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J. F. OHMER. FARE REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 3, 1912.

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Reissued J an. 28, 1913.

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J. F. OHMER. rum REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED ABLE, 1912- Relssued Jan. 28, 1913.

J. F. OHMER. FARE REGISTER.

APPLIUATIUN FILED APB..8, 1912, Reissued Jan. 28, 1913. 1 3,520.

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J. F. OHMER.

FARE REGISTER. APPLIUATION FILED APR.8, 1912.

Reissued Jan. 28, 1913.

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JOHN F. OHMER, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 OHMER FARE REGISTER COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

FARE-REGISTER.

Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissued Jan. 28, 1913 Original No. 911,518, dated February 2, 1909, Serial No. 387,290. Application for reissue filed April 8, 1912. Serial No. 689,433.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN F. OHMER, a i citizen of the United States, and a resldent of Dayton, county of Montgomery, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Registers, and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will. enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom 'ianying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in machines for registering, indicating and recording a multiplicity of fares.

The invention relates to that type of machines in which the fares to be registered and indicated therein are selected, or set, from diiferent points of the car and are likewise operated from different points of the car in registering and indicating at the reg ister or machine, the fare so selected or set. The recording features of this type of machines are such that records or statements may be taken therefrom showing the amount or number of fares collected for any given period of time, each fare denomination beiug classified by itself, as well as the sum of all the fares collected, which may include the cash fares and tickets, or the cash fares may be totalized separately. Such records or statements may also show the date or dates upon which they are taken together With the conductors identification number or mark, and the number of the machine. etc:, as shown and described in several of my former patents. notably among which may be mentioned No. 715,129 granted Dec. 2, 1902, and No. 813, 17 granted Feb. Q0, 1906.

The object of the invention is to provide a fare indicator which is capable of indieating a maximum number of specific fare denominations, say for example, 999, and which occupies a minimum of space, and is therefore, available for the purposes of a multiple fare register without requiring an undue enlargement of the register or machine. A register With such an indicator is adapted for use 011 inter-urban roads or roads Where the fares are regulated according to mileage. In order for a machine to be available for this character of service, it must necessarily have a large fare indicating capacity, depending upon the length of the road, and the size of the machine must be kept within certain limits.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for concealing from view the fares, upon being selected or set, and to permit of their exposure immediately upon the fare being rung up or registered, and means for actuating the printing or recordmaking mechanism from the mechanism through which the consecutive printing counter and the passenger indicator counters are operated.

Preceding a more detailed description of my invention, reference is made to the accom 'ianying drawings, of which Figure 1, is a front elevation of my invention, showing the machine connected to the setting mechanism, through Which the fares are selected for registration and indication. Fig. 2, is a front elevation of the machine with the front casing removed. Fig. 3, is a section on the line a-a of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a view of the rear frame showing the actuating slides in position. Fig. 5, is an elevation of the right hand side of the printing mechanism. Fig. 6, is a similar view of the left hand side of the printing mechanism. Fig. 7, is a perspective view of the reciprocating frame of the blind which operates in connection With the combined indicator and printing Wheels. Fig. 8, is a plan view of the setting mechanism. Fig. 9, is a view of the indicating dials on the set ting rods. Fig. 10, is a sectional view of the fare-indicators and shafts. Fig. 11, is a view of the printed statement taken from the machine in the operation of registering a fare. Fig. 12, is a view of a modification of the combined fare-indicating and printing wheels. Fig. 13, is a view of the main actuating mechanism and the operating member. Fig. 1.4, is a detail elevation of the printing counter operating mechanism.

In a detail description of the invention, similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

The inclosing frame is of suitable dimensions to house the various mechanisms and consists of parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 indicating the respective sides, top and bottom, the bottom being hinged to the rear side of the casing and held in place by a suitable lock 5*. Supported upon the rear wall of the casing are two brackets G in which are journaled telescopic shafts 10, 11 and 12, shaft 12 being the inner shaft of the series.

As shown in Fig. 10, the rotary fare indicators or wheels 78 and 9 are mounted on said shafts and are grouped in a unit tens and hundreds series. These indicators may contain indicating characters alone or they may contain both indicating and printing members or characters. It will be seen from Figs. 1 and 2, the said indicators have upon their peripheries, each, digits or numerals from 1 to 9 inclusive, and 0'. The unit indicator indicating fares from 1c to 9c; the next adjacent or tens indicator having a similar number of digits or numerals which cooperate with the unit indicator in indicating fares from 10 to 99 and the next adjacent indicator or the hundreds wheel having a similar number of digits or numerals which cooperate with those of the unit and tens indicators in indicating fares from $1.10 to $9.99. There may be also arranged on the peripheries of these wheels or indicators, a series of letters which are readable together, that is to say, there is one or more letters on each wheel which is readable with a letter on the adjacent wheel when these letters are brought into alinement, for example, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the abbreviated word Tic is indicated on the three wheels, the letters being arranged to be readable when brought in alinement. There may also be three other letters on the wheels readable in the same manner to indicate a transfer collection, for example, Traf. It will be understood that each of these wheels has two spaces not occupied by numerals, and it is in these cases that the letters are placed to indicate tickets and transfers, the numerals serving to indicate cash fare collections.

The modification shown in Fig. 12, contemplates means upon each individual wheel to indicate tickets, transfers, passes, and any other data that it may be desired to indicate concurrently with the indications of the fares on said wheels. It will be noted that in this modification, the indications other than the numerals are readable upon each wheel and not collectively as they are in Fig. .2. Also arranged upon the peripheries of these wheels at points adjacent to the indications thereonare raised type corresponding to the indications on the wheels. The arrangement of the type relatively to the indicating characters on the wheels is such that when any specific numeral or digit is in a position to be seen through the sight opening 2", the corresponding type of that indication is in the lower or printing position as shown in Fig. So far as I am awarc,it is new to employ three separate and distinct dials which may be employed collectively to indicate a greater number of fares than it is possible to indicate on one or two of such dials only, each dial being operable independently of its neighbor, and by means of which a machine of comparatively small. size may have a capacity for registering and indicating a. large aggregate of fares. I. also believe it to be new to print from such indicators the same fare which is indicated. The printing type are designated by 29 and are so arranged that when in their lowermost position, each type lies immediately above a platen 99 supported on side plates 94 at 100.

The printing mechanism will be referred to again. The combined indicator and printing wheels 78 and {I as before stated, are connected to telescopic shafts 10-11 and 12 which extend upon the outside of the machine as shown in Fig. 1, and connect with the setting shafts 36 37 and 38 which extend on the interior of the car. These connections. between the setting shafts and the telescopic shafts of the wheels are supported by the framework 39, which also supports the telescopic shafts on the outside of the register casing. The outer telescopic shaft 10 has a bevel gear 30 which is in mesh with a similar gear 33 on the setting shaft 36; this shaft being the unit shaft of the series. The intermediate telescopic shaft 11 has upon its end a similar bevel gear 31 engaging a bevel gear 34 on the tens setting shaft 37, and likewise the innermost. telescopic shaft 1:2 has a bevel gear wheel 32 engaging a similar gear 33 on the hundreds setting shaft All of these shafts have hand pieces 40l1 and at suitable points which are gripped by the operator in turning the shafts of any selected indicating wheel.

Arranged at suitable intermediate points along the setting rods 3li37 and are any desirable number of series of fare-selecting indicators which enable the operator to select the desired fare while observing the selecting indicators; these selecting indicators are 43-44 and 4:5, to-wit: units tens and hundreds. all of said indicating wheels being on the intermediate or tens shaft. These indicator wheels cotipcrate with sight openings 51 in a guard 50, the guard 50 being loosely supported upon the setting shafts 36 and 38. The unit indicator 43 is geared to the unit setting shaft 36 by spur wheels it and -17. The tens indicating wheel ii is fast upon the setting shaft 37 while the hundreds indicating wheel 45 is loose upon the shaft 37 and is operated from the setting shaft 88 through spur wheels 48 and 49. At one end of the car, to-witthe end opposite that at which the machine is located, the setting shafts are provided with selecting dials 5253 and 51,through the axes of which the setting rods pass. These dials 5253 and 54: as Well as the indicating wheels 43-M and 45 through which the fares are selected, have indications corresponding to the indications and the printing characters on the wheels in the register, to-wit-wheels 7-8 and 9. The setting rods have the usual pointers 55 56 and 57 which operate in connection with the indications shown on the selecting dials 52-53 and 54. Each of the combined indicating and printing wheels 7-8 and 9 has upon a face thereof a serrated wheel 13 which is fixed in its position. Adapted to ride in. and out of the serrations in these wheels 13 is a series of rollers 14 carried upon arms 15 which are rigidly attached to a shaft 16. the latter shaft being journaled in brackets 17 which are extensions of the brackets 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

Rigidly attached to one end of the shaft 16 is an arm 18 which has a slot 19 to receive a pin 20 which projects from. the side plate 21 of the blind 22. The frame of the blind 22, mid-way of its length. has suitable openings which receive the telescopic shafts 10-11 and 12 upon which it has its fulcrum. Connecting the rear end of the frame of the blind 22 is a rod 23 which operates in connection with parts presently described. In the operation of setting a selected wheel 7, 8 or 9 to a position to indicate or print, the serrated wheel 13 attached to said wheel will cause the roller 14 cooperating with such serrated wheel to ride out: of the serrations in said wheel 13; the effect of this is to cause the shaft. 16 to rock, the arms 15 acting as a crank to rock said shaft and therewith the slotted arm 18 to elevate the rearward end of the frame 21 of the blind and to lower the blind 22 in front of the fare to be indicated and in the rear of the sight opening 2'. The position of these parts when so elevated. is shown in Fig. 3 in dotted lines, and in which position. the rod 23 extending between the rear ends of the frame 21 of the blind 22 is in engagement with the upper end of the pawl 58, said upper end being indicated by 62 and consisting of a shoulder especially adapted to engage the rod 23 when in such position.

The pawl or detent 58 is pivoted in the lower portion of the casing at 60 and stands upright, being normally pressed forward by a spring 61 secured to the back of the casing. The front side of the pawl 58 has an upward and outward inclination 59 with which a pin 66 is in constant engagement. This pin extends from a projection on the lower portion of the vertical operating member 63. This vertical operating member 63 moves in guides 64 on the back of the casing, and is elevated by means presently described. The pin 66 moving upwardly against the inclined side of the pawl 58, moves said pawl rearwardly a sufficient distance to release the rod 23 of the blind 22 from engagement with the shoulder 62 on the upper end of said pawl 58. It will be understood that, when. the rod 23 of the blind is thus supported on the upper end of the pawl 58, the blind 22 closes the sight opening 2*.

\Vhen the operation of the member 63 takes place, the blind 22 is made to clear the sight opening to reveal the indications on the indicator wheels which were previously moved to position. In this operative movement of the member 63 simultaneous move ment is imparted to a set of consecutive printing counters 72 which may otherwise be termed passenger or fare printing counters. A distinction may be kept in mind between these counters and the combined indicator and printing wheels 7, 8 and 9 by contemplating the latter wheels in the sense of printing the values of the fares, while the printing counters 72 print consecutively the fares. The printing counters 72 are of a well-known transfer type and are loosely mounted upon a shaft 74 which is supported in brackets 76 extending rearwuirdly from the back of the casing. In mesh with the gear wheels of said counters 72 are the transfer or driving gears 73 loose upon shaft 75 mounted in an extended portion of the brackets 76-see Figs. 2 and 14. The initial driving gear 73 is engaged by the driving pawl 78 which is pivoted to a pawl-supporting arm 79 which loosely incloscs the shaft 75 adjacent to the gear 73.

The pawl support 79 projects into the recessed end of an actuating arm 80 which is rigidly secured to one side of the actuating slide or member 81, the latter being movable in guides 82 on the rear side or back of the casing. This actuating member 81 in addition to operating the consecutive printing counters 72. also operates the printing devices shown in Figs. 5 and G to be presently described, and in this connection, it may be stated that the operating member 63 referred to in connection with the means for releasing the indicator blind 22 and said operating member 81, are operated simultaneously from the main actuator or frame 68 shown in Figs. 4 and 13. This actuating frame 68 moves vertically from guides 69 on the back of the casing and. has a transverse slot into which projects a lug 67 on the operating member 63, and a lug 83 on the operating member 81.

Pivoted at with the main operating member 68 is the lower arm of a bell crank lever 71, the upper arm of which is connected with a rope or other flexible connection 71 which extends to points on the interior of the car and through which the main 0pm- 1 ating member 68 is operated to simultaneouslv release the blind 22, actuate the passenger indicator 125 to be presently described, actuate the consecutive printing counters 72, and the printing roll 117, and the printing mechanism.

The printing mechanism will now be described. It may be stated that it is essential that the consecutive printing counters 72 be free from any movement when the printing operation takes place. To insure this, the pawl of the printing mechanism as shown in Fig. 11, is provided with an upper arm H4 which moves in the path of a pin S5 supported in a stationary arm 86 projected from the shaft T5. hen the pawl-simporting arm Tt carries the pawl to the extent necessary to more the printing counters T2 to the position to print, the arm 81 of said pawl engaging the pin 85 frees said pawl from engagement with the ratchet wheel T7 of the transfer wheels and thus the printing counters T2 are enabled to stop, before the printing operation takes place.

The printing surfaces of the counters 72 and the type 29, are in alinenicnt as it will be observed from Fig. of the drawings. The inking roller 11? caused to move over the faces of the type on these devices at the proper time as presently shown. The said inking roller 117 supported at each end on arms 118 which are pivoted at. 11!) and are connected with coil springs 120 which normally maintain the inking roller in a position to be engaged by trip devices and to be moved thereby over the faces of the printing type. These trip devices consist of two pins projecting laterally from two disks 101 and. 111 located IfiHlltt tively. on the opposite ends of shaft 97 which shaft is journaled in the side plates 91 of the printing mechanism. The shaft 97 is driven through means of a pinion 103 on one end thereof which is engaged by one side of a gear 101? pivoted at 101' to one of the side plates 91. These plates are joined by a horizontal guard 96. The gear 106 is in mesh with a rack 108 which is tixcd to the rear side of the operating member 81 which has been before referred to in connection with Fig. 11. It will thus be seen that when the operating member is elevated. the consecutive printing counters T2 and the inking device are operated. The pins in the rotations of the disks, 10-1 and 114, will in time engage projections 121 on the ends of the arms 118 supporting the inking roller 117, and as the l of IIH1)I6 SlOIlS taken from the wheels 88 and disks are continued in their rotations, the inking roller is drawn by the pins across the surfaces of the printing counters T2 and the type 2!). The arms 118 are thus moved by the pins 122 engaging the pro jections 1:21 against. the tension of the springs 120 hereinbefore referred to and the said springs return the arms and the inking roller to their normal position as shown in Fig. 3, when the pins are moved far enough to release the projections 121. The shaft 9? carries a suitable number of cams 98 which engage a transverse bar supporting a platen 99, said bar being supported on arms 99 which are pivoted at 100 to the side plates 91.

From Fig. 3, it will be seen that the pins engage the inking devices in advance of the cams 98, the cam or cams 98 in turn elevating the platen 99 to press the web of paper 115 which leads from a continuous roll, the shaft of which is mounted in the side plates 91. This web of paper leading from said roll passes over the upper side of the platen 92) and through two unwinding rolls 109 and 110 journaled in the side plates 9-1 and having enlarged peripheral portions 111 which grip the web of paper and unwind the same during each operation of the shaft 97. These unwinding rolls 109 and 110 are moved concurrently with and from the shaft 97. On the end of the shaft 97 opposite that end which has the driving pinion 105, the disk 114 is provided with a single tooth 113 which engages a mutilated gear 112 on the end of one of the unwinding rollers and thus an intermittent movement is imparted to one of said rollers, to-wit roller 110, the other roller, to-wit109, being driven therefrom by the friction due to the enlarged portion 111. The side plates 91 of the printing mechanisn'i are pivoted at 95 to a statioiniry part in the base of the casing and are supported by means of pins 116 on the outer sides thereof which engage uprights 11a extending from the floor of the casing. in alinement with the consecutive printing counters 72 there are months and dates printing wheels 87 and SR, the former of which printing numbers corresponding to the days of the month and is connected with a date-setting wheel 91 located on the outer side of the casing. The months printing wheel is likewise connected with a setting wheel 90 having corresponding inscriptions thereon and which is also located on the outer side of the casing, these months and dates printing wheels are thus manipulated from the outer side of the casing to set them to the desired printing positions.

The printed record as shown in Fig. 11, illustrates a statement that may be taken from the machine. leading this statement. from left to right, a and b are the columns ST; the four columns indicated by c are the impressions taken from the consecutive printing counters; the three columns d, e and are the impressions taken from the type characters on the indicator wheels 7, S and S), and as these impressions clearly indicate, the characters in the three columns are readable in combination, for example, 125 being the first three figures in the columns signifies $1.25 fare collection, while the next row of indications or impressions, to wit-Tic stands for a ticket collection. The last column of impressions, to witg designates the conductors identification and are taken from a type 92 on the end of the identification key 92 which is insertible in an apertured support 93 in the casing as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The passenger or trip indicator wheels 125 are mounted in the upper portion of the casing upon shaft 123 which extends out of the casing and is provided with a hand piece 133 by which it is manipulated to set the wheels to zero. The shaft 123 is supported in brackets 124 extending from the back of the casing. These wheels are of a well known construction, and each one is provided with a ratchet wheel 126 fixed to its outer side. Adapted to engage with these ratchet wheels 126 is a tripled tooth pawl 12?, the teeth of which are arranged out of alinement in a well-known manner to properly engage corresponding teeth in the ratchet wheels 126. These pawls are pivoted upon a suitable shaft 132 which is connected to the operating member 63 through means of a link 129 the lower end of said link being pivoted to said operating member at 131. Also connected with each end of the rod 132 are the arms 128 which support the blind or flash 130 which is movable over the front of the trip or passenger wheels in a well-known manner to conceal the indication on said wheels until each operation of the machine is completed. After the completion of each operation, the indication or indications on said wheels are visible through the upper sight opening 2" in the front of the machine.

Briefly describing the operations; if it is desirable to set a 5e fare for registration and indication, the setting rod of the unit indicator is operated to indicate 5 and the other two indicators are turned to zero; or, in selecting a 10 fare for registration and indication, the setting rods of the unit and tens indicators are turned to indicate 1 and 0 respectively; or, in selecting a. fare amounting say to $1.10, the setting rods of the three indicators are operated to combine the indications. The operation of the unit indicator concurrently lowers the blind or flash 22 to conceal the indication. It will be remembered that the blind is maintained in this position by the rod 23 being elevated to engagement with the shoulder 62 on the upper end of the upright pawl 58. During the turning of one or the other of said wheels, the rollers on the ends of the arms 15 jump in and out of the recesses in the wheels 13 and thus impart movement to the slotted arm 18 to elevate the frame or side plates 21 of the blind or iiash 22. At the termination of each setting operation of the wheels 7, 8 and 9, a retaining roll 25, of which there is one mounted upon each of three arms 20 pivoted at 27, jumps into recesses in the wheels and serves to hold the wheels in their set positions. The rearward ends of the arms 26 have springs 28 connected to them which exert a pressure serving to maintain the retaining rolls 25 in engagement with the wheels 13. The machine is then set and is ready for operation. This operation takes place by actuating the bell crank lever 71 through the rope or pull connection. The main operating member (38 in this operation lifts the operating members 03 and 81, the former member acting upon the upright pawl 58 to release the blind 22 and permit it to expose the indications on the wheels 7 8 and 9. The blind as soon as released is thrown up by the tension of the coil. spring 24 to expose the fare. Simultaneously therewith, the trip or the passenger indicators 125 are operated owing to their connection with the operating member (33; the consecutive printing counters 72 are simultaneously operated from the operating member 81, and the printing wheels and devices are immediately inked and the inking roller permitted to move away after which the impression resulting in the statement shown in Fig. 11 is taken, all of which operations occurring on the complete and simultaneous upper movements of the two operating members 63 and 81.

It is necessary that the shaft 97 of the printing mechanism shall only have movement in one direction, for example, when the operating member 81 is ascendingsee Fig. 6, on Sheet 4. The pinion 105 and the disk 104 move in unison with each other and are loose upon the shaft 97. Fixed to the shaft 97 on the inside of the disk 104 is a ratchet wheel 101 as seen in Figs. 2 and 6. Engaging this ratchet wheel is a pawl 102 pivoted to the inner side of the disk 104- and normally maintained in engagement with the ratchet wheel by a spring 103 which presses against the upper side of the pawl.

It will be seen that the shaft 97 is moved in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 6 when the operating member 81 ascends, but when the operating member 81 descends, the shaft 97 remains stationary owing to the ratchet pawl being carried away from the ratchet wheel 101.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a registering machine, the combination with an indicating wheel, a serrated wheel attached thereto and movable in unison therewith, a roller adapted to move in and out of the serrations in said serrated wheel in the setting movement of the indicating wheel, and means actuated from said roller to conceal the indication on said indicator Wheel when set, means for holding said concealing means in position to conceal said indicating wheel, and means to release said concealing mechanism when the machine is operated and whereby the indication on the indicating wheel is exposed.

2. In a registering machine, a series of indicating wheels bearing indications denoting specific transactions, a series of serrated wheels, one attached to each indicating wheel, a series of rollers actuated from said serrated wheels, a blind, connections be tween said blind and said rollers whereby the blind is actuated to conceal the indication on said indicating wheels when said indicating wheels are set, and means for setting said indicator wheels.

3. In a registering machine, a series of wheels having indications denoting specific transactions, a series of serrated wheels, one attached to each indicating Wheel, a series of rollers one for each serrated wheel, a blind, connections between said rollers and said blind whereby said blind is actuated by the setting movement of any of the indicating wheels, said blind being movable to a position to conceal an indication on the indicating wheels when the latter are set, and a pawl to hold said blind in position to conceal an indication until the machine is operated.

1. In a registering machine, the combination with a series of indicator wheels, of a blind mounted on arms with rearward extensions, a shaft connecting said rearward extensions, a pawl adapted to engage said shaft to hold the blind in a concealing position until the machine is operated, and means for simultaneously setting the indicator wheels and moving the blind to a concealing position before the operation of the machine.

5. In a registering machine, means bearing indicating characters and printing characters, means for setting said indicating means to indicating and printing positions, means actuated by said setting means to conceal the indication on the indicating means, and actuated concurrently with the operation of registering specific transactions in the machine, and whereby the indication on the indicating means is visually exposed after the transaction has been registered in the machine, and means for taking impressions from said printing characters.

6. In a registering machine, the combination with an indicator wheel, and a serrate-d wheel movable in unison therewith, of a blind adapted to move over the face of the indicator wheel, means interposed between the serrated wheel and the blind whereby said blind is moved to a concealing position when the indicator wheel is set, and means for releasing the blind from its concealing position.

7. In a registering machine, the combination with a passenger indicator, and a fare indicator, of means for concealing the fare indicator simultaneously with its movement to a set position, means for holding said concealing means in position to conceal the fare indicated on said fare indicator, and an operating member common to the passenger indicator and the concealing means of the fare indicator, and by means of which movement is imparted simultaneously to the passenger indicator to indicate the number of passengers, and to the concealing means of the fare indicator to release said means and to thus expose the fare indications on said indicator.

8. In a registering machine, the combination with a passenger indicator, and a fare indicator having visible and printing indicating characters thereon, of means for concealing the indications on said fare indicator when. the latter is set to a position to indicate, printing mechanism adapted to take statements or prints from the printing characters on the fare indicator, and an actuator common to the passenger indicator, the concealing means of the fare indicator, and the printing mechanism.

9. The combination with a fare indicator, of a blind adapted to be moved to positions to conceal said fare indicator, a shaft connecting said fare indicator, a pawl adapted to engage said shaft to hold the blind in a concealing position until the machine is operated, and means for simultaneously setting the indicator and moving the blind to a position to conceal it before the operation of the magazine.

10. The combination with a fare indicator, of means for concealing the fare indications on said indicator simultaneously with its movement to a set position, means for moving said indicator to a set position, means for holding said concealing means in a position to conceal the fare indicator when set, and an operating member to release said concealing means and to thus expose the fare indication on said fare indicator.

11. In combination in a registering device, a plurality of indicating devices, a single member for simultaneously moving said indicating devices to their different indicating positions, means for taking an impression from one of said indicators, a blind for covering the indications of said last mentioned indicator, and means between said single member and means for taking an impression from said indicator for moving said blind to cover the indications of said indicator from which the impressions are taken on the movement of said indicating devices to a new indicating position, and

for releasing said blind and permitting it to move to uncover the indications of said indicating device upon the actuation of said. impression device.

12. In combination in a registering device, a plurality of sets of indicating members, a single device for moving the members of each set to a new indicating position, common means for taking an impression from one indicating member of each set, a single blind for covering the members from which said indications are taken and means between said single actuating means and said impression means for moving said blind to cover said member from which an impression is taken on the movement of the members of any set of indicating members to a new indicating position and to release the blind and permit it to uncover the indications of said members on the actuation of said impression device.

13. In combination in a. registering device, a plnralitv of rotatable, indicating and printing members, means carried by said members, a printing device for taking imprints from said members and means controlled by said means carried by said members and also controlled by said impression device for settin said blind to cover the indications of said members upon the movement of any one of said members to a new indicating position, and for releasing said blind and permitting it to uncover the indications of said members upon the actuation of said impression device.

14. In combination in a registering device, a rotatable, indicating member, means carried by said member, a blind, means con trolled by said means carried bv said indi eating member for setting said blind to cover the indications of said member upon the movement of said member to a new indicating position, means to lock said blind in said set position and means for releasing said blind and permitting it to move to uncover said indications.

15. In combination in a registering device, indicating mechanism, registering mechanism, means for moving said indicating mechanism to various indicating positions, means for actuating said registering mechanism, a blind and means between. said blind and said indicating mechanism for moving said blind to cover said indications of said ini'licating' mechanism on the movement of said indicating mechanism to a new indicating position, and to release said blind and permit it to uncover said indications of said indicating mechanism on the actuation of said registering device.

16. In combination in a registering device, a plurality of indicating devices, a single actuating device for simultaneously nn'iving said indicating devices to diii'erent indicating positions, a registering mechanism, means for actuating said registering mechanism, a blind to cover the indications of one of said indicating devices and means between said blind and said register actuating and said indicating mechanisms for moving said blind to cover the indications of one of said indicating devices on the movement of said indicating devices to a new ind' *ating position, and to release said blind and permit it to uncover said indications on the actuation of said registering nicclianisn'i.

1?. in combination in a. registering device, a plurality of sets of indicating devices, a plurality of independently movable actuating devices, one for each set of indicating devices, a registering device, means for actuating said registering device, a single blind for covering the indications of one indicating device of each set, and means between said blind and said register actuating and said indicating mechanisms for moving said blind to cover the indications of one of said indicating devices on the movement ot said indicating devices to a new indicating position, and to release said blind and permit it to uncover said indications on the actuation of said registering mechanism.

In testimony whereof I hereunto attach my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. ()HMER.

Vitnesses:

R. J. llccairrr, Mvrrnnw Susanna.

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t It is hereby certified that in Reissue Letters Patent No. 13,520, granted Janu- 1 atent N0.

airy 2H, [913, upon the application of John F. Ohmer, of Dayton, Ohio, for an in1- provement in Fare-Registers, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 6, line 106, for the word nmg'zizine read 1 mac/tine, and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent ()tlice. l Signed and sealed this 15th day of April, A. 1)., 1913. i [SEAL] (J. (J. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Reissue Letters P

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