US628223A - Fare-register. - Google Patents

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No. 628,223. Patented July 4, I899.

S G. HOUGHTON.

FARE REGISTER.

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FARE REGISTER.

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No..628,223. Patented July 4, I899. S. C. HUUGHTUN.

FARE REGISTER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN C. HOUGHTON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE IIOUGHTON REGISTER COMPANY, OF CALIFORNIA.

FARE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,228, dated July 4, 1899; Application filed June 23,1898. Serial No. 684,243. (N model-l To (6 whom it 'ntay concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN O. HOUGHTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to registers, and more particularly to the registers used in railwaycars foizindicating the receipt of fares. It also belongs to the general style or type of registers described and shown in Letters Patent granted to me May 2, 1893, No. 4:96,688, and August27, 1895, N0. 5,291, and contains improvements upon the mechanisms described in those patents. I

Like the register described in the patent last mentioned, the present construction is a duplicate register, in which cash fares and transfers are separately registered, and each separate register consists of two parts or mechanisms, one being a trip-register, acting in sequence for a trip, and the other a totalregister, acting in sequence up to the limit of its capacity for indication. The trip-register and total-register are connected during the trip, so that one actuating means operates both; but provision is made at the end of the trip for disconnecting them and for resetting the trip-register for another trip without atfecting the total register. The resetting means act upon both the sets of trip-registers referred to. Some of my present improvements relate specially to these resetting devices as applied to two independent trip-registers. Some of them relate to features of construction, which may be a part of a single register, as well as of the duplicate registers referred to. Others relate to the automatic disconnection of the trip and total registers by the resetting mechanism; others to the alarm or bell mechanism; others to means for controlling the application of an electric current when the registers are electrically operated, and others to a recording mechanism in conjunction with the registering mechanisms, by

means of which record impressions of totals.

can be secured at any desired time and which can be arranged to give record impressions of both caslrfare and transfer totals simultaneously and by a single operation.

I have embodied my present improvements in a mechanical construction, which is hereinafter described in connection with the ac oompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the interior of a railway car, showing a fare-register in position, means for electrically operating it', and the circuit-controller. Fig. 2 is a detail cross-section showing the conductors or contacts which extend through the car and illustrating the operation of the circuit-con troller in connection with said conductors. Fig. 3 is a plan of the register with the top of its casing partly broken away to show the interior mechanism. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the same with a portion of the front casing broken away. Fig. 5 is a detail elevation showing the means for giving the primary or initial movement to the register mechanisms and showing also the alarm mechanism at rest. Fig. 6 is a similar elevation illustrating a peculiar change in leverage t'or operating the bell'striker. Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the same parts in the position they assume after the register has been operated and just before the bell-striker is released. Fig. 8 is a similar elevation showing particularly the means for operating the trip and total cash-registers. Figs. 9 and 10 are front elevations of the several indicatvices for the latter. Figs. 11 and 12 are end elevations in different positions of the devices for disconnecting the trip-register from the total-register for the purpose of resetting the former. Figs. 13 and 14 are plan views of the same. Fig. 15 is a plan of the lock for the direction-indicator. Fig. 16 is an elevation to illustrate the operation of the recording mechanism. Fig. 17 is a bottom plan of the same with the support forthe recordblank removed. Fig. 18 is a bottom plan of the same with the support in position. Fig. 19 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 20 is a cross-section ot'cooperating units and tens recordingwheels. Fig. 21 is an elevation of one of such wheels and of the means for controlling its actuating mechanism.

herein described is electrically operated-- ing-dials of the register, showing two positions of the resetting mechanism and looking de- I00 A register A shown in the drawings and i that is, it is controlled by an elect-romagnet vB, whose armature B is a lever having mechanically operative connections with the registering apparatus. This magnet is included in an electric circuit upon the car, having a controller which is operated by the fare-collector. For this electrical action mechanical action can be substituted without any material change in the construction of the register, since it is only necessary to operate the lever B by a mechanical pull instead of by an electrical impulse transmitted to it as an armature. The electrical feature of the device when employed ends with the transmission of motion to the primary operating means, which is this armature-lever B.

The wires any from the magnet are connected to conductors X Y, which are also contacts and which extend along the car in a groove shown as located near the lower edge of the ordinary raised ventilating structure.

The circuit-controller Z is a strip hinged at the bottom of the groove and extending along the car, so that it may be pressed inwardly by the fare-collector at any point in its length. This strip carries the conductor X, while the conductorYis fixed opposite and at the bottom of the groove. A spring or series of springs 21 return the strip Z to normal position after each pressure. At each collection the strip is pressed, closing the circuit through the contacts X and Y, energizing the magnet and attracting the armature-lever B. A battery is conventionally shown at X in the wire 3 The register-casing A may be a box of any suitable design and construction and is pro- Vided with a front plate having a number of visual openings to exhibit numerals and combinations of numerals carried by indicatingdials within the box. The register comprises a set of trip-registers and a set of total-registers for cash fares with operating mechanism and located at one end of the box and a set of trip-registers and a set of total-registers for transfers with operating mechanism located at the other end of the box. These cash and transfer registers are independent ly operated either electrically or mechanically, and as I am assuming an electrical operation in the present case it will be understood that the electrical connections heretofore described are duplicated and placed, preferably, in the same relative position upon the opposite side of the car in order to operate the transfer-registers. It will be also understood thatin describing the cash-fare-registry mech anism at one end of the box I am also describing similar transfei registry mechanism at the other end.

Referring first to Figs. 3 and 4 in connection with Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, the operation of the register commences with the intermittent rotation of an arbor l, journaled in bearings in a frame A within the casing and having a loose ratchet 2, which is engaged and moved step by step by the pawl 3, pivoted upon the lever B, whichin this instance and as before stated is the armature of the magnet B. The ratchet is prevented from backward movement by a holding pawl or dog 4, pivoted to the fixed bracket 5, through which the arbor passes and which is pressed by a spring (5 into engagement with the toothed wheel '7, the latter being secured to the ratchet 2. The loose ratchet 2 transmits motion to the arbor, being detachably connected to a disk D by a clutch and the disk being tight on the arbor. The clutch will be more fully described in connection with the resetting mechanism; but as the parts are now being described as in their normal operative relations it is unnecessary to do more than refer to it in this place. The arbor 1 carries the units-dial U, which bears on-its face the numerals from O to 9, inclusive. Such a dial on the transfer side of the register is shown in Fig. 4 at U in the same relative position as the dial U on the cash side. This dial comprises part of the trip-register upon one side of the box, the other member being a tensdial T, mounted on an arbor 8 and underlapping the units-dial, Fig. Such a dial T is shown in Fig. 4 on the transfer side of the register, bearing numerals from O to 9 and cooperating with the units-dial in successively displaying the trip-collections at the openings in the front plate. The arbor of the tensdial is operated one step at each revolution of the units-dial and just before the completion of such revolution, the actuating means being the disk D, which is provided with a tooth 9. This tooth engages successively with teeth 10 on a disk E, loosely mounted upon the arbor 8, Figs. 4 and 8, causing the units and tens dials to register successively up to 99 in the manner illustrated on the transfer side of Fig. 4. WVhile the units-dial is making its step-by-step rotation and the tens-dial is at rest, the arbor 8 is locked by an automatically-acting pawl 11, Fig. 8. This pawl is pivoted upon a pin 41 in a fixed bracket of the frame A and is provided with a weight-lever 13, which tends to hold its rounded end in engagement between two of the teeth 10 and in contact with the concentric periphery of the disk D, thus locking the disk E, its arbor, and the tens-dial against motion in either direction. In the periphery of the disk D and behind the tooth 9 is a curved recess 14, into which at the instant of actuating the disk E the rounded end of the pawl 11 is forced, leaving the disk E free to be moved, the pawl remaining in the re cess until upon the disengagement of the cooperating teeth it emerges and rides again upon the concentric periphery of the disk D and in looking position. While the tripdials are making their indications, a set of total-dials are also registering, their motion being derived from the arbor l of the trip units-dial. Loose on the arbor 1, because in fixed relation to the ratchet 2, is a pinion 15, which meshes with a gear 16 on a shaft 17.

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The arbor 18 of the units-dial in the totalregister has a pinion 19, which derives motion from the gear 16, Fig. 8. Four totaldials are shown in the drawings (dotted lines in Fig. 4) at a, t, 72 and fit, carried, respectively, upon the arbors 18, 20, 21, and 22.

- Upon the first three of these arbors are actuating-disks 23, each having a tooth and a pcripheral recess like those before described. Upon the last three of the arbors are actuated toothed wheels 24, like the one E, before described, and between the respective disks 23 and wheels 24 are locking-pawls 25, like the pawl 11, before described. It will now be clear that at the commencement of the work of the register and with all the dials at zero the trip-register and total-register will as fares are collected be operated simultaneously to give consecutive indications, the operation of the first being limited to atrip, while that of the latter is unlimited, excepting by its own capacity for registration. Whenever the lever B is pulled electrically or mechanically to register a fare, an alarm is sounded to give notice of the fact. This alarm is preferably a bell F, mounted upon the back plate of the casing, Fig. 3. The operation of this alarm, which is caused by peculiar and novel mechanical connections, is best illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, and 7. The object in view is to have the first pull of the lever B (especially when it is an armature) act through a very long and favorable leverage upon a bell-striker connected to it, so that at first, when the magnetic attraction is feeble, the lever is practically relieved of the weight and resistance of the striker. Afterward as the armature-lever passes more completelyinto the magnetic field and is attracted with greater power the fulcrum or point of resistance of the bell-striker is changed in such a way that the striker is suddenly thrown out away from the bell by power applied 7 through a short leverage, attaining its limit of motion in that direction at the time when the armature has been fully attracted. The bell-striker F is pivoted at 26, near the upper end of lever B, so that its long arm, carrying the hammer, projects downward y toward the bell, while a short arm projects upwardly beyond the pivotal point 26. \Vhen at rest, the lower end of the striker bears against a spring-buffer 27, located adjacent to the bell, Fig. 5, and a coil-spring 28 tends to keep it in that position. Then the mag net is energized and the armature commences to move, motion is transmitted to the upper end of the bell-striker as to a lever of the second class, in which the fulcrum is at the opposite end-in this case the buffer 27. The resistance to a leverage so favorable as this is very slight, and the upper end of the striker continues to shift until it is arrested by a stop 29, Fig. 6. The armature ,is now being strongly attracted, and so although the leverage is now less favorable on account of the short distance between the pivot 26 and stop 29 the lower end of the bell-striker is thrown sharply over to the position of Fig. 7. When the armature is released, the spring 28 pulls the striker toward the bell. Its momentum overcomes the resistance of the spring-buffer 27, and the bell is struck; but the spring 27 immediately recovers and holds the striker out in normal position, Fig. 5. This insures a clear tone at each stroke without repetitions or blurring. The return stroke of the armature B is limited by a stop 31.

In a preceding part of the specification I referred to the fact that the ratchet 2 on arbor 1 was detachably connected to the disk D by a clutch. The purpose of this disconnection is to allow the dials of the trip-register to be reset to zero without affecting the dials of the total-register. The parts which are disconnected from the actuating-disk D are the ratchet 2, holding-ratchet 7, and pinion 15, which are all secured together. The .clutch is composed of pins 32, projecting from pin ion 15 and which normally enter sockets 33 in a shoulder 34, forming part of the disk D.

This construction is best shown in Figs. 11 to 14, to which special reference is now made. By sliding the movable parts just referred to along the arbor 1 the trip and total registers are disconnected, Fig. 14, from their normal relations, Fig. 13, but without disconnecting the total-register from its actuating-gearing. The disengagement of the clutch is accom plished by devices operated by the act of resetting the trip-dials to zero at the end of-any trip. The resetter is a pull-down bar G, having a convenient operating-handle projecting from the bottom of the casing. The bar G slides in guides 35 on the frame A. At the upper end of the bar is the cross-arm G, extending both into the cash end and transfer end of the casing and carrying at each end the pointed pins 36 37. These pins are-located in line with the respective arbors l and 8, upon which are fixed the heart-shaped cams 38 and 39. The positions of these cams upon their arbors bear definite relations to the positions of the'zeros on the tens and units dials of the trip-register. In resetting these dials the pins 36 and 37 revolve the heart-shaped cams from whatever position they may have reachedc. g., that of Fig. 9 to the positions of Fig. 10,when the cams come to rest, with the pins in the depressions incident to their heart shape and both disks at zero. Of course before the pins 36 and 37 have engaged these cams the disconnection of the clutch-pins 32 and the shifting of the actuating devices of the trip-register have been accomplished, and this is done by means operated by the movement of the pull-down bar and its cross-arm G. Upon the cross-arm is a beveled projection 40, which acts as a cam against the end of the sliding pin 41, mounted in the frame A. This is shown generally in Fig. 4 and in detail in Figs. 11 to 14. The pin 41 has been referred to before as the pivotal mounting for the locking-pawl 11 between the disks D and E. A clutch-shipper I is held upon the pin 41 between the hub of pawl 11 and a pressure-spring 42, the latter bearing against a stop 43 on the frame. This spring holds the sliding pin and locking-pawl in normal position, Fig. 12, in the path of the cam 40. An arm I of the shipper extends to and fits between the ratchet 2 and the gear 15. Another arm I of the shipper extends to and is mounted upon the arbor S of the tens trip-dial, where it is connected to the hub of the toothed disk The movement of the pin 41 therefore not only disengages the trip-register from the total-register, but also disconnects the units and tens dials of the trip-register, because the shipper-arm 1 moves the disk E out of line with the tooth of disk D, Fig. 14, and the pin 41 directly carries the locking-pawl 11 out of line with the disk D, Fig. 12. Vhen' the pin 41 is freed by thereturn of the pull down bar, the spring 42 returns the pin, shipper-arms, and parts controlled by them to normal position, Figs. 11 and lb. The resetter and its cross'arm may be returned after each pull down by springs, such as those shown at 44 in Figs. 4 and 10.

In order that the pull-down bar shall make its full strokes both upwardly and downwardly, and thus insure the resetting of the trip-register, means are provided for locking it against a return after either stroke has commenced and before it has been completed. These means are shown in Fig. 4 in connection with Figs. 9 and 10. Secured to one edge of the pull-down bar is a rack 45-, consisting of a series of pointed teeth of regular size, with a single tooth 46 of larger size placed among them. Adjacent to this rack and pivoted in the frame A is a dog 47, having at its ends teeth 4849, adapted to engage alternately with the rack. The dog extends beyond its pivot and terminates in a wedge-shaped or double-beveled extremity 50. A spring 51, having an angular free end, bears upon one side or the other of the wedge-shaped end. In Fig. 9, which shows the parts in position previous to the resetting down-pull, the spring bears 011 the upper side of the wedge and throws the tooth 49 into engagement with the rack. This tooth will allow of the downward movement, but will instantly lock the pulldown bar should it be released before it has reached the end of the downward stroke. Just before this limit of movement is attained the large tooth 46 throws the lower end of the dog outwardly and its wedge-shaped extremity upwardly, Fig. 10, so that the tooth 48 engages with the rack and the spring 51 bears upon the lower face of the wedge, compelling a full upward stroke of the pull-down bar. At about the end of such stroke the tooth 46 returns the dog and its spring to the position of Fig. 9. The pull-down bar also operates a dial K,- which indicates the direction of the trip, usually by the Words out and in. This dial, like the others described, is visible through an aperture in the front of the casing, and its construction and operating and locking means are shown in Figs. 4, 9, and 10 in connection with the detail View Fig. 15. The dial K is mounted upon a shaft 52, having a bearing in or upon the frame A and which extends through a longitudinal slot in the resetting-bar. Fixed also upon the shaft 52 is a plate 53, preferably of square shape and provided with fo-rwardly-projecting pins 54. These pins are engaged successively and at each resetting of the register by an acute-angular projection 55, forming part of a pawl 56, pivoted upon the pull-down bar and held in o aerative positipn by a spring 57. The pull down of the resetter imparts a quarter-turn to this plate and to the shaft 52 and dial K. The return of the resctter produces no effect upon the direction-indicator, since the incline of projection 55 rides over the pin 54. The indicator is therefore and in this instance provided with two sets of direction-terms and usesthem in succession in ant outalternately during its intermittent rotation, which when a four-sided controller is used occupies four trips. The plate 53 is prevented from accidental or irregular movement by a spring 58, which bears againstone of its straight sides. An auxiliary and automatic lock for the plate 53 is also provided by the augularlydisposed lugs 59 59 upon the face of thepulldown bar and which inclose two sides of the plate 53 when the parts are in normal position, as in Fig. 4. These logs release the plate 53 before the pawl 56 engages a pin 54.

In Figs. 16 to 21, inclusive, are shown a recording mechanism by means of which the.

totals of both trip cash and transfer registers can be printed or otherwise impressed at any time, and as it is most convenient in practice to secure this record at the end of each trip I have utilized the trip-register-resetting device to operate the recording mechanism. In the figures referred to such recording mechanisms are shown in connection with both cash and transfer registers,deriving their motions from being geared to said registers and moving uniformly in time with them. The resetting action automaticallyimpresses the periodical total-record, and then and automatically disconnects the gearing of the recorder from the gearing of the register and resets the recorder at zero.

The recorder shown in the drawings comprises a units-wheel and a tens-wheel for recording periodical cash-fare totals and 21 unitswheel and a tens-wheel for recording periodical transfer totais. In order to make the construction as compact as possible and to use the resetting-bar with as few connections as practicable, l have arranged both sets of recorders upon a single shaft, Where they are driven independently of one another by their respective cash and transfer registers, but are operated as recorders and are reset to zero simultaneously.

The recording-wheels are carried by a pin lot 60, which is supported in the frame A. The units-wheel 61 and tens-wheel 62 of the cashfare register are loose on the pin, and each is formed with or secured to a heart-shaped cam 63. A gear 64: on the pin 60 is normally en gaged with the cam 0f the units-wheel, preferably by clutch-pins like the pin 32 heretofore described, but is capable of being shifted on the pin in order to leave the units-wheel free for resetting. This gear 64C and another 65 form a train which derives motion from the pinion 16, by which, as before described, the total-cash-fare register is driven. The

units-wheel 66 and tens-wheel 67 of the transfer-recorder are also provided with heartshaped cams and with a detachable gear 08, and this gear is normally in engagement with the transfer-register through a train (39, 70, 71 72, Figs. 10 and 17. Each units-record wheel is thus moved independently and in time with its respective register mechanism. It carries on its periphery impression means, which in this case are assumed to be sharp-edged type capable of making a clear impression upon a soft card or strip of paper, and these type are arranged in correspondence with the numerals on the units-disk of the trip-register. The units-disk before completing each of its revolutions engages and moves the tens-wheel one step in order to produce the combination for recording up to 99. As shown in Fig. 20, the units and tens wheels are placed side by side on the pin 60, and the tens-wheel is recessed, so as to provide a peripheral flange 73. In and next to this flange are a series of openings 74:, spaced at registration intervals. A cam '75 is pivoted to the adjacent face of the units-wheel whose effective end 76 is normally held out of engagement with these recesses by a spring 77. Its other end 78, however, will at the proper time be obstructed by an arm 79, Fig. 21, which for the purpose of this particular operation may be considered as a fixed part, although it is in reality attached to movable mechanism. This arm has a curved inner edge 80, which is concentricwith the disk, and hence holds the cam in engagement with the tens-wheel while the end 78 is traveling along the curve-i. 6., during the period of movement of the tenswheel. When the end 7 8 passes off the curve, the spring 7 7 disengages the pawl and releases thetens-wheel. Aspring95n0rmallysteadies the latter.

As in this case I have described the totals as recorded at the end of a trip, I prefer to cause the trip-register-resetting mechanism to cause the record-impression to be made. The pull-down bar G has a pin 81, which at the commencement of the resetting movement strikes the beveled end of an angle-lever 82, pivoted at its angle. The farther or horizontal end of this lever rests beneath a lip 83 of a support 84: for a record-blank, the latter being pivoted at 85 in the frame and having a fiat surface beneath the recordingwheels. A card, paper, strip, or other suitable record-blank is passed through a slot in the register-casing previous to resetting, Fig. 19, and rests upon the support. The resetting-action causes the support to be lifted, forcing the paper against the type and cansing an impression to be made of the total indicated by both sets of record-wheels simultaneously. Im mediately after the completion of the record the gears of the recorder are shifted, followed at once by the resetting of both sets of record-wheels to zero, all having been accomplished at the ti me when the downstroke of the resetting-bar terminates.

Pivoted upon a pin 80, fixed in a part 88 of the frame A, is a sleeve 87, Figs. 16 and 19, from which an arm 89 projects toward the pull-down bar and beneath a stud 90 on said bar. The distance between the stud and arm is sufficiently greater than that between the pin 81 and lever 82 to cause the operation of. the arm 89 after the support" has been lifted and the impression made. The sleeve carries four lever-arms 91, which terminate near the heart-shaped cams on the several units and tens wheels. Two of these arms also carry shipping-levers 92, having inclines which act as cams against flanges 93, secured to the hubs of the gears 6e and 08. It will also be noted that the arms '79, which cause the operation of cams 75, are secured to the levers 90, whereby such arms 79 are removed from the path of the pawl '75 at the time of resetting. The gears are shifted against the pressure of springs 94, which return them to position and engagement as soon as the upstroke of the resetting-bar commences. Reference to Fig. 16 will show that the shipping-levers take effect to shift the gears before the arms 91 come into contact with the heart-cams, so that the gears have been released and the cams and record-disks left loose on their shaft and pin by the time the arms 91 commence to revolve the heart-cams to the position in which they can rest in the depression of such cams, which will be at the moment when the recorddisks have arrivedat the zero-point. The sleeve 87 and the parts carried by it can be returned to normal position by a spring-such, for instance, as that shown at 96, Fig. 19. Both cash and transfer total recorders have now been reset to their zero-points, while simultaneously both trip-registers have in the manner before described also been reset. The trip-register is perfectly checked by the paper-record.

I do not limit myself to the precise and particular construction herein described and illustrated, as I desire to avail myself of the benefits of such modifications and equivalents as are properly within the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a fare-register, a box or casing, two sets of trip-registers and two sets of recording devices, in combination with a separate resetting device having connections to act upon both sets of trip-registers and both sets of recording devices, and a movable part accessible outside of the closed casing for operating said resetting device, whereby all the trip-registers and all the recorders are reset at one operation.

2. In a fare-register,registering-Wheels,and-

separate recording-wheels geared together for normal synchronous movement, in combination with such gearing, and with a separate resetting device having connections for disengaging both sets of Wheels from the gearing and for resetting both sets of Wheels after the disengagement.

3. In a fare-register, two sets of registers independently operable, a shaft intermediate said registers, a gear-train from said shaft to each set of registers, and two sets of recording-Wheels mounted upon said shaft and driven independently by the respective geartrains.

4. In a fare-register, a trip-register comprising counting-Wheels, and a recording device comprising impressing-Wheels, said register and said recording device being normally geared together, but both being capable of disconnection from the gearing, in combination with a pull-down bar and With-means operated by said bar for first disconnecting the gearing, and then resetting both the tripregister and the recording device.

5. In a fare-register, a trip-register and a total-register, normally geared together but capable of disengagement to permit the resetting of the trip-register, an independent set of counting and recording Wheels normal-1y geared to the trip and total registers but capable of disengagement to permit them to be reset, and means for resetting the trip-register and the recording-wheels.

6. In afare-register and in combination, two trip-registers independently operable, two total-registers geared respectively thereto, two sets of recording-wheels geared respectively thereto, detachable members in the gearing to enable both trip-registers and both sets of recording-Wheels to be disconnected, and a resetting device having means for effecting such disconnection and for resetting the trip-registers and the recording-wheels.

7. In a fare-register the combination with separate cash and transfer registers, of sets of recording-Wheels, mounted upon a common shaft, and each set comprising a plurality of counting and impressing wheels counting in sequence by periodical connection with and disconnection from oneanother, means for controlling said connection and disconnection, detachable gearing for operating each set of Wheels as counters, and a movable bar having means forsimultaneouslydisconnecting both sets of Wheels from their gearing, and having also means forsimultaneously resetting both sets of Wheels.

8. In a fare-register and in combination, two sets of trip-registers, two sets of total-registcrs and two sets of counting and recording Wheels, a set of each being geared together for normal synchronous movement; detachable members in the gearing to permit the trip-registers and the recording-Wheels. to be disconnected from the gearing, a support for a record-blank adjacent to the recording- Wheels; and a pull-down bar carrying means for accomplishing through suitable connections and at a single stroke the following results; the impressing of a record by the recording-wheels, the disconnection of both sets of trip-registers and both sets of recording-wheels from the gearing; and the simultaneous resetting of all the trip-registers and all the recording-wheels.

9. In combination with a car, and electrical means for operating a register or like mechanism, electrical contacts mounted in the car structure, and a movable strip extending longitudinally on the car, and adapted to make such contacts by pressure at any point in its longitudinal extent.

10. In combination with a fare-register for cars, and with a magnet for operating the same, conductors or contacts extending longitudinally upon the car, and a movable strip extending longitudinally upon the car, in proximity to said contacts.

11. In combination With a fare-register for cars, and with a magnet for operating the same, conductors or contacts extending longitudinally upon the car, a movable strip eX- tending longitudinally upon the car in proximity to said contacts, whereby said contacts are connected, and a spring for returning said strip and disconnecting said contacts.

12. A controller for a fare-register comprising a movable strip extending longitudinally upon a car and carrying a contact, in combination with a fixed contact or conductor located in proximity, an electrical circuit inpressure at any point in the length of said strip.

14. In combination with the car structure having a longitudinal groove, a hinged strip adapted to yield and enter said groove, contacts carried in said groove, and upon said strip, and a spring for returning said strip to normal position.

15. In a fare-register and in combination, a units-dial and a tens-dial, disks on the arbors of said dials cooperating to effect the period ical motion of the tens-dial, means for moving one of such disks out of line with the other, cams on the arbors, and resetting devices adapted to act upon said cams and also to opcrate the means for changing the alincment of the said disks.

16. In a fare-register, a tripregister comprising indicating-dials, an intermittingly movable tooth on the arbor of one dial, a disk on the arbor of the other dial operated periodically by said tooth, means for shifting said disk out of line with said tooth, cams on said arbors and resetting devices adapted to act upon said cams and also to operate the means for changing the alinement of the said disks.

17. In a fare-register and in combination a trip-register and a total-register geared togetherby a clutch, adapted to be disconnected to permit the trip-register to be reset, actuat ing-disks on the arbors of the trip-register, one of which disksis capable of being shifted on its arbor 8, a sliding pin 41, a shipping device operated by said pin and having arms respectively extending to said arbor S, and to said clutch, and a resetting-bar having means for operating said pin 41.

18. In a fare-register, aprimary operatinglever in combination with alarm mechanism comprising a bell, a striker pivoted to the primary lever, and means for causing the primary lever to apply power first through the long arm of the striker and then through its short arm, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

19. In a fare-register a primary operatinglever, in combination with alarm mechanism comprising a bell and a striker, the striker being pivoted to said lever, means for applying power to the striker first through its long arm and then through its short arm, and a spring connected to its long arm.

20. In an alarm, an operating-lever, in combination with an operated leverforminga bellstriker and havinga pivotal connection near its end with the operating-lever, and two variable fulcrums, viz: a fulcrum near the end of its long arm and one near the end of its short arm; whereby power is applied by the operating-lever at the said pivotal point first against the long-arm fulcrum and then against the short-arm fulcrum for the purpose set forth.

21. In a fare-register and in combination a magnet and armature, a bell, a bell-striker pivoted near its end upon the armature, and temporary fulcrums for the striker located re spectively adjacent to its long and to its short arms; whereby the armature will first apply power to the striker through the favorable leverage of its long arm, and subsequently through the relativelyless favorable leverage of its short arm, for the purpose described.

22. In combination with an alarm, a magnet, its armature and electrical connections, a striker pivoted to the armature, a yielding buffer situated between the striker and the alarm, a stop situated on the opposite side of the striker and near and beyond its pivotal point, and a spring connected to the striker in opposition to the armature, all arranged to produce the following sequence of operation: the energizing of the magnet, the movement of the striker as a lever whose fulcrum is the said yielding buffer, into contact with said stop; the further movement of the striker as a lever whose fulcrum is the said stop; the denergizing of the magnet, and the retraction of the striker by the said spring.

23. In combination with an alarm, an operating-lever, a striker pivoted to said lever and adapted to be withdrawn from the alarm by said lever, and two points of resistance against each of which the striker bears in turn, each point being a temporary fulcrum for the moving striker, whereby the leverage is changed during the withdrawal of the striker, for the purpose set forth.

24. In a register and in combination, a shaft carrying a direction-dial; an operating-bar slotted to embrace said shaft and carrying a pawl; a polygonal plate on said shaft having projecting pins to be engaged by said pawl; and angularly-placed lugs on the operatingbarnormally bearing on said plate at one of its angles, but released therefrom by the movement of the bar which causes said pawl to turn the plate and dial.

25. In a fare-register, the combination with a sliding bar for resetting the registeringdials, of a locking device for compelling a full stroke of said bar in either direction, comprising a rack on the bar, havinga tooth projecting beyond the line of the remaining teeth, a pivoted doubly-toothed dog, and a spring for holding the teeth of said dog in engagement with the rack on the up-and-down strokes respectively of the said bar; whereby the said projecting tooth of the rack disengages atooth of the dog at the end of each stroke and reengages the other tooth.

26. In a fare-register a trip-register, a set of impressing-wheels countingsynchronously with said register and forming part of a recording device, gearing for driving said register and counting-wheels, means for disconnecting said driving-gearing, a direction-indi. eating dial, and a support for a record-blank forming the other part of the recording devices, all in combination with a sliding bar carrying means for accomplishing .through suitable connections and at a single stroke, the following results; the impressing of a record upon the record-blank, the adjustment of the direction-dial, the disconnection of the gearing and the resetting of the trip-register and the counting-wheels.

27. In a fare-register, two counting-wheels mounted upon a common shaft, a pawl carried by one of said wheels for operating the other periodically, an obstruction in the path of said pawl for causing its periodical engagement with the other wheel, and means for mechanically resetting both wheels; such reset-ting means having a connection with the said obstruction for removing it from the path of the pawl at the time of resetting.

28. In a fare-register a shaft, a units-wheel and a tens-wheel mounted side by side there on, and each provided with a resetting-cam, a gear detachably connected to the unitswheeLand in train with driving-gearin g,n1ean s for connecting and disconnecting the units- Wheel and tens-wheel periodically, means for detaching said gear from the units -'\vheel, means acting on said cam for resetting both wheels when freed from the gear and from each other, and means for reconnecting the gear to the uni s-Wheel after the resetting.

29'. In a fare-register, units and tens counting Wheels,a shaft upon which theyareloosely mounted, a pawl on the units-Wheel, for operating the tens-wheel periodically, a resetting-cam for each wheel, and a detachable gear in train with driving-gearing, for operating the units-Wheel; all incombination with a rocking sleeve havingind'ependent projecting arms 89, 79, 92 and 91; and with a slidday of June, 1893.

STEPHEN o. HOUGHTON.

nature, in presence of two Witnesses, this 7th- \Vitnesses: L. XV. SEELY,

H. J. LANG.

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