IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ACCURATELY REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION VEHICLES, THEATRESS PLACES "
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Morris of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Joiner and Builder for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
ACCURATELY REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Morris at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1882.
JOHN MORRIS of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Joiner and Builder,
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ACCURATELY REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF
LEAVING
ENTERING AND
PUBLIC VEHICLES, THEATRES
PERSONS
PLACES
"
AND OTHER
The object is to provide apparatus easily applicable, certain in action, accurate in
registration, and convenient and unobjectionable to passengers as regards entrance
and exit to and from the vehicle, theatre public or other place.
The apparatus by which it has been attempted hitherto to obtain the above
mentioned advantages has been complicated and cumbersome in construction, has
not accurately registered the number of persons passing, or has, as in the case of
turnstiles movable bars and the like inconveniently and objectionably obstructed
passenger passage
The first part of my invention consists of convenient obstructing apparatus and
a movable tread piece so combined that registration can only take place when the
weight of the person to be registered gears the movable tread piece with the
registering parts; the said obstructing apparatus being the parts described under
the following second head, serving when moved to operate the register.
The second part provides a novel entrance and exit obstructing apparatus con-
The said door
sisting of a door cage guard or protection for the passage way.
guard cage or protection is made by preference in the form of a hollow cylinder
provided at one side with an opening and arranged to surround the said tread or
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page_text: foot plate. Said door guard cage or protection being formed of a framework of
metal, or suitable rigid material is placed in the passage way so as to control access
to and egress from the vehicle, theatre or other place and it is so combined with
the movable tread piece that it only gears for registration when a passenger or
weight stands or is placed on the said tread piece.
The third part consists in roller cam ratchet or other mechanism connected to
registering apparatus of any usual or desired kind and free to be in or out of gear
with the circular door cage guard or protection above mentioned. The said
mechanism in its normal condition is not in gear so that the circular door cage,
guard or protection may be freely revolved without registering. The circular door
guard or protection and the registering mechanism are put into gear by the weight
of a person on the tread or foot plate within the cage or inclosure and the parts are
held out of gear at other times by a spring or weight.
The fourth part consists in combining with the parts above described, mechanism
for depositing balls or tallies into compartments according to the distance travelled
by the occupants of an omnibus or public vehicle. The mechanism consists essen-
tially in two reservoirs containing the marbles or tallies; two rotating cellular discs,
and two drawers or boxes divided into compartments.
The circular door cage guard or protection is arranged as indicated to register the
passage of persons through it in one or both directions according to requirements.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Morris of in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th November
1882.
JOHN MORRIS of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Joiner and Builder,
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ACCURATELY REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF
PERSONS ENTERING AND LEAVING PUBLIC VEHICLES, THEATRES AND OTHER
PLACES,
The object is to provide apparatus easily applicable, certain in action, accurate in
registration, and convenient and unobjectionable to passengers as regards entrance
and exit to and from the vehicle, theatre public or other place.
The apparatus by which it has been attempted hitherto to obtain the above
mentioned advantages has been complicated and cumbersome in construction, has
not accurately registered the number of persons passing, or has, as in the case of
turnstiles movable bars and the like inconveniently and objectionably obstructed
passenger passage.
The first part of my invention consists of convenient obstructing apparatus and
a movable tread piece so combined that registration can only take place when the
weight of the person to be registered gears the movable tread piece with the
registering parts; the said obstructing apparatus being the parts described under
the following second head, serving when moved to operate the register.

page_text: The second part provides a novel "entrance and exit obstructing apparatus con-
sisting of a door cage guard or protection for the passage way. The said door guard
cage or protection is made by preference in the form of a hollow cylinder provided
at one side with an opening and arranged to surround the said tread or foot plate.
Said door guard cage or protection being formed of a framework of metal, or suitable
rigid material is placed in the passage way so as to control access to and egress
from the vehicle theatre or other place and it is so combined with the movable
tread piece that it only gears for registration when a passenger or weight stands or
is placed on the said tread piece
The third part consists in roller cam ratchet or other mechanism connected to
registering apparatus of any usual or desired kind and free to be in or out of gear
with the circular door cage guard or protection above mentioned. The said
mechanism in its normal condition is not in gear so that the circular door cage
guard or protection may be freely revolved without registering. The circular door
guard or protection and the registering mechanism are put into gear by the weight
of a person on the tread or foot plate within the cage or inclosure and the parts
are held out of gear at other times by a spring or weight.
The fourth part consists in combining with the parts above described, mechanism
for depositing balls or tallies into compartments according to the distance travelled
by the occupants of an omnibus or public vehicle. The mechanism consists essen-
tially in two reservoirs containing the marbles or tallies two rotating cellular discs,
and two drawers or boxes divided into compartments.
The circular door cage guard or protection is arranged as indicated to register the
passage of persons through it in one or both directions according to requirements.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig 1 is a vertical section, and fig 2 a plan of registering apparatus illustrative
of the first three parts of my invention.
a platform or floor of tram car, 6 ends of car, c door way, d cage or obstructing
apparatus free to turn in a groove in the tread piece e attached to the plunger f and
shown depressed, g spring for raising the tread piece, h box or carrier for plunger f
and spring g secured to the platform a, i wheel and shaft connected to the
registering dial or counter j by endless chain k. The dial or counter j may be of
any ordinary or suitable construction and may be operated from the wheel and
shaft by toothed gear or in any other convenient manner, 7 tongue or pawl
attached to the cage or obstructing apparatus d so as to be brought into gear with
the wheel i as shown when the tread-piece is depressed. The obstructing apparatus d
is of cylindrical form as shown in fig 2 and is placed in the door way so as to act
as a door. m entrance to the obstructing apparatus.
It will be obvious that the obstructing apparatus and the registering mechanism
may be placed in any convenient position and that they are applicable to public
vehicles, theatres and other places generally where it is desired to register the
number of persons entering or leaving such places or vehicles.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-A person enters the cage or obstructing
apparatus & through the entrance stands on the tread piece and depresses it and
with it the cage or obstructing apparatus & until the tongue or pawl k is in gear
with the wheel i. The passenger then turns the cage partly round until the
entrance m is in a position to allow of his passing through the door way e. The
partial revolution of the cage or obstructing piece causes the dial or registering
apparatus to mark one through the intervention of the tongue or paul wheel
and gearing k. On a person passing through the doorway in the opposite direction
the tongue or paul passes over the wheel i without actuating it.
If desired two registering dials or counters may be employed to register the
passage of persons in each direction through the door way.
Fig 3 is a sectional view of so much of registering apparatus as will serve to
illustrate the fourth part of my invention. n are channels or reservoirs filled

page_text: with balls or marbles o. p are wheels secured on shafts q and formed with recesses T
to receive the balls or marbles o. 8 are boxes containing drawers t and formed with
openings u through which the balls or marbles o fall from the wheels p into the
drawers t. The shafts 9 are connected to wheels i as hereinbefore described in
connection with figs 1 and 2 and are operated by the tongue or paul on the cage as
therebefore setforth. One wheel is moved so as to deposit a ball or marble in
one drawer on each entrance of a person or passenger and the other wheel to
deposit a ball or marble in the other drawer on each departure of a person or
passenger.
The number of balls or marbles in the drawers will show the number of persons
passing the obstructing apparatus in each direction. When used on a tram car or
vehicle where fares vary with the distance the drawers are divided into cells or
compartments longitudinally. The drawers are moved forward the length of a cell
or compartment at each station where the variation of fare occurs.
of balls or marbles in the cells or compartments will show the number of passengers
entering and leaving the vehicle and the distance travelled by each.
The numbers
Having now illustrated and described my said improvements in such manner
that others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect
I claim:
Under the first part. The obstructing apparatus and tread piece combined and
operating substantially as herein set forth.
Under the second part. The improved door guard cage or protection constructed
and operating substantially as setforth.
Under the third part. Registering or counting apparatus and actuating mechanism
operating in combination substantially as setforth.
Under the fourth part. Registering apparatus constructed and operating
substantially as setforth
In Witness Whereof I the said John Morris have hereunto set my hand and
seal this fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and eighty two.
DEARTTA