US500337A

US500337A - Marshall burns lloyd

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Publication number: US500337A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-06-27
Anticipated expiration: 1910-06-27

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M. B. LLOYD. BAG HOLDING WEIGHING SCALE. No. 500,337. Patented June 27, 1893.

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M. B. LLOYD. BAG HOLDING WEIGHING SCALE.

No. 500,337. Patented June 27, 1893.

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MARSHALL BURNS LLOYD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO THE LLOYD SCALE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BAG-HOLDING WElGHlNG-SCALE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,337, dated June 27, 1893.

Application filed July 18, 1892- Serial No. 440,305. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- and is provided with the cross bar 18 arranged Beitknown thatLMAnsHALLBURNsLLoYD, in the notch 14. When the lever 25 is in the of Minneapolis,in the county of Hennepin and position shown in Fig. 1 the platform is en- State of Minnesota, have invented certain Imtirely suspended from the scale. IVhen the 5 provements in WVeighing-Scales, of which the lever is thrown down into the position shown following is a specification. in Fig. 3 the platform rests upon the floor and This invention relates to improvements in is entirely unsupported from the scale. After the weighing scale for which Letters Patent placing the weight upon the platform while of the United States were issued to me on the it is resting upon the floor, the lever is to 28th day of February, 1888, No. 378,693, and moved so as to carry its free end under the the objects I have in view are to improve the hook 33, the other end thereby raising upon construction of the scale,and to provide means the lever 17 and the beam 13 being moved up by which the suspended platform may be let so as to engage the cross bar 18 on the standdoWn onto the floor without injury to the scale ard 16. This prevents the beam 13 from be- I5 and without throwing the beam out of position. in g thrown out of position no matter how much A further object of the invention is to arstrain is brought upon said beam, and the range the suspended platform so that it will platform is now entirely suspended from the support a bag of any desired size. scale and its weight may be ascertained by In the accompanying drawings forming a the movement of the slide upon the beam. 20 part of this specificationz-Figure 1 is a side The suspended platform is preferably proelevation ofascale constructed in accordance vided with the cross rod 37 which is made with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail showadjustable upon said rods 23 by means of the ing the upper part of the frame. Fig. 3 is a ferrules 39 and set screws 11. Arranged upon central vertical section. the rod 37 are the adjustable sleeves 13 pro- 25 In the drawings, 2 represents the frame, vided with the spring arms 45. The sleeves which is of any suitable height and is prefer- 43 are provided with the serrated surfaces 17 ably constructed with the inclined legs makthat are adapted to engage the bag. These ing the frame substantially in the form of a spring arms together with the serrated surcarpenters saw-horse. The upper platform 1 faces of the sleeves 43 are adapted to engage 8o 30 thereof is provided with the central slot 3 and and hold a bag as indicated in dotted lines in with the inclined slot 5 extending from said Fig. 1, and the cross rod may be moved to any central slot and one end of the platform. A desired position so as to engage a bag of any table 7 is supported upon the top of said platdesired height and the sleeves 43 may be ad form upon suitable standards 9 and upon this justed upon the rod 37 to accommodate the 5 table are arranged the standards 11 upon width of the bag.

which the beam 13 is pivoted. This beam is I claim as my invention connected by a suitable connection 15 with 1. The combination with the supporting the lever 17, said lever supporting the susstand, of the pivoted beam 13 arranged in pended platform 19 that is provided with a standards 11 upon said stand, the standard 16 9o 40 bottom 21 and the side rods 23. The lever 17 provided with the cross bar 18 adapted to enis supported at its other end upon the pivoted gage a notch in the free end of the beam, the lever 25, said lever being pivoted in the standpivoted lever 17 connected to said beam, the ard 27 and provided with the hook 29 adapted pivoted lever 25 to which the lever 17 is conto engage the link or clevis 31 that is connected, the hook 33 for holding said lever, and 5 45 nected to the end of the lever17. Aweighted the suspended platform 19 supported upon hook 33 is arranged upon the end of the frame the lever 17 and adapted to rest upon the floor and adapted to engage the lever 25 and hold when the lever 25 is released and to be raised said lever in any desired position. The end therefrom with a weight supported on it when of the beam 13 is provided with a notch 14 the lever 25 is moved in the opposite direction. 50 and upon the table 7 is arranged a standard 2. In a weighing scale having a platform 16 that extends up 011 each side of the beam suspended therefrom to support the matter to be Weighed, said platform having side rods, of a cross bar adjust-ably supported on said side rods and carrying adjustable spring arms to adapt said bar and arms to secure to the platform bags varying in length and Width, substantially as and for the purposes described. 3. The combination with the stand 2 havlng the platform 1 provided with an opening 3, and the inclined slot 5 extending from said opening to the end of the upper portion of the stand, the table 7 supported upon said stand by the standards 9, standards 11 arranged upon said table, the beam 13 pivoted in said standards and provided with the notch 14, the standard 16 arranged upon said table and provided with a cross bar 18 engaging said notch 141, the lever 17 connected to said beam and to the lever 25 and arranged to Work in the inclined slot 5 and the suspended platform supported upon said lever 17, substantially as described.

1. In a weighing scale having a platform suspended therefrom to support the matter to be Weighed, said platform having side rods, of a cross bar adjustably supported on said side rods, the spring arms for securing a bag containing the matter to be weighed, and the sleeves adj ustably mounted on said cross bar and carrying said spring arms and having the serrated surfaces, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of June, 1802.

MARSHALL BURNS LLOYD.

In presence of A. 0. PAUL, FREDERICK S. LYON.