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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. JOHN NOLAN, OF LONGISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.
VOTING-MACHINE. 1,068,921.
Patented July 29, 1913. Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed February 9, 1911. Serial No. 607,502,
To all choin it may concern: IBe it known that I, JoHN NoLAN, citizen of the United States, residing at Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Woting-Machines, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to voting machines and is especially adapted for use in assembly
10 halls where votes are recorded and where it
is desired to display same and simultane oilsly print a record to be kept in the jour
nals of the proceedings of the body as will be more fully described in the following 5 specification, set forth in the claim and illustrated in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showing the arrangement of the device. Fig. 2 is the switch used by the voter. Fig. 3 is a 20 sectional view of the annunciator box. Fig. 4 is a front view of same. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the switch. Fig. 6 is a side view of the printing box partly in section. Fig. 7 is a plan view of same with proper rolls 25 at each end. Fig. 8 is a side view of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detail view of the printing stamps. Fig. 10 is a top plan view of same. This device is especially adapted for use in legislative hills where a member of the 30 body may sit at his desk and record his vote in a frame which will be displayed be fore all the members of the body or the public. In case a member votes in the nega
In the circuit 18 is an electromagnet 23 as in case with the lamps there are as many electromagnets as seats in the assembly, and 60 when the lamp 22 is illuminated the electro magnet 23 is energized. When the latter action occurs, an armature 24 is attracted and drawn downward carrying with it the stem 25 and the stamp 26, which has on its 65 lower face certain letters to announce the vote of the party operating the switch 16. This armature 24 is normally held upward by means of springs 27, and the electromag net and the stamp are supported in the com 70 partments 28 by means of perforated cross bars 29. When the electromagnets are ener gized and the stamp 26 descends, it makes an impression upon the record sheet 30, first striking
the ink cloth 31 and bearing upon 75 terial. The stamping frame carries beneath itself a sliding frame 33 of projections equal ing in number the stamps in the box and adapted to prevent their descent and prevent 80 their printing the record. The frame as shown in Fig. 7 is provided at each end with rollers 34 upon which may be wound the ink cloth, the and record sheets being clamped in separately, as shown
the pad 32 of rubber or similar flexible ma
in Fig. 1, the frame may be pivoted and 85. controlled by a weight 35 which extends from the rear of the pivot of the frame to be thrown up when necessary. to allow : the printed record to be removed. In taking a vote the number of those 90 tive or not at all no record is made. voting nay is determined by subtracting the 35 On the desk 15 or seat or other convenient number of ayes plus the number not voting point in a legislative body, it switch - 16 is from the number present, or by having the pivoted preferably within a well closed by speaker announcing a second time “Those the door 17 and locked if, desired. This not in favor vote aye'. This of course 95 switch closes the terminations A and B of could be done on a paper sheet of different 40 the circuit 18 in which there is a suitable color called the negative sheet. battery or force of electric energy and as . It will be also understood that the entire shown in Fig. 1, this circuit connects with device may be duplicated and the word a frame or board 19 divided into compart “Nay' used upon the stamps, and lamps of 190 ments in which is located a box 20 with a a separate chart and printing frame. 45 translucent glass front 21 bearing the word obvious that the parts may be other aye or similar designation, also the number It isarranged and modified without depart of the district which the member represents. wise ing from the essential features above de 105 Within the box 20 is located a lamp 22 in scribed. w the circuit 18 and adapted to be illuminated What I claim as new and desire to secure 50 when the switch 16 is closed. by Letters Patent is. Each of the boxes 20 of the board 19 is In a voting machine, the combinfation with connected at one of the desks around the of electric circuits,a light of switches adapt assembly hall and each desk has its own aedseries to close the circuits, for each cir 10 circuit, switch and lamp so that in case his cuit, a box having a transparent top to con 55 number is absent his switch is locked and tain the light, a frame carrying the boxes, a his vote is not recorded in the affirmative.