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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. EUGENE E. HINES, OF LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOES.

VOTE-REGISTERING MACHINE.

1,380,557.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1921.

Application filed February 24, 1920. Serial No. 361,064.

To all whom it may concern,

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Be it known that I, EUGENE. E. HINEs, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Lawrenceville and State of Illinois, 5 have invented new and useful Improvements in Vote-Registering Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. The present invention is in the nature of a 10 vote registering machine for use in cont gresses, lodge halls, or public assemblies of any kind, for registering the aggregate votes upon any question. Another object is to provide Such a ma 15 chine for registering the number of voters present, and separately registering the num ber who vote “no’ and those who vote “yes” upon any question. A further object is to provide a machine 20 of this kind in a simple, practical and effi cient form, best adapted to carry out the purposes intended. In the drawings, wherein is embodied a preferred form of construction, 25 Figure 1 is a top plan view. Fig. 2, a vertical, sectional view. Fig. 3, a side elevation. Fig. 4, a detail of the push button mecha nism. 30 Fig. 5 is a detail of the arrow mechanism. Fig. 6 is a diagram showing the layout of the apparatus. Referring particularly to the drawings, the invention consists of a central cylinder 1, 35 vertically and permanently mounted upon a base 2, and having pierced through its walls a plurality of ports, as represented at 3, 4 and 5. These ports are arranged in hori Zontally alined tiers around the circumfer 40 ence of the cylinder 1; one tier of ports as 3 representing, for instance, the aye votes, an other tier as 4 representing the nay votes, and another tier as 5 representing and indi cating the voters present. These respective 45 tiers as 3, 4 and 5 have their ports also in vertical alinement as shown. Annular guide-ways as 6, 7 and 8 are permanently mounted around the outer face of the cylin der 1 immediately above each tier of ports 50 aforesaid, and these guide-Ways are each adapted to carry on roller bearings, such as 9, 10 and 11, automatic counters as 12, 13 and 14, same having triggers 33, and each being adapted to cover and account for one 55 of the tiers of ports, as will hereafter ap pear. Within the cylinder 1, mounted in

horizontal alinement with each of the afore Said ports, is a plurality of angular indi cating a rows 15, said arrows being pivotally mounted at 16 to the brackets 17 and thus 60 adapted to Swing forward and project one each through the ports 3, 4 and 5, aforesaid, 9r to be Withdrawn back through said ports into the cylinder 1. The arrows 15 are normally held withdrawn within the cylin 65 der through themay weight of the tails 18,byora this 1arrangement be supplemented Spring 84 bearing against a brace 35. Thus

each individual port has its individual air rOW, SO mounted. Immediately beneath the tails 18 of the arrows 15 are mounted the armatures 19, Same being pivoted at 20 and

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thus adapted to Swing upwardly against the tails 18. These armatures 19 are of mag netic metal and thus adapted to be acted 75 upon by the electromagnets 21, same being energized by the electric current passing through the conductors 22; thus as the mag. nets 21 are energized, the armatures 19 are drawn upwardly and impinge against the 80 tails 18 of the arrow 16, this causing the arrows 15 to rock outwardly through the ports 3,4, and 5, as the case may be, and thus indicating “yes,” “no,” or “present,” for the member operating that arrow. The con 85 ductors 22 lead to the desks 23 of the mem bers and upon each desk is located a push button system 24, there being metal push buttons 25, 26, 27, respectively to indicate “yes”, “no, or “present”. These push but 90

tons are adapted to close the electric circuit through the magnets 30 and 21 and as the push buttons are depressed and close the

circuit as aforesaid, the magnets 30 hold the they cannot be again manipulated until the circuit is opened. After the circuit is Opened, the Springs 32 throw the push but tons back up into operative position. Above the tiers of ports 3, 4 and 5, and in vertical alinement therewith, may be written or mounted the names of the voters, as repre buttons down within the sockets 31 so that

Sented on Fig. 3. The conductors 22 are connected with any suitable source of electri cal energy. In Operation, as the names of the members are called each may respond present, or Vote no or yes, by pressing the proper but ton which closes the electric circuit and causes the arrow 15 to project through the proper port. When the vote is complete, the counters 12, 13 and 14 are rotated

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