Year: 1886

page_text: I JAMES GOZNEY of Nursery Mount, Hunslet Leeds in the County of York
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide a combined automatic weighing and
height measuring machine by means of which the weight and height of the person
using the machine may be simultaneously ascertained and indicated, the invention
also providing if so desired for the collection of the fees for the use of this combined
machine thereby dispensing with an attendant. The form and mechanism of
weighing machine may be of the ordinary description except that the weighing
platform is provided with a hinged foot plate. To combine height measuring
mechanism with the weighing mechanism I provide in the turret of the machine in
which the registering dial is fixed, at right angles to the index spindle of the weighing
machine and in the same horizontal plane therewith a spindle or spindles on which I
fix a bevel wheel, to gear with a corresponding wheel fixed on a sleeve fitted to rotate
on the index spindle of the weighing machine, but without affecting that spindle.
This sleeve is provided at its outer end with an index pointer. On the outer end or
ends of the spindle or spindles arranged as hereinbefore described are fixed two
partially counterweighted radial arms or levers connected together at their outer ends
by a rod or bar for measuring the height of the person using the machine. To
each or to one only of these arms may be suspended two rods one of which is
arranged to work as a plunger in a cylinder constituting an air cushion to prevent
the too rapid descent of the cross bar, the cylinder being arranged to turn on centres
to accommodate itself to the rising and falling motions of the rod or plunger. The
arms and cross bar are maintained in their elevated position when the machine is not
in use by the other rod or rods hereinbefore referred to carried by the arms and
resting upon a support or supports actuated so as to be brought into and out of
position by the footplate of the machine.
The dial fixed in the turret of the machine is provided with two concentric sets of
index scales one being marked with divisions indicating feet and inches and the
other with divisions indicating stones and pounds. The pointer attached to spindle

page_text: of the weighing machine is sufficiently long to point to the index representing stones
and pounds and the pointer fixed on the sleeve mounted on the weighing machine
spindle is of suitable length to point to the index indicating feet and inches. The
foot plate hinged to the weighing platform is maintained slightly elevated from the
This footplate is
said platform when not in use by means of a counterbalance."
provided with an eye piece or loop through which passes a partially counter weighted
lever which is centred to the base of the machine (being held up by. the loop in the
foot plate) and connected at its inner end to a button headed rod arranged to support
the radial arms and measuring bar when the machine is not in use. Upon a person
stepping on to the foot plate the weight of the person will cause the said foot plate
and the weighing platform to descend and thus release the lever which passes through
the eye or loop hereinbefore described. The inner end of this lever will then descend
The further descent of
until it reaches a stop in the fixed part of the machine.
the foot plate will then liberate the weighing mechanism from connection with the
measuring apparatus. This descent of the lever will remove its support from the
radial arm and measuring bar which will also commence to descend (the counter-
balance in connection therewith not being sufficient to keep it up) and will continue
to do so until the cross bar touches the head of the person standing on the platform
the speed of its descent being governed by the air cushion hereinbefore described.
If the descent be too slow it can be accelerated by pulling it down by hand. By the
descent of the measuring bar motion is imparted through the bevel gearing herein-
before described to the sleeve carrying the pointer for indicating on the dial the
height in feet and inches, the degree of rotation of the pointer being of course governed
by the height of the person standing on the platform, whilst at the same time the
weight of the person will be indicated on the same dial, by the pointer on the spindle
of the weighing machine actuated by the descent of the weighing platform by any
ordinary or suitable mechanism. Upon the person removing from the platform the
parts will resume their normal position under the action of the counterbalance weight
attached to the hinged foot plate.
Instead of connecting the measuring bar directly to the radial arms I may attach
it to tubes or telescopic slides working on the radial arms and connect these arms at
their inner ends to a suitably shaped cam or slot in the turret of the machine so that
as the radial arms are raised or lowered from the horizontal position the slides with
the measuring bar attached will be pushed out. In this way the measuring bar can
be made to move through a vertical straight line instead of through the arc of a
circle.
Instead of the radial arm herein before described the measuring bar may be attached
to a toothed rack in gear with a spur wheel attached to a sleeve and pointer in the same
way as the bevel wheel hereinbefore described the rack being raised or lowered by a
hand wheel carrying a pinion in gear with the rack. The bottom end of the rack
may be formed to work into an air cushioning chamber such as hereinbefore
described.
When it is desired to make this combined machine so that the fee for its use will
be automatically collected-I provide a pawl or detent which in its normal position
engages the radial arms of the measuring bar when the bar is in its lowest position,
in which position it may be held by the pawl until released by placing a coin in a
receptacle provided for the purpose so that no person can use the machine until a
coin be placed in the receptacle whereupon the weight of the coin will overbalance
and cause the pawl to move and disengage the arm, which may then be raised for the
purpose of using the machine. When the arm with the measuring bar has been
lifted sufficiently a projection on a suitable part of the apparatus, by passing under
the receptacle in which the coin is placed, will lift up. the said receptacle so as to
cause the coin to roll out into a suitable receptacle placed in position to receive it,
and the pawl or detent will be caused by a counterweight to return into position to
engage the arm when again sufficiently depressed. According to another arrange
ment for automatically collecting the fee a passage is formed through the cross spindle
for working the bevel gear hereinbefore described large enongh for a certain sized coin

page_text: to pass through. This passage is. surrounded by a boss mounted on the spindle and
carried by the arms hereinbefore described which boss has holes cut in it corre-
sponding to the passage in the spindle. In this arrangement the radial arm and
measuring bar may be lifted without the necessity for using a coin for the
purpose but there will be no movement imparted thereby to the cross spindle and
indicator and therefore no indication of the height of the person on the foot plate.
If however a coin is dropped into a slit provided for the purpose in the apparatus it
will pass through one of the openings in the boss into the passage cut in the spindle a
portion of the coin being in both the boss and in the spindle thus temporarily
connecting them together so that motion imparted to the measuring bar will be
transmitted to the index spindle and the height of the person indicated. Upon
returning the measuring bar to its original position a projection on the cross spindle
is caused to strike against a spring or its equivalent so as to liberate the coin.
Although I have described the two indications as being made on the same dial it
will be evident that the Invention is not necessarily restricted to so giving the indica-
tions as separate dials or indicating devices may be employed if desired..
Dated this 22nd day of October 1906
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said James Gozney.

page_text: I JAMES GOZNEY of Nursery Mount Hunslet Leeds in the County of York
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
My Invention has for its object to provide a combined automatic weighing and
height machine by means of which the weight and height of the person using the
machine may be simultaneously ascertained and indicated the Invention also providing
if so desired for the collection of the fees for the use of this combined machine
thereby dispensing with an attendant.
The form and mechanism of the weighing machine may be of the ordinary
description except that the weighing Platform is made in the form of a gridiron or
grating. Above the weighing platform but independent of it is a foot plate hinged to
the base of machine the part of the foot plate which overhangs the weighing platform
being also made in the form of a gridiron or grating and so arranged that its bars
will pass between the bars of the weighing platform The front part of the "foot
plate" is weighted so as to counter balance the gridded part of it.
To combine height measuring mechanism with the weighing mechanism I provide
in the turret of the machine in which the registering dial is fixed and at right
angles to the index spindle of the weighing machine and preferably in the same
horizontal plane therewith a spindle or spindles on which I fix a bevel wheel to
gear with a corresponding wheel which actuates through an intermediate wheel
a wheel fixed on a sleeve fitted to rotate about the index spindle of the weighing
machine but without affecting that spindle-This sleeve is provided at its outer end
with an index pointer-On the outer end or ends of the spindle or spindles arranged
as herein before described are fixed two counter weighted radial arms or levers
connected together at their outer ends by a rod or bar for measuring the height of
the person using the machine-The counterweight is connected to a lever on the
before mentioned spindle inside the turrets and is made in the form of a plunger to
work in a cylinder constituting an air cushion to prevent the too rapid movement of
the cross bar-the cylinder being arranged to turn on centres to accommodate itself
to the rising and falling motion of the plunger-The lower end of the plunger has a
number of teeth formed on one side of it into which a detent suspended from the
side of a cylinder can engage through a hole in the side of the cylinder when pressed
over The arms and cross bar are maintained in their elevated position when the
machine is not in use by the weight of the plunger and by the detent engaging in
one of the teeth therein when the machine is locked.
The dial fixed in the turret of the machine is provided with two concentric sets of
index scales one being marked with divisions indicating feet and inches and the

page_text: other with divisions indicating stones and pounds. The pointer attached to spindle
of the weighing machine is sufficiently long to point to the index representing stones
and pounds and the pointer fixed on the sleeve mounted on the weighing machine
spindle is of suitable length to point to the index indicating feet and inches The
foot plate which is maintained by the weighted front portion somewhat elevated,
when not in use, above the weighing platform is provided with an eye piece or loop
through which passes a counter weighted lever fixed on a spindle centred to the
base of the machine (the lever being held up by the loop in the foot plate) on the
same spindle is fixed another lever or "tumbler" which is arranged to press
against and hold the detent in gear with the teeth in the plunger and so maintain
the elevated position of the radial arms and measuring bar when the machine is not in
use Upon a person stepping on to the foot plate the weight of the person will cause
the foot plate to descend to the level of the weighing platform and the lever which
passes through the eye or loop therein will be carried down with it and thus release
the detent from contact with the teeth in plunger.thereby leaving the radial arın and
suring bar free to be moved as required for measuring height-The depression of
lever will also bring the tumbler or counterweight to the other side of its fulcrum
so that its weight will now act to further depress the foot plate a little below the
level of the weighing platform thus leaving the weighing platform free from
obstruction for weighing or measuring-In leaving the machine the person will step
on the front counter weighted part of the foot plate and by so doing his weight will
restore the several parts to their normal position By the movement of the radial arm
motion is imparted through the gearing hereinbefore described to the sleeve carrying
the pointer for indicating on the dial the height in feet and inches the degree of
rotation of the pointer being of course governed by the height of the person standing
on the platform whilst at the same time the weight of the person will be indicated
on the same dial by the pointer on the spindle of the weighing machine actuated by
the descent of the weighing platform by any ordinary or suitable mechanism.
Instead of connecting the measuring bar directly to the radial arms I may
attach it to tubes or telescopic slides working on the radial arms and connect these
arms to a suitably shaped cam or slot attached to the turret or other suitable part of
the machine so that as the radial arms are raised or lowered from the horizontal
position the slides with the measuring bar attached will be pushed out. In this way
the measuring bar can be made to move through a vertical straight line instead of
through the arc of a circle.
Instead of the radial arm hereinbefore described the measuring bar may be
attached to a toothed rack in gear with a spur wheel attached to a sleeve and pointer
in the same way as the bevel wheel herein before described the rack being raised or
lowered by a hand wheel carrying a pinion in gear with the rack. The rack may be
arranged to work in connection with an air cushioning chamber such as hereinbefore
described.
a
When it is desired to make this combined machine so that the fee for its use
will be automatically collected, I provide an arrangement of levers and
receiving hoppor which may be practically the same as that described in my
Specification to Letters Patent No. 10,392 13th August 1886, I attach this
mechanism to the base or any other suitable part of the machine and arrange
it so that the lever or "tumbler" which holds the detent in gear with the
teeth of the plunger as hereinbefore described forms the "tumbler" of the locking
mechanism. When the machine is in its normal condition the swing bolt of the
locking mechanism restrains the "tumbler" from being moved and the "tumbler"
holds the detent in the plunger thereby locking the measuring arms and at the same
time keeping the lever which passes through the eye or loop on the foot plate elevated
and preventing the foot plate from being depressed when a weight is placed on it, thus
the machine cannot be used for either weighing or measuring. By introducing a coin
or its equivalent in the shoot leading to the hopper of the locking mechanism
the swing bolt is moved over out of the way so that when a person steps on the foot
plate there being no longer any obstruction to prevent the tumbler from moving over

page_text: access can be had to the weighing platform so as to liberate the measuring mechanism.
The weight of a person on the front part of foot plate in leaving the machine will
restore the tumbler to its normal position and the coin having dropped into a receptacle
provided for it the swing bolt will again drop into place and the machine be-again
locked.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
с
Figure 1 represents in vertical section a combined weighing and height measuring
machine (constructed according to my Invention) Figure 2 is a horizontal section
through the turret and shewing the foot plate and the weighing platform in plan
Figure 3 is a front elevation of the upper part of the turret shewing the indicating
dial, and Figure 4 is a horizontal section of the turret the section being through
dial. Figure 5 is a view of the locking mechanism employed in the c
weighing and height measuring machine. A, Figure 1, is the slit in which
is placed to effect the unlocking of the apparatus which coin passes de
shoot B B into the hopper C. The weight of the coin acting on the lever c causes
the swing bolt D to move to one side and release the foot plate so that upon a person
stepping on to the gridded part E' of the foot plate it will be depressed to the level
of the weighing platform or table F. This movement of the foot plate E¹ causes the
lever G to turn on its spindle H and carry round with it the tumbler I and the
counter-weight J Figure 2) and thereby liberate the detent K from the teeth in
the plunger L. The cylinder in which the plunger L slides is pivoted to the base of
the apparatus at M so that when the detent K is released the plunger can be moved
up or down in the cylinder N by moving the radial arms O or the measuring bar P
to which the plunger is connected by the rod rock shaft Q and the lever R. By
rocking the shaft motion will be imparted through the bevel wheels S and T
spur wheels and U and pinion V to the sleeve w carrying the pointer W for
indicating height on the outer index scalo of dial-a is a spring balance of the
ordinary description attached to the interior of the turret and provided with bearings
for carrying the spindle Q. This spring balance is connected by the hook b
and levers of the ordinary description (not illustrated) to the weighing platform F
the action of the spring balance a being transmitted through the index spindle d
(which passes through the sleeve w) to the pointer e for indicating weight on the
inner index scale of the dial.
Figure 6 illustrates a modified arrangement of measuring bar P and arms the
bar P being arranged to slide vertically in a slot in the measuring staff X and in
order to admit of this vertical movement the arms O are made telescopic as will be
readily understood by referring to the drawing. If desired the height indications
may be on the staff as shewn and the dial herein before described for indicating
height be dispensed with or the dial may be used for indicating height and the staff
be employed for simply guiding the measuring bar P.
Although I have described the two indications as being made on the same dial it
will be evident that the Invention is not necessarily restricted to so giving the
indications as separate dials or indicating devices may be employed if desired or one
dial may be encircled by the other either in the same or in a separate plane.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I say that I am aware of the
specifications of Everitt's Patent No. 16433 of 1884 & Salters Patent No. 6983 of 1886,
and I do not claim the mechanism therein described and claimed and I declare that
what I claim is :-
First In combination with weighing machines the arrangement of centred arm
or arms carrying a bar for measuring height by the movement of the said arm
1

page_text: as hereinbefore described and shewn by Figures 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the accompanying
Drawing.
Second-In combined weighing and height measuring machines an air cushioned
plunger or counterweight connected with centred arm or arms carrying the
measuring bar and provided with teeth or their equivalents and a pawl or detent
adapted to lock and unlock the plunger or counterweight substantially as and for the
purpose herein before described.
Third In combined weighing and height measuring apparatus the gridded centred
foot plate for preventing access to the weighing platform except at the proper
time in combination with a loop or eye piece and a lever and spindle and tumbler
all substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Fourth In apparatus for weighing and for measuring height a dial or scale
arranged for the indications of both the height and weight substantially as hereinbefore
described.
"In combination with the subject matter of either of the preceding claiming
cas
the
fee collecting mechanism, whereby the apparatus is only released for use on
tion of a coin substantially as herein before described.
Ath-The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the
combined weighing and height measuring apparatus hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Seventh The combination of a weighing and height measuring apparatus with
means for releasing the mechanism for use substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1887
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
Agent.

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 22nd July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1887.
I JAMES GOZNEY of Nursery Mount, Hunslet Leeds in the County of York
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide a combined automatic weighing and
height measuring machine by means of which the weight and height of the person
using the machine may be simultaneously ascertained and indicated, the invention
also providing if so desired for the collection of the fees for the use of this combined
machine thereby dispensing with an attendant. The form and mechanism of
weighing machine may be of the ordinary description except that the weighing
platform is provided with a hinged foot plate. To combine height measuring
mechanism with the weighing mechanism I provide in the turret of the machine in
which the registering dial is fixed, at right angles to the index spindle of the weighing
machine and in the same horizontal plane therewith a spindle or spindles on which
fix a bevel wheel, to gear with a corresponding wheel fixed on a sleeve fittedito rotate
on the index spindle of the weighing machine, but without affecting that spindle.
This sleeve is provided at its outer end with an index pointer. On the outer end or
ends of the spindle or spindles arranged as hereinbefore described are fixed two
partially counterweighted radial arms or levers connected together at their outer ends
by a rod or bar for measuring the height of the person using the machine. To
each or to one only of these arms may be suspended two rods one of which is
arranged to work as a plunger in a cylinder constituting an air cushion to prevent
the too rapid descent of the cross bar, the cylinder being arranged to turn on centres
to accommodate itself to the rising and falling motions of the rod or plunger. The
arms and cross bar are maintained in their elevated position when the machine is not
in use by the other rod or rods hereinbefore referred to carried by the arms and
resting upon a support or supports actuated so as to be brought into and out of
position by the footplate of the machine.
The dial fixed in the turret of the machine is provided with two concentric sets of
index scales one being marked with divisions indicating feet and inches and the
other with divisions indicating stones and pounds. The pointer attached to spindle

page_text: of the weighing machine is sufficiently long to point to the index representing stones
and pounds and the pointer fixed on the sleeve mounted on the weighing machine
spindle is of suitable length to point to the index indicating feet and inches. The
foot plate hinged to the weighing platform is maintained slightly elevated from the
said platform when not in use by means of a counterbalance. This footplate is
provided with an eye piece or loop through which passes a partially counterweighted
lever which is centred to the base of the machine (being beld up by the loop in the
foot plate) and connected at its inner end to a button headed rod arranged to support
the radial arms and measuring bar when the machine is not in use. Upon a person
stepping on to the foot plate the weight of the person will cause the said foot plate
and the weighing platform to descend and thus release the lever which passes through
the eye or loop herein before described. The inner end of this lever will then descend
until it reaches a stop in the fixed part of the machine. The further descent of
the foot plate will then liberate the weighing mechanism from connection with the
measuring apparatus. This descent of the lever will remove its support from the
radial arm and measuring bar which will also commence to descend (the counter-
balance in connection therewith not being sufficient to keep it up) and will continue
to do so until the cross bar touches the head of the person standing on the platform
the speed of its descent being governed by the air cushion hereinbefore described.
If the descent be too slow it can be accelerated by pulling it down by hand. By the
descent of the measuring bar motion is imparted through the bevel gearing herein-
before described to the sleeve carrying the pointer for indicating on the dial the
height in feet and inches, the degree of rotation of the pointer being of course governed
by the height of the person standing on the platform, whilst at the same time the
weight of the person will be indicated on the same dial, by the pointer on the spindle
of the weighing machine actuated by the descent of the weighing platform by any
ordinary or suitable mechanism. Upon the person removing from the platform the
parts will resume their normal position under the action of the counterbalance weight
attached to the hinged foot plate.
Instead of connecting the measuring bar directly to the radial arms I
may attach
it to tubes or telescopic slides working on the radial arms and connect these arms at
their inner ends to a suitably shaped cam or slot in the turret of the machine so that
as the radial arms are raised or lowered from the horizontal position the slides with
the measuring bar attached will be pushed out. In this way the measuring bar can
be made to move through a vertical straight line instead of through the arc of a
circle.
Instead of the radial arm hereinbefore described the measuring bar may be attached
to a toothed rack in gear with a spur wheel attached to a sleeve and pointer in the same
way as the bevel wheel herein before described the rack being raised or lowered by a
hand wheel carrying a pinion in gear with the rack. The bottom end of the rack
may be formed to work into an air cushioning chamber such as hereinbefore
described.
When it is desired to make this combined machine so that the fee for its use will
be automatically collected-I provide a pawl or detent which in its normal position
engages the radial arms of the measuring bar when the bar is in its lowest position,
in which position it may be held by the pawl until released by placing a coin in a
receptacle provided for the purpose so that no person can use the machine until a
coin be placed in the receptacle whereupon the weight of the coin will overbalance
and cause the pawl to move and disengage the arm, which may then be raised for the
purpose of using the machine. When the arm with the measuring bar has been
lifted sufficiently a projection on a suitable part of the apparatus, by passing under
the receptacle in which the coin is placed, will lift up the said receptacle so as to
cause the coin to roll out into a suitable receptacle placed in position to receive it
and the pawl or detent will be caused by a counterweight to return into position to
engage the arm when again sufficiently depressed. According to another arrange
ment for automatically collecting the fee a passage is formed through the cross spindle
for working the bevel gear hereinbefore described large enough for a certain sized coin

page_text: to pass through. This passage is surrounded by a boss mounted on the spindle and
carried by the arms hereinbefore described which boss has holes cut in it corre-
sponding to the passage in the spindle. In this arrangement the radial arm and
measuring bar may be lifted without the necessity for using a coin for the
purpose but there will be no movement imparted thereby to the cross spindle and
indicator and therefore no indication of the height of the person on the foot plate.
If however a coin is dropped into a slit provided for the purpose in the apparatus it
will pass through one of the openings in the boss into the passage cut in the spindle a
portion of the coin being in both the boss and in the spindle thus temporarily
connecting them together so that motion imparted to the measuring bar will be
transmitted to the index spindle and the height of the person indicated. Upon
returning the measuring bar to its original position a projection on the cross spindle
is caused to strike against a spring or its equivalent so as to liberate the coin.
Although I have described the two indications as being made on the same dial it
will be evident that the Invention is not necessarily restricted to so giving the indica-
tions as separate dials or indicating devices may be employed if desired.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1886.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said James Gozney.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Automatic Weighing and Height Measuring Machine.
I JAMES GOZNEY of Nursery Mount Hunslet Leeds in the County of York
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My Invention has for its object to provide a combined automatic weighing and
height machine by means of which the weight and height of the person using the
machine may be simultaneously ascertained and indicated the Invention also providing
if so desired for the collection of the fees for the use of this combined machine
thereby dispensing with an attendant.
The form and mechanism of the weighing machine may be of the ordinary
description except that the weighing Platform is made in the form of a gridiron or
grating. Above the weighing platform but independent of it is a foot plate hinged to
the base of machine the part of the foot plate which overhangs the weighing platform
being also made in the form of a gridiron or grating and so arranged that its bars
will pass between the bars of the weighing platform The front part of the "foot
plate" is weighted so as to counter balance the gridded part of it.
To combine height measuring mechanism with the weighing mechanism I provide
in the turret of the machine in which the registering dial is fixed and at right
angles to the index spindle of the weighing machine and preferably in the same
horizontal plane therewith a spindle or spindles on which I fix a bevel wheel to
gear with a corresponding wheel which actuates through an intermediate wheel
a wheel fixed on a sleeve fitted to rotate about the index spindle of the weighing
machine but without affecting that spindle-This sleeve is provided at its outer end
with an index pointer-On the outer end or ends of the spindle or spindles arranged
as herein before described are fixed two counter weighted radial arms or levers
connected together at their outer ends by a rod or bar for measuring the height of
the person using the machine-The counterweight is connected to a lever on the
before mentioned spindle inside the turrets and is made in the form of a plunger to
work in a cylinder constituting an air cushion to prevent the too rapid movement of
the cross bar the cylinder being arranged to turn on centres to accommodate itself
to the rising and falling motion of the plunger-The lower end of the plunger has a
number of teeth formed on one side of it into which a detent suspended from the
side of a cylinder can engage through a hole in the side of the cylinder when pressed
over The arms and cross bar are maintained in their elevated position when the
machine is not in use by the weight of the plunger and by the detent engaging in
one of the teeth therein when the machine is locked.
The dial fixed in the turret of the machine is provided with two concentric sets of
index scales one being marked with divisions indicating feet and inches and the

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other with divisions indicating stones and pounds. The pointer attached to spindle
of the weighing machine is sufficiently long to point to the index representing stones
and pounds and the pointer fixed on the sleeve mounted on the weighing machine
spindle is of suitable length to point to the index indicating feet and inches The
foot plate which is maintained by the weighted front portion somewhat elevated,
when not in use, above the weighing platform is provided with an eye piece or loop
through which passes a counter weighted lever fixed on a spindle centred to the
base of the machine (the lever being held up by the loop in the foot plate) on the
same spindle is fixed another lever or "
tumbler which is arranged to press
against and hold the detent in gear with the teeth in the plunger and so maintain
the elevated position of the radial arms and measuring bar when the machine is not in
use Upon a person stepping on to the foot plate the weight of the person will cause
the foot plate to descend to the level of the weighing platform and the lever which
passes through the eye or loop therein will be carried down with it and thus release
the detent from contact with the teeth in plunger thereby leaving the radial arm and
measuring bar free to be moved as required for measuring height-The depression of
the lever will also bring the tumbler or counterweight to the other side of its fulcrum
so that its weight will now act to further depress the foot plate a little below the
level of the weighing platform thus leaving the weighing platform free from
obstruction for weighing or measuring-In leaving the machine the person will step
on the front counter weighted part of the foot plate and by so doing his weight will
restore the several parts to their normal position By the movement of the radial arm
motion is imparted through the gearing herein before described to the sleeve carrying
the pointer for indicating on the dial the height in feet and inches the degree of
rotation of the pointer being of course governed by the height of the person standing
on the platform whilst at the same time the weight of the person will be indicated
on the same dial by the pointer on the spindle of the weighing machine actuated by
the descent of the weighing platform by any ordinary or suitable mechanism.
Instead of connecting the measuring bar directly to the radial arms I may
attach it to tubes or telescopic slides working on the radial arms and connect these
arms to a suitably shaped cam or slot attached to the turret or other suitable part of
the machine so that as the radial arms are raised or lowered from the horizontal
position the slides with the measuring bar attached will be pushed out. In this way
the measuring bar can be made to move through a vertical straight line instead of
through the arc of a circle.
Instead of the radial arm hereinbefore described the measuring bar may be
attached to a toothed rack in gear with a spur wheel attached to a sleeve and pointer
in the same way as the bevel wheel herein before described the rack being raised or
lowered by a hand wheel carrying a pinion in gear with the rack. The rack may be
arranged to work in connection with an air cushioning chamber such as hereinbefore
described.
When it is desired to make this combined machine so that the fee for its use
will be automatically collected, I provide an arrangement of levers and a
receiving hopper which may be practically the same as that described in my
Specification to Letters Patent No. 10,392 13th August 1886, I attach this
mechanism to the base or any other suitable part of the machine and arrange
it so that the lever or "tumbler" which holds the detent in gear with the
teeth of the plunger as hereinbefore described forms the "tumbler" of the locking
mechanism. When the machine is in its normal condition the swing bolt of the
locking mechanism restrains the "tumbler" from being moved and the "tumbler"
holds the detent in the plunger thereby locking the measuring arms and at the same
time keeping the lever which passes through the eye or loop on the foot plate elevated
and preventing the foot plate from being depressed when a weight is placed on it, thus
the machine cannot be used for either weighing or measuring. By introducing a coin
or its equivalent in the shoot leading to the hopper of the locking mechanism
the swing bolt is moved over out of the way so that when a person steps on the foot
plate there being no longer any obstruction to prevent the tumbler from moving over

page_text: access can be had to the weighing platform so as to liberate the measuring mechanism.
The weight of a person on the front part of foot plate in leaving the machine will
restore the tumbler to its normal position and the coin having dropped into a receptacle
provided for it the swing bolt will again drop into place and the machine be again
locked.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 represents in vertical section a combined weighing and height measuring
machine (constructed according to my Invention) Figure 2 is a horizontal section
through the turret and shewing the foot plate and the weighing platform in plan
Figure 3 is a front elevation of the upper part of the turret shewing the indicating
dial, and Figure 4 is a horizontal section of the turret the section being through the
dial. Figure 5 is a view of the locking mechanism employed in the combined
weighing and height measuring machine. A, Figure 1, is the slit in which the coin
is placed to effect the unlocking of the apparatus which coin passes down the
shoot B B' into the hopper C. The weight of the coin acting on the lever c causes
the swing bolt D to move to one side and release the foot plate so that upon a person
stepping on to the gridded part E¹ of the foot plate it will be depressed to the level
of the weighing platform or table F. This movement of the foot plate E¹ causes the
lever G to turn on its spindle H and carry round with it the tumbler I and the
counter-weight J Figure 2) and thereby liberate the detent K from the teeth in
the plunger L. The cylinder in which the plunger L slides is pivoted to the base of
the apparatus at M so that when the detent K is released the plunger can be moved
up or down in the cylinder N by moving the radial arms or the measuring bar P
to which the plunger is connected by the rod r rock shaft Q and the lever R. By
rocking the shaft Q motion will be imparted through the bevel wheels S and T
spur wheels and U and pinion V to the sleeve w carrying the pointer W for
indicating height on the outer index scale of dial-a is a spring balance of the
ordinary description attached to the interior of the turret and provided with bearings
for carrying the spindle Q. This spring balance is connected by the hook b
and levers of the ordinary description (not illustrated) to the weighing platform F
the action of the spring balance a being transmitted through the index spindle d
(which passes through the sleeve w) to the pointer e for indicating weight on the
inner index scale of the dial.
Figure 6 illustrates a modified arrangement of measuring bar P and arms O the
bar P being arranged to slide vertically in a slot in the measuring staff X and in
order to admit of this vertical movement the arms are made telescopic as will be
readily understood by referring to the drawing. If desired the height indications
be on the staff as shewn and the dial hereinbefore described for indicating
height be dispensed with or the dial may be used for indicating height and the staff
be employed for simply guiding the measuring bar P.
may
Although I have described the two indications as being made on the same dial it
will be evident that the Invention is not necessarily restricted to so giving the
indications as separate dials or indicating devices may be employed if desired or one
dial may be encircled by the other either in the same or in a separate plane.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
First In combination with weighing machines the arrangement of centred arm
or arms carrying a bar for measuring height by the movement of the said arm
or arms on the centre and a dial or scale for indicating the measurement substantially
as herein before described and shewn by Figures 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the accompanying
Drawing.
Second:-In combined weighing and height measuring machines an air cushioned
or arms carrying the
plunger or counterweight connected with centred arm

page_text: measuring bar and provided with teeth or their equivalents and a pawl or detent
adapted to lock and unlock the plunger or counterweight substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described.
Third In combined weighing and height measuring apparatus the gridded centred
foot plate for preventing access to the weighing platform except at the proper
time in combination with a loop or eye piece and a lever and spindle and tumbler
all substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Fourth In apparatus for weighing and for measuring height a dial or scale
arranged for the indications of both the height and weight substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Fifth-In combination with the subject matter of either of the preceding claiming
clauses of fee collecting mechanism whereby the apparatus is only released for use on
the insertion of a coin substantially as hereinbefore described.
Sixth-The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the
combined weighing and, height measuring apparatus hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Seventh-The combination of a weighing and height measuring apparatus with
means for releasing the mechanism for use substantially as described.