US445669A

US445669A - Thomas bell lee

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Publication number: US445669A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1908-02-03

Description

(Nb Model.)

T. B. LEE. FARE REGISTER.

No 445,669. Patented Feb. 3,1891.

MI/VYEJVIZOQ? W12 JVESSES I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS BELL LEE, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

FARE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,669, dated February 3, 1891.

Application filed February '7, 1889- Serial No. 299,079. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, THOMAS BELL LEE, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented a new and useful Form of Box for Collecting Fares and Registering the Number Collected, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fareregisters which the conductoror other person collecting fares carries about his person.

The object of my invention is to improve upon the general construction of that class of devices; and it consists of constructions and combinations, all as will hereinafter be described in the specification and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurel represents avertical section; Fig. 2, a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1, parts being broken away to show the receiving-chamber; Fig. 3, an elevation of the slide, and Fig. 4 a perspective of the prismatic bottom.

A represents a box or other receiver formed of the chambers A, A A and A Chamber A is the largest chamber and final receptacle for the money and tickets deposited in chamber A This chamber A is provided with a funnelshaped slot or opening a, through which the money or tickets are dropped upon the movable bottom a, having three sides and arranged to close a space of about the same size as one of its faces in the partition between the chambers A and A This prismatic-shaped bottom a is provided with a shaft of, journaled in the walls of the receiver, and having a pinion a meshing with a gearwheel a on a second shaft a journaled in one of the walls of the receiver at one end, and in the walls C06 and a of the chamber A and in the inner wall of chamber A at the other end. This shaft (0 also carries a pinion a a loose spool to, and awheel a The spool of is connected to a spool 0, fixed or secured on a shaft a by a strip of paper or other suitable medium for receiving impressions from a marker a, secured to the horizontal arm 0. on the slide A The shaft (L13 is provided with a gear-wheel a", meshing with a pinion a on shaft a, which is also provided with a gear-wheel a meshing with a gearwheel or pinion a on shaft or.

The slide is provided with a slot (0 for the passage of the shaft 662, a slot (L22 for the passage of shafts c0 and a and an opening a having the shoulders (L and a arranged at diagonally opposite points in opening (L23. This opening G23 receives the spur-wheel a which is partlyturned when slide A is moved up or down, in the manner hereinafter described. \Vhen the slide A is moved up, the shoulder a strikes one of the spurs of the spur-wheel and partly rotates it and its shaft. This partial rotation to shaft a partially rotates the wheel a spool to", and pinion a The wheel cr partially turns pinion a which is fixed to the shaft a and consequently inclin es the face of the prismatic bottom a that happens to be uppermost or presented to the chamber A to allow the money or ticket in said chamber to assume such a position as to fall into chamber A when the bottom is turned to present a new face to the chamber A The completion of this movement is accomplished when the slide A moves down and shoulder astrikes one of the spurs on wheel a and partly turns shaft 61, in the same direction that shoulder a partly rotated it in the upward movement. The gearing is so constructed that the upthrow of the shoulder of will turn shaft of one-sixth of a revolution and the downblow of shoulder (L25 one-sixth of a revolution, so that one up and one down movement of slide A presents one of the three sides of the prismatic bottom to the chamber A The slide A is moved upward by means of a lever a fulcrumed upon the receiver at a, and provided with a link 01 which is pivoted at 0 to the slide A By pressing upon the end of lever a which projects outside of the receiver, the slide A is raised and sets in operation the train of mechanism heretofore described. As soon as the lever a is released a retracting-spring 01 draws the slide A back to its normal position. The slide in its upward movement carries its horizontal arm a and the marker attached thereto, and causes the latter to make an impression upon the paper 0. which is then moved slightly to receive another impression. The paperis moved by means of the gearing a a a and a", and the fixed spool 612. The slide is also provided with a finger 60 which trips a hammer (1 in order to ring the bell a What I claim as new is 1. The combination of a chamber A a chamber A having the opening in the top and longitudinal opening in the bottom, a prismatic bottom, one of the sides of which closes said longitudinal opening, the slide A and mechanism connecting said slide and the shaft of said opening, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a chamber A, a chamber A having the opening in the top and the longitudinal opening in the bottom, a prismatic bottom, one of the sides of which closes said longitudinal opening anclprovided with a pinion, a slide A having the opening per, and mechanism operated by the slide for turning the prismatic bottom and moving the paper, for the purpose described.

Toronto, February 2, 1889.

THOMAS BELL LEE. Witnesses;

A. O, MACDONELL, A. FRASER.