An Improved Fare Box for Registering or Checking Receipts.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fare Box for Registering or Checking Receipts.
We, WALTER Evans, of Spring Grove, Newstead, Tramways Inspector, and
JOHN HENRY STANCLIFFE ASQUITH, of 318, Ashburne Place, Gibbet Lane,
Machine Tool Maker, both in Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct fare boxes employed on tramways
and the like, so as to register all receipts, by these means only one coin (and
provision is made for halfpennys. and pennys) can pass into the cash receptacle
at once and on so passing the receipt whereof is registered upon an indicator_or
register preferably one recording pounds, shillings, pence, and halfpence, also
with our improved fare box the conductor or other person in charge, may open
the cash box and take what change he requires, so dispensing with the services
of box changers and cash clerks, all the fares he has taken being registered or
checked upon the register which gives at a glance the sum. received.
We construct our improved fare box of the usual section, and provide slots
in the top for halfpennys and pennys, immediately underneath these slots is
placed a sliding bar or lever also having corresponding slots of such dimensions
as to only admit one coin at a time, these bars move upon a petition or
division in the fare box, and this division has also corresponding slots, but not
perpendicularly underneath the slots in the sliding lever, connected to these
sliding bars is the lever of the registering mechanism, also a spring for return-
ing them to their original position after registering a fare.
The action is as follows:-A fare is placed in the first slot then drops and rests
within the slot in the sliding bar, the conductor presses forward the sliding bar.
(the end of which is in a convenient position) and moves the coin forward until
it comes to the slot in the division, when it drops into the cash box below, this
movement of the lever or bar operates the lever and catch of the registering
mechanism, and records or registers the said fare simultaneously.
Should the conductor omit to register the first fare before a second is put in
the slot, the second cannot drop within the slot of the lever, until the first has
been registered and dropped into the cash box, as the lever returns after register-
ing the first, the second fare drops in to its slot and the operation is repeated.
A sliding hinged plate is provided for covering the penny slot when the fare
to be taken is only a halfpenny, this prevents persons putting the coin into the
wrong slot.
A hinged plate placed underneath the first slots, prevents the coin after being
once dropped within the slot, to be recovered by turning the fare box upside down.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of September 1899.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Waterhouse Chambers, Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: An Improved Fare Box for Registering or Checking Receipts.
We, WALTER EVANS, of Spring Grove, Newstead, Tramways Inspector, and
JOHN HENRY STANCLIFFE Asquirit, of 318, Ashburne Place, Gibbet Lane,
Machine Tool Maker, both in Halifax, in the County of York, 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 object of this invention is to construct fare boxes employed on tramways
and the like so as to register all receipts; in our invention only one coin (and
provision is made for the receipt of pennys and halfpennys, or any other desired
coin or fare) is allowed to pass into the fare box at once, and on so passing
the receipt thereof is simultaneously registered upon an indicator or register,
preferably one recording pounds, shillings, pence, and half pence, or other
system of coinage as required.
By our construction of fare box a second fare cannot be accepted until the
first one has passed into the box and been registered.
Also with our invention the conductor or other person in charge may open
the cash receptacle and take out what sum may be needed for change, thus dis-
pensing with the services of box changers and cash clerks, as the amount of
fares taken can be easily and accurately ascertained on reference to the register.
Further provision is made for recovering coins of less size than halfpennys
such as sixpences, half sovereigns and others which may have been inadvertently
placed in the slot of the fare box, such recovery being effected without inter-
fering with the registering mechanism.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation in section of our improved fare box.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of our improved fare box through the line A B, of Fig.
Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of our fare box through the line CD of. Fig. 1.
We construct our improved fare box of the usual section, and provide slots E, F,
in the top for the receipt of pennys and half-pennys, or other similar coins
of varying value, directly underneath these slots are placed sliding bars or
levers G, H, also having corresponding slots J, K; the dimensions of these slots
are such as to only admit one coin at a time. Spindles L attached to the bars G, H
upon one end of which is a button or knob L', are for moving the bars horizontally,
and springs L2 are for returning same.
Attached to the guide plates M supporting the sliding bars are suitable
hoppers N having a flat bottom terminating in an inclined shoot N', in the
bottom of this hopper are slots P which are immediately under the slots E, F,
in the cover but much smaller in size sufficient to allow of the passage of a six-
pence or other less coin.
Immediately underneath this hopper N is a small box P¹ carried by suitable
brackets P also attached to the aforesaid guide plates M; this box Pis remov-
able and is for receiving the small coins previously enumerated as they pass
through the slots P when accidentally dropped into the fare box.
The guide plates M are also provided with longitudinal slots M¹ through which
project studs G H¹ fixed in the bars G H, by which an accurate and easy working
of the said bars is obtained.
Within the fare box are also two registers or indicators R, or one for each
slot EF, the catch lever S operating the registering mechanism being acted
upon (in the case of the penny slot as shown at Fig. 2) by a cross plate or finger
T, attached to the underside of the sliding bar or lever G; the other lever U being

page_text: operated by a longitudinal bar or plate V also attached to its respective sliding
bar H at V. Springs W W return the said catch levers S U after each
operation.
The action is as follows: A half penny as shown in dotted lines at Fig. 1,
upon being placed in the slot F of the cover, rests upon the sliding bar H.
the conductor then presses the respective knob L' moving forward the sliding
bar until the slot K in same arrives directly underneath the slot F in the cover,
when the fare drops into the said slot K in the bar and upon the bottom of the
hopper N and is held there, the forward movement of the bar ceases immediately
the slots F, K, become vertically opposite each other. As the bar nears the
end of its traverse the longitudinal bar or plate V comes in contact with the
catch lever and moves the same into the position shown in dotted lines, so
registering the receipt of the fare.
When the knob L'is released by the conductor, the spring L² returns the bar H
which pulls the fare backward into the shoot N from which it descends into the
cash box X; simultaneous with this movement the spring W returns the catch
lever U to its original position.
At each return of the sliding bar a fresh fare may be placed within the slot
of the box, but as will be evident this cannot take place until the previous one
has passed into the fare box and been registered, such registration taking place
automatically as the sliding bar nears the end of its traverse or forward move-
ment.
The fare box is preferably divided into two compartments one being the regis-
tering portion inaccessible to the conductor, and secured by lock Y, the key
of which may be kept at the tramways or other office as desired, and the other
portion X being the cash box accessible to the conductor for the purpose before
described, and which may be secured by thumbscrew Z or other suitable means;
the coins being conducted into same by means of the inclined plate or partition Z.
A hinged or sliding plate may be provided for covering up the penny slot when
the fare to be taken is a halfpenny, this will prevent persons putting, the fare
into the wrong slot.
It will be understood that where one slot only is provided in the fare box
only one register or indicator is needed and that for each additional slot a corre-
sponding register or indicator will be required.
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. Fare boxes, constructed so as to receive and register all fares separately and
consecutively, in such a manner that a second fare cannot be placed in the slot
of the fare box until the previous fare has been registered, in the manner set
forth.
2. In fare boxes, the combination of sliding bar or bars, G, H, operating imme-
diately underneath the slot or slots in the cover, and having corresponding
slots JK, guide plates M, springs L2, projections, arms, or plates TV, catch
lever or levers SU, register or registers R, and spring or springs WW,
operated and operating to receive and register each fare upon receipt and auto-
matically return the sliding bar or bars and catch lever or levers, in the manner
set forth.
3. Fare boxes with sliding bar or bars having slots JK, and projections, arms
or plates TV, for actuating the catch lever of the register or indicator, in the
manner and for the purposes set forth.
A. Fare boxes with sliding bar or bars G H, operating immediately under-
neath the slot or slots in the cover, and supporting the fare until the same
has been registered, returning such bar or bars automatically and moving or
passing the said fare into the box in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
5. In fare boxes, hopper or hoppers № fixed underneath the sliding bar or

page_text: bars G, H, and vertically opposite the slots in the cover, such hopper having a slot
or slots P communicating with a box P, and an inclined shoot or shoots Nin
the manner and for the purposes, substantially as set forth.
Datad this Taluth day of Anvil 1900
JOHN E. WALSH,
Waterhouse Chambers, Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agents for the Applicants.