Improvements in Apparatus from which Tickets are Issued shewing the Amount of the Fare or Money Paid for them and Registering the Exact Amount of Fares or Moneys Paid.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1888.
Complete Specification Accepted, 25th Jan., 1889
Improvements in Apparatus from which Tickets are Issued shewing
the Amount of the Fare or Money Paid for them and Registering
the Exact Amount of Fares or Moneys Paid.
We ANNIBAL LÉGÉ, Scientific Instrument maker of 31 & 32 Kirby Street,
Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex and CHARLES AUGUSTE REMANÉ, Scientific
Instrument maker of 31 & 32 Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to apparatus in which a continuous roll or tape of plain
paper or supply of consecutively numbered printed tickets are detached in exchange for
the money received.
Our machine is more particularly constructed for use in conveyances and to print,
stamp, or perforate on the tickets issued in exchange for the fare paid the exact amount
of such fare, also to automatically register the amount paid on a suitable numbered
dial or counter, and to sound a bell or gong for each penny or unit of the amount so
received.
The mechanism of the machine is fitted in a box or case of suitable form, and its
component parts are always in constant gear.
The primary mechanism of the gear is a main wheel which, for one revolution, pro-
jects one ticket from the tape. The main wheel is moved directly or indirectly by a
suitable knob or handle and has fixed on its axis a pinion with leaves of graduated,
varying length.
The pinion gears into a wheel fitted to a square axis along which it can be
adjusted.
This adjustable wheel can be set to any of the leaves of the pinion, and is made so
as to be always in continuous gear. It will turn one, two, three or more teeth according
to its meeting one, two, three or more leaves of the pinion.
The adjustable or shiftable wheel forms a fixed part of a circular rack; the rack is
in gear with a small toothed wheel supported by an axis vertical to the axis of the
shiftable wheel and rack. This vertical axis projects out of the case or box and carries
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page_text: a fixed pointer or index which can be set to different positions. Each position repre-
sents a certain number of units and corresponds to an equal number of teeth on the
pinion of the main wheel.
By setting the pointer or index, say to position marking one, the pinion on the
vertical axis will push the shiftable wheel to a place on its axis where it can meet only
one leaf of the pinion on the main wheel; therefore only one tooth of the shiftable
wheel will have been moved for one revolution of the main wheel.
Fixed on the axis of the shiftable wheel is a disc with projections suitably engraved
for printing or marking, or formed for perforating or stamping the tickets. The pro-
jections mark the ticket at the same time as the shiftable wheel travels, one mark for
each tooth.
The axis of the shiftable wheel carries also a fixed wheel connecting a counter or
numbering dial on which it will indicate by adding one for each tooth the shiftable
wheel has travelled; and for each tooth travelled a bell or gong will be sounded
corresponding to each penny or unit registered on the counter or numbering dial.
The roll of paper may be a consecutively numbered supply of printed tickets, as
generally used, or it may be a roll of plain paper, in which case printing rollers
bearing the inscription are fitted in the case and driven from the main wheel, printing
one or both sides of the plain paper before being issued from the box.
Dated this 25th day of January 1888.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus from which Tickets are Issued shewing
the Amount of the Fare or Money Paid for them and Registering
the Exact Amount of Fares or Moneys Paid.
We, ANNIBAL LÉGÉ, Engineer and Scientific Instrument Maker of 31 & 32 Kirby
Street Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex and CHARLES AUGUSTE
REMANE of the same profession and address do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to apparatus from which tickets are issued off a long
continuous band of either plain or of consecutively printed and numbered paper. Our
apparatus is more particularly adapted for use in conveyances to issue tickets in
exchange for the fares or moneys paid, to mark on the ticket and to register on a
numbering counter the amount paid for the ticket issued and to check by the strokes
on a bell what amount has been paid. The mechanism by which the different opera-
tions are performed is so constructed that the working parts of the whole machine are
in constant gear without the use of any ratchet wheels, pawls or levers. The advantage
of this arrangement is that the apparatus is not liable to get out of order, and that
it will render it a durable as well as safe service.
To illustrate the description of this mechanism we annex two sheets of tracings
marked Nos. 1 and II.
Sheet No. I shews a front and a top view of the apparatus. Sheet No. II shews the
different working parts and their connections.
In sheet I A is the casing of the machine; B is a roll of paper which passes through
the guide C.
D is a bell and n the hammer.
F, G, G¹ are guards covering all the working parts.
To issue a ticket the handle a-fig. 2, 3, 5 fixed on the axis 6 is turned once round.
The axis 6 has fixed on its end a cog wheel c.-fig. 3 & 4, d, d' are two rollers; the
roller d has fixed on it a cog wheel E which gears into the cog wheel c; the roller d
has also two or three rows of pins.
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By turning the handle a once round the cog wheel c sets in motion the roller & and
one ticket is passed out of the machine.
The two rollers d, d¹ are fixed in a frame oscillating concentrically with the axis b-
fig. 4.
The object of the oscillating frame is to bring the cog E against a stopping pin E¹
in case it should be attempted to fraudulently withdraw tickets from the outlet of the
guide C-fig. 1. The axis b has fixed rigidly on it the pinion -fig. 5 & 6-with
3, 4 or more leaves, separated one from the other by a cylindrical section of the length
of the pinion. The leaves are of graduated lengths. The pinion gears with a wheel g
with five divisions or more. The sections between the divisional cuts are formed so as
to fit exactly the cylindrical spaces between the leaves of the pinion f.
The wheel g is shiftable along its axis and can be set by the pinion o gearing into
the groove g¹ on wheel g.
We suppose the wheel g set for the longest leaf of pinion f. The wheel g will
advance one division only for one complete turn of pinion f. If the wheel g is set to
meet the next longest leaf of the pinion f, the wheel g will advance two divisions for

page_text: one complete turn of the pinion f. The wheel g will therefore advance one, two, three
or more divisions according as it is set to meet the leaves of the pinion f, the longest,
the next in length, the next less etc.
The axis h of the wheel g has fixed on it a circular disc or discs i, ¹ on which figures
are engraved or prickers cut. There are as many figures or prickers as there are
divisions in the wheel g, so that for each division the wheel 9 advances a checking
mark will be made on the ticket by the discs i, i.
The axis also carries a fixed cog wheel k which gears through two intermediate
wheels, 1, into the first wheel m of an ordinary Harding's counter as generally
used for registering purposes.
The wheels k, l,, m are of such proportional numbers that for the advancing of
each division of the wheel g and of the marking discs i, ¹ one unit is added to the
number on the registering counter.
Rigidly fixed with the counter wheel m is a wheel m¹ with 10 teeth-fig. 6-which
acts on a hammer n by the lifting tail n'. The hammer strikes the bell once for
each unit added to the counter. The teeth on the wheel m' and the lifting tail n¹ are
of such a form as to prevent any recoil of the numbering wheels and to maintain
the numbers in their correct position.
We have thus shewn that the motion of the handle a to issue a ticket has been trans-
mitted to the checking system and the registering system by a constant continuous
gearing without any ratchet wheels, pawls or levers being employed.
The pinion o carries an axis vertical to the axis h and passes through the casing
where it carries a pointer p. fig. 1. This pointer can be set to the amount of payment
to be made.
On the axis a-fig. 5-is fixed a ratchet wheel q with one projecting tooth r.
The object of the ratchet wheel is to prevent the handle a from being turned the
wrong way and the projecting tooth r is to warn the operator by the resistance of the
greater leverage that a complete revolution is accomplished.
To prevent the pointer p. being shifted whilst the handle a is being turned a-circular
disc s with a notch is fixed on the axis b. fig. 8; a fork t drops into the notch when
the handle a has been turned one complete revolution; the fork rises to lock the
pointer p. immediately the handle a is moved.
Fig. 9 shews the ink reservoir, the marking discs i, i¹ and the inking roller x.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The system of connecting the different parts of the mechanism by a constant
gearing without ratchet wheels, pawls or levers.
2. The way of setting the indicator on the machine to the amount to be paid in
exchange for the ticket.
3. The mode of printing or otherwise marking a distinct mark for each unit of pay-
ment made.
4. The way to lock the Index or Pointer whilst the ticket is being issued.
5. The warning stop to shew that the issue of the ticket is complete.
6. The arrangement to prevent the ticket from being abstracted from the outlet
otherwise than by turning of the handle.
7. The arrangement to strike the bell directly from the counter each time and
simultaneously that a unit is added to the register.
Dated this 25th day of October 1888.