US209946A

US209946A - Improvement in alarm-registers

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Publication number: US209946A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1878-11-12
Anticipated expiration: 1895-11-12

Description

JWW]? T. VOSBURGH. Alarm-Register.

No. 209,946. Patented Nov. 12,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

TUNIS VOSBURGH, OF CLYDE, NEKV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN ALARM-REGISTERS.

Specification ibrming part of Letters Patent No. 209,946, dated November 12, 1878; application filed J unc 5 To all about it may concern:

Be it known. that I, TUNIs VOSBURG-H, of Clyde, in the county of \Vayne and State of New York, have invented a useful machine adapted to the correct indicating or registering of numbers, 01. which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the operating mechanism. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same, and. Fig. T is a view of the box, dial, and dialcap.

This invention relates to the indicating or registering of numbers.

The object of my invention is to provide a rapid, reliable, and correct method of indicating or registering numbers by means of a compact machine composed of a combination of wheels, springs, lever-power, ratchet-movement, hell or gong, and pointers or indicators so worked or moved by machinery as to indicate correctly upon a dial the number of times the bell has been struck when the pointers have been set at a given number or numbers, the whole securely inclosed in a compact iron box, as shown by the drawing accompanying this specification.

The general working of the machine may be described as follows: Into the basewheel A, which works on a pivot securely fastened at the bottom of the box, meshes the dial wheel 0, in each of which are fifty cogs or notches. These, when moved by the leverpower attachment, as shown. in Fig. 3, will cause the pointer or indicator, which counts by single numbers, to indicate upon the dial that one number has been passed at every stroke of the gong or bell.

i5 is a ratchet-wheel with twenty notches or cogs, which is worked by the same leverpower, and at every revolution of the base wheel it passes one cog, and is moved by catching an extra or large cog in the basewheel A, causing the gong or bell to ring and the proper pointer or indicator to mark or count iifty upon the dial, so that by twenty revolutions of the basewhcel A there will be one revolution of the ratchet-wheel 0, counting one thousand upon the dial.

D is the lever, and E the handle of the same, which is worked from the outside of the box, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, connected by springs K and M, the spring K being attached to and governing the dog L, the spring M being the mainsprin g of the lever handle E.

G is a catch-spring, which works on the base-wheel A, and governs the movement of the base-wheel holding at every notch.

H is the hammer attached to the lever D, and strikes one upon the gong or bell F every time the lever-handle E is pressed down and thrown back by the mainspring M. One notch or cog on the base-wheel A being passed causes the proper pointer to indicate one as counted. on the dial.

I is the stop-spring ot' the ratchet-wheel 13, and governs its movement, holdingitat every notch. J is the spring-arm, connecting the lever E with the dog L. O and U show a general view of the dial with. pointers or indicators and numbers. V shows the dog-arm attached to the lever. \V shows the pivot of shaft earryin g the pointers.

The operation of this invention is as fol lows: \Vhen the lever is pressed down it causes the main base-wheel A to move one notch and the proper pointer on the dial to count one by moving forward one number, and the lever being suddenly thrown back by the mainspring M causes the gong or hell I to ring by being struck by the hammer. At every revolution of the main or base wheel A one notch is passed on the ratchet-wheel G, causing the proper pointer to move forward and indicate titty as having been counted on the dial.

hat known as the bell-punch is ob jectionable for registering or counting numbers, for the reason that it requires the puucln ing of paper strips in connection with it.

My invention is adapted to the purpose of rapidly counting and indicating the numbers counted in. and of itself as the lever is sprung,

operated by springs K M to cause the hammer H to strike the bell-F and the dog L to move the wheels, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

r TUNIS VOSBURGH. Witnesses:

JUDSON HoLooMB, WILLIAM V. BRowN.