
wheels and connected with a projecting portion A' of the web of the
upper handle A by a ping projecting therefrom; the pawl f moves the
register one degree cach time the handles of the punch are closed in an
obvious manner; g' shows two spring detent pawls arranged on a
common fulcrum and engaging with the register wheels E, E', to prevent
retrograde movement thereof.
The general construction and operation of the register mechanism is
substantially the same as that described in the aforesaid former Specifi-
cation. His the bell, secured to a stud on the inner side of the cover D,
and I is the arm of the bell hammer, pivoted to the partition of the
case C; the arm I is provided with two secondary arms i, i', arranged
at right angles to the former above and below its fulcrum 2; j is a
curved flat spring secured to the case C at j', and bearing with its free
end against the upper arm i of the bell hammer so as to hold the latter
closed; h is a cam, mounted loosely on the pivot of the bell hammer
between the arm I of the latter and the partition of the case C; it is
provided with a tooth h¹ projecting under the portion A' of the upper
handle A and a smaller projection or tooth ² arranged in rear of the
5 tooth ', while it carries on the opposite side of the pivot a shoulder h³
engaging under the arm I of the bell hammer in the angle formed by
the arm with the arm I.
In closing the handles of the punch the portion A¹ of the upper
handle strikes the tooth ¹ of the cam / turning the latter on its pivot i²
and raising the hammer against the spring by means of the shoulder h³
engaging under the arm I. When the movement of the handles is com-'
pleted and the bell hammer released the latter and the cam h are returned
to their former position by the spring ; and the bell is rung. In
opening the handles the end of the portion A¹ comes in contact with the
5 tooth ¹ of the cam h, and turns the latter slightly on its pivot until
the said tooth clears the portion A¹, the shoulder ³ having a little play
in the angle of the arms I and ¹ to permit the cam / to be so
turned back. By this means I dispense with the spring pawl which,
d
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page_text: was heretofore employed for operating the bell hammer, and which
frequently became derranged by the breaking of its spring. m is a
ratchet bar formed with the portion A¹ of the web of the upper handle A.
It is provided with two series of ratchets n, n¹, inclined in opposite.
directions, and an intermediate projecting tooth or cam n². o is the
reversible detent pawl pivoted to the partition of the case C, and pro-
vided at one end with two teeth o¹, o, designed to engage respectively.
with the ratchets n, n¹. The opposite end of the pawl o is provided with.
two inclined sides or planes, as clearly shown in Figure 10, against
which the spring p alternately presses, according to the respective
position of the pawl. o³ is a smaller tooth arranged on the pawl o in
rear of the lower tooth o', and designed to engage with the tooth h² of:
the cam h, as will be presently. described. The punch being in the
position shown in. Figure 1 with the handles distended the spring p
bearing against the upper incline of the detent pawl o holds the
lower tooth o of the latter against the lower and upwardly inclined
ratchet n.
.
;
In closing the said handles in operating the punch the detent pawl o:
slides over the said ratchets until it comes in contact with the cam
tooth n³, which turns the pawl o on its pivot until the spring p which
has pressed against the upper inclined side of the pawl passes the apex.
thereof and engages against the lower incline, when the pawl o is shifted.
so as to engage its upper tooth o² with the upper series of ratchets n¹, as
clearly shown in dotted lines Figure 10. During the closing movement
of the handles the detent pawl o being in contact with the lower series
of ratchets n prevents any retrograde movement of the handles until after
the closing movement is nearly completed and the register moved one
degree, when the pawl o is shifted, as above described, so as to clear the
lower ratchet n and permit the handles to open. Hence an attempt to
ring the bell without operating the register by partially closing the
handles and then suddenly releasing the same will be unsuccessful.
During the last portion of the closing movement of the handles the
portion A¹ is disengaged from the bell hammer and the bell rung, the
register having been moved one degree and locked by the respective
detent pawl a little before the bell is rung. In opening the handles the
pawl o slides over the upper series of ratchets n¹ and prevents in a
similar manner the closing of the same until the handles are almost
completely opened. This prevents the ringing of the bell by opening.

page_text: the handles to such a degree as to engage the hammer pawl with the
bell hammer, but not sufficiently to cause the register actuating pawl to
engage over the next notch of the register wheel. During the last
portion of the opening movement the cam tooth n² comes in contact
with the upper tooth o² of the pawl o and shifts the pawl to its normal
position, leaving the punch free for a second operation. During this
shifting of the pawl o̟ the tooth o³ thereof comes in contact with the
tooth of the cam h, as shown in Figure 2, so that the said cam which
has been slightly turned back during the opening of the handles, as
herein-before described, will be returned to its former position with the
tooth projecting under the portion A¹ of the upper handle ready for
a second closing of the handles. q, q', are the notched hasps projecting
inwardly from the covers D, D', respectively; r is a hole formed through
the handle B for the reception of the hasps q, q', when the covers are
closed. The hasps in this closed position overlap each other so as to
cause their notches to coincide. s is a sliding bar or bolt arranged in a
vertical recess or mortice intersecting the hole r, so that the lower end
of the bar s projects into the latter and engages in the notches of the
hasps q, q, firmly locking the same.
T is a cylinder or arbor projecting upward from the handle B, and
having formed radially in it the upper portion of the mortice in which
the bars slides. The outer edge of the latter is provided with notches
or teeth with which engage a corresponding number of notched
locking discs turning freely on the arbor T and held in place by a
screw cap . Upon making the notches of all the discs coincide
the bar s can be sufficiently raised to release the hasps q, q', as shown in
dotted lines in Figure 1, while by turning the discs t so as to break this
coincidence of their notches the bar & is locked in its lowest position, as
shown in Figure 2.
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The outer discs (3 enclosing the locking discs are provided with
characters or figures corresponding in number with the notches in the
inner changeable discs t, and the proper position of the locking discs t
for releasing the bar s is determined by so arranging the former that the
required series of characters or figures coincides with a fixed mark or
notch of the handle B in the manner common with this class of com-
bination locks. The combination of the characters or figures which
permits the opening of the locks is of course known only to the person
authorized to open the punches. The lower portion of the bar s is

page_text: reduced in width and its lower end provided with a projection or hook,
as shown in Figures 2 and 11, which when the bar is sufficiently raised
to disengage the hasps q, q', engages under a pin v, thereby preventing
the entire withdrawal of said bar.
The locking bars is preferably provided with a movable piece in
which the notches & are formed, and which is connected with the bar s
at one end by a pin engaging in a downwardly inclined slot of the said
bar, as shown in Figure 2, and at the opposite end by an extension or
rib running in a groove arranged in the bars parallel to the said inclined
slot, as shown in Figure 11. When an upward pressure is applied to
the locking bars for the purpose of picking the lock the teeth of the
movable piece in engaging under the locking discs will cause the
piece to slide outwardly and thereby increase the hold of the bar s on
the locking discs.
K is the receptacle for the punch cuttings secured to the under side of
the jaw B of the punch; it is of cylindrical or other suitable shape and
provided with a single aperture in its side adjacent to the jaw B. As
shown in the Drawing the receptacle K is fastened to the jaw B by a
hook engaging in a suitable mortice formed in said jaw, and a tenon
or hasp projecting into a recess in the jaw B and secured therein by a
locking pin passing through the jaw B and tenon l. If preferred a
tenon only may be used for connecting the receptacle K to the jaw B,
and the hook k may be dispensed with. The locking pin is so arranged
that its head or a flange formed therewith is overlapped by the cover D¹
when in a closed position to prevent its withdrawal and the consequent
detachment of the receptacle K, and access thereto until the cover D₁ is
unlocked and opened.
In the second registering wheel E' which is moved one notch for
every revolution of the unit wheel E, one of the ratchets or teeth is cut
out, as shown at e, Figure 7, and the wheel E¹ is so arranged that its
movements will commence at the tooth next following this open space.
After the wheel E¹ has almost completed a revolution so that the
actuating pawlf engages in the space e, the wheel E¹ remains stationary
irrespective of all further movement of the unit wheel E. To bring the
wheel E' again in engagement with the actuating pawl fit must be moved
by hand one notch over this locking position. When the person using the
punch obtains access to the registering mechanism by picking the lock

page_text: thereof, and sets the hands back of the starting point for the purpose of
retaining the number of fares which he cancels during the movement of
the registering mechanism from the point on which it has been so placed
to the starting point, the fraud is exposed by the wheel E¹ remaining
stationary at the last notch before reaching the starting point, thus indi-
cating that the full number of fares has been cancelled which the
apparatus is capable of registering, while a lesser number of fares is
returned.
Having thus fully.described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim,-
First. The combination with a registering and alarm ticket punch, of
the series of ratchets n, shifting cam n³, and spring detent pawl o, as and
for the purpose hercin-before set forth.
Second. The combination with a registering and alarm ticket punch
of the ratchets n, n¹, intermediate shifting cam n², reversible detent
pawl o, and spring p, as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Third. The combination with the bell hammer and handles of the
cam provided with the tooth and shoulder ² for raising the bell
hammer, as herein set forth and for the purpose specified.
Fourth. The combination in a registering ticket punch of the bell
hammer I, cam h provided with tooth ³ and reversible pawl o having a
tooth o³ for returning the cam to its normal position, as berein set
forth.
Fifth. The combination with the covers D, D', provided with notched
hasps q, q', of the locking bar s for securing the covers, as and for the
purpose herein set forth.
Sixth. The combination with the covers D, D¹, notched hasps q, q',
and locking bars of the combination lock, as herein described.
Seventh. The combination with the receptacle K and cover of the
bell or registering mechanism of the locking pin l' retained in place by
the said cover, as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Eighth. The combination with the unit registering wheel E and
actuating pawlf of the secondary registering wheel E' provided with the
space e formed by cutting away one of its ratchets or teeth, as and for
the purpose herein set forth.

page_text: Ninth. The combination with the locking bars of the movable
pieces provided with notches s¹ and connected to the said bar in such
manner that it will slide outwardly and firmly lock the bar & when an
upward pressure is applied to the latter, as herein.set forth.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-.
four
'Witness,
JAS. EDWARDS,
8, Southampton, Buildings,
London.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)