and other Public Conveyances and the Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1888

page_text: and other Public Conveyances and the Apparatus therefor.
We, THOMAS MARTIN, of La Fosse André, Guernsey, Late Commanding 4th King's
Own Royal Regiment, WILLIAM PARSONS COLLINS, Bellevue, Cambridge Park,
Guernsey, Fruit Grower, and CHARLES ATKINS COLLINS, Trowbridge, Wiltshire,
Solicitor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of a method of preventing fraud on the part of conductors
and others in the receipt of fares for omnibuses and other public conveyances and also
of improvements in the apparatus employed.
In carrying out our invention all fares are to be paid for by ticket, which tickets
shall be of a peculiar pattern or design and consist of two dissimilar halves easily
separated.
.
The tickets are to be issued in the first place by the proprietors of the vehicles or in
preference by some independent body. The tickets once issued may be retailed by
booksellers or other persons who may find it convenient or by specially appointed,
persons.
On entering the vehicle the passenger will give one half of the ticket to the con-
ductor who will deposit it in a receptacle appointed for that purpose.. The passenger
will also place the other half in a specially appointed receptacle.
These receptacles which may be either separate or connected are so constructed as
to freely admit tickets but not to allow them to be withdrawn except in the authorised
Near the top of the interior of the receptacle are hinged flaps which when
the receptacle is in its normal position allow the ticket to pass but when the receptacle
is not in its normal position the flaps close up the passage.
manner.
At appointed times the receptacles are taken to the office of the issuing body and
their contents examined.
Dated this 98th day of April 1888
W. H. MUNNS,
Agents for Applicants.

page_text: and other Public Conveyances and the Apparatus therefor.
We, THOMAS MARTIN, of La Fosse André, Guernsey, Late Commanding 4th King's
Own Royal Regiment, WILLIAM PARSONS COLLINS, of Belle Vue, Cambridge Park,
Guernsey, Fruit Grower, and CHARLES ATKINS COLLINS, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire,
Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, .to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
Our invention consists of a method of preventing fraud on the part of conductors
and others in the receipt of fares for omnibuses and other public conveyances and also
of improvements in the apparatus employed..
In carrying out our invention all fares are to be paid for by ticket, which shall be
of a peculiar and distinctive pattern or design and consist of two dissimilar halves.
easily separated.
The tickets are to be issued in the first place by the proprietors of the vehicles or in
preference by some independent body. The tickets once issued may be retailed by
booksellers or other persons who may find it convenient or by specially appointed
persons. It is essential in our method that the conductor as such shall not receive
money for fares. On entering the vehicle the passenger will give the proper half of
the ticket to the conductor who will deposit it in a receptacle appointed for that
purpose. The passenger will place the other half ticket in a receptacle specially
appointed for it. At appointed times the receptacles are taken to the office of the
issuing body where only they can be examined. The amount payable to the proprietors
of the vehicles by the issuing body is according to the number of tickets found in the
receptacles.
These receptacles which may be either separate or connected are constructed so as
to freely admit tickets but not suffer them to be withdrawn except in the authorised
Near the top of the interior of the receptacle are hinged flaps which when
the receptacle is in its normal position suffer the ticket to pass but when the receptacle
is not in its normal position the flaps close up the passage.
manner.
To show more clearly the construction of these receptacles we furnish drawings in
which similar letters represent corresponding parts throughout. We do not however
limit ourselves to the receptacles here described but may use any form of receptacle
that will hold the tickets securely and not allow any but the authorised persons to
examine the contents.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a single receptacle with the inner parts shown by
dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one method of arranging the flaps.
F
2
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page_text: wuen the box is in its normal position the half ticket inserted in the slit A falls
without obstruction past the flaps E on to the flange D which slopes downwards.
These flanges D are not absolutely necessary but serve as an additional safeguard.
The upper lip B of the slit overlaps the lower lip C. The flaps are hinged to a fixed
support L. In Fig. 2 each of the flaps E has one end of a flexible cord, wire, or
chain Ffastened to it and passing round the block or pulley H attached to a side of
the receptacle. When the box is tilted on one side one flap necessarily falls over and
closes its passage, and the other flap is drawn by the cord in the opposite direction.
In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3 both flaps are prevented falling over in the same
direction by the rods G. M is door to enable the authorised person to get at the
contents of the receptacle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to bo performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1st. A method of preventing fraud on the part of conductors of public vehicles
substantially as described in the foregoing specification.
2nd. The construction and use of receptacles for the safe storage of tickets or other
articles substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 4th day of June Lese
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for the Applicants.