IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING RAILWAY TICKETS, AND
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph de Masy, of Rue de la Montagne,
Bruxelles, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Mechanician, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING RAILWAY TICKETS, AND IN
Scaled the 12th March 1869, and dated the 16th September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph de Masy at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th September 1868.
I, JOSEPH DE MASY, of Rue de la Montagne, Bruxelles, in the.
Kingdom of Belgium, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING RAILWAY TICKETS,
AND IN MECHANISM FOR WITHDRAWING RAILWAY TICKETS FROM THE SAID CASES,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the following arrangement of the parts of
cases for holding railway tickets, and mechanism connected therewith for
the purpose of facilitating the withdrawal of the said tickets. The case

page_text: consists of a box having a series of vertical divisions dividing it into
compartments, in which compartments piles of the railway tickets are
placed in the usual manner; the front of each compartment is open so
as to exhibit the edges of the tickets, the openings being of insufficient
width to permit of the tickets passing out by a horizontal motion, except
at the bottom where the said openings are wide enough. to permit one
ticket to pass out. In the bottom of each compartment is a slot, and
underneath each compartment is a slide sliding closely against the
bottom. On this slide is a projection which passes through the slot in
the bottom of the case, the said projection standing above the bottom of
the case to a height equal to the thickness of one of the tickets. The
front end of the slide has a thumb plate by which it may be drawn
outwards. The return motion of the slide is effected by a coiled spring
supported on a rod, on which rod the tail or rear end of the slide works.
When the slide is drawn out by its thumb plate the said coiled spring is
compressed, and on loosing the said thumb plate the said spring returns
the said slide to its normal position. When the slide is in its normal
position the projection carried by it is situated behind the lowest ticket of
the pile, and on drawing forward the said slide by its thumb plate the said
lowest ticket is withdrawn from the pile by the said projection the ticket
being not quite wholly withdrawn; on loosing the thumb plate the slide
retires and the protruding ticket rests upon the thumb plate. The appa-
ratus is now ready for ordinary use. The protruding ticket and the thumb
plate are grasped between the thumb and finger and drawn forward; the
ticket is thereby wholly withdrawn from the case, and by relaxing the
pressure of the thumb and finger the said ticket is held and the slide
retires by the action of its spring. By the withdrawing action described
a second ticket is made to protrude, and by withdrawing the said second
ticket a third ticket is made to protrude, and so on, a ticket being always
left projecting after the withdrawal of the previous one. The slide
described may be dispensed with, and the thumb plate connected to the
front end of the rod around which the coiled spring is placed. In this
arrangement the projection by which the ticket is carried forward is
attached to the said rod, which rod has a range of motion equal to that
of the slide in the first-described arrangement.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of. the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph de Masy in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
DE MASY, of Rue de la. Montagne, Bruxelles, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Mechanician, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, hearing date the Sixteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph de Masy, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph de Masy, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph de Masy, my executors,
administrators, 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
CASES FOR HOLDING RAILWAY TICKETS, AND IN MECHANISM FOR WITHDRAWING
RAILWAY TICKETS FROM THE SAID CASES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph de Masy, 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 Joseph de Masy, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of the following arrangement of the parts of
cases for holding railway tickets and mechanism connected therewith for
the purpose of facilitating the withdrawal of the said tickets. The case
consists of a box having a series of vertical divisions dividing it into
compartments, in which compartments piles of the railway tickets are.

page_text: placed in the usual manner. The front of each compartment is open so
as to exhibit the edges of the tickets, the openings being of insufficient
width to permit of the tickets passing out by a horizontal motion, except
.at the bottom where the said openings are wide enough to permit two
tickets to pass out. In the bottom of each compartment is a slot, and
underneath 'each compartment is a slide sliding closely against the
bottom. On this slide is a projection which passes through the .slot in
the bottom of the case, the said projection having shoulders which stand
above the bottom of the case. The front end of the slide has a thumb
plate by which it may be drawn outwards. The return motion of the
slide is effected by a coiled spring supported on a rod, on which rod
the tail or rear end of the slide works. When the slide is drawn out by
its thumb plate the said coiled spring is compressed, and on loosing the
said thumb plate the said spring returns the said slide to its normal
position. When the slide is in its normal position the projection carried
by it is situated behind the lowest ticket of the pile, and on drawing
forward the said slide by its thumb plate the said lowest ticket is with-
drawn from the pile by the said projection, the ticket being not quite
wholly withdrawn. On loosing the thumb plate the slide retires and the
protruding ticket rests upon the thumb plate. The apparatus is now
ready for ordinary use. The protruding ticket and the thumb plate are
grasped between the thumb and finger and drawn forward; the ticket is
thereby wholly withdrawn from the case and by relaxing the pressure of
the thumb and finger the said ticket is held and the slide retires by the
action of its spring. By the withdrawing action described a second
ticket is made to protrude, and by withdrawing the said second ticket a
third ticket is made to protrude, and so on, a ticket being always left
projecting after the withdrawal of the previous one. The slide described
may be dispensed with, and the thumb plate connected to the front end
of the rod around which the coiled spring is placed. In this arrange-
ment the projection by which the ticket is carried forward is attached to
the said rod, which rod has a range of motion equal to that of the slide
in the first-described arrangement.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation a case for holding railway tickets
and the withdrawing mechanism of the same constructed according to

page_text: my Invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the under side of the same;
Figure 3 is a horizontal section of the same; Figures 4 and 5 are
vertical sections of the same; Figure 4 exhibiting the withdrawing
mechanism in its normal position, and Figure 5 the same in its advanced
or withdrawn position; Figure 6 is a modification of the same, as herein-
after explained. The same letters of reference are used to indicate the
same parts in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
a, a, are the vertical compartments into which the case is divided, in
which compartments the piles of railway tickets.are placed in the usual
manner. Openings a³ are made in the front of each compartment, the
edges of the tickets being seen through the said openings. These openings
are of insufficient width to permit of the tickets passing out by a hori-
zontal motion, excepting at the bottoms marked a³, a³, where the said
openings are wide enough to permit two tickets to pass out. Underneath
each compartment a of the case is a slide b, the said slide working
closely against the bottom of the compartment, as seen by the sectional
views, Figures 4 and 5. The said slide 6 carries a projection c, which
passes through and works in a slot d in the bottom of each compartment.
The said projection stands a short distance above the bottom of the case,
as represented. On the said projection c are two shoulders c³, c³, each of
a depth equal to the thickness of one of the tickets in the compartment
of the case. The front of the slide 6 is provided with a thumb plate 6³,
by which it may be drawn outwards. The tail end or bracket 6³ of the
slide b works upon a rod-e fixed to the under side of the compartment
of the case. Between the bracket of the slide 6 and the bearing
plate f of the fixed rod e a coiled spring 7 is situated, by means of which
coiled spring the return motion of the slide is effected. When the said
slide is drawn out by the thumb plate 6* the coiled spring is com-
pressed, as illustrated in Figure 5, and on loosing the said thumb plate
the said spring returns the said slide to its normal position, as illustrated
in Figure 4. In one of the compartments of the case, Figure 3, one of
the slides b is represented withdrawn, and the slide in the other com-
partment is represented in its normal position.
The action of the withdrawing mechanism is as follows:-When the
slide 6 is in the position represented in Figure 4 the tooth or shoulder c³
of the projection c is situated behind the lowest ticket of the pile, and
on drawing forward the slide 6 by its thumb plate 63 into the position
represented in Figure 5 the said ticket x is partially withdrawn from

page_text: the pile by the shoulder or tooth c. On loosing the thumb plate 6s the
slide 6 retires, leaving the partially withdrawn ticket z resting on the
said thumb plate 6, the ticket now lying flat upon the slide, and the
shoulder being a short distance behind it. When the parts are in
In order to
the last-described position the apparatus is ready for use.
withdraw a ticket from the pile in any of the compartments of the case
the protruding ticket on the thumb plate &, and the said thumb plate
are grasped between the thumb and finger and drawn forward. The
projecting ticket (previously withdrawn in the manner already described)
is thereby further withdrawn from the compartment of the case by the
action of the shoulder of the projection c upon it, the ticket now
assuming. the position marked x in Figure 5. By relaxing the pressure
of the thumb and finger the said ticket at x, Figure 5, is held and the
slide retires by the action of the spring 9. By the last-described with-
drawing action by which the protruding ticket was further withdrawn a
second ticket marked 2³, in Figure 5, is by the action of the shoulder c*
made to protrude from the case and rest upon the thumb plate 6', and by
withdrawing the said second ticket, in the manner already described, a
a third ticket is made to protrude, and so on, a ticket being always left
protruding after the withdrawal of the provious one.
In the modification, Figure 6, the slide is dispensed with, and the
thumb plate 6 is connected to the front end of the rod e carrying the
coiled spring g for effecting the return motion.. The projection c in this
arrangement is fixed to the said rod e, the said rod e partaking of the
sliding motion of the said projection. The rear end e² of the rod e is
prolonged and acts as a guide to guide the projection c in its motion.
The rod e works in the bearing plates 7, i, and on the withdrawal of the
thumb plate & the rod e and projection c move together, as will be
understood by an examination of the Drawing. The action of this
arrangement is the same as that previously described.
In Figure 6 the bottom ticket and the one immediately above it arc
represented in the positions they respectively occupy when the instru-
ment is ready for use and a ticket is about to be withdrawn.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
'not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Inven-
tion; but I claim as my Invention the combination or arrangement of

page_text: the parts of cases for holding railway tickets, and the construction and
adaptation to the said cases of mechanism for facilitating the withdrawal
of tickets from the said cases, substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph de Masy, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Ninth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-ninc.
JOSEPH DE MASY. (L.S.)