Improvements relating to Registering Mechanism, chiefly designed for use in Fare Registering Apparatus.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
[Communicated from abroad by FRIEDRICH WILHELM, GUSTAV BRUIN, of No. 1,
Schaperstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, Director.]
Improvements relating to Registering Mechanism, chiefly designed
for use in Fare Registering Apparatus.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 specification:-
:―
This invention relates to registering devices, so designed as to-also register
periodically-occurring special events apart from the simultaneous occurrence of
chief events; the essential feature of the invention being that the special events
are rendered visible on the main registering mechanism as well as on a secondary
registering mechanism.
If, for example, in the use of fare registers, special additional charges to be paid
for the rendering of special services, are desired to be registered, such additional
fees; according to. this invention, are made visible upon a secondary register and
at the same time added to the principal amount.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a section of a device constructed according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is an outside view of the apparatus showing the dial and the indicating
openings, and
Figure 3 is a view illustrating a device for regulating the degree of movement
of the operating pin.
By moving the operating pin b, the operator is enabled to shift the wheel d,
normally turned by the main part of the registering mechanism, and the shaft e
rigidly connected therewith, to the extent of any corresponding number of teeth,
during which shifting operation the slip pawl on the arm a of the two armed-
lever ac, returned by the spring f, engages with the teeth of the wheel d. Thus
a further amount is added to the amount registered by the main mechanism. At
the same time, however, this shifting movement of the operating pin b is also
recorded upon the disc g serving for registering the additional fee, with the teeth
of which engages the slip pawl on the arm c of the lever a c.
As the clicks of the lever a c are actuated by springs (not shown in the draw-
ing) no jamming or disengaging from the teeth of the wheels d and g can take
place..
By the said shifting operation the latter disc g is likewise rotated, and, as it
rotates, it causes a corresponding, different number to appear opposite the slot
9 is trans-
provided in the covering plate (Figure 2). The rotation of the wheel
mitted in the known manner to the addition-discs kk which cause the sum to become
visible for inspection by the controller, the discs k k serving only to register the
extras, which are indicated by the wheel g. The latter is returned to zero every

page_text: time a trip has been finished, while the discs k k¹ register continually the charged
extras.
In order to allow of any desired amount being added to the price registered by
the main indicator, the operating pin b is arranged in a guide b¹, which is capable
of lateral displacement. According to the respective position occupied by the
finger or pointer 2 upon the graduated scale 63 (Figure 3), the lever a c receives
a greater or smaller degree of movement and consequently also the wheels d and g
are rotated to a greater or smaller extent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. A device for simultaneously and separately indicating special events or items
upon a secondary indicating mechanism in connection with a main indicating
mechanism, thé characteristic features of the device being a double armed lever (a c)
engaging on the one hand with the main indicating mechanism (de) and on the
other hand with the secondary indicating mechanism (gk); and an operating pin
displaceable from outside and moving on its part the said lever and simultaneously
therewith but independently of each other the two indicating mechanisms.
2. A constructional form of the device described in the first claim, presenting the
characteristic feature that the working point of the operating pin, can be dis-
placed relatively to the engaging lever, so as to admit of variable indications being
made with regard to special events or items.
Deted this 19th day of October 1897
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.