US439226A - Railway-ticket - Google Patents

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J. WILSQN. RAILWAY TICKET.

No. 439,226. Patented oct. 28, 1890.

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'.I. WILSON.

RAILWAY TICKET.

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Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES W'ILSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAI LWAY-TIC K ET.

SPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,226, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed August 29, 1889. Serial No.322,353. (No model.) Y

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES WILSON, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tickets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a' part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of railway-tickets wherein the name of the station from which the ticket is sold is placed or indicated at the top thereof and the terminal station regulated by the person selling the ticket.

The invention has for its object the production of a ticket which shall be an absolute check upon the person selling the same, so that no mutilation or alteration of the same is possible either by the purchaser to have the ticket represent a greater passage than that sold to him or by the ticket-agent in order to have his stub or receipt ticket indicate that he has sold a ticket for a lesser distance than that which he has actually sold.

Heretofore it has been customary to provide ticket-forms with blanks in which to stamp or otherwise insert the name of the station to which the ticket is sold. One of the principal objections to such a ticket is that the ticket-agent may stamp the name of a terminal station,say, one hundred miles from his ofce and report this particular ticket as being sold for a terminal station, say, but fifty miles from his oice, thus making it possible for the ticket-agent to retain one-half of the fare Various other devices have been introduced to prevent and check the depredations of dishonest ticketsellers, all with more or less success, but not perfectly successful.

The object of my invention is to obviate the hereinbefore-mentioned as Well as other objections. To thisv end I produce a form 0r blank embracing a complete ticket and a complete stub therefor, so that when the ticket and the stub are detached from each other the one will show beyond a possibility of alteration the symbol or name of the station for which the ticket is sold and the other will similarly show the symbol or name of every station on the road or on any selected section of that railroad other than the one to which the ticket is sold, one thus counterbalancing the other.

In carrying out myinvention I place on the form or ticket-blank the names of or the symbols indicating the names of all the stations to which a ticket may be sold, placing the said names or symbols in reverse order in two columns, the symbols in each column beingarrangedeitheralphabetically,numerically, geographically, or arbitrarily. When the form has been severed in the manner hereinafter pointed out, the ticket will have the name of the selling-stationprinted or otherwise indicated thereon, and will also have names or symbols indicating all or a given number of the stations on the road, arranged, however, in two columns, with the name or symbol indicatingthe terminal station at the bottom of each column. The ticket will thus contain the names or symbols indicating the names of all the said twenty stations on the road plus one-to wit, the terminal station.

Another object of the present invention is to produce a ticket-form for use at a given station and from which a ticket may be made to any station named on the form, whether east or West, north or south of the selling-station.

My invention will be more fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein#- Figure l represents a form or ticket-blank embodying my invention as supplied to the ticket-agent. Fig. 2 represents the completed ticket. produced from said form. Fig. 3 is the check-stub remaining after the ticket has IOO blank embracing another modified form of the.

invention. Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate, respective] y, the completed ticket and stub produced from the ticket-blank shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 10 illustrates a ticket-blank embracing still another modification of the invention. Figs. 11 and 12 illustrate, respectively, the coinpleted ticket and stub Yproduced from the vmodification shown in Fig. 10.

First describing Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A is a ticket blank or form of any desired width and length, embracing, preferably, three parts or sections a a a2 at the top, middle, and bottom, respectively. Upon the top section a, which portion is usually designatedas the contract part of the ticket, may be placed the usual lettering designating the railroad and the initial or selling station. In the form illustrated I have assumed that all the tickets are printed for sale at the Boston station and are to be good for a passage from Boston to some one of the twenty stations on the road named in the body part a. The portion a2 is the auditors stub or ticket-sellers receipt, on which is printed the usual instructions regarding the auditing of the ticket, and also the name of the station (Boston) from which the ticket was sold, said name omthe auditors stub a2 being the duplicate of the name upon the contract portion a of the form. In the forni illustrated in Fig. 1 but twenty stations are shown; but it is obvious that any desired number maybe designated on one form. In said Fig. 1 I have shown one set of names of the said twenty stations, in each case, however, dividing the name in two parts and arranging said parts-in reverse order in the two columns a3 a4. Thus the first station from the selling-station (Boston) may by Auburn and the`third may be Cleveland, and by reference to the said Fig. 1 we accordingly find that the letters Aub are printed at the top of the left-hand column c3 and the remaining letters of the word, urn, are printed at the bottom of the right-hand column a4, and that the letters Cleve are printed third from the top of the left-hand column as and the letters land printed third from the bottom of the right-hand column cv.

The ticket-seller having the form A in his possession, and desiring to sell a ticket good for a passage, say, from Boston to Memphis, will sever the form A upon the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1, immediately below the letters Mem in column a3 and the letters phis in column a4, thus completing the manufacture of the ticket B and the auditors stub C. The ticket B, Fig. 2, will thus have two parts or sections b b', the first being the contract part containing the name of the startingpoint or selling-station and the second containing the two columns a3 a4. At the bottom of each column are the two parts of the name of the terminal station, Mem-phis, while the remainder of said columns contain one part only of the names of the other nineteen stations on the road. The contract part b contains the printed instructions that the ticket is good only to the station named at the bottom of this ticket, and the conductor, as well as the passenger, is thus able to determine at once the name of the terminal station of the passage for which the ticket is presented. The passenger cannot alter Vsaid ticket B to indicate either a greater or a shorter passage, because, no two station-naines being duplicated on the form A, and the stub C having been separated from said form, there are no combinations of letters remaining on the ticket B which could form the name of a station. This check is possible, because no matter in what order the parts of names of the stations may be arranged in the one column the other column contains the remaining parts of the names in the reverse order, so that the first letters of the name of a station are the same distance from the top of one column as the rcmaining letters of the same name are from the bottom of the other column. Thus in Fig. 1 the letters Dayt are the fourth from the top of column a3, and on (the remaining letters of the station Dayton) are the fourth from the bottom of the column a". It will thus be seen that any convenient arrangement of the station-symbols may be made,provided this balancing or counterpoise is retained.

The stub C, Fig. 3, will consist of two parts or sections c c', the first containing the list of the parts of the names ot all the stations on form A less one, (to wit, the station sold to,) and the latter containing the name of the selling-station and any other information or instruction desirable. The name of the selling-station in the stub C will always be the duplicate of the name on the ticket B. The auditor who receives the selling ticket-agents return will examine the stub C and will readily understand that as the form A, from which the stub C was taken,had twenty stations indicated thereon, and as said stub has but nineteen stations indicated on it, the ticket sold, for which the stub C is a check, was sold to the missing station, and by reference to form A he readily ascertains that Memphis is that station. He will also find that the letters Nor on the top of the left-hand column C2 of the stub C are the same letters that appear on the thirteenth from the top of the corresponding column of the forni A, and that the remaining letters correspond to the letters positioned as 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 in said column a3 of the form A. He will also find that all the sets of letters in the column'c3 of the stub correspond with the letters placed from 1 to 11, respectively, from the bottom of the column a4 of the form A. The auditor thus finds that the missing IOO IIO

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thus able to Vcheck the cond uctors r'eturn with the ticket-sellers cash-return. v

Heretofore in order to permit the sellingagent to sell a ticket from a given station to a station on either'side thereof by the use of forms having a given list of stations thereon it has been found necessary to provide said agent with as many forms of ticket from his station as there were roads or sections of road running therefrom and over which he would be authorized to sell. By the use of my improved ticket just one-half of the forms heretofore required would be necessary in such case. For example, take any road from Chicago to Pittsburg, and suppose Columbus, Ohio, to be a sellingstation thereon, withnine intermediate stations each way from Columbus. Vith the tickets now in use the agent at Columbus must be provided with two forms-one containing the list of the nine stations east of Columbus geographically arranged and the other a similarly-arranged list of nine stations west of Columbus-while with my invention I would print both lists of stations and the names Chicago and Pittsburg -in all twenty names-on the form, arranging said names arbitrarily in two columns in reverse order. I thus save the use of one form, and also prevent fraud in the issue, use, and receipt for tickets sold.

I do not wish to limit myself' to the form shown in Fig. l, as many modifications thereof will readily suggest themselves to others skilled in the printing and use of railroadtickets, some of which formsI have illustrated herein. For example, in Fig. 4.- I have divided the body portion of the ticket blank or form A into two sections a5 a6, in each section placing a complete list of stations in two columns, using, say, nineteen stations. In section a5 the stations are designated by their names spelled out in full in each column, while in the section a6 the same stations are designated in duplicate by numerals spelled out in full and placed in the reverse order to the names in section a5. In Fig. 7 I have shown the names of the stations spelled out in full-say twenty stations-and also twenty numerals spelled out in full, corresponding to the said stations. In Fig. l0 I have spelled out the names of the stations in full in each column and-placed the same in reverse order. When selling a ticket to any particular station by the use of either of 'these forms, the ticket-agent simply severs the form below the name, symbol, numeral, or part thereof indicatingthe terminal station in each column, so that the ticket thus formed when handed to the purchaser will have the terminal point duplicated-that is, registered at the bottom of each column.

Referring to the form illustrated in Fig. 4, by severing said formupon the dotted line 5 5 we find a ticket produced, as illustrated in Fig. 5, having the word Twelve printed at the bottom of the left-hand corner, and the word Memphis printed at the bottom of the right-hand column. For convenience in counting stations I have placed numerals in the section adjacent to the names of the stations; but said numerals are not material, as it would be a very easy matter for the conductor to commence counting Auburn 1,

Boston 2, Cleveland 3, &c., and finding that Memphis is station No. 12, and that number being spelled out in full upon the bottom of the left-hand column, he has a ticket presented to him for a terminal point indicated in duplicate at the bottom of each column. The same is true of the form shown in Figs. 7 and l0. In each case the ticket handed to the purchaser contains a complete list of every station'on the road arranged in two columns plus one-to wit, the name of the terminal station, which is printed at the bottom of each column; also, in every case the ticketagent retains an auditors stub having a complete list arranged in two columns of every station on that road minus the station to which he has actually sold the ticket. In each case the station sold to will be that which appears in regular order between the two stations indicated at the top of the auditors stub-that is, if, for example, the ticketagent sells to Memphis, using either of the forms shown in Figs. l, 4, 7, and 10, the word Memphis, or parts thereof, or other symbols indicating the terminal station, will appear at the bottom of each column of theticket,

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while the adjacent station on either side of Memphis will in each instance be indicated at the top of the two columns on the. stub-V to wit, stations l1 and 13thus showing that the ticket for which the stub is a check was sold to the station between station l1 and station 13.

I may sometimes use numerals on the form A (shown in Fig. l) similar to those shown in the other form but the use of said numerals is merely for convenience.

My improved form of ticket is also a complete check upon the passenger, because he cannot himself detach any portion of the ticket which he has purchased and make said. ticket good for a longer ride or passage on the road than that which he actually purchased. For example, we will suppose that he has purchased a ticket for Memphis of the form shown in Fig. l1. He decides to ride beyond Memphis, to the second station-to Wit, Oswego. If he should attempt to detach from the bottom of the right-hand corner of his ticket the two names Norfolk and Memphis, so that Oswego would be the terminal point, he is unable to duplicate such word or stationsymbol at the bottom of the left-hand column, said duplicate word or station-symbol being retained by the selling-agent upon the stub.

It will be obvious by an inspection of the several modifications of my invention as illusi IIO trated in the drawings that the names or symbols representing the stations or parts thereof may bearranged in two columns alpha-v betically, numerically, geographically, or arbitrarily, provided the said two columns are arranged the reverse of each other.

For convenience in completing the manufacture of the ticket B from the form A by the ticketagennl sometimes cut or perforate the portion a of the form between the two partial lists of names a3 a", as shown at a7 in Fig. 4.

I sometimes bind together in book form several of the forms A.-say in lots of one hundred each. In such cases it will be unnecessary to print the name of the selling-station on every auditors stub C, as the book itself may be suitably printed or otherwise designated for the purpose of indicating the selling-station.

It will be observed, also, that by my invention it is unnecessary to print duplicate numbers on the stub and the ticket for purposes of auditing the ticket-agents accounts from the stub, for the reason that the partial lists on the stub of themselves show the absence of the name of theselling-station, and that is all that is required.

I claim as my inventionl. The described severable form for a railroad-passengers ticket and stub bearing a designation of the selling-station on the part to be given to the passenger, and two lists, arranged in reverse order, of all stations to which the ticket may be sold, substantially as described.

2. The described severable form for a railroad-passengers ticket and stub bearing a name or other designation of the selling-sta# tion at each end and between them two lists, in reverse order, of all the stations to which the ticket may be sold.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

TAYILOR E. BRO-WN, M. E. DAYTON.

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