US103221A - Improvement in countjinq-reqisters - Google Patents

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' looking .in opposite directions, of a countingappnratuseonstructcd in accordance with myinventiong'and Fig.

'UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM n NA'R OF BROOKLYN, NEW roux.

. IMPROVEMENT IN 'CQUNTANGI-REGISTERS,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 103,22 L'dated May 17,187".

Tonlt whom itmay concern:

tion, reference being had to the eccompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which-- 7 Figures 1 and 2 represent central sections,

3, a view, at right angles to Figsil and Z, of said apparatus, with one of the ontenplates of the caseremoved.

I spending parts.

Similar letters of reference mdicate correis applicable to-counting apparatus for various purposes, including the counting of revolutions in machinery, gas or waterindicators, adding-machines, and registering devices of different kinds. It may be extended indefinitely as regards the multiplication of its count or range, but it will sufiice My improvement here to iilnstrate',the action as restricted to the two denominations of units and tens.

The improvement consists in acertain com:

' hination of counting-wheels, provided with spucgear pinions-arrsnged to mesh into the latter, also (or-certain of them) into toothed sectors carried by each counting-wheel of the next lower denomination, and locking-stops attached to said pinions, to hold each countin gwheel of a higher denomination from moving til. the toothed sector of the next wheel of a lower denomination comes round to operate the pinion, which gives the necessary extent or motion to the adj'acentrconnting'wheel of a higher denomination, when the lockiu'gstop is temporarily relieved by a recess in the countin g-whcol of lower denomination coming round opposite it. I i

lteforrin g to the accompanying drawing, A

represents a case or box, which may be of any suitable form, and which has an opening or apertures, a,- in one of its sides or edges, for

exposure, of each number in succession. arranged around the peripheries of the counti'ng-whec-ls B C. These'countingwhecls are. hung torotate upon a. fixed central shaft or pin, 8, extending fro-inside to side of the case;

in the county of Kings and State and, in some cases,

These wheels carry spur-gear or toothed rings b c on their one side or face, into which mesh independent pinions D and E, the one, D,:of which represents the primary operating pinion, and may be actuated by any suitable power or mechanism it is required to connectthe counting apparatus with and is in gear withthe spur-teeth b of the counting-wheel B, thatis the unit-wheel of the counter.

The other pinion, E, works loose on a pin, 6, and meshes with the spurgear c of the counting-wheel G,-f-which, moving a number each time the nnitwhee'l completes a revolution, counts tens, and so on in. succession for any'nnmber of counting-wheels with pinions, and theirroperatin g and locking attachments, as hereinafter described, according to the required range of theeounter.

Each pinion E is made suhiciently wide to gear not only with the spur-gear c of its countiug-wheel 6, but also with a toothed sector, F. attached to the adjacent counting-wheel B of a lower denomination; and, furthennorc, each pinion E is -provided with a triangular or othersuitable stop, G, which, resting on the periphery of the adjacent c'oimting-wheel B of a lower denomination, locks the higher counting-wheel G from being moved till the toothed sector F of the wheel B, and a recess, a, in the periphery of said wheel, come round to relieve the stop G, and to allow of the actuation of the pinion E- by said sector after. which, by the continuation of the trove of the wheel B, the stop G is -again made to lock the pinion E, and, through it, the wheel 0.

Every action thus communicated to tho counting-wheel of a higherdenominntion, each Devolution o1. theadjacent counting-wheel of a lower denomination moves the first-named counting -wheel a number,- the sector and pinion it operates having a proper relative number of teeth to secure such certainty of action.

The counting-wheels will, of course, he divided according to thenumeration to be made,

and will vary with the different purposes to which it is proposed to apply the invention, a. difi'erentcount to that here described being, for instance, required in its application to cloeks, orto the calendar-movements of'clocks, it may be desirable to provide for the adjustment or correction of the counting-wheels, as inthe case of the stop ping of a clock. This may be done by making the periphcrieal portions of said wheels on which the numbers are arranged movable circnmferentially.

The same system of stops, pinions, gears, and sectors is applicable, with very slight modification, in connection with counting or indicating wheels arranged to indicate by means of figures npon faces parallel with their planes of revolution.

What is here claimed, and desired to he secured by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a series of countingwheelsand spur-geer, 0, connected with each counting-wheel of a' higher denomination, of

the pinion E, stop G, and recess 0, and toothed.

sector F, provided in and on the wheel of lower denomination, substantially as shown FRED. HAYNES, HENRY PALMER.

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