An Improved Apparatus for use in the Collection of Fares and Registration of Journeys on Omnibus, Tram, Railway, and other Passenger Conveyances.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 12th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 12th Mar:, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for use in the Collection of Fares and
Registration of Journeys on Omnibus, Tram, Railway, and other
Passenger Conveyances.
SOPHIE ELEANOR HOME, 94, Warwick Gardens, Kensington, London, W.,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists of a circular box with several compartments revolving in one direction
inside an outer case, and so arranged that tickets or other tokens can be taken from
only one compartment at a time for distribution to new passengers and such tickets
or tokens cannot be replaced in such compartment. Whilst tickets or other tokens
given up by passengers leaving the car are put into a corresponding compart-
ment. The openings of these compartments is so arranged that by making the
inner part of the machine revolve slightly a fresh pair of compartments is brought
into use for each station of the journey. Tickets or other tokens for the
different distribution compartments are of different colours and have the name of
the station from which issued legibly marked thereon.
March 12th 1890
SOPHIE E. HOME.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for use in the Collection of Fares and
Registration of Journeys on Omnibus, Tram, Railway, and other
Passenger Conveyances.
SOPHIE ELEANOR HOME, of 37, Edwardes Square, Kensington, late of 94,
Warwick Gardens, Kensington, London, W., 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 :-
The apparatus consists of an outer fixed face, A. a tray B and a box L
working round a central pin C on which pin is an attachment which holds
the entire apparatus firmly in position and which is secured by a brass nut X and
padlock X. In the outer face A an opening is cut large enough to expose at one
time only one of the ticket wells e and one of the ticket holes described below.
The tray B which fits closely into this box L has sunk in it a series of wells or
recesses to contain unissued tickets which are held in place by a pin K passing
through a perforation in the tickets and this pin can only be removed or replaced
when the tray is out of the box the head of the pin being on the underside of the
tray. Over each well e is an opening f communicating with the box for the
reception of used tickets. The tickets for each well are of different color or design.
The box is divided by cart wheel divisions m into compartments to correspond with
the wells and ticket holes on the tray and it is into one of these compartments the
used tickets fall when placed in the ticket hole. The central pin is arranged with
a grooved ratchet and a spring so that the box (and tray) can be revolved in
one direction only and it can also make only one revolution so that the same well
cannot be exposed a second time during the journey. This is provided for by a
brass stop.
on.
Mode of working. At each station of the journey the conductor must move
round the box so as to expose the well containing the tickets for the stage entered
When a passenger enters the car the conductor takes a ticket from the well
and gives it to him. When the passenger is about to leave the car he returns the
ticket with his fare and the conductor drops the ticket through the then exposed

page_text: ticket hole. So that on removing the tray from the box the stage in which
passengers left the car is shewn by noting the compartments in which tickets lie.
Thus the apparatus acts as a check on a dishonest or careless passenger since his
ticket shows in itself at what stage of the journey he entered. Whilst it also acts
as a check on the conductor since the color or design of the tickets found in the
various compartments shows the fares for which he has to account.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is the having designed an-apparatus with the following novel features:-
1st. That the tickets issued are of different colors or designs, to show the different
stages in which the passengers enter the car.
2nd. I also claim as a novelty the form of the tray with the wells or recesses for
unissued tickets and the openings for used tickets.
3rd. I also claim as a novelty in such an apparatus the having the partially
perforated face fixed before a revolving box so that the unperforated part of
the face protects all but the tickets belonging to the one stage, and its onc
ticket hole.
Dated this 12th day of December 1890.
SOPHIE ELEANOR HOME.