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sible to use electromagnets of sufficient size without rendering it necessary to space the name-holders for a distance equal to the di ameter of the magnets. When the magnets are energized and the catches 16 are released, the name-holder's move to a horizontal position and project the type-faces for a short distance above the level of the table. After all the members have voted the name-holders are locked in position by a pair of parallel bars 19, pivotally mounted on links 20 and connected to an end Wise - mov able bar 21, having laterally-extended slotted arms adapted to engage pins on the bars 19 and shift the latter to the position under the outer ends of the name - holders and firmly lock said name-holders in position to resist the pressure of the platen or impression-surface during the printing operation. In order to 20 permit free movement of the locking-bars without interference from the name-holders

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which have not been released, each name holder is provided with a slot 22, formed at one end and in such position as to permit free outward movement of the locking - bars. When the locking-bars enter the notches of the name-holders, the latter are positively locked in place, and accidental movement during the printing operation is prevented. The mechanically-operated members of the apparatus receive motion from a shaft 24, adapted to suitable bearings in blackets 25, projecting from the end of the Supporting frame, said shaft being provided at each end with crank-disks 26, to one of which is secured an operating-handle 27. This shaft is turned Once to effect the recording operation and to move all of the parts to initial position in readi ness for the recording of a subsequent vote. To the central portion of the shaft is se cured a cam 2S, against which bears an anti friction-roller 29, carried by the arm or bar 21 and held against the cam by One or more ten sion-bars 30, which also serve to move the

locking-bars 19 to releasing position after a Near the opposite ends of the shaft are cams 31, each bearing on an antifriction-roller 32, carried by a guided bar 33 and normally held in Working contact with the cam by a tension-spring 34, extending between the bar and a fixed point. Each bar 33 is provided at One end with a slot 35, engaging a pin 36, carried by a restoring-bar 37, the latter being mounted on links 38 and arranged adjacent to the Weighted arms or rods 15 of the name holders. In the operation of this portion of the laechanism the calms force the bars 33 in Ward and effect a corresponding movement of the restoring-bars 37, said bars engaging against the inclined arms 15 and exerting a camming action thereon to an extent suffi cient to force the catch-bar 16 into engage ment with the mating catch 17, and thus lock all of the name - holders in initial position in readiness to be released by the energizing of the electromagnets. Each name - holder vote has been recorded.

is further provided with a pin 40, normally in inoperative position, but movable as the name-holder is moved into a position in aline ment with a counting-Wheel, which automat ically registers the total number of votes cast, one of said counting-wheels being disposed at one side of the table to register the num ber of positive votes and a similar counting wheel being disposed at the opposite side of the table to register the number of negative votes, and the registered numbers being re corded at the bottom of the two columns of names of members voting. The mechanism as thus far described con stitutes a registering apparatus which may be employed for calling the roll or for regis tering a vote; but it is desirable to print a record of each vote so cast, and to this end we employ a suitable platen and inking mech anism for printing the names of the voting members in proper columns and for automat ically registering and printing the number of positive and the number of negative votes cast. Guided on the upper portion of the bed or table is a carriage 42, from the opposite sides of which project pins 43, adapted to guiding slots in rocker-arms 44, which are pivoted at their lower ends to a cross-bar 45, carried by brackets 46, depending from the stationary portion of the frame. The arms 44 are con nected by links 47 to suitable crank-pins on

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the crank - disks 26 to effect a reciprocating movement of the carriage. The carriage is provided with suitable bear

ings for the support of a transverse shaft 4S, on which is mounted a roller-platen 49, hav ing a covering of felt or other suitable ma terial. The side frames of the carriage are provided with curved slots 50 for the recep tion of a supporting-spindle 51 of an inking roller 52, said roller being provided at oppo site ends with guiding-rollers 53, adapted to tracks 54, which govern the vertical position of the ink-roller. Ink is supplied to the roller 52 by an inking-roller 55, which may be op erated in the usual manner, the track being so arranged as to permit contact between the supply and the distributing rollers each time the carriage returns to the initial position shown in Fig. 2. The carriage is further provided with bear ings for the support of a pair of independent axially-alining shafts 58, on each of which are a number of recording-wheels 59, each bear ing numerals from naught to nine and pro vided with transfer mechanism of any ordi nary character for imparting movement from the units to the tens disk and from the tens disk to the hundreds-disk, the number of disks employed depending on the number of votes to be cast. At the Outer end of each shaft 58 is a star-wheel 60, which as the car riage is moved engages the pins 40 of the name holders which have been moved to vote-re cording position, and it will be observed on reference to Fig. 1 that the pins 40 of the name

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