Abstract A voting booth construction which provides a simplified and efficient means of combining a voting booth and vote recorder to provide a facility used by voters to record votes manually on a machine processable card. A vote recorder and a support therefor are provided with interengaging elements to position and secure said recorder on said support in the desired voting position. The vote recorder is designed so that a plurality of said recorders may be installed in the limited space of a voting booth, the reference pages of each recorder being adapted to overlap the reference pages of an adjoining recorder. The interengaging elements on the vote recorder and its support are so arranged as to permit one or more recorders to be attached to the support in various predetermined positions to enhance the efficiency of the voting operation. The preferred form of the invention includes a plurality of projections on the vote recorder and a sufficient number of apertures on the support to permit installation of the vote recorder in different positions depending upon the requirements of the election and to provide for the convenience of voters.
Inventors
👤 Joseph P Harris
👤 Leonard N Albrecht
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-11-05 02:19
CPC Classifications
G; G07; G07C; G07C13/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
95 words
In a vote recording construction: a horizontally extending table top of a height and horizontal extent suitable for writing on by a standing person, a generally horizontally extending vote recorder housing on said top including recording means adapted to be manipulated by such person, interengaging elements on said top and said housing for releasably securing said housing to said top; including a plurality of apertures in said top and a plurality of projections on said housing wherein the number and location of said apertures permits the securement of a plurality of housings to said top.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
95 words
In a vote recording construction: a horizontally extending table top of a height and horizontal extent suitable for writing on by a standing person, a generally horizontally extending vote recorder housing on said top including recording means adapted to be manipulated by such person, interengaging elements on said top and said housing for releasably securing said housing to said top; including a plurality of apertures in said top and a plurality of projections on said housing wherein the number and location of said apertures permits the securement of a plurality of housings to said top.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
Construction according to claim 1 wherein the reference pages of one vote recorder overlap the reference pages of an adjoining vote recorder.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
Construction according to claim 1 wherein said apertures are arranged in two rows and are equally spaced apart in each row.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
113 words
Construction according to claim 1 wherein said vote recorder includes manually swingable leaves adapted to overhang one side of said housing that is parallel to the axes of swing of said leaves and said interengaging element comprise a pair of projections on the under side of said housing and a row of at least three apertures in said top with said apertures being spaced apart a distance equal to the spacing of said projections whereby said housing may be secured to said top with a pair of projections extending through a pair of apertures and in any one of a plurality of positions equal to one less than the number of said apertures.