Sackfuls of Grain Weighed through a Weigh Box.
Year: 1885

page_text: Sackfuls of Grain Weighed through a Weigh Box.
We, PIERCE KEHOE of No 38 South Street, New Ross in the County of
Wexford Ireland, and MICHAEL JOSEPH KEHOE of No 6 the Quay Waterford in
the County of Waterford Ireland, both Mercantile Clerks do hereby declare the
nature of our invention for REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF BAG OR SACK-FUL'S OF
GRAIN WEIGHED DOWN OFF A LOFT THROUGH A WEIGH-BOX to be as follows:-
A clock-work apparatus in shape like an ordinary clock but having three sets of
figures and three hands as shown in the accompanying drawing, the dial, all circles
and figures on which are black, is strong white paper pasted on a thin sheet of
wood. The bands are brass, and are moveable on the axles, and when a given
number has been registered they can be brought around to commence at No 1
again by loosing the small thumb screw which passes through them to keep them
in position. The inside works are made of metal and are as follows, On the first
or lower axle are two ratchet wheels of 10 cogs each, and one small wheel of 5 cogs,
one of the ratchet wheels is used to keep the works from going back-attached to
the other is a lever, each time this lever is pulled by the cord which is attached to
it (as it is by every sack-ful of grain let through the weigh-box) it moves the
wheel on one cog, when the strain is taken off the cord the lever is brought
back into its place by means of a spring, each round of the first axle shows 10 on
the dial. The second or middle axle has a large wheel of 50 cogs and a small
wheel of 4 cogs on it, the large wheel on this axle is moved by the small wheel of
5 cogs on the first axle, every ten rounds of the first axle drives this large wheel on
the second axle one round and shows 100 on the dial. The third axle has one
wheel of 56 cogs on it which is worked by the small wheel of 4 cogs on the second
axle, every fourteen rounds of the second axle drives this wheel on the third axle
one round and shows 1400 on the dial-The frame in which the axles are set is
made of iron.
The case is made of red pine varnished and measures 25 inches from top to
bottom, 12 inches across the front, and 5 inches from front to back.
A small case covers the lever on the right-hand lower corner, on front of which
case is printed the words "counting machine for Registering the number of Bag or
Sack-fuls of Grain weighed through a weigh-box."
Dated thin 11th
1
1000
PIERCE KEHOE.
MICHAEL JOSEPH KEHOE.

page_text: Sackfuls of Grain Weighed through a Weigh-box.
We PIERCE KEHOE of No. 38 South Street New Ross in the county of
Wexford Merchant's Clerk and MICHAEL JOSEPH KEHOE of No 6 Quay in the
city of Waterford, Merchants Clerk do hereby declare the nature of our inven-
tion for REGISTERING THE NUMBER OF BAGS OR SACKSFUL OF GRAIN WEIGHED
OFF A LOFT DOWN THROUGH A WEIGH-BOX and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The Invention is a clock-work machine, in shape like an eight-day clock, but
having three sets of figures and three brass hands and one small pulley on top-
The hands are moveable and are kept fixed in their places by a small screw fixed
in the side-The first or lower set of figures, units from one to ten, the second or
middle tens from ten to one hundred and the third hundreds from one hundred to
one thousand the highest number.
The machine measures:-height from bottom to top 21 inches: width across
the front 12 inches: from front to back 5 inches.
There are two iron hooks fixed to back for hanging machine on to weights-box.
The case outside to be made of pitch-pine with a zinc panel in front door for
dials.
The inside works are as follows:-On the first or lower axle are two ratchet-
wheels of ten cogs each and one small cog-wheel of five cogs. One of the ratchet-
wheels is moved by an iron lever with a paul and light spring on top to catch the
cogs, and the other ratchet-wheel as it goes round is held by a metal paul which
falls down on each cog as it is lifted by the lever-The lever is raised by a cord
or rope passing over a pulley at the top of machine and is brought back to its
place again by a spring placed under the lever and fastened to side of case on the
second or middle axle a large wheel of fifty cogs and a small wheel of six cogs,
and on the third axle is a large wheel of sixty cogs. The small wheel of five cous
on first axle works into the large wheel of fifty cogs on second axle: one round of
the first axle drives this large wheel on second axle to the extent of five cogs and
shows 10 on the dial, and ten rounds show 100 on dial.
The small wheel of six cogs on the second axle works into the large wheel of
sixty cogs on the third axle: each round of the second axle drives this large wheel
of sixty cogs on third axle to the extent of six cogs and shows 100 on the dial, and
ten rounds show 1000 the highest number required on machine.
The sketch sent to Patent Office when Provisional Protection was granted
shewed a small side-box on machine, this is now removed, and the shape is like an
ordinary eight-day clock, but with three sets of dials and hands. The upper dial
on sketch also shewed 1400 as the highest figure, this is now changed to 1000, and
the wood or timber in case is changed from red-pine to pitch pine. The size of the
machine is also reduced to size given above.
The panel in door of case in front is to be zinc where dials are marked-The
three axles and wheels inside are metal and are fixed in an iron frame-The lever

page_text: is iron also, and the spring is steel-The iron frame is fixed to the case by two
bolts and nuts one on top and one through the bottom--At the top of machine is
a pulley which the cord or rope passes over from end of lever, with a brass
thimble fastened into the end of rope, into this thimble a cord is made fast which
runs along under the beam and passes over a pulley fastened to the end of beam
and down to bottom of weigh-box where the end is made fast.
Every time the bottom of weigh-box drops to allow the corn to pass through
after being weighed it pulls the lever and moves the ratchet-wheel one cog and
counts one on dial, and when the bottom of weigh-box is pulled up by the man
weighing to allow the box to be filled again the strain is taken off the cord and the
lever is brought back into its place by the spring attached to the end of lever and
to side of machine,
On the front of machine will be painted "Kehoe's patent counting apparatus."
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 is
To register by means of the hereinbefore described machine, without any manual
or other aid, the exact number of bags or sacksful of grain or other material which
may pass through the weigh-box,