US968287A - Compartment-case. - Google Patents

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COLIN A. STUDDS, OF GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR TO AMERICAN RAILWAY SUPPLY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A JOINT STOCK ASSOCIATION.

COMPARTMENT-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed, March 2, 1910. Serial No. 546327.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, CoLIN A. STUDDS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Garden City, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Compartment-Case, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in cases adapted for use in ticket ofiices and the like, for holding a large number of different kinds of tickets, printed slips or other similar devices, but relates more particularly to ticket cases designed for use in railway oiiices for holding the tickets for cars in which seat reservations are sold, as for instance, parlor cars, sleeping cars, observation cars and the like, and also for holding the car schedules or diagrams upon which a record is kept of the tickets sold for each individual seat.

In the ticket offices of large cities it is customary to keep all or most of the car schedules or cliagrams in one office, while tickets may be sold not only at this ofiice, but also at numerous other branch offices. As each ticket is sold, the ticket number is telegraphed or telephoned to the main office, so that the records on the diagrams may be complete.

The object of my invention is to simplify the Construction of cases of this character, and to render the tickets and diagrams accessible to a large number of clerks and in a Very convenient and time-saving way.

My improved case is so constructed that it separately receives the car diagrams or schedules for each day of the week upon each train 'for which tickets are sold at the office having the ticket case. The ticket case is so mounted and is so constructed that any diagram may be removed from either side of the case, so that the ticket agents Selling tickets over the counter may readily gain access to the car diagrams to make the entries thereon and to ascertain the car seats available for sale, and` at the same time, these same car diagrams may be removed from the opposite side of the case by the telephone and telegraph clerks, who are hidden from the view of the persons who may at the time be buying tickets over the counter. At the ends of the car-diagram case, are mounted the cases containing the tickets to be sold, and these tickets are accessible from only one side of the diagram case, so that they may be sold over the counter, but are not accessible to the telephone Figure l is a horizontal section through a case constructed in accordance with my invention and showing the disposition of the case within the room; Fig. 2 is a front view of the case, the counter being shown in section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the case and taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

My improved ticket case is preferably mounted within the ticket ofiice in such a position that it virtually forms a partition subdividin the ofiice into separate rooms or rather 1t separates off a small portion of the room. 'In Fig. 1, it is illustrated as positioned within a room having a counter 10, subdividing the room into two portions 11 and 12, the outer portion 11 being for the ticket purchasers and the inner portion 12 being for the ticket agents or ticket-Selling clerks. Extending inwardly from the counter is my improved case which subdivides the portion or space 12 to form a smaller inner ofiice 13'to which access cannot readily be gained by the public. The two ofi'ice portions 12 and 13 are connected by a passageway 14: at the end of my improved case. It is, of course, evident that the ticket case might be arranged in various difierent ways in respect to the counter and the walls, but the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 1, has been found very convenient. In the specific form illustrated in the drawings, the case is subdivided into four separate sections 15, 16, 17 and 18, the two terminal sections 15 and 18 being adapted to hold tickets, while the two intermediate sections 16 and 17 are designed to hold car schedules or diagrams. The two center sections 16 and 17 are directly in alinement with each other, while the terminal sections 15 and 18 are in the form of wings inclined forwardly toward the outer or main ticket ofice portion 12. The terminal or wing sections 15 and 18 are closed at the rear and are subdivided into a plurality of compartments Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

in any suitable manner. The different compartments hold the seat reservations for different destinations, the tickets being held in any suitable manner. The details of construction of the terminal or wing sections 15 and 18 do not involve any essential portion of my invention. One of the terminal sections, for instance, the section 18, may hold the parlor car tickets, while the opposite terminal section 15 may hold the sleeping car tickets. The two intermediate sections 16 and 17 serve to hold the car diagrams for the cars, the tickets to which are in the adjacent terminal sections; that is, if the sections 15 and 18 be for sleepng and parlor car tickets, respectively, then the sections 16 and 17 will be for the sleeping and parlor car diagrams, respectively. Each section 16 and 17 is subdivided into a plurality of columns 19, and a plurality of horizontal rows 20 formed by suitable partitions. Preferably, there are seven columns, one for each day of the week and the names of these days of the week are printed at the ends of the columns to properly desgnate them. The number of horizontal rows depends upon the number of trains for which seat reservations are sold at the particular station having the ticket case, Each horizontal row is designated at the end by an oflicial train number, so that there will be a compartment corresponding to every train leaving the station during a complete week. As previously stated, the end sections 15 and 18, that is, the ticket sections, open only toward the ofiice portion 12 and are closed at the sides toward the rear or back ofiice portion 13. The intermediate sections 16 and 17 are open at the rear, as well as at the front, so that the contents of the separate compartments or pigeonholes may be removed from either end. Each compartment or pigeonhole is of such size as to receive a car diagram of the customary size, and upon which diagram are blank spaces corresponding to the several seats in the car. Thus, the several car diagrams may be taken from either end of their respective compartments and are accessible to separate sets of clerks or employees.

The ticket case proper rests upon a table or counter 21, extending in the same general direction as the ticket case, and of such width as to present oppositely-disposed shel'ves or table portions 22 and 23, along opposite sides thereof. At the rear table or desk portion 23 are normally seated the telephone and telegraph clerks, who give information to branch ticket ofiices and to prospective purchasers as to the unsold seats on any particular train, and who also mark upon the car diagrams, the ticket numbers or the tickets sold for the individual seat at the branch ticket offices or at other places Where tickets are sold. At the same time, the clerks or ticket agents in the outer or main otticc 12 may readily gain access to the car diagrams so as to give information. to the public over the desk 10, as to the unsold seats, and may mark upon the car diagrams the ticket numbers when the tickets are sold. The telephone and telegraph clerks are out of the View ot' the public at the outer desk 10, and thus they are not disturbed in their work by the persons purchasing tickets in the outer oti ice. The car diagrams may be equally accessible to bot-h sets of clerks, but the tickets themselves are only accessible to the clerks whose business it is to sell them.

The details of Construction of the parts are not at all important and may be changed or rearranged in any suitable manner.

As illustrated, I utilize the space beneath the table or desk portion-s 22 and 23, :for drawers 24, and the spaces between adj acen-t sections and at the ends of the terminal sections are utilized as storage compartments 25, for the reception of extra tickets, diagrams, or any other articles. These compartments 25 open toward the rear and may normally be closed by any suitable form of doors or closures 26.

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

1. A case having a center section and two side or wing sections set at an angle to saicl center section at the ends of the latter, said center section being subdivided into a plurality of compartments for car diagrams, and each compartment being open at both ends to permit the removal ot' the car diagrams from either end, and said end sections being adapted to receive tickets and accessible only 'rom the side forming the obtuse angle with said center section, the tickets within the last-mentioned sections being for reservations indicated on said car diagrams.

2. A case having a main section, a side or end section set at an obtuse angle to said main section, said main section having a plurality of compartments forming a plurality of columns and a plurality of transverse rows, said columns being marked to designate separate time intervals and said rows being marked to designate separate trains, said compartments being adapted to receive car diagrams and being open at both ends to permit the removal of the car diagrams from either end, and said end section` being adapted to receive tickets and subdivided into a plurality of compartments, said last-mentioned compartments being open only at the inner side of the obtuse angle.-

3. A casing having a main section and an auxiliary section, said main section having a plurality of partitions subdividing it into a plurality of compartments forming a pluraiity of Vertical rows and a plurality of horizontal rows, the rows extending n one direction being marked to designate separate time intervals and the rows extending in the other direction being marked to designate separate trains, said com artments being adapted to receive car being open at both ends to permit the removal of car diagrams from either end, and

10 said auxiiiary section being adapted to reiagrans and name to this specification in the presence of 15 two subscribing witnesses.

COLIN A. STUDDS. Witnesses: v

W. E. EASTMAN, Jr., JULIUs S. ALHs.

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