An Improved Apparatus for Registering Fares in Tram Cars and similar Vehicles.
Year: 1886

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Registering Fares in Tram Cars
and similar Vehicles.
I, GEORGE FAULKNER HAMPSON of Summer Villa Buckingham Road Levens-
hulme in the County of Lancaster, Cashier do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
It consists of two suitable turnstiles fixed one on each side of the doorway or
other entrance of the car or other vehicle so that no passenger can enter without
actuating them. They are each fixed upon an upright shaft and suitably geared so
as to work together and by means of a ratchet wheel upon one upright shalf in
which a suitable ratchet fixed to the boss or other centre of one turnstyle works or
takes are so adjusted that upon a passenger entering the vehicle the upright is
revolved and communicates its motion by means of bevel cogs and other suitable
gearing to a wheel or drum fixed in a convenient position which uncoils from a
smaller drum a numbered slip of suitable material which passes in its progress
from one drum to another an opening, or pointer or other suitable means of
indicating a particular number. This numbered slip is coiled back at periodical
intervals upon the smaller drum.
Upon a passenger leaving the car the ratchet slips freely round the ratchet
wheel.
Any back motion of the shaft is prevented by means of another ratchet or catch
placed at the lower end of the upright shaft or in some other convenient place.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1886.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
Agent to Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Registering Fares in Tram-cars
and similar Vehicles.
I, GEORGE FAULKNER HAMPSON of Summer Villa, Buckingham Road, Levens-
hulme, in the County of Lancaster Cashier, 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:-
It consists, first, of two turnstyles of suitable construction fixed one on each
side of the doorway or other entrance of the tramcar or other vehicle (which is
suitably fitted for their reception) so that no passenger can enter without actuating
them.
Each turnstyle is fixed upon a suitable upright shaft, and the two turnstyles are
geared together in any suitable way so as to work rigidly together, one turnstyle
being so fitted to its own particular shaft, by means of a suitable ratchet and
ratchet wheel, that upon a passenger entering the vehicle, this turnstyle turns
the registering shaft, and upon a passenger leaving the vehicle this turnstyle
revolves freely with the other shaft without moving the registering shaft.
Secondly, one of the upright shafts communicates its motion by means of bevel
cogwheels and other suitable gearing to a wheel or drum, fixed in a convenient
position, which uncoils from a smaller drum a numbered slip of suitable material,
which passes in its progress from one drum to another an opening or pointer, or
other suitable means of indicating a particular number. This numbered slip is
coiled back at any periodical interval upon the smaller drum.
This second part of the apparatus is enclosed in a box or case placed in a
convenient position and securely fastend.
In order that the foregoing may be better understood I send herewith four
Sheets of Drawings in which :-
Fig. 1, shows the apparatus fixed in the entrance of a tramcar, a a a a indicating
the arms of the turnstyles, which revolve on the bosses or centres b b, which are
geared together by means of the rods or shafts c c c and bevel cogwheels d d, the
second part of the apparatus being enclosed in box e.
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the central boss of the turnstyle (on section line A. B,
Fig. 3) which revolves freely round the shaft f in one direction and turns it in the
other direction by means of the ratchet g and ratchet wheel h.
Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are respectively a front, and two side views of the second part
of the apparatus with the door removed.
The boss or centre b is always brought into a position in which the arm of the
turnstyle stands across the entrance no matter in what position it is left, by means
of the star wheel or clutch i which is pressed by the spring k into the corresponding
projection. The motion received by the shaft f is transmitted by means of the
bevel cogwheels and to the shaft m, to which the pinion wheel n is attached
which gives the motion to the wheel or drum o by means of the teeth p which
extend all round the inside circumference of the drum o, which is of such a size as
to uncoil the numbered slip r from the smaller drum 8 exactly one number upon

page_text: one quarter revolution of the shaft f. For convenience in winding back the
numbered slip, the shaft m is fitted with a he and she cluch, m¹ (or any other
suitable device) by which the pinion wheel n can be disconnected from the shaft f
by means of the lever t, which is pressed at t¹ when it is desired to wind it back,
and is again connected upon the lever t being removed, by the spring u.
facilitate the winding the key is fitted on the shaft which turns the smaller
drum & by means of the cogwheel w and pinion x. A ratchet y and ratchet
wheel y' are fitted at the foot of the shaft f to prevent any back motion.
To
The bell is rung at every quarter revolution of the boss b by means of four
projections a¹ on the starwheel i.
For the security of the conductor a small bolt or catch 61 is provided by means
of which he can secure the boss b if he has occasion to leave the entrance of the
tram-car.
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
1st. Two turnstyles, substantially as described and shown herein before and in
the accompanying drawings, for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The combination of the shaft f, the bevel cogwheels and A, the shaft m,
the pinion wheel n, the wheels or drums o and 8 the numbered slip r, and the
ratchets and wheels g and h, and y and y substantially as described and shown
hereinbefore, and in the accompanying drawings, for the purpose set forth.
3rd. The combined apparatus substantially as described and shown hereinbefore
and in the accompanying drawings, for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 30th dow of Octohan 1002
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
Agent to Applicant.