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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 |
| 4914278 | Internally illuminated reset counter An internally illuminated reset counter employs a shaft and counter wheel portions which are manufactured from light transmissive materials. A series of axially spaced grooves in the shaft function to direct light through the counter wheels and axially ba... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4727263 | Electromotive setting device In an electromotive control device having an end disconnect switch, two circular conductive paths are arranged on an insulating support, at least one of said paths being less than an entire circle. Wiper contacts which connect the conductive paths are ele... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4576312 | Fuel dispensing station A fuel dispensing unit has a structure providing a plurality of dispensing hoses on each of two sides for dispensing one or more kinds of fuel. The unit has a closed cabinet in its lower portion containing the fuel handling equipment and a pair of vertica... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4507549 | Odometer reset mechanism A reset mechanism for an odometer is provided. The reset mechanism operates by means of manually rotatable structure which causes rotation of a reset shaft provided in an odometer. Means are provided for permitting manual rotation of the odometer reset sh... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4473741 | Counter A counter consists of, to simplify the control of component parts and to improve the productivity, a first frame unit comprising a plurality of digit wheels, a driving gear for a digit wheel of a lower most order, an order shifting-up means and a zero-res... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4433234 | Mechanical preselection counter A mechanical preselection counter having: a counter, which has figure rollers and a zero-setting device for the figure rollers; a preselection unit having that number of preselection rollers and transmission of feed gears corresponding to the number of fi... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4293765 | Counter A zero-restting type of counter comprising a plural number of digit wheels supported on the same shaft and having digit-shift pins, driven gears arranged between individual pairs of said digit wheels, intermittent transmission mechanisms for coupling the ... | 10/06/1981 |
| 3988576 | Presettable counter mechanism A presettable counter operated control mechanism employing a spring lock latching arrangement for releasably locking a rotatable control member in different angularly loaded positions. A coil spring connected to the control member encircles a first drum a... | 10/26/1976 |
| 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 |
| 3950633 | Damped transfer arrangement for a counter Two successive ordinal toothed counter wheels are connected by toothed transfer means to make a tens-transfer once during each revolution of the counter wheel of the lower order. The teeth of the counter wheels and of the transfer means are cut out and ho... | 04/13/1976 |
