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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5200596 | Trip odometer assembly For a trip odometer comprising a pinion carrier and a pinion spring mounted to the pinion carrier, the improvement provided includes, on the pinion carrier, a mating surface having a thickness, two protruding locators and an underside surface, wherein eac... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5122642 | Reset device for the digit rollers of a counter A reset device (7) for the digit rollers (3) of a counter has a positioning spring (22) developed integrally on a shift drive bridge (9), the positioning spring being adapted to engage by means of a detent projection (21) into detent recesses (17-20) of t... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4777353 | Value wheel rod lock A value wheel rod lock is used to selectively lock value rods, mounted to a rotatable shaft of a postage meter, against axial movement according to the rotary position of the shaft. The rod lock includes a knife blade pivotally mounted to the shaft for ro... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4473742 | Counter wheel assembly with improved drive clutch mechanism An improved counter wheel assembly comprising an indicia wheel, a reset gear, a reset control mechanism for resetting the indicia wheel to a zero position, a drive gear, and a drive clutch for selectively engaging the indicia wheel to the drive gear. In o... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4394935 | Zero setting mechanism for service station pumps The connection between the actuating handle of a gasoline service station pump and the pump shaft is a lost motion connection wherein the pump may be actuated in the usual manner for turning the gasoline pump on but in returning the actuation handle to th... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4142672 | Counter wheel assembly with improved reset control mechanism A resettable register counter wheel assembly with a modified reset gear control mechanism having a modified reset gear pawl pivotal about an axis transverse to the wheel axis for selectively engaging and disengaging a reset gear and a reset control pawl p... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4026043 | Rollers with plural detents A word forming device for use in teaching and related applications including a plurality of juxtaposed rotatable wheels, each having on a peripheral surface thereof the characters of the alphabet. The wheels rotate about a common axis and are provided wit... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4019031 | Register price wheel structure In order to increase the "sale" or "cost" registering capacity of a standard, conventional three-wheel register (counter) used in gasoline dispeners, a modified price wheel has been developed as a substitute for the lowest-order price wheel of a conventio... | 04/19/1977 |
| 3963903 | Resettable counting mechanism A low cost resettable counting mechanism comprising an electromagnetic indexing mechanism and a counter stepped by the indexing mechanism having three-piece higher order number wheels with respective unitary molded plastic reset and drive pawl members for... | 06/15/1976 |
