US190282A - Improvement in office-indicators - Google Patents

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I'. R. CLUXTON. ZSheets-Sheet 2.

oFFIcE INDIGMQR.V No. 190,282. Patented May1,187`7.

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JAMES R. OLUXT-ON, OF HILLSBOROUGH, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN OFFICE-INDICATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,2S2, dated May 1, 1877 applicationiled l February 14, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMEs R. GLUX'roN, of Hillsborough, in the county of Highland and State f Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Office-Indicators and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specication.'

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an office-iudicator and 1etterbox, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains toY make and use the same, I will now proceed to deplate, C, while the lower portion thereof is solid, and has a slot, a, of suitable size to admit of an ordinary letter being passed through the same.

In the upper part of the case A is a dial,

i D, with hands d d pivoted in the center, so

that they can be set to indicate any hour on the dial desired. t

Above this dial is the business-card o'f the person for whom the indicator is intended, and also the words Will be here at, or words of similar import. A short distance below the lower edge ofthe dial D is fastened .a slate, E, and through the opening between the dial and the slate are seen three endless belts, Gl G2 G3, placed side by side. On the belt Gl are printed or otherwise affixed the names of the months in the year; on the belt G2 the numbers l to 31 and on the belt G3 the words morning, noon, evening', night.

These belts at the upper end of the case pass around a stationary shaft or roller, or independently-rotating rollers; and at the bottom said belts pass around three rollers, G, placed in a straight line, as shown, Aand having their journal-bearings in cleats m m, which are made stationary lengthwise in the case A, and form divisions between the belts to keep them separate4 and entirely independent of each other. Each roller G is pro vided with a wheel, h, for turning the same, and the rollers G are covered by a shield, J, having slots through which the wheels h project.

Below the shield J the case A simply forms the chamber or letter-box H.

When the occupant of the oce goes out he should turn the hands d d to the hour he intends to return, turn the belts G1 G2 G3 to show the date, and whether day or night of such return, and on the slate E write where he is gone. These parts', being all under the glass plate C, can be seen by any caller for his guidance; and the letter-box H, underneath, admits of his leaving any message desired, without any subsequent caller seeing the same, which would be the case if such message werewritten on a slate.

I am aware that indicators to be u sed ou officedoors for the same'purpose as mine are not new; and I do therefore not claim such as being, broadly, my invention.

Having thus'fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an office-indicator having a dial, D, with hands d, the endless belts G1 G2 G3 guided and separated by the cleats m, the rollers G G G arranged on a line with each other,`and provided -with operating wheels h, and the slotted shield J, all constructed as described, and inclosed within a ease, A B, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth'.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presenceof two witnesses.

J. It. OLUXTON. Witnesses:

SAML. LYLE, Jr., WASH. DOGGETT.

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