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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. MARKASHLEY DEES, OF PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI. voTING MECHANISM.

948,757.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

Application filed March 12, 1909. Serial No. 482,908.

To all whom it may COCer. chairman or clerk may cut out the circuit Be it known that. I, MARK AsHLEY DEEs, connections of any individual member not a citizen of the United States, residing at present and may likewise cut all the mem Pascagoula, county of Jackson, and State of bers out of circuit during the time the clerk 60 5 Mississippi, have invented certain new and is registering the votes; a mech useful Improvements in Voting Mechan anism which is simple andto provide reliable in oper isms, of which the following is a specifica ation, compact in construction and devoid of tion. delicate mechanism; and in general to pro This invention relates to improvements in anreferred improved O voting mechanisms and refers more particul vide to. construction of the char 85 larly to a construction adapted for use in acter In the accompanying drawings--Figure 1. registering, counting and recording the votes is a perspective view, partly broken away, in legislative bodies. of the device in its normal position viewed Among the salient objects of the inven 15 tion are to provide a vote recording mech principally from the front; Fig. 2 is a cen 70 longitudinal section, some parts being anism in which the members of the legis tral in full and some parts being broken lative body initially place the registering de i away to lines more distant parts; Fig. 3 is a vices in position to record the votes as de transverseshow section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; sired, and in which the final operation of 20 registering, counting and recording the votes Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line of 75 central shaft, some parts on one side of is automatically completed by the clerk or | the the device being in plan and some of the chairman independently of the control of other parts being broken away so as to show the members themselves; to provide a con the lower parts on the other side; Fig. 5 is a struction which, with the exception of the 25 said initial operations, is positively and me perspective of some of the details used in 80 counting votes; Fig. 6 is a detached section chanically actuated thus obviating the deli online of Fig. 2; Fig. 7 is a sectional cate. electrically controlled mechanisms detail of a 6part of the wheels shown in Fig. found in devices of the prior art; to provide 8; Fig. S is a perspective of a portion of the a construction in which simultaneously with 30 the recording of the votes, any desired iden wheels shown in Figs. 6 and 7; Fig. 9 is a 85 section on line.9-9 of Fig. 4; Fig. 10 is a tifying date may be printed or stamped upon section 10-10 of Fig. 4; Fig. 11 is the tally or recording sheet; to provide a a sectionononline line 11-11 of Fig. 10; Fig. 12 construction in which the act of registering is an enlarged perspective of parts of the the votes automatically places the machine. 35 in position to accurately count the same; to faces of the printing wheels used in the de 90 Fig. 13 is a section online 13-13 of provide novel means for automatically vice; Fig. 3; Fig. 14 is a perspective of a pair of counting not only the yea and nay votes but the punches and connected parts used in also the number of members not voting and marking the record sheet for recording the the total of votes counted; to provide various 40 safety, devices for insuring the accurate votes cast by the legislators voting; Fig. 15 95 is a diagram of the electrical circuits used register, recording and counting of the votes in operating the devices for registering the and the restoring of the various parts to nor votes; is a sample sheet showing the mal position; to provide a construction in mannerFig.16 in which the sheet is marked to which substantially all of the operating 45 mechanism may be placed behind the speak make the complete record of the votes cast. 00 first to the sheet of Fig. 16, er's desk or out of the way, and which obvi saidReferring sheet is ruled horizontally and the cen ates the necessity of placing any complicated tral portion of it contains the names of the or delicate mechanism at the desks of the in different legislators entitled to vote upon dividual members; to provide a construction 50 in which the operation of registering, count any measure that may be up for considera tion. The different legislators are num ing and recording the votes are each re bered, numbers being in regular order spectively performed by a single operation; from thethefirst to the last so that the highest to provide in a device of the character re number opposite a name on the sheet repre ferred to simple circuit connections con 55 trolling the said initial operations; said cir sents the total number of voters. At the O - the by extreme left of the sheet is awhich columnareheaded cuit connections being so arranged that the word “yeas”, under a se