Step counter
AssigneeKasper & Richter Feinmechanischer Apparatebau
InventorGerhard R/u/ hlemann
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Abstract
The invention relates to a movement counter with a pendulum weight pivotably mounted in a roughly vertically located plane when the instrument is in the use position and which acts on an indicating means with which is associated a scale for the distance covered and whose pendulum part can be set by a manually adjustable stop, whose adjusting means project through an opening in the casing. Apart from the scale for indicating the distance covered, a second scale is provided, whereon the indicating means indicates the average step length after covering a predetermined distance.
Claims8
An instrument for determining an average step length of and a distance traveled by a walking or running user person, comprising:
- a support means;
- first scale means on the support means for determining the distance traveled by the user person;
- second scale means on the support means for setting an average step length of the user person, the second scale means including a marking corresponding to a preselected standard average step length;
- third scale means on the support means for determining an actual average step length of the user person, the first and third scale means including markings corresponding to a preselected standard travel distance and a preselected standard average step length, respectively, and the first and third scale means being calibrated with progressively increasing indicia in opposite directions;
- indicator means mounted on the support means for movement relative to the first and third scale means;
- a movable member mounted on the support means for movement in response to each step of the user person and connected to the indicator means for moving the indicator means;
- setting means on the support means for setting the standard average step length and the average step length of the user person on the second scale means;
- limiting means on the support means connected to the setting means and responsive to the setting of the setting means on the second scale means, for limiting the extent of movement of the movable member;
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- drive means on the support means connected to the movable member and the indicator means and responsive to the movement of the movable member for moving the indicator means relative to the first and third scale means in proportion to the setting of the setting means on the second scale means so that when the preselected distance has been traveled by the user person with the setting means set at the standard average step length marking on the second means, the position of the indicator means on the third scale means indicates the average step length of the user person, to provide an appropriate value for setting the setting means on the second scale means, and so that when an unknown distance is then traveled by the user person with the setting means set at the provided value on the second scale means, the indicator means indicates the actual distance traveled on the first scale means.
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