IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING OR INDICATING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS THAT MAY PASS THROUGH OR OVER ANY PARTICULAR PLACE, APPLICABLE TO OMNIBUSSES AND OTHER VEHICLES, THEATRES, FERRYS, GARDENS, BATHS, AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1860

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Cutts at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th November
1860.
I, JAMES CUTTS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer and
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING OR INDICATING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS
THAT MAY PASS THROUGH OR OVER ANY PARTICULAR PLACE, APPLICABLE TO OMNIBUSSES
AND OTHER VEHICLES, THEATRES, FERRYS, GARDENS, BATHS, AND OTHER PLACES,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to apparatus by which the number of persons,
machines, or articles passing or being made to pass any given place shall
be correctly registered, the object being to prevent cash-takers at theatres,
guards of omnibuses, toll keepers, and individuals employed in like
situations from embezzling money belonging to their employers, and to show
the correct numbers that may have passed, for whatever purpose the same
may be required.
I have designed several arrangements or constructions for the purpose,
all of which are or can be connected to and communicate with a self-acting
consecutive registering apparatus, which I have adapted as being especially
free from error, or they may be coupled to any known consecutive registering.
machine at present in use. The motion in the first instance is derived from
some part or parts of the apparatus obstructing or preventing the passage of

page_text: the persons, machines, or articles to be counted, and which parts require to be
moved aside to allow the persons, machines, or articles to pass or to be passed;
the movement is communicated to the registering apparatus independant of
the person or persons in charge.
These arrangements consist of, 1st, a double turnstile applicable where single
turnstiles have or can be used, but specially suitable for use on omnibuses at
the inside entrance, and on or near the top of the ladders or passage to the
outside from the small space it occupies. The upright spindles are made to
gear by mitre wheels, pullies, and cords, or other arrangements, so that where
one stile is moved; the other will turn the same way; one fourth of a turn will
register one by and on the apparatus herein-after described, and which has
motion communicated by a ratchet wheel and pawl or spring; an angular,
grooved, or other clutch prevents more than one registration being made at
any one time.
2nd, a series of cross arms or levers with or without hanging and cross
railings, binged on an upright pillar or spindle; one of these arms passes across
the doorway or other passage when moved to admit ingress or egress; a cam of
suitable shape carries it into a vertical position, and allows another to fall into
its place to count for the next movement; the registering apparatus is geared
by ratchet or otherwise to the spindle.
3rd, an arrangement of levers (also with or without hanging and cross
railings) so that when one is lifted or moved out of its obstructing position
another falls down and bars the passage; these levers are placed at suitable
angles; the raising of one lowers the other, and vice versa; the spindles on
which they are affixed being geared by quadrant pinions, the registering appa-
ratus is connected to or on the spindles as before described.
4th, an arrangement so that when the lever is raised from its horizontal or
obstructing position it pushes out or causes to meet two bolts or horizontal
levers in the passage which must be withdrawn before the way is clear, this is
done by again lowering the lever into position. On the spindle to which the
lever is affixed is a pinion gearing with another, on the spindle of which latter
is a vee-shaped grooved pulley having cords, chains, or bands affixed to and
passing round the same; these cords, chains, or bands are carried over
sliding pullies placed under the foot board of an omnibus, or under the
roadway in other cases, and act over corresponding and like pullies on the
other side, thus moving the horizontal levers or bolts simultaneously by being
attached to them. A direct coupling of cranks and pinions or either of them,
it will be seen, can operate the bolts or levers last mentioned; this arrangement
also communicates to the registering apparatus from some of its spindles. In

page_text: the four arrangements just described a ratchet wheel and spring may be so
timed when fastened on the spindle or elsewhere that it will be impossible to
pass when either of them are partly opened. They may also count or register
on entrance or exit, or in passing both ways, or twice one way and once
the other.
5th, this arrangement applies to the ladders used on omnibuses and to
ladders wherever used; part or whole of the ladder is made to slide on the
framing or on studs or pistons arranged for that purpose; the weight
of a person passing over the same will depress the ladder, which will communi-
cate with the registering apparatus, or where a series of moveable steps are
used, then the registering apparatuses can be affixed to each step; when the
weight is removed from the ladder, india-rubber springs attached to the same
and to the omnibus will return it to its place, or springs, spiral, elliptic, or other
shape may be used.
And, 6th, the consecutive registering apparatus, which is an application of
the arrangement used in paging machines, and consists of a series of pullies
divided and marked with figures on their periphries. They are all placed on
a centre shaft or spindle decimally divided into grooves, and into which spring
studs fit for the stop catch; the first pulley is connected to the ratchet wheel
afore referred to as connecting it to the other parts of the apparatus, and
when carried a full round, as from 1 to 0, it takes up the next pulley by block
pressure on a flat spring, with which each of them is fitted, and thus continues
consecutive registration.