Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
DANIEL ROBERT O'SULLIVAN Surgeon Homeopathic Hospital Great Ormond Street
Bloomsbury London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of two Pallets of Brass or other Metals, in form, part of a
circle.
The top pallet is Flanged so as forming a box, allowing bottom pallet to fit
into it.
Each pallet has a hole bored through it in a given radius, into which hole of top
pallet a Tube is fitted of any given length, to carry any given number of Tickets,
around which tube and on the surface of pallet a box is formed carrying the registering
wheels, the box being secured by Lock and Key.
Between top and bottom pallet a Lever is jointed that moves in a lateral direction
across the holes of pallets, which lever is formed of two Discs, one disc at bottom of
Frame of said lever the other disc at the top of frame, and at such a distance apart as
to allow a Ticket to pass between them in the motion of Lever.
In the Frame of Lever a pawl is hung so arranged that it passes over a rack cut
in the bottom pallet and prevents the lever being carried back until it has completed
its prescribed circle, and in its motion it has passed over a Stud attached to ratchet
wheel which securely registers the passing Ticket.
There is also an armature in the said lever which makes a connection by the aid of
battery of an electric current, that simultaneously works a second Index that may be
carried to any given distance.
Dated this 27th day of August 1887

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ticket Issuing and Registering Apparatus.
I, DANIEL ROBERT O'SULLIVAN Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street,
Bloomsbury, London, Surgeon 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, reference being also had to the
accompanying two sheets of drawings in which:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a front elevation of the device according
to my invention, Figure 3 is a side sectional elevation drawn on line A B Figure 2,
and Figure 4 is a front sectional elevation drawn on line CD Figure 1. Figure 5 is
a plan showing the index apertures. Figure 6 is a similar plan with cover of register
box removed and showing the index or registering wheels. Figure 7 is a plan of the
lower plate with lever in its normal position. Figure 8 a plan of the underside of
the lever and Figure 9 a section of the lever drawn on line E F Figure 7. Figure 10
is a plan and elevation of a ticket for use with my improved apparatus. Figure 11 is
an elevational view of the device illustrating the method of fitting same to a window
and Figure 12 is a view of the filling rod to be hereinafter more particularly
described.
This apparatus is designed for the purpose of issuing and automatically registering
tickets. The tickets are circular flat discs of uniform diameter and thickness and
equally bevelled along both faces for a given distance from the rim inwards. Each ticket,
which is perforated by a central circular aperture of uniform size, can be lettered or
marked in any desired manner upon one or both of its faces. The diameter of the
tickets is uniformly greater than that of any coin of the realm in circulation, with
the object in view hereinafter stated. When superposed, one above another, the
edges of every two tickets are separated by a vertical space depending upon the
amount of bevel above mentioned.
The machine consists of two semicircular metal plates A. A' referred to in my
Provisional Specification as "Pallets," one superposed upon the other. The upper
plate A is furnished with a flange so as to form with the lower plate A' a closed box.
The upper plate A is perforated by a circular aperture Cinto which is fitted vertically
a hollow cylinder D of any desired length, and of such calibre as to contain any
desired number of tickets a arranged horizontally and lying one above another as
shown in Figure 4. The upper orifice of this cylinder can be closed by means of an
accurately fitting lock E the lower orifice is quite open. In the lower plate A¹ is
likewise a circular aperture d situated exactly beneath the opening in the upper
plate A, and this lower opening is of such size as readily to permit of the passage
therethrough of one of the tickets a above described.
Between the two plates A A¹ there is a lever B of the construction shown in
Figures 7 and 8 one extremity of this lever is attached to, and can revolve round a
stud situated at the junction of the semi-diameters of the plates A A'. The other

page_text: extremity projects beyond the semicircular edge of the plates and forms a handle e
and by means of this handle the lever B can be moved horizontally to and fro within
certain limits, defined by the extent to which the cover is slotted at w, the handle of
the lever following, during such motion, the curve of the plates A A¹ aforesaid. The
central portion of the lever B (that portion namely which traverses during the to and
fro movement the space which intervenes between the aperture in the upper and that
in the lower plate), consists of two distinct portions flying in different horizontal,
and different vertical planes. The left hand portion looking down upon the lever
from above, consists of a flat steel knife the upper surface of which is flush with the
upper surface of the proximate and distal portions of the lever B. It is attached to a
portion of the framework of the lever connecting the proximate and distal parts
thereof its breadth is slightly less than the diameter of a ticket, its length from front
backwards (in the long axis of the lever) is slightly more than the diameter of a
ticket. Its free edge f¹ is shaped to the curve of the inner face of the cylinder D,
and is bevelled from below upwards. The right hand portion of the middle of the
lever B is an integral part of the framework and in breadth is slightly less than the
diameter of a ticket. It is recessed as a trench which extends across the longitudinal
axis of said lever B. This recess is open at either extremity, but is bounded anteriorly
and posteriorly by vertical walls Figures 3 and 7. Said recess is of such
dimensions that it will contain a ticket lying horizontally upon it, and its floor is of
a uniform vertical depth beneath the inferior surface of the steel knife fequal to the
thickness of a ticket. Its inner free margin is curved to the section of the inner plane
of the cylinder D, and is bevelled from above downwards. Steel knife and recessed
metal plate overlap slightly at their cornual extremities, but are elsewhere separated
by an elliptical horizontal space.
The lever B is to be regarded as in its normal or initial position when its handle is
as far towards the left as possible. From this position it can be moved from left to
right and back again. The extent of this horizontal motion is such that the mid-
portion of the lever-that portion namely which travels across the space immediately
beneath the lower orifice of the cylinder-traverses during the forward and again
during the backward motion of the lever a space somewhat less than the diameter of a
ticket.
It will be thus understood that the mid-portion of the lever B constitutes a
duplicate moveable diaphragm between the apertures in the upper and lower
plates.
When the lever is in its normal position, the knife edge fis just under cover of the
inner curve of the cylinder, and the recessed portion of the frame is immediately
beneath the lower orifice of the cylinder.
When the lever has been moved towards the right as far as possible, then the steel
knife is directly beneath the lower orifice of the cylinder D and the recessed part g
of the frame is mainly contained between the plates A A' on the right hand side. The
upper surface of the knife is quite close up against the under surface of the upper
plate, with which also the inferior rim of the cylinder is flush on that side. The upper
surface of the recess in the lower plate A' is separated from the under surface of the
upper plate by a vertical space slightly greater than the thickness of a ticket. Into
his interval is prolonged vertically downwards on that side, a section of the cylinder
is represented at d' Figure 3. The method of placing the tickets in the cylinder is
as follows:-1 employ a metal filling rod J Figure 12 somewhat longer than the
vertical distance between the superior orifice of the cylinder D and the aperture in
he lower plate A. The calibre of this rod is such that it readily passes through the
entral aperture d" in the tickets, which, when threaded upon it can be caused to
glide freely up or down. One extremity of this rod terminates in a handle G, the
ther extremity in a knuckle joint j, which latter can be placed at right angles thereto
s shown by the dotted lines, or caused to remain quite continuous therewith. The
ength of the knuckle joint is greater than the diameter of the central aperture in the
icket. The tickets are threaded upon the rod while the direction of the knuckle
int is continuous therewith. The filling rod, when the knuckle joint is placed at

page_text: right angles thereto, can then be inverted without any slipping off of the tickets,
which are now ready to be placed within the cylinder. The filling should be done
while the lever is in its normal position. As the aperture in the tickets is central with
the knuckle joint of the filling rod J it always encounters the recessed metal plate of
the lever at a definite spot. At this spot in the lever plate a slot is cut of such size 5
as to permit of the passage therethrough of the said knuckle joint when at right
angles to the rod. When this knuckle joint has passed through the sloth in the
lever plate, it is to be restored, by means of the finger, to a direction parallel with
the rest of the filling rod, which can then be withdrawn from the cylinder leaving the
tickets in their places.
The method of issuing a ticket is as follows:-The tickets a rest, in the normal
position of the lever, upon the recessed metal plate g. As the lever is moved from
left to right, the knife emerges from under cover of the cylinder D and passes
between the lowest ticket and the one next above that. As the lever continues to be
moved towards the right, the knife gets further and further beneath the lowest ticket 1
but one, until at the termination of the lever's travel the knife bears the entire weight
of the superincumbent mass of tickets. In proportion as the knife f gives support to
the upper tickets the metal plate withdraws its support from the lowest ticket. This
lowest ticket does not travel laterally with the lever, for its motion from left to right
is prevented by the prolongation d' downwards, as above described, of the section of the
cylinder D on that side. At a certain point of the lever's motion, the area of support
afforded to the lowest ticket becomes insufficient and it slips downwards in virtue of
its own weight over the bevelled edge of the lever plate and falls out through the
aperture in the lower plate A¹.
The vertical walls of the recess in which the ticket lies prevent any anterior or
posterior motion and all tendency to get between the lower surface of the knife and
the upper surface of the lower plate A¹ is obviated by the presence of a vertical
metal collar H of the section of that side of the orifice and attached to the margin
of the aperture on that side. The return of the lever to its normal position is
facilitated by the action of a coiled spring I Figures 7 and 8, and during the reverse
motion from right to left the tickets in the cylinder D gradually transfer their weight
from the knife, as it recedes between the plates A A', to the recess g, and, when
the lever reaches its initial position, the pile of tickets once more rests entirely upon
said recess.
To the lower plate A¹ is affixed a shoot Q of any desired shape for the purpose of
guiding in a given direction the tickets as they are issued.
Situated upon the upper plate A and curving around the cylinder D is a box
containing three index wheels kkk which revolve each upon a stud inserted into the
upper surface of the upper plate A, and maintained in their respective positions upon
these studs by means of small collars. These index wheels are covered by a metal
cap or cover F in which are four apertures Figure 5, through which the
figures engraved upon the wheels can be seen, one figure at a time showing through
each aperture.
The right hand wheel registers units, the middle wheel ¹ tens, the left hand wheel "
both hundreds and thousands by a device to be hereinafter described.
The right hand or units wheel & is superposed upon, and fixed to a ratchet wheel
bearing ten teeth so proportioned that any motion given to said ratchet wheel is
transmitted to the upper index wheel. The middle or tens wheel is superposed upon,
and fixed to a maltese wheel 11 furnished with ten slots. The left-hand wheel consists
simply of a maltese wheel ¹¹, and upon this maltese wheel the requisite figures are
engraved.
The upper disc of the units wheel is on the same horizontal plane as the, maltese
wheel of the tens index ¹, and the upper disc of the tens index is on the same
horizontal plane as the single maltese disc of the hundreds and thousands
wheel.
The engraved upper disc of the units wheel k is furnished at its circumference with
a horizontally-projecting stud m which, once in every complete revolution upon it

page_text: axis of the unit wheel, passes into a slot in the maliese wheel beneath the tens index ¹
and causes the latter to revolve to a certain point upon its axis.
The upper engraved disc of the tens wheel is furnished with a horizontally
projecting stud m³ of similar construction to that in the units wheel, and once during
the complete revolution upon its axis of said tens wheel, the stud m passes into a slot
in the hundreds maltese wheel, which is thereby caused to revolve upon its axis to
a given distance. The amount of motion imparted to the index wheels is sufficient in
each case to cause the substitution of the next serial figure through the respective
apertures in the cover of the index box.
In a recess upon the upper surface of the lever is a spring-pawl N furnished with a
stud projecting vertically upwards as shown in Figure 9 which moves freely (during
the lateral motion of the lever) along an elongated slot n Figure 6 in the upper
plate A.
At a certain point during the lever's motion this stud impinges against one
of the teeth of the ratchet wheel of the units index and gives thereto just so much
motion as causes a substitution of figures in the units aperture in the cover of the
index box, so that the next successive figure appears. The ratchet wheel is maintained
in the position given to it by the passage of the stud NI by means of a back-slash
spring p Figure 6.
The position of the spring pawl N and stud N in the lever is such that the units
wheel is caused to register simultaneously with the passage of the ticket through the
aperture in the lower plate A¹ By this arrangement every ticket issued is simulta-
neously registered in an automatic manner upon the index, and no ticket can be
caused to pass out from the lower orifice of the cylinder D through the aperture d in
the lower plate A' without being so registered.
The index figures can, when such an arrangement is desired, be concealed from
view by means of a locked cap fitting upon the cover of the index box.
The left hand index wheel k" is of greater diameter than the lettered discs of the
tens or units wheels, both of these latter discs being equal in diameter.
The figures upon the left hand wheel are arranged in the manner shown in Figure 6.
The outer series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, appear at the hundreds aperture of the index-
cap, and serve to register from 100 up to 900. When 999 has been registered, then
the rest of the outer series of figures engraved upon the left hand wheel, (1, 2, 3, 4, 0)
and the inner concentric series (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) come simultaneously into action in the
following manner; thus, the stroke of the lever, succeeding that which produced the
number 999 causes a cipher to appear in the units tens and hundreds apertures, (the
cipher in the hundreds aperture being the cipher of the lesser outer series of the left
hand wheel) while the figure one appears in the thousands aperture. The figure one
in the thousands aperture is the first of the five "one's" engraved within the outer
series of figures upon the left hand wheel.
.:
In like manner when 1,099 has been registered, the next movement of the lever
causes the figure 1 of the outer lesser series to appear at the hundreds aperture, while
the second of the ones" engraved within the outer series upon the same plate appears
at the thousands apertures and so on until 1499 has been registered. The method of
registration adopted in this machine is intended to work continuously, and by increasing
the size of the third or left hand wheel, any given number can be so registered.
To obviate the possibility of the operator registering against himself by working the
lever when all the tickets have passed from the cylinder D, an automatically-working
stop R is employed. This stop consists of a flat disc Figure 4 of the same diameter as,
but considerably thicker than a ticket, and not bevelled around the edge, but left
square. It is placed above all the tickets in the cylinder and travels downwards in
proportion as the number of tickets in the cylinder diminishes.
Finally when all the tickets have been issued, then the automatic stop comes into
action in the following manner. In the normal position of the lever the stop R lies
upon the recess in the metal plate g. On trying to move the lever from left to right the
eilge of the knife finstead of passing onwards, impinges against the square edge of
said stop R. This will be readily understood when it is remembered that the vertical
interval between the lower surface of the knife and the floor of the recess is equal to

page_text: the actual thickness of the mid-portion of a ticket. The space separating the edges of
two tickets when one is superposed above the other exceeds this interval, owing to
the tickets being bevelled at the edge as hereinbefore described, and consequently the
bevelled edge of the knife has necessarily to pass between the lowest ticket and the
one immediately above it. The absence of bevel on the automatic stop-disc R causes
it to encroach upon this vertical space and thus prevents the lateral motion of the
lever from left to right as soon as all the tickets contained in the cylinder I have been
issued.
By means of a slot in the right hand portion of the index box all motion of the
lever can be prevented by means of a moveable pin which passes through said slot and
projects downwards so as to arrest the lever's action. By placing this pin in position
and locking the cap of the index-box the lever is securely fixed and cannot be
tampered with.
When desired, a duplicate set of dial wheels actuated by an electro-magnet and
situated at any distance can be caused to register simultaneously with the dials upon
the upper plate by an arrangement whereby the lever B at the termination of its
stroke towards the right completes an electric circuit, thereby causing the electro-
magnet to so act upon the unit-index-wheel of the duplicate register, as to cause a
movement in said duplicate set of wheels exactly equivalent to the simultaneous
motion imparted to the registering wheels upon the upper plate A by the motion of
the lever. By means of an ordinary telegraphic key forming part of the electric
circuit the figures upon the duplicate register can at any time be caused to coincide
with those appearing through the apertures in the inlex-box of fixed register, so that
when the tickets are being issued the same figures appear simultaneously upon both
dials.
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A metal framework is provided of suitable size and shape, furnished with lugs or
equivalents to allow of said framework being securely fixed to any aperture such as an
ordinary pay window."
This framework has three apertures formed therein as
shown at Figure 11 marked respectfully "Take Checks" Pay here" and "change"
the remainder of the framework being filled up with a wire netting, the mesh of
which is of such a size as to prevent the passage therethrough of one of the tickets
hereinbefore described. The central aperture which is for the reception of money
consists of a covered shoot O, with an inclination, backwards, downwards and inwards
(towards the interior of the chamber in which the operator stands) said central opening
is of such construction as to admit freely of the passage therethrough of coins of the
realm, but not of one of the tickets, checks or tokens. One lateral aperture P consists
of another covered shoot or hopper, with an inclination downwards, forwards and out-
wards through which coins of the realm can be freely passed outwards, but not one of
the tickets tokens or checks. The other lateral opening serves for the passage there-
through of the tickets, checks or tokens which are guided by the metal shoot fixed to
the lower plate A¹ said shoot fits accurately all round the corresponding aperture
so that a ticket cannot be passed back through any portion of, or underneath the
bottom of said framework having the three apertures and wire netting above
described.
Projecting rearwards from the back of the screen around both sides of the "take
checks aperture are two flanges, fitting close to the sides of the shoot when in
position. The cylinder with plates and shoot can be readily detached and fixed in
position. For this purpose two pieces of metal Figure 1, slightly curved and project-
ing forwards are attached to the front portion of the plates and fit into corresponding
slots in the metal framework S. The cylinder D passes through a circular support s
capable of revolving on its own axis and fixed to the inner wall in which the "window
is situated. The lower rim of the shoot Q attached to the lower plate A is secured to
the bracket T at right angles to said window, and sustains the main portion of the
weight of plates A A' and cylinder D. Projecting horizontally backwards from the
posterior portion of said shoot is a tongue Figures 1 and 3 whereby, by means of a
suitable bolt and lock, the shoot and also the superposed plates and cylinder can be
securely fixed to the bracket T on which the shoot rests.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I
claim is :-
First The improved ticket issuing and registering apparatus herein described, by
means of which the registration of each ticket is effected simultaneously with the
issuing or delivery thereof substantially as herein described and set forth.
Second-In a ticket issuing and registering apparatus the use in connection there-
with of the actuating combined lever B and handle e in which the central portion
thereof consists of two distinct parts disposed in different planes both horizontally and
vertically, and one part of which is provided with a knife edge and the other part is
recessed, said actuating combined lever having a certain amount of reciprocating
horizontal travel substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Third-In a ticket issuing and registering apparatus the employment therein of
tickets tokens or checks bevelled off on each face substantially as and for the purposes
herein set forth and shown.
Fourth In a ticket issuing and registering apparatus such as herein described the
method which I adopt of locking the ticket issuing mechanism when all the tickets
have passed out, by means of a thick metal disc substantially as and for the purposes
herein set forth.
D
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JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.