IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Marcus Bebro at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th September 1880.
MARCUS BEBRO, of Canfield House, Canfield Road, Priory Road, Kilburn, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CHECKING THE
RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR
ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
The object of this Inveution is checking the receipt of money from persons
travelling in public vehicles or entering places of amusement, by the use of a novel
construction of box designed to contain a continuous roll of consecutively numbered
tickets, and apparatus for checking the delivery of the same from the said box.
The improvements may be thus described :-
I construct a box the capacity of which will be large enough to hold one, two or
more rolls of consecutively numbered tickets according to the number or class of
fares required to be contained in and delivered from such box, and the apparatus
for delivering the same. The said roll or rolls of tickets being by prefereuce similar to
those printed, numbered, and perforated by machinery, protected by Patents granted
to me and respectively numbered 20946 and 271879.
As each roll of tickets contained in the box is delivered by similar and
independent mechanism, I will proceed to describe the manner and means I adopt
for delivering tickets from a single roll.
The bar containing the roll of tickets is provided with two rollers, which are by
preference serated upon their peripheries, one of the said rollers being the driving
roller, the circumference of which is equal to the length of one ticket, and the other
the pressure roller.
The axis of the driving roller is provided with a couple of discs, one of which is
fixed on the axis of the said roller, and the other runs loose thereon; a recess or
notch is formed in the periphery of each disc, into which a spring catch-bolt.drops,
and locks both discs and driving roller on the completion of each and every
revolution made by the same, the release of the discs and roller being effected by
means of a stud actuated by a thumb lever secured by its fulcrum to the outside
of the box. When the driving roller is locked, a pressure on the outside lever raises
the catch-bolt from the notches, in the discs and also pushes the loose disc on a
little, which places the two notches in the discs out of line with each other, which

page_text: prevents the spring catch-bolt again entering such notches until another complete
revolution of the discs and driving roller have been made.
Motion to the driving roller is given through the medium of a string, cord or
chain, one end of which is secured to and passed round a grooved pulley revolving
loosely on the axis of the driving roller, the other end of the said string is passed
through a hole made by preference in the bottom of the box; the said grooved
pulley is provided with a catch and spring, which when the string is pulled takes
into or comes into contact with a catch on the driving roller, which gives it one
complete revolution, and then slips and allows the spring to reverse the motion of
the pulley so as to withdraw the string back again ready for another pull.
The serated rollers are of a width equal to that of the tickets contained in the
box. One end of the strip or length of tickets bearing the lowest consecutive
number is passed between the serated rollers, which when caused to revolve issues
out of a slot or orifice formed in the front portion of the box.
The traverse of the longth of paper forming the tickets after leaving the roll
to the orifice where it is delivered, is protected by an internal grid guide, so as to
prevent any possible stoppage to the traverse of the ticket as it is being propelled
from the box.
A. ratchet or catch wheel fixed on the axis of the driving roller gives motion to a
lever or levers with each revolution of such roller, one of which strikes a bell and
the other moves the finger of a dial, so that with each ticket-delivered-an-aların is
given and its number registored.
The before mentioned-external-thumb_lever_actuating the catch unlocking the
-driving-roller_is_connected with a perforator, carbon-marker, or other equivalent,
which will when such lever is depressed deface and mark each-ticket-as-it-passes_
from the box, preventing thereby any further use being made of the tickets when
they have once passed from the box and been severed from the length of tickets of
which they formed a part.
The action of the mechanism contained in the box when paying out the tickets
will now be understood as follows:-
First. Depress the external thumb lever, which releases or unlocks the driving
roller in manner as herein before described, then pull out to its full length the
string protruding from the underside of the box, the action of which gives one
complete revolution to the driving roller delivering a single ticket. Immediately
the ticket is delivered the roller is locked and the string is withdrawn into the
box. Simultaneously with the delivery of the ticket a bell is struck, and the
number of such ticket registered on the face of the dial before mentioned. The
defacement of the ticket previous to its delivery having been effected at the time
of unlocking the driving roller.
The pressure of the lower roller on the driving roller propelling the ticket is
adjusted by means of a plate spring and set screw; the length of paper forming the
tickets when the rollers are locked is held so firmly that the protruding ticket last
delivered can be easily torn off at the perforations, or severed without causing any
disarangement to the roll of tickets contained in the box.