IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN MELTON BLACK of Windmill Street in the City of London do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES
OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed as a further improvement upon Letters Patent
granted to me on the 10th day of May 1883 No 2378 the specification of which
describes an arrangement of Box designed for containing continuous rolls of
consecutively numbered tickets, and apparatus in connection with such box which
allows such ticket strip to be withdrawn therefrom, and each length of ticket as
withdrawn to be severed and given as a check for the receipt of money. No
provision having been made in the Specification of the Invention herein recited
for preventing the ticket strip when withdrawn being forced back again into the
box I have designed a simple contrivance for preventing the possibility of such
an occurrence which forms the subject of this my present invention and may be
thus described.
The transverse bar' of metal referred to as f in the Specification and drawings
of my hereinbefore recited Patented invention and underneath which the strips of
paper on the inclined surface are caused to pass out from the box is according to
my present invention increased in width and raised a little higher from 'the inclined
surface over which the strips of paper pass to the underside of the bar of metal
I fix spring fingers or forks by preference one to each strip of paper the prongs of.
which rest upon the said paper strips in a position which allows such paper strips
when being withdrawn readily to slip, as they are pulled out from the box
underneath such prongs, but should an attempt be made to push back any one
of the said paper strips the edges or points of the prongs of the said spring fingers
or forks would become indented into the paper and so prevent any backward
movement or return of the paper strips from their advanced position. Or such
return of the paper strip may be prevented by any other equivalent means such
for example as a small ball or sliding break block resting on the paper and
retained in an inclined recess formed in the underside of the before mentioned

page_text: transverse metal bar, the said ball or break block at the time the strip of paper is
being withdrawn from the box, will rest loosely on such paper by reason of such
ball or block being then in a position at the deepest portion of the inclined recess,
but immediately a reverse movement is given to the paper strip the ball or block
will be carried back and jammed between the inclined surface and the paper thus
preventing any movement in a back or reverse direction, the sliding break block
being provided with a slight spring, underneath which will insure it constantly
remaining in contact with the paper strip.
Dated this 25th day of January 1984

page_text: Fig: 1. represents in transverse section that portion of the improved construction
of box described in the Specification of the Patent hereinbefore recited necessary
to illustrate the adaptation thereto of my present improvement designed for
preventing the strip or ribbon of tickets contained in such box as withdrawn
being forced back.
Fig: 2 represents an enlarged transverse section of the bar under which the
strip or ribbon of tickets pass having adapted thereto my present improvement and
Fig 3. represents a plan view of the same.
In these Figs the same letters of reference where convenient are retained as in
the Specification of my former Patent herein referred to-a is the outer case or
box containing the roll of consecutively numbered tickets e which are withdrawn
from the box a over the roller b through the orifice d and over the platform g out
from the box in the direction of the arrow. The transverse bar of metal f
underneath which the strips or ribbons of paper on the platform g are made to
pass out from the box is according to my present invention increased in width
and raised a little higher from the surface g. To the underside of this bar of
metal f I fix spring fingers, or forks c by preference one to each strip of paper e the
prongs of which rest upon the said paper strips in a position which allows such
paper strip when being withdrawn readily to slip as they are pulled out from the
box underneath such prongs, but should an attempt be made to push back any
one of the said paper strips, the edges or points of the prongs of the said spring
fingers or forks c would become indented into the paper and so prevent any
backward movement or return of the paper strips from their advanced position, or
such return of the paper strip may be prevented by other equivalent means such
for example as a small ball or a sliding wedge.resting on the paper and retained in
an inclined recess formed in the underside of the transverse bar f the said ball
or wedge at the time the strip of paper is being withdrawn from the box will rest

page_text: loosely on such paper by reason of such ball or wedge being then in a position at
the deepest portion of the inclined recess, but immediately a reverse movement
is given to the paper strip the ball or wedge will be carried back and jammed
between the inclined surface and the paper strip thus preventing any movement
in a back or reverse direction. The sliding wedge on its under surface should be
⚫provided with a slight spring which would insure it constantly remaining in any
position in contact with the paper strip.
Or by a flap of yielding material which would act in a manner similar to the
spring forks herein before mentioned.
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:
The application to cylindrical or other shaped boxes designed for containing
continuous rolls of consecutively numbered tickets, which are to be, withdrawn
from such box, and given to persons riding in public vehicles or entering places
of amusement as checks for the receipt of money, of a spring finger or .fork
niarked c in the drawings or its equivalent to be applied to such boxes in the
manner and for the purpose as herein before substantially described set forth and
illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
Dand LOKAL