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No. 760,629. PATENTED MAY 24, 1904. N. B. HUGHES.

FARE REGISTER.

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UNTTED STATES Patented May 24, 1904:.

PATENT FFICE.

FARE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,629, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed January 8, 1904.

To alZ whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, NATHAN B. HUGHES, a citizen of the United States of America, .re siding in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Registers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of the same, in which Figure 1 is a face view of a fare-register embodying my invention, from which, however, the dial-face, the trip-hand, the permanent register, and some other parts have been removed to more clearly exhibit the parts of special moment herein. Fig. 2 is a face view, on a smaller scale, of the dial-face when ninetysix fares have been rung up on the particular trip then in progress. Fig. 3 is a similar View of the dial-face when one hundred and seven fares of the trip have been registered. Fig. L is a plan view of the mechanism for setting my especial-trip hundred-indicator in the position the parts occupy before one hundred fares have been registered on the trip. Fig. 5 is a plan View of said mechanism after one hundred fares have been registered on the one trip. Fig. 6 is a View, partially in perspective, of a portion of the dial, the onehundred slide, and the post or arm by which motion is transmitted to the slide. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of a part of the dial and slide, showing also in elevation the said post and its socket. Fig. 8 is a detail view of the above cam I prefer to employ to reset the one-hundred indicator.

My invention relates to fare-registers, and

particularly to mechanism for exhibiting the number of fares above one hundred registered on any one trip.

It consists in a combination of devices for showing movable figures adjacent to a fixed figure, as hereinafter set forth, and in various features more particularly pointed out in the claims. i

In dial-registers as heretofore constructed it has generally been customary to have the dialface bear figures which will exhibit the number of fares up to one hundred and to provide by a separate register for exhibiting the total Serial No. 188,180. (No model.)

fares; but the difficulty has been that if more than one hundred fares were registered on any one trip there was no ready means of determining that fact. For instance, when one hundred and seven fares had been rung up the trip-hand would be in the position shown in Fig. 3, but an inspector or other person desirous of knowing how many fares had been received on that trip would be unable to tell from the dial-face whether seven or one hundred and seven had been rung up, and as many trips occur during which more than one hundred fares are received this want is an active one. It might be supplied by independent mechanism; but this is an expensive way and is liable to make the register too cumbersome or complicated. The severe service it must undergo renders it necessary the parts should be as simple and durable as possible. Space isof moment, as they must not be too large, and cost is, as almost always, aconsiderable factor. I have therefore endeavored to utilize the already present instrumentalities with as few and simple additions as possible, and 1 have accordingly conceived and devised a mechanism which utilizes the already-present' zeromark of the dial-face for showing that the hundred-mark has been reached, and I have arranged that when that occurs other figures should show alongside the zero, so as with it to make one hundred. Then a glance at the dial shows that it is one hundred and seven and not merely seven fares have been received on the trip. Such use of the zero entails, of course, that the additional figures shall be withdrawn from view whenever the trip-hand isset back to zero. I say zero and one hundred; but I do not limit myself to that designation. The same mechanism might readily be employed to register other things than one hundred or start with other than zero, as will be readily manifest.

In the main the register I exhibit is one already well known and shown and explained in the expired United States Letters Patent Nos. 271,977 and 280,925. There is the triphand H, the trip-actuating spindle A, the resetting-shaft I), the trip-signal lever or bellcrank V, actuated by the movement of the setting-shaft D through the gears o s and pitman 2?. As is explained in those patents, the respective arms of this bell-crank are swung inward and upward at one setting and outward and downward at the next, and thus alternate.

Now in carrying out my invention I cut in the dial-plateD two apertures (Z a, (one would do,) one on each side of the zero-mark. Beneath those apertures I place a slide S, bearing on its upper face the figures 1 and 0, so placed that when 1 is exposed through aperture (Z 0 will be also exposed through aperture a. This slide is provided with a socket S. Then I mount a lever Z on the frame of the machine, pivoted at p and provided with an upwardly-extending post P, adapted to enter and fit closely in socket S, the length of the parts and the position ofthe pivot being such that when the lever is swung over to one position, such as that shown in Fig. 5, the figures 1 and 0 will be exposed to view through apertures (Z a; but when swung to another position, such as that of Fig. 4, those figures will be moved out of registry with the apertures, and therefore be invisible. A swinging catch C, held down by spring and provided with a hook it and notch 71, will normally hold the lever Z in the Fig. 4: position, a cam-post 0 being provided to facilitate such holding, and a spring 8, attached to lever Z and to the frame, tends to draw the lever Z and post P to the position of Fig. 5.

m m represent a hinged tripping-lever (also called a jointed double lever) pivoted at 72 jointed at 7) and extending up to and registering with the catch 0. From part 111/ a post P extends downward. The end of the part on lies, preferably, over within the line of the disk Z) on the trip-hand spindle A, and thereon I place a cam O in such position that it will engage post P when the trip hand begins to make its turn from 99 to 100. The resulting action is that the cam C, acting on post Pi will draw the tripping-lever m m downward and its upper end, held against catch 0 by the stress of spring s, connected to said lever on m and catch C, will enter notch 11. The instant cam C releases post P said spring s draws lever m m upward, that carries up the end of catch 0, stud c is released from the catch, and lever Z under the stress of spring a is swung to the right, carryl ng post P and slide S and exposing the figures 1 and 0 through apertures {Z a. They and the permanent zero make one hundred, and there is thus plainly exhibited the fact that one hundred fares have been registered during the trip, and the further progress of the trip-hand shows the further fares registered up to another hundred, which is as great or greater than the number usually collected on one trip. \Vhen the trip is ended and the trip-hand reset, post P and slide S must of course be also reset, and to accomplish this I first provide a double cam-shaft C mounted in the frame and provided with a crank 7, having a socket f in its upper face, in which I locate a crank-pin 1)", extending downward from the trip-signal slide S One of its camfaces, 0, engages the inner face of lever Z, and the other, 0 engages lever on. The operation of resetting is as follows: As already stated, in this operation the trip-signal slide is moved either up or down. Vith the parts in the position shown in Fig. 4: resetting would move said slide S upward, as shown in Fig. l, where the parts are in the position they occupy when the resetting has progressed about one-half of its complete movement. Slide S begins to move upward and acting through pin 7) and crank-arm f begins to swing the double camshaft (1 around as move the hands of a clock. Cam-face c bears against the right-hand side of lever Z and forces it to the left, thereby swinging its upper end and post P and slides S to the left toward their first position. (Jam-face c, acting against leverm, forces it from the notch in catch 0 and. leaves that free to drop and again hold stud c on lever Z, and thereby maintain that lever, its post, and the slide in the now new but really original position, the camface of that stud c forcing the catch up sulficiently to permit it thus returning. \V hen the movement is complete, tl'e cam-shaft C will have turned so far around that the other sides of cam-faces c and 0 will respectively lie against lever Z and m, and at the next resetting the downward movement of slide S will by swingingcamshaft G around in a reverse direction accomplish exactly such a movement as that already described. If, however, the trip-hand had not reached 100 during the trip and the parts were still in the position shown in Fig. 4, the resetting of the trip-hand would not need to and would not produce any change in the position of the slide S. The cam-shaft would be swung about. The cam-faces would engage lever Z and m, but as the lever Z would be already at the limit of movement to which the cam could force it it would be moved no farther, while lever m would merely move back and forth without operative result. 7 In resetting the trip-hand, however, the momentum acquired by the disk Z under the vigorous twist of an athletic conductor is liable to turn so far as to bring the hand behind zerosay 92 or 99 and, though a step has been provided at w to prevent this, yet that stop is so placed as to stop the gear on the resetting-shaft. It does thercby to some extent control the gear on the central spindle, to which gear the hand is secured; but there is always a liability of lost motion between the gear, and the stop does not, therefore, entirely avoid the diflieulty. I have, however, devised a stop which does, to wit: a pawl W, secured to the frame and engaging a notch or cut in the disk Z) itself at such point that when the hand stands at zero the pawl will engage the notch and further retrograde movement be absolutely prevented, since the stop acts upon a part rigidly secured to the hand. It will thus be seen that by the addition of comparatively few parts I have substantially doubled the indicative capacity of the old trip-register by a simpler device than I formerly employed, though leaving the size of the dial and the clearness of its exhibition of figures exactly as before and rendering it unnecessary for users of the old dialplate to become accustomed to a new form or arrangement of the plate or its figures.

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

1. In a fare-register, the combination of a dial having an aperture therethrough, a slide bearing one or more figures, an arm pivoted at one end to the frame and carrying said slide, a spring secured 'to said arm with its stress arranged to throw said arm to a registry position, an engaging device on said arm, a catch engaging said device on said. arm and adapted to lock it in a blank position, a jointed double lever secured to the frame and carrying an engaging device, a cam on the trip-actuator adapted to engage said engaging device on the jointed double lever, and a spring connected with the jointed double lever and with its stress arranged to throw the free arm of the jointed double lever into engagement with the catch and to then move the catch away from the engaging device on the slide-arm, all combined to operate as substantially set forth.

2. In a fare-register, the combination of a dial having an aperture therethrough, a slide bearing one or more figures, an arm pivoted at one end to the frame and carrying said slide,

' a spring secured to said arm with its stress arranged to throw said arm to a registry posltion, an engaging device on said arm, a

catch engaging said device on said arm and adapted to lock it in a blank position, a jointed double lever secured to the frame and carrying an engaging device, a cam on the trip-actuator adapted to engage said engaging device on the jointed double lever, and a spring connected with the jointed double lever and with its stress arranged to throw the free arm of the jointed double lever into engagement with the catch and to then move the catch away from the engaging device on the slide-arm, a resetting mechanism, a cam connected with said resetting mechanism and interposed between the slide-arm and the free arm of the jointed double lever, all combined to operate substantially as set forth, whereby the resetting of the trip-hand will cause said cam between the slide-arm and the free arm of the jointed double lever to force them, respectively, to a blank position.

3. In a fare-register, the combination of a dial bearing a sign, a slide bearing one or more signs which are the complement of the sign on the dial in indicating a given fact, a rigid arm pivoted at one end to the frame and, at its other end, carrying said slide bearing complementary signs, a tripping mechanism, connected with the trip-hand, whereby the rigid arm is released at a predetermined point, and mechanism substantially as set forth for moving said arm when released, all combined to operate substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 6th day of January, 1904.

NATHAN B. HUGHES.

Witnesses:

H. F. HUGHES, A. G. N. VERMILYA.

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