US964986A - Voting-machine. - Google Patents

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G. L. LORRAINE.

VOTING MAGHINB. APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1909.

Patented July 19,1910.

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CLARENCE LEICESTER LORRAINE, OF EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN.

VOTING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ju1y 19, 1910.

Application filed. July 27, 1909. Serial No. 509,769.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE L. Lon- RAINE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Jordan, in the county of CharlevoiX and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Voting-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a ma chine for receiving and recording ballots, wherein provision is made to prevent tampering with the ballot; to provide a machine wherein provision is made for straight ticket and split ticket voting; to provide a machine wherein notice is given of the registration of the vote; to provide a machine wherein duplication of the vote is prevented; to provide a machine wherein the mechanism is certain, rapid and efficient; and to provide a machine wherein the voter is enabled to see his ballot deposited.

One embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a machine constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly in section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the selecting table; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the bottom plate of the magazines wherein the ballot balls are initially stored; Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of the machine, partly cut away to show the extra locking devices; Fig. 6 is a detail view in perspective of the locking devices shown in operative relation to the depositing slides; Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the locking devices forming one of a series of locks; Fig. 8 is a side elevation of one of a different series of locking devices; Fig. 9 is a detail view in plan of a selecting strip; Fig. 10 is a detail view in plan of a'depositing slide; Fig. 11 is a vertical section showing the depositing slide having attached thereon a selecting strip, and in relation thereto the receptacles for the cast ballots, and the mechanism for adjusting the depositing slides; Fig. 12 is a detail view in front elevation, partly cut away to show the vertical section of the magazine columns; Fig. 13 is l t 1 l a detail view of a segment of the extracting plate; Fig. 14; shows vertical sections of the receptacles for holding the cast ballots and guide chute leading thereto; and Fig. 15 is a side elevation of the receptacles for the cast ballots shown in relation with the locking strips for sealing the same; Fig. 1G is a plan view in fragmentary form showing sections of the selecting table and the arrangement of the voting lever and delivery chutes connected therewith; Fig. 17 is an enlarged view in detail illustrating the arrangement of the guide and supporting pillars, whereby the selecting strips 77 may be shifted or the shifting may be prevented; Fig. 18 is a detail view in perspective, of the locking mechanism for preventing the return of the voting paddles under certain conditions.

In employing the present machine the ballots used are small spheres or balls. These are primarily held in magazines formed of a plurality of nearly vertical tubes 16, held in any suitable frame, and resting upon a base plate 17 (see Fig. The base plate 17 is slidably mounted on a frame plate 18 and is provided with cars 19, 19, which are perforated and tapped with suitable screw threads to receive long screws 20, 20. The screws 20, 20, are mounted in bearings 21, 21, set up in the longitudinal frame members of the supporting frame. At the one end the screws 20, 20, are provided with miter gears 22 22, in toothed engagement with the gears 23, 23 fixedly mounted upon a shaft 2%. The shaft 2a is mounted in bearings 25, 25, set out from the rear of the frame, and in the side thereof, and is provided beyond the frame with a crank handle By means of this construction, the successive lines of tubes 16, 16, may be advanced to register with tubular openings in a bar 27 (see Fig. 12 of the drawings). The bar 27 is stationary, which permits the plate 17 to advance and recede ver the line of perforations formed in the bar 27. The perforations are formed in the bar 27 near the forward edge thereof, and the side wall is split to provide openings 28 through which the voter may see the balls in the tubes formed in the bar 27. Below the bar 27 is a stationary plate 29 perforated to receive small tubes 30 which are screwed, driven or pressed within perforations provided therefor in the said plate 29, The ends of the tubes 30 are expanded as at 31 to receive the upper and fixed end of conveyers 32, formed of coiled wire or other 5 suitable material which while flexible and durable will be non-collapsible, and will furnish a safe and certain path for the ball to follow when it is dropped. The tubes 30, 30, are out of line laterally with the tubular openings in the bar 27. Interposed between the bar 27 and the plate 29 is a perforated slide 33, controlled to move longitudinally and in line with the tubular openings in the bar 27 and the tubes 30. The slide 33 is provided with a series of perforations equal in number to the line of tubular openings in the bar 27. In one of the extremes of movement of the slide 33 the perforations in the slide 33 register with the tubular openings in the bar 27, while at the other extreme of movement of the slide 33 the perforations register with the tubes 30, 30.

At each operation of voting, the slide 33 is advanced from the position under the tubular openings in the bar 27 to a position over the tubes 30, 30. After each operation of voting, the slide 33 is returned to the position wherein the perforations in the slide 30 33 register with the openings in the bar 27. lVith each registration of the perforations in the slide 33 with the openings in the bar 27, the perforations in the slide 33 receive each a ball from the magazine tubes 16, 16, the metal of the slides 33 being ust suflicient to contain the said ball. When the registration between the slide 33 and the tubes 30, 30, occurs, the balls carried in the perforations are deposited in the tubes 30, 30, and from them into the conveyers 32, 32. The mechanism for thus shifting the slides 33, 33, consists in a manually-operated lever 34 the handle of which is extended to within convenient grasp of the voter, while the lever is pivoted at 35 to the frame of the machine. The lever 34 is provided with an extension 36 which rests against a shoulder formed in the slide 33, by which the slide 33 is advanced to register with the tubes 30, 30. At the opposite end, the slide 33 is provided with the anti-friction roller 37 against which the cam 38 operates to return the slide 33 to the position wherein the perforations therein register with the tubular openings in the bar 27. The cam 38 is mounted upon the end of a plate 39 which is connected through a link 40 to a lever 41. The lever 41 is pivotally mounted at 42 upon the frame of the machine, and is connected by a link 43 to a quadrant 44 which is rotatably mounted on a shaft 45 fixedly engaged by a lever 46.

The lever 46 is the master lever of the machine, and is operated and controlled by the inspector of elections. With each throw of the lever 46 which occurs after the casting of the vote, as will hereafter more clearly be set forth, the plate 39 is drawn to the position shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, and 1 when so drawn causes the impingement of the cam 38 upon the roller 37 to shift the slide 33 into registering position with the tubular openings in the bar 27.

As stated, the balls are deposited from the veyers 32, 32. There are as many conveyers 32 as there are tubes 30 and depositing slides 47, 47. It is by the adjustment of the depositing slides 47 that it is determined to which of the receptacles 65, 65, the ballot ball so is to be delivered. The slides 47 are advanced to their normal position such as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, by a set bar 49, which is extended across the rear of the machine and supported upon side arms 50, 50. The under surfaces of the side arms 50, 50, are provided with suitable rack teeth 51 engaged with gears 52, 52. The gears 52, 52, are mounted upon a cross shaft 53 which is suitably mounted in bearings 54 at each side of the frame of the machine. The shaft 53 has fixedly mounted thereon a pinion 55 which is in toothed engagement with the teethed periphery of the quadrant 44. As before statec, the quadrant 44 is secured upon the shaft 45 upon which the lever 46 is mounted.

In Fig. l of the drawings, the mechanism just described is illustrated as disposed in advanced to move all of the depositing slides to their forward position. It is in this position that the machine rests before the selecting mechanism has been operated by the voter. In this position the notches 56, 56, are brought in straight line, and the locking bars 57, 57, are placed to extend within the notches 56, thereby locking all of the depositing slides against movement. The mechanism controlling the disposition of the locking bars 57 is under control of and is manipulated by the inspector of elections. hen the depositing slides 47 are released, they may be moved inward from the front of the machine, either individually or 001- lectively. If the selection be individual, this is accomplished by the voter moving each rod 47 inward, by taking hold of a pin 58 as a handle, for moving the slides 47.

Between each slide 47 is a stationary tabu lar strip 59 upon which is engrossed the name or device of a candidate, party, or an affirmative and a negative expression. Extended from the side of each of the slides 47 is a wire loop '60, adapted to expose within the boundary thereof, one of the said names, devices or expressions. The tabular strips are divided to receive these various names and expressions, so that when the names or expressions are exposed within the loops 60,

perforations in the slide 33 within the con- 75 the position wherein the bar 49 has been 100 nipples 61 in the slides 47 rest above one of the position indicated by the word Prohibithe chutes 62, 62 which deliver the balls to channels 63, 63, which, in turn, deposit the same upon the inclined tops 6%, 6 1, of receptacles 65.

When the voter has manipulated the various slides 47 to cause the loops 60 on the same to register with the names and insignias of the selection, or, in other words, has made up his ticket, he then votes by catching hold of the lever 3 1 and moving the same in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. & of the drawings, which, as above described, results in the movement of the slide 33 from under the tubes 16, 16, to deposit the balls carried by the perforations in said slide to the tubes 30, 36 and conveyers 32, 32. The conveyers 32, 32, being held by the nipples 61 which have been by the manipulation of the voter, placed over the proper receptacles 65, 65, the balls deposited from the slide 33 are conveyed to and deposited in the chutes 62, 62, and the receptacles 65, 65.

The above, as stated, is the operation when the voter has manually and individually adjusted the slides 47, which class of voting is presumed to be the method of a non-partisan voter. For the partisan voter the operation is quicker, the slides 17 17 being moved forward into the voting position, on massc. This is accomplished by manipulating the lever 66 and the quadrant 67 connected therewith, said lever and quadrant 67 being pivotally mounted at 68 upon a standard 69. The quadrant 67 is provided on its periphery with get r teeth held in toothed engagement with a pinion 70, fixedly mounted upon a shaft 71 which carries a drum 72, which has suitably secured thereon tapes 73, 73. To each of the depositing slides 47, 47, there is attached at 7 1 a tape 73, which tapes are each or" equal length. Hence, when the drum 72 is rotated by drawing the lever 66 toward the front of the machine, the slides 17 are carried an equal distance toward the rear of the machine, placing the nipples 61, with which each is provided, over the same line of receptacles 65, 65. The tapes 73, 73 are not connected with the slides 47, except as the same are grouped in party ticket arrangement. Fa hen the slides are operated singly, the lever 66, the drum 72 and the tapes are not called in operation. In the event w iere the slides are disposed singly, the tapes 73 are permitted to sag into the lower part of the machine.

The lateral arrangement of the receptacles 65, 65, is consonant with the party members or party ticket. The position to which the lever 66 shall be drawn to vote the party ticket, is indicated by a plate 7 5 which is provided with niches 76, 76, opposite each M which selected. drawings) is indicated the name of the party Thus (referring to Fig. of the should the lever 66 tion, the slides 17, a7, would each be advanced within the machine, until the loops 60, 60, inclose the names of each of the candidates of that party for the various positions being voted upon. If the straight ticket is to be voted, the voter having so set the machine as described, by the use of the lever 66 then grasps the lever 3 1 and moves it as indicated, to deliver the ballot balls from the magazine through the conveyers 32, 32, into the receptacles 65, 65, to which the various conveyers are so disposed to lead.

The slides #17 may be arranged in groups. In Fig. 16 of the drawings is illustrated three groups. The central group marked A is provided with series of movable selecting strips 77 77, illustrated more particularly in Fig. 9 of the drawings. These strips are provided with a series of holes 78, 78 to fit over the pin 58 hereinbefore mentioned. Each strip 77 is provided with 'a nipple 61 to which a conveyer 32 is connected. The strips 77 are provided with loops 60 as are the slides 4:7 on the other sections l3 and C of the machine. The strips 77 are movable to permit their being detached from one slide -17 and transferred to another. The strips and the slides to which they are connected are divided and guided by the upturned ends 79 Of the fixed tabular strips 59. (See Figs. 3 and 17.) These upturned ends 79 are extended toward a light cross rod 30 through which is inserted a series of screws 81. (See Figs. 1. and 17.) With the interposition of the screws 81, the channels between the ends 79, 79 are closed, but with the removal of the screws 81 these channels are opened and the strips may be passed above the said ends as shown in dotted lines. (See Fig. 17.) The reason for this construction is to provide for the contingency which often arises that the voter desires to vote for two or more candidates whose names may be placed opposite a single slide ot the machine. To do this the screws 81 are removed and the strips 77 are adjusted to entold the names of the parties for which the voter desires to cast his vote. It will be found that one oi the holes 78 in the strips 77 registers with the pin 58 and is adjusted thereover. If desired, several of these strips 77 may be piled one on the other,

\ so that the one slide 4C7 could be employed be moved to l by locking bars 57,

to cast a number of ballots in one operation. It is for this purpose that the series of per- I'orations S2, 62 is provided in both the strip 7 form a number of (7 and the slide T7 to passages for the voting balls when delivered from a chute 32 which would register with any of the holes 82.

As above indicated, the slides 17, a7 are locked in position according to selection 57. There is a locking bar 57 for each of the slides 47. Of these locking bars 57, 57 there are two classes, one having short cut-away portions 82 and the other having longer cut-away portions 83. As stated, the slides 47, 47 may be moved to selecting position only when the cut-away portions 82 or 88 aline The locking bars series of perforaover pins 85, 85, with which a suspension bar 86 is provided. The bar 86 is suspended on vertically-disposed racks 87, the teeth of which are engaged with the teeth provided in the periphery of quadrants 88. he quadrants 88 are mounted at either side of the machine upon a shaft 89 which is journaled at 90, 90 in the sides of the frame of the machine. Fixedly mounted upon the shaft 89 is a disk 91, which is provided with a pointer 92 and an operating handle 93. The pointer 92 rotates over the side of the in the path of the said pointer, are indicated stations marked by the several names or designations of the parties figuring in the election as parties, having restricted rights or limitations, and for which this machine is adapted to be operated. There is hereby provided means whereby women and certain classes of men voters having residential but not citizenship rights, may be prevented from operating the machine to vote regular or split tickets after gaining admission to the voting booth. The operation of the machine is thus far placed under the control of an inspector of elections or other dele gated otlicer. With the movement of the pointer 92 opposite each of the names, the shaft 89 is rotated to lift the racks and the suspension bar 86, so that the one or the other of the cut-away portions 82, 83 will be raised to permit certain only of the rods 47 to be advanced toward the rear of the machine. Those permitted to be advanced will correspond with the limitations with which the voter is controlled. This selection is made by the inspector, who moves the pointer 92 to indicate the limitations assigned to the voter. These limitations are imposed in the general rule against women voters in various localities. In vari ous States and localities within each State, the restrictions upon women voters is more or less imposed. The section marked C in Fig. 16 of the drawings of the voting table is assigned, as a rule, to this form of voting, and the slides 47 thereon are individually and manually operable. prevent the operation of the remaining slides when the machine is unlocked to accommodate the vote of the restricted voter, that the long cut-away portions 83 are pro vided. These elongated cut-away portions 83 are arranged to release the slides 47 on the section of the table marked C, and

in Fig.

which, as stated, are adjustable to suit the desires of the restricted voter.

In the extreme forward position of the slides 47, 47, the nipples 61 with the conveyers 32, 32, are disposed over a certain receptacle 94 provided to receive the balls where the voter chooses to vote blank on the machine.

.Vhen special restrictions are provided, as, for instance, in elections where women are permitted to vote on certain questions, more or less limited, the cam bar 95 is moved by the inspector outward, to rest under the end or" the cam rod 96. The cam rod 96 supports a link 97 to which is pivoted a dog arm 98 in which a slot 99 is formed, to have clamped therein a set pin 100. The set pin 100 is disposed to engage the series of recesses 101 (see Fig. 1 of the drawings). The engagement between the pin 100 and the recesses 101 occurs according as the pointer 92 is moved.

1V henever the lever 34 is moved to transfer the balls from the bar 27 to the conveyers 32, the rod 102 throws a latch 103 to one side to permit the rod 104 to drop. The dropped posit-ion of the rod 104 is inclicated in Fig. l of the drawings by dotted lines. In dropping, the rod 104 strikes upon machine is provided. The sounding of the bell 107 apprises the inspector that the vote has been cast. The inspector immediately throws the lever 46 to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings, which advances the set bar 49 to recede all of the slides 47 which have been placed in the selecting position, and at the same time, locks the said selecting bars against further manipulation. Through the extension 108 of the lever 46 and the lever 109 and link 110, the rod 104 is again raised to its suspended position, the latch 103 being actuated to throw under the foot of the said rod 104 whenever thus raised. lVith this action of the lever 46 the rod 104 is reset, and the machine is in position to be again operated for casting the ballot.

There is provided on one side of the machine, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings, a chute 111 for the admission of irregular ballots. These irregular ballots when deposited in the chute 111 are held upon the tail piece 39 of the plate 39, which is normally extended over the openguided to deliver the so-called irregular ballots to a special receptacle. With each throw of the lever 46 to the position shown in dotted lines 39 is placed in position 1, the plate where the opening 113 in alinement with the the irregular vote to the chute 111.

in plate 39 is brought chute 111, permitting drop, and to be With the return of the shown in full lines, the te 39 1s interposed above In manipulating the selecting strips 77, 0 or more are embodied, there 77, so that tw might be danger of b should the set bar e19 c in the frame of the machine, ness on the part of the various strips ing the cation. It is vided a dog 114, a rod with, and hangers 116 Whenever two 0 17 upon a slide t to avoid voter reaking the machine, atch the nipples 61 due to carelessin not return- 0 their proper lothis that 1 have pro- 115 connected therepivoted upon a rod f the strips 77 are they engage the rod 117,

drawing the pull rod 115 to set the tooth of the dog 11 1 into the ratchet teeth 118 pro upper surface of one of the vided on the side arms.

This arrests tion of the setti ner as to avoid During the operation whenever the come emptied,

tub es 16, 16, in one line the inspector by means of the the forward acng mechanism in such mandanger to the parts.

of the machine,

handle 26 rotates the shaft 24: to advance the plate 17 bear succeeding row of tubes tubular openings in At the end of the voting, are introduced in grooves the ba ing the tubes 16, 16, and a register with the r 27.

slides 119, 119 formed by extending the metal 120, 120, of the top frame holding the receptacles 65,

119 are shown as adapted to in position,

with the channels 63, 63.

119 are moved to cl perforation in the end the end wall ceptacles for which that and a T-shaped member through the the T-shaped arrangement drawings. E

in rectangular form,

cross section diameter of two balls, width is slightly greater than one ball.

the front of viewed.

15, that by tioned, the ba perforations.

member 122 is a perforation adapted to receive the hasp 123. When the member in position, it is impossible to remove the balls from the receptacles 65.

The receptacles 65 are as shown ach tube t as length,

these tubes which lls as receive mounted in triple in Fig. 15 of the hereof is constructed 65. These slides be permanently having openings 121 to register Then the slides ose the receptacles 65, a thereof registers with the part1cular line of reslide is intended, 122 is introduced 1n the end of of a padlock thus secured shown, having a slightly less than the while the cross section In are formed open the balls may be de of the slots is formed e balls may be count It will be noticed in Fig. f the construction giving on dimensions above mend in the tubes are arranged in the alternate and inclined position therein shown. This results in a close packing, convenient for counting. A scale 25 is regulated with regard to the disposition of the balls within the tubes. Further, it will be observed, that the inclined ends 641 of the tubes forming the receptacles 65, are given approximately the same angle assumed by the nesting balls. The result of this action is that, as the balls are introduced from the channels 63 the first tube of the receptacle 65 is filled, the balls therein assuming at the top of the tube approximately the angle of the tops of the tubes. Thus, as the first of the series of tubes becomes filled, the balls at the top thereof form a pathway for the balls leading on to the second of the series of tubes. As the second becomes filled, the balls therein form a pathway leading to the third of the series.

In the portion of the machine which might be tampered with, it is covered by a glass panel 126, contained in a frame in the upper rail of which are provided perforations or peep holes 127 through which the voter may get a view of the balls contained in the slide 33 which he is selecting to cast as his ballot.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A voting machine, comprising a magazine adapted to contain voting devices, stationary receptacles for said voting devices when voted, arranged in serial order to cor respond with a selecting table, a plurality of conveyers connected with said magazine and adapted to extend over said receptacles to deliver the voting devices thereto, a selecting table having designations thereon located in serial order to correspond with said receiving receptacles and denoting a choice of the voter, adjustable devices mounted on said table, adapted to indicate a choice of said designations and to adjust the ends of said conveyors to conform with said table, locking devices arranged in gangs to prevent the adjustment of certain of the said adjustable devices, and means for delivering to each of the various conveyers a single voting device simultaneously.

2. A voting machine, comprising a magazine adapted to contain voting devices, stationary receptacles for said voting devices when voted, arranged in serial order to correspond with a selecting table, a plurality of conveyers connected with said magazine and adapted to extend over said receptacle to deliver the voting devices thereto, a selecting table having designations thereon located in serial order to correspond with said receiving receptacles and denoting a choice of the voter, adjustable devices mounted on said table, adapted to indicate a choice of said designations and to adjust the ends of said conveyers to conform with said table, locking devices arranged in gangs to prevent the adjustment of certain of the said adjustable devices, means for controlling said locking devices operable by the lnspector only, and means for delivering to each of the various conveyers a single voting device simultaneously.

3. A voting device, comprising a magazine 10 adapted to contain voting devices, stationary receptacles for said voting devices when voted, arranged in serial order to correspond with a selecting table, a plurality of conveyers connected with the said magazine and adapted to extend over said receptacles to deliver the voting devices thereto, adjustable devices extensible over said receptacles connected with said conveyers to place the same over the said receptacles, an adjusting mechanism connected with said adjustable devices to move the same in gangs, selecting devices indicating the gangs to be moved by the said mechanism, and means for de livering to each of the various conveyers a single voting device simultaneously.

4. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral lines, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said tubes and in line therewith and having a series of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a plurality of conveyers stationarily mounted below and in line with said perforations in said extracting plate and adapted to extend over eceptacles to contain the voting devices when extracted from said magazine, stationary re ceptacles for said voting devices arranged in serial order to correspond with a selecting table, said receptacles embodying one member indicating no vote, a selecting table having designations thereon located in serial order to correspond with each receptacle and denoting a choice of the voter, selecting deeach table and adapted to place the movable ends of said conveyers to deliver the voting devices thereto, and a lever to be operated by the voter to move said extracting plate from alinement with the said tubes to alinement with the said conveyers.

5. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral lines, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said tubes and in line therewith and having a series of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a plurality of conveyers stationarily mounted below and in line with said perforations in said extracting plate and adapted to extend over receptacles to contain the voting devices when extracted from said magazines, stationary receptacles for said voting devices I when voted, said receptacles being arranged in serial order to correspond with a selecting 5 table, a selecting table having designations thereon located in serial order to correspond with said receptacles, selecting devices adtion to deliver to the receptacle correspond- 7 ing with the designation on said selecting table, means for locking the said selecting devices, and a lever to be operated by the voter to move said extracting plate from alinement with the said tubes to alinement with the said conveyers. 1

6. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral lines, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said tubes and in line therego with and having a series of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a plurality of conveyers st-ationarily mounted'below and in line with said perforations in said extracting plate and adapted to extend over receptacles adapted to contain voting devices when extracted from said magazine, stationary receptacles for said voting devices, arranged in serial order to correspond with a selecting table, a selecting table having designations thereon located in serial order to correspond with said receptacles and denoting a choice of the voter, selecting devices mounted on said table adapted to indicate a choice of said designations and connected to the ends of said conveyers to move the said conveyers to conform with said table, mechanism for returning the said selecting devices to their initial position, and a lever to be operated by the voter to move said extracting plate from alinement with the said tubes to alinement with the said conveyers.

7. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral lines, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said tubes and in line there with and having a series of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a plurality of conveyers stationarily mounted below and in line with said perforations in said extracting plate and adapted to extend over tracting plate from alinement with said tubes to alinement with the said conveyers, and an alarm adapted to be actuated by the said lever.

8. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes aran extracting plate slidably mounted below said tubes of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a plurality of flexible conveyers stationarily mounted below and in line with said perforations in said extracting plate and adapted to extend over receptacles to receive said voting devices when extracted from said magazine, a lever to be operated by the voter to move said extracting plate from alinement with said tubes to alinement with the said conveyers, and a mechanism to return said plate in line with said tu es,

adapted to be operated by the elections.

9. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral lines, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said tubes and in line therewith, having a series of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a plurality of conveyers stationarily mounted below and in line with the said perforations in said extracting plate and adapted to extend over receptacles, to contain said voting devices when delivered from said magazine, a lever to be operated by the voter to remove said extracting plate from alinement with said tubes to alinement with the said conveyers, an alarm adapted to be actuated by said lever, and mechanism to return said plate in line with said tubes and to reset said alarm, adapted to be operated by the inspector of elections.

10. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral line, a supporting plate for said tubes having a series of perforations adapted to aline with the said tubes, a shifting mechanism adapted to move the said tubes to aline the tubes of successive lines with the perforations in said supporting plate, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said supporting plate and having a like number of perforations adapted to aline with perforations in said supporting plate, a guide member for said extracting plate, stationarily mounted and having a series of perforations out of line with the perforations in said supporting Jlate, a plurality of flexible conveyers extended from the perforations in said guide member, and a lever to be operated by the voter to move said extracting plate from alinement with the perforations in said supporting plate to alinement with the perforations in said guide member.

11. A voting machine, comprising a magazine embodying a series of tubes arranged in lateral lines, a supporting plate for said tubes, having a series of perforations adapted to aline with said tubes, a shifting mechanism adapted to move the said tubes to aline the tubes of successive lines with the perforations in said supporting plate, an operating device for actuating said shifting mechanism and operated by the inspector of elections, an extracting plate slidably mounted below said supporting plate and having a like number of perforations adapted to aline with the perforations in said supporting plate, a guide member for said extracting plate, stationarily mounted and inspector of having a series of perforations out of line with the perforations in said supporting plate, a plurality'of flexible conveyers extended from the perforations in said guide member, and a lever to be operated by the voter to move said extracting plate from alinement with the perforations in said supporting plate to alinement with the perforations in said guide member.

12. A voting machine, comprising a magazine adapted to contain voting devices, sta tionary receptacles for said voting devices when voted, arranged in serial order to correspond with the selecting table, a plurality of flexible conveyers connected with said magazine and adapted to be adjusted to deliver to said receptacles, a plurality of slides guidably mounted on said table, adapted to be locked in inoperative position, partitions between said slides adapted to be removed, means for removing the said partitions, a plurality of selecting strips connected to the said conveyers and adapted to be adjustably attached upon different members of a group of said slides when the said partitions are removed said slides having index devices for adjustment with the said designations on the selecting table, and means for delivering to each of the said conveyers a single voting device simultaneously.

13. A voting machine, comprising a magazine adapted to contain voting devices, stationary receptacles for said voting devices when voted and arranged in serial order to correspond with the selecting table, a plurality of flexible conveyers connected with said magazine and adapted to be adjusted to deliver to said receptacles, a plurality, of slides guidably mounted on said table adapted to be locked in inoperative position, a plurality of selecting strips connected to the said conveyers and adapted to be adjustably attached upon different members of a group of said slides and with reference to the said designations on the selecting table, means for resetting the said slides after being moved for voting, a safety mechanism to prevent the resetting of said slides when more than one of said selecting strips are mounted upon said slides, and means for delivering to each of the said conveyers a single voting device simultaneously.

1%. A voting machine, comprising a magazine adapted to contain voting devices arranged in regular order for regular voting, a series of conveyers adapted in number to the candidates and questions, to deliver the voting devices to suitable receptacles when cast selecting devices for regulating the receptacles to which said voting devices are delivered by said conveyers, an extracting mechanism for delivering from the said magazine to each of the said conveyers each a single voting device siimiltaneously, said mechanism being adapted to be operated by a the inspector of elections to return the said extracting mechanism to its initial position and remove said device Which closes the receptacle for receiving irregular votes.

CLARENCE LEICESTER LORRAINE. Witnesses:

R. L. LORRAINE, EDNA LORRAINE.

the voter, a receptacle for receiving irregu- In testimony whereof I have signed my lar votes, a device to close said receptacle, name to this specification 1n the presence and a mechanism adapted to be operated by of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

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