Invention for Ascertaining with Perfect Accuracy how many Persons Travel Daily Inside and Outside a Tram-car or Stage Carriage.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., .1888.
Complete Left, 9th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Invention for Ascertaining with Perfect Accuracy how many
Persons Travel Daily Inside and Outside a Tram-car or Stage
Carriage.
I, JOSEPH HELDMANN of Seaton House, Uxbridge Road, Acton, London W., late
Headmaster of the Mayland Road Schools, Shepherd's Bush, London, W. do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for ASCERTAINING WITH ACCURACY HOW MANY
PERSONS TRAVEL DAILY IN A TRAM CAR to be as follows :-
I shall fix at each end of a Tram Car a Turnstile, and under a glass shade an
Indicator, which shall register Each Person who passes the Turnstile to travel either
Inside or Outside the Car; and facing this Turnstile for admittance I shall place
another without an Indicator, turning the opposite way, allowing people to pass out,
and preventing any one entering. This contrivance will secure the following important
results.
First. The proprietor of the Tram Car, or Stage Carriage, will no longer be at
the mercy of a Conductor respecting the number of passengers travelling daily by
the conveyance under his charge, as he, (the proprietor) will be able to see, looking
at the Indicator, how many persons passed the Turnstile during a Down and Up
journey.
Second. The Conductor having no longer to spend much of his time with marking
a way-bill, clipping tickets and distributing them, is by my arrangement, completely
at liberty to look out for passengers only.
All who travel in a Tram Car have observed how often Ladies and Gentlemen,
waiting in the street to stop a Car, fail to do so, because the Conductor does not see
them, being engaged as described above.
Third. The Turnstile with its Indicator, registering the passengers, will enable the
Owners of the Stage Carriages to dispense altogether with Inspectors, which is a
considerable saving of Expenditure per annum.
Fourth. The Indicator, being under a Glass shade, can not be tampered with.
As a further saveguard against dishonesty I shall fix a Cash-box near the Indicator,
or in another convenient place, with a tarif of Fares, suspended over it, and also a

page_text: Notice requesting the public to deposit themselves their money into this box; the
Conductor, standing near the Turnstile, will only have to see that the proper amount
is paid, and give change, if required.
The Coachman and the Conductor, having to pass through the Admittance Stile
when they start, and after changing horses, are registered by the Indicator; they
would have to put into the Cash-box, instead of money, a Mark or Ticket; these.
Marks or Tickets must correspond with the number of times they had to pass through
the Stile.
The importance of an accurate check upon the Conductor of a Stage Carriage has
long been felt by the proprietor of the same.
My invention is solving the problem how to defeat Dishonesty, and consequently to
increase the income.
I. To defeat dishonesty. The Indicator, and not the Conductor records how many
persons travel per day.
The Conductor no longer handles the money, as the passengers themselves will put
it into the box.
II. To increase the Income, more passengers will be secured, as the Conductor has
nothing else to do than to look out for them. Inspectors being no longer wanted
their salaries are saved.

page_text: Invention for Ascertaining with Perfect Accuracy how many
Persons Travel Daily Inside and Outside a Tram Car or Stage
Carriage.
I, JOSEPH HELDMANN of Worton Court, Isleworth, (removed from Seaton House,
Acton) late Headmaster of the Mayland Road Schools, Shepherd's Bush, London, 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:
I shall fix at the entrance, or other convenient place of a Tram Car, or other Vehicle,
a case, Fig. 2 G G made partly or entirely of glass, or other material.
This case will contain Two Rollers, Fig. 2, B1, B2 of wood, iron, or other metal,
to be worked on Cog-wheels. Fig. 4, D, B.
These rollers, for the sake of illustration, I shall number one and two. Fig. 2, B1 B 2.
Roller number one, Fig. 2, B1 will be used as an Indicator, and roller number two
Fig. 2 B2 as a Turnstile.
I shall roll numbers, printed on Paper, Canvas, or other materials, on Roller
number one. Fig. 2, B 1.
The beginning of these printed numbers, after passing over a smooth plane,
Fig. 3 F, will be attached to roller number two. Fig. 2 B 2.
This roller number two Fig. 2, B2 has arms Fig. 2 AA which are so placed, that
any one, entering and leaving the Car, or other Vehicle, must turn it by one of the
arms; and as each turn of roller number two Fig. 2 B2 (turnstile) is unrolling
from Roller number one Fig. 2, B1 (Indicator) a portion of the printed numbers
Fig. 2, 3 & 4 C, C, before any one can get in or out, each person is registered
twice for instance, supposing a car starts, and Mr. A. as first passenger, enters it;
the roller Fig. 2, B2 being turned, would bring number one, (should this be the first
number for starting) to the plane; Fig. 3, F should Mr. A..leave the Car before other
passengers arrive, he being obliged to turn an arm of the roller Fig. 2, B2 again,
before he can get out, number two would be visible on the plane; Fig. 3, F
consequently every passenger is registered twice, on entering and leaving, and the
numbers of the Indicator would be distinctly seen, Fig. 1, 5 the plane Fig. 3 F being
on the side of the case made of glass.
Should I find it desirable to use the above rollers only for admitting passengers, in
which case they would be registered once instead of twice, I should fix similar rollers
facing the entrance, turning the opposite way, allowing people to pass out and
preventing any one entering..
If all the numbers on roller number one Fig. 3, B1 are rolled on number two,
Fig. 3 B2 the latter could be shifted into the place of the former, as the arms
Fig. 2 AA are so constructed that they can be fixed on either roller; or the rollers
might remain where they are, and the numbers wound back. Fig. 2 K.

page_text: By this simple arrangement I obtain accuracy and economy.
With two rollers Fig. 2, B1, B2 I can register a passenger when he goes in as
well as out of a Car; therefore the Conductor having no longer to spend much of
his time with marking a way bill, clipping tickets, and distributing them, is by my
contrivance economising much time, and is at liberty to look out for passengers
only.
The simplicity of my contrivance also enables me to accomodate myself to space, as
the arms of the roller Fig. 2,-B2 can be shifted if they interfere with the Coachman
of a Car who may desire to sit down.
I hope to use the rollers, not only as a Register, but also as a Medium for
Advertisement, should I find it expedient, and I intend to appropriate a part of the
case as a Cash-box, Fig. 1 B into which the public may deposit their money
themselves, unless the proprietor of a Conveyance prefers the Conductor receiving
the fares.
The Coachman and the Conductor having to turn the roller Fig. 2 B2 when they
enter the Car or leave it, are registered as ordinary passengers; they would have to
put into the Cash-box, Fig. 1. B instead of money, marks or tickets; these marks or
tickets would have to correspond with the number of times they had to turn Roller
number two Fig. 2 B 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1st. To register accurately passengers travelling in a Tram Car or other Vehicle
by means of two rollers. Fig. 2 B1 B2.
2nd. That the proprietor of a conveyance shall no longer be at the merci of a
Conductor respecting the number of passengers travelling daily; but that he, (the
proprietor) shall be able to see, looking at the Indicator, Fig. 15 how many persons
passed the turnstile during a down or up journey.
3rd. Passengers being registered by the rollers Fig. 4 B1 B2 will enable the
owners of Carriages to dispense with Inspectors, which will be a great saving of
expenditure per annum.
Dated this Ninth of June 1887.