IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CHECKING CASH RECEIPTS IN PUBLIC VEHICLES, THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, THE TRANSFER OF PACKAGES, AND OTHER LIKE USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Lyon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th April 1883.
HENRY LYON of 36 Hart Street Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CHECKING CASH RECEIPTS IN PUBLIC VEHICLES, THE
NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, THE TRANSFER OF
PACKAGES, AND OTHER LIKE USEFUL PURPOSES
The object of this invention is. The construction and arrangement of appliances
in or by which fares or cash receipts of the same or of different amounts in public
vehicles. the passage of workinen into buildings. persons entering and leaving
steam boats or places of amusement may be checked or recorded also for checking
the transfer of parcels or packages and other like useful purposes.
The apparatus is portable and is provided with tell-tales or indicators capable of
being moved in consecutive order from 0 to 1,000 more or less as desired by simply
turning a finger piece a half turn on each occasion
It is composed of a casing within which a number of spindles are fitted but with
circular tablets projecting to enable the spindle to be turned half round in one
direction only the tablets being marked with numerals indicating the amount of
any denomination paid to the conductor of say, a public vehicle by a passenger
The tablets represent the varying amounts payable according to the distance
travelled and correspond to a table of fares fixed by the proprietor of the vehicle.
Each spindle carries a notched plate or detent into which a spring paul can engage
at each half turn to hold the spindle firmly against accidental shifting of it, it
also carries a four toothed disc the teeth of which are ratchet shaped for a spring
paul to enter and thus prevent the spindle being turned in the wrong direction. I
provide the disc with four teeth in order that should the tablet be turned into a
vertical position or only a quarter round the spindle becomes locked against its
being turned back and thus prevent fraud.
The spindle also carries a double claw push plate which at each complete half
turn causes one claw to act upon a stud of an eccentrically pivotted plate to push
the plate in a circular direction and a spring draw paul with which it is provided
to slide over one tooth of a hundred toothed wheel and to engage in the next tooth
of that wheel so that when the plate is released which is effected at the completion
of the half turn, it returns to its normal position under the action of a spring fitted
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page_text: for the purpose which pushes the wheel the distance of one tooth which distance
corresponds to the movement of a finger over the division on a dial which
indicates and registers the motion. The other claw of the double claw push plate
simultaneously acts upon the pivotted plate and pushes that plate round in a
corresponding manner in order to bring a hammer into tension which on being
released is caused by its spring to strike a bell or gong the sound of which will
indicate to the passenger that the fare is being registered
The apparatus can be carried by the conductor which apparatus he can present
to the passenger to enable him to turn the tablet bearing the numeral corresponding
to the amount paid by him
I fit a pin near the periphery of the hundred toothed wheel to engage and push
forward a star wheel the distance of one tooth at each revolution by which means
any number of passengers up to 1,000 and the cash paid by them can be
registered.
The whole of the working parts of the apparatus and also the dials are enclosed
within the casing which can be secretly locked to prevent them being tampered
with.
The casing can be made to any convenient shape and any number of spindles
and their appurtenances can be fitted in them, according to the adaptability of the
invention to suit different purposes. For instance un apparatus with the single
tablet can be used to indicate and register any number of payments of the same
denomination or the passage of workmen or persons passing a given spot, or the
transfer of parcels or goods of any kind such as on railways. Those with two or
more tablets would be applicable for steam boats public vehicles theatres and other
places of amusement to indicate the different classes of visitors according to the
price paid for admission or the positions to be occupied by them or the different
fares paid as before described.