Attachments to Boxes for the Reception of Tickets, Fares, or other Money.
Year: 1886

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Attachments to Boxes for the Reception of Tickets, Fares, or other
Money.
We JOHN REED WHERRY, of the City of Little Rock, in the County of Pulaski,
and State of Arkansas, one of the United States of North America, Steam-boat man,
and HERBERT HERMAN ROTTAKEN, of the City of Little Rock aforesaid, Cotton
Planter, and EDWARD NAPOLEON WIEGEL, also of said: City of Little Rock, U. S.
Marshal, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The following is a full, clear and exact description, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a
perspective view of the part of the device which is fixed to the bottom of the fare box.
Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the mouth open and part of the sliding cover
broken away.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the money bag and its appendages, the mouth
being open.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the mouth piece of the bag, the valve being closed.
Figure 5 is a top view of the device with the plate carrying the lock and sliding
cover, and the bag removed.
Figure 6 is a top view of the device as shown in figure 5 except that the bag is in
place with its valve closed, and Figure 7 is a similar view, except that the valve is
open.
Figure 8 is a vertical longitudinal section at 8, 8, figure 6.
Figure 9 is a vertical longitudinal section at 9, 9, figure 7.
Figure 10 is a transverse vertical section at 10, 10, figure 6 showing a part of the
fare-box.
Figure 11 is a transverse vertical section at 12, 12, figure 8.
Figure 12 is a transverse vertical section at 12, 12, figure 6.
Figures 13 and 14 are detail vertical transverse sections of the lock, showing it
respectively locked and unlocked.
A, Figures 10 and 11, is a part of the lower portion of a fare-box made in the form
of a hopper or funnel, so that the contents may be directed to the eduction opening B.
The fore-part of the attachment is secured to the fare-box in any manner that
renders it immovable, except by access to the interior of the fare-box. Screw holes (!
OJ

page_text: are shown to receive screws inserted from the inside of the fare-box. The fixed part
of the attachment or lock box has a bottom D, and side D¹, upon which latter is
attached the top plate E; upon the top-plate are guide-lips F forming the guides for
the sliding cover or valve G of the mouth B, the sliding cover having flanges g
engaged by the guides. This sliding cover has a chamber G' in which works a
spring-bolt H pressed outward by a spring I to engage a projection J, when the
cover is over the mouth B, and prevent the opening of the mouth, except by the use of
the proper means as hereinafter set forth. K, is the money-bag having a metal mouth
L, which is shown as cylindrical, secured to this mouth is a pocket M, in which slides
the valve N, as it is forced in to close the mouth L, of the bag, or drawn outward to
open said mouth. Secured to the valve N, is a lock O, known as a "Yale" lock, the
same has a barrel P, which can only be turned when the proper key has been inserted
in the slot p so as to force back the spring-bolts p¹ into the proper position for the line
of separation in the bolt to coincide with the circumference of the barrel, see figure 14.
On the barrel is a tooth Q, which, when the valve N, is locked shut, engages in a slot
M³ of the lower plate of the pocket M, to prevent the outward movement of the valve,
(see figure 9).
The edges M of the pocket form guides which, when the bag is inserted, rest in the
guide-grooves D2, of the slides D¹. Upon the upper side of the bottom D, is a spring
catch S, which when the bag is inserted, engages a catch T, on the pocket plate M, so
as to hold the bag in place until the spring-catch is released.
U, is a key which is fixed in the case by an eccentric collar U¹, whose salient part
forces down the spring-catch S and disengages it at the time of locking the valve N in
its closed position, as seen in figure 8.
The operation is as follows:-
The valve N closing the mouth of the bag is locked shut, then the money bag is
inserted in the fixed frame with the lock inward, the edges M³, resting in the grooves
D2. When the bag has been pushed in as far as can be done, the catch T engages on
the spring-catch S, and locks the bag in place. The key U, may now be inserted in
the lock and the barrel turned about one-half around, which carries the tooth Q from
the slot M through an opening g' in the bottom of the sliding-cover or valve and into
a slot of the spring-bolt (see figure 8) and as the key is turned, the bolt is drawn
back and disengaged from the projection J. This position of the parts is shown in
figure 2. It will be understood that the valve N, and sliding cover E, are now
unlocked and are secured together by the tooth Q, so that by drawing the key
outward, the passage B, L, is opened and the money, &c. can fall from the fare-box
into the bag. In turning the key into the position shown in Figures 7 and 9 the
salient part of the eccentric U₁, has passed up through a notch e in the top plate Ẹ
and, as the key is pulled outward, the salient part u of the eccentric passes along a
longitudinal slot e of the plate (see figure 1) so that the key cannot be turned,
except when in its inner position, and thus the valve N, and sliding-cover or valve G,
cannot be disengaged from each other, except when they are in position to close the
passage B, L; and so it will be seen that the bag can only be unlocked from the cover
or valve G when both valve and cover are in the position shown in figure 1, and thus
the mouth B is always closed when the bag is removed. It will be also seen that the
valve N, is always closed when the bag is being removed, for the disconnection of the
valve N, from the cover G locks both valve and cover shut; at this time the salient
part of the eccentric holds down the spring catch S, so that the catch allows the
removal of the bag.
The proper person is provided with a key to unlock the valve N, when the bag is
away from the fare-box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. A box for the reception of fares &c. having a discharge orifice closed by a valve
with a locking device operated by a valve lock upon a removable receptacle, when the
latter is in position for receiving the fare from the box, substantially as set forth.

page_text: 2. The combination with a box for the reception of fares, &c, of a removable
receptacle constructed for application to the bottom of the box, a mouth on
the receptacle fitting to the discharge orifice of the box, and mouth of the removable
receptacle, a lock to the valve of the discharge orifice, and a lock to the valve of the
mouth of the removable receptacle operated by a key irremovable from the box, and
device upon the lock of the receptacle valve engaging with the lock of the valve of
the discharge orifice of the box constructed to unlock the lock of the last mentioned
valve, substantially as set forth.
3. The combination, with a box for the reception of fares, &c, of a removeable
receptacle for tickets, money, &c having a lock valve to its mouth and a key
irremovably connected to the fare-box and constructed to unlock the valve, and
simultaneously lock the valve shut and unlock the receptacle from the box,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
4. The combination of a box for the reception of fares &c. having a discharge
opening, a valve or cover G, to close such opening, a key irremovable from the box,
removable receptacle with a mouth constructed to fit the discharge opening of the box,
a lock-valve N, on the receptacle and a lock with a tooth Q acting to lock the valve
N, shut, or to lock the valves G, and N, together in the respective positions of
the tooth, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
5. The combination with a box for the reception of fares &c. having a discharge
orifice, of a lock-valve closing such orifice, a removable receptacle having a valve
closing its mouth having a lock attached to it with a device for operating the lock of
the former valve, an irremovable key with eccentric U upon it, a spring catch S,
released by the eccentric and a catch T, upon the removable receptacle, all constructed
to operate substantially as set forth.