IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES FOR INDICATING OR RECORDING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CARRIED ON TRAM CARS AND OMNIBUSES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Warren and John O'Keeffe
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th November 1877.
CHARLES WARREN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Coach Builder, and
JOHN O'KEEFFE, of the same Place, Die Sinker. " IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
OR APPLIANCES FOR INDICATING OR RECORDING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS
CARRIED ON TRAM CARS AND OMNIBUSES."
The object of our Invention is to provide apparatus or appliances whereby
the proprietors of tram cars and omnibuses may obtain exact knowledge of the
number of passengers carried on such vehicles, and hence of the amount of money
to be paid in by the conductor or other attendant, and this with apparatus or
appliances simple in construction and action, difficult to tamper with, and having
the advantage of allowing free and speedy ingress and egress of passengers.
For the above purpose we fit on or combine with the platform of the tram car or
omnibus two turnstiles, which are operated by the passengers during entering and
leaving in such manner that an automatic mechanical register of such entering or
leaving is effected.
First. To facilitate the entrance and exit of passengers to and from tramway
cars and omnibuses fitted under our Invention, we form or construct the turnstiles
with two or more arms, and support the said turnstiles on or about vertical axes,
the arms of one being made to intersect those of the other. The said turnstiles have
two or more arms, so that two or more passengers can enter and leave the tram car
or omnibus during each revolution of either of the turnstiles.
Second. In order to prevent passengers or other persons from turning the turn-
stiles back or passing through the wrong turnstile, we attach or fit a ratchet wheel
or ratchet wheels, and pawl or pawls or equivalent mechanism, to any desired
revolving portion of the turnstile or turnstiles, in such manner that the said turn-
stile shall only be allowed to turn in one direction.
Third. We combine counting or numbering apparatus of any convenient kind
with the moving parts of the turnstiles, or of either of them, in such manner that
the number of persons shall be accurately registered or recorded, the motion to the
registering or recording indexes being taken from the turnstiles in all cases, and

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actuated so as to register immediately upon the turnstile being moved.
registering or counting apparatus hereafter described under the fifth head being
preferred.
Fourth. That passengers may not be able to pass through between the two turn-
stiles, and to provide a convenient place on which the conductor may take money
and give change to passengers, we connect the tops of the turnstiles together by a
counter or tray, and around such counter or tray raise a lip or flange, so that money
cannot roll or slide off.
Fifth. We construct counting or numbering apparatus to be used in combination
with turnstiles arranged and operated as above in the following simple manner :-
A wheel is formed with 50 or 100 teeth or projecting pieces, and is provided with
a dial which moves with the said wheel in front of a fixed pointer or its equivalent.
The said wheel caused to move by the motion of one or both turnstiles, one or
two teeth for every person entering or leaving, or entering and leaving the tram car
or omnibus. Each complete revolution of the wheel gives motion by means of a
side pin or tooth to a second wheel, also formed with 50 or 100 teeth or projecting
pieces. In this manner two wheels may be arranged to count or register as many
as 10,000 passengers, and that when that number is reached the registration
commences at zero.