New or Improved Apparatus for Controlling the Sale or Issue of Tickets.
Year: 1894

page_text: .Date of Application, 24th July, 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec.. 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Controlling the Sale or Issue
of Tickets.
We, JOSE OLSEN, Engineer, and JORGE CRAIG, Engineer, both of Buenos
Ayres, 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 :-
Our invention relates to apparatus for controlling the sale or issue of tickets
and more especially to those used on street cars, railways and the like, and has for
its object apparatus which indicate the withdrawal of a ticket, both by the ringing
of a bell, and the operation of registering mechanism; the latter being arranged
to indicate the number of tickets abstracted up to 10,000 or any other pre-arranged
number, and upon reaching that number starts afresh.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood and carried
into practice, we will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying drawings, of which Figs. 1 and 2 are perspective views of the
opposite sides of apparatus constructed according to our invention, Fig. 3 a plan
with part of the case removed, and Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, details.
The apparatus consists of a cylindrical receptacle B provided with hinged lid a,
divided into four compartments 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the reception of the rolls of
tickets A (Fig. 1). To one side of this cylindrical receptacle, opposite an opening
therein through which the tickets pass, a rectangular open frame C is secured,
and in this are mounted the spindles d, g, provided respectively with suitable
handles b,f. On the spindle d are loosely mounted four rollers I, II, III, IV,
so grooved that they each resemble three discs connected together by a sleeve
(Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5), each of the same length as the width of the tickets and
between these and loose rollers, the tickets pass. In a recess in one end of each
of these grooved rollers is pivoted a pawl i which is normally held in such a
position by spring p¹ that one of its ends lies in a longitudinal slot q formed in the
surface of the spindle (Figs. 7 and 8).
The movement of said pawls, so that their ends extend into the slot q, is governed
by rollers mounted on the spindle g and the peripheries of which extend through
a slot in the side of the recesses in the grooved rollers and press upon the outer
ends of said pawls as shown in Fig. 5 so that their free ends normally rest against
stops p.
À recess is formed in each of the rollers h which, when brought opposite the
outer end of one of the pawls i as shown in Fig. 6 by revolving spindle g by
handle allows the latter to be moved by the spring p' and that grooved roller, in
which that pawl is pivoted, connected to the spindle d so that by revolving the
latter the ticket will be caused to travel outwards between that grooved roller and
one of the rollers r.
The recesses in the roller h are so arranged that only one of them can be brought
opposite the projecting end of one of the pawls i at a time, so confining the issue
of tickets to one roll.
A bell F is secured in a recess, provided with a suitably perforated cover
(Figs. 1 and 10) in one end of the cylinder. The hammer m of this bell is
secured to one end of a lever pivoted at and controlled by spring k and the
opposite end of which is operated by a pin projecting from a disc 7 secured to
one end of spindle d said disc having a recess formed in its periphery in which
catches the pawl a actuated by spring y thereby admitting of spindle g being
adjusted without revolving spindle d.

page_text: At the opposite end of the cylinder, a train of wheels n³ n³ n' n³ are pivoted in
a suitable recess and the first of these n³ is operated by a pin n' projecting from a
discon secured on the spindle d. The wheels n' n'n' and have suitable numbers
marked or stamped round them and so indicate through openings in the end of
the cylinder B (Fig. 2) the number of tickets sold or issued.
To bold the spindle g in any adjusted position, a ratchet wheel f¹ is secured to
it and with this gears a spring actuated pawl ƒ³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
(1.) In apparatus for controlling the sale or issue of tickets the means of
preventing more than one ticket being issued at once consisting essentially of
friction rollers r grooved rollers I, II, III, IV, pawls and rollers h arranged and
operated substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(2.) In apparatus for controlling the sale or issue of tickets registering mechanism
arranged and operated substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
(3.) In apparatus for controlling the sale or issue of tickets a bell indicator
operated substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(4) Apparatus for controlling the sale or issue of tickets constructed and
operated substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of July 1801
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.