US165981A - Improvement in registering-machines - Google Patents

Description

C. M. CADY.

Registering Machine.

Patented Juiy 27,1875.

No.l65,98l.

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WITNESSES K W ATTORNEY N PETERS. FHDTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. n c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COLLINS M. OADY, OF PENINSULA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN REGISTERING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,98 1, dated July 27, 1875 application filed January 11, 1875.

To all whom itmay concern: and tallies one for every tooth as it is re- Be it known that I, OoLLINs M. OADY, of volved. H is a forked plate, pivoted to the Peninsula, in the county of Summit and State case, which passes up between the ratchet of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Imwheels. I is the fork. J is a disk, attached provement in Tallying-Machine, of which the eccentrioally to the central post K. The rim following is a specification: or periphery of this eccentric bears against This invention relates to the construction the inner sides of the fork I, and oscillates the of machines for tallying weights and numbers plate H, and at every revolution of the inner and for all similar purposes 5 and consists in ratchet it throws the pawl F (which is attached the construction and arrangement of parts to one arm of the forked plate I) into commuhereinai'ter described and claimed. nication with the outer ratchet-wheel L, and Figure l is a side view, and Fig. 2 is a front turns that wheel one tooth. The movement view, of the machine. Fig. 3is adetail, showof the ratchet is indicated on the dial, one ing the back ratchet and pawl, the eccentric hand foreach ratchet, one being carried by and forked lever or yoke. thecentral post, and the other hand by the eimilar letters of reference indicate correouter ratchet. Theinner hand indicates units spondin g parts. and the outer hand tens, hundreds, or thous- A represents a frame-work or casing for ands, as there may be more than two ratchets adapting the device to tallying numbersas, and eccentrics, so that any required number for instance, measures of grain from the may be indicated on the dial. The back mothrashing-machine, measures of coal in loadv tion of the lever is produced by the spring m. ing and unloading vessels or cars; but this i This spring may be located in any other place casing may be of any form to adapt it for to produce the same effects. other purposes-401' instance, numbering the The advantages to be derived from the use revolutions of shafting or axles to determine of this tallying-machine are many, and must their speed, or the revolution of the paddlebe obvious to all. wheels of steam-boats, and for all similar pur- 1 Having thus described my invention, what poses. Bis a lever, whose fulcrum is at O, 3 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lethaving on its end the stub D, upon which the ters Patent, is measure is placed to depress that end of the In a tallying-machine, the combination of lever. The other end of the lever operates the i the swinging lever B, connecting-bar F, pawls pawl E by means of the connecting-bar F. E F, ratchet-wheels g I, forked pivoted plate The tallying mechanism consists of two ratch- H, eccentric J and arbor K, all constructed et-wheels, a forked plate, an eccentric, a dial, and relatively arranged as herein set forth. and hands, and a central post, with which post the'innerratchet-wheel and eccentric and COLLINS M. OADY. unit-hand revolve. g is the inner ratchet, which is operated by'the pawl E. This ratchet has twenty (or any other number of teeth,

Witnesses:

MERRILL BooDEY, J onGEN PETERSEN.

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