IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING AND INDICATING THE PAYMENT OF MONIES, AND THE ISSUING OF TICKETS OR CHECKS
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Steer and Joseph Hands at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1878.
ALFRED STEER, of 110, Park Road, Peckhamn, in the County of Surrey,
Commercial Traveller, and JOSEPH HANDS, of 144, Culford Road, Kingsland, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR
REGISTERING AND INDICATING THE PAYMENT OF MONIES, AND THE ISSUING OF
TICKETS OR CHECKS."
Our Invention has for its object the checking of payments in tramway cars
omnibuses, other vehicles, theatres, and all other places where it is desirable to
check the receipt of money.
The machine or apparatus, which is enclosed in a netal or any suitable case
provided with a handle if required and door, is constructed as follows:-About the
centre of each side of the apparatus are bearings which support a spindle, on which
is wound a strip of paper or other material, representing by means of perforations
or other indications at given distances apart a certain number of tickets or checks.
In front of this roll of tickets or in any convenient position are two small rollers for
the purpose of gripping the paper or other material, the circumference of each roller
being equal to the required length of ticket. On one of these rollers is fixed a
pinion which gears into a wheel revolving on a separate spindle.
Three drums with figures on their periphery for the purpose of indicating the
number of tickets issued are on a spindle, and placed where the figures may be most
readily seen, and are worked by means of wheels. A gong or bell is also attached
which is sounded at each revolution of the gripping rollers; the whole being
actuated by means of a lever, handle, or wheel situated in the most convenient
position. The tickets or checks pass through an aperture to the outside of the case
where they are torn off and given to the payer.
The following is a short description of its working:-The roll of tickets or checks
being placed in its position, and one end passed through the gripping rollers, and
the case closed. If the lever now be pressed or the handle or wheel turned, a paw!
which is affixed thereto and gears into a ratchet wheel, gives motion to the wheel
gearing into the pinion of the gripping roller, which is so arranged as to cause the
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page_text: roller to make one revolution, thereby effecting the unrolling of one ticket. The
lever regains its original position by means of a spring.
The indicator formed by the figures on the drums works thus :-On the wheel
gearing into the gripping roller pinion is a projection or peg, which at each
revolution of the wheel actuates a ratchet wheel of ten teeth fixed on a separate
spindle, causing it to move one, tenth of a revolution. On the same spindle as the
ratchet wheel is a disc provided with a tooth on its periphery, and a wheel of ten
teeth. The tooth on the disc actuates a wheel of ten teeth fixed to one of the
drums, which is thereby caused to make one tenth of a revolution for every
hundred tickets or checks, the numbers on the drum therefore indicating hundreds.
The wheel of ten teeth on the same spindle gears into a wheel having an equal
number of teeth which is fixed to a second drum; this drum is caused to make one
tenth of a revolution for every ten tickets or checks, the numbers on it indicating
tens.
A third drum which indicates one for each ticket or check is acted upon thus :-
A wheel of ten teeth fixed to it is caused to make one tenth of a revolution, by a
disc having one tooth on its periphery fixed on a separate spindle, and revolves by
means of a wheel on the same spindle, gearing into the wheel which gives motion
to the gripping rollers.
A further improvement in this apparatus consists in the addition of a suitable
contrivance for causing the tickets or checks to be punched or nipped before leaving
the apparatus; also the gripping rollers adapted for cutting or perforating the
tickets or checks. Springs and adjusting screws also act so as to aid the parts in
their operation.
Another improvement consists in having two or more rolls of tickets or checks,
each roll indicating different amounts, and each having an independent indicator, or
the rolls may indicate the same amounts and have but one indicator.
The indicator will record higher numbers by the addition of drums and wheels.
Both gripping rollers may be geared if necessary.