US670338A - Combination ticket and duplicate transfer. - Google Patents

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N0. 670,338. Patented Mar. I9, I90I.

H. N. BROWN. .comsmATlou TICKET AND-DUPLICATE TRANSFER.

(Application filed Dec. 6, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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HARRY N. BROTVN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF THREE-FOURTHS TO F. HYLAND GRACE, OF SAME PLACE, AND HARRY L. MAYNARD AND THEODORE J. WOOL, OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA.

COMBINATION TICKET AND DUPLICATE TRANSFER.

SPECIFLCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670,338, dated March 19, 1901.

Application filed December 6, 1900. Serial No. 38,901. (No model.)

7') all whom it may concern: abled to collect the majority of the fares on Be it known that I, HARRY N. BROWN, a his car, as no passenger can obtain atransfer o citizen of the United States, residing at the without first paying a fare. Under transfer city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, systems nowin vogue on most streeterailways 5 haveinvented new and useful Improvements the passenger may receive a transfer after in a Combination Ticketand Duplicate Transthe car has reached a transfer-point. whet-her fer, of which the following is a specification. or not said passenger has paid fare; but by This invention relates to a combination means of my combined ticket and duplicate ticket and duplicate transfer designed to be transfer a passengerdesiriugto be transferred [0 used on street-railroads for the purpose of would be compelled to ask for a transfer at.

providing an effective check on the conductor, the time of paying fare. who takes up a ticket and issues or returns In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 reprethe attached transfer after punching said sents a face view of my combined ticket and transfer and attached ticket to indicate both duplicate transfer preferably arranged in a 15 on the ticket and the transfer the date, the striprepresentinga seriesof sixtickets. Fig. time of day, and the points between which 2 is ayiew of the back or reverse side of the the said transfer is to be used. same. Fig. 3 is a view of a single ticket de- One portion of my combined railway ticket tached from the strip and representing the and duplicate transfer is to be receivable for transfer portion folded back toward the re- 20 a fare and has thereon, preferably at the back, verse side of the ticket, which has a duplicate a duplicate of an attached original transfer, of the transfer thereon. the latter being so arranged that it can be The reference-nluneral l designates the folded onto the ticket and duplicate transfer face of a railroad ticket, which may have by the conductor and be so punched as to inthereon the name of the companyissuing the 2 dicate simultaneously on said original and same, with a facsimile of the signature of the duplicate the time and place for which the officer who is authorized to issue tickets, and transfer proper is to be received as valid afalso may show the serial number of said ter the punched portion intended for further ticket. There may be also printed on the use of the passenger has been detached and face of the ticket a legend to read somewhat 30 returned to him. The punched ticket with as follows: "his ticket will not be accepted the duplicate transfer thereon will be refor fare if detached from transfer. Integral tained by the conductor and is to be turned with one edge of this ticket there is a transin at the end of the trip. \Vhen a passenger fer, (designated by the reference numeral pays his fare and wishes a transfer, the con- 2.) Between the said ticket and the said 3 5 ductor must necessarily register this fare, as transfer there is preferably a line of perforahe will be compelled to turn in the duplicate tions 3 to facilitate detaching the one part transfer to the company, because the original from the other. The face of the transfer may v of this transfer will be turned in by the conbe provided with a calendar containing the doctor receiving the same on the line to which names of the months and numbered spaces 40 the passenger is transferred. Thus any railcorresponding with the days of the month;

way company using this system of transfers also, a dial numbered from 1 to 12, incan compel conductors to indicate each and elusive, and having thereon also the abbreevery passenger who rides on their cars, with- Viations A. M. and P. M.and numbers out giving the conductors an opportunity to to indicate fractions of an hour-as, for in- 5 trade transfers, this being accomplished in a stance, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 simple manner by means of the indications each of these numbers representing so many simultaneously punched on the ticket and atminutes. The face of the transfer may be 5 tached transfer. Every conductor will be enprovided also with columns headed, respectively, From and T0, with the names of stations and transfer-points arranged consecutively beneath.

On the back of the ticket there is provided an exact duplicate of the face of the transfer. This duplicate transfer is designated by the reference-numeral 4. The back of the transfer has a space 5, in which may be printed the rules and regulations of the company relative to the issue and use of transfers, the same constituting what is usually termed a contract, and below this there may be a space 6 containing the number of the ticket and the number of the conductor.

M y combined ticket and duplicate transfer will be preferably sold in strips each comprising six tickets and attached transfers, the several tickets and attached transfer-coupons being marked off from each other, preferably by perforated lines 7, to facilitate separation of a ticket and its attached transfer when the same are to be used. The strip of tickets may be sold, say, for twenty-five cents, as usual on many railroads.

When a passenger pays his fare, he detaches from the strip one of the tickets and its accompanying transfer and hands the same to the conductor, who thereupon folds the transfer part 2 back upon the reverse side of the ticket and punches through said transfer and attached ticket the point where the passenger desires to be transferred and also the day, hour, and fraction of an hour when the transfer is issued or up to the time when it is to be valid. The transfer proper or the original portion 2 is then returned to the passenger, while the ticket 1, with duplicate transfer at thereon, will be retained by the conductor and is to be turned in by him at the end of the trip. By folding the transfer 2 back upon the ticket prior to punching the record for punching made on the transfer will appear also on the duplicate and constitutes an absolute check on the conductor, for as the original transfer will be turned in by the conductor receiving the same on a branch line, so the conductor who issues the transfer will be compelled to turn in the ticket and duplicate transfer. Tickets are not to be accepted for fare unless the transfer is attached to the ticket, a ticket without the transfer being thus without value. The transfer is to be good when detached from the ticket on such lines and for such time as may be indicated by the punch of the conductor in the spaces marked.

If desired, the combined tickets and duplicate transfers may be made up in pad form, with a small coupon attached giving the number of the conductor and the number of the ticket and transfer; but it will usually be preferred to arrange the tickets and transfers in strips of six, as shown.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A combined ticket and duplicate transfer, comprising a ticket having an integral transfer portion and provided on the back of said ticket with a duplicate of said transfer, substantially as described.

, 2. A combined ticket and duplicate transfer, comprising a ticket having a transfer portion integral with one edge thereof and provided on the back of the ticket with a duplicate of the transfer, the said transfer being adapted to fold back upon said ticket and duplicate transfer, whereby the transfer and its duplicate can be simultaneously punched to indicate the time and place for which the transfer is to be valid, substantially as described.

3. A combined ticket and duplicate transfer comprising a ticket having an attached transfer adapted to be folded back upon said ticket, the said transfer being provided with means to indicate the time and place for which it may be made valid, and the back of said ticket being provided with a duplicate of said transfer, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY N. BROWN. Witnesses:

F. H. DEWEY, E. M. SANDY.

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