US299207A - Street-car fare-box - Google Patents

Description

G. S. DE BLANG.

STREET GAR FARE BOX.

(No Model.)

Patented May 27, 1884.

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GUSTAVE S. DE BLANG, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

STREET CAR FARE -BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,207, dated May 27, 1884.

Application filed March 5, 1884. (No model.)

T to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnsmvn S. Dn BLANC, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, Parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Gar Fare-Boxes, of which the following is a description.

Figure 1 is a perspective view from the front. Figs. 2-and 4 are side elevations from opposite sides 011 a reduced scale, and Figs 3 and 5 are front and rear elevations 011 the same scale as Figs. 2 and 4.

My invention relates to fare-boxes for streetcars; and it consists in combining a bell with the fare-box, which bell is so arranged in relation to the orifice or chute through which the fare is inserted that the latter in falling strikes the bell and gives an audible signal to the driver and passengers.

In the drawings, A B C D is the fare-box, which in dimension is preferably about five by twenty-four inches at its sides, and ten by twenty-four on its face and back.

E is the chute through which the fare is inserted, and F is a bell or gong sustained upon a horizontal bar just beneath the spout of the chute, so that the fare in falling from the chute strikes the bell or gong and gives an audible signal.

G is a glass or metallic plate forming the upper transverse partition or door, which plate is sustained upon pivots at its ends and is subject to reversion by pulling a string or wire thereto attached.

H is a metallic or wooden plate placed below the plate G, and forming also an adjustable door or partition. This plate is subject to reversion only by the starter by means of a knob, which is covered by a locked plate.

I is the metallic or wooden drawer placed below plate H.

In the front of the fare-box is a glass pane, sru t, through which the driver can inspect the'fares. glass pane, o n p q, through which light from a lamp shines at night, as in Figs. 4 and 5, and j is Z m is a larger glass pane facing inside the car, through which the interior of the farebox may be visible to the passengers.

I do not confine myself to any particular proportion of the fare-box or its plates and panes, as these will be varied to suit the varying conditions of the application or different sizes of cars.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new is The combination, with a fare-box having an orifice or chute for the introduction of the fare, of a bell or gong placed beneath the discharge of said chute or opening to be struck by the fare as .it drops from the chute, as and for the purpose described.

G. S. DE BLANG.

Witnesses ERNEST VILLnRn, A. I. VILLERE.

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