IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECK REGISTERING APPARATUS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Bradley, of 9, Ormonde Terrace, Regent's
Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECK REGISTERING APPARATUS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Bradley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th August 1874.
I, HERBERT BRADLEY, of 9, Ormonde Terrace, Regent's Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECK REGISTERING APPARATUS," to be
as follows:-.
The said registering apparatus has for its objects the prevention of
frauds, and the checking and registering of moneys received by persons.
receiving moneys, such as the conductors of omnibuses, tramways, and
others. It is intended should such use be approved that upon the
passengers or persons paying, herein-after termed payers, paying their
respective fares that such fares shall be registered in their order by.

page_text: the turning of a handle or handles, or movement of a projection or
spring, or projections or springs in the said registering apparatus,
whereby both the amount paid and the number of the payers, or
cither thereof, shall be indicated in the front part of the register open
to the public view, and at the same time a dial or dials at the back
of the register shall register the amount paid and the number of
the payers, or either, or both; such registering apparatus to be secured
by lock and key, or be placed under seal. And at each action of
registration a bell shall be sounded inside the registering apparatus
indicating that a registration has been made. And it is intended that
the register should be placed on the inside of the omnibus or tramway
car, or other vehicle or place, and it may be placed outside such tram
or omnibus, or it may be carried on the front of the conductor's body
suspended or fastened by a strap or other suspender.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Herbert Bradley in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 27th February 1875.
TO. ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERBERT
BRADLEY, of 9, Ormonde Terrace, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Herbert Bradley, Her special licence
that I, the said Herbert Bradley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Herbert Bradley, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CHECK REGISTERING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Herbert Bradley, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and

page_text: cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Herbert Bradley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The said registering apparatus has for its objects the prevention of
frauds, and the checking and registering of moneys received by persons
receiving moneys, such as the conductors of omnibusses, tramways,
and others. It is intended should such use be approved that upon
the passengers or persons (herein-after termed payers) paying their
respective fares such fares shall be registered in their order by the
turning of a handle or handles, or movement of a projection or spring,
or projections or springs in the said registering apparatus, whereby.
both the amount paid and the number of the payers, or either thereof,
shall be indicated in the front part of the registering apparatus open
to the public, and at the same time a dial or dials at the back of
the register shall register the amount paid and the number of payers,
or each, or both; such registering apparatus to be secured by lock
and key, or be placed under seals. And at each action of registration
a bell shall be sounded inside the registering apparatus indicating that
a registration has been made. And it is intended that the register
should be placed on the inside of the omnibus or tramway, or other
vehicle or place, and it may be placed outside such tram or omnibus,.
or it may be carried on the front of the conductor's body suspended or
fastened by a stran or other suspender.

page_text: In these Figures, 1, 2, 3, Figure 1 shows the escapement or propelling
arrangement for moving the dial one-tenth or part of a rotation cach
time the frame is pressed down and released, the springs S, S, S, being:
employed to force the frames back to the resting position when the
pressure on the pushers 1, 2, 3, is removed.
.
Figure 1 shows the arrangement as seen from the back, and also
shows the pushers in three different positions, No. 1 being partly down
and beginning to propel the dial forwards; No. 2 at resting position;
and No. 3 completely depressed ready to be returned to the position
of rest on the pressure being taken off, when the escape pallet e will
move the opposite tooth of the wheel W. and complete the movement
commenced by the downward motion of the pallet d.
Figures 4 and 5 show the escapement frame with the two pallets, d
is fixed to the frame, the pallet e being jointed, bent, and capable of a
slight movement backwards, as shown by the dotted lines, Figure 5,
to allow the tooth of the escape wheel passing when being driven.
forward by the pallet d, when the pallet e returns back into its resting.
position behind the back of the opposite tooth so as to be ready to
complete the movement on the return motion of the propelling frame,
by which the escapement wheel is always locked by either or both of
the pallets during the movement of the propelling frame, and thus,
prevents or prevent the dial being thrown forward or indicating an
incorrect number, the escape wheel being propelled one tooth for cach,
time the push is pressed and released.
The complete revolution of the front dial is made to record one
division on a second dial of tens, and ten revolutions of this second
indication is made to move one division of a dial of hundreds; and if
further than hundreds are required to be indicated additional wheels
may be used for that purpose. The back of the instrument is-furnished
with the counting dials (see Figure 7) similar to the indicator on a
gas meter, thus the front dial shows the number of units, the back
dial tens of units and hundreds of units. This indication may be made
by a series of wheels and pinions to produce the requisite movements.
I prefer to use for simplicity the finger and count wheel arrangements
as shown in Figure 6, but any suitable arrangement for counting off
the movement of the dial may be employed. On depressing any one
of these three pushes they move a bar P which is jointed by two swing
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page_text: pieces a, a, like the joints of a parallel ruler, and the downward pressure
causes a lateral movement of the bar which presses against and moves
off the hammer until the bar slips off the corner c of the hammer
piece, and allows the spring S² to pull it back and strike the bell.
On the end of the bar is a jointed piece capable of movement, so that
as the bar returns to the position of rest as shown by the dotted lines,
Figure 1, it will not catch against the corner of the hammer piece c.
S' is a spring for pulling the bar back.
If desirable, and in order further to register the passengers, there may
be formed slits or openings f, Figure 1, into which the ticket is inserted
and punched by the end 1" of the pushers 1, 2, and 3 respectively; and
also, if desired, a receptacle for holding the portions of the tickets cut
out may be added to the instrument.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the herein-before
mentioned Invention of "Improvements in Check Registering Appa-
ratus," as herein-before set forth and described, it being understood
that I do not limit or confine myself to the precise details shewn
in the Drawings, nor do I claim such details except as combined and
used for the purposes of my hercin-before described Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert Bradley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
HERBERT BRADLEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
T. MORGAN,
Secretary,
Inventors' Patent Right Associatioa, Limited,
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