US1083839A - Ticket-sales register. - Google Patents

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A. KIPA RSKL' TIGKBT- SALES REGISTER. APVPYLIOATION FILED oo'r. 19,1911.-

1 ,083,839.. Patentd J an. 6, 191i V UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

annmnna mansxr, or s1. 'rn'rnnsnune, RUSSIA.

TICKET-SALES imorsrnn.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER KIPABSKI, a subject of the Czar of. Russia, residing at Mokowajast-rasse 23, St. Petersburg, Russia, have invented certain new and useful Im-' provements in Apparatus for- Ticket-Sales Register; and I do hereby declare the following'to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper tains to make and use the same This invention relates to an improvement in or modification of the invention described in the specification of my Brit. Patent No. 25675 of 19 10. In the said prior specification is described an apparatus comprising a plurality of dials or other counting mechanism upon which is indicated the total number of tickets of the same class taken from various boxes. In accordance with that invention the ticket on being withdrawn from the box deflects a contact piece which closes the circuit making contact with the corresponding electromagnet. The latter attracts a lever the extremity of ,which enters the path of a tooth of a continuously rotating cylinder insuch' a manner that by the impact a third circuit is closed, whereby the counting mechanism is actuated. With an arrangement of this kind it is necessary to employ a very long cylinder for each counting mechanism and for all of them as the teeth corresponding to the several boxes have not onl to be staggered along the periphery'of the cylinder but also along the length oft-the cylinder, so that during one revolution of the latter the contact lever can only encounter a single tooth. Furthermore it is necessary to provide a separate contact ring with sliding contact for the teeth, of each ticketbox provided with a separate counting mechanism.

The present invention provides a simplification and an improvement on this construction and resides in this that all the contact levers of a counting mechanism are arranged radially around the shaft 27 at various places on the periphery so that instead of a number of teeth staggered both rela tively to the length of the cylinder and to its circumference, only. a single tooth .need be provided and this' alternately contacts with all the levers. These contact levers are arranged in such manner that the armature of each electromagneti arranged. opposite each lever remains separated from the contact levers in the normal position, while when the ticket is withdrawn this armature enters the path of the lever so that by the contact of these parts, the circuit of the counting mechanism is closed and the number registered by the latter. Accordingly, as in the said prior patent, the contacting of the tooth belonging to any counting mechanism with the contact levers does not of itself close any circuit in the counting mechanism but only produces, this result when the withdrawal ofv the ticket from the box has produced the necessary modification of the circuit of the corresponding counting mechanism.

The accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, illustrate diagrammatically one embodiment of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates individual boxes for various classes of tickets 3;said boxes bein provided with downwardly-extending' rout walls 5 against which said tickets are maintained for successive withdrawal by springs 4:. A lever 16 is pivoted in a lower compartment of each box 1 and connected to. a slidablymounted rod 2 carrying a cont-act plate C for engaging a pair of contacts 13 and 14; said lever 16 being normally maintained in vertical position with its upper finger L retracted by a spring 9 connected to said lever and box. A bent lever 8 is pivotally supported at 9, and connected to said lever 16 by a slotted link 8 and a spring 9"; said bent lever 8 having its horizontal arm normally maintained in engagement with the downwardly-extending front box wall 5 by the combined action of gravity and of. said springs 9 and 9". The lower end 17 of the bent lever- 8 constitutes an armature for the pole 15 of an electro-magnet 12; said magnet 12 being connected in a normally-open shunt circuithereinafter described from any suitable source of electrical energy, such as a battery E.

Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

Application filed October 19, 1911. Serial No. 655,525.

A continuously rotated shaft 27 carries a disk B provided with a'tooth 26 for a ctuating a series of plungers 21, 21 and 21 mounted in a stationary ring 2 1 concentricall ing y maintaining friction rollers 25 on said plungers in engagement with said toothed disk. If the desired number of plungers 21 cannot be properly spaced around the disk B, a plurality of such disks B can be se cured to the shaft 27 surrounded by series about said disk B; springs 23 yieldcores 22 which are normally maintained by springs 22 beyond the path of the plungers 21. The solenoid cores 22 carry conducting plates 19 normally engaged by contact plates 19, which latter are supported by relatively weak springs 19 and insulated from said solenoid core 22. Connected to each of the solenoid cores 22 is a wire 34 and these wires are in turn connected to a wire 35 which is connected by wire 36 to one pole of a battery E. Connected to each of the plungers 21, 21 and 21 are the respective wires 37, 37* and 37 These last mentioned wires extend to indicators A, A and A and these indicators'are connected by wires 38, 38 and 38 to other indicators 1 ,1 9 and A. Leading from the indicators A A and A are the respective wires 39, 39 and 39 These wires 39 39 and 39 are connected to a wire 40 which leads to the remaining pole of the battery E. A second set of the indicators or dials as above described may also be connected in parallel with the first set and there has been indicated above this first set in the drawing a second set of dials a, a a

which are connected by the wires 41, 41 and 41 with the wires 37, 37 and 3'? respectively. From these indicators extend wires 42, 42 and 42 to indicators or dials a, at and a. From the latter dials extend the respective wires 43, 43 and 43 which are connected to the wire 40. Thus it will be seen that the indicators or dials A, A are connected in multiple with the indicators or dials a and a and so on throughout the various set-s o-fdials; Now in order to understand this part of the operation of the device let it be supposed that the plunger 21 is in electrical contact with its solenoid. Then current will flow from the battery E through the wire 40, wires 39 and 43, indicaters A and a wires 38 and 42, indicators A and a, wires 41 and 37 to the plunger 21, through the solenoid core of said plunger, wire 34', wire 35, and wire 36 backito the From the foregoing it will be bring the plunger'21 or 21 into engagement with their respective solenoid cores 22 the respective remaining registering instruments will be actuated thereby. It is not. therefore deemed necessary to trace the circuit as the same will be obvious. These circuits thus passing through the solenoid cores will be hereinafter referred-to in the specification and claimed as the ,primary circuitssince they directly afi'ectthe operation or the registering instrument.

Each of the cont-acts 14 is connected by means of a wire 44 with the winding of a respective solenoid 19. The other end off: each solenold winding is connected by means of a wire 44 with therespective contact plate 19 against which the spring 19 presses. It is to be understood that this contact plate is free from the solenoid core so that when the plate 19 is moved by said core the weak action of the spring 19 will permit movement of the plate 19 away from the plate 19 and thus break the circuit between said plates. From each of the contacts 13 a wire 45 leads to one end of themagnet winding of the magnet 12 while from the other end of the winding of said magnet a wire 46 leads to and connects with the wire 40. Now if the contact 13 be connected by the member a with the contact 14 then current will flow from the battery E through the wire 40, wire 46, respective magnet 12, wire 45, contact 13, member 0, contact 14, wire 44, winding of the respective solenoid 19, wire 44, contact plate 19*, contact plate 19", wire 34, wire 35, wire 36 back to the battery E. It is obvious that which ever one of the contact members 0 be moved to close the respective circuit-the said'circuit can be traced in like manner through the respective magnets 12 and respective solenoids 19. It will also be noted that these circuits are shunt circuits connecting the wires 34 and 40 of the primary circuits before described. These circuits will therefore be'hereinatter referred to and claimed as shunt circuits.

In the operation of m invention, a ticket 3 upon belng withdrawn from any of the boxes 1 engages the horizontal arm of the corresponding bent lever 8 and swings said lever to bring its armature 17 in close proximity to the electro-magnet core 15. Such swing of the bent lever 8 acts through the spring 9 to swing the lever16 andyieldingly press the finger L thereof against the ticket during withdrawal of the latter; said ticket acting as astop to prevent' the full swing or" said lever 16 for shifting the contact plate G into engagement with the contacts 13 and 14. Upon .further withdrawal of'the ticket 3, the extended spring 9 forces the finger L through a notch or opening formed in the edge of the ticket and into engagement with the front be): wall 5 for preventing the withdrawal of additional tickets from the box. This full forward swing of the lever 16 shifts the contact plate G into engagement with the contacts 13 and 14, and thus closes the shunt battery circuit to energize the electro-magnet 12 and the corresponding solenoid 19. The magnet 12 thereupon attracts the armature 17 on the bent lever8 and swings said lever to firmly maintain the lever 16 at its forwardswing, as shown at position HT in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Simultaneously, the solenoid 19 draws its spring 19 carrying said plate 19.

'ily placed in difierent ro'oms in any desired separate locations, for s1mulcore 22 inwardly in position to be engaged by the disk tooth 26 into engagement with the solenoid' core 22. During the initial engagement of the plunger 21 with the core 22, the main, or primary, battery circuit is closed through said plunger and core to actuate the registering devices A for registering the withdrawal of the ticket. During the continued outward shifting of the plunger 21 by the disk tooth 26, the conducting plate 19" is suddenly shifted from engagement with the contact plate 19; such separation of the plates 19* and 19" being permitted by the slow action of the relatively weak This temporary separation of the plates 19 and'19 breakes the battery shunt circuit through the magnet 12 and solenoid 19, thereby permitting the counting levers 8 and 16 and the contact plate C to return to their normal osition under the combined action of gravityand of the springs 9 and 9 and, simultaneously, through the de'nergizi'n ofthe solenoid 19, enabling the core 22 of t e latter' to be maintained in its normal outward po sition by the spring 22 forcing the-contact plate 19 outwardly in engagement with the conducting plate 19 carried by said solenoid core. The parts are thus restored to their normal position for registering a ticket sub-- sequently withdrawn from the box -1.

It will be obvious that the plurality of duplicate registering devices could be reador buildings, or

taneou'sly indicating at all SllCh points the tickets withdrawn from the boxes.

- vention is therefore. adapted for advantageous use for registering the sale of tickets among various-difierent theaters, or for registering the tickets sold at the different box ofiices of a threaten It is also specially adapted for use in in order to indicate at each station equipped therewith the number of seats sold, and hence the number of seats available, in a particular train or in of. My invention could also be used in factories, orother darge concerns, for recording the number of employees entering and leaving by various different doors allotted to different classes orgrades of employees; there by enabling the number .of employees'and their total wages to all times.

In parliamentary, and other assemblies, two boxes could be placed at each members desk for independently indicating the withdrawal of tickets therefrom on separate re istering devices placed at .the chairmans seat or other desired location; one of said 'it iso My ina large railway stations,

the separate cars there-' be readily ascertained at boxes being for indicating an aflirmative vote and the other box for indioatin a negative vote. By this arrangement, al voting could be done very speedily and with entire secrecy.

While I have enumerated above some of the Important applications of my invention,

use in many other connections.

I claim- 1. In an automatic apparatus for inde-- pendently registerin the numbers of tickets delivered from in ividual boxes, the combi-nation of registering devices for the several boxes, normally-open primary circuits for said registering devices, mechanically actuated means for closing said primary circuits, other normally opened circuits connected to the respective primary circuits and constituting shunts from said primary circuits, electro-magnetic means in said shunt circuits for controlling the closing ofsaid primary circuits, and independent means actuated by the withdrawal of tickets from the several boxes for closing the respective shunt circuits.

2. In an automatic apparatus for independently registering the numbers of tickets delivered from individual boxes, the combination of registering devices for the several boxes, normally-open primary circuits for said registering devices, mechanically actu ated means for closing said primary circuits, other normally opened circuits connected to the respective primary circuits and constituting shunts from said primary circuits, electro-magnetic means in said shunt circuits for controlling the closing of said primary circuitg and independent means for closing said shunt circuits and maintaining the latter closed during the withdrawal of tickets fromthe boxes.- I 8. In an automatic apparatus for independently registering the numbers of tick ets delivered from individual boxes, the combination of registering devices for the several boxes, normally-open primarycircuits for said registering devices, other normally opened circuits connected to the respective primary circuits and constituting shunts from said primary ciruits, independent means actuated by the withdrawal of tickets from the several boxes for closing the respecviously adapted for advantangeous tive shunt circuits, mechanical means 'operable upon such closing of said shunt circuits for successively -closin said primary. circuits and opening sai shuhtcircuits, and electro-magnetic means in said shunt circuits for controlling the action of said mechanical means.

4. In an automatic apparatus.,for independently registering the numbers of tickets delivered from individual boxes, the combination-of' registering devices for the several boxes, normally-open primary circuits 1 0 responding for said registering devices, other normally opened circuits connected to the respective primary circuits and constituting shunts from said primary circuits, independent means actuated by the Withdrawal of tickmagnetic means in said shunt circuits for controlling the action of said mechanical means.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

ALEXANDER KIPARSKI.

Witnesses:

MOSES LUISARENKA, AUG. MIGHIS.

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