US311019A - maltby - Google Patents

Description

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G. H. MALTBY.

FARE BOX, INDIGATOR, AND RECORDER.

No. 311,019. Patented Jan. 20,1885.

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O. H. MALTBY.

FARE BOX, INDICATOR, AND RECORDER.

N0.311,019. Patented Jan. 20,1885.

U ITED STATES CLINTON H. MALTBY, OF DAYTON,

OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FARE-BOX, INDICATOR, AND RECORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 811,019, dated January 20, 1885.

Application filed May 5, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLINTON H. MALTBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare Boxes and Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of fareboxes which are designed more particularly for use on street-cars, omnibuses, and like public vehicles, but also capable of use in other places where it is desired to deposit fares, and has for its object, primarily, the combination, with the locked permanent receptacle and the temporary retaining and inspecting receptacle, of indicating and recording mechanism operated by a series of keys or levers under control of the driver or person in charge, whereby the deposited fares and tickets temporarily arrested in the inspectionchamber by the successive operation of the keys and levers have their respective values indicated successively by means of projected and disclosed tablets, which values, by the same operation that discloses them, are permanently recorded, which indicating and recording take place while the fares remain in the inspection-chamber, so that the occupants of the car or the persons paying can see that all are properly indicated and recorded, after which, by the operation of another and independent lever, the fares and tickets are released and fall into the permanent locked receptacle.

The novelty of my invention consists in a fare-box having in combination the permanent locked receptacle, a temporary arresting inspection-chamber, and indicating and recording mechanism operated by a series of levers or keys of fixed values, whereby any number of deposited fares arrested in the inspection-chamber must have their values indicated to the persons paying and be permanently recorded before they are deposited in theclosed locked receptacle; also, in the con- (No model.)

struction and combinations of the parts, all as claimed.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved fare box and register. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional view in side elevation of the same.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in both figures.

Ipreferably construct the box of the shape shown, though this may be varied without affecting my invention, and would describe it as having, essentially, first, a lower receptacle, containing, )referably, a locked drawer, A, and with a hinged door, 13, adapted to close the receptacle and be locked by a padlock or other suit-able lock, 0, and having also an opening, a, in its upper wall, to admit the I tickets and fares into the drawer A or the lower locked receptacle; second, an inspection-chamber over the locked receptacle, having its front and rear walls composed of transparent glass or other transparentmedia, b and c, a deposit slit or opening, 1), at its upper end, a fixed incline slide, E, located as shown, having its lower edge serrated or sharpened, a substantially-horizontal tilting platform, F, and a second inclined glass or other transparent tilting apron, G, and a lower substantially-horizontal or slightly-inclined reflecting-surface or mirror, II; third, an upper chamber containing the recording and indicating mechanism and their connections, to be hereinafter described, having a locked door, I, upon opening or removing which the recording mechanism is disclosed, and having also an extreme upper compartment with transparent glass windows (1 0, into which and between the glass windows the indicating-tablets are projected and exposed to view whenever the levers or keys for registering the fares are operated. This registering and indicating mechanism may be that shown and described in Letters Patent No. 271,363, dated January 30, 1888, to Bitty and Birch, or that shown in the pending application of myself, filed September 21, 1883, though I have here illustrated it as that shown in the pendin g will be herewith set forth and specifically plication of James Bitty, filed September 21, I having a stud or pin, m, from the apron work- 1883, the essential features of all of which are a series of levers or keys of fixed values, a series of tablets of corresponding Values mounted on rods operated by said keys, and registering mechanism, and a gong or bell,with connecting mechanism, the parts being so constructed and arranged that whenever a key is operated to its farthest limit, and only then, its corresponding tablet is exposed to view and remains so expcsed, and the bell or gong is sounded, and, further, that no tablet can be exhibited without its value being recorded upon the recording mechanism, and whenever any tablet is disclosed it remains so until another key is operated to expose another tablet.

The only difference between my present recording and indicating mechanism and those before referred to is that the keys or levers J, instead of projecting at their forward ends, project at their rear ends nearest the tabletrods K through vertical slots in the metal plate L, and are operated by being lifted in stead of by being depressed, as in the former cases. The outer ends of these levers have jointed extensions J, provided with buttons marked with the value of each key or lever,

, as seen in Fig. 1. These extensions hang down Lil close to the box and out of the way, and their hinging is, as shown, so as to form a practical knucklejoint when they are raised. Any other method of hinging to accomplish this result might be employed.

The tablets are represented by M, their supporting-wing by N, the gong by O, the frame vibrated by the levers by P, the frame-retracting spring by R, the recording paper rolls by S, and the puncturing-point on each lever by T. The exact construction and mode of operation of this mechanism will be found in the Ritty application before referred to. The platform F is centrally pivoted at f to the sides of the box, and in its normal or horizontal position fills the space between the glasses 2) and. c, as shown. In a recess in the side of the box, which recess is covered by a segmentally-slotted plate, a, is an arm or link, y, Fig. 2, whose upper end is pivoted to one of the arms, ll, of the vibrating frame 1?, and whose lower end is pivoted upon a pin or lug extending from the platform F through the segmental slot From this construction it results that when any one of the levers J is operated the vibration of the frame P, caused thereby to operate the indicating and record ing mechanisms, tilts the platform F to the p o sition shown by the dotted lines, as will be readily understood. The retraction of the frame 1? by the spring R returns the platform F to its normal or substantially horizontal position.

The inclined apron G is pivoted at j in the sides of the box, and is vibrated by a bellcrank, is, recessed in the side of the box, with aprojecting operating-button, Z, hung at j, and

ing in a segmental slot, n, and secured to the lower end of the bell-crank, as shown. Any suitable spring, 1), serves to hold the arm 7; up and keep the apron with itsloweredgein close contact with the glass 0 or front wall of the box as shown.

V is an opening in the side of the box, covered by a grating, through which light at night may be admitted from a lamp to the inspec- 7 tion-chamber. In the present instance there are four levers J, whose buttons are marked 3, 5, Half T, and Ticket, respectively, meaning three cents, or half-fare, five cents, or whole fare, half ticket, and whole ticket, respectively.

The tablets are correspondingly marked, as well as the paper on the rolls S, and the op eration is as follows: e will suppose that a three-cent piece, a five-cent piece, and a halfticket have been deposited by passengers of a street-car. They are arrested upon the plat form F and are exposed to the view of both the driver and the passengers. The driver thereupon proceeds to indicate and record them by first raising the three-cent lever. As he does so the platform F is tilted and all are dropped upon the apron G, where they still remain exposed to view, as seen in Fig. 1.

He next operates the five-cent lever, thereby throwing up the fivecent tablet and recording the amount 011 the paper, and he finally operates the halfticket lever, bringing into view the half-ticket tablet and recording the amount. Having recorded all the fares so far deposited,while they remain in full view, he depresses the button Z, which swings back the apron G and permits them to drop into the drawer A. He may do this at once or may wait until other fares have been deposited on the platform F, as seen in Fig. 1; but before again tilting the platform F he should open ate the apron G, as above stated. By this means an absolutely accurate register of all the fares is made in the presence of the pas- I I0 sengers, whose attention is called thereto by the sounding of the gong every time a lever is operated; and this record, being inclosed and locked up, cannot be altered or tampered with, and must in every case correspond with I I 5 the contents of the drawer A.

By placing the drawer-receptacle key in the possession of one employ and the record and mechanism receptacle key in the possession of another employ, an absolute check against dishonesty or mistakes is provided.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim- 1. Afare-box having in combination a perinanent locked receptacle, an inspection-cham- 1 2 5 her, into which the fares are introduced and temporarily arrested, and arecording and indicating mechanism, a series of levers,whereby the fares are indicated and recorded while arrested in the inspect-ion chamber, and I 0 whereby, after they are recorded, they are deplatform F, segmentally-slotted plate U, re posited into the permanent locked receptacle, cessed arm or link 9, vibrating frame 1?, and 1 substantially as described. operating-levers J, substantially as described. 2. In a fare-box having an indicating and 4. In a fare-box having the indicating and 5 recordingmechanism andan inspection-chamrecording mechanism and inspection-chamber with two or more tilting platforms and a ber, as herein described, the tilting platform permanent locked receptacle, the combination, and the lever mechanism which operates said 20 with the recording-mechanism-operating leplatform and indicates and records the fares, vers, of the upper tilting platform with conin combination substantially as described.

r0 neeting mechanism, whereby when any one of OLIN TON H. MALTBY.

the levers is operated said platform is tilted, WVitnesses: substantially as described. A. A. WIN'rERs,

3. The combination and arrangement of the S. RUFUS J ONES.

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