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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
GEORGE C. WOODMAN, OF LAREDO, TEXAS.
REGISTERING VOTING-MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,820, dated Narch 15, 1898.
Application filed May 15, 1897. Serial No. 636,712. (No model)To all wlhomi t may coscern,-
Be it known that I, GEORGE C. WOODMAN,
residing at Laredo, in the county of Webb and
State of Texas, have invented a new and use-
5 ful Improvement in Registering Voting-Ma-
chines, of which the following is a specifica-
tion.
My invention relates to voting-machines,
and is in the nature of a machine for such
I0 purpose which will receive, mark, and regis-
ter tickets placed in its receiver.
The objects of my invention are to provide
a voting-machine of a simple and cheap con-
struction which will accomplish the follow-
15 ing objects. first, to receive the ballot above
and outside of the mouth of the machine in
a position which will permit of its being in-
spected in its folded condition before it is
carried into the machine; second, to carry
20 the ballot into a preliminary receptacle, which
will admit of a second inspection; third, to
carry the ballot from the preliminary recep-
tacle into its permanent closed and locked
receptacle; fourth, to register the ballot by
25 the act of passing it into the preliminary re-
ceptacle; fifth, to mark and number the bal-
lot by the act of passing it into the prelimi-
nary receptacle.
With these objects in view my invention
30 consists in the improved construction, ar-
rangement, and combination of parts herein-
after fully described, and afterward specific-
ally pointed out in the appended claims.
In order that persons skilled in the art to
35 which my invention most nearly appertains
may be enabled to construct and use the same,
I will now proceed to describe it in connec-
tion with the accompanying drawings, in
which I have illustrated it, in which--
40 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a voting-
machine made in accordance with my inven-
tion set up and in position for practical op-
eration. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitu-
dinal section through the machine. Fig 3 ir
45 a transverse sectional view on the plane
marked by the line 3 3, Fig. 2, looking up-
ward, as indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a
central vertical transverse sectional view
through the machine. Figs. 5 and 6 are de-tail views illustrating the ballot marking and 50
numbering devices, the latter being omitted
from Figs. 1 to 4 for clearness of illustration.
Like letters of reference mark the same
parts wherever they occur in the various fig-
ures of the drawings.-55
Referring to the drawings by letters, A is a
box having a sliding drawer A', secured
therein by a combination or other difficult
lock. This box has a circular opening in its
top surrounded by an annular flange or ring 6o
A2, and journaled in this flange is a shaft B,
carrying a door B', constructed and operated
after the manner of a turnstile. This shatt
is free to be turned by a crank B2, being held
against accidental turning by the friction of 65
a spring B, secured on top of the box and
bearing against the top of the shaft, as shown
in Fig. 4.
C is an upright cylinder of glass open-ended
and provided with an outwardly-extended an- 70
nular flange C' at its bottom, which rests on
the ring A2 and is held in position thereon by
a rabbeted ring C2, which is itself secured by
screws C3, passing upward from the interior
of box A, passing through ring C2, and enter- 75
ing the lower side of ring C2, thus being re-
movable only from the inside of the box and
protected from being tampered with by the
drawer-lock.
The upper end of cylinder C has an in- 8o
wardly-extending annular flange Ci, to which
is secured a top or cover D, through an open-
ing or slot D' in which works the ballot re-
ceiving, marking, and numbering devices
hereinafter described 85
E is an upright tube, preferably of metal,
secured in position on top of the cover D, in
which tube is a bar or rod F,extending through
the top of the tube and surmounted by a head
or button F' and also passing down through 90
a small hole in the cover D into the cylinder
C. Just below the cover D the bar F is bent
horizontally, and at the end of its straight up-
right portion it has secured to it a pair of
spring-arms G G', which extend beneath the 95
slot D' of cover D, and each of these arms
carries a ticket-holder, (marked, respectively,
H I',) which are adapted to pass through the
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Woodman, George C. Registering Voting-Machine., patent, March 15, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508408/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.