Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Durham, of Lowestoft, in the County
of Suffolk, and Horace Edwin Hupton, of the same Place, for the
T
Scaled the 25th November 1873, and dated the 30th May 1873.

page_text: obtained Provisional Protection under the No. 1238, A.D. 1872, and
intended for the same uses, namely, as a convenient, and if desired, a
secret means of counting articles of any kind in delivery from hand to
hand, but applicable also to a variety of analogous purposes.
The construction of our improved apparatus will be best understood
by reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, upon which
Figure 1 is a front or face view of an indicator suitable for a carriage or
other vehicle; Figure 2, interior of same, showing the arrangement of
wheels, &c.
Figure 3 is a front view of a pocket indicator; Figure 4 is a section:
through same, showing the interior arrangements of ratchet wheels and
detents.
In Figures 1 and 2, A is a spindle, having at one end a crank B, and
at its other end a stud or tooth C, which tooth gears into the wheel D;
E is a pinion secured to the wheel D, and which, coming in contact with
the wheel F causes it to revolve; G is a stud, by means of which
motion is imparted to the wheel H; I is a disc, on the outer edge of
which is a tooth K which enters into the notches on the wheel L, and
thus imparts motion to the same, which in its turn by means of the
tooth M transmits the motion to the last wheel N%; O, P, Q, are the
apertures for reading off the numbers registered; R is a disc or dial
showing the fractional parts registered.
In Figures 3 and 4, A is the finger stud; B, C, D, and E, the
openings in dial or face showing numbers; F, lever in connection with
the stud A; G, the pawl, by means of which the ratchet wheel H is
made to revolve, which in its turn imparts motion to the other wheels by
means of the stud I.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Durham and Horace Edwin Hupton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th November 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FREDERICK
DURHAM, of Lowestoft, in the County of Suffolk, and HORACE EDWIN
HUPTON, of the same Place, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Frederick Durham and Horace Edwin
Hupton, Her special licence that we, the said Frederick Durham and
Horace Edwin Hupton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Frederick Durham and Horace Edwin
Hupton, our 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
"IMPROVED INDICATING OB CHECKING APPARATUS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that wc, the said Frederick Durham and Horace
Edwin Hupton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
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 Frederick Durham, for myself and
on behalf of my co-patentee, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
Firstly. In an improved construction of indicating or checking
apparatus to be applied to the axle boxes of carriages or vehicles of any
kind, so as to register each revolution of the wheel, and thereby give the
distance over which the carriage has travelled.
Secondly. In a modification of the above, constituting an improve-
ment upon the pocket indicating or checking apparatus for which we
obtained Provisional Protection under the No. 1238, A.D. 1872, and
intended for the same uses, namely, as a convenient, and if desired, a

page_text: secret means of counting articles of any kind in delivery from hand to
hand, but applicable also to a variety of analogous purposes.
The construction of our improved apparatus will be best understood
by reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, upon which
Figure 1 represents a front or face view of an indicator suitable for a
carriage or other vehicle; Figure 2, interior of indicator shown Fig. 1;
Figure 3, a modification of same.
Figure 4, enlarged view of improved crank for preventing the return
of the registering wheelwork on the backing of the vehicle to which it is
attached, or if the wheel is revolved backwards.
Figure 5 is a front view of a pocket indicator, and Figure 6 is a
section through same, showing the interior arrangements of ratchet
wheels and detents.
In Figures 1 and 2, A is a spindle having at one end a crank B, and
at its other end a stud or tooth C which gears into the wheel D; E is a
pinion secured to the wheel D, and which coming in contact with the
wheel F causes it to revolve; G is a stud, by means of which motion is
imparted to the wheel H; I is a disc, on the outer edge of which is a
tooth K which enters into the notches on the wheel L, and thus imparts
motion to the same, which in its turn by means of the tooth M transmits
the motion to the last wheel N; O, P, Q, are the apertures for reading
off the numbers registered; R is a disc or dial showing the fractional
parts registered.
In Figure 3 the small toothed wheel G and notched or stop wheel H
are substituted in lieu of the stud G and spring ratchet wheel H. A is
the crank spindle; B, the improved crank (shown detached Figure 4);
C, the stud or tooth which gears into the wheel B; E, pinion secured to
wheel D and gearing into the wheel F; G is a small disc having a
tooth 9 on its outer edge, which tooth takes into the notch or stop
wheel H, and thus imparts motion to the remaining wheels, as in the a
arrangement shown Figures 1 and 2.
In Figure 4 A indicates the crank spindle; B, the crank which slides
on the spindle A; b, spring to force the crank B against the small pin a
in spindle. From the formation of the lower or inner end of the
crank B, it will be seen that motion can only be imparted to the a
spindle A. when the crank B is turned in one direction; for should the

page_text: crank be reversed the ratchet or toothed face will rise over the pin or
stud a by the compression of the spring b, and the wheel will revolve
free from the registering apparatus.
Our checking apparatus or distance indicator may be set upon the
axle of any vehicle without any alteration of its present arrangements,
and when arranged and secreted in the ordinary Collin's mail or other
patent axle cap, everything connected with its action is entirely out of
sight, the vehicle presenting nothing to view in any way connected with
our apparatus.
The instrument shown on the Drawing will register up to one
thousand miles, commencing again at one mile, and so on, so that
unless set back with a special key provided for the purpose, the total
distance travelled in a day, week, month, or year, is correctly registered.
In Figures 5 and 6, A indicates a finger stud; B, C, D, and E,
openings on dial face showing numbers; F, lever in connection with
stud A; G, paul by means of which the ratchet wheel H is made to
revolve, and in its turn imparts motion to the other wheels by means of
the stud I. This checking and tallying apparatus may be held in the
hand, hung to any support; or when fraud is suspected, may be carried
and worked secretly in the pocket by the pressure of the finger on the
stud A. By its adoption the use of chalk marks is dispensed with in
keeping a tally of the number of goods passing from hand to hand, the
little instrument counting each number separately, and showing at the
same time the total number without the usual adding together of each
tally or number of tallies, which is so often the cause of mistakes or
disputes.
These apparatuses may be made of brass or any other suitable metal
or material.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is or may be performed, we would
have it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise
arrangement of dial plates as illustrated on the Drawing, as such may be
varied at pleasure by adopting a suitable variation of the position of the
wheelwork, and of the crank or stud for operating same, nor do we limit
ourselves to any dimensions of apparatus or of its parts, and that we
claim as secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent,―

page_text: Firstly. The combination of mechanism, substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated on the annexed Sheet of Drawing, Figures 1
to 4 inclusive, when forming a distance indicator or checking apparatus
for registering the revolution of the wheels of vehicles of any kind.
Secondly. The modification of the same, substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated, Figures 5 and 6 of the annexed Sheet of
Drawing, when forming a tally or apparatus for counting articles of
any kind in delivery from hand to hand, or for any analogous purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Durham, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.