US455655A - Eailwat ticket - Google Patents

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, 3 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. H. CAMPBELL. RAILWAY TICKET.

Patented July '7, 1891.

(No Model.)

(No Model.) 3 sheets-Sme# 2. W. H. CAMPBELL.

RAILWAY TICKET. Y No. 455,655. Patented July 7.1891.

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WILLIAM nrcAMrBELL, oFYNEw YORK, n. r.

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srt:cIrrcAtrI'oN'forming parc of vLetters Patent No. 455,655, dated July f?, 1891. Application tiled November 19,1890. Serial No. 371,922. (No model.) I l I To all wiz/6772, t 771,603/ 0075087170:

Be itknownthat'l, WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tickets, fully de- Y scribed and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same. L

This invention relates to tickets used by railroads, steamboats, or other transportation companies, its object being to provide a couponlocal ticket which shall be available for use from and to all stations on the line and for all kinds or classes of fares, thus enabling the entire local passenger business of a line to be transacted by a single form of ticket. y

At present-transportation companies generally use for local traffic card-board tickets,

one 'of which is goodonly for one class of fare and from or to only one station, so that each station on the road is provided with its own series of forms, including tickets reading from that station to each other station 011 the line, there being as many diii'erent classes of each form as there are classes of fares. Vith the development of railway trafc and consequent large increase in number of stations and classes of fares the number of tickets required to fit out a road is enormous, and many at- Y tempts have been made to provide means for o, reducing thenumber of forms of local tickets required. l attain the desired object and provide a vsingle form'which may be used for all .stations and all classes of fares by the use of a coupon local ticket having an agents stub and going and return coupons provided with complete lists of stations on the. line and with spaces or marks for indicating the character of the ticket, the stations and spaces orvmarks preferably registering when the ticket is folded, so that the destination-station and character of ticket may be simultaneously punched in the stub and coupons.

For a full understanding of my invention a detailed description will now be given, reterence being had to the accompanying drawings, showing preferred forms of tickets embodying my invention, and in which- Figure l is a face view of a ticket punched f is a face view of the same for use. Fig.

' `punchingwhen the tieketis folded. The ticket 1s provided also with a series of dates to be punched when the form is used as a limited ticket, and witha full list of all the various forms and kinds of local card and special book tickets in use on the road, or such as the ticket isintended to cover, each with its own space or mark for punching to 'indicate the acter spaces or marks also registering when the ticket is folded. The ticket is preferably provided, also, with spaces or marks for punching by baggage agents when baggage is checked and for punching by the various connot be defaced by these punches.

The use of the ticket will be clear from a description of the example shown. The ticket is sold by the New York and Niagara Falls railwayand is a first-class limited excursionticket from New York to Niagara Falls and return, the date of limit beingDecember 4, 1890, as shown by the punch-marks. When the ticket is sold, the Vagent will stamp the back of the stub and of each coupon, as shown i Fig. 3, and will then punch the destination-station, the date of limit, and thev class two coupons will then be torn off and handed to the passenger, the stub being retained by the agent as his voucher. lf the passenger desires to check baggage on the going trip, the baggage agent will punch the going'- coupon in the space indicated at the foot of the ticket, and upon the return trip the baggage agent will similarly punch the return-coupon.

going-co upon in the spaces set apart for them, as 1n the systems now in use, for preventing passengers getting o a train before reaching ductors upon the line, so that the ticket shall on the three sections simultaneously. The

character of the ticket, these dates and char- I On exa-mining the ticket on the going trip the conductors will punch the IOO destination and using the same ticket again, and before reaching the end of the trip the going-coupon will be taken up and retained will be understood, however', that any other by the conductor as his voucher for the going features of tickets now in use may be emtrip. n the return trip the return-coupon bodied therewith-such as excess baggage 7o will be similarly punched and taken up. If coupons, auditors coupons, tbc-and that the the ticket sold be a single-trip ticket, the ticket may be in any form and consist of any method of use is exactly the same, except that number of parts .without departing from my the going-coupon onlyis Ahanded to the buyer, invention, so long as these three essential the return-coupon being left attached to the parts are retained.

' stub and turned inv therewith by the agent. While I have shown a ticket in which the 1o It will be understood that my ticket may destinationstations, dates, and classes are be used for any number of stations and that indicated by punching the three parts simulthe number of forms andnclasses for 'which taneously, the spaces or marks therefor bethey maybe made available is practically uning arranged to register when theticket is 8o limited. In the drawings eighty stat-ions and folded, and I prefer to use such a ticket on twelve classes are shown; but this number account of its convenience, it will be undermay be increased as desired,and the arrangestood that my ticket may be used without ment of the matter on the ticket may bevathis feature and the stations, dates, and ried as desired. classes indicated by other means than punch- 85 There a road has a very large number of ing, as by marking the same with indelible zo stations, it may be found desirable, in order ink, and the coupons may be folded together .to decrease the size of the ticket, to list the or not to suit the convenience of the company. stations by numbers rather than names, as in It will be seen that the ticket is printed myimproved coupon extension-ticket covered so plainly and the arrangement of the matter 9o by application,SerialNo. 369,057,iiled October so simple'that the passengers are enabled to 2 5 27, 1890, these numbers being arranged either tell at a glance Whether the starting-point, numerically or in series of digits arranged by destination, dac., are properly indicated or units, tens, hundreds, &c.,and the names and not, thus avoiding the objections urged to numbers of the stations will preferably be other systems proposed that they are so com- 95 printed on the backs of the coupons for refplex as to be unintelligible to the average 3o erence. Such tickets are shown in Figs. 4 passenger, and therefore no check whatever and 5, the former showing the arrangement against manipulation by agents or conductby units, tens, dac., for a large number of staors'- The tickets, moreover, constitute no tions, and the latter lthe numerical arrangeradical departure in use,sofar as agents, bagroo ment for fewer stations. gage-masters, and conductors are concerned,

3 5 If desired, the names or numbers of the stafrom those heretofore employed, and may tions may be printed'in duplicate on the face readily be substituted for forms now in use. of the coupons and headed From and 'Io, Vhat I claim isso that both the initial and terminal stations `l. A coupon-ticket having an agents stub 105 may be punched out or otherwise indicated. and going andlreturn coupons, each bearinga 4o Such a ticket is shown in Fig. 6. If desired, list of the stations on the line, or numbers for the station-numbers may be printed on the indicating the same, andbeing provided with face of the coupons, as Well as the names of spaces or marks for indicating the character the stations, and the numbers punched out, as of theticket, substantially as described. 1 1o shown in Fig. '7. 2. A coupon-ticket having an agents stub i I have described the method of using the and going and return coupons, eachbearinga ticket when sold by a station agent; but list of the stations on the line, or numbersfor my ticket is equally applicable as a conductindicating the same, and being provided with ors ticket for sale on the train. The forms spaces or marks for indicating the character I I 5 shown in Figs. 4 to 7 are especially adapted of the ticket, the stations or numbers and charfor this purpose, as the conductor can readily acter spaces or marks on the stub and couindicate the initial and terminal stations by pons registering when the ticket is folded, punching in the respective columns. The substantially as described. ticket shown in Figs. l to 3, however, may 3. A couponticket having an agents stub 12o readily be used as a conductors ticket by and going and return coupons, each bearing punching the initial station with one punch duplicate from andto lists of thestationson the and the terminal with two, or distinguishing line, or numbers for indicating the same, and these stations in any other suitable manner, being provided with spaces or inaiks for indias by using punches of different forms. eating the character of the ticket, the stations 12 5 The method of use as a conductor-s ticket or numbers and character spaces or marks 6o is substantially the same as at stations, the on the stub and coupons registering when the conductor acting as agent and retaining the ticket isfolded, substantially as described. agents stub or stubs and return coupon to be 4. A coupon-ticket made in three parts, an turned in with his report. agents stub and going and return coupons, 13o

The ticket shown consists of but three each bearing lists of the stations on the line,

parts--the agents stub and going and return or numbers for indicating the same, and being Vcoupons--and these are the essential parts of provided with spaces or marks for indicating my ticket and this the preferred form. It the character of the ticket, the stations or stub and coupons registeringwhen the ticket registering when the ticket is folded, subis folded, substantially as described. stantially as described.

5. A coupon-ticket made in three parts, an

numbers and characterspaces or marks on the l ter spaces or narks on the stub and coupons" l In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 i agents stub and going and return coupons, my hand in the presence of two sllbscribing each bearing a list of the stations on the line, Witnessess. j Y i y or'nurnbers for indicatino the same', and bein@ i provided With-spaces crbmarks for indicating' l VM H'. CAMPBELL' the character of the ticket and with spaces or Witnesses: v marks for conductors and baggage agents .TIL KENNEDY, I.

T. F. KEHOE.

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