US258836A - Mill-packer register - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. L. WILLIAMS.

MILLPAGKBR REGISTER.

No. 258,836. Patented May 30, 1882.

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GEORGE L. IVILLIAMS, OF EDVAItDSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

MILL-PACKER REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,836, dated May 30,1882.

Application tiled July 6, 1881. (No model.)

'of my specification.

My invention relates more particularly to mill-packerindicators. Its purpose is forregistering and indicating the number of packages or barrels packed.

It consists of a combination of mechanical parts whereby the desired purpose is attained. I make use of dial-plates which are moved by the packer acting upon levers, combined with ratchet-gears, pawls and springs, and other parts, as will be hereinafter described and shown.

Similar figures and letters indicate in reterence like parts of the machine.

Figure l is a front elevation of my device with a part of the face-plate broken away, exposing the position of the dial-plates and tigures thereon. Fig. 2 is a front view of the device with the top plate removed, also showing` a part of the supporting-plate D removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional View ot' Fig. l on theline no. Fig. 4 is a sectional view ot` Fig. l on the line a', with the side ot the box removed. Fig. 5 is a front view of the knee-jointed lever, its stop and way of attaching it, and of its working movements.

In Fig. 3 the metallic plateAand box-shaped body B form the base and bodyof the machine, which is rectangular inform. The base plate A is firmly fastened tothe body B bythe studs and screws g g g, Fig. 2, and is held by them so as to leave a space ot' nearly one inch bctween them,in which the knee-jointed lever Ij, Fig. 5, is placed and operated. The plate A and the bottom of the body B areperl'orated, at c c2, Figs. 3 and 4, for bearings for the stem of the non-circular plate-wheel F, which is placed inside the body B, with its spindle eX- tending through and turning in both plates. The plate A has two or more screw-holes in it for fastening it to a support.

The ratchet-wheel G, Fig. 3, with ten teeth upon its periphery, has a stem or gudgeon soeketed in a hole bored in the face-plate ot' thewheelF. Itsotherstem extcndsupthrough the bearing-plate D and cover C of the body, with bearings in either or both ot' them. A screw is cut upon its outer end, on which the crank N is screwed detachably, its use being for turning the ratchet-gears G II rapidly to set the dials L m,Fig. 1, quickly, when requii ed.

The pawl c, Fig. 2, with its spring c', acts as a stop for the ratchet-gear G by locking` into its teeth and preventingit from turning backward when acted upon bythe friction ot' the pawl a and its spring l) during the reversed motion of the non-circular plate-wheel F, to which the latter is attached, and locks into the ratchet-gear G opposite to the pawl c. A second ratchet-gear wheel, H, Fig. 3, with ten teeth upon its periphery, which teeth stand pointed in the opposite direction to the teeth upon the wheel G, is placed, with one of its stems soeketed in the stud h, upon the inside oth the body B. Its other stem end runs in a perforation made in the plate I), or one made in the body-coverO, as may be preferred. The pawl c, operated upon by its spring` a', locks into the teeth of the ratchet-gear H, Fig. 2, and holds it from turning backward when it is acted upon in any manner by the pin I), which is in shapeelliptical, and inserted firmly in the face ofthe ratchet-gear G, by which the wheel His carried forward one cog to every entire revolution of the gear G, thus moving the wheel H with the dial in, Fig. l, upon it, only one-tenth as fast as the gear G and its dial L are moved, the ratio of movement and indication upon the dial being as one ot' -m to ten of L, or one hundred ot' L to ten ot' m. The dial-plate L, Fig. l, has the numerals from l to 10,01 0, which stands for ten, upon its` face. Beginning at 0, counted downward from let't to right, these iigures run from l to 0 on the dial L, and they are exactly the reverse in all respects upon the dial m. Each ot' these dials is punctured square at its center, and is fastened upon the stems ot' the gears H and G, which are also squared for that purpose, Figs. 2 and l, by which they are revolved from the motion imparted to the parts described by working the kneejointed lever Ij and spring K,

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in tilling a. package.

Fig. 5. These levers are fulcrumed upon the stem of the nou-circular platewheel F, the

short arm j movably so, but the long arm I is attached rigidly thereto by the set-screw o, 5 Fig. 5, and they are worked in the space left between the base-plate A and body B of the v machine. The movement of the long arm Iof the lever is limited to the space between the studs g I', and the movement of both parts Ij is shown in the dotted skeleton lines. For noticing thc figures upon the dial L m the openings 0203, Fig. 1, are made in the cover-plate C, which openings are covered with mica or glass. The figures 0 show in each of these openings when the dials are properly set for working.

The machine is fastened to a post close beside thc mill-packer, so that a projection upon the side ot' the packer will strike the short armj of the lever and carry it downward till it slips past its end, in doing which it carries the long arm I of the lever upward, thus turning the ratchetgear G and dial Lforward one tooth each tirneit is carried down bythe packer The packer, on passing upward, strikes against the lower side of thel short armj of the lever, and, as it is loose upon its fulcl um,raises the end of it up till it is past, when the spring K carries it back to its proper position, andthe long arm I of this lever drops back to its proper position from the action of a spring or weight, K, attached to it.

I am aware that it is not new to attach registeriug mechanism to machines-such as tlourpackers arranged to be automatically operated by the motion of the packer and to record by means of a system of gearing and dials the number of packages or quantities deliveredhence I make no claims to such device broadly, but contine myself to my peculiar mechanism.

I claimll. In a mill-packer register, the combination ofthe base-plate A, body I3, studs g, noncir cular wheeLF. ra tehet-wheels G H, dial-plates L m, and crank N, substantially as shown and described.

2. The plate A, box or ease B, non-circular wheel F, and ratchet-gear wheels G H, having studs and pawls, as shown, in combination with the knee-jointed lever Ij, spring K, and the reciprocating arni of a mill-packer, substantially as shown and described.

3. rIhe combination, with the actuating-arm of a mill-packer indicator, ofthe frame or case A B, ratchet-wheels G H, dial-plates L m, noncircular plate-wheelF, jointed lever Ij, having the part I rigid and the partj loose upon the shaft of the wheel F, and spring or weight K, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE L. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

H. E. THOMPSON, HUGH M. THOMPSON.

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