IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CARRIED IN AND ON OMNIBUSES AND OTHER PUBLIC VEHICLES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse, of 12, Thurlow
Road, Hampstead, in Middlesex, and Edward Hamilton Thomson, of 5, Bolton
Road, Saint John's Wood, in the said County of Middlesex, Engineers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS
CARRIED IN AND ON OMNIBUSES AND OTHER PUBLIC VEHICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Orange Wildman
Whitehouse and Edward Hamilton Thomson at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents on the 29th May 1876.
EDWARD ORANGE WILDMAN WHITEHOUSE, of 12, Thurlow Road, Hampstead,
in Middlesex, and EDWARD HAMILTON THOMSON, of 5, Bolton Road, Saint John's
Wood, in the said County of Middlesex, Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING
THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CARRIED IN AND ON OMNIBUSES AND OTHER PUBLIC
VEHICLES."
This Invention relates to registering apparatus in which the depression of seats
gives motion to a type wheel, and consists in providing such type wheel with a
ratchet wheel and detent, or their equivalents, for locking or arresting the motion
of the type wheel in such manner that when a seat or seats is or are depressed so
as to cause the type wheel to turn, the said type wheel is retained in position until
the step is operated and the detent or its equivalent raised. The type wheel is
fitted with a spring or weight to cause it to return to zero position.
When seats operating a type wheel are employed in registering we construct
such seats in two or more pieces, so that the whole of the pieces have to be
depressed before registration takes place; this arrangement prevents registration
being effected unless a seat is sat upon.
O SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse and Edward Hamilton Thomson
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th November 1876.
EDWARD ORANGE WILDMAN WHITEHOUSE, of 12, Thurlow Road, Hampstead, in
Middlesex, and EDWARD HAMILTON THOMSON, of 5, Bolton Road, Saint John's
[Price 4d.]

page_text: Wood, in the said County of Middlesex, Engineers. " IMPROVEMENTS IN REGIS-
TERING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS CARRIED IN AND ON OMNIBUSES AND OTHER
PUBLIC VEHICLES."
This Invention relates to registering apparatus in which the depression of seats
gives motion to a type wheel, and consists in providing such type wheel with a
ratchet wheel and detent, or their equivalents, for locking or arresting the motion
of the type wheel in such manner that when a seat or seats is or are depressed, so
as to cause the type wheel to turn, the said type wheel is retained in position until
the step is operated and the detent or its equivalent raised. The type wheel is
fitted with a spring or weight, which causes it to return to zero position.
When seats operating a type wheel are employed in registering we construct such
seats in two or more pieces, so that the whole of the pieces have to be depressed
before registration takes place; this arrangement prevents registration being
effected unless a seat is sat upon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a view of apparatus illustrativo of our Invention. a, type wheel,
operated from the seats by the chain or rod b. The said type wheel is provided
with a ratchet wheel into which the detent c takes, so as to prevent the return of
the type wheel to zero until the said detent is raised. The raising of the said
detent is effected by the arm d on the lever e. The lever e is operated from a
movable step by the cord f. The type wheel is caused to return to zero position
by means of a spring or the like. The motion of the type wheel towards zero is
limited by the number of seats depressed, as explained in the Specification to
British Letters Patent No. 3975, of the year 1875, granted to John Thomson King.
Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate modifications of our improved method of constructing
seats when such seats are used to operate the type wheel of recording apparatus.
The seats are here made in three pieces and are connected together underneath
by levers g; h, fixed pullies; i, movable pullies over and under which the cord
for operating the type wheel passes. It will be obvious that the cord cannot be
acted upon until the whole of the three pieces composing the seat in Fig. 2, or the
two side pieces of the seat in Fig. 3 are depressed.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention in such manner that
others will be enabled to carry our improvements into effect, we claim the improve-
ments in registering the number of passengers carried in and on omnibuses and
other public vehicles, substantially as set forth and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hamilton Thomson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
JAMES JOHNSON,
Patent Office,
Clayton Square,
Liverpool.
EDW. H. THOMSON. (L.S.)