Improvements in Weighing Machines Applicable to other Purposes, such as Machines for Trying Strength and other Testing Machines in which the Ordinary Dial Plate is Used.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 4th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
Improvements in Weighing Machines Applicable to other Purposes,
such as Machines for Trying Strength and other Testing
Machines in which the Ordinary Dial Plate is Used.
MORTIMER JUSTIN of 19 Oakfield Road, Penge in the county of Surrey,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
My invention consists in improved appliances for more plainly showing the weight
by means of cogs, springs &c. attached to dials, & also in the automatic action of
disclosing the same by depositing a coin in an aperture provided. One or more dials
are provided for recording stones, lbs. & ozs. if required. The dial or dials are
placed in a convenient position inside the machine being hidden from view by a dial
plate. Apertures are placed in the dial plates corresponding to the stones, lbs. & ozs.
on the dial or dials-the size of the aperture being only such as to allow any one of
figures on the dial or dials to be clearly seen. The before mentioned apertures
are when the machine is at rest-closed by a plate of any suitable material which can
only be pushed back by depositing the coin.
I construct my machine with a platform or any other suitable arrangement for
receiving the body to be weighed, in communication with a vertical rack; which in its
turn is connected by a system of springs. The vertical rack engages in the teeth of a
spur wheel or wheels connected by an arrangement to be hereafter shown to the dial
or dials, the latter revolving or in other ways moving till the required weight in stones,
lbs., ozs. is opposite the aperture or apertures. On a penny being deposited the plate
closing the aperture or apertures is raised or lowered; or slid back on either side by
the application of a lever to be worked by any known method, or the application of

page_text: any other suitable arrangement to be hereafter worked out, and the weight is shown
through the aperture or apertures for a short time. This is accomplished by having
an apparatus which will be set in motion by the aid of the coin, such apparatus being
of clock work or spring action. The coin will fall on a receiver which will cause the
latter to be lowered, thereby raising the weighted end. At the weighted end
will be a pin which will then release a wheel, which will revolve one turn, and be made
to work a fan or cover with the words "Thanks" & "Try your weight," which
will show through the aperture as the wheel slowly turns round.
This Invention can be applied to other machines for testing purposes; so that the
result of the testing can be more accurately & speedily seen.
Dated this 4th day of December 1886.
HUGHES & Co.,
131, Fleet Street, E.C.,
Agents for Applicant.
Improvements in Weighing Machines Applicable to other Purposes,
such as Machines for Trying Strength and other Testing
Machines in which the Ordinary Dial Plate is Used.
I, MORTIMER JUSTIN, of 19, Oakfield Road, Penge, in the county of Surrey,
Gentleman, 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 improvements in weighing machines applicable to other
purposes such as machines for testing muscular power and other testing machines in
which the ordinary dial plate is used, whereby the weight, muscular power or the
like is plainly and automatically disclosed or indicated on a dial or dials upon the
insertion of a coin in the apparatus.
The invention consists mainly in the employment of a revolving dial or dials on
which the figures or other signis denoting weight, muscular power or the like are
marked. The said dial or dials is or are operated from the platform or other suitable
part of the machine by means of an arrangement of spring or springs and toothed
gearing. The revolving dial or cach of the dials is covered by a revolving plate or a
slide or shutter advantageously marked with suitable words and having an aperture
therein or cut away portion which words and aperture or cut away portion are
successively brought into view through an aperture or apertures in the dial plate or
casing of the apparatus upon the application of a coin.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe

page_text: how it can be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawings which
illustrate my invention by way of example applied to a weighing machine, Figure 1
representing a vertical section of the machine; figure 2 is a front elevation of the
upper part of the same; figure 3 is a rear elevation of the upper part of the machine
the back of the casing being removed to shew the interior mechanism which is drawn
partly in section; figure 4 is a detached view of the revolving plate or shutter.
Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
a, is a revolving dial on which the figures (or other signs) denoting weight are
marked;
A is the platform of the weighing machine which is of ordinary construction;
bis the spring attached to the top of the casing B and to a vertical toothed rack c
which rack is connected with the platform A through a yoked rod d or its equivalent,
a dash pot serving to lessen the shocks which may occur when using the machine;
the rack c gears with a pinion e fixed to the dial a so that the weight of a person or
body on the platform A will revolve the dial a to a greater or less extent.
is the revolving plate or shutter and g is the cut away portion thereof the said
plate or shutter being advantageously marked with suitable words such as "Try your
weight" and "Thank you" as shewn clearly in figure 4, and working in front of
the revolving dial a and independently thereof on the same arbor.
his the aperture in the casing B of the apparatus opposite which aperture the
words and cut away portion of the revolving plate or shutter are successively brought
by the following means upon the application of a coin in the money slit i of the
apparatus.
The coin first falls into a money bucket or receiver ; advantageously constructed
in the manner described in the specification of Robert William Page No. 12576 dated
20th October 1885. The weight of the coin depresses a weighted lever / carrying
the money bucket at one end, the lever also carrying a toothed sector which gears
with a pinion m attached to the plate or shutter and thereby causes the latter to
rotate, a gradual or slow motion being insured by the lever being connected to a
dash pot n as clearly shewn in figure 3. The discharge of the coin from the money
bucket when the weight of the person or body is removed from the platform A is
effected by means of a sector-like rack o pivotted on the same centre as the lever k
but independently of the latter; the rack o is provided with a tail or arm p connected
to the platform A through a rod q attached to the yoke of the rod d so that when
the weight is removed from the platform A the rack o will be lowered and its pins
or teeth will operate the arm of the pivotted blocks of the money bucket and
thereby discharge the coin.
The parts of the apparatus are normally in the position shewn in figures 1, 2 and 3
of the drawing. To make use of the apparatus the person or body to be weighed
steps onto or is placed on the platform A, the rack o is thereby raised and the dial a
is caused to revolve until the figures representing the weight of the person or body
are brought opposite the aperture h; the said figures are however not visible from
the outside of the apparatus because they are covered by the part marked "Try your
weight" of the revolving plate or shutter. In order to disclose the said figures a
coin must be inserted in the apparatus as herein before described when the plate or
shutter will be caused to slowly revolve by the means described and the words
"Thank you
"will be seen through the aperture ; these words will be succeeded by
the cut away portion g through which the figures representing the weight of the
person or body will then be plainly visible. Upon the removal of the weight from
the platform the dial a and plate or shutter will return to their normal position and
the coin will be discharged from the bucket j by the downward movement of the
rack o operating the arm r of the pivotted block as described.
Instead of employing revolving dials as hereinbefore described I sometimes secure
a spring to the lower part of the apparatus and to this spring I attach a metal or other
riband which has the figures or the like denoting weight marked thereon under one
another commencing say at one pound up to twenty stone; one end of this riband is
wound around a roller, wheel or the like secured to the top of the apparatus the

page_text: weight being shewn or revealed behind the aperture or cut away portion before
mentioned on the application of a coin or the like, the riband being attached by
suitable mechanism to the platform of the machine.
Although I have shewn in the drawing the apparatus provided with only one
revolving dial and plate or shutter it will be obvious that two or more of such dials
and shutters could be employed one having a set of figures representing stones,
another pounds and another (if required) ounces. Also more than one spring b could
be used.
Further the revolving plate or shutter shewn in the drawings can obviously be
replaced by a shutter having the form of a sliding plate which can be raised or
lowered or moved aside by suitable mechanism operated by the weight of the coin or
the like.
I am aware of the Patent granted to Thomas Cooper No. 5139 dated April 13th 1886
and do not claim anything which is contained therein.
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. In a weighing machine or machine for testing muscular power or like testing
machines the combination with a revolving indicating dial or its equivalent operated
from the platform or other suitable part of the machine, of a revolving or sliding
plate or shutter (which can be advantageously marked with suitable words) provided
with an aperture or cut away part which is brought behind an aperture in the casing
of the apparatus upon the application of a coin or the like substantially as and
for the purpose described.
2. The improved weighing machine hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
1
1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.