A SPECIAL AND GENERAL PENNY FARE REGISTER COLLECTING APPARATUS FOR SUCH AS TRAY CARS, OMNIBUSES, FERRY BOATS, TOLLS, ADMISSION TO PUBLIC PARKS, BUILDINGS &c
Year: 1885

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I RICHARD JONES, 40 Hamstead Road, Birmingham, in the county of Stafford,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A SPECIAL AND
GENERAL PENNY FARE REGISTER COLLECTING APPARATUS FOR SUCH AS TRAY
CARS, OMNIBUSES, FERRY BOATS, TOLLS, ADMISSION TO PUBLIC PARKS,
BUILDINGS &c to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object a ready adaptation of receiving, checking, and
holding the fare deposited, although its arrangement may be greatly varied (to
which I will restrict my description) The apparatus consists for this purpose of a
case or box of wood, metal papier mache, sheet tin or other suitable material, of
sufficient capacity not only to hold the register but also the deposited money.
On one side of the case or box is the receiver a revolving wheel divided into com-
partments having a false bottom to revolve on and a covering of metal and glass
combined with an aperture large enough for the fare to fall into the first com-
partment of the receiver then the collector moves forward the receiver for the next
compartment to receive a fare and so on until the last compartment of the receiver
comes forward. During this time the first fare falls through an aperture in the
false bottom into a locked or secured till below As business progresses the first
compartment of the receiver comes into use afresh as an endless receiver To the
arbor of the receiver are pinions that give motion to the register which consists of
a train of wheels the first registers twelve pence the second twenty shillings and
the third pounds The form and means of applying the register may be greatly
varied and arranged without affecting the character of my Invention.

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I, CAROLINE JONES widow & administratrix of the late Richard Jones, of
40, Hamstead Road, Birmingham, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters and
Figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention has reference to an improved apparatus for collecting fares on
tram-cars and other conveyances or entrance fees to public parks and other places,
my object being to provide a ready means of receiving, checking and holding the
money deposited.
I will describe my Invention as constructed for the collection of penny fares
or fees.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of an
apparatus constructed according to my Invention for the purpose of collecting fares
or fees of one penny; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation and Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional
plans of the same shewing the receiver; Fig. 6 is a sectional side elevation and
Fig. 7 is a sectional plan of the same shewing the mechanism as hereinafter
described and Fig. 8 represents in plan elevation and sectional elevation the
receiver forming part of the apparatus illustrated by the preceeding Figures
separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
a is a case or box of wood (or it may be made of metal, papier machè, or other
suitable material) of sufficient capacity to hold not only the register which records
the amount of money received but also to form a till for the deposited money.
The box a has a door b which can be locked and a handle c for holding it by. On
one side of the box a (preferably on the top side) is a receiver d which is in the
form of a wheel equally divided into compartments preferably three in number and
marked X, Y, Z, on my drawing and each large enough to contain only one penny.
The top part of the receiver d is made a little thicker than the thickness of a
penny and is arranged to revolve on a false bottom e and is provided with a metal
covering f having a glazed opening g' through which the contents of one of the
compartments of the receiver d is visible. The metal covering ƒ has a mouth-
piece w in the top of which is a slit and in the bottom an aperture a large enough
for a penny to fall through into one of the compartments of the receiver d; and
the false bottom e has an aperture / communicating with that part of the interior
of the box a which forms the till for the deposited money. The receiver d is tixed
on an arbor which revolves in bearings provided in the false bottom and
bracket j. Near the bottom of the arbor d is a pinion k which gears into the
toothed wheel m to give motion to the register which is of ordinary construction
and records the amount of money received. The said register may consist of a
train of three wheels marked n, o, p, the first (n) of which has twelve teeth and
the figures from 1 to 12 on its face to register pence, the second (o) has twenty
teeth and the figures from 1 to 20 on its face to register shillings and the
third (p) may have any convenient number of teeth and corresponding figures
on its face, but I prefer twenty, to register pounds. Each of the wheels n, o, P,
has a spring catch marked n¹, o, p¹, which spring respectively into the] teeth

page_text: of the wheels n, o, p when they have been moved forward as hereinafter described
so as to prevent their being moved backwards. The wheel n is fixed on the
spindle on which is also the toothed wheel m. The wheel m and pinion k
are so proportioned that when the receiver d has moved one-third of a revolution
the wheel n has moved one-twelfth and registers one penny. On the wheel n
is a projecting pin which when it is just completing a revolution and has
registered 11 pence engages with one of the teeth in the wheel o which it moves
through the space of one tooth and registers a shilling. In like manner the
wheel o has a pin 8 which engages with the wheel p to register pounds. Around
the periphery of the receiver d are three projections x, y, z, corresponding to the
three compartments X, Y, Z, by which the receiver can be moved around and there
are also three notches t¹, t, t, into one of which a spring catch u engages each time
one of the compartments is moved fairly under the aperture g. The spring catch u
can be disengaged from the notches in the receiver d by depressing the knob v.
The operation of the parts as above described is as follows:-One of the com-
partments of the receiver, for instance the first compartment X, being fairly under
the aperture g in the covering f (see Fig. 2) then when a penny is dropped through
the slit into the mouth-piece w it falls into the compartment ✗. The collector
then depresses the knob v so as to disengage the catch u and moves forward the
receiver on its arbor until it is arrested by the spring catch u when the next
compartment Y will be ready to receive a fare (see Fig. 4). The compartment X
is now under the glazed opening g' so that the collector can see it contains a penny
which will be registered by the pence wheel n moving through one tooth. The
spring catch u is now again released and the receiver moved forward to bring the
compartment Z under the aperture g to receive a penny (see Fig. 5) the penny
which was contained in the compartment X having fallen through the opening h
into the till part of the box a below. As business progresses the first compart-
ment X of the receiver comes into use afresh as an endless receiver each penny
taken being registered as above described.
It will be evident that the apparatus above described, can by altering the
proportions of the wheels which drive and form the register, be arranged for
collecting fares and fees other than penny fares and that variations may be made
in the shape and details of the apparatus without departing from the nature of my
Invention.
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. The improved apparatus for collecting fares on tram-cars or other carriages
and for other like purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing, that is to say, an apparatus for the purposes described consisting
essentially of a box containing a registering apparatus and having at one side a
wheel-like receiver divided into compartments, each large enough to contain only
a single coin, as described, arranged to revolve on a false bottom and having a top
covering part substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated.
2nd. In a fare collecting apparatus the employment of a receiver d in com-
bination with a false bottom e and a top covering part f all constructed and
arranged substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated,
Dated this 10th day of July 1886