AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SELF-REGISTERING AND CHECKING THE MONEY TAKEN FOR ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK ON MONEY TAKING IS DESIRABLE
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Alexander Calvert at
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th October 1871.
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I, CHARLES ALEXANDER CALVERT, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declaro the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SELF-REGISTERING AND CHECKING THE MONEY TAKEN
FOR ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A CHECK ON
MONEY TAKING IS DESIRABLE," to be as follows:-
The chief feature and novelty of my present improvements consist in
combining a modification of an Invention for measuring liquids (for
which Letters Patent have been granted to me dated December 20,
A.D. 1870, No. 3351,) with the apparatus for checking the money taken
for admission to places of public amusement (and for which Letters
Patent have also been previously granted to me dated January 20, A.D.
1870, No. 178,) by which means I am enabled to dispense with the
electric apparatus connected therewith, and make the present Invention
more simple and certain in action, and therefore enable the proprietors.
of places of public amusement or other places where a check on money

page_text: taking is desirable to ascertain more readily and accurately at any
moment the number of persons who have paid for admission, and so
prevent the money takers from appropriating any portion of the receipts
to their own use.
Conveniently situated near the money taker's apparatus I fix or
connect therewith a barrel or cylinder (constructed somewhat similar to
that described in the aforesaid Specification for measuring liquids)
working liquid-tight between two end plates, the said barrel or cylinder
being provided with two or more tubes to contain a certain quantity of
water to be drawn off. This barrel or cylinder communicates by means
of pipes to a vertical cylinder or chamber containing water in the
manager's room or other desirable place. This cylinder or chamber may
be made of glass or other suitable material, and marked similar to a
barometer tube (but with the numerals commencing from the top).
The barrel is connected to the money taker's apparatus by any convenient
means, and is actuated by connecting rods, levers, gearing, or other
equivalent means, so that upon each stroke or movement of the money
taker's apparatus (or whenever a check is withdrawn) the barrel is
turned a portion of a revolution and discharges one tubeful of water,
and so on, a tubeful of water being discharged for every check withdrawn,
which will indicate in the manager's room by the falling of the water in
the chamber or cylinder the exact amount of receipts.
If necessary an ordinary counting apparatus may be attached to the
barrel to indicate the number of tubefuls of water that have passed
through, and hence the number of checks withdrawn.
The check taker's apparatus is also to be supplied with a similar
barrel or cylinder communicating by means of pipes with a chamber
containing water in the manager's room, so that whenever he places a
check therein a tubeful of water is discharged, which will indicate the
number of checks that have been placed in his apparatus, and thus show
at any moment whether the money taker's and check taker's apparatus
agree.