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holders remaining in non-recording position vance and the paper is forced by the platen the carriage is moved in the direction of the to print the number of votes in each column. arrow in Fig. 2 the star-wheel will be engaged The end of the strip of paper is held be by each of the pins 40 in operative position, tween the rollers 63 and 64, and at the com the star-wheel being turned one-tenth of a pletion of the printing movement, when the revolution at each movement and the actual carriage starts to return to its initial position, number of votes castin each column being in the gear-segment 67 engages the Small gear 75 dicated on the recording-disks when the car wheel or pinion 66 and revolves the roller 63 O riage reaches the limit of its forward move to draw the printed portion of the strip be ment. tween the two rollers during the return move The paper on which the record is to be made ment of the carriage to its initial position, the is preferably in the form of a long strip sheet on which the vote is recorded being de mounted on a suitable roller 60, adapted to tached by means of the cutting-knife at the bearings in brackets 61, and the end of the rear of the rollers. strip being guided over suitable rollers 62 on At the desk of each member is a small the carriage and under the platen 49. At the closed compartment having a suitable lock, operating end of the apparatus the paper is which may be opened only by the member fed between a pair of rollers 63 and 64, the assigned to the desk, and in each compart former being mounted on a shaft 65, on which ment are two buttons 80 and 81, (represented is a gear-wheel 66, intermeshing with a gear in diagram in Fig. 1,) one button being con segment 67 on the main operating-shaft 24 nected by current-conducting wires to the and serving to wind up the printed slip on electromagnet which governs the position of which the votes are recorded, the paper bear the name-holder on the positive side and the the printed record being detached from other button being similarly connected to an 25 ing the main strip by a suitable cutter-bar 68. electromagnet on the negative side, so that The parts are normally locked in position by each member may effect the movement of the a pivoted catch 70, adapted to engage a lock type-holder bearing his name to record either 95 ing-notch 71 in one of the cranked disks, and a positive or a negative vote, and as each at the beginning of the printing operation the circuit is independent of the others all of the catch is first disengaged and motion imparted members may vote simultaneously and a to the crank-disks, preferably by means of an printed record of the vote of a legislative OO operating-handle 27. As the shaft 24 is ro body of any size may be made in a short tated motion will first be imparted through period of time. Having thus described our invention, what 35 the cam 28 to move both of the locking-bars 19 to position under those name-holders which We claim is have been released from the catches 17, and 1. In a vote-recording apparatus, tWO Sets thus support the name-holders in position for of printing-type arranged to form the names IOS printing. Continued movement forces the of the members voting and disposed respec carriage in the direction of the arrow in Fig. tively in aye and may columns, an electro 2, the inking-roller 52 traveling against the magnetically-operated catch normally hold type-faces carried by the name-holders and ing the types in inoperative positions, means ICs properly inking the same while the platen for locking the type in printing position, a forces the strip of paper into contact with the movable carriage, and an inking-roller and a 45 type-faces to complete the printing operation. platen carried by said carriage. During this movement the star-wheels are be 2. In a vote-recording apparatus, name ing turned by engagement with the pins 40, holders carrying printing-type and arranged and after the star-wheels have passed beyond in aye and may columns, counterweights for II5 the last of the pins the guiding-rollers 53 of moving said name-holders to printing posi theinking-roller come into contact with thein tion, electromagnetically - operated catches clined portion 54' at the outer ends of the guid normally holding said name-holders in inop ing-tracks 54 and force the inking-roller up erative positions, and a platen or impression Ward into contact with the exposed type-faces surface movable over the type to record the on the recording-disks 59. It will be observed name-holders moved to printing positions. 3. In a vote-recording apparatus, name 55 that the supporting-shafts 58 of the recording disks are held in horizontally-disposed guid holders carrying printing-type and arranged ing-slots in the side plates of the carriage and in aye and nay columns, counterweights for normally maintained at a distance from the moving said name-holders to printing posi I 25 platen by suitable springs 70. When the re tions, electromagnetically - Operated catches cording-disks approach the limit of outward normally holding the name-holders in inop movement, the shafts 58 come into contact erative position, means for locking released With stop-arms 72, projecting from the paper name-holders in printed position, means for roll-Supporting brackets 61, this taking place restoring the name-holders to inoperative po Subsequent to the upward movement of the sitions, and a platen or impression-surface inking-roller to supply ink to the recording movable over the type to record the names disks. The movement of the recording-disks holders in printing position. being stopped, the carriage continues to ad 4. In a vote-recording apparatus, printings are out of alinement with the star-wheel. As against the inked type on the recording-disks