IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF FARES .COLLECTED FROM PASSENGERS ON OR IN OMNIBUSES OR TRAMWAY CARS."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Harvey Manton, of Liverpool, 'in the County
of Lancaster, Accountant, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF FARES
.COLLECTED FROM PASSENGERS ON OR IN OMNIBUSES OR TRAMWAY CARS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Harvey Manton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th May 1880.
GEORGE HARVEY MANTON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Accountant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF FARES COLLECTED FROM PASSENGERS ON OR IN
OMNIBUSES OR TRAMWAY CARS."
The object of my Invention is to produce by means or apparatus entirely
beyond the control of the conductors of vehicles plying for hire, a register, and
also means of impressing the date or other like contrivance on the ticket (from
which by the tickets issued the owner of a vehicle can ascertain the number of
passengers carried during a day, or other longer or shorter period), in combination
with a bell, which denotes to each passenger that the registration of his or her
fare is effected. For this purpose I make use of a simple operation which by
means of a die punch dates a ticket given as a voucher to each passenger, moves
forward a register or dial, multiplying up to 1000, and at the same moment
indicates to the passenger the registration by sounding a bell or gong.
In carrying my Invention into effect I adopt mainly the following:
I put the processes for stamping, registering, and sounding into action simul-
taneously by depressing inclined ends of two boxes (hereinafter called clutch
boxes). These inclined ends have a hinge at the highest points and a die punch.
The stamper has a square base fitting into a socket in the incline, and secured by a
nut in one of the boxes, so that they may be removed when requisite for altering
date or other purposes. These boxes are pivoted at their opposite extremities.
Attached to one of the clutch boxes are two arms, one giving motion to the
register wheel indicating units, which in turn moves at each revolution a wheel
one tenth, indicating tens, said wheel similarly acting on a third wheel indicating
hundreds. The other arm strikes a bell.

page_text: The two clutch boxes are fitted with doors, one to open when necessary to screw
on a fresh stamper.
To give greater power there may be attached to a hinge between the inclined
ends of the clutch boxes an upright frame supporting a thumb rest at top. This
frame is kept in position by an opening formed by two ends of the two box doors,
through which it is depressed and rises with each ticket.
It will be seen that on placing a ticket between the two box doors (the upright
frame forming a guide for it to slide against) its lower edge comes in contact
with the hinge. The thumb-rest then being under the thumb is pressed down;
this action causes the hinge to descend, and the two inclined faces to meet.
,
A spring acting on the under part of one of the boxes causes both boxes to go
back to their original position when the ticket is withdrawn ready for the next.
The machine by preference I attach by loops to a broad belt to be worn round
the waist.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said George Harvey Manton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th May 1881.
GEORGE HARVEY MANTON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Accountant. IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND
REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF FARES COLLECTED FROM PASSENGERS ON OR IN
OMNIBUSES OR TRAMWAY CARS."
Fig. 1 represents the interior of a machine drawn to the proposed size. a, a,
the inclined ends or faces of two boxes (hereinafter called clutch boxes) between
which the ticket is inserted; d, the upright stand and thumb rest, which on being
pressed downwards brings the faces a, a, together, causing the perforating figures a
to pass through the ticket. The left box c on being depressed causes the arm or
pawlf to act on the ratchet teeth of k (which is a combination wheel of dial,
ratchet teeth, and stay plate); the pin h turns wheel at each revolution;
| similarly acting on m, each being retained in position by stay wheels i, i, i.
Below the right hand box c is the striking action n sounding a bell or gong, a bell
being outlined at o. The spring e returns the boxes to their first position; Fig. 2
shows the front of the machine and state of the register as presented to the view
of the passengers, the necessity of unlocking the machino is thus obviated. I may
here remark that the object of my Invention is to produce a portable register on
which the figures are plainly visible, denoting the number of tickets issued, the
apparatus being entirely beyond the improper control of the conductors of vehicles
plying for hire, or other collectors of money or fares; and also means of perforating,
embossing, or otherwise impressing the date, number, or other particulars on the
tickets (from which by the tickets issued the owner of a vehicle can ascertain the
number of passengers carried or persons admitted during any given period), in
combination with a bell or gong which denotes to each passenger or person that
the registration of his or her fare is effected. For this purpose I make use of
movable figures or type which date, perforate, or impress a ticket given as a voucher
to each passenger or person, a register or dial multiplying up to 1000, and the bell
or gong. In carrying out my Invention I adopt the following arrangements:-I
put the processes for stamping, registering, and sounding into action simultaneously
by depressing the inclined faces or ends of the clutch boxes, causing such faces to
meet. These inclined ends are connected by a hinge at the lower edges, and the
movable figures are fitted into one end or face, and the matrix or a pad on the
other. The boxes are pivotted at their opposite. extremities. Attached to the
under side of the boxes are two arms, one giving motion by means of ratchet teeth
to the register wheel indicating units, which in turn moves at each revolution a
second wheel one tenth, indicating tens, said wheel similarly acting on a third
wheel indicating hundreds. These register wheels are kept in position by stay
wheels, as shown on the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1, or other similar contrivance.
The other arm strikes a bell or gong. To give greater power there may be attached
to the clutch boxes, or one of them, pads for the thumb and forefinger to press
on, or an upright stand supporting a thumb rest at top. A door and lock encloses
the mechanism and secures it from being tampered with. It will be seen that on
placing a ticket between the two box ends (the upright frame of the thumb rest
forming a guide for it) its lower edge comes in contact with the hinge.
The thumb rest then being under the thumb is pressed down; this action causes
the hinge to descend and the two inclined faces to meet, thus bringing the stamping,
registering, and sounding processes into simultaneous operation. A spring acting
on the under part of one of the boxes causes both boxes to ascend to their original
position when the ticket is withdrawn, and the machine is ready for the next.

page_text: The machine by preference I attach by loops to a broad belt to be worn round
the waist.
Having now described my said Invention, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the exact arrangements herein described and shown in the
Drawing, as curved ends to the boxes, kept in position by toothed edges, may be
used instead of straight ones, and hinged. What I claim is the employment of
means or apparatus arranged and operated as herein described and shown in the
Drawing, or equivalent means or apparatus for producing a portable machine
capable of being worn at the waist by a belt or in other positions containing a
register, the figures of which are distinctly visible on the outside, and which by one
action forwards the register, sounds a gong or bell, and impresses or perforates a
ticket with a date or other particulars, substantially of the character and for the
purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Harvey Manton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
In the presence of
HA. MANTON,
71; Great Newton St.,
Liverpool.
GEORGE HARVEY MANTON. (L.S.)