An Improved Apparatus for Issuing Tickets of Admission to Theatres or for the like Purposes, also Applicable for Registering the Number of Persons Using Public Vehicles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 9th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 15th Nov., 1887
An Improved Apparatus for Issuing Tickets of Admission to Theatres
or for the like Purposes, also Applicable for Registering the
Number of Persons Using Public Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM MINTO, of Stockton-on-Tees in the County of Durham, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My Invention relates to an apparatus or instrument especially applicable for issuing
tickets such as metallic checks usually employed for admission to theatres or the like
places to which admission is paid for, and might be employed for analogous purposes
in which it is useful to ascertain from the apparatus itself the exact number of
checks abstracted from it.
The object of the invention being to construct the apparatus so that whilst the
attendant who issues the tickets and abstracts from the apparatus as many checks as
he issues cannot replenish the apparatus with checks once abstracted therefrom or
otherwise in his possession for the purpose of committing a fraud.
The apparatus could also be adapted to check the number of persons using public
vehicles or for the like purposes.
In constructing the apparatus according to my invention I provide a vertical
chamber for containing the metallic checks, this chamber may be of any suitable form
in sectional area so as to form a loose fit to the enclosed column of checks which can
freely descend down the chamber as the checks below are abstracted. The vertical
chamber is mounted on a box or receptacle into which is fitted a slide. This slide on
which the column of checks reposes is operated by means of a spindle extending
horizontally from one end of the slide through the corresponding end of the box or
receptacle in which the slide is fitted so that by means of the spindle the slide may
be moved backwards or forwards in the required manner.
For the ordinary purpose
of issuing checks for a theatre the slide spindle may be fitted with a head or tappet
at its end and be encircled by a spiral spring or fitted with some equivalent arrange-
ment to make it resilient. The box or receptacle containing the slide is enclosed on
all sides except one from which the slide protrudes like a tongue when pushed out.
The bottom check of the enclosed column rests on the slide and is carried out when

page_text: the slide protrudes, the slide being again drawn back by the resilient spring and is
again ready to carry out another check when pushed out as before, and so on until any
required number of checks are abstracted from the enclosed column. By constructing
the slide in two parts so that the part on which the bottom check of the column rests
is hinged or jointed to the part to which the spindle is connected when the slide
protrudes as far as the joint the end of the slide drops down and allows the check to
slip off automatically, this movement is facilitated by sloping the outlet of the box so
that the end of the slide, instead of abruptly dropping over the edge of the box,
gradually turns down with the sloping surface on which it slides and as gradually
resumes the horizontal position as it is again withdrawn into the box.
A series of such vertical chambers mounted on a corresponding series of boxes and
fitted up in the above described manner could be arranged to constitute parts of one
apparatus or instrument from which checks of different values or for different purposes
could be issued and afterwards checked over in the same way as when only one class
of checks is issued and only one chamber provided for their issue. It must be under-
stood that the vertical chamber after being charged must be inaccessible which may
be done by any suitable means whatever, such as closing up the top or enclosing the
chamber in a box so that the attendant who issues the checks cannot get access to the
interior of the chamber where the checks are piled up.
The apparatus can be employed in precisely the same way for registering the number
of persons using a train car or omnibus by fixing it in one or more suitable positions
in the vehicle so that each passenger on entering the vehicle presses a lever or other
equivalent mechanism communicating with the slide spindle so as to press the slide
out and discharge a check in the manner already described.
Dated this Oth dow Ր
L. 1000

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Issuing Tickets of Admission to Theatres
or for the like Purposes, also Applicable for Registering the
Number of Persons Using Public Vehicles.
I, WILLIAM MINTO, of Stockton on Tees, in the County of Durham, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to an apparatus for issuing cheques or tickets, such as are
commonly given in return for payments made for admission to Theatres, Exhibitions,
Shows and such like places, and has for its object the prevention of fraud by the
persons who issue such cheques.
I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the following sheet of drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 is a front interior elevation of parts of my apparatus in one of its forms.
Fig. 2 is a side section through one of the cheque-containing Cylinders.
Fig. 3, is a section of the hinged slide for projecting the cheques from the apparatus.
Fig. 4, is an elevation of a cheque-containing cylinder.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the illustrations.
The parts marked A in the accompanying drawings, are vertical cylinders, (pre-
ferably round tubes), open at the top and bottom, and furnished, within, with loose
metal (or other) cheques, which may be inserted at the top (preferably) whilst the
bottom end of the tube, and its contents, rest upon a horizontal slide or shutter, B,
which is composed of two (principal) parts hinged together the one part being thinner
than the other so as to form a recess or step upon the upper surface of the slide.
The said step is recessed sufficiently for the reception of one cheque only, at one time,
and which cheque is projected from the aparatus by the attendant pulling out, or
pressing inward, the stud C which is connected by the arm, D, to the shutter B ; the
shutter may be automatically returned to its nominal position (after its operation by
the attendant) beneath the cylinder by the action of a spiral (or other) spring E placed
in any convenient position, or it may be operated entirely by the attendant without
the aid of any spring.
In order to insure the unfailing delivery of each cheque received upon the recessed
part of the slide, or shutter, B, when required, the latter is made in two principal
parts as before named, and hinged at F, as shewn in fig. 3, so that after the slide has
received upon the recessed surface of its loose hinged member, G, the bottom cheque
from those within the cylinder and is projected towards the delivery outlet, H, the
hinged flap, G, falls downwards upon the inclined surface, J, and discharges each
cheque, in its turn, down the delivery outlet H.
The tubes, or cylinders may be in their internal cross sections, round, oval, square,
or of any other suitable form, and the cheques, of corresponding form, made to fit

page_text: loosely within the cylinder. An aperture, or slot, may be left in each tube and
marked upon its margin with a scale as shewn in figure 4 in order to give an
indication, when required, of the number of cheques extracted from the cylinder.
The whole of the apparatus (except the studs C and their associate arms D) is
designed to be enclosed within a box or frame, and locked or otherwise secured from
the possibility of access by the attendant in charge of it, so that after the extraction
of the cheques the latter cannot possibly be reinserted within the apparatus except by
the person authorised therefor.
The instrument may contain only one cylinder or any number of them, as required
and may be so fitted as to deliver the cheques inaccessibly within a closed receptacle,
or accessibly to the person requiring them.
A simultaneous delivery of the coins received in payment and the cheques may be
very simply effected within the base of the apparatus but this provision does not form
any part of my present invention although it might be in-corporated with it without
detriment.
The size, or external form, of the apparatus forms no part of this invention, neither
the materials of which its several parts are constructed. It is designed for use in
connection with public conveyances such as Tram cars, omnibuses, steam boats, ferry
boats, or for any purposes analogous to those herein defined.
In figure 4 I have shewn a weighted indicator resting upon the column of cheques
within the cylinder and indicating upon the marginal scale the number of cheques
extracted.
The cylinders and slides as shewn and described herein being enclosed suitably
within an inaccessible frame, or place, or otherwise rendered inaccessible to the
attendant constitute the improved aparatus for ticket delivering purposes, for preven-
tion of fraud by the person who issues the said tickets, who can only extract the
cheques, as required, but cannot replace them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is,
The combinaton of parts of mechanism, forming an inaccessible ticket, or cheque,
delivering apparatus, substantially as herein described and shewn and for the purposes
specified.
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JOSEPH LOCKWOOD,
Langside, Glasgow,
Agent for the Inventor.