US231863A - strattan - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

S. R. STRATTAN.

Ticket Case.

Patented Aug. 31,1880. v

Winauuax NVPETERS. momumoammgn, WASHINGTON. I10.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL It. STRATTAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS OF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN THEODORE STRATTAN AND WILLARD, D. DOREMUS, OF SAME PLACE, ONE-THIRD TO EACH.

TICKET-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,863, dated August 31, 1880.

' Application filed June 29,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. STRATTAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at VVashington, in the county of Washington and District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Cases or Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to beafull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a safe and handy case for receiving, holding, and conveying railroad-car tickets, and of such a construction as to permit only one ticket to be pushed out of the case at a time.

My improvement consists in a case, a sliding drawer havinga slotted end and provided with a false bottom to receive a number of tickets, and a spring arranged within the case so as to permit the false bottom to drop automatically when the drawer is withdrawn from the case to receive the package of tickets.

It also consists in the construction of a sliding drawer having a central longitudinal slot terminating at its inner end in a vertical slot of a width less than the longitudinal slot, in combination with a fiat spring, bowed, having an arrow-head arranged and adapted to work in conjunction with the sliding drawer.

Figure l of the drawings represents aperspective view of my ticket-case, showing the mode of operation. Fig. 2 is another perspective view, showing the sliding drawer with drawn and a portion of the outer case and false bottom broken away toshow more fully the spring. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal sectionalview taken through the line [1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a central longitudinal sectional view of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken through the line 2 2 of Fig. 4, with the tickets removed. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the spring with the arrow-shaped head.

In the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, the letter Arepresents a case or holder, made of metal or other suitable material, of any size to suit the car-tickets used on the different street-railway lines in a city. This case is closed at the bottom, sides, and at one end, but its top or lid is formed with an oblong opening, I), sufficiently large to enable the thumb or finger of the operator to push out a ticket bypressure from the end of the case.

The letter B indicates a sliding drawer, made of the same material as that of case A, and forms the receptacle for the tickets. This drawer is formed with vertical side and end walls and a bottom formed with a central longitudinal slot, d, terminating short near its outer wall and at its inner wall in a vertical slot, 6, extending upwardly but a short dis tance. The vertical slot 0 in the rear wall of the drawer is not as wide as the slot in the bottom, for the reason that I utilize this portion of the drawer for abutting or stopping walls, to prevent the entire withdrawal of the drawer, as will be hereinafter described. Within the drawer is arranged a movable false bottom, D, slightly bent down ward at the ends, substantially as shown in Fig. 30f the drawings. Upon this false bottom rest the tickets, which are fed upward by a spring about to be described.

The letter E indicates a flat spring, formed with an arrow-headJ, substantially of the shape as seen in Fig. 6 of the drawings. This spring, which may be made of any suitable material, is secured at one end (that opposite the arrowhead) to the upper surface of the bottom of the case in such a manner that the free end shall rest against the under surface of the false bottom (see Fig. .4) and the opposite sides or pro- 8 5 jections of the arrow-head shall abut against the inner wall of the sliding drawer, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

The slot in the bottom of the drawer is slightly wider than .the width of the widest o portion of the spring, (the arrow-heath) so that the spring shall have free and uninterrupted play within the drawer.

The upper portion of the front wall of the sliding drawer at Z is cut away about the 5 thickness of a car-ticketthat is to say, to such an extent that a ticket can pass easily, even if the corners or ends are ragged.

These ticket-eases will be made either of metal, thick paper, light veneer-wood, or other suitable material, as may be deemed advisable under certain circumstances, and of a size to suit the special tickets on a particular line.

By making the cases of light and cheap material the tickets can be put by the railroad company in packages at the value of twentyfive cents or fifty cents, or higher, to suit customers or patrons of the road.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The sliding drawer is pulled out, as indicated in Fig. 2, and the tickets placed upon the false bottom. The drawer is then returned to its normal position within the case, as indicated in either Fig. 1 or Fig. 4, the spring pressing upward the false bottom, which forces the'tickets against the under surface of the top or lid of the case, when the case is ready for use. To remove a ticket the thumb is placed upon the ticket, as seen in Fig. 1, and by the mere pressure of the thumb the ticket is shot forward through the opening or space I), which is made sufficiently large to admit the passage of a single ticket, as fully shown in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings.

My invention can also be used for visiting or business cards, and may be employed to an advantage by railroad conductors, ticketagents, and door-keepers.

What I claim is- V 1. The combination, substantially as described, of a case having a flat spring attached to the inner surface of the bottom and extending lengthwise in the case, with a sliding drawer having at the base of its inner wall a vertical slot en gaging with the flat spring,.and having a movable false bottom arranged within the drawer, whereby the withdrawal of the drawer permits the false bottom to drop antomatically to receive a package of tickets or the like, and in closing the drawer within the case the spring will elevate the false bottom and hold the tickets in position for being pushed out.

2. The sliding drawer having the central longitudinal slot terminating at its inner end in a vertical slot of a width less than the longitudinal slot, in combination with a flat spring having an arrowshaped head to prevent the entire withdrawal of the sliding drawer from the case, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL R. STRATTAN.

Witnesses:

JAS. H. CLARK, A. G. HEYLMAN.

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