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S. LOE.

SECOND CHOICE VOTING MECHANISM. APPLICATION FILED MAY 24. 1911..

1,310,196, Patented July 15,1919.

W/ zwss 55s.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYVER LOE, 0F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, T0 LOE MULTIPLEX VOTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF MINNEAPOLIS,

MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF MINNESOTA.

SECOND-CHOICE-VOTING MECHANISM.

Application filed May 24, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYV'ER Lon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of I-Iennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Second Choice Voting Mechanism; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of' the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to voting machine and, particularly, has for its object to provide a simple and eflicient device for selective voting where it is permissible to cast one vote, either for two parties represented in adjacent columns, or for the same candidate represented in two columns or on two tickets, such as a Republican and Democratic ticket.

One election of the above type of selective voting would be so-called first and second choice voting, such as required in some States where it is permissible to cast vote for a first choice and a second choice ballot for certain ofiices, such, for instance, as for governor. In such an arrangement, the first choice candidate will be in one column and a second choice candidate will be in an adj acent column of register actuators, and the actuators assigned to first choice and second choice candidates will be interconnected by a selectin cut-out lock permitting either of the saic actuators to be operated in the first instance, but preventing the second thereof from being subsequently operated.

All of the illustrations of the use of the selective lock will be where one person, say a candidate for governor, will be represented, say on both the Republican and Democratic tickets, and in each case, the candidate might be voted for by manipulation of a register actuator either in the Republican column or in the Democratic column, but wherein the operation of one or the other of these actuators would make it impossible to operate a second thereof, during, of course, in one voting operation, that is, between intervals of resetting of the machine for different voters.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 1s a plan view showing a portion Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919.

Serial No. 170,727.

of the keyboard frame and register actuators of the voting machine. This keyboard mechanism, as shown, is of the type disclosed and claimed in my companion application filed of even date herewith and entitled Keyboard mechanism for voting machines Fig. 2 is an elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1, looking at the same from the inner or back side of the machine; and

Figs. 3 and 4 are diagrammatic plan views illustrating the action of the selective lock.

The keyboard proper, as shown, is made up of a multiplicity of interlocking duplicate skeleton blocks or sections of the character disclosed and claimed in my companion application entitled Keyboard mechanism for voting machines. These interlocking blocks are indicated, as entireties, by the numeral 5, and they are provided with intermediate front or outer sleeves 6 and intermediate rear or inner sleeves 7 and they have certain various other characteristics not necessary to here consider, but fully disclosed and claimed in my said pending application.

Each register actuator is made up of a finger-actuated key or lever 8, and a register actuating lever 9. These two levers 8 and 9 are connected by slot and pin connections 10 and they are mounted in clearance passages between the superimposed blocks 5 with the said levers 8 and 9, respectively, arranged to pivot on the axes of the sleeves 6 and 7, respectively, all as more fully disclosed in my said companion application entitled Keyboard mechanism for voting machines;

In Fig. 1, both of the register actuators are shown as in normal position. In Fig. 3, the right hand lever 9 is shown in normal position, and the left hand lever 9 in set or register actuated position. In Fig. 4, the left hand lever 9 is shown in normal position, and the right hand lever 9 as in a set position.

The so-called selective lock for connecting the two horizontally alined lovers 9 of adj a cent columns, is a very simple device consisting of a lever 11 intermediately pivoted at 12 to a lug 13 provided therefor on its block 5. Of course, these selecting locks will be applied only at places where it is desired to interconnect actuators of adjacent columns.

At its ends, the selecting lock lever 11 is provided with cam slots 14 having inturned look notches 15. The lever 9 are provided with cam pins or studs 16 that work in the cam slots 14.

In the normal position of the parts shown in Fig. 1, the cam slots 14: are nearly concentric to the pivotal axis of the cooperating lever 9, but the cam pins 16 of both levers 9 are at least partly within the lock notches 15, but either lever 9 can be freely moved from its normal position into its set position. The movement of one or the other of the said levers 9, however, operating on the dooperating cam groove 14, will move that end of the lever 11 slightly inward, thereby moving the opposite end of said lever slightly outward and causing the lock notch 15, at the outwardly moved end of its said lever to engage fully with the lock pin 16 of the lever 9 that stands in normal position. In F ig. 3, the right hand lever 9 is shown as locked in its normal position, and in Fig. 4c, the left hand lever 9 is shown as locked in its normal position. Attention is further called to the fact that with the parts in normal position shown in Fig. 1, both slots 14: are out of alinement with the cooperating cam pins 16, so that it is impossible to simultaneously move both of the interconnected leversv 9. Hence, one, and only one, of the interconnected levers, and hence, of the interconnected register actuators, can be operated. The device for accomplishing this result, moreover, is extremely simple and capable of being quickly and easily applied: in any place of the machine where the above described action is desired.

What I claim is:

1. In a voting machine, the combination with several columns or rows of register actuators, said actuators including pivoted le vers, of a selective lock lever intermediately pivoted between said columns or rows and with its ends cam-connected to correspond ing actuator levers of two adjacent columns, and serving to permit either one of said actuator levers to be moved by looking the other or second against movement.

2. In a voting machine, the combination with several columns of register actuators including pivoted levers having cam pins or projections, of a selective lock lever intermediately pivoted between said columns of actuators and provided in its: ends with cam slots engaging the cam pins of said levers, said slots at one extremity having lock notches normally alined with said cam pins, permitting movement of either of said two levers, the first moved actuator lever operating through said selective lock lever tolock the other actuator lever in normal position.

3.. In a voting machine, the combination. with several columnsof register actuators including pivoted levers having cam pins or projections,-of a selective loclr'lever intermediately pivoted between said columnsof actu-' ators and provided in its ends'vvith cam slots engaging the cam pins of said levers, said slots at one extremity having lock notches. normally alined: with said anr'pins, permitting movement of either of said: two levers,

the first moved. actuator lever operating.

through said selective lock lever to lock the other actuator'lever' in normal position, the said selective lever being detachable and interchangeable With the various actuator-1e Copies ofthispatent: may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the (Jommissioner'of Patents, Washington, I). G.

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