IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING AND RECORDING BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Phillips Thompson of the Liverpool and London
Agency for Foreign Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street Liverpool in the county
of Lancaster. Civil Engineer for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
REGISTERING AND RECORDING BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS AND IN APPARATUS
THEREFOR a communication from James Conwell Shoup a person resident at
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Phillips Thompson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, of the Liverpool and London Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street Liverpool in the county of Lancaster,
Civil Engineer. " IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING AND RECORDING BUSINESS
TRANSACTIONS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR." A communication from James
Conwell Shoup, a person resident at St Louis, in the state of Missouri, United
States of America.
This invention relates to a device for recording and preserving copies of bills,
tickets, and like papers or memoranda, issued by employes as a duty in the course,
and as evidence of business transactions, the object of the invention being to
register or record and store, such copies automatically in regular order out of
control of the employes or agents by whom the originals are made, or issued, and
in a place accessible only to authorized persons, the stored copies serving as checks
or tallies by means of which past transactions may be reviewed and the fear of
detection by means of which will tend to prevent fraud on the part of such
employes or agents in making their returns.
In carrying out the invention according to one form, in a suitable frame is
mounted two spools or rollers upon which respectively are wound the slips of
paper upon which originals to be issued and copies to be preserved are to be
written, and a third or storing spool or roller upon which the copy slip is to be
wound as the copies are successively made thereon. From the two first named, or
dispensing spools, the two slips are led together flat wise over guide rollers whence
they pass across a desk or tablet to and between a pair of gripping rollers, one of
the slips, (the copy slip) passing from the gripping rollers to the storing spool or

page_text: roller, and the other (the inner slip) being discharged past a straight edge against
which are torn off the bills or written pieces to be issued. The writing and
copying are performed upon those portions of the two slips which for the proper
time lie upon the desk or tablet, the upper or exposed slip receiving the original
writing, a copy of which, is transferred to the under slip, in the well known manner
by means of an interposed slip of carbon or similar transfer paper, which is by
suitable means stretched athwart the desk or tablet in a direction at right angles
to the passage of the issue and copy slips, said carbon or transfer slip being
arranged to be shifted for bringing fresh portions into position for use when others
are exhausted or worn out. The spools or rollers, dispensing and storing, are all
mounted independently of each other, and the slips receive motion, for shifting or
feeding them forward entirely from the storing roller, which is provided with a
crank or other suitable means for turning it. As this roller is turned, the copy
slip which has one end connected to it, is drawn from its dispensing spool and
causes a rotation of the gripping rollers between which it passes in company
with the issue slip, as before stated. The gripping rollers hold the slips in frictional
contact with each other so that the upper slip will always move in unison with the
copy slip. After leaving their respective dispensing spools and coming together on
the first guide roller the two slips travel in juxtaposition until separated on the
desk by the interposed carbon slip, and after inscription meet again between the
gripping rollers, whence they take different routes, one being torn into pieces of
proper size and issued to persons entitled to receive the same, while the other is
wound upon the storing roller as a continuous record or copy of all the writings
performed at the desk or tablet upon the issued pieces. After passing between the
gripping rollers the copy slip passes down under an inclined glass pane supported
by the outside side of the frame.
The issue slips may be printed with blank forms to be filled up by writing on
the desk, but the copy slip is blank and receives only such inscriptions as are
transferred to it by the act of writing upon the outer or issue slip. The advantage
of having the copy slip originally entirely blank is that there is no confusion
occasioned by imperfect register or lack of coincidence of position between the two
slips, such as always occurs when it is attempted to cause two identically printed
slips to travel together in such relation that similar points or blanks on both slips
will reach a common position simultaneously.
An important feature of this invention consists in mounting independently of
each other all the spools or rollers which carry and control the issue and copy slips,
and in making the copy slips, the medium of transmitting motion from the storing
roller to the other or issue slip and the dispensing spools. By this means there
may be dispensed with all intermediate gearing and differential motion
transmitting devices which have heretofore been used in machines of this class
for maintaining a proper relation of movement and position between the various
parts.
The shafts of the winding reel and of the storing reel have each a square
projection at the ends to receive a key or crank for winding and are provided with
disc or jambing block to prevent backward turning.
It will be obvious that the number of slips and spools or rollers might be
multiplied to meet various requirements, as for instance, if it were desired to
preserve two copy or record slips, one storing and three dispensing spools and three
slips would be used, the two copy slips being run together to the said storing spool
and an extra carbon slip interposed between them at the desk, or two of the
three slips might be run off and duplicates issued while a single copy slip would
be preserved.
In practice the mechanism is to be enclosed in a box or casing having an
opening to prevent writing upon the outer or exposed slip at the desk and a small
side aperture through which projects a journal of the storing spool or roller to
receive a crank or other means for turning it. The box or casing is to be locked
so that access to the interior can be had only by authorized persons,

page_text: Of course it will be understood that the form of blanks printed on the issue
slip may be varied to suit different kinds of business, and as before stated, by the
slight mechanical changes indicated, the apparatus may be arranged to use any
number of slips which may be required. It is so arranged that as the slip is
unwound from spool, and the reel is thus decreased in size, the reel of paper or
the storing reel increases in size and occupies a portion of the space, it previously
occupied when on spool, and thus the two spools may be placed at a minimum
distance apart so to utilize space to the greatest advantage.
Another form of my invention is constructed especially as a fare register to serve
as a check to conductors on railway trains when receiving fares from passengers,
and to secure an accurate record of the traffic which may be compared with the
conductors returns of money or other proper equivalents for fares. In this form
the issue and copy slips are wound on the same dispensing or delivery spool, and
instead of passing athwart a carbon or transfer slip are led together through guides
which are perforated for the passage of a punch by which both slips may be
punched simultaneously and at corresponding points. The issue slip is printed
with ticket forms each containing a series of names of starting and terminal stations
in proper order, and the punch passages are so arranged that said ticket may be
punched on either side margin at points opposite any of the station names and
also at various points in a transverse line across its head or front end margin. The
particular side margin on which a ticket is punched will indicate the direction of
travel of the train; the distance between two perforations in the blank copy slip
will indicate the two stations punched on a corresponding ticket torn from the issue
slip and issued to a passenger by the conductor as a receipt for fare or a passage
ticket between the two stations punched; and the position of a perforation on a
line across the head or end'margin, will indicate the character of the fare received
by the conductor, as for instance, whether it be cash, a passage ticket, a pass, a
half-fare, or whatever other equivalent it may be. This form of the invention is
provided with a puncturing wheel pressed by a spring against one of the slips so
that its spurs or points will pierce both slips and prevent them from being moved
separately, while a detent spring prevents back turning of the said wheel and
retrogressive movement of the slips. The mechanism of the fare register is enclosed
in a box or casing composed of two parts hinged together and provided with
locking devices, and in one part of this casing is pivoted transversely a plate
having its free edge projecting laterally and serrated, the serrations standing
normally close to but not touching the copy slip as it passes to the storing reel,
From the pivoted end of the plate, a lever extends into the other part of the casing
and is provided with a cam slot which embraces a stationary pin, which, whenever
the casing is opened, causes the lever to throw the serrated edge of the plate
against the copy slip so that said slip is marked by a transverse line of punctures.
Thus an inspection of the copy slip will show the fact if at any time the casing
has been opened by the conductor or others without authority, as in such cases the
opening will result in lines of punctures at points between those indicating the
regular and authorized openings.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Phillips Thompson in the Patent Office on the 9th April 1884.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON of the Liverpool and London Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster
Civil Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGISTERING AND RECORDING BUSINESS
TRANSACTIONS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR A communication from James
Conwell Shoup, a person resident at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, United
States of America.
.
"
This invention relates to a device for recording and preserving copies of bills,
tickets, and like papers or memoranda, issued by employes as a duty in the course,
and as evidence of business transactions, the object of the invention being to
register or record and store such copies automatically in regular order out of
control of the employes or agents by whom the originals are made or issued, and in
a place accessible only to authorized persons, the stored copies serving as checks
or tallies by means of which past transactions may be reviewed and the fear of
detection, by means of which, will tend to prevent fraud on the part of such
employes or agents in making their returns.
In carrying out the invention according to one form there is mounted in a
suitable frame two spools or rollers upon which respectively are wound the slips of
paper upon which originals to be issued and copies to be preserved are to be
written, and a third or storing spool or roller upon which the copy slip is to be
wound as the copies are successively made thereon From the two first named, or
dispensing spools, the two slips are led together flat wise over guide rollers whence
they pass across a desk or tablet to and between a pair of gripping rollers, one of
the slips (the copy slip) passing from the gripping rollers to the storing spool or
roller, and the other (the inner slip) being discharged past a straight edge against
which are torn off the bills or written pieces to be issued. The writing and
copying are performed upon those portions of the two slips which for the proper
time lie upon the desk or tablet, the upper or exposed slip receiving the original
writing, a copy of which, is transferred to the under slip, in the well known manner
by means of an interposed slip of carbon or similar transfer paper, which is by
suitable means stretched athwart the desk or tablet in a direction at right angles to
the passage of the issue and copy slips, said carbon or transfer slip being arranged
to be shifted for bringing fresh portions into position for use when others are
exhausted or worn out. The spools or rollers, dispensing and storing, are all
mounted independently of each other, and the slips receive motion for shifting or
feeding them forward entirely from the storing roller, which is provided with a
crank or other suitable means for turning it. As this roller is turned, the copy
slip which has one end connected to it, is drawn from its dispensing spool and
causes a rotation of the gripping rollers between which it passes in company with
the issue slip, as before stated. The gripping rollers hold the slips in frictional
contact with each other so that the upper slip will always move in unison with the
copy slip. After leaving their respective dispensing spools and coming together on
the first guide roller the two slips travel in juxtaposition until separated on the
desk by the interposed carbon slip, and after inscription meet again between the
gripping rollers whence they take different routes, one being torn into pieces of proper
size and issued to persons entitled to receive the same; while the other is wound
upon the storing roller as a continuous record or copy of all the writings performed
at the desk or tablet upon the issued pieces.
The issue slips may be printed with blank forms to be filled up by writing
on the desk, but the copy slip is blank and receives only such inscriptions as are

page_text: transferred to it by the act of writing upon the outer or issue slip. The advantage
of having the copy slip originally entirely blank is that there is no confusion
occasioned by imperfect register or lack of coincidence of position between the two
slips, such as always occurs when it is attempted to cause two identically printed
slips to travel together in such relation that similar points or blanks on both slips
will reach a common position simultaneously.
An important feature of the invention consists in mounting independently of each
other all the spools or rollers which carry and control the issue and copy slips, and
in making the copy slips the medium of transmitting motion from the storing
roller to the other or issue slip and the dispensing spools. By this means there
may be dispensed with all intermediate gearing and differential motion trans-
mitting devices which have heretofore been used in machines of this class for
maintaining a proper relation of movement and position between the various
parts.
It will be obvious that the number of slips and spools or rollers might be
multiplied to meet various requirements, as for instance, if it were desired to
preserve two copy or record slips, one storing and three dispensing spools and three
slips would be used, the two copy slips being run together to the said storing spool
and an extra carbon slip interposed between them at the desk, or two of the three
slips might be run off and duplicates issued while a single copy slip would be
preserved.
In practice the mechanism is to be enclosed in a box or casing having an opening
to prevent writing upon the outer or exposed slip at the desk, and a small side
aperture through which projects a journal of the storing spool or roller to receive a
crank or other means for turning it. The box or casing is to be locked so that
access to the interior can be had only by authorized persons.
Another form of the invention is constructed especially as a fare register to serve
as a check to conductors on railway trains when receiving fares from passengers,
and to secure an accurate record of the traffic which may be compared with the
conductors returns of money or other proper equivalents for fares. In this form
the issue and copy slips are wound on the same dispensing or delivery spool, and
instead of passing athwart a carbon or transfer slip are led together through guides
which are perforated for the passage of a punch by which both slips may be
punched simultaneously and at corresponding points. The issue slip is printed
with ticket forms each containing a series of names of starting and terminal
stations in proper order, and the punch passages are so arranged that said ticket
may be punched on either side margin at points opposite any of the station names
and also at various points in a transverse line across its head or front end margin.
The particular side margin on which a ticket is punched will indicate the direction
of travel of the train; the distance between two perforations in the blank copy
slip will indicate the two stations punched on a corresponding ticket torn from the.
issue slip and issued to a passenger by the conductor as a receipt for fare or a
passage ticket between the two stations punched; and the position of a perforation
on a line across the head or end margin, will indicate the character of the fare
received by the conductor, as for instance, whether it be cash, a passage ticket, a
pass a half-fare, or whatever other equivalent it may be. This form of the,
invention is provided with a puncturing wheel pressed by a spring against one of
the slips so that its spurs or points will pierce both slips and prevent them from
being moved separately, while a detent spring prevents back turning of the said
wheel and retrogressive movement of the slips. The mechanism of the fare register
is enclosed in a box or casing composed of two parts hinged together and provided
with locking devices, and in one part of this casing is pivoted transversely a plate
baving its free edge projecting laterally and serrated, the serrations standing
normally close to but not touching the copy slip as it passes to the storing reel.
From the pivoted end of the plate, a lever extends into the other part of the casing
and is provided with a cam slot which embraces a stationary pin, which, whenever
the casing is opened, causes the lever to throw the serrated edge of the plate

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Thus an inspection of the copy slip will show the fact if at any time the casing has
been opened by the conductor or others without authority, as in such cases the
opening will result in lines of punctures at points between those indicating the
regular and authorized openings.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 sheet 1, is a side elevation of a registering or recording apparatus with the
enclosing casing removed.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central vertical section of the same.
Fig. 3. is a top view of the same.
Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section on the line xx, of Figs 1 and 3.
Fig. 5 is a detail fragmentary section of the desk or supporting tablet, the issue
slip, copy slip, and interposed carbon slip.
Fig. 6 is a detail view partly in section illustrating the manner of retaining the
spool bearings or pintles in position.
Fig. 7 is a longitudinal central vertical section of a conductor's fare register
constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 8 is a top view of the same with an issue ticket or check projected in position
to be torn off.
Fig. 9. is a transverse section on the line y y of figures 7 and 8.
Fig 10 is a detail view of the check wheel, with its supports, detent, the slip
guide, and slips in section.
Fig. 11 is a detail perspective view of the serrated plate for puncturing the copy
slip on a transverse line.
Fig. 12 is a view of a portion of the copy slip corresponding to the punched
ticket or check shown projected in Fig 8.
Referring to the figures
B is the storing reel fixed upon a transverse shaft a in the lower front part of
the frame and having journal bearings in the opposite sides thereof. B is the
dispensing spool which carries the copy slip C, and is mounted to turn on a cross
rod a supported in the opposite sides of the frame, and B' is the dispensing spool
The rods a¹ and a³
carrying the issue slip and mounted to turn on a cross-rod a³.
are stationary and the spools B' and B' are mounted thereon with sufficient friction
to prevent them from running free when not purposely turned.
The copy slip C and issue slip C₁ have thin outer ends first laid together flatwise
and then the two slips are led together up and around the guide rollers D and D',
which are mounted in the frame in an obvious manner, said slips being then drawn
horizontally forward across the top of a desk or supporting tablet F which is
From the front edge of
supported at the top of the frame, between the two sides.
the tablet F the two slips pass together between two gripping rollers E and E¹, the
lower E¹ of which is made of wood or other suitable material and has its periphery
about on a level with the top of the tablet, while the upper one E is preferably
formed or faced with vulcanized rubber and is fixed on a shaft which has its
bearings in blocks e¹, which have vertical play in slots in projections e* from the
upper edges of the sides of the frame. The bearing blocks are drawn downward
by springs 88, which give the roller E the required pressure upon the slips to
secure the drawing forward of the top or issue slip. This upper gripping roller is
enclosed in a housing H formed of a curved metal plate having its lower front
edge h¹ bent forward and beveled to form a straight edge, against which portions
of the issue slip may be torn off.
After passing between the gripping rollers the issue slip passes straight outward
from the casings through an opening or slit under the straight edge h, but the
copy slip C¹ passes obliquely forward and downward under a glass pane F¹
supported by the opposite sides of the frame, and over a guide roller I whence said
slip passes to the storing spool or roller B to which its end is secured.
Between those portions of the copy and issue slips which lie above the tablet F
is interposed a portion of the slip G of carbon or similar transfer fabric, such as

page_text: used in manifold copying, and in order that the transfer slip may be conveniently
shifted for bringing fresh portions over the tablet, it is wound upon a delivery
reel R mounted longitudinally in bearings projecting inwardly from one side of the
frame, and is led from the reel up over a parallel guide roller t, about on a level
with the edge of the tablet F, and is then passed transversely between the slips C
and C, and down over a similar guide roller t¹, at the opposite edge of the tablet
The shaft r of
down to a winding reel R¹ mounted similarly to the delivery reel.
the winding reel projects forwardly beyond its bearing and is provided with a
bevel pinion which meshes with a similar pinion fixed upon a short shaft
having a bearing in one side of the frame, and projecting outwardly with its end
squared as shown at to receive a turning key or crank. Upon this projecting
portion of this short shaft is fixed a disc against the periphery of which rests
the free edge of a jamb lock pivoted to the frame and serving in the ordinary
manner to prevent the shaft from turning backward Its proper direction being as
indicated by the arrow on the disc in Fig 1. It is obvious that when the shaft 78
is turned motion will be transmitted to the winding reel and thus a fresh portion
of the transfer slip may be at any time drawn between the slips C and C'.
The shaft a of the storing reel B has also a squared projecting end as shown
at b, to receive a winding key or crank, and is provided with disc b¹ against which
a jambing block 62 acts to prevent backward turning.
In Fig 3 it will be seen that the exposed portion of the slip C, above the desk
or tablet is represented as having a blank form printed upon it, and designed to be
filled by writing. Now supposing the registering or recording apparatus to be
used in a dry-goods shop, the clerk who makes a sale of goods will write a bill for
his customer upon the blank form and fill up the blanks according to a pre-arranged
method. In doing this he transfers to the copy slip an exact copy of what he
writes in the blank form, and when he then turns the storing spool to draw
forward and project the bill so that he can tear it off for presentation, he at the
same time draws the copy forward under the glass pane F¹, where it may be
inspected until such time as a further turning carries it onward to the storing
spool B. Copies of all bills will thus be stored out of control of the maker
supposing the mechanism to be enclosed in a locked casing as before explained and
the sales and amount of money collected for any given period may be viewed at
any time by a person having access to the interior of the casing by taking out the
storing spool and unwinding the copy slip therefrom.
In order to permit the ready removal and replacement of the spools B¹ and B' as
required, the rods a¹ and a have each one end projecting through a side of the
frame as shown at a³ a' and these projecting ends are grooved circumferentially as
shown at a³ in Fig 6 to receive hooks vas shown in Fig. 1. These hooks when
engaged in the grooves prevent longitudinal movement of the shaft and rods, but
they can be slipped longitudinally for removal from their bearings when said hooks
are disengaged.
The glass pane enables the user of the apparatus to inspect the copy temporarily
and affords time for making memoranda therefrom after waiting upon the
customer while at the same time other persons cannot conveniently read the copy
owing to the mounted position in which it is presented.
Of course it will be understood that the form of blanks printed on the issue slip
may be varied to suit different kinds of business, and as before stated, by the slight
mechanical changes indicated, the apparatus may be arranged to use any number
of slips which may be required. It will be perceived that as the slip is unwound
from spool B and the reel is thus decreased in size the reel of paper or the storing
reel increases in size and occupies a portion of the space it previously occupied
when on spool B¹, and thus the two spools may be placed at a minimum distance
apart so to utilize space to the greatest advantage.
Referring now to the remaining figures, for a particular understanding of the
modified form of the invention intended especially for use as a railway conductor's
fare register, the letter A³ designates the enclosing box or casing which is composed

page_text: of two parts hinged together at w and provided at the opposite end with a lock L
Between the side walls of the casing are arranged two transverse rollers K and K¹
having journal bearings between the edges of the two opposite parts of said casing.
The roller K is the dispensing roller upon which are wound both the printed ticket
or check slip C³ and the blank copy slip c. Upon the roller K¹, is secured a disc
or head k against the periphery of which bears a jambing lock 8¹ similar to those
heretofore described for preventing the reel from turning backward. The roller K¹
is provided with a turning knob w which stands outside of the casing.
At the front portion at the top of the casing is a guide plate M having its ends
curved downwards as shown at m and m¹ for properly guiding the slips. The
plate M extends from one side wall to the other and immediately above it is
secured an oblong open frame N the sides of which are provided respectively with
rows of perforations as shown at n¹ and n while its front end has a transverse row
of perforations. Directly under the row of perforations n n¹ and n² there are
corresponding perforations in the plate M. The slips C and C³ are led together
from the dispensing roller K forward over the plate M and under the frame N their
side margins extending under the sides of said frame while the printed face of a
single ticket or check printed on the upper or issue slip may be seen through the
open space between the sides and ends. After passing out from under the front
end of the frame N the issue slip C³, passes on out in front of the casing but the
blank copy slip C³, is led down over the curved front end m² of plate M and a
rock shaft i to the storing reel K¹, to which the front end is attached in any
convenient manner.
When the
From the upper side of the rock shaft i extends a plate P standing transversely
in the casing and having its upper edge bent forward and serrated as shown at p,
this serrated edge standing normally close to but not touching the copy slip C
which is stretched in front of it. To one end of the plate P, is attached a plate
lever P¹ projecting downward into the lower portion of the casing and having a
cam slot q through which a pin q¹ projects from the adjacent side wall.
casing is closed the pin q¹ is at the upper end of the slot q but when the two parts
of the casing are opened away from each other the edge wall of the cam slot
acting on pin q¹ causes the plate P to be thrown quickly forward and puncture the
copy slip on a transverse line, and then backward so that it will not tear the slip
as the case is further opened. A transverse line of puncture will thus indicate
every time the casing is opened and its unauthorized opening will be exposed by
the fact of such lines of puncture appearing between those which mark the points
at which occurred the regular and authorized openings for inspection of the copy
slip or replenishment of the dispensing roller with a supply of slips.
.
Under the rear portion of the plate M is secured one end of a spring plate z the
free rear end of which carries luga or standards z¹, projecting upwardly across the
opposite edges of the curved rear end of plate M and having mounted between
them a shaft upon which is fixed a spur wheel V, the serrates or points of which
bear upon the surface of the slips and pierce both of them as they pass between
the wheel and upper surface of the curved part of the plate, the spring plate z
pressing the wheel toward the plate with sufficient force to insure the piercing of
both slips.
It will now be seen that the pointed wheel serves to feed forward the issue slip
when it is turned by the movement of the copy slip and performs thus substantially
the same function as the gripping rollers in the first described form of my invention.
It is obvious that the issue slip cannot be drawn without also drawing an equal
length of the copy slip off the dispensing spool. In order to prevent the copy slip
from being thus drawn off and wound back on the dispensing roller, a spring
pawl 2 is arranged to engage the teeth or points of wheel V and prevent it from
turning backward. If a portion of the copy slip were drawn off, therefore without
being punched to correspond with tickets issued it could only be disposed of by
tearing the slip or winding it on the storing spool, either of which actions would
expose the fact of a fraud having been committed.

page_text: In using apparatus, the conductor, on taking up a fare in any shape, is required
to issue to the passengers from whom he receives it, a check or receipt ticket
taken from the issue slip C. On the slips are printed a series of such checks or
tickets each having printed in regular order across it the names of the starting
stopping and terminal stations of the portion of the railway upon which the train
makes its trips, these names being the same distance apart as the perforations at
the sides of the frame N, so that a ticket may be drawn under said frame with a
perforation at each end of each name, and the front end margin under the transverse
row of perforations n. The first act of the conductor after taking up a fare is to
punch, with a suitable tool, the front end margin of the first ticket which is under
the frame N. This punching will indicate the character of the fare collected as
well as a datum point to show the beginning of a ticket.
Having indicated the character of the fare collected, the conductor punches the
ticket opposite the names of the stations between which the passenger is to travel
or has paid for passage, the side of the ticket on which the perforations are punched
will indicate the direction of the train. In punching the ticket, it will be under-
stood that the punching tool passes through both slips and then when the storing
reel is turned, in order to draw forward and project the ticket to be torn off, a
correspondingly punched portion of the copy slip is wound upon said storing reel,
the position of the perforations indicating the exact nature of the ticket issued.
Fig 12. shows a portion of the copy slip punched to correspond with the ticket
projected from the casing in Fig 8, and the copy would show that a check or receipt
ticket had been issued to a passenger from whom had been collected say a ticket
for passage from Chicago to Lincoln, the distance from the head marginal perfora-
tion in the copy slip to the first side marginal perforations giving one station, and
the distance from the first side marginal perforations to the next giving the other
station, while the particular side margin punched shows the direction of the train.
It will be now obvious that an inspection of the copy slip after a trip of the train is
completed will reveal to an unauthorized person the exact number and character of
fares for which the conductor has issued receipts.
Having now described the invention as communicated to me and explained the
operation thereof in the different forms of the embodiment I wish it to be understood
that what I desire to protect and claim is :-
1. A registering or recording apparatus in which a slip to be torn off or severed
and issued in parts is fed forward for tearing or severing by the movement of a
record, registry or copy slip to be preserved, substantially as set forth.
2. In a registering or recording apparatus, the combination of one or more
dispensing spools or rollers, and a storing reel or roller, each mounted indepen-
dently of the others, the dispensing spools being moved to give off a plurality of
slips by drawing the record or registry slips, substantially as described.
3. In a registering or recording apparatus, the combinations of one or more
dispensing spools or rollers, a storing spool or roller, and gripping or feeding rollers
mounted independently of each other and moved simultaneously to give off a
plurality of slips and wind up one of them by moving the said storing spool or
roller, substantially as described.
4. In a registering or recording apparatus, the combination with the inde-
pendently mounted dispensing spools, storing spool, and gripping rollers or wheels,
of means for moving a transfer slip at right angles to the path of the slips travelling
from the dispensing spools, substantially as described.
5. In an automatic registering or recording apparatus, the combination herein-
before described of the dispensing spools, guide rollers, grip or feed rollers, and
storing reel, all independently mounted in the frame, substantially as set forth.
6. In a registering or recording apparatus, substantially such as described, the
combination with the frame of the removable independently mounted dispensing
spools and means for locking the same in place, substantially as described.
7. In a registering or recording apparatus, the combination with the indepen-
dently mounted dispensing and storing spools, of means for preventing too free

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proper tension of the slips is maintained, substantially as described.
8. In an autographic registering or recording apparatus, the combination of the
dispensing spools, guide rolls, tablet or desk, gripping rollers, inclined window pane
and storing reel arranged to operate substantially as described.
9. The method of registering payments or fares collected by marking or punching
simultaneously two or more slips in such manner as to indicate the specific
character of the payments or fares and the value of the same or for what paid,
substantially as set forth.
10. In a registering or recording apparatus the combination and arrangement of
dispensing and storing spools in such relation to each other that as the slip or slips
are unwound from a dispensing spool and the recording slip wound upon a storing
spool, said recording slip may occupy a portion of the space one or both slips
previously occupied or a dispensing spool, substantially as described.
11. The method hereinbefore described of registering the fares and tickets
collected consisting in simultaneously puncturing juxtaposed printed ticket strip
and blank register strip as described, so as to indicate the character of the fares
or tickets collected and the initial and terminal stations between which the
passengers travel and thereby keeping an accurate record of the conductors
transactions.
In Witness whereof I, the said William Phillips Thompson have hereunto set
my hand and seal this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.