USRE7601E - Improvement in registers for gas and water deters - Google Patents

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I 'ZSheetS-Sheet 1. J. msqumz. Assignor by mesne assigments to H. E. Towle. REGISTER-FOR GAS AND WATER METERS. ,No. 7,601.-

'Reis sued April 10, 18775 2 sheets shet Z.

-:r. J. SQUIRE. by mesne assigments to H, E. Towle. REGISTER FOR GAS AND-WATER METERS. No. 7,601.

Assignor Reissued April 10, 1877.

@IJNiTnD STA ES PATENT OFFICE.

"was J seems, or sr. LOUIS, MO., ASSIGNOB, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

to nutrition E. Towns, or new YORK 'orrr.

mP 'o'vsMsa-T m nselsrsnstqn ess AND. WATER METERS.

.. Specification forming part of Iietters Patent N 0. 37 332, dated March 3 1863; reissue'hlo. 7,601, dated April 10,1571; application filed October a, 1876.

and without confusion, and in such a manner as to avoid errors or mistakes by the observer in ascertaining or in taking 0d the indication crime; nieter'orreg'rster, so that accuracy,

facility, and reliability may obtain. It consists of-the combination of one or more movable plates, disks, dials, or screens with another plate, disk, dial, or screen (or with more than one other, if so desired) with the works or movements of the meter or registerin g mechanism actuating said plate, disk,

v dial, or screen, the connections between the part being such as operate the plate, disk, dial, or screen, or more than one of them, to expose or obscure at the proper time such figures, letters, or numbers of the register as'will truthfully show and leave exposed the desired letters, figures, or amounts, and at'the same time cover 'up or obscure such others as would otherwise tend to create confusion, doubt, or delay in learningthe state of the register. Furthermore, t has for its object the indication aud exhibition of numbers and figures, in recording and registering-machines, plainly and without coufnsiomaud in such a manner as toa'v'oid errors or mistakes by the observer in ascertaining or in taking 0d the indications of the meter or register, so that every possible accuracy, facility, and reliability may obtain.

It consists of the combinaiiou of. one or more movable plates, disks, d oils, or screens with another plate, disk, dial, or screen (or with more than one other, if so desired) with the works or moveme'ntsof the meter or registering mechanism actuating the said plate, disk, dial, or screen, the connections between the parts being such as to operate the plate, disk, or dial as a screen to expose or obscure at the proper time such characters, figures, or

numbers of the register as will truthfully show and leave exposed the desired charac-i ters, figures, numbers, or amounts, and at the same time cover up orkeep obscured such others as would, if exposed, tend to create, confusion, doubt, or delay in learning the;

state of the register.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a-front elcva}, tion of the front of the register or meter. is the face-plate. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the registering appararus ,With face-plate removed; also. showing more interior parts, viz., unit-disk B ten-disk 13*,850. Fig. 31s

a top view'or plan. "Fig. 4' is a'plan, and Fig.

*5'is' a eross seetioual view-efcrevolving dial B showing cam-groove k! on the some. Fig. fisho'ws, in plan, a blank disk or screen ready ,to be cut away to form any desired shapeof screen or disk, as, forexample, that indicated by the dotted line in this figure, and shown finished with the projection P andre-en teriug angles on eachside of the projection 'inFig'. 4.- Fig. .7 is an enlarged view of the dials aud'revolvin'g disks or revolving screens P B B B and theswinging or oscillating screens S S S, centered at cfc c and operated through the connection 1)? p on the levers L L, driven to act at the proper time by the camsk k,-

csrried by the shafts of the disks and dials.

{The fixed plate or face A has openings, showlngthrough them theposition or indications of the dials B B B, which, in Fig. l

are l 5 5. The dials are graduated decimally' and marked zero (0) to nine (9), inclusive, as'

is well known in many kinds of counting-machines. in common use.

The visual openings in the face-plate A. are or may be each large enough to show two figures on the dial below or behind it, and to allow the figure just appearing to remain in full view during the part of a'revollltion due to the division between it and the next figure in order.

To avoid the danger of taking oil? the wrong figure when noting the state of the register, especially-if more than one figure is wholly orjpartly visible through the opening, I have arranged movable screens or swinging plates 'in such a trimmer and so operated by or with the movements oi the figure-bearing diskas to cover up and obscure such figures as are not desired to be seen or required to ascertain the state of the register at any time. Such screen or swinging plate is shown atii S. S, oentereil outside of the circumference of the dials bearing the figures of the register; and in Figs. 2, 7, and 8 the screen is formed of a part of the disk or dial-plnte itself, and swings upon the same center, as shown in dial B. In fact the diaLplate serves both purposes, namely, to carry the figures or characters belonging to it, and also to serve as a shield, guard, or screen in respect to other figures over which it moves and covers up, or exposes to view, in

accordance with the shape given to it, and its motion in respect to the position of characters upon the plate or parts beneath or behind it. How this is accomplished in the simple combination of two revolving disks bearing figures for counting or adding is shown in Fig. 8, in which B B? are the revolving wheels, disks, or plates bearing numbers. These wheels are driven simultaneously for example, 13

moves ten revolutions to one revolution of B B then rnnsone-tenth of a revolution, while B makes a fullrevolution. The figures on B then show the number ofrevolutious made by B, and such figures as are visible on B are only to be seen through the opening in the covering thee-plate A. (Removed in Figs. 2,

7, and 8.) The. position of such openings as are provided for viewing the indications of dials B and B are shown by the dotted rectangulaijareas marked 1t and It.

. 1n Fig. 8, dial 13- is shown as just having" completed its first revolution, counting thereby ten, which is now to appear on the tensdial B as I'iu "the opening R, but at the instant of transferring the registration from the unit-whecl B to the tens- WhecLB it is necessary to simultaneously obscure the zero (0) on B and expose the iigurcl on the same dial,

and this is accomplished by the presentation;

of the part I" of the disk B directly over the figure to be hidden, and at the same'time a shield which obscured beneath it the figurel on dial B is withdrawn, substantially as showuandexplained. i

Fig. 7 shows the arrangement or applica-Y lion of both swinging shield or guard-plates B. S S, and also the application of a dial itself in such a manner as to make it serve'ior the similar pnrpoles, in'w'hich disk P is the part out or shaped to serve as a guard or disk, in combination with another disk having numerical characters upon it, the first disk serving at one point in its revolution to obscure for the time being the number upon the second disk which would othorwise be-exposed, substantiallyalset fort Y 'f and described, of cams. levers, and shields,' for the purposes set forth.

3. In a'registering apparatus,-the combina; tion of a units-disk overlapping la-part'oi'a tens-disk .with' the said tens di'sk," the said units-disk having parts of it cut Iaway'sofas to allow characters or nuinbersfu 'ion the, said tens-disk to be seen and read at ades'igiiated place or visual opening at which the: 'statejotj, U the-register is to be ascertained, substantially asset forth.

' 4.' Registering mechanism, toin' bsuf of unit-disk and a ten-disk. geared to wtmk to-gw gether byratchet-wheel'aud pinion, said unitwheel being cut away or mutilated at ornear its periphery in suchv a manner as to allow numerical characters upon the ten-disk tohe,

seen at "the cut-away or mutilated places through suitable openings in an exterior cover plate, substantially as set forth. v;' r

" 5., In combination with a registering appakn ratns, consisting of one Ol lllOl'B wheelsshowingnumbers upon thesame, a shield or screen centered and pivoted in such a manner as to allow the screen or shield to be shifted to 5 cover or uncover numbers as the registration or indications proceed, substantially as shown and described.

Witnesses D. It. MYERs, Jr., J SA UEL E. Gavin.

When they do-not z. The arrangement, substantially'asshown Dated andsigned this 2d day of S ptember, i, H

JOHN J. some.

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