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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
John G Gamble, Simsbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
Veeder Industries Inc., Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235 / ;
Abstract
An electromagnetic counting mechanism having a rotary counter and an electromagnetic operator with a pivotal clapper adapted to be magnetically actuated for indexing the counter. The clapper has a primary air gap and a tangential projection which cooperates with an edge of a pole of the electromagnet to provide a secondary air gap to reduce the rate of increase of magnetic force as the clapper is pivoted to its closed gap position and so that the magnetic force/clapper displacement curve has a generally flattened slope less than that of the return spring force/clapper displacement curve for stable pivotal operation of the clapper with a shaped drive pulse.