US1032876A

US1032876A - Fare-box.

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Publication number: US1032876A
Application number: US42969808A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ezra S Bucknam
Original assignee: JG Brill Co USA
Current assignee: JG Brill Co USA
Priority date: 1908-04-28
Filing date: 1908-04-28
Publication date: 1912-07-16
Anticipated expiration: 1929-07-16

Description

E. S. BUGKNAM.

FARE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2a, 1901;.

1,032,876. Patented July 16, 1912.

E. S. BUGKNAM.

Patented July 16, 1912.

3 SHEETSSHEET 2 UNITED sT 'rEs PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA s. nIIcxNaII, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, assIGNoIt 'ro THE .1. e. BRILL comm, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, a CORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

FARE-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1912.

Application filed April 28, 1908. Serial No. 429,698.

.citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Fare-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in fare boxes in which the fares inserted in the box pass into a removable receptacle which is taken from the box and opened to remove the contents.

My invention relates particularly to fare boxes used on what 'is termed pay-as-youenter cars and the fare box in this instance is secured to the platform of the car or other conveyance.

The object of my invention is to so con struct the box that it will receive the fares collected by a number of conductors without having to remove the receptacle when one conductor relieves another.

My invention relates further to other details of construction which will be described hereafter.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improved fare box, with the receptacle detached; Fig. 2, is a detached perspective view of the recep tacle; Fig. 3, 1s a vertical sectional view on the line 3-3, Fig. 4; Fig. 4, is a sectional view on the line 44, Fig. 3; Fig. 5, is adetached perspective view of the receptacle showing the door open and the drawer removed; Fig. 6, is a perspective View of the drawer; Fig. 7, is a sectional View on the line 77, Fig. 4; Fig. 8, is a sectional plan view on the line S8, F 4; and Fig. 9, is a perspective view of the pivoted chute.

Avis the body of the fare box, made as clearly shown in Fig. 1, having a tapered portion a. surmounted by a glazed fare receiving section a. The body of the box is made of'metal in the present instance, although it may be made of any suitable material-without departing from the main features of my invention.

In the sectiona is a series of deflecting plates a and the lower deflecting or chopper plate a is movable and operated by a lever a so as to allow the fares collected on the plate to be discharged into bolr. h

is te receptacle in which is mounte a detachable draw er C and this drawen as shown In Fig. 6, is divided by partitions into four

compartments

0, 0 0 0*, and the mechanism 1s so constructed that the fares can be discharged into any one of the four compartments. The object of this construction is to allow the fares to accumulate in the box for a day, for instance, and they need not be removed when one conductor is relieved by another.

The receptacle B has four slots 6 in its I cover plate I) in the present instance and these slots can be closed by a slide D mounted in ways on the undersideof the cover plate, and may be operated in the manner set forth In my Patent No. 901,778, dated October 20th, 1908.

Within the tapered portion a anddirectly under the glazed section a of the box is a funnel e, and under the funnel is a chute E pivoted at e, e to the casing A; the chute directs the fares into any one of the comthe body of the partments c, c 0 0, according to the point at which it is set.

I preferably provide a slotted partition a in the box directly above the receptacle; the slots in the partition being in line with the slots in the receptacle. The end of the chute E is arranged so near the partition a that the fares cannot escape from the chute into the space above the partition.

Attached to the chute E is an operating knob E which projects through a slot a in the casing of the box A, and the Walls of this slotare numbered 1 to 4, sothat when the knob is opposite No. 1 on the slot, the end of the chute will direct the fare into the compartment 0 of the drawer and when it is opposite the other figures the end of the chute will direct the fare into the corresponding compartments.

In order to lock the chute in any one of the four positions in which it is adjusted, I secure a segment E to the chute, having a series of notches 6 Fig. 9, with which en-' gages the bolt on alock E so that when it is desired to shift the chute the key is in- .the receptacle-from the box.

sorted in the lock and the bolt withdrawn to free the chute, when it can be moved into any one of the four positions, onthe teethof the segmentmay be made mclmedon one side, asin Fig. 9, and the bolt of the lock may be a spring bolt so that the chute can be moved forward a notch at a time but cannot be returned unless the bolt of the lock is withdrawn, therefore the chute can be set at the beginning of the dayin line with the first compartment 0' and then moved for- .ward one notch as one conductor takes the place of another. I v .The receptacle B, 1n order to provide for the reception of the drawer C, is made in the following manner :-The mechan1sm for operating the slide D is contained with1n a compartment B separated from the mam portlon B by a partition b as clearly shown in Fig. 5, so that the drawer C can fill the compartment B without interfer ng with the operating mechanism for the sllde. The slide D is attached to the spindle f of the lock F by a link f and levers f; the lever being loose -on the shaft and the hub of the lever is slotted for the passage of the pin mounted on the spindle, so that,

there will be a'certain amount of lost motion between the shaft and the spindle to allow the slide to move first and close the slots before the bolt of the lock is retracted so that the receptacle can be removed from the box. The slide has'a hooked extension d in the present instance, which can engage the bolt 9 of the lock G on the door B, Fig. 7, of the receptacle when the slide is moved to close the slots prior to the removal of The mechanism for locking the box, the mechanism for operating the slides and for locking the slides is fully set forth and claimed inthe above mentioned patent.

The 0 eration is as follows he car in making its first trip in the morning has the chute E set to No. 1, and the end ofthe chute will be in line with the first compartment 0' and all the fares received by the conductor makin the run willvpass into this one box, an when another conductor reg-gees the first one he shifts the chute by ta g hold of the knob and moving it to No. 2 position in line with the compartment 0 of t e drawer, thenthe fares of this conductor will pass into No. 2, and so on until the end of t e run for the day. The receptacle is then removed and taken ,to the depot and the drawer detached from the box and the car fares in each compartment of the drawer are counted separately; When the drawer is removed from the receptacle another drawer is inserted in its stead or the contents of the first drawer can be quickly emptied and the drawer replaced. In some instances, it may be desirable to have two sets of receptacles for each box so that as soon as one receptacle is removed it can be instantly replaced by another. The chopper plate a is actuated in the present instance by a lever a, pivoted at a. One arm of the lever projects through a slot in the casing Ain easy reach of the conductor and the other arm of the lever is connected to a rod a adapted to guides, which rod is connected by a link 11, to a plate n secured to the chopper platform a". This platform is preferably madeof glass and is secured to the frame in any ordinary manner. A spring n attached at one end to the inner arm of the lever and to the casing tends to keep the chopper platform in its closed position.

When the tickets accumulate on the chopper platform, the conductor raises the lever a and allows the tickets to fall into the hopper e and they pass through the hopper to the proper compartment.

The glazed fare receiving section is fully set forth and claimed in an application for patent filed by myself and George B. Kohler, even date herewith, under Serial No. 429,738.

I claim 1. The combination in a fare box, of a body portion, a receptacle therein having a series of compartments, a pivoted chute adapted to aline with any one of said compartments, means for allowing the chute to move in one direction and means for preventing the chute moving in the opposite direction, and locking mechanism for controlling said last mentioned means, whereby on the operation of the lock the chute can be returned to its first position. I

2. The combination in a farebox, of a body portion, a receptacle therein having a series of compartments, a pivoted chute adapted to aline with any one of said compartments, a toothed segment on the chute, and a lock so arranged as to engage the teeth of the segment and secure the chute in position. r

3. The combination in a fare box, of a body portion, a receptacle therein having a series of compartments, a pivoted chute adapted to aline with any one of said compart-ments, a segment having teeth beveled on one side, a lock having a spring bolt adapted to engage the teeth so that the chute can be moved in one direction but will be prevented from moving in the opposite direction by the lock.

4. The combination in a fare box, of a body portion, a receptacle therein having a series of compartments, a pivoted chute adapted to aline with any one compartment,

a segment on the chute, a lock engaging the name to this specification, in the presence segment, an operatinlg krilob mil thfi clhutlzle, of two subscribing witnesses. the casin havin a sot t rou w ic t e knob exte nds, @151 stop marks on the walls EZRA BUCKNAM' 5 of the slot coinciding with the compartments Witnesses:

in the receptacle. Jos. H. KLEIN, In testimony whereof, I have signed my WM. A, BARR.