Apparatus for Receiving Coins or Checks Deposited as Fares or Prices or Tokens of Admission and for Providing a Means of Dividing off and Checking the Amount or Number Deposited during certain Separate Periods or Intervals of Time.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 27th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 27th Apr., 1888.
Apparatus for Receiving Coins or Checks Deposited as Fares or
Prices or Tokens of Admission and for Providing a Means of
Dividing off and Checking the Amount or Number Deposited
during certain Separate Periods or Intervals of Time.
I WILLIAM TAYLOR KENNEDY, Tramway Inspector of 232 Perth Road Dundee
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An apparatus for the automatic collection of fares in omnibuses without conductors,
and the collection of coins or checks in other similar circumstances so as to prevent
the coins or checks from being tampered with; and also to divide off the amounts
collected during different periods or intervals of time and to enable a note of such
different amounts to be kept and appropriated along with each separate collection. The
apparatus consists of a lockfast closed box or casing within which a circular box or
receiver divided into compartments is made to revolve in manner aftermentioned. A
hopper or conductor is provided the upper end of which is open to receive the coins
or checks, and the lower end of which is fixed to the lid or top of said casing in such
a manner that coins or checks put into the hopper will slip down and rest on a slide
or catch provided at the bottom of said hopper between it and the interior of said
casing, and will when said slide is withdrawn, drop through the lid or top into the
internal revolving box or one of the compartments thereof. The drawing back of said
slide or catch or the returning of it to its place causes said internal box to move
round a certain distance by means of ratchet work or other similar device whereby a
different compartment of it is brought underneath the lower end of said hopper, and
thus a different compartiment receives each separate collection. The apparatus is
wrought as follows. The coins collected during a certain period having been severally
deposited in said hopper, when the time comes for collecting them together the afore-
said slide or catch is then drawn back either automatically or by the person in charge
whereupon the coins collected are allowed to drop into the internal box. On the slide
or catch returning to its place (which it does either automatically or on being operated
by the person in charge) the said internal box is made to revolve by the action of said
slide or catch so as to bring another compartment of it under the hopper ready to
receive the next collection.

page_text: Apparatus for Receiving Coins or Checks Deposited as Fares or
Prices or Tokens of Admission and for Providing a Means of
Dividing off and Checking the Amount or Number Deposited
during certain Separate Periods or Intervals of Time.
1 WILLIAM TAYLOR KENNEDY of 232 Perth Road Dundee Tramway Inspector_do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for abovementioned purposes 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 (preferably) of a box or casing (A) in drawing) within
which a circular box or receiver (B) divided into compartments is made to revolve
or move in manner aftermentioned. A hopper or conductor (() is provided fixed to
the lid or top of said casing in such a manner that coins or checks put into the hopper
will rest upon the slide (1) at the bottom of said hopper and will when said slide is
withdrawn drop into one of the compartments of the revolving or moving box (B).
The motion of said slide on returning to its place causes a catch (E) to take hold of
one of the partitions of said circnlar box (B) and move it round so that the next
compartment is placed below the bottom of said hopper, and the collections during
each separate period are kept distinct from each other. A ratchet (F) and catch (G.)
are provided underneath the receiver (B.) to prevent its being moved backwards:
and a catch (H.) and a suitable number of knobs or studs (K.) on the receiver (B.)
are provided to prevent it being moved forward unless by means of the slide (D.)-
Instead of a circular box revolving in a casing the apparatus may consist of a
longitudinal box divided into compartments moving lengthways inside of a suitable
longitudinal casing. In this form of the apparatus the box or receiver is also moved
and the compartments shifted and the coins allowed to drop therein in a manner
similar to the operation of the circular box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is performed I declare that what I claim is:
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1. The entire apparatus above described.
2. The box or receiver divided into compartments and its application to the purposes
abovementioned.
3. The slide before described; and the method in which it operates; and its
application to the purposes abovementioned.
Dated this Twenty sixth day of January 1888.