US110339A

US110339A - Improvement in fare-registering apparatus

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Publication number: US110339A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1887-12-20

Description

(1A; CALVERT. FARE REGISTERING AQPARATUS.

N0. 110,339. Patented D60. 20, 1870.

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I m I V I v a f m aha %tde4 time elm CHARLES ALEXANDER CALVERT,

or MANCHESTER, Knvcnon OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Letters Patent N0. 110,339, dated December 20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS.

no Schedule referred to' in than Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

to ascertain at any moment the number of persons who have paid for admission, and to check (also at any moment) the receipts of money taken for admission and so prevent the takers thereof from appropriating the same, or any portion, thereof, to their own use; but slight variations of the arrangement would' make it equally applicable to time taking, and also as a tell-tale for checking watchmen.

Description of the Drawing,

,lower part of same, showing the openings whence the money-taker receives the checks, the whole of the other apparatus being inclosed or concealed from his sight.

- It is proposed to mount the apparatus in a wall or partition, so that on the money-takers side only the hand-openings for receiving the checks are visible,

while on the other side all the interior of the appa-' ratus can, be seen' by' the manager or other person interested.

Inside a case, a. a, a'series of vertical tubes, b b, is'arranged, the interior diameter of the said tubes corresponding in form and size with the metal or other checks 0 c, with which each tube is filled before the apparatus is put in use.

' Each tube is provided at the back with a'vertical slit or opening, (see figs. 2 and 3,) through which the pile of checks can be seen. and the side of this slit or" opening is marked with numbers, commencing from the top.

The tube is supported and '"gs upon a hinge-- joint, d d, at the upper end, provided with a finger-piece, e e, at the lower end, by means of which it can be swung to and fro.

At the bottom of .the :tube is a transverse slit or aperture, through or into which the' front edge of a blade, f f,-p'asses, so that upon the money-taker.

pressing back the lower end of the tube by the finger-piece e c, this blade forces out or propels the lowest check into the money-takers hand, the whole pile of checks falling at the same time and resting on the blade ff.

In withdrawing the hand the money-taker draws back the tube into its original position, (as seen at fig. 1,) or it may fall into that position by its own-- weight, and the operation may immediately be repeated, each swing of thetubc forcing out one check into the money-takers hand.

By inspecting the position of the piles of checks in the tubes the exact number of checks that have been withdrawn can be ascertained.

But if it should be thought desirable also to indi cate upon a dial in the managers office, or at any other distant point, the exact number of checks withdrawn, I place a small weighted-lever or trigger, g g, beneath the lower orifice of the tube, and each check as it issues, in falling .into the money-takers hand, causes this lever to vibrate, and thus by alternately making and breaking contact between the poles x, y of an electric battery (asis well understood by any ordinary electrician) the vibrating of this lever or trigger g g can be made to indicate, by means of any well-known electrical counting apparatus, the withdrawal of each check from the tube; or the move- .ment of the tube itself might be caused to make and break electrical contact for the same purpose.

witnesses.

' CHARLES A. CALVERT.

Witnesses:

Gsoncn DAvms, JOHN HUGHES.