US447806A

US447806A - Registering apparatus for street-cars

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Publication number: US447806A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-03-10
Anticipated expiration: 1908-03-10

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(No Model.)

H. G. GANFIELD. REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR STREET CARS.

No. 447,806. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE G. CANFIELD, OF AKRON, OHIO.

REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR STREET-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,806, dated March 10, 1891. Application filed April 7, 1890. Serial No. 346,838. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HORACE G. OANFIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Registering Apparatus for Street-Oars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in devices by which a registering apparatus for street-cars, indicating upon a dial-plate the number of fares paid, may be actuated by the cond uctoror fare-collcctor from any point in the car.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and useful appliance by which the registering apparatus may be actuated.

To the aforesaid purpose my invention consists of the peculiar construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and then specifically pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 represents in dotted lines a streetcar, showing in solid lines my invention; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the car and device similarly shown, and Fig. 3 an enlarged elevation of the registering-dial and adjacent parts.

Referring to the drawings, A is the car, in the upper part of which, and preferably at one end, is located the registering-dial B.

Journaled in suitable bearings in each end of the car and intermediately, if desired, is a rod or shaft 0, which extendsin either direction through the ends of the car.

On each end of the rod 0 outside of the car is a short crank-arm D, terminating in a suitable knob or handle, and inside of the car are two crank-arms E E, united by a rod F. The crank-arms D and E stand in the same radial plane relatively to the shaft 0, and are constantly held upward by a coiled spring G, which presses against an extension of the crank-arms E and the roof or other suitable part of the can The shaft 0 is connected with the mechanism of the registering-dial B by a bell-crank H or other approved means, so that when the shaft is slightly rocked the registering mechanism will be actuated and the pointer carried forward one space on the dial.

As my invention is applicable to any form of registering apparatus, no details of the registering mechanism are shown.

It is obvious that according as the rockshaft O is connected with the registering mechanism the latter may be actuated by rocking the shaft in either direction.

Having thus described my invention, what I clainnand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ina car-fane-registering apparatus, the combination of the registering mechanism 13, the rock-shaft- O, extending through the car, provided at each end outside of the car with crank-arms D and inside the car with crankarms E, united by the rod F, the bell-crank H, and spring G, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand.

HORACE G. OANFIELI).

In presence of C. E. HUMPHREY, O. P. HUMPHREY.