IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COUNTING, REGISTERING, AND INDICATING THE DISTANCE TRAVELLED BY VEHICLES. AND THE SPEED AND TIME OF TRAVELLING.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constant Jouffroy Dumery. of Paris, in the Empire
of France, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR COUNTING, REGISTERING, AND INDICATING THE DISTANCE
TRAVELLED BY VEHICLES. AND THE SPEED AND TIME OF TRAVELLING.'
Sealed the 24th December 1856, and dated the 11th September 1856.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Constant Jouffroy Dumery
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 11th September 1856, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONSTANT
JOUFFROY DUMERY, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Civil Engineer, send
greeting.
IN
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS
APPARATUS FOR COUNTING, REGISTERING, AND INDICATING THE DISTANCE TRAVELLED
BY VEHICLES. & THE SPEED AND TIME OF TRAVELLING," and have petitioned Her
Majesty to grant unto me, my executors. administrators, and assigns. Her
Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn declaration that
I verily believe myself to be the first and true Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Constant Jouffroy Dumery, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the
[Price 8d.]

page_text: same is to be performed, reference being had to the three Sheets of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the figures and numerals of reference marked thereon
(that is to say) :-
Many systems of indicators to be applied to hackney cabs and other vehicles
have been contrived heretofore for the purpose of determining the reckoning
between the passenger and the coachman on one hand, and between the
latter and the owner of the vehicle on the other hand; but the chief active
agent, the horse, which constitutes the principal part of the stock of the coach
proprietor, a stock which can so easily be imposed on, has been to this day
overlooked. After providing for all the exigencies of account, something was
still left to be done to prevent the ill-treatment and abuse of horses, for
ascertaining the effective work the animal can and ought to perform, the
real motive power it can afford, and the proper limits of this power, and,
finally, for ascertaining. estimating, and rewarding the worth of some men
who can manage a horse so as to get from it good effective work without
exhausting its power, a worth too little recognized and seldom rewarded. In
addition to these different purposes, I believe it will be found both interesting
and useful to ascertain the work effected by a horse for the different periods
of its existence. The real cause of failure of such attempts at reckoning, as
before alluded to. I believe has been the insufficiency of the indications given,
which ought to determine the following points, viz. to ascertain the time -
the speed-the distance run the drive by time paid for the drive by time
unpaid for the time at rest paid for-the time at rest unpaid for the speed
during a drive paid for-the speed during a drive unpaid for journeys or drives
performed paid for according to distance journeys or drives performed accord-
ing to distance but unpaid for--and, finally, the drives which I shall call mixed,
that is, where the drive is at a determined fare for the distance run or time
occupied in the drive, and at a different fare for the time in waiting or time
at rest. To afford these complete indications, and answer these various
purposes. it is the object of this my present Invention to attain, and which
I believe will be thereby accomplished. For the interior service of a city
or town, the vehicle drawn by a horse, and the circumstances of the place
being always the same, it will suffice, in order to ascertain the average work,
to know the distance run and the speed during the distance so run.
apparatus is therefore wanted that will point out and register all the various
occurrences that may be met with by a carriage in the course of a day. In
other words, the indicator is to point out the whole distance run by a horse,
either paid or unpaid for--the distance run on account of each passenger-the
distance run on hire summed up-the whole distance run when the vehicle is
An

page_text: not hired the respective speed for each drive the time at rest paid for-and
the time at rest unhired.
I shall now describe the means I have contrived to answer these various
purposes. 1st, the distance performed. 2nd, the at rest time. 3rd, the speed
during the drive; and, 4th, the means of ascertaining whether the said
functions were performed while on hire or otherwise. These several and
special functions I will herein-after refer to in the detail as functions 1, 2, 3*,
and 4*.
I. The distance run by any vehicle is ascertained by the registering of
a number of revolutions of a wheel whose diameter is known. This principle
being well known I shall merely describe the particular means and the various
agents by which I arrive at the result. I use one of the running wheels of
the vehicle as the motive power, and by it transmit motion to the counting
and recording apparatus, which converts the yards and the fraction of the yard
resulting from the difference of diameter in the wheels into yards and mul-
tiples of the yard or any other appropriate measure; lastly, the registering of
a decimal number of yards, and not of a number of revolutions of the wheels.
With respect to using the wheel as the motor, the wheel being independent
of the box containing the recording or counting apparatus, which is fixed to
the carriage body, to which, however, each pulsation produced by each revo-
lution of the running wheel is to be transmitted, I dispose the first mover
horizontally, and to prevent any inverse motion or erroneous action of the
cam being produced, 1 joint the catching latch or finger so that it may recede
from its position rather than occasion a breakage or derangement of the
apparatus. For this purpose I insert an iron pin in the nave, and secure it
from all external contact by a circular guard plate, fixed on the axle or other
stationary part, which pin causes at each forward revolution of the wheel a
projecting arm to be forced to slide in a horizontal sheath, which is attached
at one end to the vehicle box and on the other to the axle. By an intermittent
pulling motion the projection transmits to the interior of the carriage or
vehicle and to the registering box the motion it receives from the nave pin.
Should the carriage move backwards the nave pin or tappet will engage the
back part of the projecting arm, and by reason of its being jointed turn it
aside without occasioning any disorganization of the apparatus. Thus also
the transmission of the pulsations given by the tappet pin on the nave to the
counting apparatus is effected, in such manner that the apparatus may be
removed from the vehicle without requiring any peculiar or special preparation.
For converting fractions into whole numbers the following three-fold conditions

page_text: must be answered: 1st. avoiding the useless multiplication of the motions of
the dial hands. 2nd, effecting the marking and recording by leaps. 3rd,
obtaining and registering uniform and regular measurement by the yard,
furlong, mile, or other denominations of measurement. Thus although each
revolution of the wheel will give yards and fractions of the yard, yet the
fractions will be converted into whole numbers, and therefore arriving at a
correct and regular measure before marking the result. I will next herein-
after describe in what manner the said threefold conditions are answered.
In order to make the marking independent of the number of pulsations or
actions of the tappet effected by the revolutions of the wheel and its continued
developement, cause the motion to be imparted to a snail or spiral cam,
which is to effect a revolution for each hundred yards or other given distance
run, whatever may be the diameter of the wheels. The snail at cach revolution
lifts the marking agent, and therefore the whole contrivance consists in ren-
dering a drive of a hundred yards equal to each revolution of the said snail
or cam. To arrive at this result I use a ratchet wheel, set in motion by a
lever in connection with a rod or pall; the latter is acted upon by the tappet
of the wheel, and the yards and fractions of yards measured by the wheel
are by it converted into regular standard measures. This rod, which first
transmits the motion, is elestic, that is, capable of being compressed, taking
care that the power required to overcome the resistance of the mechanism is
less than the power required to compress the springs of the rod, whilst the
power arising from the external tappet is superior to the elastic power of those
springs. A limit is fixed by means of a set screw to the desired length of
movement to be allowed to the rod, by which the movement of the whole
apparatus is regulated according to the diameter of the wheels, and this the
more easily as the lever which connects the elastic rod to the click and
ratchet work is made so that it may be adapted to various angles, whereby it
is capable of yielding to all the various differences of length required by the
variation or motion of the pulsation or movement produced by the action of
the tappet. This arrangement for regulating is readily obtained by means of
a small board or table pointing out the relation of the different angles of the
lever corresponding to the various diameters of wheels.
The registering or rather the indicating on the dials is arrived at by means
of a regular click and ratchet wheel work, actuated, not by any agent in direct
communication with the running wheel, but by the before mentioned snail
wheel, which effects (conformably to the variation, adjusted and regulated by
the angular motion of the lever) one revolution for each hundred yards. This

page_text: snail at each revolution lifts a click carrying a pin, which engages at each
time into one of the ten teeth of the counting wheels, thus causing a fresh
number to be indicated at the dial. The marking wheels are three in number,
one of them carrying the units, another the tens, and a third, the hundreds,
each unit counting and representing one hundred yards. By means of a click
or pall each revolution of the first counting wheel causes the second wheel to
nove round one tooth or number, and each revolution of this second wheel
has a like effect on the third wheel to move it forwards also one tooth, so that
by only actuating the first wheel the whole enumerating system of a dial is
obtained.
II. In reference to a drive on hire or unhired. as the case may be, suppose
that instead of one single lever or finger on which the wheel tappet acts there
should be two, one acting upon the dials to indicate the progress of a vehicle
on duty, and the other acting upon the dials indicating the progress of an
empty vehicle; supposing, again, that the vehicle is provided with a board
similar to such as are sometimes made use of, which board it is the driver's
duty to raise, in order to shew that the vehicle is for hire, and to lower it
when hired; consider this to be the duty of the driver, and that the effect of
this action lifts either one of the two fingers out of gear and the other into
gear for present work; and consider also that the said alteration does not
impede the working of the dial intended to sum up the whole run of the
horse some idea may be conceived of the principle of the Invention with
regard to measuring the distance run either on hire or unhired..
Those hirings which are to be paid in proportion to the speed, and con-
sisting of two opposite elements, motion and rest, a mere indication of the
distance run is insufficient, and it is necessary to know the comparative speed
on one hand, and on the other the time of rest for the horse, either on hire or
out of hire, and I believe that the union of these indications will result in
benefit both to the passengers and to the proprietors, and at the same time
will tend to the conversion of the fares by the hour or time into comparative
fares, that is, proportionable to distance, with a proportionate right of time
for rest, or to distance when the vehicle is in progress, and to time when at
rest, with an application of different and proportionate fares.
III. The distance being known, it now remains to ascertain the speed and
time in travelling each hundred yards, and the time during which the vehicle
is stopping, either on hire or otherwise. These indications have two objects.
In the first place, with respect to passengers, these indications are to be
visible and in the second place, with respect to such indications as over-
driving, &c., which interest the proprietor only, require to be registered.

page_text: These shall describe in relation to the means that may be used for collecting
the fares. The apparatus consists of a clock which regulates the motion of a
cylinder, which performs a slow motion in the direction of the length of its
axis, and at the same time rotates once during each hour; this clock also
actuates hour and minute hands exhibited on another dial; the clock, how-
ever, does not act as a driving power. but merely to regulate the rotation, as
the acting force arises from other agents in communication with a barrel
contrived for this purpose.
The cylinder performs one revolution every hour, and is covered with a
sheet of paper, on the circumference of which sixty lines are drawn parallel to
the axis, which divide the circumference into sixty equal spaces or minutes;
two styles or pencils (one or other of which is kept off the paper by the
progress of the vehicle) are either of them brought in contact with it as soon
as the vehicle stops. The styles or pencils, one of which is red and the other
black, are both connected with the movement of the board effected by the
driver, as before mentioned. When the vehicle is hired this board is lowered,
when the black style is brought in contact with the paper cylinder, and on the
board being raised the red style traces out the time at rest, at the same time
that the styles indicate on paper the stages paid or unpaid for; three points
or pins of the pricking hammers prick out the hundred yards, thousands of
yards, and tens of thousands of yards, and being actuated by the distances
run, leave on the paper a dot corresponding to each number registered on the
dial. In this manner the cylinder diary will register not only the distances
run, but also the time at which the said distances were run, and the whole
time occupied in travelling. As the cylinder performs one revolution for
every hour, and the time of starting being known, the sheet of paper when
removed from the cylinder will exhibit the diary of the horses' day's work.
The clock is at the same time put into communication with the two hands of
a second dial, whose motion may be suspended at will, these hands being
moved by friction only may be brought back to zero as soon as their driving
contact is interrupted, but they may be influenced in different ways. Thus,
as soon as the vehicle is in progress, the motion produced by the tappet of
the wheel is employed to blow out small bellows, which expand and prevent
all working of these dial hands; when the vehicle stops, the bellows contract,
when the frictional contact, thereby permitted, causes the hands to move again.
This motion is still however subordinate to the position of the "driver's
board" for one of the hands, while the other hand records and indicates to
the proprietor on the return at night. One of the two hands points out the
successive stoppages of the same passenger, but returns to zero as soon as the

page_text: board is raised; the other points out the stop time of all the passengers, and
only returns to zero at night actuated by the driver's or any fit person's hand.
If it is desired to convert the distance counter, as described, into an hour
counter or counter by the hour, as used in Paris, it will suffice to have
another intermittent hour dial similar to that I have described for the time
at rest. but working and performing opposite functions to that of the above.
that is, the hand stops when the vehicle stops, and moves again as soon as it
starts, which may be very easily obtained by the application of a stop lever
reversing the working of the dial for the stop time, which is thereby released
and fixed alternately.
My apparatus without this last-mentioned dial comprises and effects nine
visible indications, vizt, the present time or hour (dial C), the rest or stop
time to be paid by the actual passenger. the hours at rest paid for during the
whole day (dial A), the number of the various passenger (dial B). the distance
run to be paid by each passenger (dial 1), the whole distance run by the horse
paid or unpaid for (exhibited at hole or wicket 2). space run unhired.
returning to the station (dial 3) the whole distance run during hire for the
whole day (exhibited at wicket 4), while the whole distance run unhired for
the whole day is (exhibited at wicket 5).
On
One of the five distance dials is always going, and points out every hour in
the day the whole distance run by the horse from the morning, thus letting
the passenger know whether the horse he is to hire is tired or not; the four
others work in pairs, vizt, the first pair whilst the board is raised, and the
second pair when it is lowered. Out of each pair of dials one returns to zero
after each passenger has left the vehicle, and the other sums up the whole
work performed of the same nature.
The paper cylinder or diary inside is intended to register the stop time paid.
the stop time unpaid, the whole distance run. the comparative speed of the
various drives, the times these occupied, and the times during which they
were engaged, by adding a dial similar to the stop or rest time dial, but
working during the intermission of the motion of that dial, will so give the
driving time. Thus my improved apparatus will answer all possible com-
binations of progress.
The following is a detailed description of the principal parts of which the
various apparata consist, and which I shall divide into fourteen heads or
divisions, as follows:--
First, the stationary part or framework.
Second, that part of the apparatus which refers to the distance run.
Third, the means of putting the same (second head) in motion.

page_text: Eleventh, the pricking hammers.
Twelfth, the movement and apparatus that works the styles.
Thirteenth, the movement and apparatus that works the hammers.
Fourteenth, the dials.
The following is a description of the various Figures in the annexed Sheets
of Drawings.
Sheet 1 Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the dials and wickets. Fig. 2. a
lateral vertical section through a. b. Fig. 10 and Fig. 13, Sheet 2. and
Fig. 16. 17. 18. and 19. Sheet 3. Fig. 3. a vertical section through c, d.
Fig. 1, Sheet 1. Fig. 4. a horizontal section through e. f. Fig. 2. Sheet 1:
Figs. 8 and 10, Sheet 2; and Figs. 14. 15, and 16, Sheet 3. Fig. 5, a hori
zontal section through g, h, Fig. 1. Sheet 1. Fig. 6. horizontal section
through i. i. Fig. 1. Sheet 1. Fig. 7. horizontal section through k, 1. Fig. 1,
Sheet 1.
Sheet 2 Fig. 8 is a lateral vertical section through m, n. Fig. 10. Sheet 2.
and Figs. 15. 16, 17, 18, and 19. Sheet 3. Fig. 9. a lateral vertical section
through o, p, Fig. 10. Sheet 2, and Figs. 15, 16. 17. 18, and 19, Sheet 3.
Fig. 10, a transverse vertical section through g. r. Fig. 2, Sheet 1, Figs. 8. 9.
11, 12, and 13. Sheet 2, Fig. 14, 17, 18, and 19, Sheet 3. Fig. 11, horizontal
section through s. t. Fig. 2. Sheet 1, Figs. 8, 9, and 10, Sheet 2. Figs. 14, 15,
and 16. Sheet 3. Fig. 12. a horizontal section through w. r. Fig. 2. Sheet 1.
Figs. 8, 9, and 10. Sheet 2. Figs. 14. 15, and 16. Sheet 3. Fig. 13.
horizontal section through w, 2. Fig. 2. Sheet 1. Figs. 9 and 10. Sheet 2,
Figs. 14, 15, and 16, Sheet 3.
Sheet 3 Fig. 14 is a front view, the dials supposed to be removed or taken
off. Fig. 15, a transverse vertical section through y. z. Fig. 2 Sheet 1.
Figs. 8, 11, and 12, Sheet 2, and Figs. 14. 17, 18, and 19. Sheet 3. Fig. 16.
a transverse vertical section through a', b. Fig. 2. Sheet 1, Figs. 8, 9, 11, 12,
and 13, Sheet 2, and Figs. 14, 17, 18, and 19, Sheet 3. Fig. 17. a
horizontal section through c¹, d¹. Figs. 8 and 9, Sheet 2, and Figs. 14, 15,
and 16, Sheet 3. Fig. 18. a horizontal section through e', f', Fig. 2. Sheet 1.
Figs. 8, 9, and 10, Sheet 2, and Figs. 14, 15, and 16. Sheet 3. Fig. 19, a

page_text: horizontal section through g¹, h¹, Fig. 2, Sheet 1, Figs. 8, 9, and 10, Sheet 2,
and Figs. 14, 15, and 16, Sheet 3. Fig. 20 shows the principle of moving
the horizontal finger or rod which actuates the apparatus by the motion of the
wheel during the forward progress. Fig. 21 shows the effect on the finger or
rod constituting the first mover of the apparatus while backing the carriage;
it produces no dragging of this rod, but simply deflects it out of the right line.
Fig. 22 shows the motion imparted to the board of the apparatus which is to
indicate by its position whether the vehicle is engaged or disengaged. and
which communicates by means of the small rods with the proper parts of the
apparatus, whereby the desired change therein is effected. Fig. 23 represents
a horizontal section of the pointers or hammers, and of the red and black
styles.
With reference to the first part or head, it is as follows:-1, represents the
sheet iron framing for the whole apparatus connected with 2, 3, 7, and 8; 2, a
strong sheet iron plate applied to the front part of the apparatus for measuring
the distance run, secured by six tie pieces; 3, a strong sheet iron plate applied
to the back part of the same, and secured by six tie pieces; 4, a strong sheet
iron plate applied to the front part of the apparatus, registering the time to
be paid, secured to 1 by means of 7, 8; 5, a strong piece of sheet-iron plate
applied to the back part of 4, and secured to the same by six tie pieces;
6, the upper shutting or covering plate; 7, the lower shutting piate; 8, the
shutting plate on the left; 9, the shutting plate, made in two parts, on the
right; 10, a wormed or screwed tube, forming the entrance aperture (through
9) to the diary cylinder, which is closed by a screwed plug on which 167 rests;
11, a guide of the moving apparatus for the distance run, placed between 1
and 2; 12, guide of the apparatus for the evening stoppage, placed between
1 and 2; 13, bracket, carrying the gear for transmitting motion of the diary
cylinder fitted on the inside of 4; 14, bridge or bracket for the minute wheel
work applied to the apparatus of the time to be paid for, fitted on the inside
of 4; 15, five bridges or brackets between 1 and 2, carrying the stop pieces of
the shafts or arbors 21 (which return to zero) for indicating the distance run;
16, a bracket, inside of 5, supporting the end of the shaft of the long hand
that points out the time to be paid; 17, bridge behind 1, for supporting 200
(the levers of the pricking hammers); 18, two small bridges behind 1, serving
as guides to 69 (the bolt for transmitting motion to the shafts of the stop
apparatus for distance run from the board); 19, dial carrying frame secured
on 2 by nine iron knees; 20, bearing of the screw of the diary cylinder fitted
to 2 and 3.
With reference to the second division or head, it consists of:-21, three

page_text: sets of three concentric shafts for actuating the dials or numerals to indicate
the units, tens, and hundreds at the wickets, showing the distance run;
22, nine discs, pointing out the distance run, which are keyed on 21; 23, two
sets of three concentric shafts, for actuating the hands to indicate the units,
tens, and hundreds on the dials of the distance run; 24, six hands for indica-
ting the distance run fitted on 23; 25, fifteen star wheels, for the units, tens,
and hundreds, mounted on 21 and 23; 26, ten spring bolts, adjusted on 25,
for actuating the star wheels 27 of the tens and hundreds; 27, ten small star
wheels, keyed on 21 and 23, actuated by 25 through 26; 28, five jointed
frames supporting the inclined planes, next which the bolts 26 are placed that
actuate 27; 29, fifteen recoil friction pulleys, mounted on 21 and 23;
30, sixty turning pulleys of the bands or cords of recoil for driving the shafts
21 and 23; 31, fifteen driving cords; 32, fifteen recoil springs in tension.
The third division or head, which relates to the movement or apparatus for
the distance run, is as follows;-35 is a rod, set in motion by the motive
power, and jointed to 37; 36, an intermediate spring, fitted and adjusted
on 35; 37, beam carrying a click, operated on by 35 and jointed to 38;
38, pivot of 37; 39, pulling spring of 37 in a state of tension; 40, abutment
rod, jointed to the end of 37; 41, screw, regulating the course or motion of
the beam 37 in stopping 40; 42, female screw of 41 fitted into 1 and 3;
43, movement click fitted on 37; 44, pin on 37, forming. pivot of 43;
45, spring of movement click 43; 46, stop click catching the counting wheel
49; 47, pin, forming pivot of 46, resting in 1; 48, spring click of stop 46;
49, counting wheel, resting on 38, and actuated by 43; 50, an escapement
cam mounted on 49; 51, two screws in 49, which act on 50; 52, an escape-
ment lever lifted by 50; 53, pivot of 52, supported in 1 and 3; 54, spring
fitted in 52, and actuating the train or system relating to the distance run;
55, bearing of 54, jointed to the rod 56; 56, actuating rod of the main slide;
58, five acting clicks or catches, setting in motion the star wheels 25; 59, five
click or catch springs of 58.
The fourth head or division, which relates to the stoppage for determining
the distance run, is as follows:-60, one stop for the evening stoppage, which
slides in 12, and acts on the clicks 58 and the levers 66 and 193; 61, two
springs, in tension, acting on 60; 62, stop for the use of the station officer
(function 2), sliding from 65, and also acting upon the lever 193; 63, stop
apparatus, acted on by the board (function × 3) sliding in 65; 65, six angle
pieces of iron, in which 62 and 63 slide in connection with 11; 66, lever for
the evening stoppage, which actuates 73 (function × 1); 67, draw lever to be
used at the station which acts on 74 (function × 2); 68, draw lever of the

page_text: board, operating 75 through the medium of 69 by the medium of the stop,
effectuated by the board; 69, bolt or rod, transmitting the motion of the stop
apparatus actuating the levers 190 and 191 of the styles (function 3*); 70,
pivot of 66 and 67, fitted between 1 and 2; 71, pivot of 68 on the back part
of 1; 72, double acting spring pressing and maintaining the lever 68 in its
extreme positions; 73, stop piece for the frames 28, appertaining to the three
wickets, shewing the distance run, put in motion by the lever 66 (function × 1)
acting on lever 130 by means of a cord: 74, stop piece for the frame 28,
appertaining to the dial for the distance run when unhired between each station,
which is put in motion by the lever 67 (function x 2); 75, stop piece of the
frame 28, appertaining to the dial of the distance run to be paid by the
passengers, and actuated by the lever 68 (function × 3). and actuating by
means of a cord the lever 131; 76, five pieces of angle iron, in which 73, 74,
and 75, slide.
The fifth division or head, which relates to marking time continuously (clock-
work), is as follows:-78, two plates encasing the clockwork, and connected
by four stays, the front plate being connected to 2 and 4: 79. a spring barrel,
the motor of the clock train. and having a wheel keyed on it, which drives
the shaft 82; 80, a ratchet wheel on the axis of 79: 82, the first shaft carry-
ing a pinion driven by 82 and a wheel which drives 88; 84, the socket of the
minute wheel, sliding on 83; 88. the third driving shaft. carrying a pinion
driven by 83 and a wheel that drives 89.
The sixth head or division, which relates to the apparatus of the time paid
for, consists of:-92, an intermediate wheel driven by the wheel on shaft 83;
93. an intermediate axis of the apparatus recording the time paid and of the
diary cylinder, which axis carries a wheel driven by 92 and another wheel
driving 94, the said axis performing one revolution every hour: 94, driving
shaft of the apparatus registering the time paid, carrying a wheel which is
driven by the equal wheels 93, a pinion gearing into the barrel arbor 95, and
a pinion driving the wheel 98: 95. an additional barrel arbor of (the time to
be paid recording apparatus) provided with a wheel which gears into a pinion
on shaft 94 96, a ratchet wheel keyed on the barrel arbor 95; 97 a click
of 96; 98, a large wheel noving on a socket driven by the pinion on 94;
99, an interior shaft of the recording apparatus of the time to be paid by the
passenger; 101, a shaft of the apparatus recording the whole time paid; 103, a
clutch adjusted in 101 and moved by 98; 104, a second clutch pressed by the
spring 105 against 103 105 main stopping and releasing spring of the shafts
for the apparatus of time paid; 106, a recoil pulley mounted on 99; 107, two

page_text: turning pulleys of cord for driving shafts 99 and 101; 108. two levers pulling
the cords 109 of the shafts 99 and 101: 110, two pulling or recoil springs
altached to 108: 112, an abutting socket of the interior shaft 99.
The seventh part or division, which relates to the stopping apparatus, or
apparatus having an intermittent action, for determining the time paid, is as
follows: 116. casing fitted on 4 and 5; 117, fork of the stopping clutch 104
for the stoppage at night apparatus (function x 1): 118. shaft of 117: 119. a
lever actuating 117 through the medium of the spring 120: 120, an inter-
mediate spring connecting 119 to 117: 121. disengaging fork of the clutch 103
moved by the board (function x 3) and the air chamber (function x 4); 122,
shaft of 121; 123, lever actuating 121 through the medium of the spring 124:
124. an intermediate spring connecting 123 to 121 126. a lever for disen-
gaging the interior shaft 99 by the action of the board (function x 3); 127.
shaft of 126: 128, a lever actuating 126 through the medium of the spring
129 129, an intermediate spring connecting 128 to 126; 130. a stopping
lever for the evening (function × 1) actuating 119 and moved by 73 by means
of a cord: 131, a lever actuating 123 and 128 through the medium of 132.
and moved by 75 by means of a cord (function × 3): 132. a rod at the end
of 131 for lifting 123 and 128 in order to actuate 99 and 103 through the
medium of 117 and 126; 134. a lever jointed to 131, which lever actuates
123 through the medium of the rod 135 (function 4): 135. a rod at the
end of 134 which lifts 123: 136, lever on 133 actuating 134 through the
medium of the spring 137, and moved by the air chamber (function × 4);
137, a spring connecting 134 to 136; 138. circular bellows secured to 3:
139, an air chamber secured to 116; 140, screw tap or plug for regulating
the escape of air from the air chamber; 141, a rod beneath the moveable
bottom of the bellows 138 actuated by 142: 142, sliding rod, which actuates
141, which rod is moved by the beam 37 to which it is jointed at the head of
the abutment rod 40: 143. guide of 142 secured to 1; 144, the upper rod of
the air chamber lifting 136; 145, a spring wound round 144 and pressing
against the air chamber; 146. a tube connecting the bellows 138 with the air
chamber 139; 147, guide of 144 secured to the casing 116; 148, recoil spring
of 134 bearing against the case 116.
The eighth head or division, which relates to the apparatus of the indicating
dial for passengers, is as follows: 152. a ratchet wheel having forty teeth
fixed on 150 153, a click carried by 154, which actuates 152; 154, a click
lever pivoted on 150, and actuated by 162; 155, a stop-click of 152; 158,
recoil or pulling lever drawing 157; 160, a spindle of 163, which actuates 154

page_text: through the medium of 162; 161, spindle of 160, lifting 155 and 153 by the
stoppage and return to zero of 150 (function × 1); 162, bolt of 154 sliding
on 2. and connected to 63, by which it is moved (function x 3).
The ninth head or division, which relates to the apparatus of the diary
cylinder and its motion, consists of: --165, a cylinder carrying a sheet of paper
or other suitable material: 166. a wheel forming one end of 165: 167. a fixed
screw carrying the cylinder 165. fitted into a square recess in 20; 168, female
screw fitted on 167, and secured to the cylinder 165: 169, a long pinion
gearing into 166: 170. bevel wheel keyed on 73, which drives the long pinion
169 172, bottom of the cylinder 165.
The tenth head, which relates to the styles, is as follows:-175 is a case
lodged in a recess cut in the thickness of 1: 176, two pencil carriers carrying
the pencils or styles, one black, the other red, which are pressed forwards by
two springs.
The eleventh head relates to the apparatus of the pricking hammers, and is
as follows: 183, a case fitted to 78: 184. three sliding hammers; 185, six
springs of the hammers.
The twelfth head or division, which relates to the apparatus for actuating the
styles, consists of: 190 is the driving lever of the red style put in or out of
gear by 169. through the medium of the spring 194. and is also stopped by
193 (function 1, 2 and 3); 191. driving lever of the black style, which
is put into or out of gear or action by 69 (function x 3); 193, stop lever of
190. worked by means of two pins inserted into 60 and 62 (functions 1 and 2);
195 stop pin of 190 on 69.
The thirteenth head, relating to the apparatus of the hammers, consists of:
196, three levers actuated by the star wheels 25 of the units: 197, three
axes of 196, bearing in 1 and 2; 198. three cords connecting the levers 196 to
the corresponding levers 199; 199, three thrusting or pushing levers, actuating
184 through medium of 187, which levers are actuated by 196; 201, three
springs acting on the short arms of levers 199.
The fourteenth and last head relates to the dials, which are as follows:-
202. is a double concentric dial, to show the time to be paid by the pas-
senger, and the whole time paid during the day: 204. an ordinary dial of
the clock or time-keeper: 206. dial pointing out the number of passengers
carried: 207. two sets of three concentric dials for pointing out the distance
run paid for, and the distance run unpaid: 209. three wicket openings to
show the distance run, that is to say. the distance run paid for. the whole
distance run. and the distance run unpaid, or when the vehicle is unhired.

page_text: To obviate the inconvenience of the jolting, I enclose the clockwork in a
box lined with elastic cushions. I may also suppress the escapement, and in
its stead apply a water or hydraulic regulator as used for lamps called
moderator lamps. This may be not quite so regular, but will prove quite
sufficient for a day's work which does not exceed fifteen or sixteen hours.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of my Invention, and
the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect. I wish it to be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details, nor to
the strict figure or form of the apparatus herein described, as such may be
varied or modified without departing from the principle of action thereof: but
what I do claim as new and of my Invention is,―
First, the construction of a complete and general counting, recording, and
indicating apparatus, calculated to answer all the exigencies of either the drive
by the hour, or the drive by the distance, also of the drive called mixed, or, in
ether words, with respect to distance when the vehicle is in progress, or by the
hour when the vehicle is at rest. in combination with a register of the speeds
during the different times, together with a register of the whole distance
travelled in a day, & the time occupied therein.
Secondly, the combining the internal mechanism or machinery herein-before
expressed, with a moveable board. as herein-before described and referred to.
Thirdly, imparting motion from the nave by means of a hinged latch or
tappet, and also the application of the click lever or pall acting in the ratchet
as a means of converting an alternating motion into a rotary motion.
Fourthly, the regulating of the angular distances by means of a screw and
clastic or resillient parts.
Fifthly, the snail which moves once round for every hundred yards run.
Sixthly, the lateral motion of the diary cylinder.
Seventhly, the blending of the wickets with the dials in order to produce
the greatest number of indications apparent and visible in the least space.
Eighthly, the bellows, or any equivalent, with metallic springs, for modifying
the progress of the hands when the vehicle is in progress.
Ninthly, the external indication of all that interests the passenger, independent
and irrespective of, but simultaneous with the inside record of what interests
the proprietor or the administration.
And, tenthly and lastly, the arrangement and use of the four dials relating
to the drive or progress by the hour exclusively, viz., the present time or hour,
the stoppage time paid by each passenger. the stoppage time summed up, the
drives paid or to be paid by each passenger, the same summed up, a dial indi-

page_text: cating the number of the passengers for the more ready reckoning of the first
part of a drive when it is to be paid at a different fare from the last, all as
erein-before described.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Constant Jouffroy Dumery, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
C. J. DUMERY. (L.S.)