IMPROVEMENTS IN TELL-TALES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Tee, of Scarborough, in the County of York, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TELL-TALES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Tee at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th April 1876.
HARRY TEE, of Scarborough, in the County of York.
TALES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TELL-
The improvements consist in the use of a gate or barrier or gates or barriers
which as they are opened impinge on a rod or lever and disengage it from a drum
worked by a spring or clock movement, the said drum being fitted with convenient
stops so spaced that they shall present themselves in rotation at desired intervals of
time, and thus in the event of the gate being kept open said intervals of time shall
be registered as well as the people passing, as next described.
The registering apparatus consists of Morse paper bands moved by spring or clock
movement (in duplicate or not as desired) and passing over the drum, the circum-
ferential surface of which is furnished with prickers, said prickers being arranged
to correspond with the intervals of time desired.
The apparatus is intended to be used as follows:-The gate or barrier or gates or
barriers are fixed, say, in the entrance of a tram car or omnibus; as each person
enters he or the conductor raises the gate or barrier, or causes it to be raised by a
pedal or otherwise, and the person passes; the net of raising causes the rod or lever
to disengage from the drum. The drum inoves through an interval and the pricker
marks the Morse paper; now should the conductor keep the gate or barrier open
more than, say, five seconds (or other time that may be arranged for), the drum will
move another interval, there being no rod or lever in place. The rod or lever is
replaced each time the gate or barrier is shut. It is contemplated as a check to
have sometimes a second gate working a second registering apparatus. Also to
prevent the gate being opened without the conductor's knowledge a stop or pedal
arrangement may be fixed to the gate or barrier or to the framework of the car
or omnibus, such stop or pedal arrangement being entirely under his control.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Harry Tee in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th October
1876.
HARRY TEE, of Scarborough, in the County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN TELL-
TALES.'
"
The improvements consist in the use of a gate or barrier or gates or barriers
which as they are opened actuate a rod or lever and disengage it from a drum
worked by a spring or clock movement or by the opening and shutting of the barrier
or by the wheels of the vehicle or by a combination thereof, the said drum being
fitted with convenient stops so spaced that they shall present themselves in rotation
at desired intervals of time, and thus in the event of the gate being kept opened
said intervals of time shall be registered as well as the people passing, as next
described.
The registering apparatus consists of Morse paper bands moved by spring or clock
movement (in duplicate or not as desired) and passing over the drum, the circum-
ferential surface of which is furnished with prickers, said prickers being arranged to
correspond with the intervals of time desired, or any other desirable mode of
registering may be adopted.
The apparatus is intended to be used as follows:-The gate or barrier or gates or
barriers are fixed, say, in the entrance of a tram car or omnibus; as each person
enters he or the conductor raises the gate or barrier, or causes it to be raised by a
pedal or otherwise, and the person passes; the act of mising causes the rod or lever
to permit the drum to turn. Tho drum moves through an interval and the pricker
marks the Morse paper; now should the conductor keep the gate or barrier open
more than, say, five seconds (or other time that may be arranged for), the drum will
move another interval, there being no rod or lever in place. It may be arranged
in certain cases that the barrier cannot be raised when the vehicle is in motion, and
that the lifting of the barrier shall cause a coin to drop into a scaled box, which
being counted affords the check desired. The rod or lever is replaced each time the
gate or barrier is shut. It is contemplated as a check to have sometimes a second
gate working a second registering apparatus. Also to prevent the gate being opened
without the conductor's knowledge a stop or pedal arrangement may be fixed to the
gate or barrier or to the framework of the car or omnibus, such stop or pedal
arrangement being entirely under his control.
One method of performing the Invention is shown in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawing.
Fig. 1 shows a sketch of one end of a tram carriage, showing the barrier lowered;
Fig. 2 gives a similar view, showing the barrier raised; and Fig. 3 is a diagram,
shewing the registering apparatus. The lettering is continuous, and refers to all
the Figures.
a is a light wooden rail or barrier turning on a pivot fixed at a certain distance
from one of its extremities so as to constitute a lever. The jointed actuating rod d
is hinged to one of its extremities, its upper part being guided so as to give a vertical
reciprocating motion when acted upon by the lever barrier u. bis simply an extra
barrier which may be applied if necessary; it follows the movements of a, being
connected thereto by the tie c. e is the case of the clock work indicator; one of its
faces are removed in Fig. 3 to show the mechanism. is a short lever actunted
by and used to impart motion to the stop or detent g, which works in the
wheel, the face of which is studded with any desired number of interval pins.
The periphery of h is also fitted with a like number of points or stabs, which work
into corresponding recesses in the wheel j, puncturing a strip of paper supplied
from the drum p, and thus registers the movements of the machine. The interval
pins also actuate the lever k, which being fitted with a striker impinges on the
bell m at every movement of the barrier a, the blow being communicated through
d, f, g, h, k, and I, to m. n is the main spring; o is the fly wheel; and p is the

page_text: Morse paper drum. Any other convenient method may be employed for obtaining
similar results or any other combination of the mechanical incans herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Tee, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
HARRY TEE. (L.S.)