US19789A - Ticket-holdeb eob railroad-cabs - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TICKET-HOLDER FOR RAILROAD-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. '19,789, dated March 30, 1858.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEWIS S. OLMSTED and MYRDN L. lVIIoKLEs, of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket-Holders for Railroad-Oar Seats; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, Figure l being a perspective view of the ticketholder; Fig. 2, a similar view exhibiting the interior thereof, the doors being swung open; Fig. 3, a similar view showing the upper door swung back and a portion of the operating partsnot exhibited in the other figures.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The ticket-holder may be made of either cast or sheet metal, or of other suitable material, and containing two compartments, an upper and lower, as seen at (A and B). In

front ofthe upper chamber (A) is a doorv (O) upon which is a lock (D). When this door is opened a slot (E) is exposed in the upper part of the chamber The flooring of this chamber (F) is made movable so that it can slide forward and back by the action of the door (O). Attached to the lower corner of the door (C) is a projection (G) which acts upon one end 0f the lever (H). This lever is attached at its center by the pin (I) and its extremity operates the sliding floor (F) of the upper chamber to which it is attached. The lower chamber (B) has a door in its front upon which is a lock, at L. The front plate of the upper chamber has a glass plate (O) so placed that the contents of the chamber can be seen when the instrument is closed. Attached to the lower edge of the door (O) is a projection (P) extending along the lower edge of the door, and so placed as to be in contact with the sliding floor (F). Upon closing the door this projection forces back the sliding floor, where it remains until the door is opened and it is forced back to its former position.

The operation is as follows: On opening the door (C) the slot is exposed, and the ticket of the passenger passed through it into the upper chamber and behind the glass plate (O) so that the printing on the ticket can be read through the glass. The ticket will then rest upon the sliding floor of the upper chamber. Upon closing the door (C) the projection (P) upon the lower edge of the door forces back the sliding oor and the ticket then rests upon the projection (P) and still in sight through the glass plate. The ticket remains in this lposition until the door (O) is opened, when it is dropped into the chamber below by withdrawing the projection (P). When the door (C) is drawn, Asay -about half way open, the projection (G) upon the lower corner of the door acts upon the lever (H) and thereby upon the sliding floor (F) throwing it forward toits former position under the slot (E). The instrument is then ready to receive another ticket.

The ticket is thus held Secure from both the passenger and conductor and can only be taken by the person who has the key to the lower chamber, which should be the agent at the station.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A ticket-holder composed of two chambers, or compartments, A, B, into the upper one of which the ticket is placed and exhibited, and thence transferred to the lower one, in the act of closing and opening the .door of said upper compartment, by means of the movable floor F, and ledge, or projection IP, all operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein specified..

LEWIS S. OLMSTED. MYRON L. MIOKLES.

Vitnesses as to signature of L. S. Olm-v sted:

HAsBRoUcK DAVIS, G. WV. BALDWIN. Witnesses as to signature of Myron L. Mickles:

G. W. BALDWIN, JAMES R. I-IosMER.

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