WEIGHING MACHINE

• US 3,655,003 A
• Filed: 09/23/1970
• Issued: 04/11/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kaneo Yamajima
• Original Assignee: Kaneo Yamajima
• Inventors: Yamajima, Kaneo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ward, Jr., Robert S.
• Application Number:
  US05/074,684
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 177/34,48,164,173,177,210,211,245,264
• US Class Current: 177/173
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/50 having additional measuring devices, e.g. for height

Abstract

A weighing machine comprising a platform on which an individual stands, and a base for supporting the platform through a weighing mechanism. A movable contact is adapted to be rotated in unison with a weight scale disc which is, in turn, rotatable by an amount in proportion to the load placed on the platform, a plurality of slidable contact plates being opposed to the movable contact, and a plurality of lamps being adapted to be separately lit as the contact is rotated through engagement with the slidable contact plates. And an adjustable height scale ring is arranged in concentric relation with the weight scale disc peripherally bearing a height scale and carrying the slidable contact plates, with which a weighted person may recognize at a glance the interrelation between an actual weight of the weighed person and the optimum weight relative to a particular height of the weighed person according to a lit lamp and the lamp corresponding to the optimum weight through operation of manually coordinating the height scale ring to the weight of the weighed person.

Claims

1. A weighing machine comprising height-indicating means for indicating the height of a person using the weighing machine, weighing means for weighing a person, and relationship-indicating means operatively connected with said height-indicating means and said weighing means and including a plurality of lamps adapted to be lit according to the relative position between said heightindicating means and weighing means for indicating the relationship between the actual weight of an individuAl and his ideal weight.

2. A weighing machine according to claim 1, wherein said height-indicating means for indication of height is adjustable in coordination with a particular height of the weighed person.

3. A weighing machine according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of said lamps are arranged in a line and one of said lamps is lit according to a particular value given by the weighing means.

4. A weighing machine according to claim 2, wherein the height-indicating means comprises a height scale plate adapted to be rotated in concentric relation with a weight scale plate.

5. A weighing machine according to claim 3, wherein said plurality of lamps include a center lamp and are associated with said height-indicating means and are adapted to indicate any over or under weight relative to an optimum weight value for the particular height value depending upon the position of the lamp which is lit relative to the center lamp.

6. A weighing machine according to claim 4, wherein the height scale plate is provided with slidable contact plates in a line electrically connected with said plurality of lamps, respectively, and the weight scale plate is provided with a movable contact opposed to said slidable contact plates.

7. The combination of claim 1 and wherein an adjusting means is operatively connected with said height-indicating means for adjusting the latter according to the height of the person using the weighing machine, said relationship-indicating means including a series of first contacts respectively connected electrically with said lamps, and said weighing means including a second contact which moves with said weighing means when the latter indicates the weight of a person using the weighing machine, said first contacts being arranged in a row along the path of movement of said second contact so that a given one of said first contacts will be engaged by said second contact to illuminate one of said lamps for indicating the relationship between the weight of a person using the weighing machine and his ideal weight.

8. The combination of claim 7 and wherein said lamps include a central lamp and a plurality of additional lamps arranged before and after said central lamps symmetrically with respect thereto while said series of first contacts include a center first contact operatively connected with said central lamp, whereby the particular lamp which is illuminated will indicate said relationship according to its position with respect to the center lamp, the latter lamp indicating the ideal weight.

9. The combination of claim 8 and wherein said series of first contacts respectively have a length which will provide for illumination of one of said lamps within a given weight range.