Improved Apparatus for Counting or Delivering Given Numbers of Globular Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1908
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1899 -Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1899 -Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Counting or Delivering Given Numbers of
Globular Articles.
JOSEPHI RICHARDSON, Chemist & Druggist, 2, Albertbridge Road, Belfast, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An instrument which may be used for the purpose of counting all round or
globular articles such as bullets, marbles, and pills, in any given quantities, and
may consist of wood vulcanite, ware, metal, or other suitable material through
which the required number of suitable sized holes has been punched or drilled
and hinged to a pan around the edge of which a barrier is raised to the required
height, such pan may consist of metal, ware, tin vulcanite, or other material.
In further explanation of my said invention beg to refer to one sheet of
drawings hereto attached.
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Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the said instrument or apparatus for measuring
a given or required number of any specified globular articles. a, is the counter
b the pan or holder. c, one of several holes pierced or bored through the counter a.
d, the gap or aperture in barrier b for the easy discharge out of pan. 6 of such
globular articles as may have passed through all or less of the holes c.
the hinges connecting the counter &c. a to the pan or holder b. Fig. 2 represents
a sectional side view of the above instrument or apparatus showing the counter a,
with some of the holes through same slightly elevated from its usual position
by the pressure of a finger or thumb or otherwise on the raised portion of the
barrier through the medium of the hinges b¹.
The mode of counting with the above described apparatus is briefly as follows.
A quantity of the articles to be counted (which should be slightly in excess of
the quantity required) is scattered over the counter as it lies in the pan (which
forms a portion of the apparatus) a slight rotary or other motion of the hand or
other appliance causes one article to fall into each hole leaving the excess free
on top of the counter the excess is then poured off through the gap or aperture d,
slight pressure of the thumb on the barrier at the hinged side causes the counter a
to assume an upright position leaving the counted quantity in the pan b ready
to be poured off through the gap or aperture d, into a vessel arranged to receive the
counted articles.
Improved Apparatus for Counting or Delivering Given Numbers or
Globular Articles.
JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Chemist & Druggist, 2, Albertbridge Road, Belfast, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
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page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
An apparatus which may be used for the purpose of counting all round or
globular articles such as bullets marbles and pills, in any given or specified
quantities and may consist of wood, vulcanite, ware or other suitable material
through which the required number of suitable sized holes has been punched
or drilled, and hinged to a pan around the edge of which a barrier is raised to
the required height such pan may consist of metal, tin, ware, vulcanite, or other
suitable material.
In further explanation of my said invention I beg to refer to one sheet of
drawings as sent with Provisional Specification which represents a small apparatus
such as would be used for counting bullets or pills in three or six dozen quantities.
Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the said apparatus for counting or measuring
a specified or required number of globular articles. a, is the counter 6 the pan
or holder c one of several holes pierced or bored through the counter ad, the
gap or aperture in barrier b, for the easy discharge out of pan 6 of such globular
articles as may have passed through all or less of the holes c. are the hinges
connecting the counter a to the pan or holder b.
Fig. 2 represents a sectional side view of the above described apparatus showing
the counter a, with some of the holes c through same, slightly elevated from its
usual position by the pressure of a finger or thumb on barrier b at the hinged
side through the medium of the hinges b.
The mode of counting with the above described apparatus is briefly as follows,
A quantity of the articles to be counted (which should be slightly in excess of the
quantity required) is scattered over the counter as it lies in the pan (which forms
a portion of the apparatus) a slight rotary or other motion of the hand or other
appliance causes one article to fall into each hole leaving the excess free on top
of the counter the excess is then poured off through the gap or aperture d slight
pressure of the thumb on the barrier at the hinged side causes the counter a to
assume an upright position leaving the counted quantity in the pan b ready to
be poured off through the gap or aperture d into a vessel arranged to receive the
counted articles.
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) An apparatus for counting a given or specified number of globular articles
and delivering same, substantially as described and shown on the sheet of drawings
which accompanies Provisional Specification.
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