Registers – Odometers – Details
Patent
1980-10-08
1982-09-21
Hix, L. T.
Registers
Odometers
Details
G01C 2200
Patent
active
043508804
ABSTRACT:
A system for budgeting fuel costs and for emitting an unwarranted-cost alarm based on instantaneous consumption, in a motor vehicle using liquid, gaseous, solid (or with adaptation, electrical) fuel includes an input drive to a counting meter showing accumulation in monetary units of fuel costs, mechanism for compensating speed of counting meter based on engine efficiency and variables of estimated vehicle miles per unit of fuel and on cost of fuel per unit of measure; mechanism is provided for connecting to a vehicle odometer cable to provide input speed in direct relation to vehicle speed along with provision for splicing the odometer cable to the meter drive and to provide cable extension to odometer, provision for re-setting cost indicating meter back to zero and to lock all settings of meter speed selection and reset. Plural modes of use are disclosed.
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Fuller Benjamin R.
Hix L. T,.
McClellan, Sr. John F.
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