US150500A - Improvement in fare-boxes - Google Patents

Description

.I. 1. WHITE.

Fare-Boxes.

N0,l50,500, Patented May 5,1874.

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JOSEPH J. WHITE, OF NEW LISBON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HOWARD WHITE, OF TULLYTOWVN, PENNSYLVANIAV 'IMPROVEMENTIN FARE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,500, dated May 5, 1874; application filed April 4, 1874.

- lecting passenger fares on rail-cars; and consists of a cash-box supported from the waist or shoulders of the conductor, to which is attached a flexible tube, having at its end a hand-piece or receiving-box containing an endless carrier, which is arranged on pulleys, so as to be moved, by means of a ratchet and pawl operated by a spring-lever, by the conductor, the construction being as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section. Fi g. 2 is a section of the hand-piece, showing the details.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a box, made in any convenient form, of wood, sheet metal, or any suitable material, which is suspended from the person of the collector. This is the cash-box to which the fares are conveyed from the receiving-box or handpiece B, by means of a belt or carrier, 0, contained in the flexible or metallic hinged tube D. This belt 0 is endless, and passes around a pulley at each end, one pulley, E, being located in the cash-box, and the other pulley,

' F, being in the hand-piece B. Each fareis dropped into the hand-piece B (as it is received) through'the orifice G, and is received on the carrier-belt 0. On the shaft of the pulley F is a ratchet-wheel, H, which is revolved by means of the spring-pawl I on the pivoted arm J, actuated by the spring-lever K on the under side of i the hand-piece. L is a springpawl, which works in the ratchet to prevent back motion.

the conductor draws the spring-lever up to the tube, which causes the belt, pulley, and ratchet As the fare drops onto the belt to make a part of a revolution, and to move the belt and fare a short distance toward the cash-box A. m are little buckets or carriers on the belt. N is abell which, by means of a hammer actuated by the lever, is made to ring and give notice whenever a fare is received or whenever the lever is operated.

The conductor or collector carries the hand- -piece B in his hand, and, by virtue of the flexible tube and belt, he is enabled topass it round among the passengers to receive the fares.

The orifice G is in a projecting portion, Q, of the hand pieces, which portion may be partly composed of glass, to allow the'collector to see if the right fare has been deposited; but the fare may be deposited in the handpiece B by the conductor himself, the main advantage being that it does not go into his pocket, but is conveyed to the cash-box A, which is secured by a look at the office before he starts on his trip.

P is a suspender-strap attached'to the cashboX. Q is a valve or flap for protecting the fare.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A portable fare-box having a carrying belt or chain for conveying the fare from its receiving orifice to its depository, arranged substantially as shown and described.

'2. The receiving-chamber connected with the fare-depository by a flexible .or hinged tube, substantially as shown and described.

3. A portable fare-box, having its receivingchamber and fare-depository connected by a flexible or jointed tube, and with a conveyingbelt, arranged to operate substantially as shown and described.

. --JOSEPH J. WHITE.

Witnesses:

T. B. Mosnnn, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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