US800565A - Fare-register. - Google Patents

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PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

C. E. GIERDING.

FAR-E REGISTER.

APPLIGATION rum) MAY 19. 1904. RENEWED MAR.8,1905.

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FARE REGISTER.

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No. 800,565. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

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FARE REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19. 1904. RENEWED MAB. 8, 1905.

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FARE REGISTER.

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PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

C E. GIERDING.

FARE REGISTER.

APPLICATION 11,111) MAY19.1904. RENEWED MAB. a, 1905.

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CHARLES E. eIERmNe, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO STER- LINGr-MEAKER COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FARE-REGISTER.

No. 800,565. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 26, 1905;

Application filed May 19, 1904. Renewed March 8, 1905. Serial No. 249,123.

tion. Fig. 27 represents the same view with T all ll/7mm 7375 y 007mg? and 4: are face and edge views of its hanging 5 5 Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. GIERDING, board or back, showing the primary actuating a citizen of the United States of America, and mechanism. Fig. 5 is a face view of the rega resident of Newark, in the State of New ister-works with the casing and outer dial- 5 Jersey, have invented a new and useful lmplate removed, this and succeeding views beprovementin F are Registers, of which the foling drawn to a larger scale as compared with 60 lowing is a specification. Figs. 1 to 4. Figs. 6 and 7 are fragmentary This invention relates to that subclass of face views illustrating the Operation of the duplex fare-registers in which the trip-regisfull-stroke device. Figs. 8 and 9 are Views 10 ter and permanent register are formed in comof the works from the lower edge, showing men by rotary cylinders or wheels with numthe edge frame of the casing in section and 5 bered peripheries, hereinafter termed nuin elevation, respectively, and illustrating, meral- \vheels, arranged in two horizontal respectively, the registering operation and series, one above the other. In addition to the resetting operation by the positions of means for simultaneously actuating the two the movable parts. Fig. 10 is a side view sets of numeral-wheels for the registration of of the resetting-knob detached. Fig. 11 rep- 7 each fare the improved register is provided resents a section on the line A B, Fig. 8, with actuation-indicators which conceal the with the edge frame of the casing broken new numbers on the units-wheels of the tripaway to expose the actuating-slide and with register and permanent register until such the parts in position for the registering opwheels are moved perfectly into position, a eration. Fig. 12 is a fragmentary section on 75 trip-indicator showing the direction of travel the line C D, Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a fragmenand reversed in the act of resetting the triptary section on the line E F, Fig. 11. Fig. register, and a not-set signal or indicator 14 is a fragmentary face view illustrating the simultaneously actuated for concealing the in-' locking of the main slide during the resetting dieations of the trip-register during the resetoperation. Figs. 15 and 16 are edge views of 80 ting operation and calling attention to any at the works from its right-hand side with the tempt to leave the same partially reset. working parts in their position of rest in Fig.

The present invention consists in novel com- 15 and as they appear during a registering binations of parts hereinafter claimed for perstroke in Fig. 16, with parts removed and forming the several functions of theimproved broken away in both figures. Fig. 17 is a 85 register above stated with the least possible back view of the pawl-carrier omitted in Fig. complication and with reference to the avoid- 16. Figs. 18 and 19 are views of the respecance of small and delicate parts and the retive ends of a bridge-piece omitted in Figs.

duction of springs and the like -to the least 15 and 16. Figs. 20 and 21 are edge views of possible number. the works from the left-hand side of the reg- 9o Theimproved register isprimarilydesigned ister, showing the bell mechanism and the and adapted to be made with numeral-wheels trip-indicator devices with the moving parts of one and the same size, exposing to view in different positions in the respective figures.

large numerals which can be easily read at a Fig. 22 is a fragmentary section on the line distance and utilizing to the utmost the cu- Ur H, Fig. 11, showing the not-set indicator 95 bical capacity of a square or rectangular casin its effective position. Fig. 23 is a back ing. Some of the features of the invention view of the bell-hammer hub in the position may, however, be embodied in registers of in which it is represented in Fig. 20. Fi

other shapes and with greater or less numer- 24: is a view of the crank-wheel of the trip-inical capacity, that of the improved register dicator detached. Fig. 25 represents a secloo hereinafter particularly described being tion on the line I J, Fig. 11, looking inward ninety-nine thousand ninehundred and ninetywith the parts as they appear at the end of a nine for the permanent register and nine hunregistering-pull. Fig. 26 represents a sec- 5 dred and ninety-nine for the trip-register. tion on the line K L, Fig. 11, looking in the Seven sheets of drawings accompany this opposite direction as compared with Fig. 25 I0 5 specification as part thereof. "2 and showing the parts of the zero-stop device Figures 1 and 2 are respectiiiely front and as they appear during the registering operaside views of the improved register. Figs. 3

the parts as they appear at the end of a resetting operation. Fig. 28 is a side view of one of the parts shown in Figs. 25, 26, and 27; and Fig. 29 is a fragmentary section on the line M N, Fig. 27.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The register-casing is composed of a back plate (a, exposed in Fig. 5, and an edge frame 6, immediately adjoining said back plate, of cast-iron, and afront edge portion 0, of sheet metal, and is preferably and conveniently of a substantially rectangular shape, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, where its exterior is shown. A metallic hanging board or back (Z is fixedly attached to the end wall within a street-car, for example, and the back plate a of the register-casing is attached thereto by a rigid central horn 1 at the top of the hanging-back interlocking with a staple 2 at the top of the back plate and by a central catch-lug 3 at the bottom of the hanging-back provided with a spring-projected catch-hook 1 and a lip 5 at the lower edge of the back plate of the casing interlocking with said hook. A staple c on the face of said lug 3 is adapted to receive the customary transverse locking-bolt (not shown) beneath said catch-hook 1. Large-sized numerals 1 to O on the numeral-wheelsf' f f" f and g 7 of a permanent register and a trip-register, respectively, appear through parallel horizontal windows It and win the front of the casing, as in Fig. 1, as do also actuation-indicators j and Z1, exposed in Fig. 5, which conceal the new numbers on the units-wheels while they are being moved into position, a reversible trip indieator 1 showing, preferably, alternate directions of travel, and a not-set indicator m, (exposed in Fig. 5,) which conceals the indications of the trip-register numeral-wheels during each resetting operation. Said windows A and r: are conveniently formed by one and the same sheet 6 of glass at the front of the registereasing, with a dialplate 7 and a dial-frame 8 respectively provided with the two windows h and in main outline and with cross-bars a for the same, completing a separate frame for each exposed numeral. Said dialplate 7 is exposed to view in Fig. 1, and said dialframe 8 is exposed in Fig. 5. Said hanging back (Z, Figs. 3 and 4, is provided on its face with three fixed pivots 1, 2, and 3' and a pair of stop- lugs 1 and 5. Pivoted on said pivots, respectively, are a pair of bell-crank levers 0 and 2), the longer legs of which depend at the lower edge of the register-casing, where they are adapted to have ringing-cords attached thereto in any approved way, and a third bell-crank lever q, crossing those first named at their pivots and adapted to be operated by a stud 6 on the short arm of the lefthand lever and by the short arm 7 of the right-hand lever 0, which engages with a stud 8 on the back of the third lever q. A spiral spring r, stretched from a stud 9 on the plate of the hanging-back (Z to the left-hand extremity 10 of said third lever (1, holds the three levers 0, p, and Q normally in the positions in which they are shown in full lines in Fig. 3, with the right-hand extremity 9 of said third lever (1 against the lower stop 1. Studs 11 and 12 on the first and second levers 0 and 7), respectively, provide for operating them alternately by the bar-shaped connections of another type of ringing device. Aslot 13 in said third lever q receives a stud-pin 1 1, protruding through a slot in said back plate u. of the register-casing, and a shutter projection 15 on said third lever I] closes said slot when the levers 0, 7), and (1 are at rest, so as to prevent tampering with the register therethrough. hen either of said first and second levers 0 or p is pulled by either form of ringing device, said third lever r is actuated with substantially uniform leverage. [ts actuation by the right-hand lever 0 is represented by dotted lines in Fig. 3. The movement is limited by the second, 5, of said stop-lugs in contact with said right-hand extremity 9 of said third lever r Said stud-pin 1a is carried by the main slide .9 of secondary actuating mechanism, (exposed to view in Fig. 5,) &c., which slide reciprocates between steps 16 and 17 on the face of the back plate (I and is normally held against the lower stop 17 by a retracting-spring 1'. A ratchet-rack 18 at the inner edge of said main slide 5 interlocks with a pawl 19, as in Fig. 7, as soon as the slide is moved and prevents reversing the motion of the slide until the stroke is completed, when the rack 18 passes the pawl 19, and the latter is reversed by its spring 20 and the main slide s is retracted by its spring 25.

A pair of notched lugs 21 and 22 on the main slide A couple it pivotally to pawl-carriers a and 41. (See Figs. 15 and 19, inclusive.) Said pawl-carriers u and 0 are fulcrumed, respectively, on the hubs of ratchet-wheels w and w, loose on the shafts y and of the permanent register and trip register, respectively, and each in mesh with a spring-pressed working pawl a, pivoted to the corresponding pawl-carrier, and with a spring-pressed detent-pawl I), pivoted to the adjacent right hand side plate 0 of the register-works. Each of said ratchet-wheels w and :1: is in turn coupled by dowel-pins 23 to the adjoining units numeral-wheel f or g Said dowel-pins 23 attach the upper ratchet-wheel w; to the units-wheel f of the permanent register-train direct. In the trip-register train they attach the ratchet-wl'leel n; to a notched clutchwheel (5, which is loose on its shaft and is normally coupled to said units-wheel by a tumbler 0, (shown detached by Fig. 28,) a stud-pin 241 on the latter being interlocked with the notched periphery of said clutchwheel by a spring 25, stretched from said tumbler c to a stud 26 within the units-wheel g. The tumbler a is attached to the unitswheel 9 by a pivot 27, and a spring-pressed detent-pawl f, attached to the wheel by a pivot 28, interlocks with the notched periphery of the clutch-Wheel (Z to limit the rotation of the numeral-wheel in the resetting operation. From said units- wheels 7 and 1 motion is transmitted successively to the tenswheels f and g and to the hundreds-wheels f and g and so on in the permanent register in a known manner, by suitable intermittent spur-gearing 29 30 31, and in the case of the trip-register Wheels and 9 like clutchwheels (Z and tumblers (2. The inner ends of the hubs of said ratchet-wheels w and m have bearings in said side plate 0 and thin outer ends have like hearings in abridge-plate by which the pawl-carriers it and e are kept in place on said hubs. A notched lug 32 on one of said pawl-carriers a couples the same pivotall y to a stud-pin 33 on a slide /t, which carries said actuation-indicators 7 and Zr, so as to cause the same to move simultaneously with said units-wheels and to cover the new numbers thereon until they are in their proper positions behind the windows A and 1:, when the in dicatorslide is retracted simultaneously with the main slide 5 by the same retracting-spring t. Stop-wheels v1 and 7", having teeth the reverse of those of said ratchetwh eels w and w and fast, respectively, on the outer sides of the unitswheel fof the permanent register and the units clutch-Wheel d of the trip-register, interlock at the end of each actuating movement with the respective extremities of a stop-lever 70, so as to prevent overmovements by momcntum. (Compare Figs. 11, 15, 16, and 25.) Said stop-lever in is pivoted to the inner side of said right-hand side plate 0, and a stud-pin 34: projects therefrom through a slot in said side plate and into a cam-slot 35 in a projection on said main slide Normally said steplever Z1 is out of touch with both stop-wheels. When the ringing device is pulled, the main slide 8 cams the stop-lever 7; into eliective position, as in full lines in Fig. 25, and at the end of the movement a tooth on each stopwheel 2' and 7" contacts with the stop-lever 71: as in Fig. 25, and both numeral-wheels are simultaneously stopped with a new number properly exposed. A shoulder 36 on said main slide 8 contacts with a tappet-arm 37 ,fast on one end of a rock-shaft l, which extends between the two sets of numeral-wheels and through the opposite side plate m of the works. (Compare Figs. 15, 16, 20. 21, and 23.) A torsional spring a, surrounding said rock-shaft l, tends to keep the extremity of said tappet-arm37 in the path of said shoulder 36. The left-hand end of said rock-shaft Z carries an L-shaped lever 38, the lateral arm of which extends inwardly through a slot in the adjacent side plate m and contacts With an arm of the hub 39 of the bell-hammer 0, another arm of which is normally held against a stop-lug 4:0 by a striking-spring7). After said striking-spring p is put in ten sion toward the end of each registering movement said tappet-arm 37 (shown in Figs. 15 and 16) is tripped by said shoulder 38 on the main slide s and the striking-spring p is permitted to throw the hammer 0 against the hell 1/, so as to attest the registration of a fare.

The shaft oi the trip-register numeralwheels r/ hereinafter termed the resetting-shaft, is movable end wise, and its righthand end, Figs. 15 and 16, receives the screwthreaded shank of a resetting-knob 1', (shown detached by Fig. 10.) by which to pull and turn said resetting-shaft An intermediate frame-plate .v, in connection with the side plate 0 first named, holds said trip-register numeral-wheels r and their accessories already named against displacement by said endwise movement of said resetting-shaft .2 and forms, in eii'ect, the left-hand bearing of said resetting-shaft. Said resetting-shaft is normally held in the position in which it is shown in Figs. 1, 5, 8, and 11 by a spring t,

abutting against said intermediate frameplate .w and reacting against a fork-lever a, which is coupled by its fork 11 to a collar 42 at the back or right-hand side of the bell q, the latter being carried by said resettingshaft and fast thereon. in such normal position of said resetting-shaft a notched collar 1; near its left-hand end is interlocked with a stud w on the left-hand side plate m, as in Fig. 13, and it is thus locked against rotation until the knob r is lirst pulled. Next to unlocking said resetting-shaft .2 for rotation the effect of each pull of said knob r is to transmit motion by means of said forklever a to a slide-lock 0/, which is pivotally coupled to the rear edge of said fork-lever 11/, and when so actuated interlocks with a lug 413 on the main slide 8, as in Fig. 1 1, so as to prevent ringing the bell or registering fares during the resetting operation. (Compare Figs. 9, 12, 14, and 27.) Said notched collar e on said resetting-shalt is provided with peripheral ratchetteeth, which are meshed in both positions of the resetting-shaft by a detent-pawl H, Figs. 11 and 13, pivoted to said left-handframe-platem. The rotation of the resetting-shafts is thus confined in a familiar way to one direction, which is the reverse of the registering movement. This pawl and ratchet serves, moreover, to insure a complete rotation of the resetting-shaft .2 when it is once pulled and turned so as to disengage the notch of said collar w from said lockingstud w on the left-hand frame-plate m. \Vhen so disengaged, said locking-stud w serves in connection with said collar 1) to lock the resetting-shaft .2 and the parts carried therebyin its endwise movement in their new planes of rotation. (Compare Figs. 8,9, 11, and 13.) Another etlect of pulling said knob ITO 1" is to bring into working position certain attachments of said resetting-shaft with reference to parts the positions of which are maintained by the frame-plates c, m, and .w for the resetting operation. Such attachments include a collar-supported stud et5 at the left-hand side of each of the trip-register numeral-wheels g g, which is so moved into the plane of the notched end 46 of the tumbler e, pivoted to the web of the numeralwheel to the right, as in Figs. 9 and 27, and normally retracted, as aforesaid. In such resetting position of said studs L5 when the knob r is turned, and therewith the resettingshaft under the control of its said pawl-andratchet device 0' and 4st, said studs as are turned into interlocking contact with said notched ends 46 of said tumblers a as the latter are successively or simultaneously reached, the notched end 46 is drawn into eontaetwith the stud-supporting collar or shaft, as in Fig. 27, the stud 24 on the tumbler being simultaneously disengaged from the notched periphery of the adjoining clutch-wheel (.Z, and motion is then transmitted by this means from the resetting-shaft to each of the tripregister numeral-wheels r g g" or such of them as may have been moved from zero during the preceding trip or half-trip, so as to turn the same backward to zero for the next trip or half-trip. Simultaneously with such adjustment of said studs 45 for the resetting operation a cam 47, carried by said resetting-shaft .2, is brought in like manner into the plane of a lug 4.8 on a curved lever pivoted to said intermediate frame-plate s and retracted by a spring 49, stretched therefrom to a projection on said fork-lever w as a convenient relatively fixed part. A lever-arm 50, projecting rigidly from a rockshaft .2, parallel with said setting-shaft .2, is constructed with a longitudinal slot, into which projects a stud-pin 51, carried by said curved lever Said rock-shaft in turn carries adjacent to the left-hand side of each of the trip-register numeral-wheels g y a stop-arm 52, and each of said muneral-wheels g g g carries a rigid -stop'lug 53 to contact with the extremity of the corresponding stoparm 52 when the numeral-wheel 5/ or is reset to zero. A positive Zero-stop near the periphery of each trip-register numeral-wheel is thus readily formed. The left-hand end of said resetting-shaft forms or is provided with an elongated pinion 5 1, which projects through an opening in the left-hand frameplate 722/ and serves to actuate the directionindicator Z. (Compare Figs. 1, 5, 8, 9, 11, 20, 21, and 24c.) Said pinion 54E meshes with and rotates a spur-wheel 55, having a bearing in said left-hand frame-plate m and provided with a crank-pin 56. The direetion-indicator Z is in shape, roughly speaking, a sector of one end and the periphery of a hollow cylinit is pivoted to said left-hand side plate der.

m near the back plate a and is constructed with a central radial slot 57, into which said crank-pin 56 projects and which converts the revolutions of said crank-pin 56 into backand-forth movements of the peripheral portion of the indicator Z, which portion is preferably provided with suitable words (.ln and Out) indicating alternate directions 01 travel. A large slot 58 concentric with the periphery aiiords a clear space through which the pinion 5% projects, and another slot 59 concentric therewith admits a screw 60, which forms a supplemental support lior the indicator and may stop the same at the respective limits oi its movement. The indicator is shown in Fig. 20 in the same position as in Figs. 1, 5, 8, and 9 and in Fig. 21 in its alternative position. It will be understood that a single movement of this indicator is pro duced by each complete rotation of the resetting-shaft .2, and a different trip or half-tri p is thus indicated at the end of each resetting operation. At the beginning of each rotation of the resetting-knob '2" and resettingshai t the not-set indicator in is moved into its e'liective position, Figs. 22 and 27, from its normal position oi rest, Figs. 5, 8, 9, 12, 25, and 2e. Motion for this purpose is transmitted from the knob r and resetting-shaft as shown in Fig. 22, through said cam h, curved lever 1 and slotted lever-arm 50. A stud-pin 61 projects into the slot of this arm 50 from a radial portion oi the not-set indicator 1/), which radial portion is pivoted on said resetting-shaft The portion of the notset indie: tor m exposable to view extends across the peripheries of the tri 'i-register numoral-wheels r as in Figs. 5, 8, and 9. Normally it extends across out 01 line with the trip-register window i, as shown in said ligures and in Figs. 12, 25, and 26, being held in this position by said retracting-spring as). (See Fig. 12.) \Yhen said cam 17 is turned in contact with said lug 48 on said curved lever 1/, it moves the latter, and therewith said slotted lever-arm 50, which in turn eoacting with said stud 61 on the not-set indicator /11. moves the latter by a quick and effective motion into the position in which it is shown in Figs. 22 and 27, where its exposable surface, preferably red, is exposed to view through the tripregister window i, and the numerals of the trip-register wheels r are concealed thereby during the resetting operation. The notset indicator in remains in sight until the tripindicator is properly adjusted for the new trip or half-trip, as aforesaid, and the tripregister is reset to zero. It then drops out of sight below the trip-register window 7?.

it will be understood that the improved register may be made with more or less numerous numeral-wheels and with other forms of carrying mechanism in place of the spurgearing 29 30 31, shown in the drawings, that one of the actuation-inclieators j and 7c IIC may beo'mitted, and that features of the improved register may be used in other farcregisters without departing from the present invention, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification 1. A fare-register having, in combination with primary actuating mechanism, secondary actuating mechanism comprising a main slide reciprocated by said primary actuating mechanism, an oscillating pawl-carrier coupled to said slide, a ratchet-wheel forming by its hub a bearing for said pawl-carrier and concentric therewith, spring-pressed pawls carried respectively by said pawl-carrier and by a relatively fixed support, a frame-piece and a bridge-piece attached to said framepiece tormmg bearings for said hub of the ratchet-wheel, and a units numeral-wheel to which said ratchet-wheel is coupled.

2. A fare-register having, in combination With permanent register numeral-wheels and trip-register numeral-Wheels in parallel horizontal series, a primary actuating mechanism and a secondary actuating mechanism common to both, the latter receiving its motion from said primary mechanism and comprising a reciprocating main slide, a pair of oscillating pawl-carriers coupled to said main slide, a pair of ratchet-wheels forming by their hubs bearings for the respective pawlcarriers and concentric therewith, a pair of spring-pressed pawls in meshwith each ratchet-Wheel carried respectively by the corresponding pawl-carrier and by a relatively fixed support, a frame-piece and a bridgepiece attached to said frame-piece forming bearingsfor said ratchet-Wheel hubs, and coupling devices rendering the units-wheel of each of said series movable by the corresponding ratchet-Wheel.

3. A fare-register having, in combination with trip-register numeral-wheels, actuating mechanism comprising a reciprocating main slide and means for transmitting registering movements from said main slide to the units numeral-wheel comprising a ratchet-wheel, a clutch-wheel concentric with said ratchetwheel and movable therewith having a notched periphery, a tumbler pivoted to said unitswheel and having a stud-pin normally interlocked with said notched periphery, and a spring within said units-wheel holding said tumbler in normal position.

t. A fare-register having, in combination with an actuating-slide, registering mechanism comprising a numeral-Wheel, and a casing provided with a window through which the indications of said numeral-wheel are exposed to view, an actuation-indicator carried by a slide parallel with said actuating-slide, and an oscillating part transmitting motion from said actuating-slide to the units numeralwheel and transmitting simultaneous movement to said indicator-carrying slide, whereby said indicator is made to move in unison with the periphery of said units-wheel and interposed between the same and said casing during each actuation;

5. A fare-register having, in combination with an actuating-slide, permanent registering mechanism, trip-registering mechanism, and a casing provided with windows through which the indications of said registering mechanisms are exposed to view,- said registering mechanisms comprising numeral-wheels, and said actuating mechanism comprising a main slide common to both trains of registering mechanism, a pair of actuation-indicators carried by a slide parallel with said main slide and adapted to be interposed between the units numeral-wheels and the windows of said casing, mechanism for transmitting motion from said main slide to the respective registering mechanisms, and means for simultaneousl y transn'iitting motion therefrom to said indicator-carrying slide.

6. A fare register having, in combination with permanent register numeral-wheels and trip-register numeral-wheels in parallel horizontal series, actuating mechanism common to both comprising a reciprocating main slide, a slide parallel with said main slide carrying a pair of actuation-indicators movable in front of the respective units 1mmeral-wheels, mechanism for simultaneously actuating said unitswheels and said indicators comprising a reciprocating main slide, a pair of oscillating pawl-carriers coupled to said main slide and one of them coupled to said indicator-carrying slide, a pair of ratchet-wheels concentric with the respective pawl-carriers, a pair of springpressed pawls in mesh with each ratchet-wheel carried respectively by the corresponding pawl-carrier and by a relatively fixed support, and coupling devices rendering each unitswheel movable by the corresponding ratchetwheel.

7. A fare-register having, in combination with trip-register numeral-wheels and a resettin g-shaft supporting said wheels and movable endwise relatively thereto, means for pulling and turning said shaft, means for transmitting rotation from said shaft to said wheels or to such of them as have been turned from ZGIO by actuations during a given trip or half-trip, an oscillating trip-indicator, and improved means for transmitting motion from said shaft to said trip-indicator, such means consisting of an elongated pinion carried by said shaft, a crank-wheel having peripheral teeth in mesh with said pinion, its wrist-pin working in a slot in said trip-indicator, and an edge plate of the register-works affording a bearing for said crank-wheel and to which the indicator is pivoted, the indicator having slots concentrie with its pivot to accommodate the parts extending therethrough.

8. A fare-register having, in combination with trip-register numeral-wheels and an endwise-movable resetting-shaft supporting said wheels, means for pulling and turning said shaft, means for locking the same in its retracted position and for limiting its rotation to one direction, means for transmitting rotation therefrom to said numeral-wheels or such of them as have been turned by actuations during a given trip or half-trip, an oscillating not-set indicator movable in front of said numeral-wheels, and means for transmitting motion to said indicator at the beginning of each resetting operation and holding the same in its effective position until such resetting operation is completed, the same consisting of a suitable cam movable with said shaft, a lever having a relatively fixed pivot and provided with a lug engaged by the periphery of said cam, and means for transmitting motion from said lever to said indicator.

9. A fare-register having, in combination with trip-register numeral-wheels and an endwise-movable resetting-shaft supporting said Wheels, means for pulling and turning said shaft, means for locking the same in its retracted position and for limiting its rotation to one direction, means for transmitting r0- tation therefrom to said numeral-wheels or such of them as have been turned from zero by actuations during a given trip or half-trip, an oscillating not-set indicator pivoted on said shaft and movable in front of said numeralwhecls, and means for transmitting motion to said indicator at the beginning of each resetting operation and holding the same in its effective position until such resettingoperation is completed, the same consisting of a cam movable with said shaft, a lever having a relatively fixed pivot and provided with a lug engaged by the periphery of said cam, and a slotted lever the slotof \vhich embraces a stud on the lever first named and astud on said indicator in proximity to said shaft.

CHAS. E. (HERDING. WVitnesses:

JOHN H. BALDWIN, H. F. BALDWIN.

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