Apparatus for Delivering Tickets, Tokens, or the like, and for Automatically Indicating the Value and Sum of the same.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th Aug., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887.
Apparatus for Delivering Tickets, Tokens, or the like, and for
Automatically Indicating the Value and Sum of the same.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the city of London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has for object to provide an apparatus for containing tickets, tokens,
checks or the like of various denominations or values, and so arranged that the act of
obtaining a ticket or the like will cause the money value represented by the ticket to
be indicated and added to any sum already indicated.
The apparatus may be advantageously constructed of one or more drawers or slides
in communication with receptacles for the tickets, and so arranged that the act of
obtaining a ticket raises or otherwise suitably operates a lever so as to indicate by
means of ratchet or other mechanism on a dial or the like the value of the tickets or
ticket delivered or the number of tickets delivered, and the sum total of the value
represented by the tickets delivered.
The slides or frames of the drawers or slides (where more than one is employed)
may be provided with inclined surfaces which act on corresponding inclines on the
drawers or slides so as to prevent more than one of the drawers being opened at one
time or any other suitable arrangement for preventing more than one drawer or slide
being opened at one time, can be employed.
Dated the 1st day of December 1886.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

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Automatically Indicating the Value and Sum of the same.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineer, 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:
This invention has for object to provide apparatus for containing tickets, tokens,
checks, or the like, of various denominations or values, and so arranged that the act of
obtaining a ticket or the like, will cause the money value represented by the ticket
taken to be indicated and added to any sum already indicated on an indicator.
The apparatus may be advantageously constructed of one or more drawers or slides
in communication with receptacles for the tickets, and so arranged that the act of
obtaining a ticket raises or otherwise suitably operates a lever so as to indicate by
means of ratchet or other mechanism on a dial or the like the value of the tickets or
ticket delivered or the number of tickets delivered, and the sum total of the values
represented by the tickets delivered at the time of any new delivery.
The slides or frames of the drawers or slides (where more than one is employed)
may be provided with inclined surfaces which act on corresponding inclines on the
drawers or slides so as to prevent more than one of the drawers being opened at one
time, or any other suitable inter-locking arrangement for preventing more than one
drawer or slide being opened at one time, can be employed.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
how it may be with advantage carried into practice by reference to the accompanying
drawings in which figure 1 represents a front elevation of a suitable apparatus for
delivering tickets, tokens, or the like, and for automatically indicating the value and
sum of the same according to my invention, the apparatus being arranged to contain
and deliver tickets of five different denominations or values. Figure 2 represents a
vertical section on the line A B of figure 1. Figure 3 represents a vertical section on
the line CD of figure 2. Figures 4 and 5 represent horizontal sections on the
lines EF, and G H respectively of figure 1, one of the ticket drawers or slides in
figure 5 being shewn pulled out. Figures 6 and 7 represent a detached plan and
front elevation respectively of the part of the slide or fraine of one of the drawers of

page_text: the apparatus which is provided with the inclined surfaces the two latter figures being
drawn to an enlarged scale. Similar reference letters in all the figures indicate
similar parts. A indicates the case of the apparatus ; a, a, are the drawers or slides
for delivering the tickets, and provided with numbers or the like for indicating the
value of the ticket to be delivered, the said drawers or slides working in frames or
guides a¹, a. Each slide or drawer a, is provided with a projecting plate a², (shewn
clearly in figure 2) of about the thickness of each of the tickets to be delivered so
that only one ticket will be delivered each time any one of the said drawers is pulled
out; bb, are the receptacles for the tickets which are represented at c, c, in figure 2,
a weight 6', being used in each receptacle to press the tickets down; d is the lever
pivotted at e, to the case A of the apparatus and provided with a counterweight e¹.
The lever d, works in a guide 2, and is raised or operated by means of inclined pieces
or webs on the drawers or slides a, a, each of the said inclined pieces being of a
height suitable for imparting the necessary extent of movement to the lever d, to
indicate the different values of the tickets delivered. The lever d, is provided with a
vertical connecting rod d¹, which is jointed at its upper end to a pivotted guiding
arm g, provided with a pawl h; i, is the ratchet wheel with which the pawl, engages
and which is operated as hereinafter described when the lever d, is raised by moving
out any one of the slides or drawers a, a. The said ratchet wheel i, is mounted on a
shaft, running in bearings, is the dial suitably marked with a number of
divisions, over which moves an index k, on the shaft, for indicating the sum total
of the values represented by the tickets delivered; the divisions 1, are arranged or
figured in four series of twenty divisions, each division representing the value five,
and each series representing the value one hundred.
m,
As the number of divisions j', is not sufficient to indicate the sum total of the values
of all the tickets which the apparatus (which I have represented as an example) is
capable of holding, I have provided on the dial j, another set of divisions, and
index the said index m
being arranged so as to move over or indicate one division
for every twenty divisions. For this purpose I fix on one side of the ratchet wheel i,
a disc n, having four cam surfaces n'. On the edge of the disc n, one arm o, of a bell
crank lever o, o', is caused to bear by means of a spring p, the said bell crank lever
being pivotted to a stud p¹, fixed to the case of the apparatus. The other arm o¹, of
the bell crank lever is provided with a pawl q, engaging with a ratchet wheel
mounted on one end of a sleeve or hollow shaft q, the said shaft rotating on the
shaft. The other end of the shaft 2, carries the index or pointer m.
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Each of the ratchet wheels i, and 7, is provided with a spring detent pawl q³r
pivotted to the frame of the apparatus to prevent any backward movement of the
ratchet wheels; r, r, are the inclined surfaces which I provide in the form of a pointed
bar on the underside of each of the drawers or slides a, in order to allow of only one
of the drawers or slides being pulled out at a time; the pointed bars r, are shewn
clearly in dotted lines in figure 5; , v, are the corresponding inclines with which I
provide the slides or frames a', a', of the drawers a, the inclines v, being formed on
four sliding blocks or locking pieces t, t, one of which is shown in plan and elevation
at figures 6 and 7 respectively; the blocks t, t, slide in a trough-shaped box or guides,
on the under side of the drawer-guides a', a', and extending transversely thereto.
The blocks or locking pieces t, t, are formed rectangular at the bottom at each end t¹,
but cut away at the top as shewn at u, the inclined surfaces u, v, being formed as
shewn clearly in figure 6. Each locking piece t, is arranged so that one of its inclined
surfaces e, moves over one of the inclines of the pointed bar r, of one drawer or slide a,
whilst its other inclined surface moves over one of the inclines of the pointed bar r, of
the next drawer or slide as shewn in figure 5.
r,
The blocks or locking pieces t, are of such a length that when any one of the
drawers or slides a, a, is pulled out, say for example the drawer marked number 15,
(the remainder of the drawers being closed) as shewn in figure 5, the pointed bar
on the underside of the said drawer, will pass between the inclined surfaces v, v, on
the ends of the locking pieces t, on each side of it and move them apart so that the
inclined surfaces, at their other ends, will come into contact with one of the

page_text: inclined sides of the pointed bars on the drawers numbered 10 and 20 thereby locking
them so as to prevent them being drawn out as long as drawer number 15 is open, the
other two drawers a, a, numbered 5 and 25 being by the same movement similarly
locked. By this arrangement it will be seen that whatever drawer or slide be pulled
out, all the other drawers or slides will be locked until such time as the said drawer is
returned.
a,
By this construction of apparatus the receptacles b, having been supplied with tickets
and the indexes k, and m, placed at their starting point if it be required to deliver a
ticket or the like of the value represented by the number 15 (fifteen cents for example),
the drawer or slide bearing that number must be pulled out when the projection a², on
the said drawer will deliver the lowermost ticket from its receptacle 6, the remainder
of the drawers or slides being locked in the manner hereinbefore described. As the
said drawer is pulled out the inclined piece f, thereon will ride under the lever d, and
raise the same into the position shewn in dotted lines in figure 3, thereby causing the
index k, (by means of the connecting rod d', pawl h, and ratchet wheel), to move
over three of the divisions, and indicate the number 15 that is to say, the value of
the ticket delivered. If the drawer numbered 15 be now pushed in and the drawer
numbered 25 he pulled out to obtain a ticket of a different value (twenty five cents for
example) the index will move over five additional divisions, thereby indicating 40
which would be the sum total of the values of the two tickets. When in this manner
the index k, has reached the first 100th division from the starting point the disc n, will
have revolved so as to allow the arm o, of the bell crank lever to drop from one cam
surface n', to the next cam surface thereby causing the pawl q, on the other arm o¹, of
the bell crank lever, to operate the ratchet wheel 7', which by means of the hollow
shaft q, will cause the index m, to move to the first of the divisions l, and so on until
the apparatus has been exhausted of tickets, which fact can conveniently be made
known by the last ticket in each receptacle b, being of a different color to the rest of
the tickets.
Although I have described and shewn an arrangement of ratchet mechanism as a
suitable means for communicating the movement of the lever to the indicator, I do
not confine myself to this method as others may be found to answer the same purpose,
nor do I confine myself to operating the lever in the manner hereinbefore described
and illustrated as it is obvious that a similar effect could be produced by giving the
lever a horizontal or other movement.
Further, I would observe that the herein described interlocking arrangement for
preventing more than one of the drawers from being opened at one time is only given
as a means which I have found to answer well, but I reserve to myself the right to use
other suitable means for this purpose.
It will also be evident that my apparatus instead of being adapted to contain and
deliver tickets of different values as illustrated in the drawing, could be constructed in
a somewhat more simple manner for use with tickets which all represent the same
value, the locking arrangement then of course not being required.
Instead of arranging drawers or slides as herein described a revolving case or drum
containing the requisite receptacles for tickets or other articles may be used the case
or drum being connected by suitable machinery with an indicating dial but such an
arrangement would not be so efficient as that hereinbefore described.
For monetary systems where coins of two denominations are used two indicating
fingers will be mounted on the dial; where three denominations are used such
as £. s. d. three fingers will be required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I claim is :-
1. Apparatus such as is herein described arranged so as to deliver tickets, tokens, or
the like and constructed in such a manner that the act of opening a drawer or slide
for obtaining a ticket or the like will cause the money value represented by the ticket
or the serial number of the tickets delivered to be indicated and added to any sun or
number already indicated.

page_text: 2. Apparatus for delivering tickets, tokens, or the like, and for automatically
indicating the value and sum of the same such as is herein-before described and
represented in the accompanying drawings.
3. The use in a delivering and registering machine of the kind herein described, of
delivering mechanism made to act upon step by step actuating mechanism which
successively moves an indicator of a register to any required distances corresponding
to any given delivery of any delivering instrument which may be moved by the
operator, and so as to indicate to the observer what delivery or total delivery may have
taken place at any given time.