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(No Model.)

J. H. ROSE.

FARE REGISTER.

No. 295.201. Patented'Mar. 18; 1884.

I'TNESSES ATTORNEY.

N. PETERS Plwlo-L'nllogmphcr. Washington. D. c

UNrTEn Sra'rns PATENT Price.

JOHN H. ROSE, OF NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO W. JENNINGS DEMOREST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FARE-REGISTER.

SPECIFIGATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,201, dated March 18, 1884.-

Application filed October 13, 1383. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. Rose, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful In provement in Fare-Registers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a- B, which turns on suitable bearings, and is connected with the index or dial mechanism in the usual way. A lever, C, of the third kind is fulcrumed on the fixed stud D, and carries at its free end a pawl, E, which is capable of engaging the ratchet-wheel B. The pawl E is prolonged beyond its pivot and connected with one end of a spiral spring, F, the other end of the said spring being fixed to a stud, G, which is slightly above the pivot of the pawl. The spring F is under tension and acts upon the pawl E, holding it into engagement with the ratchet-wheel B, and it also serves to retract the lever C after it has been pushed forward in the operation of the register. A three-arm lever, H, is fulcrumed on a fixed pivot, I, in the case A, with the longer arm K thereof projecting through a slot in the case in position to be grasped by the hand, or to receive a cord or. strap to be pulled whenever a fare is to be registered. The shorter arms L L of the lever Hboth rest upon the back of the lever C, as shown in position 1, indicated by dotted lines, when the register is at rest. The upward movement of the long arm K of the lever H to position 2 brings the arm L of the said lever into engagement with the lever C, as shown in full lines, and moves it forward sufficiently to cause the pawl E to carry the ratchet-wheel B forward one step, and when the lever H is released the spring F returns the pawl E'and lever C to their original position,with the said lever C pressing on the arms L L of the lever H, holding the said lever firmly in position 1, as indicated by the dotted lines.

To prevent the retrograde movement of the ratchet-wheel 13 during the return of thelever Cto its normal position, I place a spring-acted detent, M, in the case A in position to engage the teeth of the ratchet-wheel. A downward movement 'of the arm K of the leverH brings the said lever into position 3, as indicated in dotted lines, and causes the arm L to push forward the lever C and pawl E, and move the ratchet-wheel B forward one step. It will thus be seen that whether the lever H is moved up or down the effect is to move the ratchetwheel forward one step for each movement of the said lever. As the lever H is limited in its movement in either direction to a distance only sufficient to permit of moving the ratchet-wheel one step, and as the angular movement of the arms L L of the lever produces a comparatively slow motion of the lever C, it will be impossible to cause the ratchet-wheel B to move forward more than a single step at a time. The double-acting leverH permits of operating the register from two directions without the necessity of auxiliarylevers, pulleys, or other expensive and troublesome connections.

My method of connecting the spiral spring F with the pawl E enables the spring to serve the double purpose of actuating the pawland of returning the lever C to its normal position. The double-acting lever H requires no spring, as it is brought to its central position by the pressure of the lever C upon either of its arms L L.

It is a practice prevailing among dishonest car-conductors to tamper with fare-registers, so as to prevent them from performing their functions properly. With the more complicated kinds of registers this is made-possible by the multiplication of parts. I have reducedthe construction of fare-registers to few, simple, and substantial parts which cannot readily be disarranged; and by removing the pawl-lever C- to a point within the casing beyond the circumference of the ratchet-wheel B, and by locating the fulcrum I of the operating-le-ver K within the casing, and making the spaces around all these parts large, I have made it impossible for an obstruetionto be in troduced into the opening above or below the lever K which could stop the action of internal parts; and the said opening in the easing; is so large that an object placed therein to preent the action of the lever K would be at once visible to passengers, and would therefore be impracticable.

I am aware that a step-by-step registering meehanisin operated by a double-acting lever through an intermediary spring-arm has been employed in grain-registers.

I am also aware that the use of aspringl'or the double purpose of operating a pawl, and

of retraeting'a pawl-lever, is not new. Therefore I do not claim either of these devices, separately; but

W hat I claim as new, and desire to secure 20 by Letters Patent, is-

In a fare-register, the ratchet-wheel B, rigid lever C, pivoted within the casing A and extending along the side of the said ratehetwheel, the pawl E, spring F, and the T-headed actuating-lever K, having its pivot I wholly within the easi 11g A, all combined and arranged as herein specified.

JOHN H. ROSE.

XVitnesses:

O. AUGUSTUS BURenss, Gno. M. HOPKINS.

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