A Machine for Registering and Counting Votes at Elections.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Machine for Registering and Counting Votes at Elections.
JOHN MOYSEY Hurst Lodge Blackheath Park Kent Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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By passing a coin or token or the like through a slot, a counter is moved which
registers the number of people who have voted at any election.
This is done in the following manner:-)
-Beneath the slot is a disc or wheel
mounted on the shaft of the counter and having around its circumference recesses
to receive the tokens. When a token is put into the slot by a voter it rests on the
token last introduced and the voter by forcing his token down in the slot turns the
wheel and with it the counter one step, the previously introduced token dropping
off onto a bell whilst the voters token remains in the wheel. Or in place of a disc
or wheel a lever actuating the counter through a pawl and ratchet wheel may be
employed. The bell also in place of being rung by the falling token may be rung
by the mechanism actuating the counter. A ratchet and pawl is provided to
prevent the counter from being turned back.
Dated this 4th day of September 1895.
I, JOHN MOYSEY, of Hurst Lodge, Blackheath Park, Kent, 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:-
By passing a coin or token or the like through a slot a counter is moved which
registers the number of people who have voted at any election.
This is done in the following manner :-Beneath the slot is a disc or wheel
mounted on the shaft of the counter and having around its circumference recesses
to receive the tokens. When a token is put into the slot by a voter it rests on the
token last introduced and the voter by forcing his token down in the slot turns the
wheel and with it the counter one step, the previously introduced token dropping
off onto a bell whilst the voters token remains in the wheel. Or in place of a diso
or wheel a lever actuating the counter through a pawl and ratchet wheel may be
employed. The bell also in place of being rung by the falling token may be rung
by the mechanism actuating the counter. A ratchet and pawl is provided to
prevent the counter from being turned back.

page_text: counting and recording apparatus, which may be of any ordinary construction,
mounted on the axis of the wheel c. e is a bell beneath the mouth of the tube b.
fand fare two tokens.
Figures 3 and 4 are a vertical section and plan of a modification. In this
arrangement the wheel c is replaced by a bell-crank lever a pivotted at g¹ and
baving pivotted at one end a roller h projecting into the tube 6 and at the other
a pawl taking into the teeth of a ratchet wheel k on the axis of the counter d.
I and m are springs fixed to the lever g-one bearing on the pawl; and the other
carrying a hammer n which strikes against the belle when the lever g returns
suddenly to its normal position after the introduction of a token.
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 :-
1. Actuating the counting train positively by pressing a coin, token or like into
the apparatus.
2. Apparatus substantially as described and shown at Figures 1 and 2 of the
drawings.
3. Apparatus substantially as described and shown at Figures
drawings.
and 4 of the
JOHN MOYSEY.