Improvements in or connected with Railway and other Tickets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application. 23rd Nov., 1889-Accepted, 4th Jan., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Railway and other Tickets.
I, JEAN ANDRÉ DE BRAAM, of 24 Rue des Capucines, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the 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 sheet of
drawings, and to the letters and Figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
This invention relates to the production of single and return tickets for use on
railways, tramways, omnibuses, boats, and other analagous purposes, constructed so as
to contain one or more sheets of notices or advertisements, a policy of insurance, a
ticket giving the right to a gratuitous journey on a given line of railway, or any other
object of a similar nature. And the said invention consists in making the ticket,
whether single or return, as a flattened tube of paper, cardboard or other suitable
material forming a case or sheath, in the interior of which may be inserted the before-
mentioned notices, advertisements, insurance policy or other object.
And in order that the said invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed
to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1
shows a single ticket, Figure 2 a return ticket and Figure 3 a transverse section of
either Figure 1 or 2, showing how the ticket may be made as a circular tube and then
flattened.
Figures 4 and 5 show a single and return ticket respectively, the longitudinal
section of which is formed of a flat or flattened tube as shown in Figure 6.
Figures 7 and 8 show respectively single and return tickets formed as bags or
pockets.
Figure 9 shows a sheet of notices or advertisements suitable for enclosure in the
case, sheath, bag or pocket comprising the ticket; the said sheet being made of any
dimensions that will admit of its being inserted, when suitably folded, into the said
ticket.
I make the case or sheath, comprising the ticket proper, by first forming a tube
shown in dotted lines in Figures 3 and 6, of strong paper, cardboard or other suitable
material, and of a diameter dependent upon the size of the ticket measured transversely
to its opening. I then flatten the tube by any suitable means, and cut it up into the
lengths required to form the tickets b shown in Figures 1 to 8.
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At the same time that the flattened tubes are being cut to length, the notches c d e
may be cut out from one or both sides of one of the openings of the ticket; these
notches being intended to facilitate the withdrawal of the sheet of notices or advertise-
ments or other object from the case or sheath comprising the ticket.
Instead of the tube being made of circular section, and then flattened, as above
described, it may be made at once of flattened section, and if required, the sides of the
case, or one of such sides, may be strengthened by the insertion of a thin piece of
metal, or other strengthening material, into the cardboard or paper of which the case
is formed.
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When the ticket is "single," that is, for a single journey from one place to another,
may be made in either of the ways shown in Figures 1, 4 and 7. In Figure 1 the
case is open at its two short sides fg, hk, whilst in Figure 4 the openings are at the
long sides m n and o p. In Figure 7 the case constitutes a bag or pocket, the short
side h k only being open, and the sides hf, fg and g k closed.
When the ticket is "return," that is, for a journey from one place to another and
back again, it may be made in either of the ways shown in Figures 2, 5 and 8. The
return ticket shown in Figure 2 is, like the single ticket shown in Figure 1, a case or
sheath open at the two short sides fg and hk, but it can be broken or torn in two
through the line of perforations or indentations ay so that the part A serves for the
journey in one direction, and the part B for the journey in the opposite direction.

page_text: Figure 5 shows a case open at the sides m n o p and notched out at rr on the short
sides mo, np so that one of the faces of the case or sheath serves for the journey in
one direction, and the other face for the journey in the opposite direction, the two
faces of the case or sheath being easily separated through the lines of perfora-
tion mo, np.
The ticket shown in Figure 8 is, like that shown in Figure 7, a bag or pocket open
at and closed at hf, fg and gk. It constitutes a return ticket because it can be
divided at the line of perforations a y, the part A serving for the journey in one
direction and the part B for the journey in the opposite direction.
One or more sheets of thin paper, with notices or advertisements for example
printed in the spaces ss Figure 9, may be folded and inserted into either of the
tickets shown in Figures 1 to 8. These shects of notices etcetera may be of any
required size and arrangement. A large central space may be reserved in the
middle of the sheet for a principal or specially important advertisement, or for the
inscription of a policy of insurance against accident, or of an order or ticket for a
gratuitous journey, or for any other similar purpose that may be required.
The tickets made as above specified, are easily stamped by the ordinary stamping
an dating machines, after the sheet or sheets of advertisements etcetera have been
placed in them, so that it is always easy to draw out the said sheet or sheets, but it is
quite impossible to replace them in the tickets; whereby fraudulent appropriation
of the orders, or other more or less valuable objects contained in the sheets, is
prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner is to be performed, I would have it understood that I
am aware that tickets having advertisements enclosed therein, are already known and
in use, and I make no claim generally to such advertising tickets, but that what I do
claim is :-
First Railway and other tickets made in the form of cases or sheaths without
joints at the folds, from tubes of paper, cardboard, or other suitable material, such
tubes being either made originally more or less flat, or first cylindrical and then
flattened, substantially as herein before described, and illustrated in the Drawings
hereto annexed.
Second Railway and other tickets made from flat or flattened tubes open at two
opposite ends or sides and constituting either single tickets as shown in Figures 1
and 4, or return tickets as shown in Figures 2 and 5, the said return tickets being
perforated or indented at the line a y, in Figure 2, or at both ends as at m o and n p
in Figure 5, all as hereinbefore described.
Third Railway and other tickets made from flat or flattened tubes open at one
side and closed at the other three sides so as to form bags or pockets constituting
either single tickets as shown in Figure 7 or return tickets as shown in Figure 8,
the said return tickets being perforated or indented at the line y, all as herein-
before described.
Fourth In combination with the tickets forming the subject of the first, second
and third claiming clauses hereof, the use of one or more sheets of notices or
advertisements of the kind shown in Figure 9 or of any other kind or form as
herein before described.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1880.
J. A. DE BRAAM.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.