Improvements in Holders for Railway Tickets and the like.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Holders for Railway Tickets and the like.
I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from
Henri Meyer of Batavia) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The ticket holders shewn in annexed drawing allow of an easy and secure
fastening of railway, theatre, or similar tickets, and are attached to garments,
watch chains etc in such a manner that they remain visible to the holder as also
to controlling persons and avoid in this manner the searching and other annoyance
occasioned through losing or mislaying such tickets.
For this purpose the ticket holders are fastened to a garment, chain bracelet or
otherwise with a ring or an eye with a suitable hook.
The tickets are held by a releasable catch arrangement with thin pins cl
Figure which perforate and hold the tickets until such catch arrangement is
released.
As seen from annexed drawings, the ticket holder can have for its basis or
form different designs according to fancy.
The ticket holder shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 has for its basis the form of a
small cannon, which has in the middle of its length a slit through the whole
of the barrel for the reception of the ticket; the part in front of this slit is
mounted as a pencil holder and the back part of the cannon has in its cylindrical
boring a moveable piston d whose projecting part b forms the knob of the
cannon.
To keep this piston d with the button c, in position there is inside the bore d'
a spiral spring t, through this spiral spring is a pin d, screwed into the piston and
passing through a smaller boring projects into another larger boring holding the
cone.
This cone is made of fine steel and ends in a thin round pin or point and is
rigidly attached or screwed on to the pin d.
The point of this cone abuts against a disc e, which is screwed to a button g by
a pin e, this button moves up and down the bore f and answers the pressure of the
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page_text: Bpiral spring * which tends to hold the disc e, in the position shown in Figures z
and 3.
As the disc e has an opening large enough to admit the cone c, a pressure on
the button b, will push the cone through this opening and the disc e, will hold tho
cone c, through the action of the spiral spring f' and will rest against the pin d.
If a ticket has been placed in the slit a before the button b has been pressed
down, the point of the cones perforates the ticket and is prevented from releasing
the ticket through the dist e.
If the ticket is to be released a light pressure on the button g suffices to release
the cone from the disc e, and the spiral spring & in the bore d¹, draws the cone
back.
Figures 4. 45 and 5* represent a ticket holder in ring form with a handle c'
and an eye m.
This ring consists of two parts h¹ and h³, hinged together through a pin a.
To part h¹ a peculiar formed spring 6 is screwed which presses with its
outwardly bent end against a thumb e* which is screwed to part h³, and so causes
the closing of the ring.
Figure 5 and 5ª represent the ring opened after removal of the spring bª and
the thumb c².
The part h³, is provided with two points ƒ'ƒª which fit into corresponding holes
in part h¹.
A pressure against the handle e opens the ring and the spring 6* is bent by the
thumb c. If now a ticket is held between the two parts of the ring and the
handle is released, the spring 6' will close the ring and the points ƒ ƒ2 will
perforate and hold the ticket.
Figures 6. 7. 8 and 9 represent a ticket holder in anchor form whose flukes are
split down the middle for the reception of the ticket. The tapering parts a³ and 6ª
of the crown are placed in the conical boring of a sleeve f³ and are gripped on
their turned up ends by the hooks of a fork which forms part of the pin which
is screwed into the button d³. The button d³ is placed in the cylindrical boring g'
of the sleeve and a spiral spring tends to hold it in the position as in Figure 8
in which the fork of holds the hooks of the anchor closed.
A pressure on the button d³ will cause the fork of to push the parts a³
and 6 of the hooks a little out of the sleeve f³ and a pin ³ projecting across the
entire boring of ƒ³ opens the parts aª and bª and allows a ticket to be placed
between them.
In releasing the button d³ a spiral spring draws the fork of back to its
former position, the parts a³ and 63 are closed and the point h³ perforates and holds
the ticket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is
1. For the purpose of fastening railway tickets theatre tickets and the like to
garments, chains, bracelets and the like the use of ticket holders with a moveable
catch arrangement allowing the ticket to come into contact with points or pins,
which perforate it the ticket being held by the catch arrangement when closed
substantially as specified.
2. The construction. of the three different arrangements substantially as
described and represented in Figures 1 to 9. agreeing viz:-in one point that the
ticket perforated by pins or points is held through the action of a spring.
3. The construction of a ticket holder substantially as specified and illustrated
in Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawings, in which a cone c, after its point c¹
has perforated the ticket placed in slit a, is held by a disc e. through a spiral
spring pressure on the button g. releasing the cone c, from the disc e, and the
action of the spiral spring t drawing the cone back and releasing the ticket..

page_text: 4. The construction of a ticket holder in ring form, the ring consisting of two
parts h¹ and h³, in Figures 4 to 5* hinged together and held together by a spring b³,
substantially as specified.
5. The construction of a ticket holder in anchor form in which the two parts of
the hook as and 6* are held in a sleeve f" by the forked end of the pin ³, acted
upon by a spiral spring g³ located in sleeve f³ and in which a cross pin c³, causes
the parts a and b, to open when the pin is pushed further into the sleeve ƒ³
by pressure on the button d³ and thus pushes the parts a³ and b³, further out of
the sleeve, substantially as specified and shown in Figures 6 and 9 of the
accompanying drawings.