AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR USE IN COLLECTING FARES BY CONDUCTORS OR OTHERS IN CHARGE OF OMNIBUSES, TRAMCARS, OR OTHER VEHICLES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO COLLECTING MONIES IN OTHER PLACES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Evan Adlard, of No. 22, Bartholomew Close, in
the City of London, Printer, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR USE IN COLLECTING FARES BY CONDUCTORS OR OTHERS IN CHARGE OF
OMNIBUSES, TRAMCARS, OR OTHER VEHICLES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO COLLECTING
MONIES IN OTHER PLACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by tho said Albert Evan Adlard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd April 1880.
ALBERT EVAN ADLARD, of No. 22, Bartholomew Close, in the City of London,
Printor. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR USE IN COLLECTING FARES BY
CONDUCTORS OR OTHERS IN CHARGE OF OMNIBUSES, TRAMCARS, OR OTHER
VEHICLES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO COLLECTING MONIES IN OTHER PLACES."
The object of the Invention is to enable the payer to deposit the amount to be
paid in a receptacle, in which the amount so paid may be at once scon by both the
payer and the conductor or other person in charge to receive, and that so soon as
both parties are satisfied of the correctness of the amount paid, such amount may
be readily transferred to a general receiver without necessarily passing directly
into the hands of the conductor or other person in charge.
For this purpose the receptacle into which the amount to be paid is first deposited
through a suitable opening therein is formed wholly or partially of glass to admit
of the amount deposited being immediately seen and approved by the conductor or
other person in charge. This first receptacle is connected to one end of a tube or
passage, the other end of which opens into a general receiver, so that by raising or
otherwise moving this first receiver when the amount last received into it has been
checked that amount may be allowed to pass by the conducting tube or passago to
the general receiver without of necessity passing directly into the hands of the
conductor or other person in charge.
The opening from the first receiver to the tube or passage therefrom, as well as
that from such tubo to the general receiver, are each provided with slight spring
flaps or other suitable contrivance to prevent the return of any amount which has
passed either of them.

page_text: Figure 1 shows an external edge view; Figure 2, an external side view; and
Figure 3 a sectional view of apparatus arranged according to my Invention. In
each of the Figures the same letters are employed to indicate corresponding parts.
A is the receptacle, into which the amount to be paid is first deposited; B is the
tube by which the amount received into the receptacle A is conducted in due
course to the general receiver C; and D is a strap or band by which the general
receiver C may be suspended from the neck of the person appointed to receive the
respective amounts somewhat in the manner of field glass cases.
When not in use for receiving the upper or first receiving part A may be
suspended by the hoop a thercon to a loop or other suitable device b carried by the
strap or band D, and when required for use in receiving payment the part a is
released from the loop band held somewhat in the position indicated by the dotted
lines A¹ in Figure 1. This part A I by preference form by a metal frame c, c, with
glass d, d, filled into the sides and upper surface thereof to facilitate free obser-
vation of the amount at any one time passed into that receiver A, and e is the
opening through which the deposit into the chamber A is effected.
This opening e is provided with one fixed guide and a loose guide or flap g.
This loose guide is suspended to turn on an axis of motion g', and it is acted
upon by spring pressure, with a tendency constantly to keep its lower edge bearing
against the lower edge of the guide f, yet so as to open freely by the passage of
money between those edges.

page_text: To guard against fraudulent access being sought to the interior of the receptacle A
through this opening another flap h is provided. This flap his supported to turn
on a centre of motion h', and it is acted upon by a projection carried by the
flap g, so that when the flap g is acted upon to open a passage between its lower
edge and the lower edge of the guide ƒ this flap h will be raised, as indicated by
the dotted lines in Figure 3, to close the opening e
The amount passed in through the opening e into the chamber A is then imme-
diately visible to be approved or otherwise by the person in charge, and if approved
by him he then raises the part A so that the amount just deposited therein may
be allowed to fall between other spring flaps i, i, into the tube B, and thence into
the compartment of the general receiver C. Other spring flaps may in like
manner be applied to the opening into the compartment at the part n if desired.
and m are other external compartments to the general receiver C for the conve-
nience of the person in charge in holding and giving change. The general
receiver C and its parts are connected to the tube B by hinge piece n, the parts of
which are capable of being secured by padlock or other locking means.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in carrying the
same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is the arranging or
combining parts forming improved apparatus for use in collecting fares by con-
ductors or others in charge of omnibuses, tramcars, or other vehicles, applicable
also to collecting monies in other places, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Evan Adlard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Loru
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
ALFRED G. BROOKES,
59, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. E. ADLARD. (LS.)