USRE7300E - Improvement in ticket-recorders - Google Patents

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E. 3.. BROWN,

Assignor by mesne assignments to E. CHESTERMAN & S. MGHENRY.

TICKET-RECORDER.

Reissued Sept. 5, 1876.

Jnz eniorf 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. E. R. B ROW N. Assignbr by mesne assignments to E. GHESTERMAN & S. MGHENRY.

V TICKET-RECORDER. No. 7,300. Reissued Sept. 5,1876.

' plan of the same with to the body of the machine,

ation; also,in the combination of UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWINR. BROWN,' OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AssIGNOE, BY ,MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO EDWIN OHESTERMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AND S. MCHENRY,'OF WOODBUBY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT'IN TIcKE T-RECQRDERS.

Spottifimttion forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,939, dated April 15 1862; reissue No. 7.300. dated Septemberfi, 1876: application filed August 29, 1876. Y 3

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN R. BROWN, of

' Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of tion. Fig.2 is a longitudinal section of the same in a slightly modified-form. Fig. 3 is a the top or cover removed. t

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts of the several figures.

The subject of my invention is a portable apparatus, by means of which an accurate record is kept of the number of travelers passing over a road,- and fraud against the same thereby prevented.

I i The invention consists in. the combination,

in a portable apparatus carried and operated by the collector of fares, with an actuatingarm, feeding pawl and ratchet moved around a common center, of a retaining-pawlattached the point most distant from the point of actuthe registering and alarm mechanisms with the actuating-handle by means of spring pawls or ratchets; also, in combination 'with the actuating-arm of a registering apparatus of a key whereby it may be held stationary when not in use, and registration'efl'ectually prevented.

Its construction and operation are as follows:

A represents the outer case of the machine, which may be of any material preferred, and

of such size as the particular use for which the machine is designed may render necessa' E, F, G, and H are lugs. by.

ry. A, B, (J, D, which the moving parts are secured. a is the actuating-rod, operating, by one and the same impact, the deposit in the receiver, the regiter, and the indicator or alarm. It reciprocates in the lugs A and E, and is provided Drvrsroiv B.

and all placed at It will be observed with a rack, a, which gears with a pinion, d, on a shaft, 0, journaled in lugs D and H. An apron, c, is attached to the shaft 0, and opens and closes the'depositing-orifice" of the receiver. I

' A bar, 70, pivoted at one end to'the rod a is at'the other end loosely fulcrumed upon a shaft, 1', which is A pinion, m, V to the shaft '4' near its respective ends. The pringfeeding-pawl 0', attached to the bar k,,engages with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel I n, so as to impart a slight rotation to said ratchet-wheel at each motion of the bar 70 when actuated by rod (1. The'retainin g springpawl 0 also engages with the teeth-of the ratchet-wheel n and prevents-retrograde motion of said ,wheel n. The reaction-spring 20, attached to thebar k, restores the bar It, rod

a, and apron 0, to positionafter deposit, regisand indication have been efl'ected.

tration, The pinion m gears with a cogged rim, f, upon a large drum, 9, journaled in the main frame or casing.

By means of suitable gearing P the motion of shaft g is communicated to a shaft, 1, which carries an index, 1. tion the gearing P is so proportioned as to impart but one revolution to the index 1 every four revolutions of the drum 9. The drum 9 has a series of continuous numbers which envelop the drum in four lines, so that the position of the index 1 indicates the line on the drum to be read from.

is achieved by placing the registering-train between the point of actuation and the point at'lwhich the ratchet of the registering-train." A key-shaft, g, communicates through gearing q r e f with the drum g, for the purpose of rotating it with-- out the agency of the hand-rod afand without sounding the alarm, number as a starter. A stationary pointer, 14, assists in reading the figures on drum 9. The

hammer X isshaped and pivoted like a belljonrnaled in bearings F F. and ratchet-wheel a are secured which is secured to a shaft In the present illustrathat great compactness feeding-pawl engages with the setting it to any desired r and not a secondary receiver. or check 18 examined, and errors, if any, cor- Q rected'whlle the passenger retains contrel of r moocrank lever, and provided with a spring-pawl, g which engages with the actuating-rod a in one direction, but passes itfreely in the other. A reac'tion springt, upon the release of the hammer from rod 0, throws it againstthe bell v. This release, it will be observed, cannot take place until'the register has been actuated. 'A 'key, b, passes through the rod a, when desired, and, secured by the lock 'z, eflfectn'ally; prevents themovement of the-mechanism byimproper and unauthorized persons.

. It will. alsogbe'observed' that the receiver isa prime..-

The ticket his property, and the deposit only takes place at'tlie conclusion of the settlement, and is single and not double, as in case of fare-boxes.-

, Before placing-themachinein the hands of the conductor or far'e-taker-the superintendent or'other-person in charg'ahy means of key- I shaft q, sets the drum g at any desired position, noting the indications of the pointer u and index l'of the registering-trains and closes the case, leaving only the. actuating-rod a exposed.

lhe conductor or faretaker carries themachine with him through the car, and as-each .ticketor checkis placed uponthe apron he actuates rod a, and thereby opens the mouthv of the-receister'flanii dep0sits'j .tlie ticket or check, rotates-the ratchet-wheelm one tooth and the drain 9 space ofone number,-an

last-of all releases the hammer, which strikes an alarm, and thus indicates that a registra- 7 tion has been eliected.

In Fig. 1 the rod a and bar k, &c., are represented on the opposite side of the drum from that which they occupy in the other views. This and other slight modifications may be made in the apparatus without departing from the essential principles of the invention.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentr '1. In a portable fare-register, having alarm mechanism, the registering-train placed between the point of actuation and the point at which the feeding-pawl engages with the ratchet-wheel of the register, substantially as and for-the purpose described.

2. In a fare-register,

the'combination of a register and alarm with a handle, by means of a ratchet-wheel or driving-pawl, 0, retaining-pawl o, and the alarm-pa 3h substiim tially as described. 3. Ina fare-register having alarm mechan-' ism, the combination, with the actuating-hanductor, substahtially as and for the purpose described. a

EDWIN R. BROWN.

Witnesses V H. A. CHASE, ANDREW REQIFEB.

of devices, whereby the actuatio'n'of the instrument is prevented at the will of the con-

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