IMPROVEMENTS IN ' Street,, for the Invention of COUNTING APPARATUS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Manocl Antonio de Souza, of No. 13, Glasshouse
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
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Street, Regent Street, for the Invention of
COUNTING APPARATUS."
Scaled the 2nd April 1875, and dated the 26th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by' the said Manoel Antonio de
Souza at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th October 1874.
I, MANOEL ANTONIO DE SOUZA, of No. 13, Glasshouse Street, Regent
Street, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for" IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COUNTING APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in counting apparatus.
The apparatus consists of a ratchet wheel with ten teeth combined-
with a stud or push pin in such manner that each action of the stud or
push pin rotates the ratchet one tooth, it also causes a small bell to be.
sounded. On the axis of the ratchet is a wheel on which the units
are marked, and the rotation of the wheel brings each Figure in suc-
cession opposite an aperture in the case.

page_text: The units wheel carries a pin, which once in each rotation acts upon
a wheel having ten teeth and moves it one tooth forward, and a spring
locks it in position as soon as it has been moved. On the axis of this
toothed wheel is an index wheel on which the tens are marked, this
wheel in turn gives motion to a wheel indicating hundreds, and so on.
The annexed Drawing shews the construction of the apparatus.
A is the mechanism to mark the units and to strike a double blow
on the bell, which is shewn tinted bronze; within it is contained the
machinery; B is the wheel on which is marked the units; C is the
wheel on which is marked the tens; c is the reverse of the wheel C; 1
D is the wheel on which is marked the hundreds; d, the reverse of the
wheel D;
E is the wheel on which is marked the thousands; c, the
reverse of the wheel E; F is the cover to the mechanism A, in which
are placed the wheels C, D, E; G is the case and index of the reckoner
counter; H is the cover which shuts up the dial shewing the thousands, 1
should the same be required to be kept private; I is the piston, which
has to be made use of to cause the machinery to work.
The machine may be made use of for different identical purposes,
viz., for instance, the counting of passengers by any sort of con-
veyance, counting the number of packages when loading or unloading
vessels, recording the weights and measures in import and export
warehouses, such as that of coals, iron, meat, &c., also to show the
number of visitors to museums, libraries, and exhibitions, to check the
copies struck off of lithographs, type founding, &c.
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The machine can be adapted specially to any of these objects, and it a
can be reduced to the small size of a pocket watch. The counter is
furnished with a bell, which strikes at the passing of each number, and
also a private dial, which is opened by means of a key, shewing the
number of thousands the machine may have marked.
The machine is set in motion each time the piston is acted on, 3
and it may be fixed in the manner most convenient for the purpose
required.
This machine may be used even by an ignorant person, no pen or

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the evitato
filed by the said Manoel Antonio de Souza, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 24th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MANOEL
ANTONIO DE SOUZA, of No. 13, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Manoel Antonio de Souza,
Her special licence that I, the said Manoel Antonio de Souza, my exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Manoel
Antonio de Souza, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agrec with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully-
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COUNTING APPARATUS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Manoel Antonio de Souza, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Manoel Antonio de Souza, do hereby :
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in counting apparatus.
The apparatus consists of a ratchet wheel with ten teeth combined
with a stud or push pin in such manner that each action of the stud or
push pin rotates the ratchet one tooth, it also causes a small bell to be
sounded. On the axis of the ratchet is a wheel on which the units are

page_text: marked, and the rotation of the wheel brings each Figure in succession
opposite an aperture in the case.
The units wheel carries a pin, which once in each rotation acts upon
a wheel having ten teeth and moves it one tooth forward, and a spring
locks it in position as soon as it has been moved. On the axis of this
toothed wheel is an index wheel on which the tens are marked, this
wheel in turn gives motion to a wheel indicating hundreds, and so on.
The annexed Drawing shews the construction of the apparatus.
'
A is the mechanism to mark the units and to strike a double blow
on the bell, which is shewn tinted bronze; within it is contained the :
machinery; B is the wheel on which is marked the units; O is the
wheel on which is marked the tens; c is the reverse of the wheel C;
D is the wheel on which is marked the hundreds; d, the reverse of the
wheel D; E is the wheel on which is marked the thousands; e, the
reverse of the wheel E; F is the cover to the mechanism A, in which
are placed the wheels C, D, E; G is the case, and index of the counter;
His a cover which shuts up the dial shewing the thousands, should the
same be required to be kept private; I is the piston, which has to be
made use of to cause the machinery to work; J is a small cog wheel
with a stop; this wheel is governed by a bowed spring, as seen in
Drawing J; K is a key to open and shut the cover H. The lock of the
cover H is made of a metal plate imbedded in the dial of the counter,
containing in the centre a small wheel with a triangular opening, by
which the key enters. The key causes this wheel to rotate until it
meets with a similar orifice in another cog wheel placed in the lower side,
which also rotates, but has a stop attached, as seen in the Drawing J,
allowing the cover to move on its axle H when the stop comes in front.
of the axle. The axle has a nick, which when the stop is not in front of
the said axle of the cover E prevents it from moving. This mechanism
is placed in a slot made in the face of the counter; the small cog wheel
is governed by a bowed spring to prevent its being moved unless when
acted on by the key K.
"
The machine may be made use of for different industrial purposes,
viz., for instance, the counting of passengers by any sort of con-
veyance, counting the number of packages when loading or unloading
vessels, recording the weights and measures in import and export ware-
houses, such as that of coals, iron, meat, &c., also to shew the number

page_text: of visitors to museums, libraries, and exhibitions, to check the copies
struck off of lithographs, type founding, &c.,
The machine can be adapted specially to any of these objects, and it
can be reduced to the small size of a pocket watch. The counter is
furnished with a bell, which strikes at the passing of cach number, and
also a private dial, which is opened by means of a key, showing tho
number of thousands the machine may have marked.
The machine is set in motion each time the piston is acted on,
and it may be fixed in the manner most convenient for the purpose
required.
This machine may be used even by an ignorant person, no pen or ink
being requisite.
I claim the construction of counting apparatus, substantially as
described and shewn in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Manoel Antonio de Souza, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
MANOEL ANTONIO DE SOUZA. (L.S.)