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Patented August 18, 1903.

No. 786,468.

UNITED STATES

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES. E. TURNER AND WILLIAM T. ANDERSON, OF MACON, GEORGIA. VOT N G - MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,463, dated August 18, 1903. Application filed November l2, 1902, Serial No. 131,065. (No model.)

in printing position after the vote is cast and , Be it known that we, CHARLESE. TURNER prior to the recording operation and also show

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and WILLIAM T. ANDERSON, citizens of the ing the mechanism for returning the printing United States, residing at Macon, in the type to non-recording or normal position. county of Bibb and State of Georgia, have in Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional elevation of the vented a new and useful Voting-Machine, of machine on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the name which the following is a specification. This invention relates to certain improve-. holders, illustrating a linotype-bar in position ments in apparatus for recording votes in leg therein. islative and other bodies, and has for its prin Similar numerals of reference are employed cipal object to provide an improved appara to indicate corresponding parts throughout tus whereby the vote of a large body may the several figures of the drawings. be taken and recorded in a very short space Referring to the drawings, 10 represents of time, the construction being such as to the bed or table of the vote-recording appa permit the members to vote simultaneously ratus, this being placed at any convenient or consecutively and the arrangement being point, as at the desk of the presiding officer such that the voting of one member cannot or clerk, and connected by current-conduct in any manner interfere with the voting of ing wires to the desk of each member. In

the bed of the table, which may be of any de sired length, are formed two rows of openings 11, all of the same size and shape and Spaced at equal distances from each other, and each of said openings is adapted for the reception of a name-holder 12, in which may be placed type arranged to form the name of a mem 25 ber, these being preferably in the form of a linotype-bar, and each member's desk being connected with two of such holders, one in the apparatus being provided with an automatic aye column and the other in the nay column counting and recording device for this pur and either of which may be moved to record ing position by the closing of one or other of pose. A further object of the invention is to so two electric currents. arrange the apparatus that the names of the Each holder is mounted on a pivot-pin 14 members may be readily changed or removed and is provided with a downwardly and rear wardly extending counterbalancing - weight when necessary. 35 With these and other objects in view the 15, which normally tends to move the holder invention consists in the novel construction from its inclined non-recording position to a and arrangement of parts hereinafter de horizontal imprinting position with the print scribed, illustrated in the accompanying draw ing-surface of the type slightly above the level ings, and particularly pointed out in the ap of the table. To each name holder is secured pended claims, it being understood that vari a depending catch-bar 16, adapted to be en ous changes in the form, proportions, size, and gaged and held in inoperative position by a minor details of the structure may be made spring - catch 17, forming an armature for a without departing from the spirit or sacrific small electromagnet IS, and each member 45 ing any of the advantages of the invention. having two of such magnets under his contlol, Ill the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is so that the name-holder on either the positive a plan View of a vote-l'ecolding apparatus con or negative side of the table may be released structed in accordance With the invention. and moved by its weight 15 into printing po Fig. 2 is a longitudinal Sectional elevation of sition. In order to place the names closely 50 the same. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of together, the electromagnets 18 are arranged the machine, illustrating the arrangement of in banks or in staggered relation, (illustrated the mechanism for locking the printing-types in Fig. 2,) this arrangement rendering it pos

any other member. A further object of the invention is to pro vide an apparatus of this character in which the result of the vote may be printed imme diately after all the members have voted and in which the record on the printed sheet will appear with the names of the members in parallel columns representing either anaye or a nay vote, together with a printed record of the number of each kind of votes cast, the

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