US834860A - Transportation-ticket. - Google Patents

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No. 834,860. PATENTED 00T. so, 1906..

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'TRANSPORTATIONTIGKET- APPLICATION FILED JAN.17,.1906

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE. JOSEPH S; YOUNG, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

TRANSPORTATION-TICKET. i

N o. 834,860. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 17, 51906. Serial N o. 296.575.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

To all whom, t may concern:

. Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements' in Transportation Tickets; and I do hereby declare .the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled vin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,` reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and "tothe letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to tickets of the class which are used to indicate cash fares collected on steam or electric railway trains, boats, &c., and combine both a passengers receipt or voucher for the fare .paid anda stub which acts as a check upon the conductor or other oflicer whereby to compel him to account yfor the money collected. Many forms of ticket have been devised and more or'less extensively used for this purpose.- 'f i t has been found in practice thatrwith many of the forms of tickets heretofore used a dishonest conductor can, without being detected by the passenger, so punch the ticket as to indicate on his check, or the portiorifto be turned in to the auditor, a different amount from that collected and indicated on the passengers receipt or voucher, thus enabling him to perpetrate a fraud upon the company by accounting for a less amount than that actually collected. v

It is the object of my invention to overcome this difficulty by the provision of a simple form of ticket which has the list of stations between which the car travels and the numerals designating the fare amounts each arranged in duplicate and so positioned relative to the other that a double check upon the conductor is provided without necessitating a perforating or punching of the ticket further than to designate the stations between which the passenger has paid his fare.

Further objects of the invention will be apparent by reference to the following specification and to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which* y Figure 1 is a top view of the upper half of the ticket comprising my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar -view thereof with a portion of the upper half or passengers receipt torn away and showing a portion of the auditors check,

,and Fi 3 is a view showing the ticket opened `up to isclose the face of the auditors check and the back of the passengers receipt.

Referring to the drawings, A represents lthe upper half or portion of the ticket comprising the passengers voucher, and B the l lower half or portion comprising the auditors check, said sections being separated by a lon- I gitudinal perforation or weakened line C, Each of these the parts a a the parts along which they are folded.

sections is in turn divided into and?) b', respectively, being provided with along the line on which the ticket is vto be used, while the parts a and b are each vided with a row of numerals which extend longitudinally thereof and designate fare amounts. The list of stations a o contain data designating which is the auditors check and which the passengers receipt, the name of the road issuing the ticket, the number of the ticket, and other usual data, substantially as shown in the drawings. The list ofstations is lon itudinally divided by a line c, one side of w 'ch is marked from and the other side to to f enable the ticket to be punched to designate the direction in which the passenger is riding. The art c of the passengers receipt is provide .witha plurality of transversely-disp osed perforated lines d, which entirely cross the rated line C and separate each of the fare-numerals on that part, as shown, thus enabling the passengers receipt to be torn from the ticket along the perforated line C and the perforated line d, disposed immediately below the numeral corresponding to the amount of fare paid, the said receipt containing the part aand the portion of the part a which includes as its last numeral the one equal to the amount of the fare paid. The names of the stations contained in the parts a and b of the ticket are correspondingly positioned, so that a name on the part b is disposed directly under the like name on the part a, thus enabling a single operation of a punch to correspondingly perforate the like names on the two parts. The fare-numerals provided on the parts a and b are also correspondingly positioned longitudinally of the parts bearing them, but are slightly offset froY each other transversely of the ticket, so that when a part of the section A is torn off the re airing portion of the nuerals on the part a will a and b' each,y a list of the stationsl pro- 1parts a b in addition to the.'

same, merging at their inner ends in the perfo- IOO llt

not appear in direct alinement with the column of numerals on the section B, as shown in Fig. 2.

lt will thus be apparent that a double 5 check is provided on the auditors stub or check against the conductor after he has punched the stations between which the passenger has paid his fare and torn from the section A of the ticket the part a and the porio tion of the part a', including as its last nu- `meral the one designating the amount of fare paid, inasmuch as the punch-marks designate the distance the passenger traveled, and the fare numeral occurring immediately i 5 above the end of the part a, from which the passengers receipt was severed, designates the amount of fare paid-as, for instance, in Fig. 2 the punch-perforations show that the passenger went from Toledo to Porta fezo and the point of transverse separation of the passengers receipt from the stub discloses on the section B that a fare of fifty cents was ai p Having thus described my invention, what z5 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A transportation-ticket comprising two sections folded upon each other along a perforated or weakened line, and each having 3o registering station-names and a column of fare-numerals, the numerals on one section being separated by transversely -perforated lines and positioned to aline transversely with the like numerals on the other section.

3 2. A transportation-ticket comprising two sections folded upon each other along a perforated line, one section forming a passengers receipt and the other a check-stub for registering positions longitudinally of the seetions, tlie numerals on the passengers reeeipt-section being separated by perforated lines which extend transversely of such sec- 45 tion and merge at their inner ends in the p erforated line along which the sections are folded.

3. Atransportation-ticket having a checksection and a receipt-section folded upon 5o each other along a weakened line and each. bearing the saine station-names in registering positions, whereby the like name on both sections may be punched at one operation, and a like column of fare-numerals in regis- 5 5 tering positions longitudinally of the sections, the numerals on the receipt-section bel ing separated by perforated lines which extend from the weakened line completely across the section. 6o 4. A transportation-ticket comprising a check-section and a receipt-section folded upon each other along a perforated line, each section being divided longitudinally of the ticket into two substantially like parts, the 65 like parts at one end of the ticket bearing like station-naines in registering positions and the like parts at the other end bearing like columns of fare-numerals in registering posithe numerals on the receipt-section being spaced by transverse perforated lilies which extend completely across the section and connect with the perforated line along which the sections are folded. 75 In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. l

JOSEPH S. YOUNG.

the receipt and each bearing a set of like sta- Witnesses: 4o tion-names in registering positions and a CORNELL Seiinninnii,

column of like farenumerals arranged 1n C. W. OWEN.

tions arranged longitudinally of the ticket, 7o

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