US399842A - Railroad-ticket - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. GULTON.

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Patented Mar. 19, 18189.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,842, dated March 1 9, 1889.

Application filed November 22, 1887. Serial No. 255,892. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Janus GULToN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Odin, in the county of Marion and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad-Tickets, of which the following is a speciiication.

AMy invention relates to an improvement in railroad-tickets designed to be separated, so as to leave with the passenger a receipt for the money, ticket, or pass tendered by him in payment for his passage, and to furnish a stub to be retained by the conductor, and containing similar information, whereby the conductor will be able to keep an accurate account oi' money, tickets, and passage .received by him from passengers, and thereby enabled to make correct reports to the railroad company. V

In the drawings, Figure l is a face view of a railroad-ticket embodying myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a reverse view oi' the same. Fig. 3 is a face view showing the ticket when separated in two parts and illustrating the manner of using the same. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the reverse side of the ticket when thus separated.

A represents a ticket of suitable length and width, which may be printed on paper, cardboard, or other suitable material. At the up per end of the ticket is printed the name or initials of the railroad company, and, if preferred, the name of the conductor on the train for which the ticket is issued. Below this, on one side of the ticket, arc the words llalf, One,7 and Faref7 arranged in al vertical column, a, and on the other side are the words Ticket, Pass, and Beyond,7 arranged in a vertical column, b. Between these said columns is the number of the ticket c, the tickets issued by the company being consecutively numbered from one up, no two tickets bearing the same number.

d and e are two columns giving the `names of the stations on theroad in reverse. Below the said two columns is a portion, B, of the ticket which corresponds exactly with the portion A at the head of the ticket, and is similarly provided with the columns a and l), between which is a number, c, corresponding with the number in the portion A. At the head of the ticket, below the said portion B of the ticket on one side of the same, are two vertical columns, f, giving the names of the,

months. On the opposite side is a Vertical column, g, giving the numbers of the trains on the road, and between the two said columns f and g is an inscription For transportation between the last-named station in each column of the list of stations, or words oit similar import. Below this the line bearin g the words Good only on this date and train, and below this the Words See other side. At the lower portion of the ticket on the face thereof are horizontal columns giving the numbers of the days in the month, as at 7L, and below the same is the line having the numbers of a series of years, as at 1'.. On the reverse of the ticket at the upper end thereof are words addressed to the conductor, requiring him to return the stub with his collections to the ticket-auditor. Below this are vertical columns k and I, giving' the names of all of the stations on the road in reverse, the said columns 7c and Z registering with the columns CZ and e on the face of the ticket, the name of each of the stations in each of the columns la and being one line higher than the name of the same station in the columns d and e. Below the said columns k and Z on the reverse oi the ticket is an inscription addressed to passengers and containing the following words: Conductors are instructed to furnish each passenger with a receipt on this form, showing by punch mark date of issue, number of train, whether ticket, cash fare, or pass has been collected. When cash fare has been collected, passengers will see that the word fare, also the name of station Where passage begins and ends, is punched. Then properly punched and presented at. any ticket office of this company within thirty 'days from date of issue it will be good for 10 cents. Below this inscription are two lines for the name of the station at which the money is paid when the stub is taken up and the date of the transaction.

rlhe operation of my invention is as follows: Snpposing that a person travels from Kensington to Kankakee on the 28th day of October, 1.887, and pays his fare on the train, the conductor will collect trom the passenger ten IOO cents in excess of the regular fare, will punch out the words One and Fare in the column a, Will punch out the word ()ctober7 in the columns f, the number 28 in one of the columns 7i, and the number' 1.887 in the column L', as shown in Fig. He will also punch out the words One and Fare in the column a of part B, and the number of his train in the column g. He will then divide the ticket into two parts by making a horizontal cut between th e word Kensington and the name of the preceding station in the column (l to the center of the space between the columns d and c, will then make a vertical cut down said space until he reaches the word Kankakee7 in the column e, and will then make the horizontal cut in the said column c between the word Kankakee and the preceding station in the said column, thereby separain g the ticket into two parts. He retains the part A and turns in the same to the ticketauditor at the end of the route, and returns the part B to the passenger. The face of the part B, retained by the passenger, will indicate at the tops of the columns (l and e the names of the initial and terminal stations of the passengers trip, and, inasmuch as the columns 7a and l have the names of the stations therein arranged one space or line higher than the same names in the face columns (Z and e, the bottoms of the said columns 7a and Z will show the names of the initial and terminal stations of the passenger-s trip. IVhen the passenger reaches the end of his journey,

. can see that the two accounts agree.

he presents his stub B to the ticket-agent, who refunds the excess paid to the conductor over the regular fare and turns over the stub B to the ticket-auditor, who, by comparing it with the stub A given him by the conductor, If the passenger tenders a ticket or pass or is travcling to a point beyond the end of lthe road, the conductor will make a punch opposite the appropriate word in the column b, and if a half-fare only is collected the conductor will make a punch opposite the word Half in the column c.

A railroad-ticket thus arranged will effectually prevent the conductor from defrauding the railroad company and will furnish to each passenger a receipt, which he may exhibit to the conductor in lieu of the check, such as are commonly employed in evidence that he has paid his fare.

Having thus described claim l A railroad-ticket, A, having' the lists of stations (l e arranged in reverse order, and having the receipt portion B, said ticket and receipt portion having the corresponding numbers c, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES CULTON.

my invention, I

\Vitnesses:

E. D. TOULMER, N. P. FARREN.

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