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H. P. HUGHES.

FARE REGISTER.

No. 545,627. Patented Sept. 3,1895.

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C WITgSES: I /6 y%0fl M 'MW W ATTORNEY rrao STATES PAT OFFICE HENRY F. HUGHES, or BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO W. KENNON JEWETT, or

- NEW YORK, Y.

FARE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,627, dated September 3, 1895.

Application filed September 27, 1894:- Serial No. 524,315 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: and preferably extends in both directions Be it known that l, HENRY F. HUGHES, a therefrom. To it at one side I attach a recitizen of the United States of America, and tracting spring S and on the other side a a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, New piece of soft iron A, adapted to constitute the York, have invented certain new and useful armature of an electromagnet. Opposite the Improvements in Fare-Registers, of Which the post P and sufficiently distant to permit the following is a specification, reference being movement of the actuating-lever, is the elechad to the accompanying drawings, forming tromagnet E, with its poles E E preferably part of the same, in whichfacing the pivot P and cut away, as shown, 60 Figure 1 is a front face view of the machine one with a step in it and the other so as to with the dial-face removed. Fig. 2 is a simipresent a concave curved surface. The arlar view of the machine, but with the front mature is also preferably constructed with frame and the register-wheels removed and a curved face and with a greater bodyof the armature drawn to the magnet. Fig. 3 metal at the side corresponding to the side on .5 is another face view of the parts shown in which the curved faced pole of the magnet Fig. 2, but with the operating mechanism in lies, and the lever L and the armature A so a slightly-different position, the parts being pivoted and stopped that the great body of at rest and showing, also, in dotted lines the the armature (when the magnet is uncharged) locking mechanism engaged to hold the actuwill lie on one side of a line drawn through 70 2o ating mechanism securely locked. Fig. 4 is, the center of the magnetic field. In accoma side elevation of the ten-thousands wheel plishing this use is made of the spring S and of the totalizer, its actuating and detent pawls, a tooth t on the armature, which engages the and the actuating-lever with some other parts. depression between two teeth on the wheel Fig. 5 is aview of the shaft on which said ten- W, when the armature moves back to its po- 75 thousands Wheel and also the thousands and sition of rest. (Shown in Fig. 1.) This stopt hundreds wheels are mounted, showing said likewise locks the wheel W, and through wheels in section; and Fig. 6 is a side face wheel Wand pinion to looks wheel W also so view of the hundreds-wheel and the triangle long as it engages the teeth of said wheel WV. by means of which motion is communicated As it is necessary to bring back the arma- 8o to the thousands-wheel. ture to its normal position after operating P is the trip-register shaft, intended to the lever and at the same time leave the regcarry the long hand or pointer, which will istering devices at the points to which they indicate on the dial the number of fares 001- have been carried,one of the devices (the lever lected on one trip. On said shaft I mount a L or the pinion to) here the-lever, is sleeved 8 gear-wheel W, (shown in Fig. 1,) having as on the shaft P and with teeth out on or semany teeth (usually one hundred) as it is incured to the pinion w, a detent-pawl p (pivtended shall be shown by one rotation of the oted on some fixed part of the machine) enlong hand. Wheel W is not rigidly secured gages. In the present instance such teeth to shaft P, but there is sufficient friction beare in the form of a ratchet-wheel w, secured 9o tween them to insure the shafts turning when to the pinion w and free to move on the shaft the wheel does. P though the detent-pawl 19 might readily On the second shaft P, I mount a similar be arranged to engage directly with the pinwheel W, intended to be the units-wheel of ion w. This pawl 19 is held in engagement the totalizer or continuous-registering device. by a spring .9 and holds the pinion, and of 5 5 w is a pinion mounted on a third shaft P course the Wheels W and W, from any backso placed that the pinion shall engage the ward movement, except as hereinafter deteeth of both wheels W and W, and that its scribed. I turning the space of one tooth shall turn each To secure the forward movement of the of said wheelsWand W one tooth also. This pinion to another pawl 10 is used, which is I00 same shaft 1? is utilized as the pivot of the pivoted to the lever L, retained in place bya operatin g-lever L, which is fulcrumed thereon spring 3 and engages the teeth of the pinion 20. It is manifest that instead of securing the ratchet-wheel w to the pinion w and the pawl 19 to the lever L any ordinary mechanic could readily reverse the arrangement so that the ratchet-wheel 20 would be secured to the lever L and the pawl 19 to the pinion w, pawl 3 being also then arranged to engage the pinion to instead of the ratchet-wheel w and the ratchet-wheel to itself turned over so its teeth will be reversed. The operation of these pawls, springs, and engaging-teeth is too evident to need statement, but the peculiar construction and arrangement of the armature and magnet enable me to secure much more power where I desire to use it than other forms produce. It will be noticed that I desire to swing the actuating-lever L from right to left. If the armature were merely placed opposite the poles of the mag net in the ordinary manner, the leverage would be very little or the distance from the poles would be considerable, with consequent diminution of the effect of the current. By curving the face of the armature and also the face of one pole I am enabled to provide a considerable movement with what leverage I desire and at the same time to utilize the full power of a current acting through a magnet whose poles are all the time almost in contact with the armature. Some of this advantage would be lost if the mass of the armature were evenly disposed, as the attractive power of the magnet would be acting against as well as in aid of the desired movement, but by constructing and locating the armature and pole as shown and described the full attractive power at short range is utilized in aid of the desired lever movement and the required length of stroke is obtained.

Now, in addition to operating the registering devices it is necessary to provide for reversing the trip hand or pointer, that at the beginning of each trip it may he started at zero, and this must be done without atfecting the totalizer. To accomplish this a toothed wheel V is rigidly secured on the shaft P. Between said shaft P and the hub of the wheel I there is suiiicient friction to secure the turning of the pointer with the wheel normally, but the connection is not rigid. On a fourth pivot P another gear V is mounted and arranged to mesh with the wheel W A lever L is likewise pivoted on shaft 1 and provided with a handle extending to where it may be reached by the fare-taker. On the lever L is pivoted a pawl 1 one end adapted to engage the teeth of the wheel WV and the other end adapted to engage a stop '6, secured to the frame, when the lever L is thrown fully up. The one end of pawl 19 then riding down on stop 25, throws the other end out of engagement with the wheel W but at other times it is returned and held in engagement by the spring .9

When the trip is ended, the fare-taker seizes lever L and swings it down. Theinstant the upper end of pawl 1 passes stop 15 spring 8 draws the lower end of said pawl into engagement with the teeth of wheel which wheel, acting upon the gear W reverses the trip-pointer and carries it back to zero. This wheel W carries also a cam (J, (shown in Fig. 1,) and in proximity to it is a pawl 1), adapted to be engaged by the cam on said reverse movement, but the pawl is so held by a slide S that it will not permit the wheel W and the pointer in the reverse movement to be carried beyond the zero-point. This slide ex tends outward to a point where, unless it is drawn up by the action of the gears W W and pawls 19 it will engage the lever L, (usually through a stop 9,) preferably constructed in the form of a roller and secured to the rear side of lever L by a pin or shaft, as shown in dotted lines, and prevent its returning to its normal position of rest, and a swinging two-armed stop 6 secured to the frame and engaging first one arm and then the other with the stop 6 on lever L, aids slide S in preventing the return of said lever to its normal position. This stop 15 is in the form of an elbow lever. (Shown partly in full and partly in dotted lines in its normal position in all the figures and also in its locking position in dotted lines in Fig. 3.) When the lever L is in normal position, its stop t rests inside the turn of the elbow. lVhen it is swung down, it turns the stop '6 to the position shown only in dotted lines in Fig. Then the slide S, theretofore held up by the stop 2?, moves outward beyond the end of stop 15 and of course holds that fast and prevents lever L from returning to normal position,

because stop 6 bears against stop i and that.

against the side of slide S till that has been drawn back by the rotation of wheel W to zero, acting through cam O and pawl 11, when the arm of stop i is free to turn back again under the end of slide S and permit the movement of lever L and its stop t", back to its highest limit of movement, and the end of pawl 12 may ride upon stop 25, throwing it out of engagement with wheel W which, with its connected gear W is free to turn as the fares are rung up.

Pivoted so as to swing into and out of the path of armature A is a catch 0, held from engagement in a recess 7' in the armature by a spring 8, but also arranged to lie against a quarter-circle extension L of lever L. Lever L is slotted at its bearing on shaft P, and when pushed inward will force the catch 0 into the depression 1" in armature A and hold it there, as shown in dotted line in Fig. 3, thuslocking the operating means of both the trip-register wheel and the totalizer from any movement whatever, and the extension L will continue to hold the catch in engagement and yet permit the lever L to be moved to reverse the trip-pointer and return it to zero.

Secured to the frame there is a guide g, extending from the limit of the downward movement of lever L to a point just beyond its Eln upward limit of movement, and for all but the extreme upper end it is struck on a circle with a radius equal to the shortest distance from the center of the pivot of lever L, when thrown inward, to the outer side of its stop 15*. This guide holds the lever thrown inward during all its movement in reversing the trippointer. At the extreme upper limit, however, this guide is carried a little farther away from the pivot of lever L and permits it to be drawn back, so as to release catch 0 and permit the movement of the armature. Even here, however, it is possible by pushing in the lever L to engage the catch and lock the registering apparatus, a matter of great convenience when the fare-taker desires to leave the car, as he can thus prevent unauthorized persons from maliciously registering fares in his absence by merely operating the pushbuttons (if they are used and located somewhere on the car away from the register, but connected to the magnet by wires not shown) unless they first reach up and free the armature by pulling out lever L. A gong G is also provided with a hammer H on a lever L pivoted on shaft P Loose on shaft P there is a ratchet-wheel to having two sets of teeth reversed, one set engaging the lower end of lever L and the other set engaged by two pawls, one 19 extending from the armature A and held in place by spring 8 and the other 19 pivoted to the frame and held in place by spring 8 The first pawl p on the return movement of the armature caused by the spring carries the ratchet w around one step, said ratchet sliding under the other pawl p, which then holds it while the first pawl on the movement of armature A slides backward to engage the next tooth. -Meanwhile the reverse tooth engaging the end of lever L has drawn the hammer back from the bell, passed on from under the end, releasing it, and the retracting-spring s has swung the hammer down to contact with the gong and the fare has been rung up as well as registered, and it will be noticed that the pawls and ratchet-teeth are so arranged that pawl 29 will not be carried back sufficiently to engage the next tooth unless the armature has been drawn to substantially its extreme limit of movement, but that when so sufficiently drawn back it will, upon the release of the armature, be sure to ring the bell independently of the will of the fare-taker. The result is that the bell cannot be rung by a partial operation of lever L, which is not sufficient to move the pointer. Lever L must move far enough to move the register-wheels a full point before the pawl 19 operating the bell will have passed to the operating-point and no bell can be rung unless a fare is registered, while at the same time, ifthe fare is registered, the bell will be sure to ring.

On the spindle P, which carries the totalizer-wheel W, I have arranged a cam O to operate the hund reds-wheel W and from that the thousands-wheel W and the tens-of-thousands wheel W are operated.

The cam O is constructed with a sleeve to encircle spindle P and provided with a setscrew to secure it in position, so that it partakes of the movement of the units-wheel W of the totalizer system. Pivoted to the frame of the register in such manner that its lower end will lie within a circle drawn with spindle P for a center and the distance from said spindle to the outer edge of the earn 0 for a radius, but slightly above the plane of the thin edge of said cam O, is a lever L held in normal position by a spring a, which is supported by an arm a which, as here shown, rises from the frame and extends in front of said level L. (See Figs. 1 and 4.) This lever L carries at its upper end a pawl 19, which engages the teeth of a ratchet-wheel to connected to the axle 10 (see Figs. 4, 5, and 6) of the hundreds-wheel W of the totalizer system. WVhen the units-wheel W of the totalizer approaches the completion of a rotation, the cam 0 takes under the lower end of lever L and moves it outward, and the opposite end of said lever of course moves in the opposite direction and carries thepawl 19 backward to engagement with a succeeding tooth of the ratchet-wheel 10 When the unitswheel W completes its full rotation, registering, say, 100, the cam 0 passes the lower end of lever L and releases it, said end of lever L moves backward, its upper end moves forward, carrying pawl 19, which turns the ratchet-wheel to one step, wheel to turns its connected shaft P a like distance, shaft P turns the hundreds-wheel WW, and that is advanced one step.

A detent-pawl p held in position by a spring 3 holds the ratchet-wheel w from any reverse movement. The shaft P, on which said ratchet-wheel n1 is secured, is mounted in suitable bearings B B, secured to the frame, and carries three wheels W W and W which are respectivelyhundreds, thousands, and tens-of-thousands wheels, the hundreds-wheel W being fixedly secured to said shaft and the other two loosely mounted thereon. At the left-hand side of wheels W and W there is an offset, or I may say the periphery is turned down a little and a U- shaped projection V extends from the same side of each of said two wheels, as seen in Fig. 6. The right-hand edge of the periphery of wheels W and W is toothed, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Parallel with the shaft P another shaft P is mounted, and it carries two small gear-wheels 20 and w and to each is secured a triangular piece 1), whose edges are curved to fit the circle of the wheels W and W where their peripheries are turned down. The wheel to and its triangle are placed so that the wheel to engages the teeth on wheel W and one side of its triangle 1; engages the offset of wheel W and wheel w and its triangle is similarly situated with reference to wheels W and W, the projections V being so located that when the figure 9 on its wheel appears at the visible point of the apparatus said projection will have just reached a place opposite the point of the triangle o nearest to it.

The operation of the devices is manifest. While wheel W is turning from showing to showing 9, under repeated impulses communicated through ratchet-wheel 10 and the anterior mechanism, the piece Q) has been riding on the offset part of wheel V and held from turning itself, has held its attached wheel from turning and that has held wheel W Wheel W has held the sequential piece 1) and its wheel 10 and that has held wheel W but when wheel W moves again after having exposed 9 to view and thus completes a full rotation it carries one, thus: The point of triangle 1; takes into the slot of the projection V, and as wheel moves on the triangle is turned partly round (in this instance onethird) that causes wheel 10 to turn likewise, and its teeth acting on the teeth of wheel IV turn that far enough to expose the figure 1, where O was before exposed, and thus the fact that ten hundreds or one thousand has been rung up is made visible. The carrying 1 from thousands to ten thousands is accomplished in an exactly similar manner.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fare register the combination of an actuating lover, a locking lever having a finger piece and adapted to be moved in and out, as described, and to remain in either position it is placed in an engagingdevice connected with the actuating lever, and an engaging device in engagement with the locking lever and adapted, as described, to be by it moved into engagement with the engaging device connected with the actuating lever, substantially as set forth.

2. In a fare register, the combination of an actuating lever, a reversing lever provided with a finger piece and a sector extension and adapted to be moved in and out as described, an engaging device connected with the actuating lever, in engagement with the face of said sector extension and adapted to be by it moved into engagement with the engaging device of the actuating lever, a cam guide and an engaging device on the reversing lever, which will engage with the cam guide upon the movement of the reversing lever and hold it inward except when in its normal position, all substantially as described.

3. In a fare register, the combination of a shaft, a pinion mounted in fixed position (as to lateral movement) on said shaft, a trip register wheel and a totalizer wheel, both continuously engaging said pinion, an operating lever mounted on the same shaft with the pinion, a ratchet-wheel and a pawl (engaging its teeth) one of which is secured to the lever and the other of which is secured to the pinion, all substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of a slide, a locking lo ver provided with a stop adapted to move across the path of the slide when that is retracted, but engage it when extended, a pawl on the slide and a cam secured to the trip registering device, substantially as described, and adapted to engage said pawl when moved in one direction, but disengage therefrom when moved in the other direction, said cam' and registering device being arranged as described, whereby, when at zero, it will hold said slide retracted, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my inventionI have signed my name,in presence of two witnesses, this 18th day of September, 1894:.

II. F. HUGHES.

Witnesses:

PETER 1;. VERMILYA, A. G. N. VERMILYA.

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