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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. SIDNEY L. McLAURIN, OF BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI. WOTING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent,

1,004,669.

Patented Oct. 3, 1911.

Application filed February 20, 1911. Serial No. 609,750.

To all whom it may concern.

so that each chart used by the secretary will 55 Beit known that I, SIDNEY L. McLAURIN, occupy a similar position between the two a citizen of the United States, residing at plates 7 and 17. Brandon, in the county of Rankin and State Through one plate such as the lowermost 5 of Mississippi, have invented a new and numbered 7, is passed a number of electric useful Voting-Machine, of which the follow terminals 20 each of which has a platinum 60 ing is a specification. tip 21 countersunk a trifle below the upper This invention relates to registers, and face of this plate or in any event, spaced more especially to recording voting ma from the similar platinum tip 31 of the ter 10 chines; and the object of the same is to minal 30 which is seated in the upper plate utilize an electric current for making an in 17 above. It is to be understood that any delible record simultaneously of all the votes suitable number of these terminals may be 65 or ballots cast by a body of suffragists or employed, although in Fig. 1 I have shown legislators. This object is accomplished by nine yeasin one group and nine nays in an 5 the mechanism hereinafter more fully de other group, and two similar groups are scribed and claimed, and as shown in the shown on the chart in Fig. 3. The terminals 70 drawings wherein may be of any approved type, although Figure 1 is a plan view of the table at the herein I have shown them as set screws tak secretary's or clerk's desk and Fig. 2 a sec ing through hubs or nuts so that the plati 20 tional view therethrough on the line 2-2 of num tips may be accurately adjusted with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the the uppermost of each pair slightly out of 75 charts. Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic plan view contact with the lowermost thereof. of the wiring, showing at its top a slight The chart 50 shown in Fig. 3 is printed modification, which will be explained herein upon a piece of paper, and as herein shown ' 25 after. Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the it has circles 51, within or adjacent which legislator's desks and a diagrammatic view may be a number 52 designating the voter 80 of its wiring to correspond with the modifi (or his name might be printed adjacent the cation just referred to. circle), but it is to be understood that the Referring to the drawings by reference number or name appears twice on the chart, 30 numerals, 5 designates the top of a table or once in the yea group and again in the nay stand or counter which may well represent group as shown. The groups are so dis 85 the secretary's desk or be located near to it, posed that they will come opposite the and its upper surface is recessed as at 6 for groups of terminals in the plates above de the reception of a plate 7 preferably of scribed, and the circles of each group are 35 soapstone or other good non-conductor of so disposed that each will always come un electricity and whose upper face stands be der a certain terminal when the chart 50 is low the upper face of the table so as to disposed in correct position against the 90 leave a shoulder 8 along the inner edge of shoulders 8 and 9. The material of which the plate, while 9 is a bead rising higher the chart is made will be paper, and if de 40 than the upper face of the plate 7 across one the paper may be treated to render it end of the same and forming another shoul sired combustible in a slight degree only; for, as 95 der for a purpose to appear hereinafter. will appear below, a jump spark current is Superimposed above the plate 7 is another to be flashed through this paper from one similar plate 17 carried by any suitable form terminal to another so as to burn a hole 45 of hinges 18 which are connected with the therein, but of course it is not desirable that in the act of burning this little hole it should 00 table top 5, as shown, and these plates are of a size which will cause them to register spread beyond the confines of the circle thus when the uppermost is permitted to lieupon to be indicated. the lowermost as seen in Fig. 2. There The wiring is show on Sneet 2 in Fig. 50 might, in fact, be a very slight space be 4. Herein the numeral 40 designates a bat tween them, for they are intended to re tery and 41, the primary circuit leading. 105. ceive the chart 50 shown in Fig. 3, and the therefrom through a switch 42 and an induc shoulders 8 and 9 form guides against which tion coil 43. From the latter in this view

one side and one end of Said chart are placed two positive and like wires 44 and 45 are