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65 derneath, and in that space is placed a pair secure Fig. 16.it down He willby then close the cover and buttons 5, said but of bars 81 connected together by toggle links tons being for the the purpose of holding the 82, the center of which links are connected to

cover against the punching process. The apparatus in general is supposed to be in the position shown in the drawings. A vote be 70 ing called for, each legislator presses his yea key or nay key, according as he desires to vote, the result being that he moves his mov able member 22 under either his yea punch or his may punch, according to which key he 75 depressed. The operation of moving the member 22, of course, being through the ac tion of the solenoid, as just described. The voters having been notified to indicate their 80 votes, the person operating the machine will move the lever 21 to raise whatever punches have been indicated or selected by the leg islators in moving their members 22. The 20 which link extends to the rear of the ma result is that these punches are moved up chine, and connects, to one arm of a bell ward and punch holes in the record sheet 85 after the manner illustrated in Fig. 16. crank 87. The upward movement of the While lever 21 is held down and the platen 16 results in the bell-crank 87 being platen the 16 is held up he pulls out on the turned on its pivot, so that the upper end of handle 50, which moves the shaft 47 longi 90 it comes under and behind the downwardly tudinally and carries the frame 33 with it. projecting lip 84. When the platen is low This frame carrying the various wheels be ered, and the shaft 20 turns on its pivot, the bell-crank 87 pushes the lip 84 outward until fore mentioned and the pins 36 on the it clears said lip, the result of which move wheels 37 and 38 engage the projecting 30 ment is to move the rod 83 longitudinally points 40 on all of the punches 12 or 13 95 may happen to have been elevated by in the machine, and this in turn spreads the that bars 81 and makes then come in contact the raising of the platen 16. The engage with the intler shoulder on the members 22. ment of the pins 36 on the wheel 37 with the This spreading of the bars 81 results in re points 40 on the yea pianches 12 will move 35 turning the members 22 to mid-position, so the shaft 32 a distance corresponding to one the teeth or pins 36 on the wheel 37. The 00 that they are clear of the punches 12 and 13. of movement of the shaft 32 is conveyed In Fig. 15, at 88 and 89, are diagram matically represented the desks of two legis through to the wheel 44, which wheel en lators together with the yea and nay keys gages pins on the wheel 45. This wheel 45 40 by which they operate their apparatus. has on its periphery numbers indicating yea Assuming that the legislator at desk 89 votes, each time a pin 36 strikes a point or -05 wishes to vote yea, he presses his yea key, projection 40 the wheel 45 is moved one step and one yea vote is counted with the proper when the current will flow from battery 90, number presented in the top line of wheels conductors 91, 92, 93, one winding of his representing the printing point under the 10 45 solenoid 24, conductor 94, to battery 90. hand-stamp 6. The total number of yea This would move his member 22 under the yea punch which is allocated to him, so that votes thus recorded by the wheel 45 will, of when the platen 16 is raised this punch will course, correspond to the number of pro make a punch mark in the record sheet. of jections 40 which the pins 36 strike, and in turn will correspond to the number 50 Fig. 16 in the yea, column opposite his name. these In case he wishes to votenay, he would of punches 12 which have been selected by 5 press the nay key, and the current then the voters. The wheel 45 will therefore pre at the printing point a number corre would flow from 90, 91, 95, the other wind sent ing of the solenoid 94, to battery 90. This sponding to the yea votes. In a similar 55 would move his movable member 22 in the manner the pins on the wheel 38 will turn 20 opposite direction under the nay punch, the wheel 46 to present at the printing point with the result that when the platen was a record of the number of nay votes cast: time that a pin on the wheel 37 strikes raised the sheet would be punched with a aEach projection on a punch, the movement of may vote at a position opposite his name. 60 The operation of the device is as follows: the wheel 45 will cause its pawl 58 to engage A measure being before the legislature to be one of the teeth 57 of the wheel 53 and turn 25 voted upon, the speaker, or whoever is dele both wheels 53 and 54 by a movement corre gated for the purpose, will raise the cover 3 sponding to the movement of the wheel 45. and lay upon the plate 8 a sheet like that of In a similar way a movement of the wheel another bar 83 which projects to the rear of the machine and has a downwardly project ing lip 84. A spring 85 (see Fig. 2) nor mally holds these bars and links in the posi tion shown in full and dotted lines in Fig. 4. When a member 22 is moved from its 0 central position, as shown in Fig. 3, the inner coiners of the cut away portion are brought near to the bars 81 and are left in that position until the punches have been moved. When the operator, by means of the 5 hand lever 21, raises the platen 16 he raises the members 22, the punches 12 and 13 and the bars 81. Connected to the shaft 20, through which this raising operation is car ried on, is an arm 85 connected to a link 86,