for Tickets of Admission
Year: 1885

page_text: for Tickets of Admission.
WILLIAM ALFRED MORRISON BROWN Wine and Spirit Merchant Guildford
Street Leeds and JOHN MEGSON PORTER Architect Cookridge Street Leeds do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MEANS
OF CHECKING THE AMOUNT PAID FOR TICKETS OF ADMISSION to be as follows:-
The tickets are placed in a receptacle having a slide or drawer underneath
which on being opened admits only of the passage of one ticket at a time at the
back or side is placed an ordinary electric contact which sends a current from the
battery attached to an electric counter placed at any distance and so register the
exact No of tickets sold-The receptacle need not be of any particular shape as it
depends upon the size and shape of the tickets issued.

page_text: We WILLIAM ALFRED MORRISON BROWN of Guildford-Street, Leeds in the
County of York Wine and Spirit Merchant and JOHN MEGSON PORTER of-
Cookridge Street Leeds aforesaid Architect, do hereby declare the nature of our
said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is the prevention of fraudulent practices by persons
engaged in selling and delivering tickets of admission and accounting for the same.
In carrying out our invention, we provide a suitable receptacle or case, the form
of which is adopted to that of the tickets, which it is intended to hold. A slide or
drawer is placed in the lower part of the case, which, on being opened or drawn
permits only the passage of one ticket at a time.
At the front, back, or side, or in any other suitable position within the outer
case, an ordinary electric switch is fixed and the slide or drawer is so fitted that
the switch is caused to act, each time the slide or drawer is opened and closed.
The switch is in communication with an electrical battery and counting
mechanism, so that the current is completed and interrupted each time the slide or
drawer is opened for the delivery of a ticket; whereby the exact number of
tickets sold can at all times be ascertained. 'The counting mechanism may be at
any distance from the case containing the tickets.
The whole of the apparatus (excepting the battery, wires, and counting
mechanism) is contained in a suitable case, which is kept locked.
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And in order that our said invention may be more particularly described and
ascertained reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a. perspective view of one form of our invention. Fig. 2 is a similar
view shewing a different arrangement of drawer to that in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan.
view of Fig. 2 with the lid removed. Fig. 4 is a section of Fig. 1 on the level of
the top of the drawer. Fig. 5 is a similar section of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a sectional
elevation of Fig. 3, on the line 1-2 of Fig. 3. Figs. 7 to 11 are detail views.
In the arrangement shewn in Figs. 1 and 4 a is the handle, which is drawn
outwards when a ticket is required, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. This handle
is attached to a rod b. One side of the rod b has teeth cut therein, which gear
with a wheel c, and a similar rack is formed beneath the slide d. When the
handle a is drawn out the wheel c partially revolves and causes the slide d to
recede to the back of the recess as far as d. In this position a ticket falls in front
of the slide d. On then allowing the handle to recede the ticket is propelled
outwards, as shewn at e in Fig. 1; The rod b is caused to recede to its original
position by means of the spring f. g is a plate fixed above the spring ƒ and
wheel c.
In Figs 2. 3. 6 and 7 the position of the tubes h h are shewn These tubes are
fixed to an annular plate h¹, this plate h' is held to the plate g by four lugs ii i i,
so that the nest of tubes may be caused to revolve when required, such revolution

page_text: being effected by the tripod k, to which an index or pointer I, or equivalent device
may be fitted. By these means any of the tubes h may be brought immediately
over the slide d, and the tickets contained in that particular tube will be
accordingly delivered. In order to insure the tubes being turned to the required
position immediately above the slide d, detents or notches h³ are formed in the
flange of the plate h¹, into which notches the spring m falls, and tends to retain
the plate in position.
Above the tubes h h a wooden partition n is fitted, resting on blocks n', and
having a circular hole n³ over the front tube, by which means the tubes may bo
filled in succession. oo are two brass flexible plates, forming the switch
arrangement shewn in Figs. 4. 68 and 9. The plate o¹ is connected, by the wire p¹,
with one pole of a battery, or with the counting mechanism, and the plate o is in
like manner connected, by the wire p, with the other pole, or with the counting
mechanism. In the position shewn in Figs. 6 and 9, the electrical current is
broken. But when a ticket is pushed forward by the slide d, the ticket raises the
wheel q and with it the plate o into contact with the plate o¹, which completes the
electric circuit and actuates the counting mechanism.
The ticket next raises the brass check r, and passing under the wheel g and the
check, is projected from the apparatus The check prevents the improper
return of any tickets to the tube. The check is shewn enlarged in Figs. 10
and 11; it is capable of rising by the pressure of the ticket against the curved end r¹,
and it again falls when the ticket has passed.
In the arrangement shewn in Figs. 1 and 4, the handle a is drawn out by hand,
and the ticket is propelled forward by the return movement, actuated by the
spring f; and in the arrangement shewn in Figs. 2. 3. 5 and 6 both movements
are effected by hand.
The check r may be dispensed with, in the arrangement shewn in Figs. 1 and 4,
but, it is required in the arrangement shewn in Figs. 2. 3. 5 and 6.
The arrangement shewn in Figs. 1 and 4 is fitted with a guard plate s to prevent
the improper insertion of tickets; the check r answering the same purpose in the
other arrangement.
The drawings are intended to illustrate our invention as applied to circular
tickets, made of metal, or other suitable material; but it is obvious that it may be
arranged for tickets of any other form and that the number of tubes, or other
receptacles, may be very much varied, without departing from the principle of our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
The manufacture and use of ticket holders and delivery appliances in com-
bination with electrical batteries and electrically actuated counting apparatus, so
arranged that the delivery of each ticket depends upon the opening or drawing
of a slide or drawer; which latter operation causes the electric counting apparatus
to operate and register such delivery, substantially as herein before described and
shewn on the drawings.