AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEIPTS OF MONEY TAKEN ON OMNIBUSES AND TRAMWAY CARS, AT THEATRES, MUSIC HALLS, AND ANY OR EVERY OTHER PLACE OR PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, OR OTHERWISE, AND GENERALLY TO CHECK THE RECEIPT OF MONEY OR GOODS
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Levett Bain at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th April
1875.
I, LEVETT BAIN, of Number 3, Пemming's Row, Saint Martin's Place,
Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Solicitor's Articled Clerk, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEIPTS OF MONEY TAKEN ON OMNIBUSES
AND TRAMWAY CARS, AT THEATRES, MUSIC HALLS, AND ANY OR EVERY OTHER PLACE
OR PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, OR OTHERWISE, AND GENERALLY TO
CHECK THE RECEIPT OF MONEY OR GOODS," to be as follows:-
or
By means of a triple or three-fold check divided by means of
perforation or otherwise, and bound as an ordinary cheque book,
as occasion may require the inner part is the counterfoil.
On payment of money by the customer the other two parts are
separated from the counterfoil intact or in an undivided state, in which
manner they are presented to the check taker. The check taker or
conductor instead of relieving the customer of the whole of this
undivided portion takes but the outside part, leaving the customer with
This middle ticket
the portion which originally formed the middle
becomes the absolute property of the customer, and at theatres, music

page_text: halls, and other places of amusement or otherwise, may serve as a pass
for the entire performance, or it may be collected at the end of the
entertainment.
The disposal of the outer part or that which comes into the possession
of the check taker or conductor is carried out by the aid of an apparatus
or piece of mechanism as follows -The check taker deposits each
separate ticket or check in a groove or opening in a disc or box which is
covered with glass and separated into compartments, of which it is
submitted there shall be ten, the tenth or last one of which shall be
bottomless, and under which there shall be fixed a receptacle for holding
the said checks or tickets; the last nine tickets deposited always remain
exposed, and at any moment it may be seen at a glance that the numbers
in the counterfoil which remain undisposed of will immediately follow in
succession to those exposed to view in the disc.
On placing the first check or ticket in the aforesaid disc or box the
same is moved onwards by a simple contrivance leaving an open
compartment or division for the next check or ticket, which when
deposited is moved on in like manner, and so on until the tenth ticket
is deposited, when (the tenth partition being bottomless) the ticket
first deposited drops through into the receptacle or box, and so on with
the following tickets, leaving only exposed in the disc or box the last
nine tickets. Connected with the pivot of the disc or box (which is
round) is a series of wheels connected by the aid of mechanism, which
will cause to be indicated on dials every ticket deposited, and such dials
shall indicate in units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, if necessary.
The whole of the disc or box and dials may be encased and hidden
from view, but leaving the check taker or conductor sufficient scope to
deposit his checks.
The result would be that the number of tickets indicated by the dials,
the number as shown to be deposited in the receptacle or box, and the
number indicated by the counterfoil, all the tickets being numbered
consecutively, should exactly correspond, otherwise there is a fault which
it is submitted this process may readily lead to discover.