Improvements in and relating to Ticket Punches.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Ticket Punches.
I ARTHUR WARNER, Gentleman, of 86 South Hill Park, Hampstead in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to the systems at present in vogue of punching bus or tram tickets,
the tickets are divided by transverse lines into sections corresponding to sections
of the route along which the bus or tram passes and the conductor is supposed to
punch the ticket in the section corresponding to that to which the purchaser is
entitled to travel. A ticket thus often gets punched on a line dividing two of its
sections or in the wrong section more especially at night. Now this invention has
for its principal object to provide means whereby tickets can be punched accurately
in the desired section and consists essentially in providing the punch with an
adjustable stop in the plane of the ticket slot against which the tickets are pushed
before being punched and in so arranging the sections of the different priced
tickets that when the said stop is adjusted to the particular section on which the
bus or tramcar is on at that particular time, the different priced tickets shall be
punched at the section to which the purchaser is entitled to travel. For example
supposing the bus or tramcar is in section 2 the stop is put to correspond with this
section and supposing the head end of the ticket is to be forced against the stop,
then if penny twopenny and threepenny tickets entitle a person to travel from
section 2 to respectively sections 4, 7, and 10 the sections 4, 7 and 10, respectively
of the penny twopenny and threepenny tickets must be at the same distance from
the head end of the corresponding ticket.
It is obvious however that the sections of the ticket may be arranged in various
ways according to whether the head or tail end is forced against the stop or if the
ticket is punched on one side of the centre line of the ticket as is usual whether it
is punched face upwards or downwards, thus on a long route of say 20 sections, the
tickets of the first ten sections may be punched head end first and the next ten
tail end first or the stop being moved successively from position 1 to 10 and then
back successively from 10 to 1 the other face of the tickets being punched on the
return journey as is usual; or the perforating punch may be shaped to show from
which end the ticket has been punched for example as an elongated triangle or as a
large circle with a small circle on one side, or the side edge of the ticket slot may
be adjustable so that for the first ten sections the ticket is punched near one edge
and for the last ten near the other edge by punching the head end first and then
the tail end first and for the return journey by punching the ticket near the centre
line first on one side and then on the other or two sets of tickets may be used.
For existing punches a bed or plate carrying an adjustable stop is arranged to
fit or clip on to the case of the punch in such manner that the stop can slide in the
plane of the ticket slot, the bed being divided according to the number of sections
required and the stop provided with a fiducial mark. To ensure that the stop
shall be brought to the proper position it is provided with a spring pawl or
projection taking into rounded notches on the bed corresponding to the divisions
on the bed.
In making new punches such as for example the ordinary bell punch the case
with its contained mechanism is raised above the plane of the ticket slot, the ticket

page_text: slot extends from the front end under the case and the stop is arranged to slide
under the case so that the width of the punch is not increased, the tickets being
inserted from the end instead of crossways; or the bell can be arranged on the
same side of the case as the registering mechanism so as to leave room for the
ticket slot to be extended into the case.
In punches in which the width of the ticket determines the amount to be
registered such as those described in Specification No. 1132 of 1893 in addition to
raising the case, the tongue determining the amount to be registered is arranged to
act on the side of the tickets in their new positions, the tongue being dropped down
below the case and working across the punch.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
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Improvements in and relating to Ticket Punches.
I ARTHUR WARNER, Gentleman, of 86 South Hill Park, Hampstead, in the
County of Middlesex, 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 :-
According to the systems at present in vogue of punching bus or tram tickets, the
tickets are divided by transverse lines into sections corresponding to sections of the
route along which the bus or tram passes and the conductor is supposed to punch
the ticket in the section corresponding to that to which the purchaser is entitled to
travel. A ticket thus often gets punched on a line dividing two of its sections
or in the wrong section more especially at night. Now this invention has for its
principal object to provide means whereby tickets can be punched accurately in the
desired section and consists essentially in providing the punch with an adjustable
stop in the plane of the ticket slot against which the tickets are pushed before
being punched and in so arranging the sections of the different priced tickets that
when the said stop is adjusted to the particular section on which the bus or tramcar
is on at that particular time, the different priced tickets shall be punched at the
section to which the purchaser is entitled to travel. For example supposing the
bus or tramcar is in section 2 the stop is put to correspond with this section and
supposing the head end of the ticket is to be forced against the stop, then if penny,
twopenny and threepenny tickets entitle a person to travel from section 2 to
respectively sections 4, and 10 the sections 4, 7, and 10 respectively of the penny,
twopenny and threepenny tickets must be at the same distance from the head end
of the corresponding ticket.
It is obvious however that the sections of the ticket may be arranged in various
ways according to whether the head or tail end is forced against the stop, or if the
ticket is punched on one side of the centre line of the ticket as is usual whether it
is punched face upwards or downwards; thus on a long route of say 20 sections
the tickets of the first ten sections may be punched head end first and the next ten
tail end first, the stop being moved successively from position 1 to 10 and then back
successively from 10 to 1; the other face of the tickets being punched on the
return journey as is usual; or the perforating punch may be shaped to show from
which end the ticket has been punched for example as an elongated triangle or as
a large circle with a small circle on one side, or the side edge of the ticket slot
may be adjustable so that for the first ten sections the ticket is punched near one
edge and for the last ten near the other edge by punching the head end first and then

page_text: the tail end first and for the return journey by punching the ticket near the centre
line first on one side and then on the other or two sets of tickets may be used.
For existing punches a bed or plate carrying an adjustable stop is arranged to
fit or clip on to the case of the punch in such manner that the stop can slide in the
plane of the ticket slot the bed being divided according to the number of sections
required and the stop provided with a fiducial mark. To ensure that the stop shall
be brought to the proper position it is provided with a spring pawl or projection
taking into rounded notches on the bed corresponding to the divisions on the bed.
In making new punches such as for example the ordinary bell punch the case
with its contained mechanism is raised above the plane of the ticket slot, the ticket
slot extends from the front end under the case and the stop is arranged to
slide under the case so that the width of the punch is not increased, the tickets
being inserted from the end instead of crossways; or the bell can be arranged on
the same side of the case as the registering mechanism so as to leave room for the
ticket slot to be extended into the case.
In punches in which the width of the ticket determines the amount to be
registered such as those described in Specification No. 1132 of 1893 in addition to
raising the case, the tongue determining the amount to be registered is arranged to
act on the side of the tickets in their new positions the tongue being dropped down
below the case and working across the punch.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings: Fig. 1 is a front elevation
of a breast punch showing it fitted with the adjustable stop device constructed
according to this invention and Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan, and
Figs. 4 and 5 are cross sections of the same. Fig. 6 is a similar view to Fig. 3
showing a means for adapting an eight section punch to a sixteen section route.
In order to allow the device to be applied to an existing punch the bed or plate a
is formed with a recess 6 to receive the housing c of the perforating punch and is
fixed to the breast punch so that its upper surface is on the same level as the lower
surface of the ticket slot d. The slide e is secured at one side to the bed plate a
by the screws fat a sufficient height from it to allow the tickets to be punched to
be inserted between them. The slide has a central longitudinal slot 9 and is
provided with equidistant notches h. On the slide e is a carriage the under
part being under the slide e and the upper part above and the two being secured
together by the screws passing through the slot g and the nut . On the
carriage is a pawl m forced against the slide e by the spring n.
The spring n
thus forces the pawl m into the notches so that the carriage takes up certain
definite positious, eight being shown. The part of the carriage forms the stop
against which are pressed the tickets to be punched. In order that the true
position of the carriage can be readily ascertained the part is provided with an
aperture o through which numbers graduated on the bed plate can be read. In the
modification shown in Fig. 6 two numbers are shown for each position so that the
device can be used as above described for a line of a larger number of sections.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood
that I am aware it is not novel to punch tickets in the divisions corresponding to
the sections to which the purchaser is entitled to travel and that it has been
suggested to do this mechanically but no means have been designed for carrying
this into effect, but I declare that what I claim is:
1. In ticket punches, an adjustable stop adapted to be fixed at definite distances
from the perforating or marking punch, substantially as described for the purpose
specified.
2. In ticket punches, an adjustable stop device consisting of a slide rigidly fixed
to the punch case and a stop adapted to move on the slide in the plane of the
ticket slot and be automatically retained at different fixed distances from the
perforating or marking puuch substantially as described for the purpose specified.

page_text: 3. The improvements in ticket punches substantially as described with reference
to the, drawings for the purpose specified.
Dated this 24th day of January 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.