IMPROVEMENT IN COUNTING APPARATUS
Year: 1884

page_text: DANIEL ORME, Gas Meter Manufacturer, Atlas Meter Works, Oldham, FRANCIS
HEANS ORME, Gas Meter Manufacturer, Atlas Meter Works, Oldham, CHARLES
BUTTERWORTH, Mill Manager; 47, St Thomas Street North, Oldham, do hereby
declare the nature of their invention for IMPROVEMENT IN COUNTING APPARATUS,
to be as follows:
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The object of this invention is for the purpose of ascertaining the loss of
production of any machine, by such machine being stopped during the time that
the engine is working. For this purpose we attach and work a counter by means
of the fast and loose driving pullies of the machine.
The method of working the counter is as follows: A worm is attached to the
boss of the fast pulley, or the driving shaft of the machine, and is geared into a
counter for registering the revolutions or hanks lost, as the case may be. This
counter is made fast within the loose pulley.to the boss or any other convenient
place, the driving strap working upon the fast pulley, takes the loose pulley round
with it by means of a catch or arm which fastens itself into a ratchet wheel with
one or more teeth, fastened on the loose pulley and it is retained in this position by
a strong steel spring. This arrangement is only proposed for existing machinery.
In the case of applying the invention to new machinery, we should prefer to drive
the pullies together, by causing the strap to work a little upon the loose pulley
when the machine is in action: by either of these means both the worm and
counter are carried round together, consequently no registration takes place during
the time the machine is working. When the strap is changed on to the loose
pulley the catch drops out of action, and the fast pulley with the worm attached
remain stationary, the counter revolving with the loose pulley round the worm now
stationary within the fast pulley, and registering upon the dial the number of
revolutions or hanks lost by the machine during the time it is stopped.
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By a second arrangement we reverse this mode of. working the counter, by
placing it in the fast pulley and driving it by a worm fixed in the loose pulley,
which revolves when the machine is stopped, thus obtaining the same results as by
the first arrangement.
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DIECIFICATION.
DANIEL ORME; Gas Meter Manufacturer, Atlas Meter Works, Oldham, FRANCIS
HEANS ORME, Gas Meter Manufacturer Atlas. Meter Works, Oldham, CHARLES
BUTTERWORTH, Mill Manager, 47, Saint Thomas Street, Oldham, do hereby declare
the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENT IN COUNTING APPARATUS and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:YGAT
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The object of this invention, is for the purpose of ascertaining the loss of
production of any machine, by such machine being stopped during the time the
engine is working.
In order that this our said Invention may be readily understood and carried into
practical effect, we have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings, illustrative of our
improved apparatus, and we now proceed to describe the same with the assistance
of letters and figures.
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Fig: 1. is a front view of ordinary pullies enclosing the counter.
Fig. 2. is a section of pullies enclosing the counter.
Fig. 3. is a side view of counter A: B.
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Fig 4. is an end view of loose pulley shewing the record of revolutions lost by
the machine.
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Fig 5. is a view, of index with the cover removed.
Fig 6. is a front view of frame M, and 7 is a side view.
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In all the views E is the loose pulley, and F the fast pulley to drive the
machines, G is a worm fastened on the boss of F, and H. is a framework fastened
on the boss of E and carries various parts of the apparatus. I'is a wheel of ten
teeth which gears into the worm G, on the opposite end of shaft which carries
wheel. I is a worm J. which gears into wheel K., this wheel also has ten teeth the
shaft which carries wheel K has at its opposite end an arm L which drives the
index by a stud projecting from a light framework M. which framework is placed
on the shaft N: in frame M is a ratchet wheel containing one or more teeth, this
wheel is fastened to shaft N, but the frame M is allowed to be free on the shaft: a
catch or pawl works into the teeth of. ratchet, wheel and is held in position by á
spring as shewn in fig: 6.-About the middle of shaft N and inside the index
box O. is another ratchet wheel the same hand of tooth as the one in frame M, a
fixed catch or pawl is placed here, and the same is kept in position by a spring from
framework of index frame.
Motion is conveyed from shaft N to index by a pair of bevil wheels. As the
motions contained in index are well known we do not think that it is necessary to
describe them here.-A slot is made through the face of pulley E, through which
the figures of index can be seen as shewn at P.
Supposing the Engine to be working, and the strap on loose pulley É, the
countor will revolve round worm G which being stationary drives the wheel I, and
by means of worm J driving Wheel K, the arm L fixed at the opposite end of its
shaft is revolved the catch or pawl in 'framework M being held in position on
tooth of ratchet wheel by a spring, causes the same to revolve and conveys motion
to the index by means of shaft N, and the bevils before mentioned.

page_text: When the strap is on the fast pulley F the machine is working, and not any
indication can be made: if the loose pulley E is stopped, or revolving at a less
speed than the fast pulley F. then the frame M which is fitted loosely on shaft N
will work in an opposite direction: and if frame M has a tendency to cause the
shaft N to revolve by friction on its bearings, then the pawl inside box O. comes
into action and prevents the counter from working in an opposite direction.
In order to read the Indicator correctly we have a fixed cypher on the dial to
compensate for the worm G and wheel I.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim are
1. The general combination and arrangement of mechanism for recording the
number of revolutions lost by any machine, during the time the Engine or
main-driver is working.
2. Application of a counter in which a part of the mechanism is fixed on the
loose pulley of any machine, and another part of the mechanism fixed on the fast
pulley, or on the main driving shaft of such machine.
3. A counter for recording the number of revolutions lost, in which the record is
shewn through the face of the loose pulley by means of a slot or opening.
Dated this tenth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and eighty