US867085A - Fare-register attachment. - Google Patents

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No. 867,085. PATENTED SEPT. 24, 1907.

J. n. SCOTT. FARE REGISTER ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOA'HOI FILED D30. 12, 1906.

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V v INVENTOR m 5 .BY ai A TTORNE Y JOHN R. SCOTT, Ol OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

FARE-REGISTER ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1907.

Application filed December 12,1906. Serial No. 347,457.

To all whom 1'! may concern:

e it known that I, Jenn R. Sco'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county oi Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fare-Register Attachments, of which the l'ollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an attachment for tare registors, such as are employed in street cars and the like for registering cash fares and transfers.

The objectof the present invention is to provide a 'n'otective device to be attached to the mechanism [or operating the fare register and to be actuated in. unison therewith, whereby losses to the street car coinpanies by reason of knocking down of fares by dishonest employees, may be lessened.

The invention comprehends the connection of the fare register mechanism with the electric lighting circuit on the car, whereby the lights will be turned off, or on, according as it is night or day, to indicate to the passengers that. the proper [are or l'ares have been rung up.

Having rel'crence to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of part oi an end of a car showing application oi my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view shtnving a modification 01' same. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view oi the apparatus represented in Fig. 2.

In the embodiment oi my invention A represents a car provided with the usual [are register 2, having an operating lever 3; said lever being connected with an arm on the usual rock shai t 5, which latter is provided with projections or arms (5 to be grasped by the conductor.

Rocking an arm ti in one direction, will cause the register lever 3 to record cash fares, and rocking the arm (3 in the opposite direction will cause the same lever to register transfers; all of which is well known in the art.

7 a switch controlling the electric lighting circuit on the car. This switch may be of any appropriate term. In the present instance, [or the purpose of adapting this switch to my invention, the switch is shown as a knit'cswitcli, held normally open by means of the spring 8.

The switch 7 is connected with the lever 23 by means of a cord or strap 9, so that when the lever (S is pulled down on in the direction of the arrow to indicate a cash fare on the register 2, the switch is closed momentarily to turn on the lights 10 in the car, my invention being that the actual lighting circuit oi the car shall be turned oil or on, according as the case may be, each time that a cash [are is rung up, so that every passenger on the car, whether he is in sight of the fare register or not, or whether he can hear the bell or not, will know that a cash fare is being rung up, or will know that it is not being rung up properly.

Although the invention is shown with the switch adapted normally to cut out the lights, it is manifest l that the principle is the same, whether the lights are continually lighted or normally extinguished; the two conditions being analogous, and my invention being readily adaptable to either.

By using a flexible cord to connect the switch and lever 23, or by using as here shown a link 9 pivoted to lever 3 and sliding in guides 11 and having an elongated slot or loop in which the switch 7 is engaged, the latter will only be affected to turn oi'i' or to turn on the lights when the taro register lever is operated to ring up a cash i'are; that is when the lever (5 is pulled down. It a transfer is to be recorded on the [are register, lever 3 is rocked in the opposite direction, but as no motion is imparted to the switch 7 the lighting circuit remains unai't'ect-cd. This is advisable, because it indicates to the passengers whether a cash fare is paid, or whether a transfer is recorded; it being common practice with dishonest conductors to obtain iraudulent transfers, and when occasion offers to ring up these transfers in lieu oi actual cash l'ares paid. By using my system whereby the lights are turned on for cash iares, and are unall'eeted for transfers, the o mortunities for dishonest practice are materially lessened.

In some i'are register systems where iares oi dil't'erent denominations are collected; as for example 5c, 10c, 15c, &c., according to the distance ol' travel, it is common to employ a rockable shalt; said shaft carrying a pointer movable over a dial on which is described [arcs of ditlerent denominations. Bei'ore ringing up a l'are it is the duty oi the conductor to turn this shaft to bring the pointer to the figure or figures which indicate the fare collected, then the are is rung up on the register in the usual way. My invention is applicable to this system as is shown in Fig. 23, wherein l2represents the rock shalt carrying a pointer 13 movable over conducting plates l415l6; said plates having indicated thereon various denominations as 5c l0c and l5c the iare to be collected. The pointer 13 is electrically conductive. and so are the plates l415-l6. The pointer and these plates are suitably insulated and are normally out oi circuit with one another and the pointer is adapted to be brought successively and the plates and to contact therewith to close the circuit between the pointer and the desired plate and thereby to cut in a special lighting circuit. The pointer 13 is shown as being in electrical connection through the wire l7 with the switch 7. which is spring actuated and which is connected with the register lever 3, as previously described. 18 is the opposed member to the knife switch 7 and this member 18 is connected by the wires 19 with. one side of the main lighting circuit. The plates l ll.5ltj control each a respective lighting circuit, the lights 20 in the circuit which is controlled by the plate 14 being preferably of one color, as white, the lights 21 which are controlled by the plate 15 being of another color, as red, and the lights 22 controlled by the plate 16 being still of another color, as yellow; these several lighting circuits being connected with the opposite wire 23 of the main lighting circuit.

In operation when the pointer 13 is turned to indicate the 5 cent fare, say aswould be shown by plate 14, the pointer and plate 14 are brought into electric contact. When the fare register lever is operated to indicate the fare, the switch 7 is closed and the white circuit is lighted up. If the fare should be a 10c fare, and the pointer 13 turned to contact with the plate 15. the red circuit would be lighted, (to; while if the pointer is turned to 24 to indicate transfer, the pointer being out of all electric circuits, no lights will be affected.

It will be manifest that the invention is capable of practice in a variety of forms without departing from the principle herein illustrated.

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

1. The combinatlon in a car, of a fare register having an operating lever, an electric lighting circuit, a switch controlling said circuit, connections between said switch and said lever, and means for operating the lever in two directions, said connections operating in one direction without changing the normal position of the switch and operating in a reverse direction to close the switch and cut-in the light cotirdinately with the register of a fare.

2. The combination of a fare register, means for operating the register, means for indicating fares of different denominations paid, an electric lighting circuit corresponding to fares of difierent denominations, means for controlling said circuits correspondingly with the denominations of the fares indicated, and means permitting the register to be operated without changing the lighting circuit, when a different character of fare is rung up.

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

JOHN R. SCOTT.

Witnesses C. S. MACMULLAN, W. E. Soom.

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