IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE OPENING AND CLOSING OF DOORS, GATES AND OTHER SIMILAR BARRIERS to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I JONATHAN HURN FAULKNER of No 50 Newgate Street in the City of London.
Hotel Proprietor do hereby declare the nature of the said. Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE OPENING AND CLOSING OF DOORS,
GATES AND OTHER SIMILAR BARRIERS to be as follows:--
"
My Invention is intended to be attached to any door, gate or similar arrangement,
and will register and show on a dial the number of times that the door or other
arrangement to which it is attached is used.
My apparatus consists of a train of wheels, an arrangement for giving motion to
them, and a dial on which the revolutions of the wheels are recorded, together with
a contrivance for throwing the apparatus out of Gear and suitable fittings for
containing and supporting the same.
I fix the dial plate in a shallow box which I generally place vertically and
which I prefer should be let into the door to which it is attached so that it may be
flush or nearly so with the surface of the door, and I provide the said box with a
lid and lock.
Immediately behind the dial plate is a second box, or an open frame containing
a train of wheels and pinions, each axle of which passes through the dial plate and
carries one of the pointers on the face of the dial. If intended to record simple
numbers the wheels are arranged to work decimally in relation to each other, but
they may be constructed to indicate the result in money or otherwise by giving
the wheels appropriate relative proportions.
The first wheel of the train has ratchet teeth and is moved and controlled by
two pawls, one of which is stationary and serves to prevent the return of the wheel
when it has been moved forward, and the other of which is moveable and gives
motion to the ratchet wheel.
The moveable pawl is attached to a sliding piece, one end of which, each time
the door to which the apparatus is attached is closed, comes into contact with a
fixed stud or tooth attached to the hanging post of the door, in such manner that
the sliding piece is pressed along its slide, carrying the pawl, with it and moving
the ratchet wheel one tooth forward or in some cases I use a moveable quadrant
having an inclined surface instead of the stud or tooth.
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page_text: I provide a spring by which the sliding piece is returned to its place when
released, by the opening of the door, from the-pressure of the tooth or stud; also
appropriate springs for the pawls.
In actual practice it is found to be frequently desirable to throw the apparatus
out of gear so that the door or other arrangement to which my apparatus is
attached may be used without its movements being registered, and to enable this
to be done I provide a sliding bolt or catch which when pushed forward engages
with the sliding piece and holds it back, so that it cannot come in contact with the
fixed tooth or stud, and thus the register remains unaffected by anything which
may be done until the bolt is withdrawn.
In order that the apparatus may not be thrown out of gear by any unauthorized
person I place the knob by which the bolt or catch is controlled within the locked
box with the dial, so that no person unprovided with a key of the apparatus can
have access to it.
In order to prevent the door closing accidentally I employ a spring bolt or catch
which when the door is opened prevents it being again closed until the said bolt is
withdrawn.

page_text: I JONATHAN HURN FAULKNER of N° 50 Newgate Street in the City of London
Hotel Proprietor do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE OPENING AND CLOSING OF DOORS GATES AND
OTHER SIMILAR BARRIERS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the letters and
figures marked thereon in which Figure 1 represents a section of part of a door and
door post with the apparatus attached. Figure 2, shews the quadrant detached.
Figure 3, is a front view of the apparatus open to shew the dial &c. Figure 4 is a
side view. Figure 5 is a back view with the back plate removed to show the
working parts. Figure 6 represents the back plate removed with its attached
pieces and Figure 7 is a side elevation of the pawl G.
My invention is intended to be attached to any door gate or similar arrangement,
and will register and show on a dial the number of times that the door or other
arrangement to which it is attached is used.
My apparatus consists of a train of wheels, an arrangement for giving motion to
them, and a dial on which the revolutions of the wheels are recorded, together with
a contrivance for throwing the apparatus out of gear, and suitable fittings for
containing and supporting the same.
I fix the dial plate which is marked A on the drawings in a shallow Box B,.
immediately behind which is a second box, or an open frame, containing a train
of wheels and pinions marked respectively C, c, D, d, and E, each axle of which
passes through the dial plate and carries one of the pointers on the face of the dial.
If intended to record simple numbers the wheels are arranged to work decimally
in relation to each other as shewn in the drawings in which C has 10 teeth;
D 60 teeth; E, 60, and the pinions c and d six each-If the apparatus is to
indicate the result in money, or otherwise, the numbers of the train must be made
of appropriate relative value and proportion.
The first wheel of the train, C, has ratchet teeth, and is moved and controlled by
two pawls F and G, one of which, F, is stationary, and serves to prevent the return
of the wheel when it has been moved forward, and the other of which G is moveable
and gives motion to the Wheel C.
The pawl G is attached to a sliding piece H, the upper end of which is made
with an inclined surface h, and when the door to which the apparatus is attached
is closed this passes along an inclined surface of a quadrant L shewn on Figures 1
and 2 attached to the hanging post of the door and is thereby forced downwards in
its slide, carrying the pawl G with it, and thereby carrying the wheel C forward
one tooth. As the door is opened the piece H passes back along the inclined
surface of the quadrant and is returned to its former position by the Spiral
Spring I, and fand g are springs for keeping the pawls pressed forward.
In actual practice it is found to be frequently desirable to throw the apparatus
out of gear so that the door, or other arrangement to which my apparatus is
attached may be used without its movements being registered, and to enable this
to be done I provide a detent shown at K, which when pushed forward by the
knob k engages with the sliding piece H and holds it back so that it cannot come
in contact with the quadrant and thus the register remains unaffected by the
opening and closing of the doors until the detent is withdrawn.
In order that the apparatus may not be thrown out of gear by any unauthorized
person I place the knob k by which the detent is controlled within the locked box
with the dial so that no person unprovided with the key of the apparatus can have
access to it,

page_text: I fix the Lock M, at the back and immediately behind the Box B, to the lid or
door whereof I attach a projecting eye P, which when the lid is closed passes
through the back of the box and receives the bolt-I make a keyhole n through
the back of the box and another corresponding one n¹ in the lid.
In order to prevent an incorrect register being caused by the accidental closing
of the door, a spring bolt or catch may be employed to prevent the door when
opened being again closed until the said bolt is withdrawn.
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 Constructing apparatus for registering the movements of doors and such like
barriers substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
2 The combination and arrangement in such registering apparatus of the means
and parts for suspending its operation by throwing it out of gear and of securing it
from being tampered with by unauthorized persons substantially as described and
set forth.
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