AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING DIRT DO THE SPEED OF MACHINERY OR THE DISTANCE TRAVELLED BY VEHICLES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Claude Marie Bathias, of 164, Rue Montmartre,
and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING
DIRT DO"
Sealed the 3rd May 1867, and dated the 14th November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Claude Marie Bathias
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th November 1866.
I, CLAUDE MARIE BATHIAS, of 164, Rue Montmartre, and 24, Rue du
Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
REGISTERING THE SPEED OF MACHINERY OR THE DISTANCE TRAVELLED BY VEHICLES,"
to be as follows:-
This apparatus consists in the combination of three disks without springs,
the working of which enables one to ascertain in an indefinite manner by
augmenting the disks by series of three the rotary or rectilinear motion of
all sorts of machines or vehicles. The first disk, cut in the form of a Maltese
cross, has ten concave sides, on which are inscribed the numbering figures';

page_text: the second carries ten teeth which catch into the preceding; and the third
carries a single tooth on its circumference, the radius of which is equal to
that of the cacavity of the sides of the first disk. The 2d and 3d disks are
solidly joined together, their thickness is the same as that of the first disk.
The first disk is shipped on an axle and the two others on another axle at a
convenient distance, so as to allow the first disk to catch in. with the two
others; disk No. 1, in one revolution bears along at the same time disk
No. 2, and consequently disk No. 3 which is connected with it; but when
disk No. 1 has checked off the ten numbering figures it carries disk No. 8,
which has but one tooth, has only travelled round one tenth or a single
figure of disk No. 1 of the second series of three disks, and so on. The
application of this combination to a vehicle-takes- place..by means of disks
bearing ratches or unequal sides so calculated that the sum of their revolutions
correspond with that of the wheels of the vehicle, the circumference of which
has been previously measured.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Claude Marie Bathias in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th May 1867:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLAUDE
MARIE BATHIAS, of 164,. Rue Montmartre, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date. the Fourteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Claude Marie Bathias, Her special licence that I, the said Claude
Marie Bathias, my executors, administrators, and assigns, .or.such others as
I, the said Claude Marie Bathias, my executors, administrators, and, assigns,
should at any time-agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE SPEED OF MACHINERY OR THE DISTANCE
TRAVELLED BY VEHICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Claude Marie Bathias, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one. of, their hands, and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and, in what

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, aud cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
'after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Claude Marie Bathias, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:
This apparatus consists in the combination of three disks without springs,
the working of which enables one of ascertaining in an indefinite manner by
augmenting the disks by series of three the rotary or rectilinear motion of
all sorts of machines or vehicles. The first disk, cut in the form of a Maltese
cross, has ten concave sides, on which are inscribed the numbering figures ;
the second carries ten teeth which catch into the preceding; and the third
carries a single tooth on its circumference, the radius of which is equal to
that of the concavity of the sides of the first disk. The second and third
disks are solidly joined together, their thickness. is the same as that of the
first disk. The first disk is shipped on to an axle and the two others on to
another axle at a convenient distance, so as to allow the first disk to catch
in with the two others; disk No. 1 in one revolution: bears along at the
same time disk No. 2, and consequently disk No. 3 which is connected to it;
but when disk No. 1 has checked off the ten numbering figures. it carries
disk No: 8; which has but one tooth, has only travelled round. one tenth or a
single figure of disk No. 1 of the second series of three disks, and so on.
The application of this combination to a vehicle takes place by means of disks
bearing ratchets or unequal sides so calculated that the sum of their revolutions
correspond with that of the wheels of the vehicle, the circumference of which
has been previously measured.
: .
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings represent, the views in
plane and perpendicular of the first disk, Figures 3 and 4 the same views
of the second disk, Figures 5 and 6 the same views of the third disk, and
Figure 7 is the perpendicular view of the. three disks combined or connected
together, forming a portion of the counter.
The disks as above described and represented in the Drawings being com-
bined: together constitute an apparatus whereby quantities or distances may be
ascertained, such as the number of revolutions effected by the shafts or other
parts of a machine, the wheels of a carriage, the flow of water or other
liquid, of compressed air, of gas, or other fluid.. They may be disposed. in
many cases, as represented in the Drawings, but it is sometimes' necessary to
modify this arrangement; thus, for a numbering indicator, disk No. 2 must be

page_text: suppressed and replaced by disks carrying
great number of teeth; the said
disks should be placed between each disk No. 1 and actuates disk No. 3,
which should have the same width as disk No. 1. When applied to a carriage
so as to ascertain the distance it has travelled, one must calculate how
many revolutions the wheel bearing on the ground should make in order
that the vehicle should have travelled over a unit of the distance; then,
dispose 2, 3, and even 4 disks if required, carrying an equal number of
ratchets or cogs, and performing exactly or nearly so the required distance by
means of the arrangement above explained, the object of which is to
multiply.
For the better intelligence of this combination it should be well understood
that the disks carry an unequal number of ratchets or cogs, the size of which,
as. also that of the pinions, is consequently different. Thus, if the wheel of a
vehicle measures three mètres, French measure, in circumference (3 yards and
aor thereabouts), we shall note a mile (1609 mètres, French measure)
may be calculated by a disk having 9 ratchets or cogs, and another 6 ratchets
or cogs, which gives 54 revolutions on the ground, and a third one having
10 ratchets or cogs yielding 540 revolutions on the ground to cause the disk
noting the miles to advance a single notch or one number. A kilomètre,
French measure (nearly 1094 yards), may be calculated by means of two disks,
the one having 8 ratchets or cogs, the other four, giving for product 32
revolutions on the ground; then a third one having 10 ratchets or cogs,
which, multiplying 82 by 10, will give 320 revolutions on the ground for a
kilometer; the third disk therefore indicates the hectomètres, and so on for
all the other measures by combining disks having unequal numbers of ratchets
or cogs which being multiplied will give the quantity of necessary revolutions
to indicate a required distance. Thus if it is necessary to have 200 revolutions
to indicate a distance three disks are required with 4, 5, and 10 ratchets or
cogs respectively; if 280, three disks are required with 7, 4, and 10 ratchets
or cogs, respectively; if 360, three disks are required with 9, 4, and 10
ratchets or cogs respectively; if 204 revolutions, 8 disks with 17, 2, and
6 are requisite, and so on. But if the revolutions of the wheels of a carriage
or vehicle were not comprised a number of times without a fraction exactly in
the unit of distance it would be necessary to substitute dented wheels to the
disks having unequal numbers of ratchets or cogs, which dented wheels by
means. of their gearing actuate at each revolution. the disks numbered with
units, or those with tens of the standard distance used.
If the apparatus is intended to verify distances as an indicator of fares,
dues, or salaries, the ratchet disk actuated by the catch carries on its right-

page_text: hand side a disk disposed to sum up the distance travelled over in a day, and
on its left-hand side another such-like disk, which returns to nought for each
traveller by means of a rod, the inside part of which strikes against excentrics
fixed to each of the ciphered disks.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying it into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details above enumerated, as these may obviously be
n:odified without departing from the principle of the Invention according to
the special construction and intended applications of the engines in which it
is adopted; but what I claim is,―
1º. All distance indicators or apparatus indicative of quantities, all numerators
or such-like instruments giving numerical results, and where the numeration
of figures is obtained by the combination of three disks, as already described,
namely, the ciphered disk cut in the form of a Maltese cross having ten or
any other number of sides cut cantwise, the disk having ten or any other
number of ratchets or cogs actuating or actuated by the former disk, and the
disk baving a single ratchet or cog connected with the second disk, which
former disk actuates the next ciphered disk one-tenth at each of its revolutions,
whilst the remaining nine-tenths of its circumference serve to retain the
indicative disks in position.
2º. All apparatus indicative of all or any known measures of distance by
means of the combination of disks having unequal numbers of ratchets or
cogs.
And, 3°, all indicators so constructed by means of the combination of the
said disks for the purpose of measuring the flow of water or other liquid, of
gas, or other fluid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Claude Marie Bathias, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
C. BATHIAS.
(L.8.)