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A WEIGHING SCALE COMPRISING A FRAME AND A WEIGHING MECHANISM INCLUDING A PLATFORM SAID FRAME HAVING A BOTTOM PORTION AND SIDE WALLS AND AN OPEN TOP FORMING A CASING, SAID PLATFORM SUPPORTED BY THE SAID MECHANISM AND BEING SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE IN SIZE WITH THE SAID OPENING, COUNTER BALANCING MEANS, SAID COUNTER BALANING MEANS SUPPORTED BY THE SAID FRAME AND CONNECTED TO THE SAID PLATFORM TO BALANCE SAID PLATFORM IN A VERTICALLY DEPRESSED POSITION CORRESPONDING TO THE WEIGHT OF AN OBJECT PLACED UPON THE SAID PLATFORM, AN ILLUMINATED WEIGHT INDICATING MEANS, SAID INDICATING MEANS COMPRISING A HORISAID PLATFORM, SAID INDICATING MEANS COMPRISING A HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING TUBULAR SHAFT HAVING A NON-CIRCULAR EXTERNAL PERIPHERY ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BY A SIDE WALL OF SAID CASING, A TUBULAR INDICATOR ELEMENT, SAID INDICATOR ELEMENT HAVING A NON-CIRCULAR INTERNAL PERIPHERY CONFORMING IN SHAPE TO THE SAID TUBULAR SHAFT AND MOUNTED UPON THE SAID SHAFT FOR ROTATION THEREWITH AND FOR AXIAL ADJUSTMENT RELATIVE THERETO AND HAVING WEIGHT INDICIA PERIPHERALLY DISPOSED ABOUT THE DISTAL END THEREOF, A CYLINDRICAL SHIELD, SAID SHIELD LOCATED ABOUT THE SAID INDICATOR ELEMENT AND BEING SLIDABLY NON-ROTATABLY SUPPORTED COAXIALLY OF SAID SHAFT BY AN APERTURE IN AN OPPOSITE WALL OF SAID CASING AND ADAPTED TO BE MOVED AXIALLY FROM A RETRACTED POSITION WITHIN SAID CASING TO AN EXTENDED PARTIALLY EXPOSED POSITION EXTERIORLY OF SAID CASING, SAID SHIELD HAVING A WINDOW OPENING AND AN INDEX AND AN INTERNAL ILLUMINATING MEANS LOCATED ADJACENT THE SAID INDICIA ON SAID INDICATOR ELEMENT, MEANS FOR CONCURRENTLY MOVING THE INDICATOR ELEMENT AXIALLY UPON MOVEMENTS OF SAID SHIELD THEREBY TO EXPOSE SAID WINDOW OPENING AND SAID WEIGHT INDICIA EXTERIORLY OF SAID CASING WHEN SAID SHEILD IS IN EXTENDED POSITION, ENERGIZING MEANS FOR SAIDD ILLUMINATING MEANS INCLUDING MEANS ON SAID SHIELD FOR ENABLING SAID ENERGIZING MEANS WHEN SAID SHIELD IS EXTENDED, AND DRIVE TRANSMISSION MEANS CONNECTING SAID SHAFT TO SAID PLATFORM TO ROTATE SAID SHAFT WHEN SAID PLATFORM IS DEPRESSED.