Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Number of Persons Passing through a Turnstile, or the Number of Passengers Entering a Vehicle and Leaving the same, and for other Analogous Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1887
Complete Left, 10th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 16th Mar., 1888
Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Number of Persons
Passing through a Turnstile, or the Number of Passengers
Entering a Vehicle and Leaving the same, and for other
Analogous Purposes.
We HENRY KERSHAW of 185 Yorkshire Street, Rochdale in the County of Lancaster,
Wholesale Grocer and THOMAS SUTCLIFFE of 28 Hope Street in the same place Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the combination and arrangement of mechanism for
indicating the number of persons passing through a turnstile and entering say a place
of amusement or the number of passengers entering and leaving a tram car or other
vehicle or for other similar indicating purposes.
As applied to a tram car or other vehicle the entrance thereto is arranged at one
side or at the back of the vehicle where a reversible turnstile is affixed through which
the passengers have of necessity to pass having previously passed through a gate (in
case it is required to distinguish between adult and children passengers) and which
gate closes immediately after each passenger.
In communication with the turnstile and gate are indicators to suit different classes
of fares or stages and which are brought into play successively or as required by being
geared to one of the wheels or axles of the tram car or other vehicle.
In connection with the shaft of the turnstile are a pair of shafts one shaft indicating
the turning of the turn stile in one direction and the other in the other direction
and whereby we are enabled to indicate the distance travelled by each class or set of
passengers.
Each of these shafts carries bevil wheels which communicate the number of
revolutions to the counting mechanism or indicator and which correspond in number
to the stages or different fares to be indicated.

page_text: When a stage has been completed the apparatus is caused to slide self actingly and
so to throw the shaft out of gear with that particular counter or dial and simultaneously
to bring the counting mechanism of the next set of fares or stages into play and thus
we are enabled to indicate the total fares received and the various sub-divisions
of the journey and to dispense with the expense of inspectors as hitherto employed
for the purpose.
It will be apparent that a simpler form of this apparatus is applicable for indicating
the number of persons passing through a turnstile as aforesaid.
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JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Number of Persons
Passing through a Turnstile, and the Number of Passengers
Entering a Vehicle and Leaving the same, and for other
Analogous Purposes.
We HENRY KERSHAW of 185 Yorkshire Street Rochdale in the County of Lancaster,
Wholesale Grocer and THOMAS SUTCLIFFE of 28 Hope Street Rochdale, Agent do
hereby declare the nature of our 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 relates to the combination and arrangement of mechanism for
indicating the number of persons passing through a turnstile and entering say a place
of amusement or the number of passengers entering and leaving a tram-car or other
vehicle or for other similar indicating purposes.
As applied to a tram-car or other vehicle the entrance thereto is arranged at one
side or at the back of the vehicle where a reversible turnstile is affixed through which
the passengers have of necessity to pass having previously passed through a gate (in
case it is required to distinguish between adult and children passengers) and which
gate closes immediately after each passenger.
In communication with the turnstile and gate are indicators to suit different classes
of fares or stages which are brought into play successively or as required by being
geared to one of the wheels or axles of the tram-car or other vehicle.
When a stage has been completed the apparatus is caused to slide self actingly and
so to throw the shaft out of gear with that particular counter or dial and simul-
taneously to bring the counting mechanism of the next set of fares or stages into play
and thus we are enabled to indicate the tram fares received and the various sub-
divisions of the journey and to dispense with the expense of inspectors as hitherto
employed for the purpose.
And in order that this our said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect we have hereunto annexed three sheets of drawings
illustrative of our improved indicating apparatus and shewing its application to a
tram-car and will now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various
Figures and letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 a back view of a tram-car having
our improved indicator applied thereto.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal elevation or side view Fig. 5 a plan and Fig. 6 an end
sectional view of the actuating mechanism of the indicator drawn about half full size.
Fig. 7 is a full sized front view Fig. 8 a back view and Fig. 9 a transverse section
of the counting or indicating mechanism.
In all the views a is the tram-car running upon wheels band secured rigidly to the
axles c in the usual manner. To the entrance of this tram-car we apply a reversible.

page_text: turnstile through which the passengers have of necessity to pass to obtain admission
either to the interior of the tram-car or by means of the staircase a¹ to the top or
outside thereof. In communication with this turnstile d is a casing or box e containing
indicators to suit different classes of fares or stages (three sets being shewn on the
drawings although more or less may be employed) cach set of indicators consisting
of three dials e, e² and e³ and index fingers as seen more clearly in Figs. 1 and 7.
These dials etc. being designed to indicate the number of passengers carried viz. in
"units" by means of the lower dial e¹ in "tens" by the middle dial e and in
"hundreds" by the upper dial the spindles being proportionately geared together
by spur gearing for this purpose as indicated in Fig. 9 and by the pitch lines of the
various spur wheels employed in Fig. 8.
It will be observed that each dial is provided with a pair of index fingers fand fi
one finger indicating the turning of the turnstile d in one direction (say for
passengers entering the vehicle) and the other in the other direction (say for
passengers leaving the vehicle) and that consequently double gearing has to be
employed as seen more clearly in Fig. 9-for actuating each index spindle. The
driving mechanism consists of a pair of bevil wheels g the one mounted at the upper
extremity of a vertical shaft g and having at its lower extremity a bevil wheel à for
receiving motion from the actuating mechanism as hereinafter explained and the other
bevil wheel imparting the necessary fraction of a revolution so received to one or
the other of a pair of ratchet wheels through one of a pair of pawls (carried at
opposite extremities of the arms 2) according to the direction in which the turnstile
is moved by the incoming or outgoing passenger. It will be apparent that the teeth
of these ratchet wheels must be cut in opposite directions and that thus and by
means of the intermediate spur gearing illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9 the necessary
motion in one or the other direction is conveyed from the turnstile d to the
indicators.
These indicators consisting of three dials as aforesaid are arranged side by side in
the same casing e and each indicator is brought into play successively as hereinafter
more particularly explained as each stage is accomplished by being capable of gearing
with one common driving shaft i and which shaft receives its revolving motion direct
from the turnstile shaft d' through the bevil wheels d².
It now remains to explain how when a stage or certain distance has been completed
the apparatus is caused to slide self actingly and so to throw the shaft i out of gear
with the one set of indicators and simultaneously to bring the counting mechanism of
the next set of fares or stages into play for this purpose we employ a screw shaft j
running the length of the framing of the actuating mechanism and supported in
bearings at each extremity thereof this screw receives a constant and slow revolving
motion from one of the axles c of the tram-ear say as illustrated by means of inter-
mediate shafts c¹ and c² bevil wheels c³ and worm and worm wheel gearing ct and c³ or
by any other equivalent driving mechanism. Upon this screw j is mounted a travelling
carrier or nut which is further supported and guided as it travels along by a pair of
rollers running between guide rails 12. Rising from this carrier are a pair of
horns or studs m one of which is designed to enter first between the pivoted and
slotted extremity m² of a lever n and then by continuing its traverse to cause such
slot n' to turn partially upon its vertical pivot and finally to come in contact with and
to press against such lever and cause the same through the intervention of the
connecting rod o parallel lever o' and forked lever o2 embracing the grooved boss of
the bevil wheel to cause such bevil wheel to slide along the shaft i and out of gear
with the bevil wheel (upon the vertical shaft g¹) of the first set of counting
mechanism simultaneously with this taking place the other horn or stud m has through
corresponding mechanism mounted on the other side of the frame caused the bevil
wheel to slide into gear with its bevil wheel for operating the next counting
mechanism so bringing the same into play to indicate the next set of fares or stage of
the journey.
The same operation is repeated up the arrival of the travelling
carrier at the similar actuating mechanism appertaining to the next indicator. In
order to assist the final action or change from one set of indicators to the other we

page_text: prefer to employ for each indicator a loaded lever arm or oscillating bob weight s the
shorter arm of which is forked and embraces any convenient part of the sliding
mechanism, and thus when such loaded lever is brought to the vertical position and
then falls over the desired impetus is obtained.
In this manner we are enabled to indicate the tram fares received or payable,
the number of passengers carried from time to time and to record in what sub-
division of the journey they entered and left the vehicle. We are also enabled to
dispense with the necessity and expense of inspectors as hitherto employed for checking
purposes.
In case of it being required to distinguish between adult and children passengers
this can be accomplished by having a gate through which the children would alone
be allowed to pass and which would be used in connection with a special counting
mechanism.
Although only hereinbefore described in reference to tram-cars it will be apparent
that this improved mechanism is equally applicable to ferry boats to recording the
number of persons passing through a turnstile within various periods or hours of
the day and for other analogous purposes.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we wish it to be understood
that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details, relative proportions or
dimensions of the various parts of the improved counting indicating and recording
mechanism herein-before described and illustrated on the accompanying drawings as
the same may be considerably varied without departing from our invention but what
we claim is :-
1st. The improved combination and arrangement of automatic mechanism for
indicating and recording the number of passengers entering and leaving a tram-car
or other vehicle and between various stages or distances of a journey and for other
analogous purposes substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawings.
2nd. In apparatus for indicating and recording the number of passengers passing
through a turnstile the employment of the improved actuating mechanism substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawings.
3rd. The Improved counting mechanism and combination and arrangement of driving
gear for the same substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated on the accompanying drawings.
JOHN G. WILSON,
55, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.