Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving and Registering Fares and other Payments.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving and Registering Fares
and other Payments.
1, JOHN WOODROW, of 34, Devonshire Street, Islington, in the county of London,
Manufacturer's Agent, 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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus for receiving and registering fares and other
payments in omnibuses, tramcars and other vehicles and places.
My said invention consists essentially in combining with the discs of counting or
registering mechanism, cards or tickets which are graduated to correspond with the
several discs to which they are applied; and means for marking or piercing such
cards or tickets to indicate the amount of money introduced into the box or
the apparatus, and whether the latter has been fraudulently opened.
case of
One of the discs herein before referred to serves to record a number of coins of one
value, another, a number of coins of another value and so on.
The marking or piercing mechanisu comprises a shaft having a number of punches,
each of which is arranged adjacent to one of the said discs; the said shaft being
connected by any suitable means to the door of the apparatus, so that when the said
door is opened, each of the said punches will punch a holo in its adjacent ticket,
thereby obtaining a record of the amount of money received by the apparatus. The
tickets can then be removed and others substituted.
For revolving the discs hereinbefore described I provide a weighted lever to one
end of which is attached a receptacle for the coin inserted in the apparatus, the
weight of the said coin serving to depress the lover so as to revolve, by means of a
pawl, a ratchet wheel attached to one of the said discs, which disc serves by means
of suitable gearing to revolve the other discs.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be carried
into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of an apparatus, constructed according to my invention,
for receiving and registering fares and other payments, the door of the apparatus
being shewn partly broken away.
Figures and 3 are a horizontal and vertical section respectively on the lines.
and y y of figure 1.
Figure 4 is a rear elevation of the apparatus, a portion of the back being shown
broken away.
Figure 5 is a view of a detail.
Similar reference letters indicate similar parts throughout the drawing.
a is the case of the apparatus, and is the door thereof. c, d and e are the discs
(three of which are preferably used) to which are attached the tickets c', d' and ' for
recording the money received, the said discs being pivotted to a partition al arranged
within the case. The ticket e serves to record the amount received in pounds and
the tickets d' and c¹ the surplus shillings and pence respectively, that is to say, the
ticket e is numbered from one to ten to represent that number of pounds, the
ticket d' from one to twenty to represent shillings and the ticket c' from one to twelve
to represent pence, the said latter ticket being shown detached at figure 5. The
tickets are hold in place by means of discs f, having slots f³, which pass over thumb
pieces pivotted in the centre of the discs c, d and e, so that the said pieces can be
turned round as shewn, in order to secure the said discs f. Pins on the discs
and enter holes in the discs fand tickets o¹, d¹ and e'.
d
y are the punches formed on a shaft g¹, the point g of each of which punches is

page_text: arran gedjacent to the edge of one of the discs c, d and e, the said shaft having an
extension connected to a lever h pivotted to the back of the case, the said lever
being chected by a link to the door b, so that when the said door is opened the
punches will be caused to move and punch holes in their respective adjacent tickets.
Holes e provided in the discs c, d and e behind the numbers on their respective
tickets, that the points of the punches can pass into them in order to properly pierce
the said ckets. Each of the tickets has a recess; to enable it to be fixed to its
respectivdisc, the said recess serving to embrace the point of each punch g, each
of whichpoints when the door b is open, is of course in engagement with one of the
holes in is respective adjacent disc.
k is th weighted-lever having the receptacle k for the coin, which in this case is a
penny al which is dropped through a slit a' in the case. The receptacle is open
at one end, so that when the coin has depressed the lever k, it will roll out and down
an inclined shoot I and out of the apparatus into a suitable receptacle not shewn in
the drawing. The said lever is pivotted at 4 to the partition a' and has an extension k³,
to which is jointed a pawl m, which engages with and serves when the lever k is
depressed by the coin to rotate the ratchet wheel and thereby the disc c, on the
arbor of which the ratchet wheel c² is fixed. The ratchet wheel has a number of teeth
corresponding with the figures on the disc c and is actuated one tooth at a time by
the lever k, so that for every coin inserted in the apparatus the disc c will move one
of its figures beneath the point of its adjacent punch 7. k, kare stops for limiting
the movement of the lever k and n is a detent pawl which engages with the ratchet
wheel c².
с
Attached to the arbor of the disc d is a crown wheel having a number of teeth
corresponding with the figures on the ticket on the said disc. This wheel dis
actuated by a tooth o attached to the ratchet wheel c, so that for every revolution of
the said ratchet wheel, the wheel d' will make a twentieth part of a revolution, that is
to say, assuming the discs c and d to be in the position shewn in the drawing, if
twelve coins be placed in the apparatus, the twelfth coin will cause the tooth o on the
ratchet wheel to operate the wheel and cause the figure 1 marked thereon to
come underneath the point of its adjacent punch g, so that if the door b of the
apparatus he now opened the said point will be caused to pierce the ticket d
thereby indicating that coins to the value of a shilling have been deposited in the
apparatus.
For operating the disc e a crown wheel is provided on its arbor, which is actuated
by a tooth p on the wheel d, the said wheel having a number of teeth corresponding
with the number of figures on the ticket on the said disc and is so arranged that for
overy revolution of the wheel dit will make a tenth of a revolution that is to say
assuming the discs c, d and e to be in the position shown in the drawing, when twenty
shillings worth of coins have passed into the apparatus the disc e² will move
round a tenth of a revolution, thereby indicating that coins to that value have been
received.
and
e³.
and are two detent pawls which engage respectively with the wheels d'
By this arrangement of apparatus it will be seen that the act of opening it in order
to obtain the tickets, causes the punches y to punch their respective tickets, thereby
producing a record of the total amount of money received by the apparatus; and
for the same reason it entirely precludes any tampering with the said apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
(1) In apparatus for receiving and registering fares and other payments, the
combination with registering mechanism of a door or lid and marking or piercing
mechanism; so arranged that when the door or lid is opened the position of the
registering mechanism and consequently the amount of money received will be
indicated substantially as described.

page_text: (2) The improved apparatus consisting of the parts constructed and combined
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing
for the purpose specified.
Dated the 19th day of Auonet 1880
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.