A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR MEASURING CLOTH AND OTHER MATERIALS AND FABRICS MEASURED BY LENGTH, AND FOR REGISTERING THE LENGTH MEASURED
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Jensen, of Chancery Lane, London, for the In-
vention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR MEASURING CLOTH AND
OTHER MATERIALS AND FABRICS MEASURED BY LENGTH, AND FOR REGISTERING
THE LENGTH MEASURED." A communication from abroad by Nils Modén, of
Stockholm Sweden
Sealed the 14th May 1878, and dated the 16th November 1877.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Peter Jensen at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th November 1877.
PETER JENSEN, of Chancery Lane, London. "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE
FOR MEASURING CLOTH AND OTHER MATERIALS AND FABRICS MEASURED BY LENGTH,
AND FOR REGISTERING THE LENGTH MEASURED." [A communication from abroad
by Nils Modén, of Stockholm, Sweden.]
The object of this appliance is to measure cloth and other materials and fabrics
measured by length, and to indicate the length measured therewith, so that the
measurer can read off how many feet, yards, or other measures, he has measured
off. The mode of using it is like that of using an ordinary yard measure.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a vertical longitudinal section
through an apparatus constructed according to this Invention; Figure 2, a side
elevation of same; and Figure 3, a horizontal section.
The appliance has a handle A at one end where it is taken hold of, and for each
measure (say a yard) measured off, the user presses with the thumb that which is
to be measured against the zero of the measuring appliance, which here is fitted
with a projecting movable peg B, that by this pressure is forced in, and by a
pawl C turns a ten-toothed wheel D arranged inside the appliance one-tenth of a
revolution. The wheel D has a counter disc or dial E marked with numbers 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, one of which shows through a hole G in the plate F and
indicates the number of yards measured; the aforesaid tooth wheel D is fitted with
a peg d, which for every revolution of the wheel D causes another tooth wheel Ķ to

page_text: be turned one-tenth of a revolution, and this latter tooth wheel K. has a counter
dial L marked with the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, one of which shows
through the hole G in the plate F; the first-named counter dial E thus indicates the
ones, and the second counter dial L the tens, measured off as is usual with counters.
The pawl C is brought back by a spring H, and the wheels D and K have also
springs O and N acting against their teeth for giving a soft or even motion.
To bring the counter dials back to zero for commencing a fresh measuring
operation the wheel I. for the tens is turned by means of a knob or handle M on
its spindle, and the wheel E for the ones by pressing a few times on the peg B.
When thereupon measuring in the manner above described, the number of yards
measured off will be indicated in the hole G.
I claim, the general arrangement and combination of parts as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Jensen, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
DATED TANGEN
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