New or Improved Means or Apparatus for Releasing Gates, Doors, Turnstiles, and the like, to Permit Persons to Enter or Leave Enclosures, such as Theatres, Buildings, Rooms, Grounds, Tram- cars, Weighing Machines, and other Premises where Payment for Admission is Required.
Year: 1886

page_text: New or Improved Means or Apparatus for Releasing Gates, Doors,
Turnstiles, and the like, to Permit Persons to Enter or Leave
Enclosures, such as Theatres, Buildings, Rooms, Grounds, Tram-
cars, Weighing Machines, and other Premises where Payment
for Admission is Required.
L, JOSEPH FREEMAN, of 32 Shaftesbury Road, Hammersmith, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;
My invention is designed to provide new or improved means or apparatus for
releasing gates, doors, turnstiles and the like to permit persons to enter or leave
enclosures such as theatres, buildings, rooms, grounds, tramcars, weighing machines,
and other premises where payment for admission is required.
My invention consists in arranging a gate, door, or turnstile so constructed that by
dropping a coin, tally, or check into a receptacle the gate,door,turnstile, or equivalent
is released and a person permitted to pass through to the enclosure previously barred
by the gate, door, turnstile, or equivalent, the same being again locked directly the
person has passed through the apparatus.
I will describe my invention in connection with a weighing machine suitable for
use in railway stations and other places.
[
I arrange a suitable enclosure preferably rectangular in plan and therein I place a
weighing machine and its platform. The weighing machine may be of any suitable
kind, say such for instance as one working on the pneumatic gauge system, and may
be furnished with a registering dise or wheel carrying on its face rubber or other
types corresponding to the dial or indicator and inked by a roller, pad, or other
suitable mechanism so that the type is presented through a slot or otherwise in such a
manner that a ticket pressed by the person being weighed on such type may print or
register his or her weight as indicated by the machine.
1 place my turnstile so as to permit access to the weighing platform, chair, or seat
and prefer to use a turnstile consisting of a disc, plate, or frame with a slot or recess
of suitable size for the reception of a persons body. This 1 mount on a spindle or
رام

page_text: footstep provided with a pawl or pawls engaging with a rack to prevent reverse
motion. I prefer to fit an arm to the spindle or footstep engaging with a blade spring
taking a downward bend and then rising to be secured to a suitable fixed point. This
spring causes the immediate action of the turnstile dise or plate after the person
leaves the slot or recess and has pushed the dise or plate round.
or bentlever
Before, however, the disc or plate can be released the coin, tally, or check must be
dropped into a suitable slot or receptacle. To effect this operation I arrange a bell
crank lever or other suitable lever or levers pivotted on suitable centres; its vertical
end is arranged to drop into a bolt actuated by a spring or otherwiseandwhich releases
the turnstile. In the vertical end of the lever I form a sloping recess and in the side
of the bolt 1 also form a sloping recess and I pivot to a fixed point ans
furnished with suitably shaped ends, one to enter the recess in the lever and the other
the recess in the bolt so that one end of the S or bent lever is in the recess in the
ond of the bell crank or other lever when the other is out of the recess in the bolt,and
The bell crank or other lever is delicately poised and adjusted by a
suitable spring or weight keeping its vertical end down to lock the bolt by moving
the S or bent lever, but which spring or weight may be overcome by dropping the
coin, tally, or check on the free end of the lever, the spring or weight being so
adjusted that the required coin or its equivalent weight will alone release the lever.
The spring may be placed on hooks or in various positions on the lever to adjust for
various coins, tallies, or checks.
vice versa.
To use the apparatus a person inserts his or her body in the recess or slot in the
turnstile dise or plate and drops, say, a penny in the receptacle provided. This causes
the bell crank or other lever to drop and release a handle operating the bolt locking
the turnstile and he or she can now turn the handle, release the bolt, and push the
dise or plate round until opposite the weighing machine so placed that no one else can
stand or sit thereon while another is weighing.
In order to leave the weighing machine the person continues his or her course in
the circuit of the disc or turnstile, leaving the same at the point of entry. A spring
now coming into action brings the turnstile to its original position and compels the
bolt or catch to fall into the slot provided and so refasten the apparatus until released
by the dropping of another coin or its equivalent.
I may arrange the movement of the turnstile or bolt to switch an electric current
on to a lamp or lamps to illuminate the dial or enclosure. This I preferably effect by
moving the plates out of a battery or withdrawing the solution by a pump operated by
the turnstile or bolt, or by tilting the battery to empty the fluid. By this means the
battery is only in action when a person is weighing or in the enclosure.
I may for various uses vary the details of my apparatus and I may cause the turn-
stile to actuate a register or counter and so check the number of coins dropped in the
receptacle.
For theatres two or more slots or recesses in the dise or plate of the turnstile can
be provided, such slots or recesses facing each other and the locking arrangement so
arranged that the disc or plate can be locked in either direction.
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: New or Improved Means or Apparatus for Releasing Gates, Doors,
Turnstiles, and the like, to Permit Persons to Enter or Leave
Enclosures, such as Theatres, Buildings, Rooms, Grounds, Tram-
cars, Weighing Machines, and other Premises where Payment,
for Admission is Required.
I JOSEPH FREEMAN of 32 Shaftesbury Road Hammersmith in the County of
Middlesex Gentleman 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:—
My Invention is designed to provide new or improved means or apparatus for
releasing gates, doors, turnstiles and the like to permit persons to enter or leave
enclosures such as Theatres, buildings, rooms, grounds, tramcars, weighing machines
and other premises where payment for admission is required.
My invention consists in arranging a gate door or turnstile so constructed that by
dropping a coin into a receptacle the gate door turnstile or equivalent is released and
a person permitted to pass through to the enclosure previously barred by the gate
door turnstile or equivalent, the said gate, door, turnstile or equivalent being again
locked directly the person has passed through the apparatus.
For the sake of illustration I will describe my invention in connection with a
weighing machine suitable for use in railway stations and other places.
1 arrange a suitable enclosure preferably a rectangular one on plan and therein
I place a suitable weighing machine and its platform.
The weighing machine used in connection with my invention might be of any
suitable kind say for instance one working on the pneumatic gauge system and may
be furnished with a registering disc or wheel carrying on its face rubber or other
types corresponding to the dial or indicator and inked by a roller,pad or other suitable
mechanism so that the type is presented through a slot or otherwise in such a manner
that a ticket pressed by the person being weighed on such type may print or register
his or her weight as indicated by the machine.
I will now refer to sheets 1 to 3 and part of sheet 4 as illustrating my invention
used in connection with a weighing machine.
On Sheet 1. Figure 1 is a plan of the turnstile.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Fig. a plan of a weighing machine not claimed as part of my invention and
simply shown as an adjunct thereto.
On Sheet 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the locking gear of the turnstile
shown on enlarged scale.
On Sheet 3. Fig. 5 is a front view of the same.
On Sheet 4. Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the central spindle, rack
pawl and spring.

page_text: Fig. 7 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 8 is a considerably enlarged section through the pawl and rack.
I place my turnstile so as to permit access to the weighing platform chair or seat
and prefer to use a turnstile consisting of a disc plate or frame A with a slot or
recess B of suitable size for the reception of a person's body. I may fill in the
structure by gauze or other panelling as shown by bars D. D. This I mount on a
spindle C with its footstep provided with a pawl or pawls E engaging with a rack F
to prevent reverse motion or the pawl may be pivotted on a fixed centre and the
rack travel. I prefer to fit an arm to the spindle C engaging with a blade
spring I taking a downward bend 1 and then rising to be secured to a suitable
fixed point J.
This spring causes the immediate action of the turnstile dise or plate A after the
person leaves the slot or recess Band has pushed the dise or plate A round. Before
however the disc or plate A can be released the coin must be dropped into a suitable
slot or receptacle having a tube or guide to direct the same.
To effect this operation I arrange a bell crank lever L or other suitable lever or
levers pivotted on centres L'.
As shown in Fig. 4 I arrange this lever in two parts one horizontal L and one
vertical M. the end of L having play in a hole M' in M, to secure easy play. I arrange
the vertical portion M to drop into a hole slot or recess N in a boli O, which as shown
is secured to the outer frame or railing surrounding the turnstile or which if desired
may be mounted on the tube or guard (", surrounding the central spindle C. P is a
bracket mounted on the side of the turnstile frame to guide M.
In the vertical end M of the lever I form a sloping recess Q and in the side of the
bolt O, I also form a sloping recess Ras clearly shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 and
1 pivot to a fixed point S as shown on the support of the lever L an S or bent lever T
furnished with suitably shaped ends T T one to enter the recess Qin vertical part M
of the lever Land the other the recess R in the bolt 0, so that one end T¹ of the S- or
bent lever T is in the recess of the end M of the bell crank or other lever 1, when
the other T2 is out of the recess R in the bolt O and vice versa. Thus when the
penny drops down the slide K' it depresses the lever L so lifting the vertical end M
of the lever and allowing the end of the S lever T to enter the recess Q thus
holding it in position to allow of the turnstile revolving. When the turnstile is
brought back to the normal position the end T2 of the S lever falls into the notch R
in the bolt O so locking the turnstile until the the apparatus is released by the
insertion of a fresh coin The bell crank or other lever L is delicately poised and
adjusted by a suitable spring or weight keeping its vertical end down to lock the
holt O by moving the Sor bent lever, but which spring or weight may be overcome
by dropping the coin on the free end of the lever L the spring or weight being so
adjusted that the required coin will alone release the lever. The spring may be
placed on a hook or hooks V or in various positions on the lever to adjust for
various coins.
To use the apparatus a person inserts his or her body in the recess or slot in the
dise, plate or turnstile A and drops say a penny in the receptacle provided, this causes
the bell crank or other lever L to drop and so release the bolt locking the
turnstile and the person can now push the dise or plate A round until opposite the
weighing machine so placed that no one else can stand or sit thereon while another
is weighing.
In order to leave the weighing machine the person continues his or her course in
the circuit of the disc or turnstile A leaving the same at the point of entry; the
spring H now coming into action brings the turnstile to its original position and
compels the bolt or catch M to fall into the slot N provided and so refasten the
apparatus until again released by the dropping of another coin.
I may manage the movement of the turnstile or bolt to switch an electric current
on to a lamp or lamps to illuminate the dial or enclosure, this I may effect by moving
the plates out of a battery, or withdrawing the solution by a pump operated by
the turnstile or bolt, or by tilting the battery to empty the fluid by which means

page_text: the battery is only in action when a person is using the apparatus, or by orner SunADI
means.
As I prefer to use an electric current to illuminate my weighing apparatus I may
utilize such current to lift the pawl locking in the rachet track placed below the
turnstile in place of releasing a vertically dropping bolt such as M on the turnstile
dropping into a notch or recess such as R on a fixed bolt such as O on the enclosure
or pillar or vice versa.
I now refer to Figs. 9 10 on Sheet 4 and Figures 11- 12 on Sheet 5 and Fig. 1
on Sheet 6.
For the sake of clearness I will first refer to Fig. 13 wherein A is the turnstile
made in a portion of a circle and corresponding to A in the other Figs. before
referred to.
I provide the same with a bottom plate A2 for the person to stand on.
The turnstiles in this and the preceding Figures both revolve or turn within a
suitable enclosure or railing with an opening just sufficient to permit the passage of a
person's body as shown. I now refer to Figs. 11 and 12 in which the former is a plan
of the turntable and locking gear and the latter a vertical section across the same.
The plate A and the turnstile bodily move on a short spindle (and with its frame
may be also supported on rollers A on a fixed track A thus forming a turntable.
Below this turntable is a semicircular rack F fixed to the bed of the machine E¹ is
a pawl pivotted on the turntable A as aforesaid on pivot E2 over this pawl I arrange
an electro-magnet E³ carried by the plate or turniable A with its poles over the
pawl E. It will thus be seen that if an electric current traverses the coils of
magnet E it will lift the pawl El from the rack F' and so release the turnstile and
permit its motion.
To release the pawl E and so allow the turnstile to move 1 adopt the apparatus
shown in Figs. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. K² is a tube preferably sloping or curved and of the
width to receive the coin of proper value, and at the end of the tube I arrange a pivot
flap or lever K3 set up by a spring K', towards a plate or stop K connected to one
pole of the battery K. The flap or lever K³ carries the other connection to the
battery K the spring K' forces the flap or lever K³ towards the plate or stop K², but.
keeps it at such a distance therefrom, regulated by suitable adjustment, that a thinner
or smaller coin will slip between K and K only making momentary contact, if contact
at all but if a proper coin, say for instance a penny in fair condition he dropped
through the tube or guide Kit will fall between K and K and as they are gauged
to retain it, it will remain between them completingthe circuitand the magnet E³ thus
lifts pawl E allowing the turnstile to move and the person to push it round so as to
gain admission to the weighing machine.
As the person advances I wish to illuminate the weighing machine and I therefore
provide a stud or contact L2 on the turnstile A' or its plate A2 or turntable connected
to the battery K. I provide a spring L³ joined up to the battery K. As the turn-
stile revolves this stud or contact Le touches and rides on the spring Lthus completing
the circuit and with a suitable lamp or lamps placed on the turnstile enclosure or
weighing machine light is obtained.
It is necessary before this to release the coin between K and K and so break the
circuit in which the pawl lifting magnet is placed and so shunt on to the light
circuit.
I do this by putting a knuckle jointed elbow M₁ or stud kept up by a spring M² in
one direction on the turnstile A plate A², or turntable and I fix on the flap or plate K³
an arm N¹ carrying a stud N2 so that as the turnstile revolves the elbow M will knock
up the flap or plate K3 and let the coin drop into drawer N³ and at the same time
break the circuit in which the magnet E³ is placed.
Thus the pawl E' drops and as the rack is absent at this part the pawl runs on a
smooth surface as the turnstile is pushed round till opposite the weighing machine and
at the same time the stud L2 and spring L³ coming in contact the current is shunted on
to the light circuit.
In Figures 9 and 10 the former represents the circuit completed between K³ and K³

page_text: by a coin K, the latter shews it broken by K having been pushed back as first
described, Ks is a stop to limit the play of K³.
Although I have mentioned a turnstile in this Specification to gain access to a
weighing machine I can adapt my invention also to any gate or door through which an
entrance or exit is desired such for instance as a water closet door at a railway
station, an omnibus, tram car, boat, pier, entrance to theatre or the like or other
enclosures, the locking apparatus of which can be released by dropping in a coin as
before described, as regards opening doors of water closets at railway stations and the
like I may provide the attendant with tallies or checks which enable him to open the
door and so I thus also check his attendance to keep the place in order, his visits being
recorded by the number of his tallies or checks dropped in the releasing gear.
By the word coin it is evident that an equivalent such as a similarly shaped
blank or
tally might be used to operate and release a gate door or turnstile according
to my invention for ingress or egress also it will be apparent that the rack mechanism
might he placed above instead of below the apparatus.
may for various uses vary the details of my apparatus and I may cause the furn-
stile to actuate a register or counter and so check the number of coins dropped in the
receptacle.
Ti is obvious that after a person has passed the turnstile he or she mayweigh objects
on a machine so placed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:--
First. Constructing gates, doors, turnstiles and the like with locking apparatus
arranged to be released from a fixed catch or support (preventing the movement of the
said gate door or turnstile) by the operation of a coin tally or check actuating such
locking apparatus so as to release it from such catch or support and permit the inward
or outward movement of the gate, door, turnstile and the like.
Secondly. In combination with a door, gate, turnstile or the like a rack mechanism
and a pawl carried by the moving gate door or iurnstile, the said pawl being released
from the rack and permitting motion of the gate door or turnstile by the operation of
a coin tally or check releasing such pawl from the rack or vice versa substantially as
described.
Thirdly. A turnstile having a curved or otherwise shaped recess adapted to receive
a single persons body the rest of the frame of the said turnstile being arranged to
block up the entrance guarded by the same as the person passes round, in combination
with a device to lock such turnstile to a fixed point or support such device being
released by a coin or tally or check to permit the movement of the said turnstile
substantially as described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
JOSEPH FREEMAN