IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS RECEIPTS OR CONTINUOUS LENGTHS OF PAPER OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1884

page_text: We GEORGE ALBERT WESTON, Railway Clerk and HENRY RANDALL PROCKTER,
Commercial Traveller both of N° 6 Park Street Croydon in the County of Surrey
do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS RECEIPTS OR CONTINUOUS LENGTHS
OF PAPER OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS" to be as follows:-
The apparatus consists of a box or suitable receptacle the interior of which
cannot be arrived at without injury to the outer covering.
This box or receptacle contains a continuous strip, ribbon or roll of tickets.
In one form of our apparatus this strip or ribbon is coiled round a central drum
or roller which revolves on a fixed spindle attached to the top and bottom of the
box or case.
The strip or ribbon of tickets is pulled out of an aperture or slit in
the box as it is required and its passage out is through a channel passing partly
around within the interior of the box or receptacle and fitted with several pairs of
flexible lips or detectors by preference of stiff paper. The strip or ribbon of tickets
is clipped or checked by means of said Hexible detectors which form a brake and
prevent its accidental or too rapid withdrawal and at the same time they guard
the port or aperture being directed towards the exit so as to prevent the
re-insertion of the strip or ribbon after withdrawal or the insertion of false receipts
or tickets.
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In another form of our apparatus the box or case contains the continuous strip
or ribbon of tickets folded instead of coiled or rolled. The strip or ribbon is led
through a passage in which it is clipped or checked by means of flexible detectors
as before described; at its exit from the chamber of the box the delivery of the folds
is regulated by flexible guides.
The tickets forming the continuous ribbon are consecutively numbered or
otherwise. We prefer to have the said strip perforated across and between each
ticket to facilitate the tearing off of the number required.
The aforesaid ribbon may consist of a series of tickets or receipts each of which
represents a fixed and equal amount which may be the whole or aliquot part of the
total value received.
The box for containing the tickets may be made of inexpensive materials such as
paper or cardboard, the roller and spindle being of wood, and these materials may

page_text: be treated with varnish or waterproof composition so as to render them less
liable to the effects of damp. The box could thus be made at a very low cost and
easily closed so that no access whatever could be had to it without so injuring it as
to indicate what had been done. The cost of the box thus made would be so
trifling that when the tickets were expended the box could be destroyed.
These tickets are suitable for use on tramways omnibuses, steam boats, for
admissions, sales & or for any purpose where tickets or checks are required to be
issued for value received. Thus for a tram car a box of tickets consecutively
numbered and each ticket made to represent a certain sun such as a penny is
given to a conductor who issues to each passenger a slip of tickets corresponding to
the number of pence paid and as he cannot replace any of them inside the box
after withdrawal, the number on the ticket at the aperture shews at once how
much he has received.
As an additional safeguard against fraud boxes of tickets of different colors can
be used.
Although we prefer the apparatus to be constructed of paper or cardboard with
wooden roller spindle and button as herein described it can also be made of any
suitable material and may be sealed up by means of a metal or paper label or seal
or otherwise and opened for the insertion of fresh continuous strips or ribbons and
sealed again as often as required.
The boxes may also be constructed to contain two or more continuous strips or
ribbons with separate apertures or slits for exit.
Dated this 19th day of February 1884.

page_text: We GEORGE ALBERT WESTON, Railway Clerk and HENRY RANDALL PROCKTER,
Commercial Traveller both of N° 6 Park Street Croydon in the County of Surrey
do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CONTAINING AND DELIVERING TICKETS RECEIPTS OR CONTINUOUS LENGTHS
OF PAPER OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS" and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The apparatus consists of a box or suitable receptacle the interior of which
cannot be arrived at without injury to the outer covering.
This box or receptacle contains a continuous strip, ribbon or roll of tickets.
In one form of our apparatus this strip or ribbon is coiled round a central drum
or roller which revolves on a fixed spindle attached to the top and bottom of the
box or case. The strip or ribbon of tickets is pulled out of an aperture or slit in
the box as it is required and its passage out is through a channel passing partly
around within the interior of the box or receptacle and fitted with several pairs of
flexible lips or detectors by preference of stiff paper. The strip or ribbon of
tickets is clipped or checked by means of said flexible detectors which form a
brake and prevent its accidental or too rapid withdrawal and at the same time
they guard the port or aperture being directed towards the exit so as to prevent
the re-insertion of the strip or ribbon after withdrawal or the insertion of false
receipts or tickets.
In another form of our apparatus the box or case contains the continuous strip or
ribbon of tickets folded instead of coiled or rolled. The strip. or ribbon is led
through a passage in which it is clipped or checked by means of flexible detectors
as before described; at its exit from the chamber of the box the delivery of the
folds is regulated by flexible guides.
The tickets forming the continuous ribbon are consecutively numbered or
otherwise. We prefer to have the said strip indented across and between each
ticket to facilitate the tearing off of the number required.
The aforesaid ribbon may consist of a series of tickets or receipts each of which
represents a fixed and equal amount which may be the whole or aliquot part of the
total value received.
The box for containing the tickets may be made of inexpensive materials such
as paper or cardboard, the roller and spindle being of wood, and these materials
may be treated with varnish or waterproof composition so as to render them less
liable to the effects of damp. The box could thus be made at a very low cost and
easily closed so that no access whatever could be had to it without so injuring it as
to indicate what had been done. The cost of the box thus made would be so
trifling that when the tickets were expended the box could be destroyed.
These tickets are suitable for use on tramways, omnibuses, steam boats, for
admissions, sales & or for any purpose where tickets or checks are required to be
issued for value received. Thus for a tram car a box of tickets consecutively
numbered and each ticket made to represent a certain sum such as a penny is given
to a conductor who issues to each passenger a slip of tickets corresponding to the
number of pence paid and as he cannot replace any of them inside the box after
withdrawal, the number on the ticket at the aperture shows at once how much he
has received.
As an additional safeguard against fraud boxes of tickets of different colors can
he nsed

page_text: Although we prefer the apparatus to be constructed of paper or cardboard with
wooden roller spindle and button as herein described the case or any of its parts
may be made of any other suitable material and sealed up by means of a metal
or paper label or seal or otherwise and opened for the insertion of fresh continuous
strips or ribbons and souled again
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The boxes may also be constructed to contain two or more continuous strips or
ribbons with separate apertures or slits for exit.
In order that our said Invention may be more fully understood and readily
carried into effect we will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
The boxes may also be constructed to contain two or more continuous strips or
ribbons with separate apertures or slits for exit.
In order that our said Invention may be more fully understood and readily
carried into effect we will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of a box or apparatus constructed according to our Invention,
to be used in delivering tickets or receipts or for like purposes.
Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same.
Figure 3 is a transverse section.
Figure 4 is an elevation.
The apparatus here shewn consists of a box constructed of cardboard. It has
circular ends A. A and they are connected together by the side or periphery of the
box B. The part B is a scroll of cardboard the ends of which overlap so as to
enclose a guide channel C with an entrance at C' and an exit or delivery mouth
at C³.
To stiffen the end of one part B which forms the outer side of the mouth the
cardboard is formed into a small roll as the Drawing indicates.
The ends of the box A A are also connected by a central spindle D which
has heads D' D¹ cemented or glued upon it, and these in turn are cemented or
glued to the parts A A.
E is a reel or roller capable of turning freely upon the spindle D, and on it there
is wound a continuous strip of paper F suitably printed and prepared to serve as
tickets or receipts.
It is convenient that each ticket should be separated from the next by an
indented line which will facilitate the separation of the tickets, but in thus
indenting the continuous paper care must be taken not too much to weaken the
material.
It will be understood that the roll of paper F when the parts are first put
together is as large as the box is capable of receiving; it is represented in the
Drawing as it would appear when the box has been more than half emptied by the
withdrawal and issue of tickets.
The end of the paper F is led away from the reel or roller through the guide
passage C and out through the delivery mouth C².
Within the guide passage it passes through several pairs of flexible lips or
detectors G G which are simply portions of cardboard of a width somewhat
exceeding that of the paper strip F. These are bent on themselves as is seen in
Figure 2, and they are fixed by glue or cement to the sides of the guide passage C,.
but they are not attached to the ends A A of the box, with which indeed they do
not come in contact.
These guide lips or detectors each exert a gentle pressure upon the paper, so that
the slip of paper cannot escape from the box accidentally but nevertheless can be
drawn out as required without fear of injury to the strip or its becoming displaced.
The lips or detectors Galso render it impossible to push back the tickets through
the guide passage C after they have once been drawn out of the box.
The apparatus is completed by enveloping it completely in a wrapper of paper
which is pasted on so that the interior cannot be reached without disfiguring the
case in such a way as would render detection certain.
The construction of the apparatus may in some cases be simplified by the
omission of the lips or detectors and the guide passage leaving only the delivery
mouth C³.

page_text: Figure 5 is a section of the apparatus differing from that described above in that
the lips or detectors are formed from the same piece of cardboard B which forms
the scroll like walls of the box.
Figure 6 shows a side view of an apparatus so made before the paper or
envelope has been applied and cemented over it; each lip is as will be seen
obtained by making a three sided incision in the cardboard and doubling over the
tongue so produced in the manner the Drawing indicates.
Figure 7 is a side elevation, and
Figure 8 is a vertical section of an apparatus in which the paper to form the
tickets is not wound upon a roller but is folded upon itself, along the line of
indentations which separate one ticket from another.
The box consists of two cardboard ends H H connected by sides I I (either in
one or more pieces) which not only form the outer walls of the box, but also
enclose within it a chamber K to receive the folded strip to form the tickets, and a
guide channel L from this chamber to the exit or delivery mouth at M. In this
guide channel L lips or detectors NN are provided as already described and shown
in Figures 2 and 5 and in addition to these we also provide guide fingers O, O, to
control the paper as it passes out of the chamber K these guide fingers consist of
strips of cardboard P and Q Q. The piece P is fixed to the ends of the box, so
that it is comparatively rigid, and it carries another piece Q cemented to it and not
to the ends of the box, so that this piece yields and exerts only a light pressure
upon the strip of paper as it passes out of the chamber.
The opposite finger Q' is cemented to the side I but not to the ends of the box,
and it also is flexible and exerts such a pressure upon the strip as to control it in
its passage, but it yields to a light strain and allows it to pass. But for these
fingers the continuous paper would be liable to become disarranged and crumpled
when the end is pulled to withdraw the tickets from the box, in place of passing
out regularly and evenly as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:—
First. Apparatus for containing and delivering tickets and the like consisting
of a securely closed cardboard box containing the continuous strip from which
tickets are to be detached and a guide channel with flexible lips or detectors and
terminating in a delivery mouth substantially as described.
Second. As an improvement in apparatus for containing and delivering tickets
and the like the guide channel provided with several pairs of flexible lips or
detectors substantially as described.
Third. Apparatus substantially as described for containing and delivering tickets
and the like consisting of a box or receptacle containing a continuous strip ribbon
or roll of tickets and having an aperture or slit by which the same may be
continuously drawn from the box or receptacle, the said box or receptacle being
enveloped or partially enveloped in an adhesive wrapper in such manner that
access cannot be had to the bulk of the tickets without mutilating the wrapper.
Fourth. Apparatus for containing and delivering tickets and the like substantially
as herein described and illustrated by the annexed Drawings.