US239859A - Railroad-ticket - Google Patents

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W. B. SHATTUC.

Railroad Ticket. e No. 239,859. Patented A'p'ril5",l88l..

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u BAGnAul-. 4th. That one Bngltnlte Coupon shall be de'uched by the Statlon [langage Master, for even' twb nlles n: frac- Llon lherenf to the stallen for whit-h hnuzne ls cheeked 5th. That Baggage Conpnns um vnld if detached by any persnn but the Station Baggage Master when checklng bnggage.

6th. Flut Conductors hnll collect the Baggage Coupons which nre attached to' the llllleage Coupons prsented for passage.

7th. Thnt Station Baggnge Mnslers. shall nut check bnggnge on Bnggmze Conpnns. unless nll precedll|g-Mllc nge Uunpcus hnvc been used for sausage.

B Thntlt. enlltles the pnnnner toutravel only be tween relnlm smpplngalaces nl trnlns.

9th. 'Al fnmtlons o n mile slmll be compntnd ns n mlle ln cnlculntln: dlstance traveled.

lh. Thnt |l\ls tlcket will be surrendered to the Condnl-tnr when the lnstConpnns are dem. ed.

11th. Thal: the tlvket will not be honored unless this contrnetlsslgned hy th arson ln whose name lt is immed.

12th. In the event of as# or rlxnnnge to baggage. which shall cnnslsr. of wcnrlm; apparel only, no claim shnll he made therefor ln exi-ess nf lll'tv dollars, und passage w not be ulalmed on thls tlnkct. nr redemption o1 lt asked after one ear tram dnte of lnc.

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WILLIAM B. sHATTUjc, on "CINCINNATI, onto.

RAILROAD-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,859, dated April 5, 1881.

Application filed May 12, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM B. SnA'r'rUc,

which the following is a specication.

My invention, while applicable to various forms of commutation passage-tickets, is more especially designed for what are known as thousand-mile tickets..77 The ordinary form of such a ticket is a book containing one thousand separable coupons, consecutively numbered, each good for one mile of travel.

Theform of thousandmile ticket customarily employed is found to be imperfect and unsatisfactory to the railroad-managers, because an inadequate check on holders who have abused the special privilege, and it is unsatisfactory to the general traveler who ndssuch coinmutants enjoying advantages not possessed by him. A railway passage-ticket, whether single or multiple, always, as is well known, implies the right to conveyance of accompanying baggage not in excess of a prescribed Weight, say one hundred and fifty pounds. The passenger who desires to carry baggage presents his ticket to the baggageniaster, who vpunches it with the letter 13. Even should the passenger not accompany his baggage, the punch aforesaid is `an absolute check on any attempt of a double use of the ticket for baggage privileges. In practice passengers seldom desire or avail themselves of their full privileges in this respect, so that the average baggage-weight per traveler is only a small fraction of the permitted maximum, and a passengerwho fails to avail himself of his full baggage privileges on one trip cannot recoup on the next; but in the case of a commutationticket composed of a multitude of such mile coupons the above-mentioned precautions are impracticable, because in the hurry of departing trains the punching of each individual coupon would consume very much more time than the baggage-master has at his disposal, and hence he is obliged to depend wholly on the good faith ofthe ticket-holder. With the majority of holders he would, of course, be perfectly safe in so doing; but experience has proven that a numerous minority of holders have-abused the trust by using it for the gran/W. tuitous shipment of merchandise many times in excess of their fcontract.

To make impossible such clandestine use of commutation `privileges is the object of my in- 5 5 vention.

My improvement consists in a'coiipon-book in which is providedwith each mile-passage coupon, or with each group of two or more such coupons, a baggage coupon or tag correspond- 6o `ing to the `same-,number `of miles, and so connected Withits passagecoupon as to bring the ,passagefcoupon between the baggage-tag and the stub,` so that itsdetachment will be quickly noticed,`the baggage privilege extending only to the remaining passage-coupons having such baggage-coupons in line therewith, the baggagecoupons not being recognized., or of no value, unless accompanied by the associate passagecoupon, which cannot be removedirom 7o its associate baggage-coupon without forfeiting its baggage privilege. On the presentation of such a ticket forthe purpose of securing free transportation of baggage, the baggagemaster will simply separate baggage-coupons corresponding to thedistance to which the baggage is to be taken, thus divesting so many of the passage-coupons of their baggage privileges. This is the work of a moment, and,

while imposing no inconvenience ou respect- 8o able comm utors, will restrict the holder of such a ticket to the precise privileges as to baggage enjoyed by ordina-ry passengers, and will put a stop to an abuse of the privilege so injurious and demoralizing as to have caused the entire abolition of such favors to have been seriously debated.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in 9o consist of any convenient number of coupons.

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My practice is to include on each leaf twenty passenger one-mile coupons in two parallel columns, as represented at A A, and ten corresponding baggage two-mile coupons in another parallel column, B, as in the accompanying drawings. The column B is printed with the sentence Baggage 2 miles.7

In my preferred arrangement, here selected for illustration, the mile-passage coupons are disposed in consecutive pairs between one baggage-coupon and the stub C; but, if preferred, the passage-coupons may be arranged in single column between the stub U and baggage-tags B, and each individual mile-passage coupon befurnished with its attached baggagecoupon, in which case the inscription on the latter would of course be Baggage l mile.77

Instead of twenty miles, each page may contain a less number of mile-passage couponssuch, for example, as ten, or four, or even two.

In the act of printing the leaves of my book lines of punctures b are provided between the baggage and passage coupons, and between the consecutive baggage-coupons, similar to those which in my ticket and those heretofore employed partially separate the passenger-coupons, the object of such punctures, ofcourse, being to enable easy separation by hand of any desired number of consecutive tickets.

Iam aware th at baggage-checks and receipts for stamping have been attached to tickets, and both have had numbers corresponding to the number of the ticket; such a ticket,there fore, I do not claim as my invention, as such tickets are not available for the purpose of preventing fraud as practiced in the use of ordinary coupon-books.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

As a new article of manufacture, a railroadticket book having leaves on which are printed columns of passage-coupons A and baggagetags B, associated with the said passage-coupons and indicating the extent of baggage privilege, the said passage-coupons being located between thc baggage-tags and stub (l, and said baggage-tags being adapted to be separated from or with their respective associated passage-coupons, as set forth.

Y In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM B'. sHAT'rUc.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, PERCY KNIGHT.

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