AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING AND CLASSIFYING THE FARES OF PASSENGERS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING AND CLASSIFYING
THE FARES OF PASSENGERS."-A communication from abroad by
Edwin Chesterman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of
America.
Sealed the 23rd October 1874, and dated the 14th August 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th August 1874.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," South-
ampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING
AND CLASSIFYING THE FARES OF PASSENGERS," a communication, to be as
follows:-
:-
The object of the said Invention is to construct an instrument which
shall record and classify the amounts received as fares from passengers.

page_text: It consists in the arrangement of two or more counting registers in
one case, which is so secured that no person can by any possibility set
back or tamper with the registering apparatus.
Each counting register is actuated by its own separate pin projecting
through to the outside of the case. A button or knob is placed on the 5
outside end of this pin which the conductor presses to record the
character of the fare received. The proper button to press is indicated
by such words as cash, tickets, exchange, half fare, printed on the case
in close proximity to the button, so that the passenger himself can see
if the proper button is struck.
An alarm bell is sounded every time the register counts one to notify
that the collector has discharged his duty.
1
The counting register is made with a series of wheels, the dials of
which are numbered from 0 to 9. These wheels have teeth and notches
into which double arm levers are fitted so as to lock the wheels and 1
prevent them moving except when actuated by the push knobs.
The box enclosing the mechanism is closed by a lid rivetted on or
otherwise so securely sealed that it cannot be removed without damaging
the case and showing that the attempt has been made. The box cannot
be opened, and if the mechanism gets out of order it
the manufacturer for repairs. In this lid is a plate of glass over the
counting registers through which they can be read by the receiver and
the amount entered in a book at the end of every trip.
must be sent to 2
The register works continuously without setting, and by substracting
the figures at any given trip from the amount recorded at the next 2
succeeding one the number of fares received is ascertained.
The glass plate is covered by a locked lid so that the conductor cannot
examine the state of the register. By this he is prevented from knowing
the state of the register, and if any attempt should be made to defraud
by striking the wrong knob there is no possibility of the conductor a
harmonizing his accounts to correspond, as he is working in the dark.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Build-
ings, London, Doctor of Laws, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Haseltine, Her special licence
that I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Haseltine, 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 "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING AND CLASSIFYING THE FARES OF PASSENGERS," a com-
munication to me from abroad by Edwin Chesterman, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Haseltine, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 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 George Haseltine, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing.
forming a part of this Specification
:-

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It consists, first, in the arrangement of two or more counting registers
for classifying and recording fares in one case, which is so secured that
no person can by any possibility set back or tamper with the registering
apparatus.
Second. In the combination of two or more counting registers in one
case, with an alarm bell and a single intermediate striking mechanism
operated by push knobs, as herein-after described.
Third. In a locking device upon the said push knobs in combination
with the registers and alarm bell.
Fourth. In the arrangement of one or more continuously counting
registers in a non-opening case, permanently rivetted or fastened so that
access cannot be obtained to the interior mechanism, the said case
having a transparent plate, as herein-after set forth.
Fifth. In the arrangement of one or more continuously counting
registers in a non-opening case, the said case having a transparent plate
and an extra lock lid. Also in a mode of locking the registering wheels,
as herein-after described.
Each counting register is actuated by its own separate pin projecting
through to the outside of the case, a button or knob is placed on the
outside end of this pin which the car conductor presses to record the
character of the fare received. The proper button to press is indicated
by such words as
"cash,"
," "ticket," "exchange," or "half fare," printed
on the case in close proximity to the button, so that the passenger
himself can see if the proper button is struck.
The bell is struck by an independent mechanism which is so con-
nected with the separate push knobs that the pressing of any one of the
buttons will ring the bell or gong within the case, but, will only actuate
its own particular register.
The counting register is made with a series of wheels, the dials of
which are numbered from 0 to 9. These wheels have teeth and notches,
into which double arm levers are so fitted as to lock the wheels and
prevent their moving except when actuated by the push knobs.
The box enclosing the mechanism is closed by a lid rivetted on or
otherwise so securely sealed that it cannot be removed without damaging
the case and showing that the attempt has been made. The box cannot

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.

page_text: top or left hand of the wheel; in Figure 5 the notched plate is placed
at the back close to the case. c is a spring pawl to prevent the turning
back of the wheels.
K is a push knob secured upon the rod ¹. This rod passes through
a hollow box and connects with the slide P. The slide P is guided
by the stud p¹ at one end and the rod at the other. A spring in the
box keeps the knob K extended. The spring pawl n which operates
the first registering wheel is hinged upon the slide P.
M is a sliding bar working in guides m³, m³, it carries a spring
pawl m hinged at me.
R is the bell hammer pivoted at r. It is kept in contact with the
stop by the spring 7. A pin projects from the lower arm of the
bell hammer.
1. S is a gong or bell. The slide P is bent up at right angles so that
the portion p will strike the T shaped end of the sliding bar M whenever 1
any of the push knobs K are pressed inward.
T is the lid having lugs at one end which pass under corresponding
lugs in the case A. The other end of the lid is rivetted down by the
rivets . A screw may be used in place of the rivets, in which case the
head is sealed with a wax or metal seal.
Holes are made through the rods through which a bar can be
pushed and locked by a padlock, thus securing the instrument against
being operated except by the ticket or fare collector himself, and com-
pletely preventing either the car conductor or the receiver for the rail-
road company operating to the disadvantage of each other.
W is a transparent plate, making part of the lid, through which the
registers can be read at any time.
X is an extra cover or lid which slides over the transparent plate W
beneath the guides ³, and is fastened by a spring bolt t. t is the
keyhole. This extra lid prevents the car conductor reading the state of a
the register. Before using the machine the lid X is unlocked and the
receiving clerk notes down the state of the registers C, D, E, H, and
locks the lid. We will now suppose the knob K operating upon the
counting register D under the word "cash" to be pressed. The slide P
moving forward will cause the register D to count one, the stop p³ will 3

page_text: also press forward the slide M and force the pawl m³ against the pin »,
raising the hammer until the pawl slips past the pin *, and the hammer
strikes the bell every time one additional fare is recorded. On releasing
the thumb from the knob K it is forced outward by the spring in the
box, and the sliding bar M is forced back by the spring m against
the lug p. As the bar M is only kept in contact with the slide P by
the pressure of the spring m* any particular knob K when pressed will
strike the bell and move that particular register but have no effect upon
the other three registers. When the lid X is again opened the number
of each class of fares received is casily computed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
HY. JA. NoONE.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)