AN IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING TICKETS TO CHECK FARES, AND FOR CHECKING AMOUNTS GENERALLY WHEREVER TICKETS ARE ISSUED.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Henry Betteley and William Davison,
both of Cornhill, in the City of London, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING TICKETS TO CHECK
FARES, AND FOR CHECKING AMOUNTS GENERALLY WHEREVER TICKETS ARE
ISSUED.
"
Scaled the 29th December 1874, and dated the 1st July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Henry Betteley
and William Davison at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 1st July 1874.
We, JOSEPH HENRY BETTELEY and WILLIAM Davison, both of Cornhill,
in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING TICKETS TO
CHECK FARES, AND FOR CHECKING AMOUNTS GENERALLY WHEREVER TICKETS ARE
ISSUED," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in an improved method and apparatus for
issuing tickets, to check fares, and for checking amounts generally
wherever tickets are issued.

page_text: The following is an example of our said Invention:-In a suitable
box or case we place a coiled ribbon of paper or other suitable material
(which has previously been dipped in a solution of nitrate of silver
or other chemical which will cause the paper to change color when
exposed to light) in such a way that the said ribbon may be forced
out of the said box or case in certain lengths, each length representing
a given value, as hereafter described. The said box or case is closed in
order to exclude the light from the paper, and on one side of the
said box we place the appliance for drawing out the aforesaid ribbon
of paper. This appliance consists of a closed shoot having a small
slit cut therein for the exit of the paper, and in two opposite sides
of this shoot are cut slots of a given length into which a spindle
slides across the said shoot. To this spindle is attached a small pawl,
the object of which is to feed the ribbon of paper out of the apparatus.
The said spindle and pawl are made to work backwards and forwards
the length of the slots aforesaid by means of a lever kept in position
by a spring. A small bell is fixed to the side of the box or case
in such a way that it will sound cach time the lever is depressed.
The manner by which tickets may be issued to check fares by means
of the above-described apparatus is as follows:-The person whose duty
it is to receive such fares holds the apparatus in his hand, and on
receipt of the fare, say for example threepence, he depresses the lever
three times, thereby making the pawl inside the shoot move three
times backwards and forwards, bringing each time a given length of
paper representing the value of one penny out of the shoot, and
sounding the bell three times, the paper or ticket is torn off by the
party paying the fare, thus showing that he has paid the amount of
threepence.
The action of the light on the paper or ticket extracted from the
apparatus will be to discolor the said ticket on account of its being
impregnated with the nitrate of silver or other suitable chemical, as
aforesaid, and thereby prevent its being used again without detection.
We do not intend to limit ourselves to the use of paper impregnated
with nitrate of silver or other chemical, as above described, as ordinary
paper may be used, say of different colors, or marked with different ;
numbers cach day if found desirable.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Henry Betteley and William Davison in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
HENRY BETTELEY and WILLIAM DAVISON, both of Cornhill, in the City
of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Henry Betteley and William
Davison, Her special licence that we, the said Joseph Henry Betteley
and William Davison, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Joseph Henry Betteley and William Davison,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISSUING TICKETS, TO CHECK FARES,
AND FOR CHECKING AMOUNTS GENERALLY WHEREVER TICKETS ARE ISSUED,” upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Henry Betteley
and William Davison, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Henry Betteley and
William Davison, 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, that is
to say :-
This Invention consists in an improved method and apparatus for
issuing tickets, to check fares, and for checking amounts generally
wherever tickets are issued.

page_text: The following is an example of our said Invention :-In a suitable
box or case we place a coiled ribbon of paper or other suitable material
(which has previously been dipped in a solution of nitrate of silver
or other chemical which will cause the paper to change color when
exposed to light) in such a way that the said ribbon may be forced a
out of the said box or case in certain lengths, each length representing
a given value, as hereafter described. The said box or case is closed
in order to exclude the light from the paper, and on one side of the
said box we place the appliance for drawing out the aforesaid ribbon
of paper. This appliance consists of a closed shoot having a small :
slit cut therein for the exit of the paper, and in two opposite sides
of this shoot are cut slots of a given length into which a spindle slides
across the said shoot. To this spindle is attached a small pawl, the
object of which is to feed the ribbon of paper out of the apparatus.
The said spindle and pawl are made to work backwards and forwards:
the length of the slots aforesaid by means of a lever kept in position
by a spring. A small bell is fixed to the side of the box or case in such
a way that it will sound each time the lever is depressed.
The manner by which tickets may be issued to check fares by means
of the above-described apparatus is as follows:-The person whose duty
it is to receive such fares holds the apparatus in his hand, and on
receipt of the fare, say for example threepence, he depresses the lever
three times, thereby making the pawl inside the shoot move three
times backwards and forwards, bringing each time a given length of
paper representing the value of one penny out of the shoot, and 1
sounding the bell three times the paper or ticket is torn off by the
party paying the fare, thus showing that he has paid the amount of
threepence.
The action of the light on the paper or ticket extracted from the
apparatus will be to discolor the said ticket on account of its being
impregnated with the nitrate of silver or other suitable chemical, as
aforesaid, and thereby prevent its being used again without detection.
We do not intend to limit ourselves to the use of paper impregnated
with nitrate of silver or other chemical, as above described, as ordinary
paper may be used, say of different colors, or marked with different
numbers each day if found desirable.
And in order to explain our said Invention more fully, we now
proceed to describe the means by which it may be carried into practical

page_text: effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawing accom-
panying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of
reference marked thereon respectively, as follows :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a plan of a checking apparatus constructed according
to our said Invention; Figure 2 a section through the line A, B,
of Figure 1. A is the outer casing; B, a shoot out of which a ribbon
of paper C is forced in given lengths from a reel D, cach length
representing a ticket; the said ribbon is kept in position by means
of a spring pawl E, and the given lengths are issued from the shoot B
by a pawl Factuated by a spring lever G, which on being depressed
by hand brings the pawl F towards the pawl E where it takes hold
of the ribbon of paper, and on the lever G being released pushes
a piece of the ribbon of paper of a length equal to the distance
between the pawls E and F out of the shoot B. When the lever G
is depressed a pawl H acts on the hammer K of a bell L which
sounds each time a ticket is issued out of the apparatus. The ribbon
of paper is impregnated with nitrate of silver or other suitable chemical
so as to become discolored on being exposed to the light for a short
time, so that the same ticket may not be used over again without
detection.
Figure 3 is a plan of another checking apparatus constructed according
to our said Invention; Figure 4 is a section through the line A, B,
of Figure 3. In this apparatus A is the outer casing; B, a reel of
ribbon paper, given lengths of which may be issued from the apparatus
by means of the rollers C and D, one of which, C, is put in motion
by the pinion E and wheel F, the wheel F being actuated by the
ratchet wheel G and ratchet lever H which is depressed by the person
holding the apparatus by the handle K. The roller D, a front view
of which is shewn at Figure 5, is supplied with any suitable chemical
from the small vessel L so as to impregnate the paper with the said
chemical as it is issued out of the apparatus.
The paper may be previously printed and numbered, or certain im-
pressions may be printed thereon by means of a roller M, Figure 6,
having suitable letters cut thereon and inked by the roller N.
We would remark that a register may be affixed to the apparatus if
found desirable.

page_text: Having now described and set forth the nature and object of our said
Invention for "An Improved Method and Apparatus for Issuing Tickets
to Check Fares, and for Checking Amounts generally wherever Tickets
are Issued," we would remark in conclusion that what we claim as
our Invention and desire to secure by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is,―
Firstly. The apparatus for issuing tickets, substantially as described
and represented.
Secondly. The use of tickets chemically prepared so that they shall
become discolored after they are issued, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Henry Betteley, one of the
parties hereto, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-
first day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.
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