USRE9313E - benton - Google Patents

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V J. B. BENTON, v

Asslgnor, bymes ne assignments, to THE RAILWAY REGISTER Mmunc'wmm 00 Passenger Register. No. 9,313. Reissue MPANY.

d July 2Q,1880.

LV VEJVTO R %J w By his .dtlorneys tjmhgem" I UN T D STATES J HN B. BENTON, OF NEW NEW YORK.

Original N 0. 167,057,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. BENTON, civil engineer, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Passenger or Fare Registers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, making part of this specification.

My present. invention relates moreespe, cially to an improved method of operating a stationary fare-register secured firmly in place in a car or vehicle, so as tobe. in full view of the passengers from all parts of such car or vehicle in which a fare may be collected.

"Street-cars are so often crowded that it becomes difficult for a detective to keep a record of the passengers getting in and out, and unless the registering device is so arranged that the conductor can and shall be compelled to register each and every fare directly after the same has been collected and before another has been. accepted, thc machine loses in a great measure its value as a monitor over the conductors honesty, and is not an absolute check by which to prevent dishonest practices or peculations by false returns of collections made.

Heretofore there have been two ways of compelling a registration at the time of collection of each fare, one way being to render the fareregister portable and suspend it from the person of the conductor, so that failure to registerthe fare when collected is apparent to the. passenger and the dishonesty of the collector, soon brought to the knowledge of "the proprietor or company to whom he is responsible, while the other way is, 50 secure the registering apparatus at one end of the car and connect with the lever, slide, or actuator that opcrate. it a strap extending overhead through-' out the 'eugth of the car,whereby,' when afare is collected at any point in the car, the conductor can, as soon as the collection is made, operate the register and audibly an nounce the registration by pulling upon the strap.

One of the principal objections to the use of a mere overhead strap or cord'by which to.

YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN THE RAILWAY REGISTER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY, or

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SPEGIFIQATI ON forming of Reissued Letters Patent No. 9,313, dated July 20', 1880.

dated August 24, 1875, Application for reissue filed January 28, 1880.

DIVISION B.

actuate a stationary register is its liability to mischievous, malicious, or accidental manipulationor injury by the passengers.

- The object of my V able the conductor to readily, positively, and easily operate a stationary fare-register from accidental or mischievons operations or interference from the passengers, by means of connections extending throughout the car or "ehiele, my invention consisting of certain new organizations and combinations of a fare-regset forthat the close of this specification;

In the accompanying drawings, which show my improvements as embodied 'in the best way known to me at'the date of filing my application for the original patent, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a horse-car, showing the position of the register and the operating-connectious running through the car with the register in position and connected with the actuating devices. Fig. 3 is a seetional view, through the register-cash: g, on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, showing the preferred manner of securing the registerin place, Fig. 4 is of an improved register of my invention, with a modification of the operatingconnections. Fig. 5 is'across-section of a por-' tion of the operating-connections and an' ele-, vation of one ofits supports; and Figs. 6 and 7' are implements carried by the conductor to actuate the register through its op'cratingconnections from all parts of the car.

The registering-ii'istrulnent A is preferably secured .at one end of the car, as shown in Figs. land 2.

The improved instrument illustrated in the drawings, Fig. 4, is of my own invention, and belongs totheclass of duplex machines or registering machines which embody in their construction and organization twp registering mechanisms, one for recording the number of fares collected on each separate trip, and adapted to be reset to zero or the.

starting-point at the commenceinent'of a trip MENT, TO. BUFFALO,

. 5 present invention is to en'- all parts of a car or vehicle, without danger of' 55 ister, with its actmtting coniiem-ions,-wliieh are-6+ ear; Fig. 2, an inside view of the'end of a independently ofthc counting-actuator of the rotation or bv end movement, as may be most machinmand the other For recording continuconvenient. The rotary or rocking motion,

ously the fares collected on a large number of however, is preferred. 70 trips, the registers respectively being what are Fig. 6 shows the application to the rodof a '5 now called trip and permanent registers/ portable wrench, F, in the hand of the op'era- Inasmuch, however, as my improved registor while working the registering-machine, ter, per s'c, constitutes no part of this division while Fig. 7 shows a portable pin or lever, G, of the reissue of my original patent, but, on which serves toactuate the register by insert- 75 the contrary, does constitute the subject-mating it in one of a'series of holes, a, formed in lo terof another division (A) thereof, itisdeemed said rod at suitable distances apart, one of unnecessary to describe it here in detail. which is shown in cross-section in Fig. 5. The The actuator of the registering-machine A, wrench, however, in the organization of conas organized by me, is a pivoted lever, 13, carnections-shown, is preferred. ryi'ng 'a suitable pawl, which actuates the This wrench may, for some purposes, be procounting mechanism and sounds an alarm for vided with a punch, f, attached to it; or if each actuation of the register. suitable jaws are fitted upon any ordinary The actuator B of the registering-machine is punch, such au instrz'nent will conveniently connected by means of a pivotal or jointed answer the purposes of both punch and re- 85 connection (shown as consisting of a crankmovable actuating implement for the register; joint) with a rod, 0, extending preferably also, to make .one instrument serve for as throughout the entire length of the car, so as many purposes as possible or necessary, shears to be accessible atall points; This-rod O, and wrench may be in one piece, with or with-. which is supported by suitable bearings at out a punch Such a combined implement o proper distances apart, may be round or square, would be useful to cut or punch tickets, as it is or of any such shape as will receive and be opusual to do when they are used on railroads.

erated by an instrument carried by the con- After each actuation. of the register. which, ductor. v in the organization of connections shown, is In Fig I have sho,wn,in cross-section, two effected by turning the rod in its bearings, so 95 rods, 0 O, which are placed one on each side that its crank or connection will movethe of the car, and pivoted to or -connected by a actuator or lever B, the operating-connection crank-joint with a common, cross bar or rod, D, is returned to the proper position for a new arranged at right angles with the actuatiug-leactuation,- and this is done automatically, prefver and jointed thereto. The rods, in tbisexerably by the force or tension of a spring, B, I00

ample,are shown as provided with suitable inclosed within the register-casing, and acting fixed handles E, mounted upon the rods at upon the actuator or lever 13 in a well-known suitable distances apart, whereby the opcraway. The said operatiiig;connection is moved tion or turning of one of said handles commuto operate the register. against the force or nicales motion through the rod and its contension of the spring B, and when the moving 105 nections to tlm recording mechanism of the force has ceased or been removed the connec- 40 machine. tion is thrown back to its normal position by Inasmuch, however, as the plan shown in reason of its connection with the actuating- Fig. dis 'open in some degree to the objections lever. and disadvantages. incident to the use of the I do not, of course, claim the peculiar or- I'm .old strap or pull-cord arrangement, it is not a ganization by which the spring B is the meprelerredorganization as compared with the 'dium for returning not only the actuator B, connections. organized to be operated only by but the operating-conneetion also, to their nora detachable'implementto be carried by the -mal position; but that is a preferred organiconductor. V zation. l 1 15 Aportable wrench, handle, or implement, to The register is preferably secured in place be temporarily placed on the rod to actuate by means of the inclined hook or horn- H,

themachine at any desired point along the which. enters an opening in the back of the length of the rod, is preferable to tixed hanrcgister-camng, and byastaple, I,whicl1' passes dles, as-without fixed handles the rod or conthrough a slot in an ear or portion, d, of the 120 nections and machine are less likely to be casing. This-manner ot secnring' a register in tampered with. place is not herein claimed, as it is not ofmy- Whenthe portable or detachable implement sole invention, being embodied in the Towle &

is used the conductor, after using it, removes Benton patent of April 27 1875. v it till he wishes to actuate the register again; It willbe observed that. by the employment 125' and inasmuch as the connections cannot easily of the, removable actuating implement'or dc- (and preferably not at all) be'actnated without vice shown in Fig. 7 I- 'am enabled to operate an implement, it will be obvious that all dana stationary fare-register by a connection ex-' ger frpm the passengers operating the register, tending through the car, adapted at particular as they can easily do by a si'mple pull with the points or places only in its length, at suitable old strap arrangement, is avoided. distances apart, for the applicationof the re- I have shown a rod as the connection to be movableroperating implement, which organioperatcd by 'the detachable, implement, and zation, for some purposes, is very desirable. said rod is made to actuate the register by its l claim as my inventionclan: a

1. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of a car or vehicle, a registering-machine fixedin said car or vehicle, a connection which is unadapted or incapable of being mechanically actuated directly by the hand, extending through the car for operating the register, in contradistinction to a common overhead-strap for actuating a register, a removable implement or handle for mechanically actuating said operating -counection, and a device which automatically returns the operating connection :fo' its normal position, in

readiness for a'new actuation of the register bythe detachable implement when applied to said connection.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbeforeset forth, of a stationary register mounted in a car or vehicle, a connection for actuating said register, extending through the car and rendered incapable of being readily actuated directly by hand, a pivotal or yielding joint between the said connection and said register, and a detachable implement to actuate the connection in working the register.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbet'ore set forth, of a stationary register and a connection for operating said register, which extends through the car, and is adapted at particular points or places only in its length for the application-of a removable implement carried by the conductor to work the register in the process of tallying the fares collected.

4. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth. of a stationary register, a connection for operating said register, extending through the car, and adapted at particular points or places only in its length for the ap- .plication of a removable ilnplement, and a pring which returns said connection, when operated by the implement, to its normal position, to be again actuated in the process of registering the fares collected.

5. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of a stationary register, acounection upon each side of the car for operating said register, and a portable or removable im-' plement capable of application to the connection at either side of the car, to work the register from all parts of said car in which a fare may be collected. I

6. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of a register, a connection upon each side of the car and extending from handles, placed at suitable distances apart. for

operating said connection, and the spring to automatically return said connection to a position for a new actuation of the register when the strain upon the handle is removed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of January, A. D. 1880.

JOHN B. BENTON.

Witnesses:

" Win .3. BEAMAN,

ANTHONY, GREF, Jr.

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