IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING, THE RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES, OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Dossett, of Birchhall [sic] Road Leyton in the
County of Essex for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
CHECKING, THE RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC
VEHICLES, OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
"
(Void by reason of the Patentee having neglected to file a Specification in
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Dossett at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th July 1883.
" IMPROVE-
DANIEL DOSSETT, of Birchall Road Leyton in the County of Essex
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF MONEY FROM PERSONS
RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
"
The object of this Invention is the construction of a portable box designed for
containing a continuous roll of consecutively numbered tickets each ticket boing
divided into two or more spaces representing the distance travelled, amount of
fare, class, or money paid for entrance to places of amusement, the arrangement
of the box is such that the roll of tickets contained therein can be automatically
delivered therefrom one by one, and whilst being so delivered can be punched in
that particular space representing the amount paid for which the ticket forins the
receipt, the said single ticket so punched and delivered being finally severed from
the continuous roll by a knife the downward action of which also strikes a bell.
A further addition to the apparatus designed for punching delivering and striking
the bell is the employment of two sets of dials so arranged and actuated by tho
forward movement of the apparatus delivering the tickets that one set will
register in consecutive order the number of tickets delivered from the box and
the other will simultaneously register the amount of money received. The manner
of performing my Invention may be thus described.
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page_text: I construct a box the lower portion of which is sufficiently large to contain a
roll of paper about three inches diameter, to this lower portion I hinge a cover
which when closed can be securely locked, the box being held by a handle fixed
to the said lower portion containing (the roll of tickets. The said lid or cover
contains the mechanism employed for delivering punching and registering as above
mentioned, the arrangement of which may be thus described.
I mount on a suitable slide a carriage provided with a series of levers and
punches, the number of which agrees with the number of fares or classes, the
box is intended to register, this Carriage is also provided with a knife and catch
for actuating the hammer of a bell which gives an alarm with each forward
movement of the said Carriage. The manner of actuating the sliding action of
the said Carriage and also the descent of the punches is accomplished by means
of a series of bell crank lovers, one arm of each lever forming the handle or lever
for giving motion to the whole apparatus. Each arm of the said levers being so
constructed that they can separately give motion to two lovers and punches
supported by the carriage, for example, when one of the series of levers giving
motion to the carriage is forced on one side and depressed it will during its
forward stroke first grip and carry forward a length of the ribbon or strip of
consecutively numbered tickets, contained in the box representing one ticket, and
whilst so carrying such length of paper forward it will actuate the punch
immediately over the space of such ticket representing a given fare to punch or
deface the same and finally at the termination of its throw sever such ticket from
the continuous roll and simultaneously therewith give an alarm on the bell
hereinbefore mentioned at which time the radial movement of the lever actuating
the traverse of the carriage leaves the catch by which it forces such Carriage
along and so causes the Carriage by means of a spring to slide back into its
normal position, the lover also returning preparatory for re-action, Each one of
the said levers actuating two of the series of punches according to the side it is
caused to clutch aro so arranged that the first lever will punch holes in tho
ticket representing one penny and two pence. the second three pence, and four
pence, and the third five pence and six pence, These amounts can by suitable
counting gear rogister on dials with each forward movement of the respective
levors given amounts by a slight adjustment of the actuating pawls giving motion
to the counting dials which can be arranged to count any amount at which it may
bo required to fix the fares, for example the fares may be arranged to advance
either in pence, or pence and shillings, the aggregate amounts received can be
ascertained at any time by the position of the figures on the money counting
dials, there is also in connection with this counting arrangement a second set of
dials which with each ticket delivered consecutively count such tickets so as to be
a countercheck to the consecutive number impressed on the tickets themselves, the
counting dials are all supported on a hollow shaft provided with a spring catch
which when forced by a suitable key provided for the purpose will ungear the
whole of the wheels and so enable them to be readily turned and placed at zero
and become again geared in position when the key is withdrawn