IM- PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR COLLECTING FARES AND DISTRIBUTING TICKETS ON TRAMWAYS OR OTHER CONVEYANCES, AND AT OTHER PLACES WHERE REGULAR FARES HAVE TO BE DRAWN
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Smith Semple, of Townhead, Paisley, in
the County of Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR COLLECTING FARES AND DISTRIBUTING
TICKETS ON TRAMWAYS OR OTHER CONVEYANCES, AND AT OTHER PLACES WHERE
REGULAR FARES HAVE TO BE DRAWN."
Sealed the 28th April 1876, and dated the 9th November 1875..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Smith Semple
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th November 1875.
I, DAVID SMITH SEMPLE, of Townhead, Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR COLLECTING FARES
AND DISTRIBUTING TICKETS ON TRAMWAYS OR OTHER CONVEYANCES, AND AT OTHER
PLACES WHERE REGULAR FARES HAVE TO BE DRAWN," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new or improved apparatus or means for
the purpose of preventing fraud on the part of guards, conductors, money
collectors, and others on tramways or other conveyances, and at other

page_text: places where regular fares are drawn, and consists in an elongated shaped
box containing a fare and admission money collecting compartment, and
a ticket distributing compartment.
In the fare compartment a slot is cut near the top of the apparatus,
which top is of glass, into which the money is put; this slot being the
entrance to a sloped receptacle, down which the money slides to a door
covering the entrance to a passage leading to a deposit box. In this
receptacle a lamp or candle may be placed when desired. The money
remains here until the person in charge being satisfied of its correctness
lifts the said door in the manner after mentioned. Under this receptacle
a box is formed, in which a long strip of paper or cardboard has been
coiled or rolled round a roller, this paper or cardboard, having previously
been perforated at equal distances for facility of being easily divided
into pieces, each piece to form a ticket, and each ticket having a hole
also previously cut in it. A passage leads from the receptacle above
mentioned, where the tickets have been coiled or rolled, past the said
door, and partly over the glass covering thereof. In this passage a slot
is cut opposite the said door, which has also a hole formed in it. To the
side of the slot a pin is fixed to a chain, or to an india-rubber or leather
covering, which is to be worn on the finger or thumb of the operator.
This pin is pushed through the slot and the paper or cardboard and into
the hole in the door, and then by pulling up the said pin the strip of
cards. project at the end of the passage, and a ticket is torn off by the
operator and handed to the payee, or the payees may do so themselves.
The door being at same time also uplifted allows the money a free exit
into the passage leading to said. deposit box, and on withdrawal of the
pin the door falls down to its place.
In cases where the pin cannot be used as above described with facility,
the pin may be fixed to the said door: when the passage is made
curvilinear. By pulling the strip of tickets at the end of the passage
the door is drawn up until the pin comes to the hole in the tickets, when
it drops back to its place.
When necessary to date or mark the tickets a dating roller or machine
may be placed alongside for that purpose, although this forms no part of
my said Invention.
A passage leads from the receptacle first mentioned to the deposit
box, in which is placed a bell or piece of resounding metal which is

page_text: struck by the coins in passing. At the end of this passage a piece of
wood or metal is hinged to overlap the exit thereof, which is driven open
by the coins when falling into the deposit box. In this box and at the
side of the flap is cut à hopper, where a wedge is placed, and which on
the apparatus being overturned slides behind the hinged flap and prevents
the abstraction of the coins.
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struck by the coins in passing. At the end of this passage a piece of
wood or metal is hinged to overlap the exit thereof, which is driven open
by the coins when falling into the deposit box. In this box and at the
side of the flap is cut à hopper, where a wedge is placed, and which on
the apparatus being overturned slides behind the hinged flap and prevents
the abstraction of the coins.
A few piles of lead or hail shot are also displaced and scattered through
the box to expose any attempt at abstraction of money or tampering
with the box.
Where the fare or admission consists of different amounts, separate
compartments corresponding to the different rates are used, and joined
together to form one apparatus, and one or more sloped receptacles may
be used with moveable covering closing the entrance to the respective
compartments not in use.
When the apparatus is used in conveyances where the fare is charged
at so much per stage, as in the case of tramway cars, the tickets, besides
containing the requisite information as to where the car or conveyance
is going, will bear on the face and back different colours or coloured
lines, the number of the stage, a running number, and the distance it
allows the holder to travel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.
filed by the said David Smith Semple in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE, PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
SMITH SEMPLE, of Townhead, Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said David Smith Semple, Her
special licence that I, the said David Smith Semple, my executors,

page_text: administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said David Smith
Semple, 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
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MEANS FOR COLLECTING
FARES AND DISTRIBUTING TICKETS ON TRAMWAYS OR OTHER CONVEYANCES, AND
AT OTHER PLACES WHERE REGULAR FARES HAVE TO BE DRAWN," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said David Smith Semple, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 David Smith Semple, 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 in writing, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention has reference to a new or improved apparatus
or means for the purpose of preventing fraud on the part of guards,
conductors, money collectors, and others on tramways and other con-
veyances, and at other places where regular fares are drawn; and it
consists in an elongated or narrow shaped box containing a fare or
admission money collecting compartment, and a ticket holding and
delivering compartment.
In the fare receiving compartment a slot is formed cut near the top of
the apparatus, into which the money is put, this slot being the entrance
to a sloped receptacle down which the money slides to a door covering
the entrance to a passage leading to the deposit box. The top and sides
of this receptacle may be made of glass, and might have a lamp or
candle placed near or in it when desired for the purpose of showing
when the money is deposited therein. The money remains here till the
person in charge being satisfied of its correctness lifts the said door in

page_text: the manner after mentioned. Under this adjoining receptacle a box is
formed so as to contain a long strip of paper, cardboard, or other
suitable material, which may be coiled or rolled round a roller, this
paper or cardboard having previously been perforated at equal distances
for facility of being easily divided into picces, each piece to form a
ticket with a hole cut in it, previous to or just before removing it from
the receptacle. Between the angled receptacle and the compartment
wherein the tickets have been coiled or rolled a slot or narrow passage is
formed, through which a sliding door works, with a slit in it through
which the strip of tickets or cards passes, so that by pulling up the slide
against the power, of a spring the strip of paper is drawn out the length
of a ticket, and held there by the friction of a spring while the door or
slide is drawn back by its spring, so as to leave the strip of card or
tickets projecting at the end of the passage, which is then torn off by
the operator and handed to the passenger or payee, or the payees might.
do so for themselves. The door or slide on being uplifted also opens
the passage at the bottom of the sloped receiving compartment, and
allows the money a free exit into the passage leading to the money
deposit box, which passage is again closed when the slide is drawn back
by its spring.
Below the passage leading from the angled receptacle first mentioned
to the deposit box a bell or piece of resounding metal may be placed, so
that the coin would strike it in passing, and indicate to the ear of the
attendant that the piece of money had been placed in the box; or the
closing of the slide door might be made to strike a bell for the like
purpose.
A piece of wood, metal, or other equivalent may be hinged to overlap
the exit end of the money passage leading to the money box, which
would be driven open by the coins wlien falling into the deposit box,
but would close itself, or have a wedge placed so as to close this passage
on the apparatus being overturned or inverted, to prevent the abstraction
of the money.
A few piles of lead or hail shot previously placed in the money box
would by its inversion get displaced and scattered through the money.
box or angled compartment, and expose any attempt at abstraction of
money or tampering with the box.
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Where the fare or admission consists of different amounts, separate

page_text: compartments corresponding to the different rates are used, and joined
together to form one apparatus; and one or more sloped receiving recep-
tacles may be used, with movable cover closing the entrance to the
respective compartments not in use.
When the apparatus is used in conveyances where the fare is charged
at so much per stage, as in the case of tramway cars, the tickets, besides
containing the requisite information as to where the car is going, will
bear on the face or back different colours or coloured lines, the number
of the stage, a running number, and the distance it allows the holder to
travel; but if preferred the same kind of ticket may serve for different
stages by piercing it in the lines corresponding to the stages.
When necessary to date or mark the tickets a dating roller or machine.
may be placed alongside for that purpose, although this forms no part of
my Invention.
And in order that the nature, novelty, and mode of performing my
said Invention may be properly understood, I will now proceed to
describe the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings which I have
hereunto appended for that purpose, and showing the best modes I am
at present aware of for putting the Invention into effect or practice, the
same reference letters indicating the same or like parts in all the Figures
where shown.
Figures 1 and 2 show a sectional elevation and a horizontal transverse
section taken on the irregular lines 1 - - 1, and 2- . 2, each on the
other respectively; and Figure 3 is an edge view of the same, all of
one modification of duplex money receiving and ticket distributing
apparatus, constructed in accordance with and illustrative of my said
Invention.
Figure 4 shows a front elevation partly in section of another modifi-
cation or construction and arrangement of my said new or improved
apparatus or box, specially adapted for the distributing or delivering of
tickets only, from four different compartments without the money
receiving compartments as for four different stages or rates of
charges.
Referring to the general construction and arrangement of the parts of
the modification of my. Invention, or money and ticket check box,
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 3, and shown full size, as suitable for

page_text: giving out the tickets for the passengers in tramway cars (and for other
equivalent purposes), so as to check the money drawn, and prevent fraud
or mistakes on the part of the conductors, or other persons receiving or
depositing uniform sums, cach taking a ticket representing the exact
charge. The whole of this duplex arrangement is contained in a sheet-
metal or other light case A, A', (less than nine inches square and two
deep from the front A to the back A¹) hung vertically, as shown in
Figures 1 and 3, as by a strap to the guard, or it might be to the side of
the car near the entrance, where all would see the passengers deposit
their fare and take a ticket. The angled or V. shaped receptacle B for
receiving the money is formed in the centre at the top, and fitted
with glass B above and in front of this compartment, with a slit B¹, B²,
in the top, one close to each angled side B for inserting the coins or
money, which would slide down the sides B₁ to the bottom, formed with
a narrow opening or slit B³, closed in from the money chamber B* below
by the lower ends of the two long sliding doors C, C', fitted to reciprocate
to the extent of the length of one ticket in narrow recesses behind the
sides B, and each pressed inwards when left free to do so by the spring
lever L, by its free end working through a hole in the back part of each
slide C, C¹, which, when they are both down, as shown on the left-hand
side in Figure 1, close the money slit B³, but when raised as they are by
the finger and thumb, as shown on the right-hand side, the slit is opened
for the money to fall through, as will herein-after be explained. Behind
or on the outside of each of these slits and their recesses C, C', a close
ticket chamber D, D', is formed suitable for containing and having the
tickets inserted by lock fast and hinged doors (as at A" in front before
sending out the boxes) in the form of a long narrow roll of stiff paper
or other suitable material a or a¹ previously numbered and printed, and
also perforated across near where each ticket has to be separated or torn
off from the roll as they are drawn out by the slides C, C¹, as will be
herein-after more fully described. These coils of paper a, a¹, are pre-
ferred to be rolled and inserted in a loose annular coil or form, as
:indicated by the black lines a in the left-hand chamber D, in Figure 1,
but they might also be rolled tight on a central core or bobbin a¹¹, so as
to uncoil loosely either on a fixed central spindle D", as shown.in blue
lines in the right-hand compartment D¹, or without this spindle D",
with the roll a¹ always resting on the bottom of its compartment. In
either case the outer or free uncoiling end of each roll of paper a or a¹
is led from the compartments D, D³, up the narrow recess d through

page_text: the corresponding recess c in the same plane, and within their respective
drawing-out lids C, C', and under a tension or friction spring c¹ pressing
the paper on a stationary rest below it, both fixed to act within a slit or
recess C¹¹ in the middle of each slide C, C', which have a loose griping
piece hinged by leather or other equivalent at the outer end c², so.
that when compressed there by the finger and thumb to draw out the
slide C or C¹, as indicated on the right of Figure 1, it gripes the end of
the strip of paper a or a¹ in the slit c, and draws it out with the slide,
which when let go is drawn in again, leaving one length of card or
ticket a projecting out past the end of the slide ready for being torn off
by the guard or person paying the money, by first inserting the fare in
pence or other coin into the slot B or B2, and then drawing out the
slide, seeing the money inserted through the glass sides of the receiving
chamber B, and then dropping into the money deposit chamber or
chambers B while the slide was drawn out.
To indicate to the car of the person paying the fare or those near as
an additional security that the coin has been dropped into the box
though they may not have seen it through the glass a sounding plate or
plates B may be fixed in such a position below the recess B³ that the
coin must strike and sound them before being deposited in the
chamber B', thus indicating the deposit of the money. And to prevent
the possibility of its removal again through the recess B³ by inverting
or turning the box upside down a stopper or other equivalent S is
mounted loose as in guides below the recess B³ so as to fall by its own
weight or the power of a light spring and close the recess from the
under side by the slightest turning of the box, and if a few small lead
shots were inserted or kept in the money box or the wedge piece S,
they would then tumble or roll into the corners or recesses of the
chamber B or escape altogether, showing in either case that the box had
been tampered with. The lower front or other part A³ of the money
chamber B may be hinged as at A", and locked by a hasp and padlock
at A, or spring or other lock, as also the doors of the ticket com-
partment D, D¹, which would only be opened by the officials whose duty
it was to count the money and see that it agreed with the number of
tickets taken off the two different rolls, these being each numbered
sequentially and printed with their respective routes and distances on
each card before being placed in the box. New rolls of card a, a',
would be inserted to replace those used up when the boxes were handed
"

page_text: in for that purpose, and each box being numbered a proper record
would be kept of the state of the tickets on its rolls each time it went
out and came in, as also the guard and car it went with. A small
roll of tickets is numbered, printed, and used for each particular route
or distance for a uniform sum, as that for a penny, and one card is
drawn out and handed to the person for each fare or charge, as indicated
on the left-hand side of Figure 1, so that the box A, A¹, there shown
under this arrangement could only do for two routes, distances, or
charges, that is, one for each of the rolls and compartments, namely,
a, D, and a¹, D¹.
When desired instead of or in addition to the said audible indication
of the insertion of the money by its own weight in falling a bell or
other sounding instrument 6 might be so set and fixed that the end
of the spring lever L, or a pin on the slides C, C¹, would cause the
spring hammer 6' or other equivalent lever hammer to strike and sound
the bell b each time a slide closed after being drawn out, or vice versa,
the drawing out of the slide might be made to sound the bell so as to
indicate the deposit of each fare or charge into the money box B. A
close narrow space or compartment 1², b², is separated off at the upper
part of the box A behind the compartments B and D, D', for containing
the spring L and the bell 6 and its spring hammers or strikers 6¹, all
secured to the back A' of the box. And when the roll of cards a¹ is
desired to serve for more than one route or distance at the corresponding
or same charge, the cards may be first printed with these particulars on
them, preferably in longitudinal rows, as indicated on the detached
card, Figure 1, a¹, and have spring prickers p mounted on the one side
of the end case of the card slide C₁ opposite each row, as shown at p in
Figures 1 and 2, which gives three such different places or stages on
one card with corresponding piercer, so that the guard just before
drawing the ticket a¹ would press in the particular spring presser p
which would mark or pierce a hole in the particular printed part of the
card corresponding to that wished by the passenger or person paying the
money, thus making one card serve for three different distances or
places.
Referring to the construction or arrangement in Figure 4 this is also
shown full size (and about the same width, as shown in Figures 2 and 3
of the former modification) with four compartments D, each filled with
a roll a of the tickets numbered and printed, as for different routes.

page_text: or distances, and prices corresponding thereto, say for 1, 2, 3, and 4
miles, and four different prices, two at each side, so that the apparatus
can be hung by a strap or other equivalent in front of the guard that
he may draw out the slides C and tickets a, all as described in reference
to Figures 1 to 3, and one ticket is shown projecting at a* on the upper
right-hand side ready for being torn off and given to the person paying
the fare or amount to the guard or person receiving the money, he
taking care to give the payee a corresponding ticket from the proper
compartment and slide D, C. There being no money receiving or
depositing chambers in this arrangement the guard must receive all the
money and give out tickets representing or equivalent to each fare or
charge, so that when any box is delivered to the examiners or check
clerks they can by looking at the rolls and recording the numbers of
tickets sold and removed from each roll can at once calculate and check
the amount due by the guard. The front doors A² of each pair of side
compartments may be hinged across the centre A and locked and
unlocked by a hasp and padlock, as at A", for the insertion and
examination or removal of the rolls of cards a, the drawing out or free
ends of which are inserted and drawn out through the grooves d and c,
all as described, and perforated or punched by the spring prickers p, as
described in reference to the former modification, so as to obliterate and
show that the ticket has been purchased for the distance or price marked
upon
it. In all other respects the construction and action of the parts
of this modification and bell signal, not specially alluded to, are sub-
stantially the same as described in reference to the former modification,
and are lettered accordingly.
When inconvenient to have the tickets coiled or rolled up they may
be cut to the required size and placed in the compartments D, in which
case a catch of metal would project. from the slides C to uplift the
tickets when the slides are pulled out, as before explained, a spring
being placed at the back of the tickets to push them forward to the said
catch and close up to the case of or to the slide C, so that they, could be
drawn out through a hole above for the purpose, the perforators p, if
used, being in this case placed on the opposite side of the slide from that
shown in the Drawing.
Instead of the perforators p described soft metallic coloured pencils
disks man be wood to cancel the different tinkoto as

page_text: they are issued, and to mark them to indicate the different journeys,
stages, or prices.
Having thụs particularly described the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is or may be performed, I have to
state that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein described
or delineated, but what I believe to be novel and original and therefore
claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, ―
First. The general construction and combination of parts forming a
money receiving and ticket distributing apparatus or box for checking
the fares or drawings on tramway cars or other conveyances, and
at places where regular fares have to be drawn, all substantially as
herein described, combined or separately, in reference to and shown in
Figures 1 to 3 and in Figure 4 respectively of the accompanying
Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
Second. The construction and use of the reciprocating slide C in
combination with a roll of paper a or other material for drawing out or
distributing tickets therefrom (or individually from a packet of separate
cardboard tickets) previously enclosed in a locked compartment of money
receiving or checking and ticket distributing apparatus, substantially as
herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings,
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Smith Semple, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
W. R. M. THOMSON,
Patent Agent,'
Glasgow.
.D. S. SEMPLE. (L.S.)