Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Money and Registering Tickets for Use on Omnibuses, Tramcars, and in other Places.
Year: 1887

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Money and Registering
Tickets for Use on Omnibuses, Tramcars, and in other Places.
I MAXIMILIAN ULLMANN of 413 Strand in the county of Middlesex Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This is an improvement on my Patent No. 1600 dated 17th January 1884 and
consists in simplifying the appliances by which the bell is rung or the gong is sounded
and the hand of the indicating dial is moved to register the number of tickets issued
by which simplification not only is the cost of construction decreased but the
apparatus is less liable to damage and not so likely to get out of order.
To carry out this object the lever by which the punching is effected and the
mechanism worked is formed and pivotted in somewhat the same manner as described
in my former specification but the handle or rod by which the same is actuated is not
connected thereto but the end of this rod only rests on the top of the free end of the
lever which is raised against the same by a spring. On this lever is fixed a spring
bar and when the lever is depressed the end of this bar comes in contact with a stud
fixed on an arm fitted therefor on the framing of the mechanism and as the lever is
further depressed as far as this arm will allow the spring bar disengages itself
from this stud and is projected forcibly towards the bell or gong striking the same.
On the lever also is fixed a small bar or wire so bent as to engage the ratchet wheel
that actuates the hand of the indicating dial and thus every time that the lever is
depressed this bent bar or wire engages a fresh tooth of the ratchet wheel which
consequently is by so much revolved when the lever is released and allowed to rise
or this bent bar or wire may be so fitted to the ratchet wheel as that the depression of
the lever may revolve the ratchet wheel.
Dated this 19th dow of Anost 1887

page_text: Tickets for Use on Omnibuses, Tramcars, and in other Places.
I MAXIMILIAN ULLMANN of 413 Strand in the county of Middlesex Merchant
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 is an improvement on the invention described in the specification of the
Patent, No. 1600, granted unto James Morris Kelly and myself and dated the
17th day of January 1884 and the improvement consists in simplifying the appliances
or devices by which the bell is rung or the gong is sounded and the hand of the
indicating dial is moved to register the number of tickets issued by which simplification
not only is the cost of construction decreased but the apparatus is less liable to damage
and not so likely to get out of order.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown an elevation in perspective of the
actuating mechanism of the apparatus as made and constructed and arranged
according to these my improvements.
The lever A by which the punching of the tickets is effected and the mechanism
worked is formed and pivoted as shewn in somewhat the same manner as is described
in the aforesaid former specification but the handle or rod by which the same is
actuated is not necessarily connected thereto and preferably the end of this rod only
rests on the top of the free end of the lever A which is raised against the same by a
coiled or other spring B. On this lever A is fixed a spring bar,C and when the
lever A is depressed the free end of this bar (comes in contact with a stud D fixed
it may be on an arm fitted therefor on the framing of the mechanism. or otherwise
and as the lever A is still further depressed as far as this arm will allow or
as far as may be necessary to accomplish. the required punching the spring
bar disengages itself from the stud D and is projected forcibly towards the
bell or gong which is mounted in. any convenient manner on the framing of the
mechanism or otherwise in the proper corresponding position whereby this bell is
rung or this gong is sounded as is desired. On the lever A also is fixed a small bar
or wire E so bent as to engage the ratchet wheel F that actuates through any usual or
convenient train of geared wheels or other ordinary devices the hand of an indicating
dial and thus every time that the lever A is depressed this bent bar or wire E
engages a fresh tooth of the ratchet wheel F which consequently is by so much
revolved when the lever A is released and caused by the spring B to rise as
shewn
in the drawing or the teeth of, the ratchet wheel may be reversed in direction so that
the depression of the lever may through the bent bar or wire revolve the ratchet
wheel in either case the hand of the indicating dial being duly moved every time the
lever is depressed and the required punching is effected as is desired.

page_text: This actuating mechanism may be contained in a casing with a receptacle for the
pieces that are punched out of the tickets similar to that described in the aforesaid
former specification or in any other convenient, and suitable casing and may be
combined with a bag for holding the money that is received also as is described in
the aforesaid former specification or not as may be desirable.
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 combination with the lever A and spring B of the spring bar C and stud D
operating a bell or gong and the bent bar or wire E and ratchet wheel F actuating
the hand of an indicating dial substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.