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Show I Automatic Scales Register Regis-ter Weight of Coal f NL or the ne west and really most worth-J worth-J is in connection with the problem of calee and yard-wcighlnr; facilities. ' ays the Bunding Supily News, 'is a novel automatic au-tomatic rcgliter Vhfrfe can be described as a ' 'welgbtogra.'li ' Thi device Is attached to any tcale and registers automatically In figures half an Inch high the welgrt of any load which at the moment may be occupying the platform outside.'' An East SfL Louis coal dealer, showing the little lit-tle machine to Corporation Counsel Drowning first welgheJ a wagon load of coal, saying: "The weight of the wagon is so many pounds; I subtract sub-tract this from tho total weight. Now I slide tho beam on the scale to check with what the welgbtograph registers, and there Is a difference. I check the weighing over again and find a slight mistake." To which the lawyer said: "Tee darn thing has more brains than you." The welgbtograph Is box like, about a foot high ..pnd nine inches Fcjuare. Down Inside is a eres-' eres-' cent-rbaped slide w.th tin figures. As the seal Is depressed hy the load of coal the light flashes on, the crescent mores into position and the correct cor-rect weight Is flashed on the little screen In plain Uures. 1 Under the ordinary system the weight on the beam would be moved back and forth and a mistake mis-take of fifty or a hundred pounds could easily be made if the weight wero a notch or two off. With the welgbtc.graph the possible error Is S matter of a few ounces. |