MENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING, INDICATING, AND CHECKING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CONVEYED IN OMNIBUSES, TRAMWAY CARS, AND OTHER PUBLIC VEHICLES SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE AMOUNTS OF THE FARES PAID BY THEM.
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Joseph Baranowski at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th August 1878.
JOHN JOSEPH BARANOWSKI, of 67, King's Road, Chelsea, Engineer,
"IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING, INDICATING, AND CHECKING
THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CONVEYED IN OMNIBUSES, TRAMWAY CARS, AND OTHER
PUBLIC VEHICLES SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE AMOUNTS OF THE FARES PAID BY
THEM.
"
My Invention relates to the use of mechanical means by which the conductor or
other person in charge of a tramway car, or other public vehicle, is enabled by the
simple lowering of a lever or pressure of a button or such like operation to cause
the immediate exhibition of the amount of the fare just received, and together with
the total amount of other fares at the same rate previously recorded, which
appear upon the table or plate forming the cover of a box which I place either
within or without the vehicle, whilst by the same operation the consecutive
number of passengers who paid the same fare will also be exhibited. A bell or
other audible sounding means operated by the indicating apparatus will give indica-
tion of each successive operation with the apparatus.
The figures indicative of the numbers of passengers and amounts of the fares
successively received should be so placed as to be visible to the passengers or others,
thereby to afford an additional check on the operator, and for greater clearness these
figures may be of separate colour for each series of indications.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a band of lined paper or other suitable
material, having printed or otherwise indicated thereon series of figures or signs,
say 1, 2, 3, and so on, as required, for use in registering the number of passengers
and amounts of fares in shillings and pence, or other indication of value received
from passengers, so that each figure is in succession brought opposite so as to be
visible through an aperture in the table or plate forming cover of the box containing
the mechanism of the apparatus.
In like manner the total amount of each other series of fares received is indicated
through a similar aperture by another set of figures upon another band or other

page_text: bands operated simultaneously with the indication of the successive number of
passengers relative to the same operation.
The bands are carried by a pair of drums or rollers regulated by ratchet wheels
and spring stops or catch roller with capability of such bands being progressively
wound from off one barrel on to the other, so as to bring the desired indications
successively opposite the said apertures whilst the remaining indications are for
the time concealed from view; or this sliding of the bands may be produced by any
other mechanical combination.
Motion may be given to one or both of the barrels or other supporting means by
a three-branched lever or other suitable means for operation of the same, actuated
by a button or hand lever, so as to cause one branch or arm thereof to be successively
projected partly from the upper plate or other part of the box containing the
apparatus.
In order to prevent illicit access to the interior parts of the apparatus the enclosing
box or case is capable of being locked or secured, and the only means of obtaining
access thereto for changing the figures, as necessary, to put them at zero after each
settlement with the conductor, or for other purposes, may be retained by the
employer or proprietor of the apparatus, and the exterior parts thereof (as levers or
buttons) are left freely to be operated by the [conductor or other person in charge
so as to be inevitably recorded.