Improvements in Railway "Return" Tickets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway "Return" Tickets.
I, JOHN DEVONSHIRE ELLIS of Thurnscoe Hall near Rotherham in the County
of York, Managing Director of Messrs. John Brown & Co. Limd., Atlas Works,
Sheffield in the said County of York do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
In the present form of railway "return" tickets the two portions of the ticket
being of the same shape and size it is only possible to distinguish the portions for
the outward and return journeys by examining them by looking at them carefully
which gives rise to considerable delay and inconvenience which it is the object of
my invention to overcome. With this object I make the ticket which is issued
from the booking office with the one portion of a shape or size different from that
of the other portion say for example by rounding the corners or the end of the one
portion or by cutting out a portion of its substance so as to make it for instance of
a ring or hollow square formation or by scolloping or equivalently forming the
edge so that the one portion of the ticket can be distinguished from the other
portion very readily by simply feeling the ticket without necessity for otherwise
examining it.
Dated this 12th day of August 1891
J. H. JOHNSON & CO.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Railway
66 Return " Tickets.
I JOHN DEVONSHIRE ELLIS of Thurnscoe Hall near Rotherham in the County
of York Managing Director of Messrs. John Brown & Co. Limited Atlas Works
Sheffield in the said County of York 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 :-
In the present form of railway "return" tickets the two portions of the ticket
being of the same shape and size it is only possible to distinguish the portions
for the outward and return journeys by examining them by looking at them carefully
which gives rise to considerable delay and inconvenience which it is the object of
my invention to overcome. With this object I make the ticket which is issued
from the booking office with the one portion of a shape or size (or both) different
from that of the other portion say for example by rounding the corners or the end
of the one portion or by cutting out a portion of its substance so as to make it for
instance of a ring or hollow square formation or by scolloping or equivalently
forming the edge so that the one portion of the ticket can be distinguished from the
other portion very readily by simply feeling the ticket without necessity for
otherwise examining it.
The accompanying drawing shews several forms of ticket according to my
invention but I do not limit myself to the precise forms shewn.
In all the figures the parts of the ticket (which are separated as usual by means
of perforations as at C) are marked A. and B. In Figures 1 to 4 one half of the
ticket is shewn of the usual shape. In Figure 1 the part B is distinguished from
the part A by rounding the corners of the part B at bas in full lines or by removal
of the corners by straight lines as shewn in dotted lines. In Figure 2 the
distinction is made by a perforation 6 and in Figure 3 by an indentation b³. In

page_text: Figure 4 I have shewn the part B distinguished from the part A by making them
of different sizes. In Figure 5 I have shewn the parts A and B. both made
differently from the usual form the part A being provided with rounded corners a a
(as shown with regard to the part B in Figure 1) and the part B being provided
with an indentation 63 as in Figure 3.
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
A railway return ticket, having the one portion of a shape, or size, or both
shape and size, different from that of the other portion; as and for the purpose
hereinbefore explained.
Dated this od 1
C
1000
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.