US717984A - Combined railroad fare and transfer ticket. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

I'. W. GILLARD. COMBINED 'RAILROAD FARE AND TRANSFER TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

:16 17 jf" j No. 717,984. PATENTBD JAN. 6, 1903. T. W. GILLARD. COMBINED RAILROAD FARB AND TRANSPDNTIGKDT.

APILIOATION FILED JUNE 8, 1901. N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET me mams mans w, moro-Lima. wAsmrta'roMmfc witness UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W. GILLARD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COMBINED RAILROAD FARE AND TRANSFER TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,984, dated January 6, 1903. Application filed June 8, 1901. Serial No. 63.782. (No model A.To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, FREDERICK W. GILLARD,

. a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Railroad Fare and Transfer Ticket; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. l

This invention relates to improvements in tickets, and more particularly to a form of ticket having a plurality of functions-such, for instance,a's serving the purposes of a transfer inaddition to those of aticket. A

The object in viewis the production of a book of tickets each attached to its respective stub,V each stub being provided with means for automatically accounting for all preceding tickets, together with its respective ticket and all'subsequent tickets.

The present invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of. parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a top plan View of a ticket and stub embodying the features of the present invention. of a slightly-modified form of the same. Fig. 3 represents a top plan view of a package of myimproved tickets in an'extended condition reduced in size for the saving of space; and Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of a book composed of suitable backs and stubs, each of the stubs carrying a package of my improved tickets, the illustration being also on a similarly-reduced scale.

In the use of railway-tickets it has been found desirable to provide means for counter-checking and accounting for every ticket issued by the company and received by a conductor and for showing receipts of cash by the conductor. The present invention contemplates means for accomplishing these results to the best advantage and at the least expense and a minimum of labor.

In Fig. l of the accompanying drawings the numeral l indicates a suitable ticket detachably secured to a stub 2, which latter is provided with any suitable binding extension,

Fig. 2 represents a similar Viewv as 3. A suitable space, as 4, is provided upon ticket l for the insertion of directions regarding the use of the ticket as such or as a transfer, the wording given on the drawing upon said space being such asto limit the ticket to transfer purposes; but of course any preferred directions may beinserted in said space. As seen at 5 5, the direction in which the car carrying the conductor issuing the ticket is bound is indicated, and it will be understood that when used as a transfer I will employ similar marks at any suitable points on the ticket for indicating the direction in which the transferred passenger is to travel. At one point on the space of the ticket, preferably at the outer end, as shown at 6, is provided a suitable calendar, the months and days of which are adapted to be perforated by the punch of the conductor for limiting the time for using the transfer.

In order to compel the passenger to board the next connecting car, I contemplate the provision of a suitable timetable, as indicated at 7, whereby the hour and fractions thereof may be indicated. This time-table comprises, preferably, a double row of figures indicating the hours ofthe day before and after the sun has passed the meridian. I may of course employ either row of figures for indicating either the forenoon or afternoon; but, as indicated, I prefer to utilize the upper row for indicating the morning and the lower row the evening. Above and below the said rows of figures I provide suitable spaces ruled with lines, as 8 9, which form series of vertically-extending blocks for purposes hereinafter set forth. At one end of the timetable 7 and extending transversely thereof are provided suitable indications of fractions of the hour, as at lO and 11, each of said indications appearing opposite one of the series of blocks 8 or 9. Of course it will be seen that I prefer to place the letters A. M.and P. M. upon the time-table in a suitable position to indicate which row of figures represent the hours of the :forenoon and which the afternoon. As indicated at 11', I may provide,

if desired, suitable numbers indicating fractions of an hour to be employed for extending the time of the transfer in case of accident upon the road preventing its immediate use, and I may also provide a suitable point hav- IOO ing any desired indication for being cancelled by the conductor receiving the transfer. as seen at 12.

The ticket illustrated in Fig. 1 is to be employed on lines chargingcash fares, and for the sake of illustration we will presume the fare to be five cents. The conductor will be provided with any desired numberof packages of these tickets bound together at 3, and upon receipt of a fare will inquire of the passenger as to whether or not he desires a transfer. Upon receiving an afrmative answer, supposing the hour at which the car carrying the present'conductor is to intersect the line of transfer to be 9.45 a. m., the said conductor will punch the ticket within the block 9,7 (indicated at 13,) whereby both the hour and fraction thereof will be clearly shown. Had the time been nine oclock, the perforation would have been made through that iigure 9,77 thus I showing that no fraction of the hour was intended to be indicated. It will of course be understood that the conductor at any suitable time Will perforate calendar 6 at the necessary points for limiting the transfer to the particular month and day. After the issuance of the transfer if an accident should occur on the line whereby the car is delayed the conductor upon request of the passenger will perforate a suitable figure in the scale 1l' for extending the time of the transfer. Upon presenting the transfer to the conductor on the connecting car the same is adapted to be perforated at a suitablepoint, as 12, for preventing further use of the same and then retained by the conductor to be returned to the company. Assuming now that the passenger did not desire a transfer, the conductor would sim ply tear the ticket transversely, as shown in dotted lines at 14, retaining the outer end to be returned to the company, while the inner end remains connected to the stub 2.

Of course I will provide a suitable number, as at 15 15, upon the stub and ticket for the purpose of counter-checking upon the return of the ticket to the company.

With whatever form of ticket I employ I also contemplate the use of stub 2, which shall be so prepared as to automatically audit the accounts of the conductor. In order to accomplish this, I indicate at a suitablepoint on the stub the value of its corresponding ticket plus the values of all tickets of the preceding stubs, as at 16 or at 16, as desired. I also indicate, as at 17, the value of all the tickets of the several following stubs within the same binding. Opposite these indications of value Imay place any suitable Words of explanation, as illustrated, which in the case of the preceding values plus the value of the ticket of the particular stub may be either Fares collected or Must be returned to company with, and the words Unissued fares are preferably printed opposite the indication, as at 17, of the value of the succeeding tickets. By this means the conductor has only to turn to his last stub in order to readily ascertain what amount is due from him to the company on tickets already sold and what is the total value of the tickets still remaining in his hands.

In employing the cash-fare ticketI of course make packages of single tickets; but when an uneven rate is charged-that is to say, where six or more tickets are sold at a given price, the cash fare being greater than the price of the individual ticket when purchased in packages of six or more-I preferably arrange a plurality of my improved tickets as best illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. These tickets of course may each be printed similarly to ticket 1, except that a coupon, as 18, is detachably secured to the same, as hereinafter described. There is another slight difference necessitated by this arrangement consisting of a power indicated upon each of the tickets in addition to the regular serial number corresponding to number of the stub, as indicated at 19 19. These powers of course may be omitted,but are preferred for convenience. As seen in Fig. 4, the tickets, as 1 1', are folded upon each other to assume a book form, and one of the tickets 1' is detachably secured to the stub 2, the said stub 2 being of a thickness equivalent to the thickness of the six tickets 1', or the stub 2' may be the thickness of a single ticket and a piece of cardboard or other backing, as 20', inserted between each two of the said stubs, said backing being of equivalent thickness to five of the tickets. The stub 2 is of course provided with indications of preceding and following ticket Values, as at 16' and 17', similar to those shown on stub 2. To more clearly illustrate my improved system of automatic auditing, I would state that, as illustrated in Fig. 4, presuming each package of six tickets to be 0f the value of twenty-tive cents and that seven packages of tickets are bound within one cover, the first stub would show, as seen in dotted lines in said Fig. 4, the figures 25, indicating the Value of its ticket, no other ticket preceding it, and the figures 150, indicating the value of the six succeeding packages of tickets. The second stub will be provided with the numbers 50, indicating the value of its package of tickets added to the value of the package of tickets of the preceding stub, and 125, indicating the value of the succeeding five packages of tickets. 4It will be seen that this arrangement of indications on the stub of the various packages of tickets will obviate the necessity `of any calculation for attaining the conductors account after a days work, the stub of the last-used package of tickets clearly indicating said account.

It will be seen that when the lirst ticket 1 of a package is detached from the others, the remaining iive tickets being delivered to the passenger and the said first ticket is desired to be used as a transfer, as hereinbefore described with reference to ticket 1, the con- IOO IOS

IIO

ductor will simply detach coupon 18 and re-4 tain the same to be returned to thecompany as a voucher, the said first ticket 1 being then prepared as before described for use as a transfer and handed to the passenger.

It hasv been, found desirable, in view of cheaper rates, to issue commutation-tickets, and I nd it convenient and preferable to provide such a ticket in connection with the hereinbefore-described arrangement of ticket and transfer. The last-mentioned ticket is illus-` trated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, as at 21, and is provided with a suitable stub similarin all respects to stubs 2 and 2', of course the value-` indications being altered to correspond with the value of the ticket. The ticket 21 is necessarily slightly modified in arrangement from ticket 1, but involves 'the same principle. At the inner end of the ticket is preferably arranged a series of graduated figures, as nl, u2, c3777 H4772 5,77 and :46,17 prof vided with the words Trip check opposite the same, thus indicating the number of trips for which the ticket may be used. Near the opposite end of the ticket are similarly-graduated figures with the words Transfer check for indicating and permitting the ticket to be used as a'transfer. Any suitable directions and regulations of the company :may be printed in the central space, as 22. Below the space 22 and running longitudinally of the ticket are arranged graduated figures, as at 23 and 24, indicating hours and minutes,respectively. Beneath the said grad-` uated figures are arranged a plurality of lilies ruiming longitudinally and transversely of the ticket, producinglongitndinal and transverse blocks or blank spaces, as 25 25. A suitable dividing-line, as 2G, may be provided for separating the figures 23 from those in the series 24, thereby separating the blocks or spaces 25 beneath the hour-figures from those beneath the minute-figures. The space b'eneath the minute-figures is agailrdivided by a suitable line 27 and the numerals indicating fractions of an hour repeated on either side of such line, one of said sides being marked A. M. and the other 1). M., for

limiting the time of the transfer to the forenoon or afternoon. At the same time it is limited to the fraction of an hour. At the outer end of ticket 21 is provided a plurality of detachable coupons, as 28 2S, which bear correspending serial numbers to that of the ticket and stub.

Of course it will be apparent that ticket 21 may be provided, if desired, with a similar calendar as that shown at (5 in Fig. 1 and with any of the other features of ticket 1, as may be found preferable. V y The ticket 21 may be issued either by the office of the company or by the conductor,

. and when presented for the first time will be perforated at the point of numeral 1in the Trip-check series. If the passenger does not desire a transfer, the conductor next punches the numeral 1 of the Transfercheck series, whereby the use of the first number of the series of trips to be had on the said ticket 21 will be destroyed as a transfer. The conductor next removes one of the coupons 28 and, retaining the same, returns the ticket to the passenger. The next `time the ticket is presented numeral 2 of the Tripcheck series will be perforated, and should the passenger desire a transfer, presuming the hour to be 8.30 p. in., the blocks 25 will be perforated opposite the numeral 2 of the Trip-check series and at the same time opposite the numeral S of the hour series, and the block opposite the numeral 30 of the minute series of the P. IWL side is also perforated,the said vblock being also opposite the numeral 2 of the Transfercheck series, as seen at 29. The conductor then reinovesone of the coupons 2S and returns the ticket to the passenger.` On presenting the ticket as a transfer to the conductor of the connectingline the said ticket will be perforated at the point of the numeral 2 of the Transfer-check series.

It has been found necessary to provide coupons 2S in order to make the ticket 21 good on any line without regard to which line issued the same,the said coupon being returned to the company as a voucher that the passenger has been carried on the ticket 21.

Although I have specifically set forth a particular embodiment of the present invention, yet I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact form, shape, arrangement, or design of the present ticket, but shall feel at liberty to deviate therefrom within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A book of tickets, cach of said ticket-s forming a leaf thereof, stubs detachably carrying said tickets, means securing said stubs together, and indications on each of said stubs showing the total value of its corresponding ticket plus the value of `all of the preceding tickets, and the total value of all the subsequent tickets, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a plurality of combined tickets and transfers, of stubs detachably secured thereto and adapted to be secured together, each of said tickets and its stub being provided with a corresponding serial number, and indications on each of said stubs showing the tot-al value of its corresponding ticket plus the value of all of the preceding tickets, and also showing the total value of all of the subsequent tickets, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- FREDERICK W. GILLARD. Witnesses:

JOHN L. FLETCHER,

EDGAR M. KITCHIN.

IOO

IIO

Images