US148791A - Improvement in railway-car passenger-registers - Google Patents

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M. A. WIER.

Railway-Car Passenger-Registers.

Patented March 17. 1874.

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IMPROVEMNT IN RAILWAY-CAR PASSENGER-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,791, dated March 17, 1874; application filed November 4, 1873.

To all whom 'it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARSHALL ARTHUR WIER, of No. 9 Great Winchester street, in the City of London and Kingdom of Great Britain, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus for Registering and Checking the Entries and Exits of passengers to and from Tramway-Cars, Omnibuses, or other Garriages, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates more especially to apparatus whereby the numbers and places of entry and exit of passengers to and from tramwayecars, omnibuses, or other carriages are indicated by self-acting means, independently ofthe conductor, so as to afford an accurate check upon the amount of fares paid to him; but parts of my invention are also applicable to registering apparatus which is not wholly seltactino.

In cases where convenient I employ an ordinary turnstile to register the entrance of passengers, and another to register their exit, or a single turnstile may be arranged to register both the entrance and exit of passengers.

In cases where, in consequence of contracted space, an ordinary turnstile cannot be employed, I use a turnstile, the arms of which are successively placed across the opening, and allowed to fall out of the way by means of cam-surfaces acting by the rotation of a turnstile, or, instead of a turnstile, I employ a swing-gate, connected by suitable mechanism with a second gate, (which may be adapted to 'slide or swing,) in such manner as to cause it to act in conjunction with it, so as to bar the way to a following passenger until the iirst has passed.

Whether the turnstile or swing-gate be employed, I prefer to connect it with the registering mechanism by means of pneumatic actuating apparatus; but mechanical, electric, or other suitable actuating apparatus may be employed for that purpose.

I effect the registration by the action of a pricker, point, or pencil upon a movable sheet of paper, and I prefer to arrange it in the peculiar manner by which I distinguish the numbers enteringl or leaving the vehicle at or between any of the several stations.

In order to secure the effects above referred to, certain changes corresponding to the va rious stations on the route have to be effected in appropriate parts of the registering 'apparatus, in order to bring the actuating mechanism of the turnstile or swing-gate in unison with the proper part of the registering apparatus, according with the part of the route the vehicle may be on at any time.

To effect these changes automatically I enr ploy what I call a governing apparatus in con nection with the registering mechanism; and I sometimes effect this change in the registering apparatus by a projection thrown up in the rail or road (in the case of tramways) by the passage of the car, the projection acting upon a rod, or some pendent instrument in connection with and moving the governing apparatus.

Figures I, 2, and 3 illustrate an arrangement of swing-gate, connected to and acting in `conjunction with a slide-gate, which arrangement I iind suitable in some cases where it is not convenient to have the rising and falling arms, described in reference to Figs. l and 2, as, for example, in train-cars.

G is the swing-gate or bar, which, in its normal position, stands across the opening or cntrance. His the slide-gate, working in conjunction with the swing-gate. Its normal position is behind the swing-gate, and it is operA ated by the motion of the latter. The slidegate may AYbe arranged to slide horizontally out behind the person entering or leaving, as he pushes the swing-gate before him 5 but I prefer to make the slidegate oscillate on a center-pin, I, motion being given to it in the following manner: To a convenient part of the swing-gate standard a cam, or, if preferred, two lever-arms, J J, is or are attached. Two chains, K K, are fastened, one on each side of the standard, either to the cam or levers, the other ends being fastened to the standard of the slide-gate in such manner that when the swing-gate is turned in either direction the slide-gate is pulled forward across the entrance, so as to bar the way to another person until the swing-gate is returned to its normal position, an effect obtained by a spring, L, at tached to the back of the slide-gate standard, or to a tail-piece on its own standard, as shown at M. the gates will always be across the entrance at'ter a passenger` has passed.

ln order to prevent the slidegate from striki n g the passing passenger, which may take place when it is caused to vibrate in a plane parallel to that of the normal position of the swinggate, I cause the slide-gate to move out at an angle behind the passenger, and then to close up at'ter him. The first of these movements l effect by making the slide-gate standard N to swivel slightly in a socket, O, by means ofthe chains K K, above described, which, for that purpose, are made to wind around the hollow standard X, so as to turn the slide-gate outward to the angle required to pass behind the passenger before it vibrates outward. The second of these movements l effect by means ot' a guide-piece, l, projectingfrom the standard ofthe swing-gate, so shaped, and acting upon the pin Q on the slide-gate standard, as to cause the latter to swivel in its socket in the direction opposite to that effected by the chain K K, thus closing up behind and following the passenger as he continues to turn the swing-gate (l.

ln order that the same elfeets shall obtain whichever way the swing-gate is turned, the slide-gate socket is caused to slide ou the center-pin I by the action of the chains K K or guide piece l), as the swinggate turns so that the slide-gate shall always vibrate out on that side of the swing-gate from which the passenger is passin rlhe guide-piece l may be so shaped as to effect the sliding out of the slide-gate instead of employing the chains, but l prefer to use the latter means for that purpose.

Figs. l" and l." show another method ot'obtaining similar relative movements of thc swing and slide gates. The pin (Q on the slidegate standard takes into a slot, Q, on a lever, l, on the axis of which is fixed the pulley or or drum l". Chains l2 and l3 are connected to this drum, and to arms l and l)5 on the swing-gate center. Movement of the swinggate thus imparts motion to the drum P1, lever P, and from thence by the pin Q to the slide-gate7 effecting both the sliding out and closing up motions. The eounterbalanee weight PG restores the sliding and swing gates to their normal positions, when the latter is left free at'ter the entrance or exit of a passen` ger.

'lo prevent passengers entering or leaving without being registered by passing in between the swing-gate and slide-gate as another person passes the reverse way, the pins R lt on the slide-gate socket fallinto the holes S S, when the slide-gate is drawn forward, whereby it is locked in position until the swing-gate shall have closed again sufticiently to slide the socket far enough toward the center of its fulernm to disengage the pin from the whole, which will not take place until the swing-gate has nearly resumed its normal position, and,

By this arrangement one or other of therefore, will be too close to the swing-gate to admit of the presence of a person between them.

ln order to prevent the slide-gate H from sliding out in front of the person entering the doorway, instead of behind him, by reason ot' the swing-gate G being pushed forward before. the person is sufficiently close to it, the swin bar G may be employed above the swinggate. This swing-baris allowed to turn loosely on the hollow standard K to an extent limited bythe piu and slot l 2. rlhe person entering naturally places his hand upon the swing-bar G', which yields before him, but has no effect upon the swing-gate until the person has advanced close enoughthereto to allow the slidegate to pass behind him.

lhe swing-gate may, if desired, be caused to fall back when pushed in either direction, in a manner somewhat similar to the slidegate; or the swing-gate arm maybe shortened when pushed either way by being made telescopic, such shortening heilig effected by a chain attached to the sliding' arm and a cam or lever on the standard, or otherwise. ly these means still less space may sometimes be made to sutliee for the turnstilc arrangements.

ll'hen convenient, l prefer to apply a registering apparatus direct to the turnstile or swing gate, for the purpose of registering the number of persons entering or leaving the car or carriage.

Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a registering apparatus applicable to a turnstile capable of revolving continuously backward or forward, mechanism being so arranged as to :register both the entrances and exits. A represents theaxis of theturnstile, upon whiehis a notched disk, l, having adouble series of four fingers, C C C and C', fastened thereto. lhe series of fingers C C are all disposed in one upper plane, the series otiingers C C are all in one lower plane, so that the series t) (l in revolving in the direction of the plain arrow operate upon the bell-crank lever l), and the series C C', when revolving in the opposite direction, operate upon the bell-crank leverD. rlhcse bellcrank levers are fitted with triggers E and l', which enable the fingers to pass their corresponding lever when revolving n one direction without acting upon it. rlhe bell-crank levers are provided with pricker-points F and l, which puncture a strip of paper, G, traversed by the reels ll ll against au elastic surface, l, by a step-by-step motion in the following manner: J is a spur-wheel sector, free to revolve on the pin K. L is al sector gearing with the spur-sector J, and having au arm, L', which is held against the notched disk B by a spring, M. A click on the spur-sector J takes into a ratchet-wheel on the reel Il', which is prevented from turning too easily bya spring, N, which bears against it.

It will now be understood that whenever the turnstile makes a quarter revolution in either direction, the sector-L is moved bythe disk l5,

and the spur-sector J is rotated, and with it the click, one or more teeth of the ratchet being thus taken up when the arm L drops into the recess or notch on the disk B. The spring M draws the sector L back, and the reel is wound round by the click a step, the paper being then wound onto the reel H ofi' the reel II by so mucl The same quarter revolution ofthe turnstile Till, however, have caused one of the fingers C or C to press upon one of the levers D or D, so as to cause the pricker to make a puncture on the paper strip, indicating the entrance or exit of a passenger, the entrances being shown by one row oi' punctures, the exits by another, as shown in Fie. 5. rIhe pricker -levers l) and D are held against stops K1 and K2 by springs, as shown, when not being acted upon.

When the swinggate is employed one iin ger only is necessary to operate both pricker-levers, which are then to be arranged one each side of such linger, and so centered that its motion to either side will operate one or other of such priclrerlevers.

I have above described means by which the numbers entering and leaving a vehicle may be registered 5 but in cases where there are several stations on a line of route, with various fares payable for the various distances on it, it becomes necessary to register the numbers entering or leaving during the passage over each section of the road. I effect this by governing apparatus, which I will now proceed to describe.

Fig. 6 shows a governing apparatus, which is operated by a projection thrown up from the rail by the wheel-tread as the car passes over it, catching a pendent lever, which presses a piston into a cylinder', compressing air therein, and forcing it through a pipe so as to expand an air-chamber, N, in the registering apparatus, (see Fie. 5,) which expansion of the air moves the sector L through a larger arc, and the paper is thereby moved a greater distance than is given by the turnstile. A space between the sets of punctures is thus produced, indicating a station.

Fie'. 7 shows a similar arrangement, but in which a pendent lever carrying a roller at its lower end rides over a part oi' road which is crowned so as to lift it up, and so operate the air-cylinder, or move suitable mechanical devices to effect the necessary changes.

I have only illustrated pneumatic and inechanical means for effecting the registration and governing effects; but, as I have before stated, electric or other suitable means may be employed for that purpose.

I claini- 1. The combination of the swinging gate G and vibrating gate II, the latter arranged to close behind the passenger, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the swinging arm G', having a limited movement, with the swing ing gate II, substantially as described.

3. The guide p p, in combination with the.

vibrating gate H, arms J J, chains K K, and spring L, substantially as described.

et. The notched disk B upon the turnstile shaft carrying lingers C C C C, in combination with the bell-crank levers D VD, having triggers E EZ and prickers F F for piercing a moving iillet, Gr, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the lever X and cylinder X', bellows N, toothed sector-lever L, and illet-moving device, connected by means of the tubes, links, and teeth, substantially as described.

6. The combination of the laterally-sliding collar O, having studs R It with the notched plates S S, substantially as described.

MARSHALL A. VVIER.

H. BUswnLL,

25 Fcnclmrch St., London, E. C.

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