AUTOMATIC STARTING APPARATUS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8594, 22 September 1893, Page 3

AUTOMATIC STARTING APPARATUS.

At Messrs Tonka, Norton and Co.'s Mfctipn rooms, yesterday, an automatic -Utftiag and time-recording apparatus was taown by Mr A. Bartlett, of Auckland, *ho is tne patentee. The machinery is •otllotied in a cylindrical case, and on the top »a' fixed horizontal dial, divided into sixty *»«__•, aud each second is divided into AtUu, while a smaller dial registers the wnm*_ An outer circle ia provided with a W»b« of. "tops, and is brought into use iv •krtiag for events in which the time system is required. In conwKtwa with the machine is an electric *% with bell attachment. This is jttw at the starting point, while the recorder » wationed at the winning post. The ttK__ai_m for starting the time handiwppe- events is brought into operat-'on by down the buttons on the outer rim . tee dial, according to the allowances pveathsatarters, and as the hand of the «W comes opposite the call button that has dowu a bell is sounded as a aipal to start the competitor. The appara- «• - thus specially adapted for startjail imtti-g races, and provision has r*? , for recording the times «w* by competitors in pedestrian events. r* Bw »adß hand, which registers the _vu!Li 0n the Iftr ß e <*»»•• » carried on a .fjr aer *w>ut 3in. in diameter, and of a «*»«*«l«pth. The outer surface of the is vertically divided in twelve P™** with which on the «Mf «_*-__» 0 f the cavity in which it «__ We * dozen iDbed points. The cirJJ™we of the cylinder is divided into _*■»" and fifths, and the aforementioned point, are electrically connected with ttk _JP <a » t the winning end of the running "*«_& ♦_ ias t*ut that the connection is ■___.«-: P° int registers on the cortffi R Bection of th « revolving cylinder •_wiT e °^ apie(l in co v e«ug the ground, U-itr. M 1 relative positions of each com- *»■«__** . breMl * tbe t*-*- There were aeu™ • ° f present who take an «« interest iv sporting and athletic •tw-f3 an i d - hese were on tho whole -lr B-Vm" w "k lac iageoious apparatus. tt-hu t t , lnt * n<lß to sell tno Australian a_/.tL ~ hls patent, and to farm the ■Wune hi__-elf hi Ne 4. Zealand.