CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING NUMBERS, WHICH IS APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT AND RESORT, AND TO ANALOGOUS SITUATIONS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Tce, of Anerley, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, for the Invention of “CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING NUMBERS, WHICH IS APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC
CONVEYANCES, PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT AND RESORT, AND TO
ANALOGOUS SITUATIONS."
Sealed the 22nd February 1876, and dated the 27th August 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Tee at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th August 1875.
I, HARRY TEE, of Anerley, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING NUMBERS, WHICH IS
APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT AND
RESORT, AND TO ANALOGOUS SITUATIONS," to be as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the purposes of indicating and regis-
tering the numbers of tickets issued from the improved apparatus by
the person in charge thereof, and thereby ascertaining or checking the

page_text: receipt of money which should correspond with the relative value of
such tickets.
The improvements consist in the employment and use of a coil or
length of paper, or other suitable material, sub-divided across its width
by perforations into tickets, each ticket being consecutively numbered,
the length or coil of tickets being of different colours in irregular
sections, the varying numbers of such colours not being known to the
person issuing the tickets. This coil of ticket is mounted on a central
pin and is unwound, and the tickets delivered by means of friction
rollers between which the strip of paper passes, the rollers being
actuated by means of a pinion gearing into a spur wheel, which is
moved by a quadrant lever fixed on its axis or shaft. One end of this
lever projects outside the case containing the whole mechanism, and
being moved by hand a certain portion of a circle causes the rotation
of the friction wheels, and the expulsion or issue of a length of paper
equal to one ticket from a slot provided at the end of the case. Simul-
taneously with this action a pin on the side of one of the friction rollers
comes into contact with one end of a cranked lever, thereby lifting the
opposite end, which is furnished with a hammer which falls and strikes
a bell as the roller rotates and the pin releases the other end of the
lever. This quadrant lever may also be connected with a punch or
other instrument, so that each action of the lever shall cancel the ticket
issued to prevent it being reused. The number of tickets issued is
indicated outside the case on dials by the ordinary and well known
arrangements of gearing, actuating fingers, or indices, and which
gearing and indicating apparatus is also moved and governed by the
action of the quadrant lever with which it is connected.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Harry Tee in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th February 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HARRY
TEE, of Anerley, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: 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 Harry Tee, Her special
licence that I, the said Harry Tee, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Harry Tee, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING NUMBERS, WHICH IS APPLICABLE TO
PUBLIC CONVEYANCES, PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT AND RESORT, AND TO
ANALOGOUS SITUATIONS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Harry Tee, 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 Harry Tee, 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, and on reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is to say :—
This Invention is designed for the purposes of indicating and regis-
tering the numbers of tickets issued by conductors in charge of public
conveyances, and other authorized persons at places of public enter-
tainment and resort and other analogous situations, and consequently
of ascertaining or checking the receipts of money which should'
correspond with the relative value of such issued tickets.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now
proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to
be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, and in order
that the same may be distinctly understood, I have annexed hereunto
one Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same
with Figures of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof, that is to say,-

page_text: On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings the improved apparatus is
illustrated in Figures 1 to 4, of which Figure 1 represents a complete
side view with one side plate (4) removed; Figure 2, an exterior view of
the other side; Figure 3, a partial side view of a modification; and
Figure 4, a plan view of Figures 1 and 2, the top plate (14) being
removed.
The improvements constituting the Invention comprise the employ-
ment and use of a coil or length of paper, or other suitable material,
sub-divided across its width by perforations into tickets, which are
consecutively numbered, the length or coil of tickets being of different
colours in irregular sections, the varying numbers of such colours not
being known to the conductor or other person issuing such tickets.
This ticket coil 1 is mounted between flanges 2 on a stud or central
pin 3, connecting the two side frames 4 of the machine and secured in
position by thumb screws 5. From the coil the length or strip of tickets
is unwound by and, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, is led between two
friction rollers 6, 7, and forward of and by which the tickets are also
delivered one at a time. The roller 7 is actuated by means of a pinion 8,
which gears into and receives motion from a spur wheel 9, which is
mounted on a shaft or axis 10, and which is actuated by means of the
quadrant lever 11, ratchet 12, and spring pawl 13, as shown in Figures
1 and 2. One end of the lever 11 projects above the top plate 14, and
upon being moved by hand a certain portion of a circle (limited by the
extent of its slot 21 in the said plate) rotary motion is by, these means
imparted to the friction rollers 6, 7, and they are thus caused to effect
the expulsion or issue of a length of the said strip equal to one ticket
from the slot of a guide 15, affixed by screws to the side frames 4 at the
fore part or end of the machine. Simultaneously with this action a
pin 16 on the side of the friction roller 7 comes in contact with the
end 17 of a cranked lever 18 (of which the shaft or axis 19. is the
centre of motion) and lifts its other end 20, which is formed as a
hammer head. Immediately the lever 18 is free from the action of the
said pin 16, a spring 22 outside the side frame 4, shown in Figure 2,
acts upon a notched collar 23 affixed to the axis 19, and causes the
hammer head 20 to strike and sound a bell 24, which is held in position
by an arm 25 and screws 26 in the manner shown. This lever 11 may
also be connected with a punch or other instrument, so that each action
of the lever shall cancel the ticket issued to prevent its being re-used.

page_text: Or in lieu of this arrangement the spur wheel 9 may have the said
pins 16 affixed to its side, as shewn in Figure 3, and when the pins are
so applied they may also act as the means through which motion is
imparted to the wheel 9 in lieu of the ratchet wheel. 12. In this
5 arrangement motion is given to the said wheel 9 by means of the sliding
spring catch 32, to which a pushing motion is given by hand through
the knob 27 in the direction of the arrow. The catch 32 is centred
at 28 and pushes the wheel 9 round, as shown in Figure 3 (in which it
is shown as near the completion of the movement) until the knob 27
is pushed to the extent of its slot 21 in the top plate 14, when upon the
said knob being released the spring 30 draws the said catch and knob
back in the slides 31, and the said catch is released from the pin 16
which it was driving, and the spring 41 pressing its tail end upwardly
causes its forward end to drop over the next succeeding pin 16, ready to
5 act upon it upon again receiving motion through the knob 27 as above
specified. As above, simultaneously with this action, the hammer
lever 18 is acted upon by another pin 16 and caused to strike the
bell 24, indicating the expulsion or issue of a ticket from the rollers 6, 7,
and guide 15. The stop 33 prevents more than a certain degree of
O movement being given to the wheel 9, no matter how quickly the
knob 27 may be moved.
The roller 7 is made preferably of metal with a roughened or serrated
periphery, and the roller 6 is also made of metal but is provided with a
covering of or is enveloped by a tube of india-rubber; 34 represents stay
bars which keep the sides 4 apart, and to which they are secured by the
screws 35; the top plate 14 is secured by screws 40; 36 is a bracket
affixed outside one side frame 4 to hold that end of the shaft 19, on
which is the notched collar 23.
The number of movements given to the wheel 9, and consequently
of the tickets issued or expelled by the rollers 6, 7, is registered and
indicated through apertures 37 made in the top plate 14 by means of
dials 38, the peripheries of which are marked with numbers running
consecutively from 0 to 9, and which dials are actuated by the ordinary
and well known arrangement of gearing 39, depicted in Figures 1 and 4;
the units dial is connected to the wheel 9 and receives motion simul-
taneously with it, and from which units dial motion is imparted to the
tns and hundreds dial by the said referred to gearing 39.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of my said Invention, together with the manner in which the
same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I
would remark in conclusion, that I claim as my Invention the above
described novel and peculiar combination and arrangement of parts
forming an indicating and registering machine or apparatus, especially
applicable to indicate and register the number of tickets issued in
public conveyances and places of public entertainment and resort, and
in other analogous situations, for the purpose of ascertaining and
checking the receipts of money which should correspond with the
relative value of the issued tickets, substantially as described and as
illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Tee, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.