US659910A - Dial-face for weighing-machines. - Google Patents

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Nn. 650,90). Patented 001.16, |900.

- L. w. BALDWIN.

DIAL FACE FOR WEIGHING MACHINES.

(Application filed Jan. 1Q, 1900.)

WITNESSES:

` IN/NTOR ATTORNEY No. 659,9I0. Patented Oct. I6, |900. L. W. BALDWIN. DIAL FACE Fon WEIGHING MACHINES.

(Application led Jan. 19, 1900.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Modal.)

UNITED STATES LEROY W. BALDWIN,

PATENT OEEICE.

OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

DIAL-FACE FOR WEIGHING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,910, dated October 16, 1900.

i Application filed January 19,1900. Serial No. 1,965. \No model.)

, weights of persons of dierent stature.

My invention iinds its most useful application to coin operated Weighing-machinesthat is to say, to machines which are automatically operated upon the introduction of a coin to eitherindicate or register the weight of a person or object at that time on the scales.

The preferred form of apparatus embodying myin vention with some modifications thereof is illustrated in the accompanying two sheets of drawings, in which- Figure l represents a standard table of the normal weights of men, women, and children of various heights and ages. Fig. 2 represents the upper portion of a coin-operatedl weighing-machine of standard type, showing the dial thereof with the table shown in Fig. l printed thereon. Fig. 3 'is a similar view of a weighing-machine, showing in dotted lines the principal portion of the internal apparatus thereof.

Throughout the drawings like referencefigures refer to like parts.

The weighing-machine shown in Figs. 2 and 3 has a dial 1 with the graduated indexflgures for the weight of the person standing on the machine arranged in the usual circle 3. At a convenient point on the dial is printed the table 2, where persons standing on the Weighing-platform can easily see it. Such table may be of any convenient form, but is preferably arranged as shown in Fig. l, having a division at the left for the average weights of men of heights varying from live feet one inch to six feet two inches, in the center a division for the average normal weight of children of given years of age ranging from five to fifteen years, with separate columns for the weights of boys and girls at ages within those limits, and at the right a division for the average weight of women of heights varyin g from four feet ten inches to tive feet eleven inches.

The weighing machine has an index 4, operated by mechanism within the hood 5, so as to point ont the weight of the person on the scales when a coin of proper denominaltion has been inserted through the slot 6.

The weighing-machine may be of any desired construction, of course; but I haveillustrated in Fig. 3 a standard construction with the part-s shown in dotted lines. The coin 7 is supposed to have fallen down the coinchute 17, having in its course tripped the latch 8, which released the index shaft 9, thus permitting the vertical rack 10 to fall until it is stopped by the frame l1, connected to the weighing-platform, thus swinging` the index 4 around to the position shown, indicat` ing the weight of the person on the platform. Of course the position of the rod or frame 1l is determined by the degree of expansion of the graduated springs l2 under the weight of the person on the platform. The table shown in Fig. 1 is located as shown by the rectangle 2.

While the table is shown located as above described, I do not wish to be restricted in this particular, so long as the table is located adjacent to the weight-indicator, so to be seen at substantially the same time therewith.

The mode of operation of my invention is to enable the person on the scale to determine simultaneously his actual weight and his theoretically normal weight. The pointer t in the machine of Figs. 2 and 3 will tell him what his weight actually is, and knowing his height or age he can tell by glancing at the table in Fig. 2 what his weight ought to be if he were of normal physique. The advantages of the invention are affording simultaneously these two pieces of correlated information to every person who comes along and wishes to acquire said information.

The invention greatly increases the earning power of the coin-operated weighing-machines by exciting the interest of the passerby, and if his weight is found to be above or below the normal average by inducing him to try to correctthe error and by frequent subsequent operations of the machine determining how successful he has been in en- ICO deztvoring` to cause his Weight to approxinmte the noi-nml figure.

Itis evident, of course, that. various changes could be nmde in the details of construction illustrated without departing` from the spirit and scope of my invention.

The table of normal Weights mig-ht be gotten up in different shape and might be located on other parts of the machine than those indicated.

The construction of weighing-nmehine employed might be different from those Shown, but such modified Structure would still be within the boundaries of my invention.

Having' therefore described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

l. A weighing machine provided with zt weight-indicator and with it table oi the nor mal weights ot' personev 0i' different. stature exposed on its exterior,adjacent. to the weightindiczttor, whereby both the indicator and the table can be seen at substantially the same time.

2. A coin-operated Weighing-machine having an index-hand and dial with the numbers for indicating the weight on the platform printed thereon, and also n table showingthe normal Weights of persons of different stature.

Signed by me at New York, N. Y., this 1711i @la-y ot' January, 1900.

LEROY lV. BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

W. H. PUMPHREY, A. PARKER-SMITH,

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