AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FARES OF PASSENGERS IN TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSES, AND . PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Thomas Parlour, of Brooklyn, New York,
United States of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings,
London, Shipwright, for the Invention of. AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR REGISTERING FARES OF PASSENGERS IN TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSES, AND
.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Thomas Parlour
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th October 1873.
I, JOSEPH THOMAS PARLOUR, of Brooklyn, New York, United States.
of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, London, Shipwright,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS. FOR REGISTERING FARES OF PASSENGERS IN TRAMWAY CARS, OMNIBUSES,
OTHER PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
AND

page_text: for use by the conductors of tramway cars and omnibusses, for preventing
fraud and mistakes on their part with regard to the sums received for
passengers' fares during a day or any other period of time or any number
of journeys.
The said Invention is carried into practice by the employment of
figured or numbered registering bands or belts coiled on rollers or wheels
geared together by toothed wheels in combination with strips or bands
of paper or other material drawn from other wheels or rollers, and which
form tickets or cheques, and with ratchet wheels and pawls and finger
keys, whereby the tickets or cheques are delivered from the apparatus,
and the amount of money represented by the said tickets or cheques is
accurately registered..
I construct my improved apparatus with a light but strong metal box
or case, which is provided with straps, whereby the said apparatus can
be conveniently secured to the conductor, so that he carries it with him,
and can at all times without delay deliver-tickets to either inside or
outside passengers. In the said box or case, and extending longitudinally
through the same are three bolts or rods. On one of these are mounted
the wheels or rollers on which the aforesaid registering bands or tapes,
and those on which the strips or ribbons forming the tickets or cheques
are coiled:This: bolt. also carries the said ratchet, wheels and the
toothed wheels for gearing the said registering wheels or rollers with the
other wheels whereon the said registering bands or tapes are coiled as
they are uncoiled from the first-mentioned wheels in delivering the
tickets, these last-mentioned wheels and their gear wheels being mounted
on the second of the aforesaid bolts or rods. In front of the said
apparatus I place the finger keys or knobs. Each of these has a stem
or spindle with a tooth or projection arranged to engage with one of the
said ratchet wheels, and move the same one tooth round, when its finger
key is depressed. The said finger keys are provided with springs
whereby they are raised after each depression: The pawls are held in
gear with the said ratchet wheels by springs or other suitable means,
and prevent the turning back of the wheels. The first-mentioned rod or
bolt is provided with a screw nut, whereby the wheels on it may be
locked; so that they will all turn together to permit the bands or strips
to be conveniently wound thereon, for which purpose the said bölt may
be provided with a small handle... .

page_text: The said box or case may be made to contain any desired number of
sets of ticket and registering wheels, the different sets being for the
delivering of tickets of different values. The said case or box is locked
and scaled when delivered to the conductor, and can only be opened by
a clerk or other person properly authorized to do so. When opened, the
amount of money to be charged against the conductor during the day or
other period will be indicated by the aforesaid registering bands or
tapes.
"
I may modify my said apparatus by using pencils or prickers to mark
plain bands or strips operated by levers and springs, instead of using
figured or numbered registering bands. The said bands or strips may be
perforated to allow the tickets or cheques to be readily separated, or a
knife may be used for this purpose.
I may also construct my improved registering apparatus to indicate
the fares by the dropping of balls, bullets, shot, peas, or the like from
hoppers or chambers fixed in the said box or case; the said hoppers
;
are provided with valves or trap doors which are controlled by the
aforesaid finger keys and levers and springs to allow the said balls to
drop one by one from the hoppers as the tickets are delivered from the
box or case of the apparatus..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Thomas Parlour in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 25th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
25 THOMAS PARLOUR, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of America,
now of No: 8, Southampton Buildings, London, Shipwright, sond
greeting...
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of
30 our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and, grant unto me; the said Joseph Thomas' Parlour, Her special.

page_text: licence that I, the said Joseph Thomas Parlour, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Thomas
Parlour, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully, might make, 5
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FARES OF PASSENGERS IN TRAMWAY
CARS, OMNIBUSES, AND OTHER PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PUR-
POSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph 1
Thomas Parlour, my executors or administrators; by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Thomas Parlour, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing forming a part of this Specification:-
My Invention relates to a novel apparatus which is chiefly designed
for use by the conductors of tramway cars and omnibuses, for proventing
fraud and mistakes on their part with regard to the sums received for
passengers' fares during a day or any other period of time, or any number
of journeys.
I construct my improved apparatus with a light but strong metal box
or case, which is provided with straps, whereby the said apparatus can
be conveniently secured to the conductor; or, if preferred, it may be
carried in his pocket or otherwise, so that he has it with him, and can
at all times without delay deliver tickets to either inside or outside
passengers.
My improved apparatus is preferably constructed as shewn in the
Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the interior mechanism
of the said apparatus; Figure 2 is a similar view, illustrating a
modification of the said Invention; Figure 3 is a top view of Figure 2.

page_text: Figure 1 shews my apparatus constructed to be suspended by a strap
or belt worn by the conductor. a is a light but strong box or case of
metal or other suitable material; 6 is a flanged wheel or drum, upon
which a double strip or ribbon c of paper or other suitable material is
coiled; d, d, are guide pulleys, between which the said double strip
passes between the guides e to the wheels f, g. The wheel ƒ carries a
ratchet wheel, as shown in dotted lines, in combination with which the
lever is arranged. The said lever has a pawl h¹ which acts on the
teeth of the said racket wheel. h is a pawl which prevents the turning
backward of the said wheel; 6*, 6*, 6*, are spring pawls, which by their
friction on the flanges of the wheel 6 prevent its turning too far; i is
another drum, whose purpose will be herein explained. It will be seen
that the wheelf and drum i have small chain wheels or pulleys ƒ¹, i¹³,
connected by a chain j. All of the aforesaid drums and wheels are fitted
to turn freely upon or in suitable bearings attached to the sides of the
box or case a. The rollers d and wheels f, g, may be made of metal,
wood, or rubber, or may be covered with rubber.
As herein-before explained, the double strip of paper or other material
is first coiled upon the drum, and is passed between the rollers d and
guides e, and between the rollers or wheels f, g. From these rollers one
of the two parts of the double ribbon is extended through an aperture at
the front of the box a, while the other part is coiled upon the drum i.
The case is then locked and delivered to the conductor, who of course is
not allowed to unlock it; both parts of the said ribbon or strip are
marked with corresponding divisions.
The punches 1, 2, 3, 4, are formed to impress or print figures or other
indications of the amount of the fares upon both parts of the double
strip or ribbon. They all mark different amounts, say, for twopenny,
threepenny, fourpenny, and sixpenny fares. The said punches are
provided with small spiral springs, to raise them or keep them in their
normal position, as shewn.
When the conductor receives a fare he depresses the punch, which
marks the amount of that fare and operates the lever h. Each action of
this lever upon the aforesaid ratchet wheel draws the double strip or
5 ribbon forward a distance equal to one ticket. One part of the double
ticket is delivered from the box and given by the conductor to the

page_text: passenger, while the other or duplicate part of the said ticket is coiled
the drum i, and forms the record of the fare.
upon
In the apparatus illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, the shape of the box
or casc a is different to that of the apparatus above described to adapt it
to the different arrangement of the parts of the mechanism. The drum
or wheel shewn in dotted lines, on which the duplicate strip or ribbon
is coiled is formed on or attached to the ratchet wheel 62 by the chain j;
which passes over the small wheels b¹, j¹. The double strip or ribbon c
passes between the guide rollers d, the guides e, and guide rollers k to
the drum b. l, m, arc two levers or handles which project from the said
box or case. The handle is fixed, but the lever or handlo m is jointed
at n, and is movable on the said joint, that is to say, by applying
pressure to the said handle it will close or approach the fixed handle.
The two handles are kept apart or open when not pressed together by a
spring o. The handle m carries a spring pawl p, which when the said
handle is depressed acts on the teeth of the ratchet wheel 62 and turns the
said wheel, that is to say, by each action of the said lever turns the said
wheel a distance equal to the pitch of the teeth. q is a pawl on the
fixed handle, and which permits the turning back of the drum b and
ratchet wheel 63. The punches 1, 2, 3, 4, are in this instance formed
with screws which are fitted with wing nuts r, which are free to turn in
slots or apertures in the top of the case, but which are confined between
the top of the case and the guide, as shown in Figure 2, so that when
they are turned the punches will be moved up or down. The said guide
rollers may be formed of metal or of india-rubber, or may be of metal
covered with india-rubber.
When the conductor receives a fare he first sets down the puncli
representing the amount of that fare, whereby. the end of the said
punch is caused to project beyond or below the guide e; then he
depresses the lever m, whose arm m³ is thereby brought up to the strip
or band, and presses it against the projecting punch which marks or
prints the ticket; then by a second depression of the lever m one part of
the double ticket is delivered from the apparatus, and the other part is
coiled on the receiving drum i.
Or I may construct the said apparatus as follows:-In the box or
case, and extending longitudinally through the same I place three bolts

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or rods. On one of these I mount wheels or rollers on which registering
bands or tapes are coiled. These registering bands or tapes are also
attached to smaller drums carried on another of the said bolts. These
small drums are attached to other drums of the same diameter as the
first-mentioned drums, and on which the strips or ribbons forming the
tickets or cheques are coiled. This bolt also carries ratchet wheels, and
the toothed wheels for gearing the said registering wheels or rollers.
Upon the small drum wheels the said registering bands or tapes are
coiled as they are uncoiled from the first-mentioned wheels in delivering
the tickets. In front of the said apparatus I place the finger keys or
knobs. Each of these has a stem or spindle with a tooth or projection
arranged to engage with one of the said ratchet wheels, and move the
same one tooth round when its finger key is depressed. The said finger
keys are provided with springs whereby they are raised after each
depression, and also with springs which keep them in gear with the
ratchet teeth. The third bolt carries pawls which are held in gear with
the said ratchet wheels by springs or other suitable means, and prevent
the turning back of the wheels. Spring pawls are applied to the drums
on the first bolt to prevent their turning two far in delivering the tickets.
Spring clips are placed inside the delivery apertures to prevent the
return of the strips or bands.
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The said box or case may be made to contain any desired number of
sets of tickets and registering wheels, the different sets being for the
delivery of tickets of different values. The said case or box is locked
and sealed when delivered to the conductor, and can only be opened by
When opened the
a clerk or other person properly authorized to do so.
amount of money to be charged against the conductor during the day or
other périod will be indicated by the aforesaid registering bands or
tapes.
I may modify either form of my apparatus by using pencils or prickers
to mark plain bands or strips operated by levers and springs, instead of
using figured or numbered registering bands. The said bands or strips
may be perforated to allow the tickets or cheques to be readily separated,
or a knife operated by a spring and finger key may be used for this
purpose; or I may arrange an inking pad in combination with the
said punches, so that the impressions on the tickets aro printed with
ink.

page_text: I may also construct my improved registering apparatus to indicate
the fares by the dropping of balls, bullets, shots, peas, or the like from
hoppers. or chambers fixed in. the said box or case. The said hoppers
are provided with valves or trap-doors which are controlled by the
aforesaid finger keys and levers and springs, to allow the said balls to
drop one by one from the hoppers as the tickets are delivered from the
box or case of the apparatus.

page_text: which is delivered from the apparatus to form the tickets, as herein set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Thomas Parlour, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
JOSEPH THOMAS PARLOUR. (L.S.)
Witness,
H. J. NOONE,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.