IMPROVED METHOD AND MEANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUD ON THE PART OF COLLECTORS OF FARES ON OMNIBUSES, TRAMWAY CARS, OTHER CONVEYANCES, THEATRES, AND ALL OTHER PLACES WHERE IT IS NECESSARY TO CHECK THE COLLECTION OF MONEY
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard. Barrington at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 10th December 1872.
I, RICHARD BARRINGTON, No. 30, Ledbury Road, Bayswater, London,
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED METHOD AND MEANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUD ON THE
PART OF COLLECTORS OF FARES ON OMNIBUSES, TRAMWAY CARS, OTHER CONVEYANCES,
THEATRES, AND ALL OTHER PLACES WHERE IT IS NECESSARY TO CHECK THE
COLLECTION OF MONEY," to be as follows:―
I propose to have seperate tickets printed for each amount of fares,
and the said tickets in suitable quantities, and an account kept of
the same, issued to such persons appointed to receive the fares. The
collectors are to be furnished with a cancelling punch (such as are in
use by conductors and guards of railway trains), which they will
use to cancel the tickets, also with a locked or otherwise secured or
sealed box or receptacle of suitable size, made of metal, or wood, or
both combined, or of any other material in use, to receive the cancelled
tickets; the box or receptacle to be hung or secured on some convenient

page_text: place on the omnibus, tramway car, conveyance, or other place where
the fares are to be collected, or to be carried in the hands or on the
person of the collector of such fares. The collector shall collect the
amount of fare, cancel and issue to each passenger a ticket of
corresponding value with the amount of fare to be paid as soon as
said passenger shall enter or take his or her place on such omnibus,
tramway car, or conveyance, and shall require the passenger to deposit
the cancelled. ticket in the box or receptacle with the passenger's own
hands on the passenger arriving at his or her destination or the
terminus of the line. In order to insure the cooperation of passengers
and the public, notices are to to be placed on the most prominent parts
of the conveyances and places where monies are to be collected, also
to be printed on the tickets, advising the passengers and the public
of the rules and regulations for the goverment of the collectors, and
offering a reward to be paid to any person or persons reporting and
convicting a collector for neglect in carrying out the regulations, which
amount of reward shall be fixed by the owner or owners of the omnibus,
tramway car, or conveyance, and paid from the salary or wages of the
collector,, or from monies which the owner or owners may require the
collectors to deposit with them as an earnest of their (the collectors)
good faith and willingness to do their duty, also as collateral security
for the value of tickets issued to them.
The amounts of cancelled tickets are to be compared with the
quantity remaining in the hands of the collector at such seasons as
the owner or owners of the conveyances may appoint, and to make the
collector more careful that passengers deposit their cancelled tickets in
the receptacle made to receive them, a fine not to exceed the value of
the ticket or tickets to be imposed on the collector for all such tickets
as are missing.