Improvements in or relating to Weighing and Price-indicating Apparatus.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Weighing and Price-indicating
Apparatus.
I, FRANCIS WILLIAMS of Pentre Clawdd, Ruabon, Wales, Provision Dealer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for weighing articles or goods and indicating
the total amount to be paid for them.
According to this invention, which is applicable to various types of indicators a
total value scale or two or more such scales are placed on the dial or indicator of
the apparatus, and so situated and graduated that the needle or the like by which
the indication of weight is given will simultaneously give on the value scales an
indication of the total value of the quantity being weighed, at a certain price or
prices per unit of weight.
For example in a weighing machine in which the indications are given by means
of a hand or index rotating upon a graduated dial, there may be a series of value
scales concentric with the weight scales, marked opposite each weight indication
with an indication showing the value of such weight at a given price, say
per pound; one scale may be graduated to give a series of values at a 1d. a pound,
another scale at 1 a pound and another at 2d. a pound and so on.
The scales of value need not necessarily be employed with a scale of weight.
In order to increase the range or adaptability of a given apparatus so that it
may give indications of total values based upon a considerable series of different
prices per unit of weight, or may give such indications of value in the units of
different monetary systems, and also to avoid graduating the dial or the like with.
a large number of different scales, which might lead to confusion in reading, such
scales can be formed on removable plates, rings or the like, interchangeable with
each other and capable of being very readily secured in proper position in the
apparatus; there may also be similar interchangeable scales for readings of weight
instead of or as well as readings of total value.
Dated this 7th day of January 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Apparatus.
I, FRANCIS WILLIAMS of Pentre Clawdd, Ruabon, Wales, Provision Dealer,
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 :-
This invention relates to apparatus for weighing articles or goods and indicating
the total amount to be naid for them.

page_text: According to this invention, which is applicable to various types of indicators,
a total value scale is placed, or two or more such scales are placed on the dial or
indicator of the apparatus, and so situated and graduated that the needle or the
like by which the indication of weight is given will simultaneously give on each
value scale an indication of the total value of the quantity being weighed, at a
certain price per unit of weight.
For example in a weighing machine in which the indications are given by means
of a hand or index rotating upon a graduated dial, there may be a series of value
scales concentric with the weight scale, marked opposite each weight indication
with an indication showing the value of such weight at a given price, say
per pound; one scale may be graduated to give a series of values at a 1d. a pound,
another scale. at 1d. a pound and another at 2d. a pound and so on.
The scales of value need not necessarily be employed with a scale of weight.
In order to increase the range or adaptability of a given apparatus so that it
may give indications of total values based upon a considerable series of different
prices per unit of weight, or may give such indications of value in the units of
different monetary systems, and also to avoid graduating the dial or the like with
a large number of different scales, which might lead to confusion in reading, such
scales can be formed on removable plates, rings or the like, interchangeable with
each other and capable of being very readily secured in proper position in the
apparatus; there may also be similar interchangeable scales for readings of weight
instead of or as well as readings of total value.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly broken away, of one form of the improved
apparatus.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of the dial thereof, and
Figure 3 is a face-view of one of the detachable or interchangeable money
scales.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
As shown in Figure 1 the dial or indicator A. is marked with the usual weight
scale A and may be either in the form of a ring as represented, or in the form of
a disc. Concentrically with the weight scale A¹ there is marked on the dial A a
scale A indicating the total value of the "load" or goods at a certain price
per unit of weight; in Figure 1 the scale A³ is eight pence per pound, but instead
of this any other scale may be provided. In addition to the two scales A¹ and A²
other total-value scales at different prices per unit of weight may be marked
directly on the dial A, for example one scale may be graduated to give a series of
values a 1d. per pound, another scale at 1d. per pound, another scale at 2d. per
pound and so on.
In order to increase the range or adaptability of a given apparatus so that it
may give indications of total values based upon a considerable series of different
prices per unit of weight, or may give such indications of value in the units of
different monetary systems, and also to avoid graduating the dial or the like with
a large number of different scales, which might lead to confusion in reading, some
of the scales can be formed on removable and interchangeable plates, rings or the
like capable of being very readily secured in proper position on the dial or
indicator A; there may also be similar interchangeable scales for readings of
weight instead of or as well as the readings of total value.
In Figure 1 I have shown portions of two different removable scales of which,
that lettered B, as represented in its complete form in Figure 3, is formed ou
a ring adapted to be secured on the dial A over the scale A, for which scale
the 6d. per pound scale B would then form a substitute. The scale C which, as
shown, may be a shilling per pound, is also formed on a ring capable of being
readily attached to or detached from say a flange A³ of the dial A.
Any means, for example quickly-adjustable clips, may be employed for securing
the scales B and C to the dial A and it is desirable to provide steadying or dowel

page_text: pins for ensuring that these scales will always be placed on the dial A in proper
relation to the fixed scale A¹.
From the foregoing description it will be seen that when the index D is moved
under the influence of the "load" or weight of the goods, it will simultaneously
indicate the weight and total monetary value of these goods, thus in Figure 1
wherein the index is shown in full lines in its normal or zero position and in
dotted lines in a position which it is caused to assume under the influence of
the weight of the goods, the weight of the goods is given as 54 pounds and
the total monetary value (at a rate of 8d. per pound) is given as three shillings
and ten pence.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
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1. The combination with weighing apparatus of a scale or device for indicating
the total monetary value of the "load" substantially as described.
2. The combination with weighing apparatus of one or more fixed scales or one
or more interchangeable scales which may be readily attached to or detached from
it substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete weighing
apparatus substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.