Year: 1886

page_text: This Specification was, upon the 16th day of March 1888, amended under
Sections 18 to 21 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.
WILLIAM FORD STANLEY, Or Cumberlow, South Norwood, Durrey, B
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hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This machine in its outward parts consists of a platform on which a person stands to
be measured. At the back of the platform there is an upright box surmounted by a
dial with moveable hand or hands upon which the height of the person is indicated.
A flat bar or a bar carrying a light disc is automatically lowered upon the head of the
person at his will by himself or another person touching a knob or other mechanical
part to release a detent. This knob or part may be supported by a short standard
erected near the front of the platform so as to be easily reached and connected with the
upright box by a steadying rail. The detent may be so arranged that it cannot be
released unless a penny forms a connection with some of its parts or it may be released
without this intervention by slightly varying the construction of this part. When the
person steps off the machine the height bar and height index return to zero or it may
be raised before doing so at will.
To carry out this invention the following mechanical arrangements or their equivalents
are required. Firstly as regards the measuring of the height of a person and its
indication; for this a light bar carrying a disc is lowered slowly to the head of the
person. As soon as this bar touches (its weight being partly taken off the machine by
this touching) it raises a lever into a detent which then holds it to position, which
position is at the height to be taken. The measuring bar is attached to a sliding weight
and the weight carries a metal band which is uhrolled off a pulley. The pulley is
connected through its axis with the index hand which reads on a dial figures and
divisions indicating the height which the measuring bar has taken.
Secondly. To cause the index to return to zero (which it may do after the person
has left the machine or more simply by another person getting on the machine to be

page_text: measured after the first has left it beneath the platform). A lever is fixed in such a
manner as the descent of the platform for a small distance may move the long arm of
the lover a relatively long distance. The long arm of the lever is connected with a
band or cord that passes over a pulley at the top of the box, the opposite end of the
band carries a weight sufficient to balance over the pulley the lever and such part of
the platform as resis upon it the band passes by one side of a ratchet wheel which
is fixed upon the same axis as the measuring wheel and this band carries a straight
rack which gears or tooths into the ratchet wheel for a distance sufficient to move the
ratchet wheel the greater part of a single revolution. The ratchet wheel has a small
portion of its circumference left plain (not racked) and the straight rack has also a
small part at one end plain so that when the straight rack in descending has brought
the necessary wheel by means of the ratchet wheel back to zero it slips and does not
move this wheel further. The pulley described at the top of the box which carries
the band has a projection at one part of its circumference and at this projecting part
the descending band leaves the pulley which is arranged to be at the same instant as
the plain part of the ratchet wheel and plain part of the straight rack-are in contact
and the measuring wheel is at zero the purpose of this projecting part on the upper
pulley being to entirely throw the rack out of gear and off contact so as to have the
measuring wheel quite free. When the measuring wheel is brought back to zero it is
held by a detent until it is released.
Thirdly. To release the detent to permit the lowering of the measuring bar. This
is done by pressing a knob down on the top of a standard by the side of the machine.
The knob is connected with,a.rod, which is supported, by a free end of a lever or a pair
of levers jointed in compound form. The opposite free end of one of the levers is
connected with a rod leading to the measuring wheel detent so that when the knob is
pressed down this detent is released and the measuring bar descends one of the fulcra
of the levers is or may be formed by the edge of a penny. The penny is slid down to
position through a collise remaining, as one fulcrum during the measuring but
immediately slipping from its position when the lever is released from its bearing by
the person getting off the machine.
Parts of this machine may be omitted as the penny arrangement. The detent of
the measuring bar may be released at any other part of the apparatus than that described
or by pulling instead of pushing. Or the platform may be fixed and the index be
carried back to zero by pulling a cord' simply. Other mechanical equivalents may be
used to those described through extra gearing or otherwise. The outward form of the
machine may be varied as for instance brass tubes may replace part of the box always
preserving the essential parts or principles of this Invention.

page_text: Machine for Measuring the Height of Human Beings
Automatically.
1, WILLIAM FORD STANLEY, of Cumberlow; South Norwood, Surrey, Engineer, 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 following
statement :-
This machine in its outward parts consists of a platform on which a person stands
to be measured. At the back of the platform there is an upright box surmounted
by a dial with moveable.hand or hands upon which the.height of the person is indicated.
A flat bar or a bar carrying a light disc is automatically lowered upon the head of the
person at his will by himself or any other person touching a knob or other mechanical
part to release a detent. This knob or part may be supported by a short standard
erected near the front of the platform so as to be easily reached by the hand and is
connected with the upright. box by a steadying rail. The detent may be so arranged.
that it cannot be released unless a penny forms a. connection with some of its parts.
or it may be released without this intervention by slightly varying the construction of
this part.
When the person steps off the machine the height, bar and height index. return. to
zero or it may be raised before. doing so at will.
To carry out this invention the following mechanical arrangements or their
equivalents are required. As regards the measuring of the height of a person or
object and its indication; for this a light bar carrying a disc is lowered slowly to
the head of the person or thing. As soon as the bar touches (its weight being partly
taken off the machine by this touching) it raises a lever into a detent which then holds
it to position, which position is at the height to be taken. The measuring bar is
attached to a sliding weight and the weight carries a metal band which is unrolled off.
a pulley. The pulley is connected through its axis with the index hand which reads
on a dial figures and divisions indicating the height which the measuring bar has taken
or this may be read on a straight scale on the front of the upright box.
To cause the index to return to zero (which it may do after the person has left the
machine or more simply by another person getting on to the machine to be measured
after the first has left it) beneath the platform a lever is fixed in such a manner as the
descent of the platform for a small distance may move the long arm of the lever a
relatively long distance. The long arm of the lever is connected with a band or cord.
that passes over a pulley at the top of the box, the: opposite end. of the band carries.
a weight sufficient to balance over the pulley the lever and such part of the platform
as rests upon it. The band passes by one side of the ratchet wheel which is fixed upon
the same axis as the measuring wheel and this band carries a straight rack which gears.
or toothes into the ratchet wheel for a distance sufficient to move the ratchet wheel the
greater part of a single revolution. The ratchet wheel has a small portion of its:
circumference less plain (not racked) and the straight rack has also a. small part at.
one end plain so that when the straight rack in descending has brought the measuring
wheel by means of the ratchet wheel back to zero it slips and does not move this wheel

page_text: further. The pulley described at the top of the box which carries the band has a
projection at one part of its circumference and at this projecting part the descending
band leaves the pulley which is arranged to be at the same instant as the plain part of
the ratchet wheel and plain part of the straight rack are in contact and the measuring
wheel is at zero. The purpose of this projecting part on the upper pulley being to
entirely throw the rack out of gear and off contact so as to leave the measuring wheel
quite free.
When the measuring wheel is brought back to zero it is held by a detent until it is
released. To release the detent to permit the lowering of the measuring bar. This is
done by pressing a knob down on the top of a standard by the side of the machine.
The knob is connected with a rod which is supported by a free end of a lever or a pair
of levers jointed in compound form. The opposite free end of one of the levers is
connected with a rod leading to the measuring wheel detent so that when the knob is
pressed down this detent is released and the measuring bar descends one of the fulcra
of the levers is or may be formed by the edge of a penny. The penny in this case is
slid down to position through a collise remaining as one fulcrum during the measuring
but immediately slipping from its position when the lever is released from its bearing
by the person geting off the machine.
Parts of this machine may be omitted as the penny arrangement. The detent of the
measuring bar may be released at any other part of the apparatus than that described,
or by pulling instead of pushing or the platform may be fixed and the index be carried
back to zero by pulling a cord simply other mechanical equivalents may be used
to those described through extra gearing or otherwise. The outward form of the
machine may be varied as for instance brass tubes may replace part of the box always
preserving the essential parts or principles of this invention. The machine above
described may be used for measuring other things to which it is adapted as well as the
human being. The details are shown by the drawings.
Fig. 1 front elevation. Fig. 2 plan. Fig. 3 side elevation. Fig. 4 section from
the front shewing works. Fig. 5 section from the sides showing works. Fig. 6
sectional plan. Fig. 7 section through pillar showing lever arrangement. The
following letters refer to all the figures.
A Dial upon which height is indicated.
B Scale which may be used instead of the dial A.
CCCC Stop which falls to the height of a person standing on the machine when
its detent is released.
D D D D D A rack into which a detent E is pressed when C is stopped.
EE E The detent described above.
FFFA pulley wheel upon the journal of which the index hand is fixed.
GG A carriage upon which the measuring arm C is fixed. This slides in a groove
and is connected with a band over F to a counterbalance weight.
H Counterbalance weight described above.
II Directing pulley to the band from G to H.
J J A ratchet wheel fixed on the pulley F.
K A rack geared into the above to bring the index hand back to zero.
LLLLA lever moved by the descent of the platform M. The free end of this
lever is connected with a wire which carries the rack K passes over a pulley to a
counterbalance weight N to keep it in tension the rack is thrown out of gear when
the index is at zero by a notch on the pulley.
M M M M M Platform.
NN Counterbalance weight in tube to L.
OA lever which forms by a notch at its end a detent to F at zero.
P, P, P, P, P, A lever connected with the detent O by a wire.
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q A ball connected by a rod with P.
R R One fulcrum of O formed by a penny. The lever will not act without its
presence.
S, S, S, S, S, A collise down which the penny passes.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Recording measured height upon a dial automatically.
2. To measure height mechanically by means of the falling automatically of a pro-
jecting arm which stops in by a detent upon a part of its weight being supported by
the object to be measured.
3. Bringing the index of weight height to zero or starting point by mechanical
apparatus made active in stepping on or off a platform as described.
4. Measuring with a penny forming part of the mechanical measuring apparatus.
The claims are taken separately 3 and 4 may be dispensed with on any measuring
machine of this invention.
WM. FORD STANLEY.

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 10th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 14th Jan., 1887,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Machine for Measuring the Height of Human Beings
Automatically.
I, WILLIAM FORD STANLEY, of Cumberlow, South Norwood, Surrey, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This machine in its outward parts consists of a platform on which a person stands to
be measured. At the back of the platform there is an upright box surmounted by a
dial with moveable hand or hands upon which the height of the person is indicated.
A flat bar or a bar carrying a light disc is automatically lowered upon the head of the
person at his will by himself or another person touching a knob or other mechanical
part to release a detent. This knob or part may be supported by a short standard
erected near the front of the platform so as to be easily reached and connected with the
upright box by a steadying rail. The detent may be so arranged that it cannot be
released unless a penny forms a connection with some of its parts or it may be released
without this intervention by slightly varying the construction of this part. When the
person steps off the machine the height bar and height index return to zero or it may
be raised before doing so at will.
To carry out this invention the following mechanical arrangements or their equivalents
are required. Firstly as regards the measuring of the height of a person and its
indication; for this a light bar carrying a disc is lowered slowly to the head of the
person. As soon as this bar touches (its weight being partly taken off the machine by
this touching) it raises a lever into a detent which then holds it to position, which
position is at the height to be taken. The measuring bar is attached to a sliding weight
and the weight carries a metal band which is unrolled off a pulley. The pulley is
connected through its axis with the index hand which reads on a dial figures and
divisions indicating the height which the measuring bar has taken.
Secondly. To cause the index to return to zero (which it may do after the person
has left the machine or more simply by another person getting on the machine to be
measured after the first has left it beneath the platform). A lever is fixed in such a
manner as the descent of the platform for a small distance may move the long arm of
the lever a relatively long distance. The long arm of the lever is connected with a
band or cord that passes over a pulley at the top of the box, the opposite end of the.
band carries a weight sufficient to balance over the pulley the lever and such part of
077

page_text: the platform as rests upon it the band passes by one side of a ratchet wheel which
if fixed upon the same axis as the measuring wheel and this band carries a straight
rack which gears or tooths into the ratchet wheel for a distance sufficient to move the
ratchet wheel the greater part of a single revolution. The ratchet wheel has a small
portion of its circumference left plain (not racked) and the straight rack has also a
small part at one end plain so that when the straight rack in descending has brought
the necessary wheel by means of the ratchet wheel back to zero it slips and does not
move this wheel further. The pulley described at the top of the box which carries
the band has a projection at one part of its circumference and at this projecting part
the descending band leaves the pulley which is arranged to be at the same instant as
the plain part of the ratchet wheel and plain part of the straight rack are in contact
and the measuring wheel is at zero the purpose of this projecting part on the upper
pulley being to entirely throw the rack out of gear and off contact so as to have the
measuring wheel quite free. When the measuring wheel is brought back to zero it is
held by a detent until it is released.
Thirdly. To release the detent to permit the lowering of the measuring bar. This
is done by pressing a knob down on the top of a standard by the side of the machine.
The knob is connected with a rod which is supported by a free end of a lever or a pair
of levers jointed in compound form. The opposite free end of one of the levers is
connected with a rod leading to the measuring wheel detent so that when the knob is
pressed down this detent is released and the measuring bar descends one of the fulcra
of the levers is or may be formed by the edge of a penny. The penny is slid down to
position through a collise remaining as one fulcrum during the measuring but
immediately slipping from its position when the lever is released from its bearing by
the person getting off the machine.
Parts of this machine may be omitted as the penny arrangement. The detent of
the measuring bar may be released at any other part of the apparatus than that described
or by pulling instead of pushing. Or the platform may be fixed and the index be
carried back to zero by pulling a cord simply. Other mechanical equivalents may be
used to those described through extra gearing or otherwise. The outward form of the
machine may be varied as for instance brass tubes may replace part of the box always
preserving the essential parts or principles of this Invention.

page_text: Machine for Measuring the Height of Human Beings
Automatically.
I, WILLIAM FORD STANLEY, of Cumberlow, South Norwood, Surrey, Engineer, 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 following
statement :-
This machine in its outward parts consists of a platform on which a person stands.
to be measured. At the back of the platform there is an upright box surmounted
by a dial with moveable hand or hands upon which the height of the person is indicated.
A flat bar or a bar carrying a light disc is automatically lowered upon the head of the
person at his will by himself or any other person touching a knob or other mechanical
part to release a detent. This knob or part may be supported by a short standard
erected near the front of the platform so as to be easily reached by the hand and is
connected with the upright box by a steadying rail. The detent may be so arranged
that it cannot be released unless a penny forms a connection with some of its parts
or it may be released without this intervention by slightly varying the construction of
this part.
When the person steps off the machine the height bar and height index return to
zero or it may be raised before doing so at will.
To carry out this invention the following mechanical arrangements or their
equivalents are required. As regards the measuring of the height of a person or
object and its indication; for this a light bar carrying a disc is lowered slowly to
the head of the person or thing. As soon as the bar touches (its weight being partly
taken off the machine by this touching) it raises a lever into a detent which then holds
it to position, which position is at the height to be taken. The measuring bar is
attached to a sliding weight and the weight carries a metal band which is unrolled off
a pulley. The pulley is connected through its axis with the index hand which reads
on a dial figures and divisions indicating the height which the measuring bar has taken
or this may be read on a straight scale on the front of the upright box.
To cause the index to return to zero (which it may do after the person has left the
machine or more simply by another person getting on to the machine to be measured
after the first has left it) beneath the platform a lever is fixed in such a manner as the
descent of the platform for a small distance may move the long arm of the lever a
relatively long distance. The long arm of the lever is connected with a band or cord
that passes over a pulley at the top of the box, the opposite end of the band carries
a weight sufficient to balance over the pulley the lever and such part of the platform
as rests upon it. The band passes by one side of the ratchet wheel which is fixed upon
the same axis as the measuring wheel and this band carries a straight rack which
gears
or toothes into the ratchet wheel for a distance sufficient to move the ratchet wheel the
greater part of a single revolution. The ratchet wheel has a small portion of its
circumference less plain (not racked) and the straight rack has also a small part at
one end plain so that when the straight rack in descending has brought the measuring
wheel by means of the ratchet wheel back to zero it slips and does not move this wheel

page_text: further. The pulley described at the top of the box which carries the band has a
projection at one part of its circumference and at this projecting part the descending
band leaves the pulley which is arranged to be at the same instant as the plain part of
the ratchet wheel and plain part of the straight rack are in contact and the measuring
wheel is at zero. The purpose of this projecting part on the upper pulley being to
entirely throw the rack out of gear and off contact so as to leave the measuring wheel
quite free.
When the measuring wheel is brought back to zero it is held by a detent until it is
released. To release the detent to permit the lowering of the measuring bar. This is
done by pressing a knob down on the top of a standard by the side of the machine.
The knob is connected with a rod which is supported by a free end of a lever or a pair
of levers jointed in compound form. The opposite free end of one of the levers is
connected with a rod leading to the measuring wheel detent so that when the knob is
pressed down this detent is released and the measuring bar descends one of the fulcra
of the levers is or may be formed by the edge of a penny. The penny in this case is
slid down to position through a collise remaining as one fulcrum during the measuring
but immediately slipping from its position when the lever is released from its bearing
by the person getting off the machine.
Parts of this machine may be omitted as the penny arrangement. The detent of the
measuring bar may be released at any other part of the apparatus than that described,
or by pulling instead of pushing or the platform may be fixed and the index be carried
back to zero, by pulling a cord simply other mechanical equivalents may be used
to those described through extra gearing. or otherwise. The outward form of the
machine may be varied as for instance brass tubes may replace part of the box always
preserving the essential parts or principles of this invention. The machine above
described may be used for measuring other things to which it is adapted as well as the
human being. The details are shown by the drawings.
Fig. 1 front elevation. Fig. 2 plan. Fig. 3 side elevation. Fig. 4 section from
the front shewing works. Fig 5 section from the sides showing works. Fig. 6
sectional plan. Fig. 7 section through pillar showing lever arrangement. The
following letters refer to all the figures.
A Dial upon which height is indicated.
B Scalo which may be used instead of the dial A.
CCCC Stop which falls to the height of a person standing on the machine when
its detent is released.
D D D D D A rack into which a detent E is pressed when C is stopped.
EE E The detent described above.
FFFA pulley wheel upon the journal of which the index hand is fixed.
GG A carriage upon which the measuring arm C is fixed. This slides in a groove
and is connected with a band over F to a counterbalance weight.
H Counterbalance weight described above.
II Directing pulley to the band from G to H.
J J A ratchet wheel fixed on the pulley F.
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K A rack geared into the above to bring the index hand back to zero.
LLLL A lever moved by the descent of the platform M. The free end of this
lever is connected with a wire which carries the rack K passes over a pulley to a
counterbalance weight N to keep it in tension the rack is thrown out of gear when
the index is at zero by a notch on the pulley.
M MM MM Platforın.
NN Counterbalance weight in tube to L.
OA lever which forms by a notch at its end a detent to F at zero.
P, P, P, P, P, A lever connected with the detent O by a wire.
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q A ball connected by a rod with P.
RR One fulcrum of O formed by a penny. The lever will not act without its
presence.
S, S, S, S,.S, A collise down which the ponny passes.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Recording measured height upon a dial automatically.
2. To measure height mechanically by means of the falling of a projecting arm
which stops in a detent upon a part of its weight being supported by the object to be
incasured.
3. Bringing the index of weight to zero by mechanical apparatus in stepping on or
off a platform as described.
4. Measuring with a penny forming part of the mechanical apparatus.
The claims are taken separately 3 and 4 may be dispensed with on any measuring
machine of this invention.
WM. FORD STANLEY.