IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MECHANISM FOR REGISTERING AND INDICATING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING OMNIBUSES,
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rudolph Wappenstein, of the City Road, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MECHANISM FOR REGISTERING
AND INDICATING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING OMNIBUSES,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Rudolph Wappenstein
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd September 1872.
I, RUDOLPH WAPPENSTEIN, of the Oity Road, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Im-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MECHANISM FOR
REGISTERING AND INDICATING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING
OMNIBUSES, STEAMBOATS, THEATRES, AND SIMILAR PLACES," to be as follows:-
-
This Invention consists in the use of two doors or partitions or arms
set at right angles, and forming one double door or gate, which is hinged

page_text: upon a pivot in such way that when a person enters the vehicle or other
place of resort one door, partition, or arm is displaced or "opened," and
the other closes behind them, the reverse action taking place upon any
person leaving the vehicle or other place, and this double door or gate is
used in connection with any ordinary or known mechanism which registers &
the number of persons entering and leaving a vehicle or other place of
public resort.
"
It will be understood that the "double door or "gato" is not
revolved as in an ordinary turnstile, but has a "backward and forward "
or quadrantal movement only, by which arrangement and by dispensing 1
with the four arms, partitions, or doors, and revolving movement of any
ordinary turnstile, economy of space is secured, which is particularly
advantageous in the case of tramway cars or other vehicles. One, two,
or more of these "double doors or gates" connected with the regis-
tering mechanism, as aforesaid, may be used, as, for example, for the 1
registering of inside and outside passengers on a tramway car, &c.
"
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Rudolph Wappenstein in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 22nd March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RUDOLPII
WAPPENSTEIN, of the City Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Rudolph Wappenstein, Her special
licence that I, the said Rudolph Wappenstein, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Rudolph Wappenstein,
my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS

page_text: IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH MECHANISM FOR REGISTERING AND
INDICATING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING OMNIBUSES, STEAM-
BOATS, THEATRES, AND SIMILAR PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Rudolph Wappenstein, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, 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 I, the said Rudolph Wappenstein, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheets of illustrative Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
"
This Invention consists in the use of two doors or partitions or arms
set at right angles, and forming one double door or gate, which is hinged
upon a pivot in such way that when a person enters the vehicle or other
place of resort, one door, partition, or arm is displaced or opened," and
the other closes behind them, the reverse action taking place upon a
person leaving the vehicle or place of resort, and the double door or
gate is used is connection with mechanism which registers the number
of persons entering and leaving a vehicle or other place of public
resort.
"
It will be understood that the "double door" or 'gate" is not
revolved as is an ordinary turnstile, but has a backward and forward or
quadrantal movement only, by which arrangement and by dispensing
with the four arms, partitions, or doors, and revolving movement of an
ordinary turnstile, economy of space is secured, which is particularly
advantageous in the case of tramway cars or other vehicles. One, two,
or more of these "double doors" or gates connected with the regis-
tering mechanism, as aforesaid, may be used, as, for example, for the
registering of inside and outside passengers on a tramway car.
In the accompanying Drawings are shown a number of the double
doors or gates arranged in position upon the platforms at each side or end
of a tramway car, and also the mode of and means for connecting the
said double doors or gates with the registering mechanism, which

page_text: mechanism is of such kind as to register the number of passengers
entering or leaving the car.
a
Fig. 1 is a sectional plan, and shows arranged upon the platforms at
each end of a tramway car two gates A, A, for the entrance, and two
gates B, B, for the exit of passengers. Lever arms C are rigidly attached
to the lower extremities of the pivots upon which the gates are hinged
in such position as to engage with the flexible pointed lever catches a
which lever catches are pivotted at 6 to a boxing c, and to the the lever
arms C spiral springs D are attached for drawing the gates back into their
original position after a passenger has entered into or alighted from the
car. The boxing C and spring lever catches a is shown more in detail in
Fig. 1, in which c is the boxing; b, the centre pivot of the lever catch a,
the point a¹ of which is provided with a shoulder a³, and is pivotted at e
to the main arm a, and works in connection with a spring f. A stud 9
is provided to stop the lever catch a forward.
The pivot 6 of the lever catches a being midway of the extremities
thereof it is obvious that when the lever arms C strike the points a' of
the said lever catches a the opposite extremities are actuated, and a pull
is communicated to the chains or connections attached thereto, and the
action is communicated to the indicating mechanism, the said chains or
connections being led round directing pulleys. Also it will be seen that
when the gate is moved forward to allow a passenger to enter or alight,
as the case may be, the lever arm C comes into contact with and passes
the lever catch a, actuating the same, the shoulder a' of the point a¹
rendering the lever catch a rigid throughout its whole length; but on
the gate reassuming its original position by the action of the spiral
spring D, as aforesaid, the lever arm O will again come in contact with
the lever catch a, the point a' alone turning upon its pivot e, the spring f
yielding to the pressure, and allowing the lever arm C to pass to take up
its original position.
The position of the indicating mechanism is shown at Z (see Fig. 2),
and in Fig. 1 it would be above the vertical double pulley E.
I will next explain the working of the chains or connections, shewn in
Fig. 1, having reference in the first part of the following description to
the platform No. 1 represented on the right hand side of the said Figure. 3
The gate A is arranged for entrance, and the gate B for exit. Connected
to the end of the spring lever catch a in conjunction with the gate A is

page_text: a chain 1, which is carried round one of the grooves of the doublo
pulleys d and d³, thence to one of the grooves of a vertical double
pulley E, and is finally connected with the indicating mechanism Z (see
Fig. 2), as aforesaid.
The gate B arranged for exit has in conjunction with the spring lever
catch a a bell-crank lever (shown more in detail in Fig. 1º) working on
a pivot on the box c, and having one arm of the said bell-crank lever h
connected by the short arm h¹ with the spring lever catch a, and to the
other arm of the said bell-crank lever h is attached a chain or con-
nection 2, which is carried across the platform to the disengaged groove
of the double pulley d², and is thence carried to the disengaged groove
of the vertical double pulley E, and is finally connected with the indi-
cating mechanism Z, as aforesaid. To the chain 2 a spiral spring F is
so attached that the spring lever catch a is retained in the position
shown when not acted upon by the lever arm C.
On platform No. 2 the gate A is arranged to correspond with the
gate A of the platform No. 1, the action of the lever arm C upon the
spring lever catch a being transmitted by the chain or connection 3,
which is carried round one of the grooves of the double pulleys d³ and ď³,
and attached to the extremity of the spring lever catch a at the point
where the chain or connection 1 is attached, and communicating a
sufficient pull to the chain or connection 1 herein-before described as
being connected with the indicating mechanism Z, to register the number
of persons entering by the said gate A on the platform No. 2.
In somewhat similar manner the action of the lever arm C upon the
spring lever catch a in conjunction with the gate B of platform No. 2 is
transmitted through the bell-crank lever / connected by the short arm hi
with the spring lover catch a, the other arm of the said bell-crank lever h
transmitting the action to the chain or connection 4, which is carried
round the disengaged grooves of the double pulleys d³, d³, and d, and is
connected to the extremity of the spring lever catch a working in con-
junction with the gate B of platform No. 1. The action of the chain or
connection 4 consequent upon the exit of a passenger will therefore bo
communicated through the bell-crank lever h to the chain 2 (herein-
before described as being connected with the indicating mechanism Z),
thus registering the number of persons leaving by the said gate B on the
platform No. 2.

page_text: The arrangement of the connecting mechanism, which is described for
the gates shown in Figs. 1, 1", and 2, can be used in conjunction with a
turnstile with a little modification, and this is shown in Fig. 3 of the
Drawings, which is a sectional plan shewing an arrangement of gates,
and an ordinary turnstile set up or arranged on the platform at each end
of a tramway car.
On the platform No. 1 a turnstile T is set up, and upon the pivot is
rigidly secured a four-pointed star or four lever arms C. Upon the
pivot b of the box c work two spring lever catches a, to the extremities
of which chains or connections are attached, and carried thence to
the indicating mechanism, as before described.
It will be seen that the said spring lever catches a are in a reverse
position to cach other, that is to say, in such position that when the
arms C come in contact with the said spring lever catches a one of the
said spring lever catches a will become rigid, and actuate the chains in
connection with the indicating mechanism, and the point of the other
spring lever catch a will turn upon its pivot e, and allow the lever
arm C to pass freely, the reverse action taking place when the turnstile
is revolved in the opposite direction. Two bell-crank levers h are con-
nected, each by one arm, with one of the two spring lever catches a, and
to the other arms, chains, or connections are attached, which chains or
connections are carried round guide pulleys d, and are connected with
the spring lever catchs a working in conjunction with the gates A and
B of the platform No. 2. When the gates A and B are opened to admit
to or allow a passenger to alight from the car the action upon the spring
lever catches a in conjunction with the said gates will be transmitted
through the chains or connections to the bell-crank levers h, which
actuating the spring lever catch or catches a, as the case may be, will
communicate the action to the indicating mechanism Z.
The gates and connections, though shown as adapted to a tramway
car, may be arranged for registering the number of persons entering and
leaving omnibuses, steamboats, theatres, and similar places; and any
number of doors may be used, the whole of the doors or entrances being
connected with but one indicator, which is fixed in any convenient
position. The chains or connections are passed through tubes, which
are arranged beneath the tramway car, or in other cases in any convenient
position.

page_text: Having thus described the nature and particulars of my said Invention
I claim, the use of the double doors or gates formed by two doors, par-
titions, or arms set at right angles, and the means for and method of
connecting the said double doors or gates with the registering mechanism,
all arranged and operating in the manner and for the purpose sub-
stantially as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Rudolph Wappenstein, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.