IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE ENTRY AND EXIT OF PASSENGERS TO AND FROM TRAMWAY CARS OR OTHER VEHICLES, THE SAID APPARATUS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE FOR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS GOING IN AND OUT OF PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustav Mueller, of Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
REGISTERING THE ENTRY AND EXIT OF PASSENGERS TO AND FROM TRAMWAY
CARS OR OTHER VEHICLES, THE SAID APPARATUS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE FOR
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS GOING IN AND OUT OF PLACES OF
AMUSEMENT."
Sealed the 6th December 1875, and dated the 9th June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustav Mueller at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th June 1875.
I, GUSTAV MUELLER, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, do hereby
3 declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR REGISTERING THE ENTRY AND EXIT OF PASSENGERS TO AND FROM TRAMWAY
CARS OR OTHER VEHICLES, THE SAID APPARATUS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE FOR
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS GOING IN AND OUT OF PLACES OF AMUSE-
MENT," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in improvements in apparatus for registering

page_text: other vehicles, the said apparatus being also applicable for registering
the number of persons going in and out of places of amusement.
The means by which I propose to attain the above object are as
follows: On each side of the door of a tram car (for example) I place
an ordinary turnstile, or by preference, a folding one so as to occupy as
little space as possible. One of the said turnstiles serves for persons
entering and the other for persons leaving the car. The axis of each
turnstile is connected by means of a ratchet wheel with the registering
apparatus. This registering apparatus (which may be placed in any
convenient position and contained in a box or case) consists of a series
of wheels and pinions, cach wheel representing the different distances
in addition to one showing the total number of passengers as hereafter
described.
The pinion shaft is actuated by a ratchet wheel of the turnstile, and
the wheels which gear with the said pinions work in slides, so that they
may be put in and out of gear with the pinions aforesaid, by moving
them forwards or backwards by means of buttons or handles projecting
outside the registering case.
On the axis of each of the above wheels is
a disc suitably divided, and
each division having a number stamped
thereon corresponding with the number of teeth on the said wheel.
The following is the manner by which the number of passengers
entering and leaving a tramway car are registered by the above-described
apparatus:-Supposing that on a given line there are three different
stations or fares, the counting apparatuses in that case would have 4
pinions, 4 wheels, and discs. Before any person enters the car the discs
stand at 0.; Each person entering the vehicle gives the turnstile a
quarter of a turn, and this motion being 'conveyed to the counting
apparatus the passenger is registered on all the discs. On arriving at
the first station the conductor pulls one of the wheels out of gear; the
number shown on it will serve to indicate the number of persons which
have travelled up to that station. Thus in pulling out of gear one
of the wheels each time the car arrives at a station it will show on
arriving at the end of the journey how many passengers have entered
and left the car between the different distances or stations, the total
number of passengers being registered by the extra wheel which is
always kept in gear.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Gustav Mueller in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUSTAV
MUELLER, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Gustav Mueller, Her special licence that
I, the said Gustav Mueller, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Gustav Mueller, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 APPARATUS
FOR REGISTERING THE ENTRY AND EXIT OF PASSENGERS TO AND FROM TRAMWAY
CARS OR OTHER VEHICLES, THE SAID APPARATUS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE FOR
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS GOING IN AND OUT OF PLACES OF AMUSEMENT,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Gustav Mueller,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and 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 Gustav Mueller, 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, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in improvements in apparatus for registering
the entry and exit of passengers to and from tramway cars or other
vehicles, the said apparatus being also applicable for registering the
number of persons going in and out of places of amusement.

page_text: The means by which I propose to attain the above object are as
follows: On each side of the door of a tram car (for example), I place
an ordinary turnstile, or by preference a folding one so as to occupy as
little space as possible. One of the said turnstiles serves for persons
entering and the other for persons leaving the car. The axis of each
turnstile is connected by means of a ratchet wheel with the registering
apparatus. This registering apparatus (which may be placed in any
convenient position and contained in a box or case) consists of a
series of wheels and pinions, each wheel representing the different
distances in addition to one showing the total number of passengers as
hereafter described.
The pinion shaft is actuated by a ratchet wheel of the turnstile, and
the wheels which gear with the said pinions work in slides, so that they
may be put in and out of gear with the pinions aforesaid, by moving them
forwards or backwards by means of buttons or handles projecting outside
the registering case. On the axis of each of the above wheels is a dise
suitably divided, and each division having a number stamped thereon
corresponding with the number of teeth on the said wheel.
The following is the manner by which the number of passengers
entering and leaving a tramway car are registered by the above-described
apparatus:Supposing that on a given line there are three different
stations or fares, the counting apparatuses in that case would have
4 pinions, 4 wheels, and discs. Before any person enters the car the
discs stand at 0. Each person entering the vehicle gives the turnstile
a quarter of a turn, and this motion being conveyed to the counting
apparatus the passenger is registered on all the discs. On arriving at
the first station the conductor pulls one of the wheels out of gear, the
number shown on it will serve to indicate the number of persons which
have travelled up to that station. Thus in pulling out of gear one
of the wheels each time the car arrives at a station it will show on
arriving at the end of the journey how many passengers have entered
and left the car between the different distances or stations, the total
number of passengers being registered by the extra wheel which is
always kept in gear.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully, I will now
proceed to describe the construction and arrangement of the mechanism
or apparatus I employ, and the manner in which it operates for effecting

page_text: the object of my said Invention, reference being had to the illustrative
Sheet of Drawing accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively as
follows:-

page_text: wheel e and impart circular motion thereto, and thus cause the divisions
on the boss of the wheel e to be moved one-tenth of an entire revolution,
and this movement will be denoted by the pointer 1, so that for
64 divisions engraved on the edge of the disc wheel H, and suppose
for example the division numbered 18 on the boss of the wheel e to
be opposite to the pointer 1, this will shew that the wheel H has made
eight entire revolutions, so that assuming this wheel to move from
one division to the next division each time a passenger enters or leaves
the car, by multiplying the 64 divisions on the wheel by the 8 rotations
thereof will give 512, thus shewing the number of persons that have
entered and left the car. For any part of an entire revolution of the
wheel H the extra number of passengers will be ascertained by looking
what number on the edge of the disc wheel H is opposite to the
pointer c of the said wheel, and this number added to that of the
number of entire revolutions of the disc wheel H will shew the number
of passengers that have entered and left the car in any given time.
It will be seen on referring to Figure 3 that six out of the eight
discs H and their appurtenances above described are connected together
in pairs by rods K and bars L, M, N; the wheels on one side of the
apparatus at A. are intended to indicate the passengers that enter the
car, and the wheels H¹ and I at B on the other side the passengers that
leave the car.
The numerals 1, 2, 3, on the buttons O denote the different fares in
pence that are to be paid, and the wheels of the apparatus which
correspond to these fares can be connected or disconnected by causing
the toothed wheels I to be pushed into or pulled out of gear with the
pinions P, as shewn at Figure 4. These pinions which contain 10 teeth
each are fixed on a spindle Q, the ends whereof revolve in D. At Figure 5,
b is a pin, which as the toothed wheel I is pulled up enters between the
teeth thereof, and thus locks it.
I would here remark that the knobs 1, 2, 3, and bars and rods K, L,
M, N, are the only parts of the mechanism exposed, and it will be the
duty of the conductor to push in and pull out the knobs 1, 2, 3, in the
following order: At the commencement of a journey all the knobs are
pushed in, he then pulls out the knob 1 for the penny journey, and for ;
the 2d. journey he pulls out the knob 2, and for the 3d. journey pulls
out the knob 3.
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page_text: I now proceed to describe the means by which the mechanism is set
in motion as each passengers enters or leaves the car, that is to say,
at each side of the entrance or doorways of the car I adapt a turnstile
at S, shewn at Figure 1, to the upper end of the axis i whereof I affix
cross pieces k, 1; the piece k acts upon the tail end of the lever m to
register the number of persons that enter the car, and the piece / on
the tail of the lever n to register the number of persons that leave the
.car.
Operations of the Mechanism.-The mechaism being first set at zero,
as before described, is at the beginning of the day's work locked in the
box B; the effect of a person wishing to enter the car is to push the bar S*
of the turnstile from him, and by so doing to turn the axis i and cross
piece k one quarter of a revolution, and the piece k will press in this
end of the lever and force out the opposite end thereof, and by means
of the hook O cause the wheel p and pinions P to be advanced one
tooth, and in like manner advance the disc wheel H and toothed
wheel I the distance from one division to the next division on the
wheel H, thus registering the entrance of one person into the car, and
so on each time the bars of the turnstile are pushed inwards. On a
person leaving the car the bars S' will be pushed outwards and cause the
axis i and piece to turn in an opposite direction, and the piece being
brought into contact with one end of the lever n will cause the opposite
end thereof to turn the wheel p one-tenth part of an entire revolution,
and thus register through the medium of the disc and toothed wheels H¹
and I' the number of persons that leave the car, and operate as a check
against the number of persons that have entered the car. The disc H'
registers the total number of persons that have entered and left the car
during the day or other time.
The principal part of the mechanism is enclosed in the box and the
lid B thereof locked; the key is kept by the inspector or other appointed
person whose duty it will be to remove the frame E with the discs from
the car at the end of each day's work, and by the means before described
and by reference to the respective discs to ascertain the number of
penny, twopenny, and threepenny passengers that have travelled by the
car during the day, the disc H² shewing the total number of passengers
that have travelled by the car. In this manner and by these means the
correctness of the amount of money handed into the office at the end of
each day may be checked.

page_text: Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my
said Invention for " Improvements in Apparatus for Registering the Entry
and Exit of Passengers to and from Tramway Cars or other Vehicles,
the said Apparatus being also Applicable for Registering the Number of
Persons going in and out of Places of Amusement," and the means
by which it may be effected, I would remark in conclusion that I do not
intend to limit or confine myself to any particular description of turn-
stile, neither do I claim the exclusive use of any of the separate parts
above mentioned, referred to, and represented, except when the same are
used in combination and for the purposes of my said Invention; and I
desire it to be understood that what I claim as my Invention intended
to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the mechanical combination of parts above described and represented
by the Drawing and its manner of operation as constituting improve-
ments in apparatus for registering the entry and exit of passengers to
and from tramway cars or other vehicles, the said apparatus being also
applicable for registering the number of persons going in and out of
places of amusement.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gustav Mueller, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.