Improved Apparatus or Indicator and Mechanical Way Bill for Checking and Registering the Number of Persons Travelling in Public Vehicles and the Amount of Fare or Fee Paid by each and every one of them, Applicable also
Year: 1884

page_text: Improved Apparatus or Indicator and Mechanical Way Bill
for Checking and Registering the Number of Persons
Travelling in Public Vehicles, and the Amount of Fare or
Fee Paid by each and every one of them, Applicable also
I HENRY LYON of 36 Hart Street Bloomsbury in the county of Middlesex
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVED
APPARATUS OR INDICATOR AND MECHANICAL WAY-BILL FOR CHECKING AND
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES AND
THE AMOUNT OF FARE OR FEE PAID BY EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM
APPLICABLE ALSO FOR REGISTERING THE TRANSFER OF PACKAGES, TALLYING
SHIPS CARGOES AND OTHER LIKE USEFUL PURPOSES to be as follows:-
"
The object of my invention is to so arrange nechanism within a casing that by
turning a finger piece half round in one direction from the outside the movement
shall be indicated upon an exposed dial plate said indication being registered.
When a series of such indications representing different values are required I fit
several sets of mechanical appliances within one casing and can so put the series
into connection with one master dial that the total number represented by the
several indicating dials can be registered upon one master dial which alone can be
exposed, the other dials being enclosed to be checked at will but independently of
the person in charge of the apparatus.
A sounding appliance or a number of them can be arranged to be acted upon at
the turn of each finger piece.
For the purpose of my invention I fit the finger piece on the outer end of a
spindle which has a click wheel provided with two teeth only and is also provided
with a check wheel in gear with a spring paul. The teeth of the click wheel acts
in succession against the teeth of another wheel and pulls it round which wheel
actuates the dial pointer. If the last mentioned wheel is provided with a single
side tooth the master wheel can be turned.
Springs and star wheels are arranged within a multiple apparatus and also sound
producing appliances to give notice when either finger piece is turned.
Dated this eighth day of January 1884.

page_text: I HENRY LYON of 36 Hart Street, Bloomsbury in the county of Middlesex
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVED
APPARATUS OR INDICATOR AND MECHANICAL WAY BILL FOR CHECKING AND
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TRAVELLING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES AND
THE AMOUNT OF FARE OR FEE PAID BY EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM
APPLICABLE ALSO FOR REGISTERING THE TRANSFER OF PACKAGES, TALLYING
SHIPS CARGOES, AND OTHER LIKE USEFUL PURPOSES, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement :—
The object of my invention is to so arrange mechanism within a casing that by
turning a finger piece half round in one direction from the outside the movement
shall be indicated upon an exposed plate, said indication being registered.
When a series of such indications representing different values are required I fit
several sets of mechanical appliances within one casing and can so put the series
into connection with one master dial that the total number represented by the
several indicating dials can be registered upon one master dial which alone may be
exposed, the other dials being enclosed to be checked at will but independently of
the person in charge of the apparatus.
A sounding appliance or a number of them can be arranged to be acted upon at
the turn of each finger piece.
For the purpose of my invention I fit the finger piece on the outer end of a
spindle which has a click wheel provided with two teeth only and is also provided
with a check wheel in gear with a spring paul. The teeth of the click wheel act
in succession against the teeth of another wheel and pulls it round, which wheel
actuates the dial pointer. If the last mentioned wheel is provided with a single
side tooth, the master wheel can be turned.
The spindle has according to a modification a worm in gear with a worm wheel
on the arbor of the dial pointer which arbor also carries a disc having a single
tooth to engage at each revolution into a star wheel whose dial indicates higher
numbers.
Springs and star wheels are arranged within a multiple apparatus and also sound
producing appliances to give notice when either finger piece is turned.
The invention will be clearly understood by the annexed drawings in which
Figure 1 shows an exterior view of the dial side of an apparatus. It is composed
of a casing A within which a number of spindles (6) B, B, are fitted but with
circular tablets C, C, projecting to enable the spindles to be turned half round in
one direction only, the tablets being marked with numerals indicating the amount
of any denomination paid to the conductor of say, a public vehicle, by a passenger.
The drawing represents the varying amounts payable according to the distance
travelled and correspond to a table of fares fixed by the proprietor of the vehicle.
Each spindle B carries a notched plate or detent D into which a spring paul D¹ can
engage at each half turn to hold the spindle firmly against accidental shifting of it,
it also carries a four toothed disc E the teeth of which is ratchet shaped for a spring
paul to enter and thus prevent the spindle being turned in the wrong direction.
I provide the disc E with four teeth in order that should the tablet C be turned
into a vertical position or only a quarter round the spindle becomes locked against
its being turned back and thus prevent fraud.
The spindle also carries a double claw push plate F which at each complete half
turn causes one claw to act upon a stud of an eccentrically pivotted plate G to push
the plate in a circular direction and a spring draw paul H with which it is provided
to slide over one tooth of a hundred toothed wheel and to engage in the next tooth
of that wheel so that when the plate is released which is effected at the completion

page_text: of the half turn, it returns to its normal position under the action of the spring I
fitted for the purpose which pushes the wheel J the distance of one tooth which
distance corresponds to the movement of a finger K over the divisions on the
dial K¹ which indicates and registers the motion. The other claw of the double
claw push plate F simultaneously acts upon the pivotted plate L and pushes that
plate round in a corresponding manner in order to bring a hammer M into 'tension
which on being released is caused by its spring M' to strike a bell or gong N the
sound of which will indicate to the passenger that the fare is being registered.
The arrangement of the spindle and its appurtenances is represented in the part
sectional view Figure 2 and of the plate G by the detached plan view Figure 3.
P shows the handle by which the apparatus can be carried by the conductor
which apparatus he can present to the passenger to enable him to turn the tablet
bearing the numeral corresponding to the amount paid by him.
I fit a pin Q near the periphery of the hundred toothed wheel J to engage and
push forward a star wheel R the distance of one tooth at each revolution by which
means any number of passengers up to 1,000 and the cash paid by them can be
registered.
The whole of the working parts of the apparatus and also the dials are enclosed
within the casing which can be secretly locked to prevent them being tampered
with.
In Figures 8 and 9 the tablet spindles B, B, are each formed with a screw
thread B geared into by wheel J on the arbor a of the index hand K which would
represent say,, 50 turns over of the tablet C for one complete rotation of the wheel J,
the tooth of the disc J¹ on the same arbor a moving the star wheel R the distance
of one tooth for every 50 operations of the tablet C Thus if the star wheel R
has 10 teeth a full rotation of it would represent 500 operations of the tablet C
which star wheel by gearing in a similar manner into a master index wheel
thousands of operations of the tablet C could be represented as before explained.
The casing can be made to any convenient shape and any number of spindles
and their appurtenances can be fitted in them as will be understood.
Figures 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in which the spindles vary in number to show the
adaptability of the invention to suit different purposes.
For instance: The
apparatus with the single tablet can be used to indicate and register any number
of payments of the same denomination or the passage of workmen or persons
passing a given spot or the transfer of parcels or goods of any kind such as on
Railways. Those with two or more tablets are applicable for steam boats public
vehicles, theatres and other places of amusement to indicate the different classes
of visitors according to the price paid for admission or the positions to be occupied
by them, or the different fares paid as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First The registration by enclosed mechanism arranged as set forth operated by
the half turn of an exposed tablet as herein before explained.
Secondly. The particular combination of appliances acted upon by a spindle
whose half turn causes an index hand to move to indicate and register said action
as shown in the accompanying drawings and as herein before described.
. .
L 1.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.