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Traffic speed violation recorder

  • US 3,165,373 A
  • Filed: 09/07/1962
  • Issued: 01/12/1965
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1962
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. MEANS TO DETERMINE AND GIVE AN INDICATION OF THE SPEED OF THE TRAVELLING VEHICLE IN COMPARISION WITH A PREDETERMINED SPEED, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION MEANS TO DELIVER A FIRST DEFINED SIGNAL WHEN THE VEHICLE PASSES THE BEGINNING OF A SPEED TEST ZONE OF PRE-DETERMINED LENGTH, MEANS TO DELIVER A SECOND DEFINED SIGNAL WHEN THE VEHICLE PASSES THE END OF SAID SPEED TEST ZONE, A ROTARY MASS, MEANS TO JOURNAL SAID MASS FOR ROTATION ABOUT ITS AXIS, SPRING MEANS CONNECTED TO THE MASS AND CONSTITUTED TO URGE ROTATION OF THE MASS IN A TIME COUNT DIRECTION DURING UNWINDING OF THE SPRING, MEANS TO LOCK THE MASS AGAINST ROTATION AT A STARTING POSITION AND AGAINST THE URGE OF THE SPRING, MEANS TO UNLOCK THE LOCKING MEANS OPERATIVE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE FIRST DEFINED SIGNAL DELIVERING MEANS AND THE UNLOCKING MEANS, CONSTITUTED TO UNLOCK THE MASS WHEN THE FIRST DEFINED SIGNAL IS DELIVERED, FOR RELEASE OF THE MASS FOR ROTATION UNDER UNWINDING URGE OF THE SPRING, A STATIONARY STARTING POSITION INDICATOR IN PROXIMITY TO THE MASS, INDICIA ON THE MASS MOVABLE WITH THE MASS IN REFERENCE COMPARISION WITH SAID STATIONARY STARTING POINT INDICATOR, MEANS TO PROVIDE AN INDICATION OF THE MOVED POSITION OF THE INDICIA IN COMPARISION WITH THE STARTING POSITION INDICATOR, AND OPERATIVE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SECOND DEFINED SIGNAL PRODUCING MEANS AND THE MEANS WHICH PRODUCES AN INDICATION OF THE MOVED POSITION OF THE INDICIA ON THE MASS, CONSTITUTED TO ACTIVATE THE INDICATION PRODUCING MEANS WHEN THE SECOND DEFINED SIGNAL IS DELIVERED.

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