US611736A - The nornis peters co - Google Patents

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NITED STATES PATENT Prion.

FRANK E. l-IODGI-NS AND ALZINA V. YOUNGOF TORONTO, CANADA; SAID ALZINA V. YOUNGEXECUTRX OF JOHN F. YOUNG, DEOEASED.

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SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters 'Patent NO. 611,736, dated October 4, 1898.

Application iiled March 4, 1898. Serial No. 672,574. (No specimens.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. HoDGINs, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Brit-ain, residing at Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, together with JOHN F. YOUNG, late a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, now deceased, did invent io certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tickets, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification sufciently full, clear, and accurate to enable persons skilled in the art I5 to make and use the same.

The main object of the invention is the production of a railway-ticket which can be used only once for a single unbroken trip, and is also adapted for transferring the passenger zo over one or more additional lines in any direction and limiting the stop-over period of time at each transfer point or station.

A further object is to dispense with the use of the ordinary transfer-check by providing a substitute ticket which will require the fewest possible manipulations or punches by the conductor. l

With these objects in view the invention consists in cutting cardboard or other suit- 3o able material into pieces of proper shape and dimensions and of such size that the punch can reach each space and permanently printing or aflixing on one face t-hereof certain lines and characters which indicate, rst, the 3 5 days of the month; second, the hoursv and fractions of the hours of a day; third, the points of the compass, and, fourth, the morning and-evening.

It further consists in so arranging the numerals that the first twelve can indicate the first twelve days of the month and also the twelve hours of the morning and the twelve hours of the evening.

Finally, it consists in placing the characters indicating the morning and evening at one corner of the pasteboard and arranging two series of characters indicatingr the points of the compass relative thereto, so that one punch-mark will indicate both directions and 5o the morningr or evening.

Figure l is a view of a`ticket embodying the invention, the same being enlarged to more clearly illustrate the construction and arrangement. Fig. 2 is a view of three tickets united at their edges.

On one face of the ticket A are printed two series of lines parallel with the edges and at right angles one to the other, so as to divide the area into rectangular spaces, as illustrated, seventy-eight in number. At the end Band 6o upon the rectangular spaces formed by the lines are placed the letters N, S, F.,

W, and P. M. The former indicate the points of the compass and the latter the evening. Upon the spaces directly to the left of the letter M and adjacent the edge ofthe ticket are printed the letters A, W, E, 8, N. The letter A in connection with the letter M indicates the morning and the remaining letters the points of the compass. 7o Upon the spaces between the point O and the letter W are placed the numerals l 2,71 3,77 c4577 57:7 46,37 :c7777 8377 9,77 10, 1l, l2, and upon the spaces above this series the numerals from 13 to 31, 75 inclusive, arranged as shown. Below each of the numerals :c1777 rc2, rc3, 4,75 5,77 :46,21

u 7, cc 8,77 cc 9,71 cc 10,77 :c ll, :c 121231.@ three rectangular spaces upon which are printed the fractions fla indicating the 8o termination of transfer time. The ticket may be colored differently to indicate different months or routes, if desired. The cardboard, with the spaces, letters, and numerals thus reciprocally arranged, each relative to the other upon the face thereof, constitutes a ticket adapted when properly manipulated for the purposes hereinbefore enumerated.

The ticket is used as follows: A passenger having taken a car, for example, on the morn- 9o ing of the fourth day of the month wishes about the hour of 10. 3Q to be transferred north in line with the letters A. M.that is, the

passenger is transferred north at 10.45 on the `morning of the fourth day of the month. roo

Should the passenger desire to be transferred again and west at eleven in the morning, the

Vconductor punches the fraction under the numeral 11 and the letter W at the left of the letters A. M. A third transfer is effected-for example, south at twelve m. by punching the fraction 31,- below the numeral 12 and the letter S in line with the letters P. M. If not used for transfer, or after such use, it may be canceled by punching the letter M of the date.

The black circular dots on the spaces of the drawings indicate the punch marks or holes made in the ticket by the conductor. It will be noted that for the first transfer the conductor punches three holes in the ticket and that for each subsequent transfer only two are required.

A ticket made as hereinbefore described possesses many superior characteristics as compared with those in general use. When the passenger has a ticket and desires a transfer, it obviates the necessity ofa transfercheck. A single ticket transfers the passenger over one or several connecting lines. It requires the minimum number of manipulations by the conductor. It indicates approximately when surrendered the lines traversed by t-he passen ger, and it can be used but once.

On the back or margin of the ticket may be printed advertisements, the name of the railway-company, the series,conditions of the contract, number and date of patent, &c.

While there has been shown on the drawing in Fig. 1 a preferred construction and arrangement, it is not the intention thereby to limit the scope of the invention, inasmuch as colorable changes may in practice be introduced without constituting a substantial departure, nor will other arrangements with more numbers or letters constitute a material change.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is- 1. A railway-ticket having printed on the face thereof the letters A, M, 1), and two series of letters N, S, 13), VV,ar ranged relatively thereto for the purpose specified; a series of numerals indicating the days of the month from l to 31 inclusive; and a series of numerals indicating the fractions of hours from 1 to 12 inclusive, the said numerals being arranged in series in twelve parallel columns headed by each of the rst twelve numerals which indicate the first twelve days of the month; in substance as and for the purpose specified.

2. A railway-ticket made of suitable material and one face thereof divided by printed lines into spaces; the spaces at the end B having printed thereon the letters N, S, E, XV, P, M,and the spaces directly at the left of the letter M containing the (CN), {(S, GCE, 5 YV, CAS?) 1,e maining spaces having affixed thereupon numerals indicating the days of the month from 1 to 31 inclusive and the fractions of the hours from 1 to 12, the said fractions being disposed in series in twelve parallel columns headed by the numerals from 1 to 12, and the arrangement being such that the numerals from 1 to 12 indicate the first twelve days of the month, and in connection with the letters the twelve hours of the morning, and the twelve hours of the evening; substantially as described.

FRANK E. I-IODGINS. ALZINA V. YOUNG, Eecutriaf of Jom F. Young, deceased.

Witnesses as to signature of Frank E. Hodgins:

WM. J. DASH, LAURA M. WALKER. lVitnesses as to signature of Alzina V. Young:

JOHN P. WESTON, EDITH GEEGAN.

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