IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECKING OR CONTROLLING THE PAYMENT OF FARES IN CABS AND OTHER PUBLIC VEHICLES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 88, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECKING
OR CONTROLLING THE PAYMENT OF FARES IN CABS AND OTHER PUBLIC
VEHICLES." A communication from Léon Becker and Joseph Leib,
residing at Boulevard Magenta. Paris. in the Empire of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th August 1865.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHECKING OR
CONTROLLING THE PAYMENT OF FARES IN CABS AND OTHER PUBLIC VEHICLES,"
communicated to me by Leon Becker and Joseph Leib, persons residing at
Boulevard Magenta, Paris, in the Empire of France, aforesaid, to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for object an improved combination of apparatus, already
known, intended for checking the payment of the fares of public vehicles by

page_text: printing on a ticket or card the time or distance during which the passenger
has occupied the vehicle and registering on an indicator the number of tickets
marked by the said apparatus.
This Invention consists in combining the above apparatus in suitable number
for the different spaces of time for which the vehicle is occupied in a case,
frame, or box, provided or not with an ordinary timekeeper, as represented in
the accompanying Drawings. The interior of these apparatus is composed
of a mechanisni similar to those in use for checking the delivery of railway
tickets. This interior mechanism is in connection with an indicating hand.
a, a, a, are the openings by which the tickets are introduced; 6 is an ordinary
timekeeper on which the calculations may be based, c is the framework con-
taining the whole. Under cach apparatus is shown the special distance,
space of time, or other information it is intended for registering. The ticket
is introduced into one on other of the openings, and receives an impression
corresponding to the indication marked under sand opening, at the same time
the dial hand is advanced to a certain extent. The ticket is then remitted to
the passenger. Thus the passenger would be requested to pay only a sum
corresponding to the distance or time indicated on his ticket, and the proprietor
would, by inspection of the indicators, see what sum had been remitted to the
driver
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 31st January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du
Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundied and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Ilenri Adrien Bonneville, Ier special licence that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, "my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should in any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully

page_text: 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 CHECKING OR CONTROLLING THE PAYMENT OF FARES IN CABS
AND OTHER PUBLICS VEHICLES," communicated to me by Leon Becker and Joseph
Leib, persons residing at Boulevard Magenta, Paris, in the Empire of France,
aforesaid, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, 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 1, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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:-
This Invention has for object an improved combination of apparatus, already
known, intended for checking the payment of the fares of public vehicles by
printing on a ticket or card the time or distance during which the passenge
has occupied the vehicle and registering on an indicator the number of tickets
marked by the said apparatus
This Invention consists in combining the above apparatus in suitable number
for the different spaces of time for which the vehicle is occupied in a case,
frame, or box, provided or not with and ordinary timekeeper, as represented in
the accompanying Drawings. The interior of these apparatus is composed of
a mechanism similar to those in use for checking the delivery of railway
tickets. The interior mechanism is in connection with an indicating hand.
a, a, a, are the openings by which the tickets are introduced; b is an ordinary
timekeeper on which the calculations may be based; c is the framework con-
taining the whole. Under each apparatus is shown the special distance,
space of time, or other information it is intended for registering. The ticket
is introduced into one or other of the openings and receives an impression
corresponding to the indication marked under said opening; at the same time
the dial hand is advanced to a certain extent. It is then remitted to the
passenger. Thus the passenger would be requested to pay only a sum cor-
responding to the distance or time indicated on this ticket, and the proprietor
would, by inspection of the indicators, see what sum had been remitted to the
driver.
The accompanying Drawing shows a complete application of this system

page_text: comprising eighteen apparatus. The first apparatus at the left of the upper
row is intended for indicating the number of journeys, the next eight apparatus
of the same line, the four first and three last of the lower line are disposed for
marking the number of miles and fractions of miles during which the vehicle
is occupied; the fifth apparatus of the lower line marks the night journeys;
the sixth apparatus marks the journeys outside a given circle. These apparatus
are intended for printing on cards or tickets like those used on railways and
omnibuses, and which are remitted to each passenger, indications which vary
according to the journeys performed, by distance or time, before or after a
certain hour, or out of or within a given circle. Thus for any journey what-
ever the ticket is only passed in the first apparatus of the upper line if it is in
the daytime, and if at night in the fifth apparatus of the lower line. For
Journeys, by the mile, of four and a half miles, for instance, the ticket is passed
in the fifth apparatus of the upper line, each revolution of which shows that
the vehicle has been occupied during four hours, and then in the eighth
apparatus of the second row, which marks the half miles only. Each of these
apparatus should be provided with a special dial with needle or hand, and
having-hgures-marked round the circumference like clock dials. Each time
that a card is submitted to the action of one of the apparatus the needle will
advance one figure on the disc, and this figure will indicate a journey of the
nature of those the dial is intended for registering. Thus, each figure marked
by the hand of the dial intended for the journeys will mark the occupation of
the vehicle during one journey; each figure on the one mile dial would indi-
rate the occupation of the vehicle during one mile, and so on, in the manner
represented in the accompanying Drawings. To ensure the efficacity of this
means of controlling, and cause the cards to find their way into the hands of
the proprietors of the vehicles, a certain value might be attached to each
ticket banded to passengers, which value might be reimbursed by the person
interested in ascertaining the fidelity of the conductors. This control could
thus be double, that is to sav, the enregistration would be performed not only
by the apparatus remaining in the possession of the carriage proprietors, but
also by the cards or tickets returning to them In this way the passenger
would have an interest in obliging the driver to hand him the stamped ticket
proving how long he had occupied the vehicle, as this ticket would represent
in his hands a value for which he could exchange it at will, the more so as
this ticket bears the number of the vehicle printed beforehand, which number
it is always important for the passenger to know in case of any reclamation to
be made. To simplify and cheapen the application in question the number of
apparatus for each vehicle might be considerably diminished by employing for

page_text: the journeys tickets of different colours, according to the hour at which they
are made, and whether by the hour or distance, and by delivering for journeys
by the mile as many tickets as there are miles and parts of miles occupation.
In this way only the two first apparatus of the upper line might be retained
for ordinary journeys and journeys by distance, and the three last apparatus
of the lower line for fractions of miles; or tickets or cards folded or partly
broken in one or more parts might be employed, each part or division repre-
senting a mile or part of a mile, or hour or part of an hour, which would be
registered by passing them once or more in an apparatus marking the miles
or quarters of an hour, which would allow of suppressing the dials for the half
miles or three-quarter miles, reducing the number of apparatus to three, that
is to say, the one marking the journey, that marking the hour or the distance,
and that for the fraction.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that whatever
the number of apparatus employed, I claim as my exclusive right the appli-
cation to the controlling of the regular payment of fares in cabs and other
public vehicles of apparatus adopted for checking the delivery of railway
tickets and omnibus correspondence tickets, modified and adapted in the
manner and for the purposes above described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
11. BONNEVILLE.
(L.B)