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A. TORREY & D. J. CASEY. PASSENGER RECORDER.

No. 349,767. Patented Sept. 28, I886.

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A. TORREY & D. J. CASEY.

PASSENGER RECORDER.

Nv PETERS. PhohrLllhlgraphlr, wasm m. my CV UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AUGUSTUS TORREY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AND DENNIS (l. CASEY, OF 7 GYLON, IVISCONSIN.

RECORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi Letters Patent No. 349,767, dated September 28, 1886.

Application iized July 17, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

30 it known that we, AUGUSTUS TORREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of IVayne and State of Michigan, and DENNIS J. Casnv, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cylon, in the county of St. Croix, State of XVisconsin, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Passengerltecorders, and we do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the followingspecilication,and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in passenger-recorders, for the purpose of auto matically recording the number of passengers going in or out of railroad-ears, as well as antomatically recording the number of miles or the time that the passengers have traveled in such conveyances.

The invention is adapted for use wherever it is requisite or desirable to automatically record the number of persons going in or out of any public conveyances or public places.

Letters Patent No. 315,355 were granted to us April 7, 1885, for a passengerarecorder, in which, combined with movable treadles, we used electro-maguets and an electric battery l'or recording upon a strip of paper, by means of pencils actuated by the electro-magnets, the number of passengers going in or out of the car. In said patent the paper ribbon was drawn from one roller to another by means of clock work mechanism, and the markers or pencils were operated electrically. In our present invention we use movable treadles arranged on top of stationary steps and connected by means of wires to an electric battery, so as to close the circuit for every time the movable treadle is depressed, in the same manner as described in our previous patent, and we also use a reel of paper, from which the ribbon is drawn by clock-work mechanism to a second roller but instead of effecting the marking 011 the paper ribbon by electrical means, as described in our previous patent, we do it by electrochemical meansthat is, the ribbon is made to pass through or be soaked in a solution of lerrocyanide of potassium, and, after being moistened, a number of metal (steel or or iron) markers are held lightly in contact Serial No. 171,856.

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with it, such markers being connected by wires to a battery, the other pole of which is connected to the metal drum or roller on which the paper ribbon is guided after it has been moistenedthat is, one side of the paper lies in contact with such metal drum in the circuit, and the other side of it touches the metal markers or pencils, also in the circuit. Each movable treadle on the car is connected by a wire to its corresponding marker and the battery, and normally the circuit open for all pencils and their treadles. If any treadle is depressed, the electrode on it will come in metallic connection with the electrode on the stationary step below, thus automatically clos ing the circuit for that particular step, and causing the formation of some Prussian blue on the paper ribbon where the metal pencil or marker corresponding to such step in the closed circuit touches the paper, and thus pro ducing a mark on the ribbon as it is being fed to the receiving-roller, to indicate that a person did go up or down that particular step. In connection with this device we use a clock mechanism for feeding the paper ribbon from the delivery roller or reel to the receiving roller, and an electrical regulating device to regulate the feed 01' the paper, so that the latter shall be moved comparatively slow when no marking is being madethat is, when no trcadle is depressed and with an illcreased speed when the marking takes place. Each trcadle has its corresponding needle or marker,and in addition to such treadle-markers, we use one additional needle also held in contact with the moistened paper and connected by a wire in the circuit which is broken and closed by means of pins or projections 0n adisk connected to the clock 1nechanism,so as to produce a mark on the ribbon at stated intervals 0 ICO up the clock mechanism that feeds the paper ribbon we use an intermittent current-breaker and an electro-magnet in the circuit,the armature of which is provided with a pawl or lever of any suitable construction to actuate a ratchet-wheel on the winding mechanism on the clock-work.

Our invention is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the improved passenger recorder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the vessel containing the chem-- ical liquid through which the ribbon is made to pass, showing also the metal guide-roller and the markers or pencils. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents an enlarged cross-section on the line A B in Fig. 1, showing the automatic feed-regulating mechanism for the receiving-roller on which the ribbon is wound after being marked. Fig. 5 represents the manner of connecting a step on the car with the battery elect-ro-magnet and needle; and Fig. 6 represents a plan view of the ribbon with the treadle-marks and timemarks made thereon.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

In Fig. 1, (t represents the delivery roller,

.on which the ribbon I) is wound, and from which it is carried to the receiving-roller c after being marked. Both rollers a and c are provided with shafts supported looselyin stationary bearings, as usual. The roller 0 has attached to it the gear-wheel c, the teeth of which engage in the teeth of pinion (Z, which is set in motion by clock-work, hereinafter to be more fully described.

6 is a vessel or receptacle of glass or other suitable material, containing an aqueous so lution of ferro-cyanide of potassium. 'WVithin the vessel 0, near its bottom, is located in suitable bearings the loosely-journaled guiderollers f. To the outside of vessel 6, and near its upper end, is secured the needle carrying frame G, provided with slotted sides G G, in which is supported the ends of the roller H, the latter being made to yield in said slotted sides G G against the influence of springs h h to permit the paper ribbon to be inserted between roller H and the inner ends of metal needles or markers 9 g g, which are guided in frame G and caused to press lightly against the paper ribbon, resting against the roller H, by the influence of springs g g g, as shown. The frame G is made of vulcanized rubber or other non-conductive material. The drum or roller H is made of copper or other conductive material, and the needles or markers 1 g are made of steel or ironl i represents one of the stationary steps, and k is the movable treadle or cover hinged to it and normally raised above it by means of spring or springs Z in the same manner as described in our previous patent.

t" and k are the electrodes, respectively, on step t and movable treadle 7;, as usual, such electrodes being held apart by spring Z when no pressure is brought to bear on treadle It.

at is a battery, having one of its poles (the one marked in Fig. 5) connected to stepelectrode 1" by wire :0, and the other pole (marked connected to one end of electromagnet N by wire 00. From the other end of eleetro-magnet N leads the wire as to the insulated metal roller H. From the electrode 7con the yielding step or treadle leads a wire, 00*, to its corresponding needle or marker 9 in the series. It will thus be seen that the current is normally broken, and it is closed only when any one of the electrodes 70 is brought into contact with its corresponding electrode, i, causing a blue mark to be made upon the paper I), immediately under the point of the needle or marker 9 which is in the closed circuit, owing to the formation of some Prussian blue by the action of the current upon the needie and moistened paper.

The feed-pinion d, for feeding the paper I), is made to revolve slowly at all times except when a treadle is depressed and the current. closed, and this is automatically accomplished by the following means: The wheel d is loosely .journaled on the hollow sleeve 0, which is rotated with a slow constant motion by means of any suitable clock mechanism, 0, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. \Vithin the sleeve 0 is located the spindle p, which is free to turn within sleeve 0, and, is also set in a constant rotary motion by means of suitable clock mechanism, 1?, (shown in Fig. 4,)by which it is moved with an increased speed as compared with sleeve 0.

Any suitable clock mechanism may be used for direction of the axis of spindle pand sleex e 0 by means of the collars or flanges 0 1), as shown in said Fig. 4.

q q q are pins passing loosely through the gear (I, such pins having secured to one of their ends the friction-ring O, which is normally held in contact with the tapering friction-wheel O by means of coiled springs q q, 7

located between gear (I and ring 0, and surrounding the guide-pins (l q, as shown in Fig. 51, and when the ring 0 and friction-wheel O are so held together the gear d is turned comparatively slowly, owing to its being temporarily locked to the slowly-rotating sleeve 0. On the other side of wheel d is secured to pins q q another friction-ring, 1?, that is normally held disengaged from friction-wheel P by the influence of the springs q q, as shown. To the extreme left ends of pins q q, Fig. 4, is so cured the armature Q, which, when the current is closed, is attracted toward the magnetized cores n a in electro-magnet N, thereby causing the ring 0' to be disengaged from the slowlyrotating wheel 0, and the ring I? to be brought in contact with the more-quickly rotating friction-wheel I, causing the wheel (I to rotate quickly with the same speed as wheel 1 and its spindle'p as long as the circuit is closed. In this manner the feed of the ribbon is automatically regulated to feed slowly when no marking takes place, so as not to use up any more ribbon than is necessary, and with a quicker motion when the marking takes place, so as to leave proper spaces between the marks made by the needles. It is also desirable to indicate on the ribbon the time when the marks were being made, and for this purpose we secure to hollow spindle 0 a disk, R, provided with a number of metal projections or pins, r r, so arranged upon the side or face of disk R that each one of them shall pass a stationary point every three minutes (more or less) as the disk It is rotated. The pins 0' r are made to operate a suitable circuit-closer, S, on which the poles are normally held apart by means of a spring or equivalent device. One of the poles of circuit-closer Sis connected by means of wire to" to the +-pole of battery m, the other pole being connected by means of wire a to time marker or needle T, located in frame G, and held in contact with the paper moving over drum II by means ofspring t, precisely like the step-markers gg and their springs g g. It will thus be seen that the current is closed and made to pass through pencil T, so as to produce a time-mark on the paper every time a pin, r, passes by the circuit-closer b.

As before stated the clock mechanism for driving sleeve 0 and spindle 1) may be of any well-known construction. It may be wound up by hand, as usual, although we prefer to combine with it an electrical self-winder, as follows: To the wheel R we attach a number of metal pins, 1" 1', (shown in Fig. 4,) the free ends of which are made to project somewhat beyond the ends of pins 0- 1, that operate the circuit-closer S. As the wheel R rotates the pins r 1- come in contact with a suitable circuit-closer, U, on which the poles are normally held apart by means of a spring or equivalent device. The poles on circuit-closer U are connected by wires :0 and to a battery, M, (shown in Figs. 1 and 5,) with an electromagnet, V, located in the circuit.

\Ve have shown in the drawings a separate battery for the winding-up device; but, if so desired, the wires from circuit-closer U may be connected to positive and negative poles of the main battery m without departing from the essence of our invention.

V is a vibratory armature on electromagnet V, that will be caused to rock for every time the current from battery M is elosed that is, whenever a pin, 1', passes by the circuit-closer U. The vibratory armature Y may be connected to the spring-barrel on the clock mechanism on sleeve 0 and spindle p by means of a pawl and ratchet or other wellknown intermediate connecting mechanism, (which. latter is, however, not shown in the drawings,) so as to cause the clock mechanism for driving pinion d to be intermittingly wound up from time to time preferably a little faster than it runs down.

In Fig. 6 is represented a plan view of the paper ribbon I) after it has received its treadlemarks and time-marks, as above described, and in said figure, Z Z represent the intermittent time-marks made by marker T for every time the circuit is closed by the circuit-closer S and pins 0' on wheel The marks T T are the treadleanarks caused by closing the circuit at the electrodes on step and treadle, their positions on the ribbon showing whether a passenger has gone in or out of the car, or gone partially up or down the steps without going into the car or going off it, precisely in the same manner as shown and described in our Patent No. 315,855.

Having thus fully described the nature, construction, and operation of our invention, we wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim-- 1. In a passenger-recording device, the steps and movable treadles having electrodes and circuit-wires leading from them, as described, the battery-m, and metal pencils g g, combined with metal drum H, connected to the battery, as described, a delivery-reel from which the paper is fed and wound onto the roller 0, sleeve 0, spindlep, clock mechanism or clock mechanisms O I applied to sleeve and spindle 0 p, and by which said roller 0 is operated, and means, substantially as described, for chemically treating the ribbon b, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a passenger recording device, a paper or other ribbon, b, a delivery and receiving roller, a battery, and movable steps in the circuit, combined with vessel c, containing ferrocyanide of potassium, guide-roller f, the insulated metal drum H, against which the prepared ribbon is made to rest, spindle p, sleeve 0, and metal pencils 9 y, held against the ribbon, as and for the purpose set forth.

8. In a passengerrecording device, the herein-dcscribed means for automatically regulating the feed oft-he rcceivi ng-roll for the ribbon Z), consisting of clock mechanism or mechanisms I 0, applied, respectively, to spindle p and sleeve 0, wheel (I, loosely supported on the latter, the friction-wheels O P, secured, respectively, to sleeve 0 and spindle p, combined with electro-magnet N a a, movable armature Q, having secured to it the guide-pins q q, and friction-rings P O, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a passenger-recording device, step and IOC IIO

treadle cireuit-olosers,a batteryinthe circuit, in the circuit, as and for the purpose set I0 and needles having their points resting on the forth.

prepared paper or other ribbon, as described, In testimony whereof we have afiixed our with metal drum over which the ribbon is signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

guided, such drum being insulated and con- AUGUSTUS TORREY.

nected to battery, as specified, combined with DENNIS J. CASEY. the wheel R, having pins 7' r, the clock mech- \Vitnesses: anism O, circuit-closer S, the pencils and T. S. SALISBURY,

time-marker T, metal drum H, and ribbon b 1 ED. SHELOH.

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