US770998A - Transfer. - Google Patents

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PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1904.

H. J. BERGER.

TRANSFER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATEs` Patented September 27, 1904.

HENRY J. BERGER, CF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRANSFER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,998, dated September 27, 1904.

Application filed May 22, 1903. Serial No. 158,284. (No modeh `T0 all whom, itntcty concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY J. BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transfers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to transfers primarily for use on street-railroads; and its object is to provide a transfer of simple arrangement which can be quickly issued by the conductor and which indicates on its face in a clear and easily-understood manner the direction in which it can be used and the time limit thereon.

A further object of the invention is to avoid the complicated system of issuing transfers now extensively in vogue, which consumes so much of a conductors time and attention, and while simplifying the issuing of the transfer at the same time providing a check on the number of transfers issued and the number of times each transfer is used.

I have designed my transfer with especial reference for its use more than once by the same person, and I have illustrated this embodiment of the invention in the accompanying drawings, in which-x Figure 1 illustrates a complete transfer for use on a car traveling north. Fig. 2 illustrates the same transfer for use on a car traveling south. Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate the same transfer for use on cars traveling east and west.

In the drawings, Fig. l illustrates a transfer with all the sections printed; but as the printed matter may vary more or less for different lines and in different cities I have not deemed it necessary to fill out the transfers shown in the other figures. However, to avoid confusion I will apply the referencenumerals, which indicate corresponding parts in the several figures, to Fig. 2 only.

The transfer is provided with a central longitudinal section 5, in Whicha general notice of suitable character may be printed, and on each side of this section are a series of transverse sections 6, which contain the names of the transfer-stations on the line and any other designations, such as Speciah &c.,

that may be desired. Along one edge of the transfer and opposite the station-sections are P. M. time-sections 7, and along the opposite edge of the transfer opposite the station-section are A. M. time-sections 8, these sections forming, in effect,continuations of the stationsections and bearing numerals in substantial alinement with the printed names in the station-sections. The time-sections are located at or adjacent to the side edges of the transfer, so that the punch may reach over the time-section for punching the transfer-station if it should be required.

` The sections just described constitute the central portion of my transfer, and at one end thereof I provide a date-section 9 and a section IO for the conductors number, and at the other end I prefer to provide a section 1l to receive printed information to the passenger, such as Issued for ride in direction headline indicates. Sections 12 are located at each end of the transfer to receive adesignation-such as Northf7 South, East, or LTest -indicating the direction in which the car is traveling, it being understood that I prefer to employ different transfers of different color for use on the outward and inward trips of a car. At each end of the transfer I provide detachable coupons to be torn off and retained by the conductor, as follows: If a passenger traveling south (see Fig. 2) desires to transfer west at North avenue, the conductor will punch the time-sectionsay 9 p. m.-tear off the coupon 13, and hand the transfer to the passenger. This transfer willindicate that the passenger has been transferred between 9 and l0 oclock from a cartravcling south to a west-bound car. If the passenger now wishes to transfer from the west-bound car to a south-bound'car, the conductor of the west-bound car will tear off the coupon 14, and the conductor on this south-bound car may take up this transfer, or, if Ythe passenger desires to transfer farther west, the conductor will tear off the coupon l5, and the transfer may then be used on the west-bound car. It will thus be observed that the transfer is adaptable for use on several different lines, but in a single general direction, and any number of coupons may be provided to IOO carry this into e'l'lect. The coupons will be retained by the conductors and turned in to check up the number of passengers carried. If the passenger desires to transfer east, the other end of the transfer will be used in a correspending manner. If a north and south line transfer east or west only, the transfers shown in Figs. l and 2 may be combined-by simply making one end of the transfer for use in traveling in one direction and the other end for use in traveling' in the other direction. The west and east transfers shown in Figs. 3 and 4L are used in like manner to the north and south transfers, as will be readily understood.

M y improved transfer will g'reatly facilitate the work of the conductor and lessen his labors. Experienced conductors are able to estimate with substantial accuracy the number of transfers they will require within certain limits of time, and it is the general custom to punch a number of vtransfers accordingly, so that when the conductor reaches a transfer-station it will be only necessary for him to tear olf the coupon at that end of the transfer which indicates the direction in which the passenger desires to travel. If transfers are only issued at a g'iven station to travel in a certain direction, the coupons may be torn off in advance. If the system prevails of giving' the transfers when fares are collected, the conductor will simply proceed in the same manner as in giving transfers when the station is reached. My transfer will effectually prevent mistakes on the part of the conductor as well as on the part of the passeng'er. If a car is traveling' south, the conductor knows he must tear off a South coupon every time a transfer is issued, and the coupon left along'side of the South coupon detached plainly indicates to the passenger the direction in which he is transferred. As a further precaution against mistake on the part of the passenger as well as the conductor l would recommend that the conductor should tear ofl the entire bunch of coupons at the unused end of the transfer when it is issued. Thus in traveling south and transferring west on the transfer shown in Fig'. 2, (as previously described,) the conductor would detach the South and L East coupons at the lower end of the transfer as well as the South coupon 13 and leave the West coupon 14, plainly indicating' to the passenger the direction in which he is transferred. As before stated, my invention is particularly useful in transferring' the passenger a second time and oftener, which is now done by issuing separate transfers each time. Besides greatly simplifying the work of the conductor and indicating' to the passenger the only direction in which he can travel, my improved transfer will save the large additional' expense of the extra transfers heretofore used.

The designations in the station-sections may be of any suitable character to indicate the lines to which the passenger may be transferred, whether they belong to one or to different systems. In Fig'. l I have used designations which c'orrespond to the names of the streets on which the intersecting' lines travel.

This enables the use of the same transfer by all of these different lines, and the conductor who issues the transfer will of course mark all of the original transfers which he issues for identification by punching' or otherwise marking' the station-section which designates the particular line on which he is traveling. Thus the conductor on av State street line would punch the State street station-section. On the North Clark street cable-line, for which the transfer illustrated in Fig. l is especially adapted, the conductor will punch all of his transfers in the first section designated Limitsf which indicates that this conductor and his car started from the limits barn.

Vithout limiting' myself to the use of all the parts illustrated in thel drawings and heretofore described or to the exact arrangement thereof, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A transfer-ticket having' at its end a sec,

tion containing' a word indicating a point of the compass, and a series of, coupons located side by side and separated from each other and from the ticket by lines of perforations, said coupons each having a word thereon indicating a .point of the compass.

2. A transfer-ticket having' panels or sections containing' the names of transfer-stations, a section at the end containing' a word to indicate a point of the compass, and a series of coupons located side by side at the ends of the ticket, said coupons being separated one from the other by lines of perforations, and each coupon containing' a word indicating a cardinal point.

HENRY J. BERGER. ihlitiiesses:

XVM. O. BELT, HELEN L. PEcK.

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