IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING THE SUMS OF MONEY PAID BY PASSENGERS FOR JOURNIES MADE IN PUBLIC VEHICLES, AND FOR PREPARING TICKETS OR VOUCHERS FOR THE SAME, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES IN WHICH NUMEROUS SMALL SUMS OF MONEY ARE PAID FOR ARTICLES SUPPLIED TO THE PUBLIC
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Maas at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st July
1874.
I, JOSEPH MAAS, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Accountant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING THE SUMS OF MONEY PAID BY
PASSENGERS FOR JOURNIES MADE IN PUBLIC VEHICLES, AND FOR PREPARING TICKETS
OR VOUCHERS FOR THE SAME, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE
FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES IN WHICH NUMEROUS SMALL SUMS OF MONEY ARE
PAID FOR ARTICLES SUPPLIED TO THE PUBLIC," to be as follows:-
My Invention of improved apparatus for indicating and registering
the sums of money paid by passengers for journeys made in public
vehicles, and for preparing tickets or vouchers for the same, relates to
an improved form of counting apparatus, which is set in motion by the
conductor or other attendant of the vehicle every time a passenger pays

page_text: his fare, and is made to indicate in pence, shillings, and pounds the
total amount paid by the passengers.
The counting apparatus consists of a central shaft provided with a
handle for turning the same, and carrying a ratchet wheel of twelve
teeth representing twelve pence, and an index or dial. Into the teeth 5
of this wheel take two pawls or clicks, one of which carries a spring
hammer, which at the passage of every tooth strikes a bell or gong; the
other click is simply to prevent the wheel from being turned in tho
wrong direction. A pinion on the central axle or shaft gears into and
drives another wheel which carries a dial or index indicating shillings 1
or some aliquot part of a pound; and a third dial with gearing driven
in a similar manner may indicate pounds sterling, so that any number
of two penny, three penny, or other fares may be registered on the
apparatus, which will indicate at the end of the journey the total
amount of fares taken by the conductor. Behind the gearing of the 1
apparatus, but in the same case, is mounted a roll of paper of considerable
length and divided transversely by lines into short lengths, each repre-
senting one penny. The end of the paper passes between two roller
which are pressed against cach other by springs, and to one of which
rotary motion is communicated from the toothed gearing of the
apparatus, so that as the central or pence wheel is rotated by the con-
ductor the strip of paper will be carried forward a corresponding length
out of the machine, and may there be torn off in lengths corresponding
to the fares paid. This piece of paper is to be given to the passengers
for tickets or vouchers for having paid the fares. An apparatus of this
kind is equally applicable for indicating the amount of money taken at
the entrances to places of entertainment, or to refreshment bars, or other
places where large numbers of people pay small sums of money in
varying accounts,
In omnibuses and tramway cars the fares will generally consist of a

page_text: apparatuses will be connected with a third, placed behind and made to
indicato on a dial--the accumulated sums of the two others. This last
apparatus will not require any paper roll, as its only use is to indicate to
the proprietor the total amount of money received for vouchers delivered
from the other apparatus.