US1070685A - Cash-fare slip. - Google Patents

Description

H. M. HIGGINS.

CASH FARE SLIP.

.APPLIOATION FILED 111111.17, 1911.

1,070,685 Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

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CASH-FARE SLIP.

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Application led March 17, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 615,113.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE M. HIGGINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Fare Slips, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cash fare slip or ticket of the most simple and convenient arrangement possible, which is incapable of fraudulent manipulation or alteration, and in which figures are arranged under appropriate headings and in such order that the amounts representing the cash fare paid may be so entered by punch marks on the slip that the indicated gures which make it up may be read in regular order from left to right as figures are read in ordinary notation, whatever the relative value of the individual digits .may be. Its novelty will be hereinafter more fully pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a preferred form of my invention, and Figs. 2, 8, 4 are fragmentary viewsY showing modified arrangements of the figures for indicating amounts to be entered on the slip.

It will be understood that my slip is intended to be printed and bound in pads, and that when a passenger makes payment of cash fare the conductor detaches a slip from his pad, one portion of which is printed with appropriate legends and spaces arranged to be filled out with data to form an auditors stub A, and the other part of which is printed so as to constitute a receipt B which is to be delivered to the passenger. The two portions of the slip bear identical series of digits so arranged that when such portions are folded back to back along their dividing line (preferably per,- forated) their digits will register with each other. After the conductor has written in the data for which spaces are provided on the slip, he folds the two portions together, and then, with the individual ticket punch always carried by a conductor, he punches the proper digits to indicate the amount of money paid, after which he separates the portions of the slip and gives the receipt to the passenger.

In the form of slip illustrated in Fig. 1 the spaces of the two portions of the ticket intended for the indication of amounts paid are divided by central vertical lines into two sections, marked Dollars and Cents, respectively. Each section contains two rows of figures, a main or indicating row C, and a secondary or reference row D. The digits in all the rows are arranged in regular ascending order from lefty to right (the Zero being placed in the tenth space) and are repeated in reverse or deF scending order. My ticket is intended for the indication of amounts of dollars which may be expressed by two digits or less, that is, less than $100.00, and any desired numloer of cents, and it is intended that in all cases the digits punched shall be read in order from left to right as in the established Arabic notation. One purpose of the ascending order of digits forming the first part of the row of figures in each section, is to make provision for the indication in that part of the row of all amounts eX- pressed by two digits of which the second digit is the larger, both tens and units being preferably punched in that part of the row, as hereinafter more fully explained; and the purpose of the descending series, in the forms of my invention illustrated in Figs. l and 2, is to make provision for the entry in that part of the row of amounts of which the second digit is the smaller. Nevertheless, it is possible, and in some cases contemplated, that amounts may be entered by punching the tens of dollars or of cents, as the case may be, in the first part of the row, and units of dollars or cents, in the second part,

In the ordinary and contemplated use of the ticket, if the amount to be entered, either in the Dollars or Cents7 sections, is represented by two digits,'of which the second is the larger, it will be indicated by two punch marks in the first half of the main row, whereas if the second ligure is the smaller it will be indicated by two punch marks in the last half of the row, in which the digits are arranged in descending order. For instance, in indicating $25.75, the dollar indication would be punched in the first half of the main row of the Dollars section, while the cents indication would be punched in t-he last half of the main row of the Cents section, as illustrated in Fig. l. However, it is of course possible in any case to punch the first figure of either a dollars or a cents indication in the first half of the section provided for such indication, if the user chooses to do so. If

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the two figures are the same, t-he first must of course be punched in the first half of the row, and the last in the second half. Inasmuch as cash fares of large size, exceeding sixty dollars, for instance, are rarely collected, the first four or more of the figures arranged in descending order may be omitted in the section marked Dollars, as illustrated in the modified form of ticket shown in Fig. 2, which therefore provides for an uninterrupted series of indications for dollars in the ordinary and intended manner above described only up to and including siXty dollars, since it is obvious that the number 54 is the largest number Within the maximum amount mentioned having numerals which are arranged in descending order and which can be entered on the last part of the rows of figures in the Dollars section. The amount $55 will be entered by punching the firstdigit in the first part of the row in the Dollars section, and the second digit in the second part, and the amounts $56 to $60 inclusive, will be entered by punch marks in the first part of the row. Above $60, amounts from $61 to $65 inclusive, may of course be indicated by punching the digit 6 in the first part of the row and the second digit in the second part, though they cannot both be punched in the same and the second part of the row, as in the case of the amount $54 and all other smaller amounts in which the first ligure or digit is the larger, and also according to the ordinary and preferable practice before mentioned. The ticket shown in Fig. 2 therefore provides means for indicating amounts of dollars up to and including $60 in the most desirable and preferable manner, and up to and including $65 in the alternative manner, an interruption in the series occurring at $66, ano-ther interruption at $76 and $77, another at $86, $87 and $88, and another at $96 and all higher numbers, though intermediate amounts of dollars may be indicated by punching the digits of which they are composed, either both in the first part of the row or the first digit in the first part and the second digit in the second part` of the row, according to the character of the amount. If the user so desires, one of the two rows, preferably the main row, may be used to indicate tens of dollars, or tens of cents, as the case may be, and the other to indicate units of dollars or units of cents, in this manner distinguishing the tens and units of amounts both by their order from left to right and also by their location in one or the other of the two rows. Thus the amount $54.25 shown indicated on Fig. 2 is enteredv by punching the figure 5 in the last half of the main row and the figure 4 in the same portion of the secondary row of the Dollars section, thus indicating both that the amount in dollars entered is one in which the figures occur in descending order and that the figure 5 represents tens of dollars and the figure 4 units of dollars; and punching the figure 2 in the rst half of the main row and the'figure 5 in the same portion of the secondary row of the Cents section, thus indicating that the amount in cents entered is one in which the figures occur in ascending order, and that the ligure 2 indicates tens and the figure 5 units of cents.

A further modification is shown in Fig. 3, in which the digits in the last half of the row are repeated in ascending order instead of descending order. lVith this arrangeV ment it is of course necessary in indicating an amount represented by two digits, of which the first is the larger, to punch the first figure in the first half of the row and the second in the last half, the amount 95 cents being shown indicated on this form of ticket. This last mentioned form of ticket may be further modified by the omission in the Dollars section of the four or more higher digits in the last part of the row, as illustrated in Fig. 4, showing the entry of t-he amount $65.99, which is the highest amount in uninterrupted successsion which can be entered on this form of ticket, the series being interrupted at $66 which is not capable of indication, although certain other higher amounts may be indicated, as hereinbefore explained. In all forms, however, the amount of the fare may be and is intended to be entered by punch marks indicating figures which are read from left to right in order, as in the established notation. If desired, the zero may be repeated in the Cents section, for the purpose of enabling a positive indication to be made that the amount paid included no decimal subdivision of a dollar.

In the use of the ticket above described with reference to Fig. l, and also in using the other forms of tickets in the manner illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, the secondary row of digits serves merely as a reference row and, while found desirable in practice, may be omitted, in which case the value of any digits removed or obliterated by the punch will be indicated by the position of the punch marks with respect to the remaining digits of the series. In any of the forms illustrated the units of dollars and units of cents may be punched, if desired, in the secondary row, the main or indicating row then serving as a reference row with respect to the digits canceled in the secondary row, although I prefer to use the main row for indicating all denominations of amounts entered.

It is of course obvious that my invention may be employed with respect to the Cents section, or the Dollars section, only of a ticket.

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Vhat I claim is:

1. A cash fare slip comprising an auditors stub portion and a passengers receipt portion arranged to be folded together, each portion having suitably designated sections for the indication of sums of money, and the corresponding sections of the portions being provided for such indication with horizontal rows of respectively identical digits which lie in registration adjacent the margin of the folded slip and are adapted to be simultaneously punched when the slip is folded, one or more of said registering rows including the nine. digits arranged in numerical order followed by zero and a second series of digits arranged in numerical order.

2. A cash fare slip comprising an auditors stub portion and a passengers receipt portion arranged to be folded together along a horizontal line, each portion having suitably designated sections for the indication of sums of money, and one or more pairs of corresponding sections being provided for such indication with horizontal indicating rows of respectively identical digits which lie in registration adjacent the folding line and are adapted to be simultaneously punched when the slip is folded, said rows including the nine digits arranged in numerical order both ascending and descending and a zero between the ascending digits and the descending digits.

HORACE M. HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

R. A. SMITH, E. E. SHIVELY.

Gop'ies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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