MENTS IN AND RELATING TO APPARATUS FOR CHECKING, REGISTERING, INDICATING, AND CONTAINING FARES OR MONEYS RECEIVED, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO TRAMWAYS AND OMNIBUSES
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Johnson Aspinall at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th October 1879.
ALFRED JOHNSON ASPINALL, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster. " IMPROVE
MENTS IN AND RELATING TO APPARATUS FOR CHECKING, REGISTERING, INDICATING,
AND CONTAINING FARES OR MONEYS RECEIVED, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO
TRAMWAYS AND OMNIBUSES."
My Invention relates to a combined apparatus, being a cash bag or receptacle,
and a registering apparatus for containing and checking fares or moneys received,
and is particularly applicable to tramways and omnibuses, and consists,―
First. In combining the checking and registering apparatus with the cash
bag or receptacle carried by the guard or other official for containing fares and
change.
Second. In an arrangement of mechanism (which is attached to the cash bag)
which punches and receives portions of tickets and registers each ticket punched
and simultaneously gives notice of the punching by striking a bell.
The cash bag consists of a leather or like receptacle, suspended by a strap round
the guard's or official's shoulder. The strap is connected to the cash bag so as to
support the front of the bag, which is mounted, or provided with a metal frame.
The registering mechanism is attached to the metal frame, and in front of the
cash bag, and consists of a metal casing, which contains receptacles to receive the
punched portions of the tickets. The punch or punches are mounted over the
receptacles and worked by thumb pieces or levers. The registering apparatus
consists of a train of toothed wheels, which are geared and worked by a rack,
toothed quadrant, and pinions, operated by the action of the punching mechanism.
The wheels form dials on which are delineated figures which indicate the number
of times the punch has been used, and the number of times the tickets have been
punched, and correspond in indication with the number of punched out pieces of
the tickets in the receptacles or cases. Below the registering wheels there is a
bell or gong, sounded by a hammer worked from the rack in connection with the
punching mechanism. The whole case is provided with a door fastened by a
suitable lock. The action of the punching and registering mechanism is governed
by a spring, which always keeps the punching mechanism in position for use.
In carrying my Invention into practice, for, say two changes of fares, for
example, two pence and three pence, the guard or official is provided with tickets

page_text: of different colours, say red tickets for the twopenny fares, and white tickets for
the three penny fares. The apparatus is provided with two ticket cases and a
double punch. Upon receiving the fare from the passenger the official punches a
ticket corresponding with the amount, the punched portion falling into the
corresponding ticket receptacle or case. Simultaneously with the punching action
the registering apparatus registers a unit of advance. At the end of the journey
or period the registering apparatus indicates the total number of tickets punched,
and the punched portions of the tickets, which are removed from the receptacles,
indicate the equivalent value of the tickets issued
I would mention that I am aware that the principle of punching tickets has
been used prior to my Invention, as has also the combination of a ticket punch
receptacle and a registering apparatus, but such mechanism has heretofore only
existed in a detached form and distinct from the cash bag or fare receptacle and
through this construction the guard or official has been able to evade the honest
use of the apparatus, whereas in my Invention the registering apparatus and the
cash bag and receptacle being combined in one, the chance of evasion of the proper
use of the apparatus is overcome, as the action of registering and punching the
tickets is open to the view of the passenger or money payer.