US403234A - Ticket-holder - Google Patents

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J. e. WEBB. TICKET HOLDER.

No. 403,234. Patented May 14, 1889.

22 vvvvvvvv'vvu TI'GKET- HOLDER- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe JOHN G. IVEBB, OF RYE, NEV YORK.

TICKET-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,234, dated May 14, 1889.

Application filed August 30, 1888. Serial No. 284,195. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN G. VEBB, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rye, in the county of Westchester and State 0f New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to ticketholders for use on passenger-trains, and has for its main objects, iirst, the production of a simple, cheap, and convenient device for retaining tickets, an'd, secondly, the provision of means by which the tickets inserted in the holders may be indented or marked in a manner to indicate that they have been used by passengers over the road, so as to prevent their reuse and the consequent defrauding of the railroad company; and to these ends my invention consistsv in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described, and particularly set forth in the appended claims.

In the drawings accompanyingl this specification and forminga part thereof, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a seatback provided with ticket-holders embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of vblank for making. the ticket-holder. Fig. 3 is an end view of blank when folded on the dotted lines of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top view of the lower plate of thc holder. Fig. 5 is a bottom view of the upper plate of the holder. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the holder. Fig. 7 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a top view of the seat-back, and Fig. 9 is a vertical section on the line X X of Fig. 8.

In the several views the same part will be found designated by the same numeral of reference.

2 designates the back of a railroad seat or chair upholstered, as usual, and provided with a wooden or metallic binding or strip, 3.

4 represents the ticket-holder as an entirety. It is made preferably of a single sheet of metal, as represented at Fig. 2. This blank is folded on the lines 5, 6, and 7 into the condition seen at Fig. 3, thus providing an upper plate or jaw, 8, a lower plate or leaf, 9, and upper and lower flanges, 10 and 11. Upon the lower plate is secured, by solder or otherwise at each side edge,- a narrow strip of metal, l2, to form a stop to the approach of the plates 8 and 9. The upper plate is bent down to the strips 12 and there held either by solder, rivets, or screws, leaving a space or opening, 13, between the plates for the reception of the ticket. As the stops or abutments 12 govern the width of the opening 13, they should be of a height or thickness equal to or slightlyin excess of the thickness of the tickets used. The upper and lower plates are provided with holes or perforations for the securement of the contrivance to the upper portion of the back of the seat and beneath the binding or top strip, 3. The bottom plate is preferably provided with perforations 14 14 and 15 15, and the top plate with perforations 16 1G and 17 17, as I prefer to fasten the ticket-holder in place in a manner to prevent, readily, its unauthorized removal.

While the binding-strip 3 is detached, screws 18 are pressed through the holes 14 14 and 16 16 into the wooden top rail of the back frame* work and the ticket-holder thus secured in position. The binding-strip is then laid over the ticket-holder and screws 19 passed through holes in it and through the perforations 15 15 and 17 17 into the framework. By thus applying the .parts the ticket-holder cannot be removed without first taking off the bindingstrip. In lieu of providing the plates with the holes 15 15 and 17 17, the holes in the binding-strip may be so arranged as to come outside of the ticket-holder and the screws 19 inserted without passing through the latter. The effect would be the same; but the ticketholder and the binding may be fastened in place simultaneously by the screws 18, the perforations 14, 16, and 2O being made in line or so as to register when the parts are to be fastened in this manner.

In practice I prefer not to solder or rivet the parts together to form the opening 13, but to employ the fastening-screws 1S for thatpurpose.

' When the ticket-holder is applied to the back of the seat,its jaws are sprung abnormally apart; but when the fastening-screws 1S are inserted the free end of the upper plate is forced or drawn down until it strikes against the abutments 12, which devices prevent the jaws being closed should the screws be forced down too hard or too far. The upper fiange, 10, forms a facing for the binding-strip, and the lower flange, 1.1, sunk flush with the plush or other covering of the back, affords a convenient place for the inscription of the words Ticket-Holder. The roots of these flanges are curved or rounded to facilitate the insertion of the tickets in the mouth of the opening 13. IVithin the opening 13 are arranged devices for marking the tickets which may be inserted. Near the front of the opening and preferably depending from the top plate is arranged in a row a series of teeth or projections, 21, which are preferably curved or semicylindrical. These teeth or blades are made of this shape or form for two purposesnamely, to assist in the insertion of the ticket and to avoid tearing or abrading the same. In ticket-holders provided with these devices the space between the upper surface of the lower plate and the bottom edges or points of the teeth should be about the same as the thickness of the ticket, so that a little force will be required to push the ticket well into the holder. As the ticket is forced by the teeth, the latter indent, mark, or score the same in parallel lines upon its side or face. Near the rear of the opening 13 is arranged a series of blades, 22, which are preferably secured to the lower plate. These blades are provided for the purpose of indenting or scoring the edge of the inserted ticket, and thus further indicating that the ticket has been used upon a train.

The teeth and the blades are preferably made of steel and soldered or otherwise secured within openings in the plates or leaves of the holder, which I prefer to make of sheetbrass.

The ticket-holder may be readily applied to the backs of the seats without disarrangement of the upholstery or the cutting away of any portions of the seat-back or its covering, and when fixed in position fits snugly to the cushion, thus avoiding any projection which would be liable to tear the clothing of the passenger or interfere with his comfort or his movements to and from his seat. The employment of the contrivance is not only a convenience to the passenger, but it enables the conductor to move through the train collecting and punching tickets with much greater rapidity.

By the employment of the marking devices tickets wliichhave been once inserted into the holder will bear an indication or token of having been used on a train, and thus dishonest passengers whose tickets the conductors have omitted to punch or collect will be unable to secure the return of their money at the companys office upon the pretext that the tickets have never been used. The marking devices are furthermore a check upon the conductor, who will thus be prevented from retaining the ticket-s and attempting to sell them to dealers or others when they bear unmistakable evidence of having been used on a train.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A ticket-holder consisting of the upper plate, the lower plate, and the abi'ltments 12, arranged between said plates to define the width of opening, in combination with a seatback and binding-strip, as set forth.

i. A ticket-holder consisting of the upper plate and the lower plate, in combination with a seatfbaek, a l'iinding-strip, and the retaining-screws 1S beneath said binding-strip, as and for the purposes set forth.

A ticket-holder consisting of a sheet of metal bent upon itself to form an upper and a lower plate with a space between them, and provided with a transverse row of teeth at the mouth or front, the said plates being rigid or inflexible and the said space constant, so that it is impossible to push a ticket into the space between the plates without scoring the surface of the same, substantially as set forth.

4. A ticket-holder consisting of an upper plate and a lower plate, and having an opening between them and provided with blades 22 at the rear end of said opening, arranged in vertical planes to indent the edge of a ticket when pushed against the same, as set forth.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 28th day of August, A. I). 1888.

JOHN G. VE'BB.

llfitnesses:

JACOB FELBEL, MARTIN LAYDEN.

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