IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR CHECKING AND INDICATING OR REGISTERING - THE NUMBER OF FARES OR AMOUNT OF MONTES RECEIVED IN TRAM-CARS; OMNIBUSES, AND IN VARIOUS KINDS OF VEHICLES, OR AT RAILWAY STATIONS, RESTAURANTS, OR-PLACES OF AMUSEMENTS OR OTHER PLACES WHERE MONEY IS RECEIVED OR TICKETS ISSUED
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Jules Theodore Wild, of Nunhead, in the County
of Surrey, Gentleman, fór an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS
AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR CHECKING AND INDICATING OR REGISTERING
- THE NUMBER OF FARES OR AMOUNT OF MONTES RECEIVED IN TRAM-CARS;
OMNIBUSES, AND IN VARIOUS KINDS OF VEHICLES, OR AT RAILWAY STATIONS,
RESTAURANTS, OR-PLACES OF AMUSEMENTS OR OTHER PLACES WHERE MONEY
IS RECEIVED OR TICKETS ISSUED,"
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the sail Albert Jules Theodore Wild
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August 1881.
ALBERT JULES TEODORE WILD, of Nunhead, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR
CHECKING AND INDICATING OR REGISTERING, THE NUMBER OF FARES, OR AMOUNT
OF MONIES RECEIVED IN TRAM-CARS, OMNIBUSES, AND IN VARIOUS KINDS OF
VEHICLES, OR AT RAILWAY STATIONS, RESTAURANTS, OR PLACES. OF AMUSEMENT,
OR OTHER PLACES WHERE MONEY IS RECEIVED OR TICKETS ISSUED."
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The object of my Invention is to indicate with exactitude the number of fares or
amount of monies collected for passengers' fares, or for admissions to places of
amusement, or of cash paid for refreshinents or goods, or any similar purposes,
whether or not tickets be used, and to be an effectual means of checking such
receipts, and thereby preventing fraud or error on the part of payer or receiver.
My Invention consists, firstly, in the use of a train of wheels, each wheel having
upon its periphery or otherwise carrying the numbers 1 to 9 and 0. The first or
unit wheel has a ratchet shaped tooth, and the second or tens wheel has ten ratchet
teeth, so that when the unit wheel has made one revolution from 0 to 9, the
ratchet tooth upon it moves the second wheel to the extent of one tenth of a
revolution, and when the tens wheel has made an entire revolution, a tooth provided
upon it operates the hundreds wheel, and so ou through the whole train of
numbered wheels. The wheels are so placed or screened that only one number on
each wheel is visible at a time, and the number of passengers' fares or tickets is
indicated by the total number exhibited on the wheels. The wheels are upon
arbors in suitable bearings therefor.

page_text: My Invention consists, secondly, in providing a receptacle for the coin or money
received into which it can be placed, so as to be visible externally through glass or
other transparent medium, but from which it cannot be withdrawn from without.
The coin or money rests upon a hinged or pivotted tumbling piece or platform, and
remains there in sight until this hinged piece or platform is operated by the means
hereinafter described, when it falls into a receptacle provided below, and the hinged
piece or platform returns to its original position ready to receive another coin.
My Invention consists, thirdly, in the means of operating the train of wheels
and tumbling the coin plafform. This I effect by providing the case in which the
above mentioned arrangements are placed with a sliding piece, which has its sliding
motion imparted to it by an external hinged springed trigger like lever, which
when depressed by the thumb moves the sliding. piece to an extent limited by a
stop or stops. In its forward motion against the pressure of the spring by means
of a projecting tooth thereupon, the sliding piece operates the unit wheel which has
ten small ratchet teeth at its centre, into which the tooth on sliding piece engages
or gears: Each forward motion of the sliding piece moves the unit wheel one tenth
of a revolution; the sliding piece is returned by its spring action. The sliding
piece is so constructed and connected with the coin platform, that in its forward
motion the sliding piece is caused to tumble the coin, or allow it to fall into the
money receptacle below, and in its return motion will restore the platform to its
first position ready to receive another coin.
My Invention consists, fourthly, in providing the sliding piece with a pro-
jection. or stud, so formed that in its forward motion only the stud shall press
upon a punch or marker to punch or mark tickets when such are used. The punch
or marker is so provided with a spring that when the punching or marking is
effected, the punch or mark is restored to its first position. A similar projection
or stud on the sliding, piece may he provided and used to sound a bell or gong.
My Invention consists, fifthly, in providing a case or hopper for carrying the
tickets, in which case they are placed in a pile consecutively according to number.
the lower of the pile resting on a plate, beneath which is placed a spiral spring of
such strength as to force up the pile of tickets as they are one by one removed at
the top. This hopper is so placed at the side of the sliding piece that a wedge
shaped projection therein shall at each forward motion displace from the hopper
the topmost ticket, or lift it to such an extent that the operator can remove it.
The top edges of the hopper are so formed or flanged as to prevent the removal of
the ticket until the wedge projection has raised the ticket to the required extent.
The whole of these details are so disposed as to come within one case if required
suitably secured from tampering by locking or otherwise, and it will be seen from
the foregoing description that by one operation of the spring trigger lever that the
number of the fare is registered, the coin tumbled into the receptacle, the ticket
presented for removal, and the bell sounded.
When the ticket hopper is used the ticket if required to be punclied or marked
must be punched or marked by a separate arrangement provided for that purpose:
but as the tickets can only be withdrawn from the interior of the case punching or
marking is not necessitated.
If preferred the apparatus may be made without the ticket hopper and the
punch or mark used. Or the apparatus may be used independently of the
tickets and with or without the bell, and the fares checked by the registered number
compared with the amount deposited in the money receptacle.
The apparatus may be made portable, or may be made portable, or may be a
fixture when so required. Different fares may be registered by multiplying the
arrangements specified or parts thereof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Albert Jules Theodore Wild in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th February 1882.
ALBERT JULES THEODORE WILD, of Nunhead, in the County of Surrey;
Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR
CHECKING AND INDICATING OR REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF FARES OR AMOUNT
OF MONIES RECEIVED IN TRAM CARS, OMNIBUSES, AND IN VARIOUS KINDS OF
VEHICLES, OR AT RAILWAY STATIONS, RESTAURANTS, OR PLACES OF AMUSEMENT,
OR OTHER PLACES WHERE MONEY IS RECEIVED OR TICKETS ISSUED."
The object of my Invention is to indicate with exactitude the number of fares or
amount of moneys collected for passengers fares, or for admission to places of
amusement, or for refreshments, or goods, or the like, whether tickets be used or
not, by providing an effectual means of checking such numbers of fares or amounts
of money, thereby preventing fraud or error on the part of the person paying or
receiving the same.
The apparatus consists of the following elements or features, or of a combination
of same or all of them.
A train of wheels, each bearing the figures 1 to 9 and 0, so acting on each other,
as hereinafter described, that when the one wheel for indicating units has made
one revolution it operates the wheel for indicating tens by turning it through a
tenth of a revolution, and so on with the succeeding wheel or wheels for indicating.
hundreds, thousands, and other higher amounts.
A receptacle for the money consisting of a hinged platform or tumbling piece
situated beneath a transparent medium, through which the money introduced can
be seen resting upon the said platform, and afterwards be turned into a receptacle
beneath.
The means for operating the train of wheels and for tumbling the coin platform
may consist of a sliding piece operated by depressing a triggerlike lever, a pro-
jection connected therewith operating the unit wheel. The said sliding piece and
lever when liberated from pressure are returned by a spring to their normal position,
or other equivalent or analogous arrangements for the purpose of operating the
parts may be provided, as hereinafter explained. The mechanism may be provided
with means, as hereinafter described, for acting upon a punch or marker to punch
or mark the tickets, and means may also be provided for striking a bell or other
signal or the like.
Where tickets are to be used they are placed one upon another in a case or
hopper, being pressed towards one end by a spring. At each stroke of the apparatus
a lever or the like is actuated to cause a projection to displace a ticket from the
pile for removal. The end of the hopper is formed so as to allow only one ticket
pass
at a time.
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To indicate different fares the arrangements may be multiplied.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now.
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the several Figures on the annexed Sheets of Drawings, the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the corresponding Figures.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings represent vertical sections taken
at right angles the one to the other of apparatus arranged, constructed, or combined.
according to my Invention.
A represents a train of wheels shewn separately in horizontal sections in
Figure 3, Figures 4 and 5 being respectively transverse sections on the lines 1, 2,
and 3, 4, Figure 3, as hereinafter described. Each wheel has upon its periphery.
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page_text: the numbers 1 to 9 and 0, and is mounted to turn upon the shaft a mounted in
bearings in the casing or framing of the machine, which contains or carries the
other parts of the mechanism. At the upper part of the framing is carried a recep-
tacle for the coins or moneys received, into which they are passed by the slit
at in the top 3 of glass or other transparent medium. Beneath this transparent
top is hinged the tumbling table c, turning upon centres at 2, and again beneath
this platform is a locked drawer d. A triggerlike lever e having its fulcrum at c
at one end, and connected by a rod 1 to the outer end of an arm 2 (having its
fulcrum at 3), has its other end projecting to the exterior of the casing, and is
maintained in its normal position by springs e. A sliding piece or bar f connected
to the rod 1 carries a projecting tooth, arranged as shewn, so as to act suc-
cessively against the ten projections (or they may be ratchet teeth) of the unit
wheel of the train of wheels A when the lever is depressed, but to yield without
acting on the rising motion of the said lever and sliding piece, a spring stop being
provided to prevent back motion of the said wheel. The other wheels of the train
will be provided with ratchet teeth and detents or retaining springs to prevent back
motion. The links connect the said sliding piece with the coin platform, so.
that on the depressing of the levere the said platform is turned upon its centres
to cause the coin or coins placed in the receptacle in payment of a fare or the
like to be turned into the drawer, the said platform on the release and
upward movement of the levere being again returned to its normal position ready
to receive other coins. The sliding piece (or it may be the lever e) is also provided
or formed with a projection or surface to press upon and force-downwards a punch
or marker furnished with a spring for returning it to its normal position. A
stud or projection on the said sliding piece or on the lever or on the stem-of-the
marker may also be provided for causing a bell to be struck. As shewn in the
Drawing the marker is depressed by the projection 4 on the rod 1, and the bell is
struck by means of the projection on the stem of the marker acting on its
depression upon the tail piece of a lever j, carrying at its other end a hammer
for striking the bell The catch is a spring catch, which on its upward
passage yields without acting upon the lever At the back of the -apparatus is
provided a case or hopper for tickets, in which they are placed in a pile one
above the other in an order according to the consecutive numbers which they bear.
A spring acts to urge the pile of tickets towards the opening, which is of a
width equal to a little more than the thickness of one ticket, but not equal to the
thickness of two tickets. This opening is immediately over the surface upon
which the lowermost ticket of the pile rests, and upon which the tickets when
displaced from the pile are urged forward to beneath the marker i. To effect this
displacement of the lowermost ticket of the pile there is provided beneath the said
plate the cross piece held by arms me turning on the centre pins mounted
in the framing. The attachment of the said arms to the said crosspiece will be
slotted to accomodate their respective movements the normal position of 'these
parts is that shewn in the Drawings. The cross piece is pressed up to the
bottom of the plate by springs m, and carries a projection or projections m³
(which may be wedge shaped) taking into slots in the plate, and so situated and
projecting so far above the plate (to an extent not more than the thickness of a
ticket) as on the movement forward of the said projections in the slots by bearing
against the back edge of the lowermost ticket of the pile to press that ticket
forward to beneath the marker, at the same time pressing the ticket which was
previously beneath the marker out of the machine. It will be understood.that
this movement takes place on the upward or return stroke of the lever, 80 as
always to leave a ticket beneath the marker to be marked, and ejected when the
levere is again depressed. To obtain the requisite movement of the said parts for
ejecting the tickets, the arms mare provided with projections which are con-
nected to the lever è and arm 2 by links m, so as on the lepression thereof to throw
back the arms and bring the cross piece m into the position shewn by the lot
and pick lines in Figure 1, in readiness for the projections m³ on the return of the

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to press forward the bottommost ticket of the pile, and eject from the
apparatus that ticket which was marked at the preceding.down stroke... The
arrangement shewn is one in which the marker is not inked, but acts by inden-
tation or perforation, to facilitate which holes or a pad of yielding material may be
beneath it, which latter may also be the case when this marker is replaced by a
marker which is inked. The marker may be inked by a roller as at, in Figures ?
and 8, the said roller being mounted in an ink trough attached to the armis m²,
as in Figure 8, or to arms from a shaft actuated from the shaft 1 (which
carries the ticket displacer arms m³) by links at each depression of each push
piece, as in Figure 7, the said inking roller being in such a position that it comes
into contact with the marker.at each return stroke of the apparatus, and is at
cach down stroke taken by the said arms clear of the path of the inked marker.
This apparatus may be single, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, and be operated
once for every given, common factor of the various payments made; for example, .
in the case of fures of, say, a penny, two pence, three pence, four pence, five pence,
and six pence, here the common factor being one penny the apparatus when single
will be operated once for a penny fare, twice for a twopenny fare; and so on; or
the parts may be multiplied in accordance with the various amounts of fares or
moneys to be received, there being a separate lever or push piece for each amount,
ench such lever or push piece acting upon the same ticket delivering mechanism
and bell clapper, and one common indicator of the number of tickets issued, and
also upon the tipping table if such be used; but each lever or push piece acting
upon a separate ticket marker, and also upon a separate train of indicating wheels,
one train for each lever or push piece to indicate the number of times that each
separate lever or push piece has been depressed, and consequently the number of
fares or the like of each amount which have been received, so that by adding
together the indications of each train of wheels the total amount of fares or moneys.
received may be ascertained.
Figure 6 is a frout view; and Figure a transverse vertical section of an
apparatus thus arranged. The separate push pieces for each fare, of which three
are shewn, are marked p. When a larger number is used they may be arranged
alternately one beneath the other for compactness, and by using the upper push
pieces for fares of even amounts, and the lower ones for fares of odd amounts, or
vice versa, the position of the push piece may be utilized for facilitating tho
selection of the proper push piece for any particular fare. The counters or train of
wheels for indicating the number of operations of each individual lever are
marked, there being one for each leveracted upon by that lever only. These trains
of wheels may be of any suitable kind, for example, like that, Figures 3 to 5, or
they may be single wheels of large diameter with a large number of small divisions
on their peripheries consecutively numbered, in any case they being so operated
that at each depression a unit is added to the indication of the wheel.or wheels.
The other parts of this compound apparatus are essentially similar to those of the
simple-machine, Figures 1 and 2, the shaft 1 carrying the ticket ejector and the
shaft r, the bell clapper lever, which lever and also the indicating train of wheels s
for indicating the number of tickets issued irrespective of the amounts paid for
such tickets being all acted upon by projections from all the push pieces. The
shaft carries a link or an arm for each push piece; are the projections
which bear on these arms for turning the shaft 1 to operate the ticket ejector by
throwing back and then returning the arms m².
It will be evident that although I have shewn the tickets as being delivere:
from the bottom of the pile, yet that this is not essential.
Figure 8 represents in vertical transverse section an apparatus wherein the
tickets are pressed upwards and delivered from the top of the pile. The other
parts are essentially similar to those hereinbefore described, and are marked with
the same letters of reference. The tops of the push pieces may be hinged to, turiş
down, as shewn in dotted lines.
Figures 9 and 10 represent in vertical transverse section and in front elevation

page_text: respectively an apparatus wherein also the tickets are delivered from the top of
the pile. There is here shewn an arrangement by means of which, when the parts
are single, as described with regard to Figures 1 and 2, in place of being multiple,
as described with regard to Figures 6 and 7, although the apparatus be operated
by depressing the lever c once for each factor in the fares or moneys payable, yet
that but one ticket is issued for each fare, whatever the amount of that fare may
be. The shaft carrying the arms of the cross-piece for expelling the tickets has
a series or cockscomb of ratchet teeth 2 upon it, the normal position of the said
shaft and arms being indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 9. The lever e
carries the punch or marker i, and also carries a tooth with a stem sliding in
a projection on the said lever, and urged forward to engage with the teeth. t
by a spring . Each depression of the lever e will therefore turn the shaft t.
through a partial rotation to the extent of one tooth, and consequently push
forward the ticket to a similar extent, so that when the lever .is operated a number
of times in accordance with the number of factors in the particular fare paid, the
tooth will engage with a corresponding number of successive teeth, and the
ticket will be pushed forward in a corresponding number of steps, presenting a
fresh part at each step to be punched or marked by the punch or marker 2. By
pulling back the projection out of gear with the teeth 2, the spring will
return the shaft and the parts which it carries to the normal position indicated as
aforesaid by dotted lines in Figure 2. The spring c is for returning the lever e to
its normal position.
The train of wheels for recording fares by indicating the number of depressions
of the lever c is indicated at g, and it may be like and operated similarly to that
hereinbefore described. 1 have shewn a wheel X with a number of divisions on
its face with amounts marked thereon, equal to the number of teeth 12, which
wheel is provided with a ratchet wheel, which is at each depression of the lever e
acted upon by the projection on the lever y connected with the said lever e to
indicate the amount of money paid at one time. The lever y. may turn upon a
centre in on the said lever c, and be acted upon by the projection u when it is
withdrawn so that the said lever y will be brought clear of the ratchet wheel,
upon which it operates to turn the wheel X, so that the said wheel X will return
by the action of a spring to its normal position. With this apparatus also is or
may be used bell sounding mechanism, which may be like that herein before
described. The number of teeth and the number of divisions of the wheel X
will be in accordance with the number of different amounts payable. For this
wheel, as also for the indicating wheels in the other arrangements described for
shewing the number of tickets issued, suitable openings will be provided for
exhibiting the indications. Such openings may also be employed for exhibiting
the indications of the wheels for each individual lever or push piece in the com-
pound apparatus, they in all cases being protected from being tampered with from
the exterior. The mechanism is or may be enclosed in one case, locked or
otherwise secured so as to be only accessible by the authorised person or persons.
The train of wheels shewn in Figures 3, 4, and 5, which is adapted for the
purposes of this Invention is constructed as follows:-The unit wheel A¹ has in or
upon it, a tooth a², which engages with one of three recesses in a supplemental
wheel as carried between the units and tens wheels on an axle at mounted in
bearings in strips . The said axle also carries a toothed wheel, which engages
with projections or teeth in or on the tens wheel A². When the unit wheel has
been rotated through one revolution, the tooth 2 engages with one of the recesses
in the wheel a³, and by rotating the wheel a causes it to also rotate the tens
wheel A through one tenth of a revolution. A similar arrangement is provided
between the tens and hundreds wheels, and between any succeeding wheels of a
series. The number of recesses in the wheel ³ may of course be varied in
.accordance with the space between them, provided that the wheel a be caused to
travel a distance which will rotate the following wheel through one tenth of a
revolution.

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If preferred certain parts may be omitted, for example, as before mentioned, the
tumbling platform, or the hell or the printing, or ticket issuing apparatus could,
in certain cases, be dispensed with or in place of tickets a roll of paper, which
might be perforated for being readily separated into parts, could be employed in
place of tickets. In this case the projections would be replaced by claws or
hooks, which would bite into the paper only during their forward motion to feed
forward the paper for delivery.
The punching or marking instrument could, in some cases, also be arranged upon
a cranked shaft to be operated by the rotation or partial rotation of the said shaft
by a handle at the exterior of the case of the apparatus, the said shaft being
provided with means analagous to those herein before de cribed for performing the
other functions of the apparatus.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that I do not limit myself to the precise
details herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention, but
what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is-
First. The apparatus for checking and indicating or registering the number of
fares or amount of moneys received, substantially as described with reference to
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings, whether the tumbling platform
and receptacle for money he employed in combination therewith or not, and
whether or not the same be arranged singly or the parts thereof be duplicated or
multiplied, as described.
Second. In apparatus for checking and indicating or registering the number of
fares or amount of moneys received, so arranging the mechanism for printing,
punching, or marking the amount of money paid, and the mechanism for expelling
the tickets or the like relatively to each other, and with the means for operating
the same, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings, that the printing, punching, or marking is effected before the
ticket or the like can be removed from the apparatus.
Third. The special construction of counter illustrated in and described with
reference to Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth. The compound apparatus described with reference to Figures 6 and 7
of the accompanying Drawings, wherein the essential feature is so combining the
various levers or push pieces for each amount, and the operating devices, that each
lever or push piece operates upon one common ticket expelling device and indicator
for recording the number of tickets issued, both or either of them, but that each
lever operates an independent recorder or indicator of the number of times which
it has been operated, all substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the said Figures 6 and 7 of the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Jules Theodore Wild, have to this
my Specification set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
ALBERT JULES THEODORE WILD. (L.S.)