Toledo Astronomical Association

Quality Industries, Inc.

James E Wagoner

The invention pertains to apparatus for forming signs with a motor driven router. A frame defines a surface for supporting the sign panel to be routed, usually wood, and for supporting the letter forming templates. A carriage linearally movable upon the frame supports a polygonal, four-sided linkage, a template follower is mounted upon one of the links, and the router is also link-mounted. By varying the position of the linkage pivot points relative to each other, and the location of the template follower, a variety of letter styles can be produced from a single template, and a characteristic of the apparatus lies in the excellent visibility provided of the router during operation.

Sign cutting machine

Combination sundial and nocturnal celestial timepiece

A combination nocturnal and sundial celestial timepiece comprising a horizontal base marked with the cardinal points of the compass with a central post having an east-west adjustable pivot at the center of a vertical protractor or latitude scale depending in a vertical plane with spaced oppositely extending legs with aligned apertures for setting the protractor at the latitude of the observer so that the apertures align with the polestar, when the protractor is in the vertical north-south plane. Mounted around and pivoted on a hollow sleeve through the aperture at the upper end of the protractor are a circular date and time dial and a pointer; the outer periphery of which dial is calibrated in the days of the year and can be set for the date with the edge of the protractor and the inner peripheral dial is calibrated in the 24 hours of the day. Either this edge of the protractor or the adjacent end of the pointer may have an arc for compensating the exact longitude time with that of the time zone for indicating on the time dial the zone time of the day. The other end of the pointer diametrical of the dial extends beyond the periphery to provide a notch or aperture through which a pointer star of the Big Dipper may be sighted from the aperture at the lower end of the protractor, so that the pointer reads the time of the night on the time dial. This other end of the pointer also has a gnomon with an aperture therein and, spaced intermediate the ends of the pointer, a post with a central line for alignment of the pointer and the gnomon with the rays from the sun so that when sunlight from the sun shining through the gnomon's aperture falls on the line of the post, at which alignment the pointer will indicate the time of day.

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Swanton, OH, United States of America

James E Wagoner