US405820A - Cash-fare ticket - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

A. I. BLANCHARD.

CASH PARE TICKET. No. 405,820. Patented June 2 5, 1889.

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ALLEN I. BLANCHARD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CASH-FARE TI'CKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,820, dated June 25, 1889.

Application filed YJ'une 18, 18 8 7.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN I. BLANCHARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Fare Tickets, of which the following is a specification, to wit:

This invention relates to railroad-tickets; `and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction and arran ;e1nent of the same, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and use, referring' to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a face view of my ticket as itis printed and furnished to the conductor. Fig. 2 is a view of the same ticket as it appears aft-er being punched and torn apart, and Fi 0. 3 is a detail view of the forward ends of the jaws of a punch such as I use in connection with this ticket.

The object I have in view is to provide a ticket or cash-fare receipt for the use of conductors who collect cash-fares from passengers who neglect to buy the regular passageticket-s before getting on the train; and to that end I form it in the manner shown, divided by a line of perforations into two parts, one of which is torn off and given to the passenger and the other returned to the general office of the railroad.

a a represent the main body of my ticket, which is provided with a longitudinal line of perforations a2 to divide it in two parts and facilitate the accurate separation of the parts when the ticket is to be used.

The upper part a of this ticket forms the receipt given the passenger, and has printed across its face any suitable arrangement of words indicating the railroad company by which it is issued and the identifying number of the particular ticket, in the one herein shown this being No 1,148. .I ust above the lower perforated edge of this portion of the ticket it is divided into three spaces by suitable printed lines, as at b,in which spaces are printed words or characters to indicate dollars, dimes, and cr-mts, respectserai No. 241,701. (No model.)

ively. This part of the ticket also contains, either written upon a suitable blank space or printed, the name of the conductor by whom it is given out.

The lower part a of the ticket forms the conductors report, to be returned to the company, and just beneath its upper perforated edge is printed a line of igures arranged in three series, each containing a complete set of numerals, consisting of the figures from one to nine, inclusive, as at b', and corresponding in location to the spaces b on the opposite side of the line of perforations. Upon this part of the ticket is also printed the number corresponding to that on the other part, and by preference the name of the conductor and a blank for the date of use. The lower part of this portion of the ticket is also provided with two separate series of iigures, arranged in rows or columns, as at c, and over one series is printed From station and over the other To station. These columns of gures are used to indicate the number of the station at which the passenger entered the train and the station at which he left it; and in each series of figures the lower row represents units, the next tens, the next hundreds, and the upper row thousands. As few roads have so man y stations upon their line, it will not, however, in ordinary cases,

be necessary to provide so many rows in each series.

I prefer. to use in connection with this ticket a punch somewhat like that seen at CZ in Fig. 3, and arranged to cut a three-sided tongue out of the ticket, which is not entirely severed, but is left hanging by one end.

In use we will suppose a passenger gets on the train at station No. 270 and pays the conductor in cash the sum of $5.55 (five dollars and fifty-five cents) as fare to station No. 346. The conductor takes the cash-fare receipt or ticket as it appears in Fig. l, and with his punch cuts out the figure 5 in the row beneath the word dollars, and the same beneath the words dimes and cents This forms a cut around the figure, which severs it from the lower part of the ticket and leaves it hanging from the upper part, as in Fig. 2, by the perforated upper edge. In the series of figures marked From station lie then punches the igure 2 in the hundreds column, the figure 7 in the tens line, and the O in the units line, showing, as indicated in Fig. 2, that the station from Which fare was paid is No. 270. He in a similar way punches the other series of igures to indicate the fare paid to station No. 346. This punching, as will be seen, does not altogether remove these numbers, but only surrounds them with a line or cut which indicates them well, but cannot afterward be altered. The ticket is 110W torn in two along the line of perforations a2 and the upper part given to the passenger, and the figures hanging to its lower edge show him at once that the. full amount i he has paid has been credited by the conductor. The latter sends the duplicate portion of the ticket in with his report after' the eX- piration of his trip, and it shows at once the amount of money received and the distance traveled, and thus forms a complete guard against his stealing from the company.

These receipt-tickets will usually be made up in small books of convenient size, and the conductor, when given one of these books, must return all those unused, as well as the stubs of those used, and as they are all consecutively numbered no mistake can occur.

The particular matter contained upon the face of the ticket is of little consequence, and will be fully changed to suit the oflicers of the road using it; but in any case the ticket must be lmade with aperforated diviSiOnr-line, on one side of which are the spaces for containing the designations vof dollars, dimes, and cents, and on the other side, in correspondence with these spaces, the rows of figures, as shown. The companys duplicate must also be provided with the series of numbers to indicate the stations between which fare was paid.

It is evident that this arrangement may be applied equally well to sleeping-car tickets and similar cases where an accurate record of the money received is desirable, and I will so use it wherever found applicable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cash-fare ticket provided with a divisionline of perforationsf, having on. one side of said line Words or 'characters indicating dol- MPS, dimes, .and cents, and 0n, the other side of said line a complete 'set of numerals 0pposit'e leach of ,saild designations, whereby, when any of said ligures are punched out and the ticket separated on the'V perforated line,

the punched igures will adhere to one part and all of the rest of the gures to the other part of the ticket, Substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimonywhereof I aflX ,my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, ALLEN 1 BLANCHARD. Witnesses W. C. MCARTHUR, W. S. MQARTHUR.,

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