US557858A - Automatic scale-register - Google Patents

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(No Model) F. R. MOSER.

AUTOMATIC SCALE REGISTER. I No. 557,858. Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK R. MOSER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

AUTOMATIC SCALE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,858, dated April '7', 1896.

Application filed July 22,1895- Serial No. 556,672 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK R. MOSER, of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Scale-Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improved automatic scale-register; and it consists in the novel construction,combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing the figure is a front elevation of myimproved register, the same being in proper position upon a scale.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing,'1 indicates an ordinary scale-beam, the same being properly located in the scalebOX and provided with the usual weights 2.

3 indicates a vertically-arranged rod that connects the scale-beam 1 with the mechanism of the scale beneath the platform, and upon said rod 3, immediately below the scalebeam 1, is fixed an indicating-register 4, of any desired form and construction. Fixed to and depending from the bottom of this indicatingregister and adjacent each side thereof are arms 5, upon the lower ends of which are fixed blocks of rubber 6 or analogous material. Carried by the lower end of the rod 3 is a clevis 7, the rings at the lower end of which engage knife-edged pivots 8 of a beam 0. Oppositely-arranged knife-edged pivots 10 are arranged adjacent these pivots S, and a clevis l1 depends from said pivots 10, and engaging said clevis 11 by its upper end is a rod 19, that passes downwardly to the mechanism beneath the scale-platform. From one end of this beam 9 depends a rod 13, on which may be located weights 1i, and sliding upon said beam 9 is a weight 15.

On the opposite end of the beam 9 are knifeedged pivots 16, around which engage the rings of a clevis 17. A vertical rod 18 is, at

its lower end, hooked into said clevis 17 and extends upwardly and is hooked into a clevis 19, that engages the knife-ed ed pivots 20, formed upon the operating-lever 21 of the indicating-register l.

The operation is as follows: \Ve will assume that the weight upon the rod 13 is such that a weight of two thousand pounds must necessarily be placed upon the scale-platform before the indicating-register will operate. Should a weight less than two thousand pounds be located upon the scale-platform, the rod 12 will necessarily be drawn downwardly, and as the weight is insufficient to operate the indicating-register the same will move downwardly with a downward movement of the rod The rod 3 moving downwardly will disturb the balance of the scalebeam 1, and the weights 2 may be so manipulated upon the beam 1. as that the weight upon the scale-platform can be correctly ascertained. Should weight in excess of two thousand pounds be located upon the scale-platform, the rod 12 will move downwardly in the usual manner, and the balance of the beam 9 will be disturbed as the weight upon the scale platform overcomes the weights arranged upon said beam. Said beam 9 will assume a position as shown by dotted lines in the figure, and in so doing the rod 18 and various connections to the operating-lever 21 of the indicatin g-register will move downwardly, and one indication will be displayed by said register. Immediately after this movement takes place the rod 3 and register will be drawn downwardly, and the amount of weight exceeding two thousand pounds may be correctly ascertained upon the scale-beam 1 in the usual manner.

Thus it will be seen that by locating a device of my improved construction upon the vertical rod of a scale the correct weight of anyload located upon the scale-platform may be easily ascertained, and all weights in excess of a set or given number will be registered and indicated, this being an especially desirable feature where a large number of approximately equal loads are being weighed.

A device of the class described is inexpensive, maybe easily applied to the scales now in use, may be so arranged as to indicate any set or given number desired, and possesses superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency.

I claim- 1. In combination with a weighing-scale, a pair of rods, one of which is connected to the scale-beam and the other to the scale-platform, a beam horizontally arranged between the meeting ends of said rods, said ends being pivoted to said beam adjacent one another, a sliding weight located upon one end of said beam, removable weights located upon the end of said beam, an indicating and registering device carried by the upper one of the rods, arms depending from said registering device, blocks of rubber or analogous material carried by said arms, and a suitable connecting-rod between the free end of the beam and the operating-lever of the indicating and registering device.

2. In an automatic scaleregister, the combination with a weighing-scale of the rod 3,

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