512 
Tleporl on the Implemenfs 
road washings choking tlie centres and bearings, and as they 
move in the direction of the traffic, friction is reduced to a 
minimum. The main lever is arranged diagonally, and extends 
to a small lock-up timber shed or lean-to in which the indicator 
is placed, thus dispensing with the usual office. The indicator is 
novel ; it is without loose weights, and its readings are clear and 
distinct. But, in addition to the usual readings, the poise or 
sliding weight contains within it a carefully calculated train of 
wheels, gearing into one another, and driven by an accurately 
cut pinion as a first driver, which gears into a rack secured to 
one side of the steelyard. The train of wheels drives a series of 
discs, having their peripheries prepared with figures representing 
tons, cwts., qrs., and lbs., and as these are revolved by the travel 
of the sliding weight, the necessary combinations of figures, 
corresponding to the weights indicated, present themselves with 
each weighing. A ticket placed within the ticket aperture is 
pressed by a small lever against the figures, the result being a 
record of the weight in black figures : — 
Pooley's Patent Weight-printing Machine. 
Tons 
Cwts. 
Qrs. 
Lbs. 
Name 
3 
5 
2 
4 
Gross 
Address 
2 
0 
2 
4 
Tare 
Goods 
Net 
Date 
A novelty in the arrangement is a neat device for printing, 
in proper columns of figures, the tare underneath the gross 
weight. This is accomplished by a simple movement from left 
to right of the ticket box. In addition to its being a road 
waggon weighbridge, the plate is furnished with a thoroughly 
substantial cattle pen, formed of forgings, which, when dropped 
into sockets cast with the plate, act as " newel posts." To 
these strong hurdles and gates are hung, the whole forming a 
substantial cattle pen, capable of being erected or taken down 
in a few minutes. 'J'he weighbridge thus becomes either a per- 
fect road waggon machine or a perfect cattle weigher at will. 
When the pen is in use, a counter- weight is provided by which 
it is accurately balanced. 
A considerable impetus was given to the manufacture of 
weighing machines, specially adapted for live-stock, by tbe 
passing, in 1887, of the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) 
Act, which renders compulsory the placing of a weighbridge in 
all public auction marts. 
Strange to say, there was no competition for the prizes 
