US21684A - Ballot-box - Google Patents

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UNITE S'ITFS PATNT OFFICE.

SAMUEL C. JULLIE, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

BALLOT-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,684, dated October 5, 1858.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, SAMUEL C. JoLLin, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a. new and useful Construction of Ballot-Box; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The object of my .invention is the production of a ballot box which shall at all times exhibit the condition of the ballotings, in other words a ballot box so constructed that the bystanders may see every ballot which is put in, see all the ballots that are in, and see them when taken out. And to this end the nature of my invention for this purpose, consists in the employment of a glass globe mounted in a frame, by which it is held in position, as to exhibit freely all that it contains, and with a hole at the top of sufficient sizel to admit the hand, and provided with a hinged cover having a hole of the required size to receive the ballots.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2 a top view of the glass globe; Fig. 3 a horizontal section; Fig. 4 a plan or top view of the entire apparatus.

The saine letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

The frame is composed of a bottom and top D, C connected together by four corner posts F, F, F, F. Within this frame is sustained a glass globe A which fits just within the four posts, the lower part of the spherical form being slightly let into the base I)V of the frame, with a hole B in the upper part made to correspond with a hole in the top C, to which is fitted a hinged cover E with a hole of sufficient size to receive the ballots and provided with a hasp and appendages that it may be locked. In this way it will be obvious that the bystanders can see whether every ballot that is put into the hole actually goes into the box, and whether more ballots go into the box than are actually put through the ballot hole at top. The whole progress of the balloting is clearly in view, and when the ballots are taken out to be counted it must all be done in open view.

I do not claim broadly the use of glass in the construction of ballot boxes; but what I do claim as my4 invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The employment of a glass globe in the construction of a ballot box by mounting the globe, as herein described, so that it shall be simply held in place without concealing the contents, and having a hole at top of sufficient size for the hand, which hole is to be provided with a hinged cover with a hole of the required size to drop the ballots through, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SAML. C. JOLLIE.

lVitnesses OWEN E. WARREN, WVM. F. ELLIOT.

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