US576570A - Voting-machine - Google Patents

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No. 576,570. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

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VOTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 576,570, dated February 9, 1897. Application filed March 16,1896. Serial No. 583,319. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. GILLESPIE,

. a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Voti ug- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide means whereby the voter may select and indicate in secret the ticket, whether straight or split, that he desires to vote, under such safeguards as to prevent repeating or the lumping of an undue number of ballots on one candidate, and then simultaneously register his entire vote and destroy all evidence visible to the succeeding voter of the selection he has made.

In carrying out the invention I employ a casing elevated from the floor and divided into three compartments, one of which serves as a ballot-board upon which the various tickets are grouped or arranged in parallel columns, the offices to be voted for Occupying one of these groups or columns and the tickets the remaining groups or columns, the candidates for each office being arranged in line in said columns opposite to the designations of the respective ofiices or otherwise in definite relation thereto. The second compartment contains a series of registering mechanisms or counters arranged in as many groups or columns as there are tickets to be voted and corresponding in number with the number of oifiees to be filled, each of such mechanisms having its proper pawl or other operating device. Indicator-slides, one for each ollice to be voted upon, are arranged beneath the denominations of said ofi'ices, operating, at that end within the registryc0mpartment, blocks or keys which may be brought opposite the pawl of any one of the series of counting mechanisms pertaining to the otficc represented by the slide that is opposite the corresponding counting mechanisms in each of the groups or columns of counters, and at the end within the voting-compartment said slides carry indicators or push-rings which, by sliding the rod, may be brought beneath the candidate for that ofiice in any given ticket, thus bringing the key in the other compartment opposite the counters appropriated to that candidate. in thus sliding the rods their farther ends are projected into a third compartment, which may be termeda resetting-compartment, where a common agency is providcd to restore them all simultaneously to normal after the vote has been registered.

A laterall y-slidin g bar, common to all of the indicators, is operated by suitable means to bring them all simultaneouslyin line with any column of a given ticket when a straight ticket is intended to be voted, and upon retracting this sliding bar or straight-ticket bar they can be individually moved if the voter desires to scratch one or more, or they can be moved from their normal position individually and independently without resort to the straight-ticket bar, all of this without afieeting the registering mechanism, which is concealed and for a time inoperative within its compartment.

After the voter has arranged the ticket to suit himself upon the ballot-board he leaves the booth within which he has been concealed while thus manipulating the slides and indicators, moves a lever or other actuating agency within full sight of the judges and spectators, and sets in operation a train of mechanism by which, first, relative movement is caused between the counters and their keys, so that such counters as have had keys brought opposite to them, or those counters corresponding to the selected candidates indicated by the pointers on the ballot-board, will be actuated to register the vote, while all other coun- 8 5 tcrs will remain inoperative, and, second, a reseti ing-bar or other restoring agency in the resett-irig-compartment will be caused to act upon the ends of the indicator-rods to push them all back to normal or zero, thus destroyo ing in the secrecy of the booth all visual indication of the ballot just voted and leaving simply its registry upon the counters.

In order to secure a reportof the aggregate number of votes cast to compare with the 5 data furnished by the counters voted for each candidate, one or more, preferably one for each ticket, of the registry mechanisms may be provided independent of any indicatorrod or key-rod, so as to operate without any intentional agency of the voter once for each time a ballot is registered.

In order to insure against repeating or tampering with the ballot, the actuating-lever by which the countiu g and resetting mechanisms are operated is exposed to full view, and so arranged as to require or compel the voter to pass practically or entirely around the machine before the judges and spectators, in order to complete the registry of his vote and restore the mechanism to initial position for a subsequent vote.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a voting-machine embodying my invention closed and with the operating-lever at normal. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with the doors open and forming a booth. Fig. 3 is a front elevation enlarged and partly broken away and with the doors removed to expose the operative devices. Fig. 4 is a top plan view thereof, showing the actuating-lever and driving-train. Fig. 5 is a horizontal transverse section through said machine. Figs. (3, 7, 8, and 9 are details to illustrate one method of operating the counting or registering mechanism.

For the purpose of description I will give the general dimensions of a full-sized ma chine as about as follows: The machine proper is contained in a casing A, forty-five inches wide by thirty-six inches high and nine inches deep. mounted on legs about thirty-six inches above the floor. In this the registry-chamber A occupies one third the width of one side, the ticket-space or ballotboard A the middle third, and the resettingchamber A containing the mechanism for restoring the device to its initial position or replacing it at normal, the remaining third. The legs or struts B, supporting the machine, are secured thereto at the top of said casing, thence flaring downwardly in the same vertical plane at each end, and tied together at the bottom of the casing by a crossbar B, all as hereinafter explained. To the front of the casing are hinged doors 13 which, when the machine is to be used, are opened and thrown against the legs, the flare of which brings them out sufficiently from the casing to enable them to act as stops to stay the doors at practically right angles to the front, when a rod B will be rested upon the upper edges of said doors, serving to keep them apart, and a curtain B will be hung upon this red, thus completing a booth for secrecy in selecting andindicating the ticket to be thrown.

The ballot-hoard is intended to contain the tickets to be voted for in groups, so arranged that the candidates for any oifice on one ticket shall be in a definite relation on the board to the candidates for that office on any other ticket. For this purpose it is most convenient to arrange the tickets vertically in parallel columns, the candidates for any given ofiice being in line or row with each other and with the designation of that ofiice on an additional vertical column. For instance, supposing there are four tickets in all, the Republican, Democratic, Populist, and Prohibition, the first column at the left hand of the ballot-board may contain in successive order the designations of the oliices, as, for example, at the top of the column the words President and Electors, and next succeeding it, on the line or division beneath, the next ofiice in rank or sequence, and so on, and the spaces or divisions toward the foot being filled with any questions, such as those of a constitutional character, upon which a vote is. to be taken. The remaining columns on the board will be headed in due order with the party designations Republican, Democratic, Populist, and Prohibition, and beneath them, in horizontal lines opposite, the designation of the respective offices will follow the names of the candidates for such office under the respective ticket-headin gs.

Across the ballot-board, beneath the line of candidates for each office, extends a horizontal rod or indicator-slide 0, one to each row of candidates, extending and playing through the partitions C Fig. 5, between the compartments, and on the right hand terminating in normal position just beyond the righthand partition and on the left hand prolonged entirely across the registry-compartment and hearing at its extreme end a block or key G which slides in contact with the front wall 0 of said compartment and extends inward therefrom about an inch. Upon these rods in front of the ballot-board are fixed rings or collars 0 which serve as push-. ers and also as pointers, their position in the voting-compartment being normally to the extreme left of the column designating the offices or questions upon which the ballot is to be taken, but capable of being shifted opposite the name of the corresponding candidate in any of the party-columns by moving the rods from left to right until their righthand ends may project practically across the resettingcompartment and their left-hand ends be brought near to the right-hand side of the registry-compartment.

Arranged within the registry-chamber is a frame consisting of top and bottom slotted castings or plates D, united by vertical bars D, corresponding in the present instance in number to the number of tickets to be voted upon, since there must be at least a similar number of supports for the registering devices. These top and bottom plates (the latter not being shown) are mounted in transverse keepers or guides D to playacross the registry compartment from front to rear. Through the slot or slots D in said plates pass vertical shafts D one toward each end of the plate, carrying eccentrics D which by their revolution move the plates and the frame of which they form part backward and forward from front to rear of the registry-chamber through a space of, say, one inch, the shafts being suitably geared together to move synchronously and at equal speeds, as, for instance, by means of sprocket-wheels D at their top, over which is passed a chain belt D constituting in the present instance the driving-beltfor the entire mechanism.

The upright bars of the registry-frame, of which, as already intimated, each represents a party-ticket, support near the rear of the machine and individually in substantial line with a corresponding office on the ballotboard, that is to say, behind the horizontal rod or indicator-slide corresponding to each office, a vertical column of registry devices or counters E, shown for the purpose of the present description as consisting; each of a series of registering-wheels operated by a push-pawl E, which is normally pressed away from its respective ratchet-wheel E by means of a spring e, thus being constantly urged toward the front wall of the registr compartment or toward the indicator-slide and the path of movement of the keys. These counters will be covered by the usual casing, (not herein shown,) so as to expose at the rear of the registry-chamber single lines of figures indicating the vote. The rear wall D of the registry-chamber is of glass for the purpose of examining the data given by the respective registering devices, but in order to protect such data from examination while the voting is in progress it is closed by a shutter or door E, which will be locked or otherwise secured until the closing of the polls.

The registry-frame when at rest is at the extreme of its movement toward the rear wall of the compartment, with the heels of the push-pawls projecting on the other side toward the front wall, leaving the keys C free to be moved to the right or left along said front wall as their corresponding pointers are brought opposite the name of a candidate on one or the other of the tickets, so that by moving the pointers in selecting the names of the candidates either for a straight or for a split ticket said keys will be brought immediately opposite the pawls pertaining to the registry mechanism representing such selected candidatesthat is to say, in the case of a straight ticket all of the keys representing the candidates on that ticket will be brought opposite the heels of the pawls in the column of registry mechanisms pertaining to that ticket, and in the case of a split ticket certain of the keys will be brought opposite pawls in the column pertaining to one ticket and certain of the keys opposite pawls in a column pertaining to another ticket, depending upon the arrangement of the indicators over the ballot-board; and now a single completed revolution of the cam-shafts or eccentrics will first move the registry-frame toward the front, forcing the pawls against the keys, whereby they will be stopped, while the registry-frame contin ues on, thus imparting relative movement sufficient to operate the registry devices, and then carry the frame again to the rear, freeing the pawls from the keys and bringing the frame to its position of rest.

In order to register the aggregate of the votes cast, one or more counters E at the foot of the machine are arranged opposite the front wall of theregistry-compartment compartment more or less.

that is opposite a space unoccupied by any indicator-bar, as represented diagrammatically in Fig. 9, and their push-pawls E are made longer than the other push-pawls by just the depth of the keys, so that in the forward movement of the registry-frame the heels of said pawls will be brought against said front wall or against equivalent stops and the counters which they represent be actuated once for each complete reciprocation of the registry-frame. Preferably, and for the purpose of cross-checking, one counting device in each column is thus arranged, so that the aggregate of the whole number of votes cast may be kept and indicated at the foot of each ticket.

In moving the pointers over the ballotboard the right-hand ends of the indicatorslides will be projected into the resetting- In the case of a straight ticket all will be projected to the same distance within said compartment in line with each other, and in the case of a split ticket some will project farther than. others. In this compartment are two vertical shafts F F, carrying sprocket-wheels F over which are thrown chains F of equal time. The shaft F is projected above'the machine and is geared to the driving-train in the present instance by means of a sprocketwheel F keyed to its upper end and driven by the same chain D which drives the camshafts of the registry-compartment.

A vertical bar F is carried by the chains within the resett-ing-compartment, so as to move from right to left in the plane of the sliding rods or indicator-slides, and from left to right along the other ply of the chains to the rear of said plane, the motion from right to left taking place while the registry-frame is moved from front to rear of the machine and the motion from left to right while the registry-frame is moving from rear to front, so that in the movement from right to left said bar, hereinafter termed the resettingbar, shall be brought against the ends of the indicator-slides projecting into this resettingcompartment and push them back with their keys and pointers until they reach their p0- sition of rest, after which the resetting-bar will continue on around the bight of the chains tothe beginning of the reverse fold and come to a stop simultaneously with the arrival of the registry-frame at the extreme rear of its traverse, when all the parts will be at normal.

In order to vote a straight ticket, a pushbar G, hereinafter termed the straightticket bar, or, for short, the ticket-bar, is arranged vertically in front (or it may be in rear) of the indicator-slides in the ticketcompartment and secured to guide-rods G, which move parallel with said indicator-slides, its normal position being to the left-hand side of the ticket-compartment or ballot-board, immediately behind the rings or pointers on the indicator-slides, so that when moved toward the right it will push all of said pointers before it and bring them simultaneously opposite the successive columns representing each party-ticket, thus enabling all of the pointers, with their corresponding keys, to be moved in a body to any given ticket, when the entire ticket is ready to be voted and registered by actuating the registry-frame, or by retracting said straight-ticket bar oneor more of the-pointers may be moved to the right or left for the purpose of scratching, and the ticket is ready to be registered, as before.

The straight-ticket bar may be moved directly by the hand, but is more conveniently moved by a rack and crank. For this purpose a rack-bar G is attached to said ticketbar at right angles thereto and projecting across the registry-compartment,and a crank G is pivoted at a suitable point in the framework of the case to operate said rack. Any ordinary rack and rack-Wheel may be employed, but I have found it more convenient to adopt the construction shown, in which the rack has a definite number of notches 9, say eight notches, where there are four ticketcolumns, and the wheel g is provided with two pin-teeth g diametrically opposite each other and projecting from its face, the distance apart of the teeth corresponding to the distance between the notches, so that by a single revolution of the crank the ticket-bar will be carried forward to the first ticketcolumn and by a second revolution of the crank moved farther, to the second ticketcolumn, and so on. The pin-wheel may lie beneath the rack and its handle be curved outward from the axis of the wheel, as at 9 and then downward, so as to pass over the rack in its revolution, while the wheel turns beneath said rack. In its normal position, as shown in Fig. 3, the crank will hang vertically downward, with the left-hand pin opposite the right-hand notch in the rack-bar and the right-hand pin opposite the blank end of said bar and with the straight-ticket bar at the extreme left of the ballot-board. A single complete revolution of the crank from this point will carry the ticket-bar to the column marked as representing, for example,

the Republican ticket, and with it all of the pointers, when a straight Republican ticket will be ready to be registered.

If the tickets to be voted should not require the use of all of the indicatorbars, those which are not needed can readily be thrown out of action or cut out by moving the straight-ticket bar to the center of the ballot-board and then springing such indicatorbars as are to be idle beneath the ticket-bar and moving them rearward or to the left to bring their pointers behind the ticket-bar, as represented in dotted lines near the foot of Fig. 3, when they will neither be actuated by the movements of the ticket-bar nor be capable of manipulation unintentionally by the voter.

On the right-hand shaft of the registrycompartment, projecting above the top of the machine, is loosely mounted a lever H, which is carried horizontally over the top and then bent down, as at it, within convenient reach of the voter. A driving-dog ll. upon the underlying sprocket-wheelD serves to clutch this lever to the shaft in one direction, but leaves it free to revolve without disturbing the mechanism in the other. After the voter has arranged the ticket to his satisfaction within the booth he emerges from the booth, takes this lever and passes around the machine in full public view until he has made practically a complete circuit, thereby actuating the registry and resetting mechanisms and bringing the entire mechanism again to normal, when his vote will have been registered and all trace of it removed from the ballot-board for the inspection of the next voter.

In order to knock down the machine for boxing or to carry into elevators, narrow doorways, or in general for convenience in moving and shipping, the legs are made detachable, each pair of legs being made separate from the machine and tied together as an A-fram ethat is to say, they are united at the top by a metal strap K, which is adapted to be inserted into a keeper or keepers K, preferably formed as screw-bolts to be tightened down on the strap after it is placed beneath them, secured to the top of the casing, and further united at their middle length near the bottom of said casing by a central cross bar K which passes beneath other keepers or bolt-heads K secured to the side of the casing, the distance between the top and bottom keepers and between the strap and cross-bar being the same, so that when in position the strap shall sit into the upper keepers and the cross-bar into the lower keepers and be confined by the downwardlyprojecting heads thereof and by tightening them up. The feet of said legs may be further tied together by a sill-bar 13, as before explained, and the sill bars of each pair braced from the bottom of the casing by cross-braces K bolted at their lower ends to the sill-bars and at the upper ends to the bottom of the casing.

- The terms registry, registering, and registering mechanism as used herein are intended to have their ordinary signification in the language as given by the lexicographers, and therefore to cover such machines as form a permanent record.

I do not intend to limit myself herein to the precise details of mechanisms above set forth, nor to the arrangementherein described of ballot-board, registering-compartment, and resetting-compartment, nor to the employment of counting-wheels as the means of registering the vote, nor to the fixed connection of keys and pointers by means of sliding rods, nor to the employment of keys as the specific means of operating the counters, nor to the number of keys on each indicator-slide, nor,

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I claim- 1. In avoting-mach inc, a ballot-board upon which the tickets to be voted are posted, a o pluralityofregisteringcounters permanently inclosed in a chamber having a transparent side independent of and apart from said ballot-board and through which said counters may be viewed, in combination with operative 5 mechanism projected into the said chamber adapted to engage and'impart motion to the said registerin gcounters to register the votes. 2. In a voting-machine, a plurality of registering-counters secured to a supportingframein fixed relation to each other and a parallel wall or plate supporting independently-adj ustable actuating mechanism adapted to engage the said registering-eounters, in combination with means for imparting rela- 5 tive movement between the supportin gframe and the parallel wall or plate, whereby the said registering-com]ters are actuated and the votes registered.

3. In a voting-machine a movable supporting-frame having all the registering-eounters afiixed thereto in permanent relation to each other, and a parallel wall or plate sustainin g independently-adj ustable operating-keys adapted to engage said registering-connters, 5 in combination with means for imparting motion to said supporting-frame, toward and away from said wall or plate, whereby the registering-counters are actuated and the 'VO'EGS registered.

4. In a voting-machine asupporting-lramc having all the registeringcounters aflixed thereto in perpendicular columns and horizontal lines, in combination with a series of operatingkeys, one for each horizontal line,

adapted to engage any one of the counters in a line at a time and having a range of movement embracing all the counters in each re 5 spective horizontal line.

5. A 'oting-machinehaving the registeringo counters arranged in vertical columns and horizontal lines, in combination with an adjacent ballot-board having the ticket to be voted upon arranged in harmony therewith, and a series of indicators, one for each hori- 5 zontal line, operatively connected with the counters and theiraetuating agencies, whereby the voter makes his choice of candidates and registers his vote.

(3. In a v0ting-1nachine, a reciprocating registry-frame having the counters secured thereto in vertical columns and horizontal lines, and a parallel wall, in combination with a series of keys interposed between the frame ters and having a range of movement embracing each respective line of counters, whereby the counters selected are actuated by contact with the keys, and the unselected meet with no contact and therefore remain inoperative.

7. In a voting-machine, a registry-frame having push-pawl counters secured thereto in vertical columns and horizontal lines, and a parallel wall, with means for imparting a reciprocating movement between the frame and wall, in combination with a series of keys consisting essentially of blocks, one for each horizontal line, interposed between the pushpawls of the selected counters and wall Whereby the counters are actuated to register the votes.

S. In a voting-machine, a registry-frame having the counters secured thereto in vertical columns and horizontal lines, and a parallel key-bearing wall and means for imparting relative movement between the frame and wall, in combination with a series of keys, one for each horizontal line, adapted to actuate the said counters, each having operative connection with an indicator having a range of movement across an adjacent ballot-board containing the names of candidates arranged in harmony with the said counters, by means of which the voter may make his choice of candidates and register his vote.

0. In a voting-machine a registry-frame having the counters secu red thereto in partycolumns and horizontal office-lines, and a parallel wall, means for imparting relative movement between the frame and wall, and a series of keys interposed, one for each horizontal ofiice-line, in combination with an adjacent ballot-board bearing the names of candidates arranged in harmony with the said counters, and having an indicator operativel y connected with each key, said indicators each having a range of movement embracing the line of candidates for each respective ofiice,

each key being incapable of actuating more than one counter at the same time.

10. A voting-machine comprising in its construction a suit-able casing, one outer third consisting of a registering-ehamber, the other outer third a resetting-chamber, and the central third at ballot-board having horizontal sliding indicator-rods extended across its face and having one of their ends projected into the registering-chamber, and their other ends projected into the resetting-chamber.

11. The combination in a voting-machine of a ballot-board containing the tickets to be voted in groups, pointers or indicators for each ollice to be balloted for common to all of said groups, arranged to be moved opposite the name of the candidate for such oliice 011 any of the ticket groups, registering mechanisms, each with its immediate actuating agent arranged in groups corresponding to registering groups and controlled in position 3 by the movements of said pointers, so as to be and wall, one for each horizontal line of counand means for imparting relative movement ICO ILO

between the keys and the registering mech anisms, whereby those of the latter with which keys have been brought into effective relation are actuated to register the vote for their respective candidates.

1). The combination in a voting-machine of a ballot-board containingt-he tickets to be voted in groups, indicator-slides for each office to be balloted for common to all of said groups arranged to permit their pointers to be brought opposite the names 'of the candidate for such office in any one of the ticket groups, registering mechanisms each with its immediate actuati ngagent arranged in groups corresponding to the ticket groups and numbering in each group at least the number of candidates upon the corresponding ticket, keys common to all of said registering groups and controlled in position by said slides so as to be brought into effective relation to the registerin g mechanisms and their accessories pertaining to candidates on given tickets when the pointers of said slides are opposite the names of said candidates on the ballot-board, and means for moving all of the registering mechanisms toward the paths of movement of the keys, whereby those with which keys have been brought into effective relation are actuated to register the vote for the candidates indicated on the ballot-board by the position of their corresponding pointers.

13. The combination in a voting-machine of a ballot-board containing the ticket-s to be voted in groups, indicator-slides for each of- Free to be balloted for arranged to permit their pointers to be brought opposite the names of the candidate for such oiiiee in any one of the ticket groups, registering mechanisms each with its immediate actuating agent arranged in groups corresponding to the ticket groups and numbering in each group at least the number of candidates upon the corresponding ticket, keys controlled in position by said slides so as to be brought into effective relation to the registering mechanisms and their accessories pertaining to candidates on given tickets when the pointers of said slides are opposite the names of said candidates on the ballot-board, means for moving all of the registering mechanisms toward the paths of movement of the keys, whereby those with which keys have been brought into effective relation are actuated to register' the vote for the candidate indicated on the ballot-board by the position of their corresponding pointers and means for returning all of the slides to normal position simultaneously with the registering of the vote.

ll. The combination in a voting-machine of a ballot-board containing the tickets to be voted arranged in groups,independently-movable indicator-slides for each office to be balloted for, arranged to permit their pointers to be brought opposite the names of the candidate for such office in any one of the ticket groups, means for moving said pointers and slides simultaneously to any given group in order to indicate a straight ticket, registering mechanisms, each with its immediate actuat-' ing agent, arranged in groups corresponding to the ticket groups and numbering in each group at least the number of candidates upon the corresponding ticket, keys controlled in position by said slides so as to be brought into effective relation to the registering mechanism pertaining to acandidate on a given ticket when the pointer of said slide is opposite the name of the candidate on the ballot-board, and means for moving all of the registering mechanisms toward the path of movement of the keys aftera ticket has been indicated by the pointers, whereby those with which the keys have been broughtinto elifective relation are actuated to register the vote.

15. The combination in a voting-machine of a ballot-board containing the tickets to be voted arranged in groups,independently-movable indicator-slides for each oflice to be balloted for, arranged to permit their pointers to be brought opposite the names of the candidate for such ofiice in any one of the ticket:- groups, means for moving said pointers and slides simultaneously to any given group in. order to indicate a straight ticket, registering mechanisms, each with its immediate actuating agent, arranged in groups corresponding to the ticket groups and numbering in each group at least the number of candidates upon the corresponding ticket, keys controlled in position by said slides so asto be brought into effective relation to the registering mechanism pertaining to a candidate on a given ticket when the pointer of said slide is opposite the name of the candidate on the ballot-board,

means for moving all of the registering mechanisms toward the paths of movement. of the keys after a ticket has been indicated by the pointers, whereby those with which keys have been brought into effective relation are actuated to register the vote, and means for simultaneously moving all of the slides in opposition to the direction of movement of the straight-ticket mechan ism,to restore them to normal.

10. The combination in a votin gmachine of a ballot-board containing the ticket to be voted and the oliicers to be voted for arranged in vertical columns to bring the names of candidates in each ticket horizontally opposite the designation of the office, a series of indicator-slides one for each oiiice arranged to be moved independently along the lines containing the names of the candidates for said offiees, to bring their pointers opposite the name of a candidate in any given ticket, registering mechanisms, each with its immediate actuating agent, arranged in vertical columns corresponding to the ticket-columns and numbering in each group at least the number of candidates upon the corresponding ticket and past which the slides are projected, keys controlled in position by said slides so as to be brought into efiective relation to the registering mechanism pertaining to a candispewina,

said slide is opposite the name of said can-- didate on the ballot-board, and means for simultaneously moving all of the registering mechanisms toward the path of movement of the keys.

17. The combination in a voting-machine of a ballot-board containing the tickets to be voted and the officers to be voted for in vertical columns, the nominees on each ticket opposite the designation of the office for which they are candidates, horizontally-movable indicator-slides for each office, arranged to permit their pointers to be brought opposite the names of the candidates for such oflice in any one of the ticket-columns, registering mechanisms, each with its immediate actuating agent, arranged in columns corresponding to the ticket-columns and in line with the designation of the respective otlices, keys controlled in position by said slides so as to be brought into eilect-ive relation to the registering mechanism pertaining to a candidate on a given ticket when the pointer of said slide is opposite the name of said candidate on the ballot-board, a straight-ticket bar for moving all of said slides and pointers simultaneously to any given column to designate a straight ticket, means for moving all of the registering mechanisms simultaneously toward the path of movement of thekeys whereby those with which keys have been brought into effective relation are actuated to record the vote, and a bar movable in opposition 'to the straight-ticket bar against the ends of the slides, to restore them all to normal position and to destroy visual evidence of the vote after it has been registered.

18. The combination of the ballot-board, i

the pointers, the keys controlled thereby, the registry-frame with its counters and their immediate actuating devices, the vertical shafts and their eccentrics and means for moving said shafts sinnilta-neously.

19. The combination of the ballot-board, the indicator-slides and their keys, the registry-frame with its counters, the push-pawls for said counters, the eccentrics taking into slots in the top and bottom plates of said registry-frame, the shafts upon the said eceentries, and means for actuating said shafts simultaneously.

20. The combination of the ballot-board, the indicator-slides and their keys, the registry-frame having a series of counters corresponding with the tickets on the ballot-board and with the indicator-slides and their keys, and provided also with additional counters for recording the aggregate vote, and means for moving said registry-frame toward the front wall of the machine-casing whereby certain of the counters are actuated by contact with the keys and those which record the aggregate vote by contact with said wall.

21. The combination with the ballot-board,

regis try-com partment and resetti n g-compartment, of the straddling legs upon which the casing is supported, and the hinged doors closing the front of the casing, and stayed, when open, by said legs, to form the sides of a booth.

92. he combination with theballot-board, registering mechanisms, indicator-slides carrying keys, and means for operating the regis tering mechanism by the keys of the shafts in the resetting-compartment, the chains and the resetting-bar thereon.

23. The combination with the ballot-board and the indicator-slides of the straight-ticket bar, its rack, and the crank wherebysaid rack is moved.

24. The combination with the registryframe, the shafts passing therethrough, the eccentrics 011 said shaft, the resetting-chains and their shafts, of the driving-belt, connect in g the sprocket-wheel on the upper end, of one of the resetting-shafts with the sprocketwheels onthe upper ends of the cam-shafts, and a lever on one of said cam-shafts whereby a single complete revolution of the lever will operate the machine and restore it to normal.

25. A voting-machine comprising a casing having a ballot-board or ticket-compartment, a registry-compartment and a resetting-compartment, indicator-slides for indicating the ticket on the ballot-board, means controlled by said indicator slides for actuating the registry mechanisms, a booth within which the voter manipulates the slides to select his ticket, and a lever external to the booth to be 5 operated in public by the voter.

26. The combination with the machinecasing, of the keepers at the ends thereof and the detachable legs formed in pairs as A-frames, with top'strap and middle bar to take into said keepers.

27. The combination with the machinel casing, of the keepers at the ends thereof,

formed as screw-bolts and the detachable legs formed in pairs as A-frames with top strap and middle bar to take under said keepers and be clamped thereby.

528. The combination with the machinecasing of the keepers at the ends thereof, the detachable legs formed in pairs as A- 'frames, with top strap, middle bar, and sillbar and the cross-braces and their bolts, uniting said sill-bars to the bottom of the casing.

29. The combination with the registryframe, cam-shafts, indicator-slides and resetting mechanism, of the lever mounted loosely on one of said cam-shafts, and the driving-dog on the adjacent wheel.

ALFRED J. GILLESIIE.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIS D. SHAFER, A. M. HAL'roN.

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