AN IMPROVED FASTENER OR BINDER FOR TICKETS, CARDS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES, CHIEFLY DESIGNED FOR THE CONDUCTORS OF TRAMWAY CARRIAGES AND OMNIBUSES
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Henry Small and
Thomas Henry Cox at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 19th June 1874.
We, JAMES HENRY SMALL, of Buffalo, New York, United States of
America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, and THOMAS HENRY Cox, of Ellesmere Terrace, in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED FASTENER OR BINDER FOR TICKETS, CARDS, AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES, CHIEFLY DESIGNED FOR THE CONDUCTORS OF TRAMWAY CARRIAGES AND
OMNIBUSES," to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is the securing together of a number of
tickets, cards, and other like articles, in such a manner that they may be
readily detached, and the number detached or delivered may be readily
and accurately ascertained.
The said Invention is chiefly designed to afford the means whereby
the conductors of street railway or tramway cars and omnibuses
may carry the tickets in a compact, secure, and convenient manner,

page_text: and with those of each kind or denomination separate from the others,
so that the number thereof delivered to the passengers during any day,
or part of the day, or other time, may be always accurately ascertained.
It is very important that the conductor of a tramway carriage or
omnibus should be provided with means for carrying an efficient number
of tickets in a small space, and with these for each fare separate from
the others, so that he can deliver them without waste of time as
required, and without having to keep a record by a book, card, or
otherwise of the number delivered, can ascertain the exact number
that has been used, and will not be able to defraud his employers or be
liable to mistakes as to the amount of fares received.
These objects are effected by our Invention in the following manner,
that is to say: We take a plate or sheet of brass, tin, paper, calico, card,
india-rubber, or other suitable material, and cut therefrom a piece of
the length of the tickets, and of the proper width to receive any
required number of the same, placed together in a pile or bundle. The
said piece of metal or other material has two flanges or sides formed
therein between which the tickets or cards are to be placed. The said
tickets are secured together by attaching to their edges by glue or other
adhesive substance, a strip of thin paper. Then they are placed in the
aforesaid flanged piece and secured therein by clips, pins, wire, or by other
suitable fastenings.
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In some instances we use the inner paper binding without the outer
piece or case for holding the tickets, and we sometimes secure the latter by
means of wire alone; but in all cases care must be taken that the tickets
shall be securely attached to the piece of metal, paper, or other material
which holds them, and not directly together or to each other, so that
each one may be taken separately without detaching the others from the
bundle or pile. Each of these devices must contain a specified number
of tickets, so that the conductor at any time by counting "those that
remain can tell positively the number delivered, and will be compelled
to render to his employers a faithful account of the fairs received.