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UNI TED STATES - PATENT OFFIC.
JOSEPH K. BYWATERS AND JOHN Y. BURKE, OF PARIS, TEXAS.
CAR-SEAT RECORDER.
S PE I ICaTPION fTorming part of Letters Patent No. 337,305, dated March 2, 1886.
Application filed October 19, 885,. Serial No. 180,372. (No mod l)To all whonm it mcay concer:
Be it known that we, JOSEPH K. BYwAsERs
and JoHN Y. BURKE, of Paris, in the county
of Lamar and State of-Texas, have invented a
5 new and useful Improvement in Car-Seat Re-
corders, of which the following is a descrip-
tion.
Our invention is an improvement in the
class of recorders adapted for connection with
io the seat of apassenger-vehicle for the purpose
of recording the number of miles traveled by a
passenger while occupying said seat. The nov-
elty is embodied in the construction and com-
bination of parts, as hereinafter described and
15 claimed.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
a view showing the application of our inven-
tion to a railway-car, part being in section and
part broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical trans-
20 verse section showing the recording appara-
tus applied to a car-seat. Fig. 3 is another
transverse section of the car-seat and record-
ing apparatus. Fig. 4 is another sectional
view of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective
25 view of the seat-spring and the lever that con-
nects it with the puncturing device. Fig. 6
is a plan view of a portion of the graduated
strip indicating distances.
The recording apparatus A is located in the
30 middle of the car-seat B, the latter being thus
divided into two separate equal parts, aa, each
ofsufficient width to accommodate a passenger.
Each part a is spring-supported, and when
depressed by the weight of a passenger effects
35 the desired recording, as hereinafter described.
Beneath the seat A is a shaft, C, arranged
lengthwise thereof, and having a spur-gear,
D, which rotates with it and meshes with a
smaller gear, E, that imparts motion to the
40 recording apparatus proper, A. The shaft C
is rotated slowly by means of a gear-connec-
tion with a car-axle, F, as will be presently
described.
The recording apparatus & is formed, main-
45 ly, of two pairsof friction feed-rollers, 1 2 and
1 2, a spear-pointed cutter, G, and a card or
paper strip, H, laid between the rollers. The
rollers are all arranged with their axes hori-
zontal,andthelower rollers, 11, having pinions
50 b, which mesh with the intermediate gear, E,
before referred to. Thus positive motion in
the same direction is imparted to said rollers1 1. Thecatter G womks vertically in a guide,
e, Fig. 4, between the pairs of rolls 1 1. The
lower end is attached to a centrally-fulertnmed 55
lever, I, whose other end connects with a
-four-armnied spring, K, Fig. 5, applied to the
bottom of one of the parts a of the car-seat,
Fig. 2. It will now be perceived that when
the seat portion a is depressed the lever I is 6o
tilted, and the cutter G forced up through the
strip H, and will remain in that position so
long as the seat is occupied. As the strip H
is continuously traveling, it is obvious it will
be slit by the cutter during the time the pas- 65
senger is seated, and, as the strip is in prac-
tice inscribed with names of stations and is
also graduated, Fig. 6, in sixteenths of an inch,
one for each mile of the road, it will be seen that
the length of the slit in strip H will indicate the 70
number of miles of travel during which the
seat is occupied. To throw the cutter down
so that its point will be below the paperstrip
H, as when the seat a is unoccupied, we em-
ploy a spring, L, that enciercles the shank of 75
the cutter. The lever I connects with the
four-armed spring K at its center, so that
pressure applied to any portion of the seat
will be transferred to the lever I, and there-
fore effect the desired record. 80o
Two recording apparatus might be used--
one for each part a of the car-seat; but the axes
of the rollers 1 and 2 may be extended and
have other rolls 1 1 applied thereto, as shown
in Fig. 4,so that two recording apparatus prop- 85
er may be operated from the same set of gears.
The upper rolls, 2 2, are journaled in a portion
of the recording-case,which is hinged, and by
opening this portion access is had to the strip
H. The whole is inclosed in a case provided 90
with lock and key.
The gearing for imparting motion from the
car-axle to the shaft C of the registering ap-
paratus is constructed and arranged as follows:
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 it will be seen that 95
a shaft, 3i, extends longitudinally of the car,
beneath a row of seats, and is connected by
worm-gear d with the several shafts C of the
recording apparatus applied to the respective
seats-that is to say, a shaft, M, is arranged too
on each side of the car beneath each row of
seats, and operates the recording apparatus of
each of the latter. Each shaft 3i derives slow
motion from a vertical shaft, N, Figs. 1, 2, that
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Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y. Car Seat Recorder., patent, March 2, 1886; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171206/m1/2/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.