IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OR PERSONS ENTERING PUBLIC VEHICLES OR VESSELS, THEATRES, BRIDGES, OR OTHER PLACES WHERE IT MAY BE DESIRABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING THEREIN
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Henwood, of Chalton Street, Somers
Town, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OR PERSONS ENTERING PUBLIC
VEHICLES OR VESSELS, THEATRES, BRIDGES, OR OTHER PLACES WHERE IT
MAY BE DESIRABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING
THEREIN."
Scaled the 11th May 1853, and dated the 12th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Henwood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition.
on the 12th November 1852.
I, DANIEL HENWOOD, of Chalton St., Somers Town, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MA-
CHINERY FOR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OR PERSONS ENTERING
PUBLIC VEHICLES OR VESSELS, THEATRES, BRIDGES, OR OTHER PLACES WHERE
IT MAY BE DESIRABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING
THEREIN," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to ascertain and register the
number of persons entering into or going out of any public vehicle,

page_text: conveyance, bridge, vessel, theatre, assembly room, or other place,
and to do this in such a manner as to prevent fraud by those who
receive toll, fares, or entrance money. The same machinery will
also register any subdivisions of fares, tolls, or charges that may be
used. For instance, the fares for intermediate distances charged by
omnibus proprietors, so that a conductor may not return his regis-
tered number as being for half distance instead of full passengers,
or as in theatres, where it will distinguish between box, pit, and
gallery entrances. My Invention would be useful on steam vessels
as a means of preventing over-crowding, for the officials would be
able to learn at once the number of passengers on board. And there
are many other purposes to which my Invention be applied,
with some few modifications as circumstances may demand.
may
I propose to call my Invention "the Mechanical Accountant," and
the annexed Drawings show it as applied to an omnibus. Figs. 1
and 2, Sheet A, represent the two dials of index, with 50 divisions
of numbers on each dial. The first dial acted upon will account for
50. When the hand has revolved once, this will indicate the
number 50 on the second dial under the opening. When the hand
on the first dial has revolved 50 times, the numbers will amount to
50 times 50, making a total amount of 2,500, which will be indicated
under the opening on the second dial. If a higher number is re-
quired to be indicated, the wheels will be made with the necessary
number of divisions on the same principle of action; if a total.
number of 10,000, there will then be 100 divisions in each wheel;
and 100 times 100 will make 10,000. An extra wheel may be
added for increase of numbers.
Fig. 3, shows a side view of the scape-wheels, with dials within
the case of the index, showing the lever which is to act upon
the pallet-click, attached to which is a pin, in a position ready
to act upon a tooth of the wheel; and when acted upon 50 times,
a pin on the same wheel will act upon a tooth of the second
wheel, which will show on the second dial 50. When the first
wheel has revolved again, and the pin comes in contact with the
next tooth of the second wheel, the second dial will show No. 100

page_text: in the opening under the cover of the second dial, and so on
progressively till it shows No. 2,500. For some purposes one
wheel and one dial will be sufficient, according to the numbers
required to be known.
.
Fig. 4, Sheet A, shows a view of the scape-wheels with pins.
on the pallet-click, intended to act upon a tooth of the wheel
by the action of the lever. The small circle on the first wheel
marked o, represents a pin which acts upon a tooth of the second
wheel, as described in reference to Fig. 3. The second dial
will be fixed on the second wheel, and the numbers will revolve
progressively, and be seen within the space of the opening of
the cover over the second dial, which cover will be a fixture
on the wheel, with a hand fixed to it pointing in a direction to
the opening of the cover. The light line figures round the second
dial will not be seen until they progressively arrive at the opening..
Fig. 5, shows a view of the inside of the roof of what I call the
"apendage," which is adapted for omnibuses, with the indices
arranged for five different prices of fares if required; and the
index next to the back of the omnibus, termed the near side, is in-
tended for the exit of all the passengers, to serve as a counter check
by showing on the dial the total number of passengers that have
been conveyed at any stated time.
Fig. 6, represents the open space in the centre of the roof of the
appendage for the outside passengers to ascend to the roof of the
omnibus after they have passed into the appendage.
Figs. 1, and 2, Sheet B, show views of the inside of the ceiling.
and the flooring of the appendage, showing the branches which are
joined to the moveable pillars, and which are placed midway.
between the space for two fares, and are constructed so as to ba
moved either to the right or left, with sufficient room allowed
for entrance into the appendage. The action of the pillar, when_
it is moved either to the right or left, will produce an action on the
lever of the index which will indicate on a dial the entrance of a
passenger into the appendage. The branches attached to the

page_text: pillars work upon swivels, and are regulated to their position
by springs.
Fig. 3, represents a side view of a pillar with two branches at-
tached to it and fixed on swivels, which enables the pillar to have a
circular motion.
Fig. 4, is a view of the appendage, as seen at the back of the
omnibus, with the four moveable pillars, a place behind for the
conductor to stand on, and railings at each side of the top of the
roof to secure parcels, &c. from falling off. The eight dotted lines
shew the form of the back of the omnibus.
Fig. 5, is a side view of the omnibus, with a perspective view of
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Daniel Henwood in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 12th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
DANIEL HENWOOD, of Chalton Street, Somers Town, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Henwood, Her
special licence that I, the said Daniel Henwood, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Hen-
wood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR REGISTERING THE NUMBER
OF PASSENGERS OR PERSONS ENTERING PUBLIC VEHICLES OR VESSELS, THEATRES,
BRIDGES, OR OTHER PLACES, WHERE IT MAY BE DESIRABLE TO ASCERTAIN THE
NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that I, the said Daniel Henwood, by an instrument in writ-
ing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office, within six calendar months next and immedi-
ately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Henwood, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, (that is to say):
The object of this Invention is to ascertain, by means of self-
acting machinery, the number of passengers travelling in public
vehicles or vessels, and the amount of fares received, so that the
proprietor may know exactly what sum of money has been
taken. The machine will also check or indicate the number of
persons entering a theatre or passing over a bridge, and is suitable
for other similar purposes.
The figures on the accompanying Sheets of Drawings repre-
sent the mechanism and application of the registering machine
of an omnibus. Figure 1, Sheet A, shews two dials of the machine,
cach divided into fifty divisions, number.1 being numbered conse-
cutively from 1 to 49, number 2 from 50 to 2,450.
Figures 3, 4, show the mechanical arrangement by which the
indices on the dial plates are actuated. a, is a lever which acts
on the pallet-click b; this moves the wheel 6' round one tooth,
which is shewn on the dial number 1, by the index pointing to the
figure 1; when the wheel b¹ has made one revolution, at the fiftieth
tooth the pin d takes into the teeth of the wheel 6", and the
number 50 is indicated on the dial number 2, by the index
pointing to the number 50; and thus it remains until the
wheel has made another revolution, when the pin d again
moves the wheel 6", another tooth, and the index marks 100,
and so on throughout the whole number up to 2,500. If it be
requisite to indicate a higher number, by adding a third dial, and
increasing the number of teeth in the wheels to one hundred, the

page_text: machine will indicate ten thousand. In some cases a single dial will
be sufficient, according to the purpose to which the machine is
applied. The dial number 2, is to be fixed to the wheel 6", so that
the numbers will revolve progressively, and be seen within a space
left in the cover placed over the dial number 2, this cover having an
index fixed to it, pointing to the opening in which the figures
appear.
Figure 5, Sheet A, and Figures 1 to 5, Sheet B, shew the ap-
plication of the machine to an omnibus, with dials and indices
arranged for five different fares. A, A, is a platform fixed to the
back of the vehicle, and extending across it from side to side. Level
with the roof is another, A', A', to which are fixed the dials a, a, a..
At equal distances apart are fitted four or any suitable number of
pillars a, Figure 3, sheet B; these are attached to branches b, b,
and turn on swivels c, c, as shewn by the dotted lines, figures 1, 2,
Sheet B; the pillars are placed midway between two of the dials,
and maintained in their position by the springs b, b, b, Figures
1, 2, sheet B. In the centre of the apparatus is the recess c, Figures
4, 5, sheet B, in which is placed a step for the conductor to stand
upon; behind this is a space d, Figure 5, Sheet A, from which out-
side passengers ascend to the roof of the vehicle, after passing
through the "appendage," as I term this apparatus. Supposing it
to be arranged as shewn at Figure 5, Sheet A, that is, with dials,
the levers of which project as shewn at b, b, each of these dials (with
the exception of the sixth) are intended to indicate the number of
the passengers going to different points in the journey, and upon
the outside of the apparatus opposite to each dial is to be affixed
the fure. Thus when a passenger desires to go a distance for which
a charge of threepence is made, he must enter the vehicle opposite
the dial marked with that sum; to do this the conductor must
move the adjoining pillar, to give room to pass, and on so doing it
will strike the lever of the dial, and move the ratchet wheel, one
tooth indicating that a threepenny fare has been taken by the con-
ductor, and so on with the rest; each passenger entering the vehicle
at the division corresponding with the fare he has got to pay. The

page_text: sixth dial is reversed for the exit of passengers, whether "inside"
or "out;" and the number indicated on the dial will be the gross
number who have travelled in the carriage. The wheels of the
dials are arranged to turn only in one direction, so that they cannot
be made to shew a lower number than have actually entered the
vehicle. An account of the number of fares may be taken at the
end of every journey, or once a day or week, as necessary; and
the indices set back to their starting-point again.
In adapting this apparatus to steam vessels, theatres, bridges,
&c., it may be necessary to alter the mechanical arrangements of
the moveable pillars to suit the particular purpose for which the
machine is required. I do not, therefore, confine myself to the pre-
cise details of my Invention, as the same may be varied without
departing from the principle of the same.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the saine is to be carried into effect, I propose to
call my Invention "The Mechanical Cash Accountant." I claim
the machinery herein described for registering the number of pas-
sengers travelling by public vehicles and vessels, and indicating the
amount of fares taken; also for registering the number of persons
entering public buildings, or passing over bridges, &c., and its ap-
plication to other similar purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Henwood, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
DANIEL HENWOOD. (L.S.)