IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENTS.
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marcus Bebro, of Canfield House, Priory Road, Kilburn,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED
TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF
AMUSEMENTS.".
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marcus Bebro at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th March 1881.
MARCUS BEBRO, of Canfield House, Priory Road, Kilburn, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman. " IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR
DELIVERING. CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC
VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENTS."
The object of this Invention is checking the receipt of money from persons
travelling in public vehicles or entering places of amusement by the use of a novel
construction of box designed to contain a continuous roll of consecutively
numbered tickets, and apparatus for checking the delivery of the same from the
said box.
The following is a description of the improved construction of box:-
A box is constructed, the capacity of which will be large enough to hold one or
more rolls of consecutively numbered tickets according to the number or class of
fares required to be paid out, and the apparatus for delivering the tickets, the said
roll or rolls of tickets being by preference similar to those printed, numbered, and
perforated by mechanism protected by Patents granted to me, and respectively
numbered 2094, A.D. 1868, and 2718, A.D. 1872.
As each roll of tickets contained in the box is delivered by similar and indepen-
dant mechanism, I will proceed to describe the manner and means adopted for
delivering tickets from a single roll.
The box containing the roll of tickets is provided with two rollers, which are
by preference serated upon their peripheries. One of these rollers is the driver, the
circumference of which is equal to the length of one ticket, that is, the length

page_text: between one line of perforations and another of the continuous length forming the
roll of tickets. The second or top roller is mounted in spring bearings, and is a
pressure roller so arranged that it bears with an adjustable pressure upon the
serated surface of the bottom or lower roller.
The axle of the lower serated roller is provided with a pinion which gears with
and is intermittantly driven by a larger wheel; this larger wheel is provided on a
portion of its periphery with a number of teeth equal to the number of the teeth of
the pinion driving the serated roller. The convex portion of the periphery of the
larger wheel not having teeth fits into a concave portion of the pinion formed by
reducing one of the teeth of the same off at the pitch line; thus it will be seen that
when one end of the roll of tickets contained in the box is placed between the
serated and top pressure rollers, and one complete turn of the larger wheel is
given, such complete revolution will not only give a complete revolution to the
pinion and rollers, propelling one complete length of ticket from the box, but it
will during the time the convex portion of the larger wheel is passing the concave
surface of the pinion lock such rollers so as to retain the ticket on the roll next to
be delivered, whilst the one protruding is torn off at the perforations.
During the time the delivering rollers are locked as above described a tappet on
the axle of the larger wheel actuates a lever and punch which defaces the ticket
before it is delivered, and also sounds a bell with each ticket passed between the
delivering rollers.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Marcus Bebro in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd September
1881.
MARCUS BEBRO, of Canfield House, Priory Road, Kilburn, in the County of
3 Middlesex, Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR
DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC
VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT."
The object of this Invention is to provide efficient self acting apparatus for
checking the receipt of money from persons travelling in public vehicles or entering
places of amusement by the use of a novel construction of box designed to contain
a continuous roll of consecutively numbered tickets and apparatus for checking the
delivery of the same from the said box.
In carrying out my Invention I construct a box, the capacity of which is made
sufficiently large to hold one or more rolls of consecutively numbered tickets
according to the purpose for which the box is intended to be used, that is to say,
if the box is intended for checking the receipt of money for one class only a single
compartment containing the roll of tickets and the apparatus for delivering the
same in the manner as hereinafter described will be required.
If two or more rolls of tickets are to be paid out, representing different classes,
then the box is divided into compartments agreeing with the various classes or fares
to be checked by the delivery of tickets from the said box. Each compartment from
which tickets are delivered is provided with separate and distinct paying out
mechanism, and the tickets which I prefer to use, and for which the improved box
forming the subject of this Invention is specially designed, are similar to those
printed and perforated by mechanism, as described in the Specification of Patents
granted to me in 1868, No. 2094, and in 1872, No. 2718.
As each roll tickets contained in the box is delivered therefrom by similar and
independent mechanism, I will proceed to describe the means I adopt for delivering
tickets from a continuous single roll.
Any one compartment of the box containing a continuous roll of consecutively
numbered tickets is provided with two rollers, which are, by preference, serated
upon their peripheries; one of these rollers is the driver, the circumference of which
is equal to the length of one or more tickets, that is, the length embraced between
one line of perforations and another, of the continuous length or ribbon of paper
forming the roll of tickets. The second roller is mounted on spring bearings and
so arranged that it bears with a yielding pressure upon the serated surface of the
first or driving roller. The rollers are geared together and are driven inter-
mittently through an arrangement of lock wheels, which, when in action, give
during one half a revolution of the driver motion to the rollers, which pass between
them one complete length of ticket from the continuous roll contained in the box,
the said rollers being then locked during the remaining half turn of the wheel, on
the axle of the driving roller; or as a modification of the above, I gear the rollers
together, the axis of which revolve in fixed bearings, and I drive them inter-
mittently through the medium of a level handle ratchet wheel and pawl in such a
manner that when the handle is moved half a turn in one direction the rollers give
a half turn, during which a length of paper is delivered from the box representing
one ticket; the rollers then dwell during the time the lever handle is returning to
its normal position.
It will thus be seen that when one end of the length of paper composing the roll
of tickets contained in the box is placed between the two rollers, the serated and
second pressure roller and the lever handle is moved in the manner described; each
half turn will deliver a length of paper from the box through a suitable orifice
representing one ticket, which, when torn off at the perforations, the lever handle
returns and the rollers are again ready to deliver another ticket. As each ticket
passes through the rollers it is defaced by a punch or perforator contained in the
rollers, simultaneously with which a stud on one of the rollers actuates a hammer

page_text: which strikes a bell and so calls attention to the fact that a ticket has been
delivered from the box.
In order that the Invention shall be well understood and explained in detail
I have hereunto annexed a sheet of Drawings made about full size, similar letters
of reference being marked on corresponding parts on all the Figs. alike.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents in elevational section and Fig. 2 in plan section views of my
improved ticket register.
In these views a is the outer case or box; a', the lid; c, the roll of continuous
paper tickets; and d, d¹, the rollers delivering the tickets from the box a. These
rollers are driven intermittently through the medium of the large wheel a², which
is provided on one half of its surface only with teeth which gear into the pinion d²
secured to the axle of the driving roller d. The number of teeth round the pinion d²
being equal to the number of teeth on the half round of the wheel a² driving the
serated roller, cause such wheels when in action to gear in such a manner that
during one half turn of the wheel a² (which is driven by lever handle, string, or
other equivalent) the pinion d2 will receive one complete revolution, the action of
which will pass between the surfaces of the rollers d and d¹ one complete length
of ticket from the roll of tickets c, at which time during the remaining half turn of
the wheel a² its convex * periphery slides in the concave periphery of the pinion d²,
and thereby during such contact is locked, which gives a dwell to the rollers before
another is delivered; the rollers when locked retain the ticket on the roll c next
to be delivered whilst the one protuding from the orifice e is torn off at the
perforation.
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During the time the delivery rollers are locked or remain stationary the tappet c'
on the large wheel a' actuates a lever and punch d³, which defaces the ticket before
it is delivered, and also sounds the bell B as each ticket is passed between the
rollers & and d¹.
In order to simplify somewhat the foregoing arrangement of parts, at the same
time retain the principle of action given to the rollers, viz., their intermittent action,
and also transmit therefrom action to the punch and bell, I have in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Drawings annexed, shewn complete and in detail modification
of the parts herein described and illustrated in connection with Figs. 1 and 2.
In these Figs., Fig. 3 represents in elevation, and Fig. 4 in plan views of my
improved ticket register.
Fig. 5 represents a section of the box with one side removed, shewing the
position of the roll of tickets, and the direction the paper takes in passing from the
box; this view also shews the rachet and pawl actuating the rollers.
Fig. 6 represents at top section of the box, shewing as an example two
compartments for containing and having delivered therefrom two distinct classes
of tickets.
Fig. 7 represents a vertical section of the box taken through the centre between
the two compartments; this view shews the manner in which the rollers are geared
together with the apparatus for striking the bell.
Fig. 8 represents a vertical section, and Fig. 9 a section of the upper portion or
lid of the box, shewing the position of the punches employed for defacing the
tickets;
and Fig. 10 represents the coiled spring employed for, forcing the handle
back to its normal position during the dwell of the delivering rollers.
In these Figs., a is the lower case of the box containing the roll of tickets c;
and a¹ is the lid or cover of the box containing the apparatus employed for delivering
the length of paper from the roll c intermittently from the box through the guide
orifice e. The lid a¹ is hinged to the lower portion of the box at b, thus offering
when the box is open, and the lid thrown back the greatest facility for placing the
rolls of continuous consecutively numbered tickets in the lower receptacle, and
passing one end of each roll between and through the rollers preparatory for being

page_text: delivered, after which the box is closed and locked by an authorised official. The
rollers d and d¹, between and by which the tickets are passed out from the box
through the orifice e, are equal in circumference to the length of 2 tickets, but are
so actuated that the move in half-turns intermittently in the manner following:-
The rollers & and d' are mounted loose on their axis f, f¹, and are geared together
by the wheels g, g. Upon the face or end of the roller d, which is the driver, the
pawls i, i, are fixed, which actuate the rachet disc h; the boss of this rachet runs
loose on the axis f, and the portion of this boss outside the box lid a¹ is squared or
otherwise prepared for the reception of the lever handle h, which forms a fixture
with such rachet and boss. The stop 7 seen at Fig. 3 is provided as a means for
stopping or defining the movement of the handle k. The coiled spring seen at
Fig. 10 has one of its ends secured to the rachet box, and the other is fixed to the
case at m, so that when the handle k is forced a half turn in the direction of the
arrow, vide Fig. 3, into the position shewn in dots, it gives through the medium of
the pawl i, ratchet h, and wheels g, g³, a half turn to the rollers d, d³, during
which a length or strip from the roll c equal to one ticket is passed between and
by them from the box and of the orifice e; the said half turn thus given to handle k
winds up the tension of the coiled spring before mentioned, which, when the handle
is released, the said spring forces it back into its normal position against the stop l.
During the time the lever handle is being returned to its normal position the
rollers d and d' remain motionless and fixed, and the protruding length or strip
representing one ticket is torn off at the perforations, and the apparatus is again
ready to deliver another ticket. During the traverse of the ticket between the
rollers, and with every half turn of the same, the punches n, n, in the driving
roller d, seen at Figs. 8 and 9, come opposite to and enter the matrices o in the
roller d', the action of which punch out a disc from the ticket passing between
the rollers; the disc as punched out pass through the matrice into the hollow part
of the roller d', from whence they are cleared as required. The said rollers when
revolving actuate through the medium of studs on the wheel g the bell crank lever q
and hammer p, the action of which with every half turn of the rollers delivering a
complete ticket strike a bell, and so gives an alarm with every ticket passing from
the box.
It is obvious that the box can be constructed to carry an arrangement of the well
known form of counting wheels and dials, which being actuated intermittently by
the delivering rollers will acurately register the number of tickets delivered from
the roll c.
I claim as new and as of my Invention,―
First. The combination of parts forming my improved apparatus consisting of a
box designed for containing a length or roll of consecutively numbered, tickets, and
apparatus for delivering the same intermittently to passengers travelling in public
vehicles, or to persons entering places of amusement, constructed and used in the
manner and for the purpose as herein substantially described, set forth, and
illustrated in the Drawings at Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Secondly. The use with apparatus, such as is herein referred to at Figs. 8 and 9,
of a punch or perforator for defacing each length of ticket delivered from the box,
and also a hammer and call bell, shewn at Fig. 7, employed and actuated in
the manner as herein substantially described and illustrated in the Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marcus Bebro, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this the Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.