US1462015A - Car-check holder - Google Patents

Description

July 17, 1923- 1,462,015

R. c. LEITCH CAR CHECK HOLDER Filed Aug. 26 1920 Patented July 17, 1923.

ROY CLIFFORD LEITCH, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

CABr-CEECK HOLDER.

Application filed August 26, 1920. Serial No. 406,057.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROY CLIFFORD Larrorr,

citizen of the United States, and resident of Kansas City, county of Jackson, State of Missouri, have invented a certaln new and useful Improvement in Car-Check Holders, of which the following is a complete specification.

This invention relates to identlfication checks and holders therefor, and more especially to means for identifying a person with a particular seat in a railroad coach; the invention being designed primarily as an improvement in the check and holder therefor, on which Patent No. 1,308,792 was 1ssued to me July 8th, 1919.

The special object, broadly stated,'of this invention is to provide a check holder of simple and neat construction for securely holding a check of standardized type, through the resiliency of the check itself, and a further object is to produce a holder of this type to which the check can be instantly applied by pressure of a thumb or finger without any special or careful fitting of the check against the holder in a predetermined position, as is necessary with the device identified by the aforesaid patent, in which the check has an opening which must be accurately fitted with respect to a projection on the holder before the two devices can be interlocked together.

With the general objects mentioned in view, the invention consists ,in certain novel and useful features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a check and check holder embodying the invention, the said elements being secured in operative position.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

Figure 3 is a face view of the check.

In the said drawing, 1 indicates the holder of wood or any other suitable material and preferably in the form of an oblong base or strip, and said holder is provided at opposite sides of its center with a pair of spaced vertical channels or recesses 2, of substantially semi-elliptic form in cross section. At the side margins of the channel are formed inwardly-projecting flanges 3 spaced apart to provide a mouth 4 slightly narrower than the channels at their widest point.

The base 1' is adapted to be secured in a horizontal position by preference to a wall of the car adjacent the seat which corresponds in number to that which appears upon the face of the base between the channels, as for instance, and the base is also provided with holes 5 throughwhich securing screws 6 extend to secure the holderto the wall or equivalent support. I

For use with this holder, the ordinary oblong rectangular paper checks may be employed, one being indicated at 7 and to secure such a check to the holder, it is placed across one of the mouths 4, and the operator with thumb or finger applies light pressure against the check and thus causes it to spring or how into the recess until the side margins of the check pass between the flanges 3. As this occurs, it is evidenced by av snap which the operator can both feel and hear, and he withdraws his thumb or fin er from engagement with the check which then, through its resiliency, attempts to straighten out and thus applies pressure at its side edges against the sides of the channel and retains its position in the holder, and can only be readily removed therefrom by grasping its upper or lower end and pulling it endwise from the position.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that this holder is adapted for securing in position any rectangular shaped check which in width slightly exceeds the greatest width of the recess of the holder. To make the device more complete, however, I have provided the check with certain indicia on its face so that the conductor can tell by an inspection of the check the particular car or coach and the particular seat in such car or coach to which the holder of the ticket belongs, the destination of such person, whether he is traveling half or full fare and whether or not he has retained his ticket. In the present instance, the ticket contains a series of letters for indicating or identifying a corresponding number of coaches; a blank space upon which the conductor may produce a punch mark or other marks which will correspond to the town for which the ticket entitlesthe holder to ride; two series of numbers, one from No. 1 to 4 inclusive and the other from 0 to 9 inclusive, so that the conductor can punch out the particular number or numbers for cate the fortleth seat. The ticket also contains a symbol identified by the fraction to indicate when punched that the occu-' pant is traveling, half fare and if not punched that the occupant 1s travehng full fare, and also contains a symbol marked RT to show that the passenger has retained his ticket.

As well known, it is a common custom for conductors to place a check in the hat band of the occupant of a seat or in a holder adjacent to seat, and in either case if the tlcket is lost, it is sometimes impossible to determine where the passenger of the seat or the one who claims such seat, is entitled'to ride. With a check of this character, the conductor can always determine where a passenger holding the check belongs and is entitled to ride, and by enforcin a rule that this check shall remain in the older, the possibility of a person occupying a seat to which he is not entitled and the right to travel to a particular place, can be determined, as by using a punch mark or symbol not understood by the passenger, an attempt on lllS part to I claim the right to travel to a certain destination on a particular check, could in most instances, be detected, due to the fact that the s mbol or punch mark on the check, woul not inform him that the check entitled the holder to ride to a particular destination.

From the above description, it will be apparent that I have produced a check holder and check which possesses the features of advanta e set forth as desirable in the statement 0 the object of the invention, and

lars without departing from the which may be modified in certain-particugrinciple of construction involved or from t e spirit and scope ofthe appended claims.

I clalm:

1. In a device of the character described,

the combination of a recessed holder, and a resilient check within said recess and bowed by engagement at its side edges with and exerting pressure against the opposite walls of said recess.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of a holder having a recess and flanges projecting inwardly over said recess, at the side margins thereof, said recess extending clear through the holder from the top to the bottom thereof, and a check in engagement at its side edges with and exerting pressure against said holder behind said flanges and of length to project at its ends beyond the top and bottom of the holder.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination of a holder having a recess and flanges projecting inwardly over said recess at the side margins thereof, said recess extending clear through the holder from'the top to the bottom thereof and a resilient check fitting in said recess in bowed condition, with its side edges engaging opposite sides of said recess behind saidflanges.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination of a holder having a recess of semi-elliptic form in cross section, and flanges projecting inwardly over said recess at the side edges thereof, and a resilient check fitting in said recess and bowed toward but spaced from the bottom thereof; the side edges of the check engaging the sides of the recess at its point of greatest width and behind the said flanges.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature.

' ROY CLIFFORD LEITCH.

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