US1005540A - Alarm-clock. - Google Patents

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M. I. GUERTIN.

ALARM CLOCK. APPLIOATIOK FILED FEBJ, 1911.

1,005,540. Patented 0ct.10,191i;

COLUMBIA- PLANOGRAPH :0 WASHINGTON, 1'7. 6.

MAB/GEL IRENEE GUERTIN, OF ARCTIC CENTER, RHODE ISLAND.

ALARM-CLOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1911.

Application filed February 7, 1911. Serial No. 607,124.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCEL Infimin GUER- TIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Arctic Center, in the county of Kent and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Alarm-Clocks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in alarm clocks, and the object of the invention is to provide a clock of this character in which the clock casing itself forms the bell, as well as acting in its usual capacity in protecting the works from dirt, dust and other foreign substances.

Further, the invention has for its object to generally improve and simplify the construction of clocks of this character and has still further and other incidental objects which will manifest themselves in the following specification.

In the drawings: Figure l is a rear elevation of the invention, Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the casing of the clock removed, Fig. 3 is a vertical section of Fig. l, and Fig. fl: is a perspective view taken at the rear and showing some of the parts of the clock removed.

The invention includes a casing 1 which is of cylindrical form and provided with an integral back 2, the front of the casing being open as shown. The casing is formed preferably of bell metal which has a high sounding value for alarm purposes, acting when struck, to give a clear ringing sound.

The clock works are generally designated 3 in the drawings and may be of any form, the parts being so arranged that the striker 4., illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings will engage the inner circumference-of the cylinder 1 to sound the same. A circular ring 6 engages the clock works 3 and has a pair of spaced circumferential flanges 7 which extend on opposite sides of the open outer end of cylinder 1. The ring, as is obvious, closes the space between the front end of the clock works and the open outer end of cylinder 1. Feet 8 vided at its upper end with arms 11 which are perforated to receive screws 12 whereby the leg 9 is supported in position. It will thus be seen that the clock works are supported out of contact with the casing 1 and the latter is supported so as to be free of contact with the surface on which the clock is mounted. For purpose of causing the alarm to cease movement a lever 13 is pivoted as at let to the back 2 of the clock and provided with an operating handle 15 and a beveled end 16 which is for engagement with the vibrating arm 17 of the striker or alarm mechanism.

By reference to Fig. 2 of the drawing it will be seen that the feet 8 engage the clock works for purpose of supporting the same, the openings 8 through which the feet project being of sufficient size so as to prevent contact of the feet with the cylinder 1. Similarly, other parts of the clock works, such as the winding stem, the alarm setting means, and the hand setting means are prevented from having contact with the back.2 of the casing. The usual ring 20 which is for engagement with the hand in moving the clock, has its stem extending into or otherwise engaged with the top end of the clock works 3, the ring stem being passed through an enlarged opening formed in the top end of cylinder 1 as depicted in Figs. 2, 3 and 4:. Thus the feet 8 and the stem of ring 20 act to support the front end of the clock works out of engagement with cylinder 1, while the rear end of the clock works is supported from the cylinder back 2 by means of the screws 12 which pass thereinto.

It will be apparent from the above that by making the casing 1 to serve as the bell, that a much larger bell can be used with a minimum amount of space, as compared with such clocks as use bells which are independent of the clock or its casing. Thus by use of the present invention the bell is as large as the clock casing which latter it forms.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In an alarm clock, a casing forming the bell and having a closed back and an open front, clock-works on the interior of the casing, a ring secured to the clock-works and having a pair of spaced circumferential flanges which receive the edge of the casing at the said open front thereof, said clockworks being spaced from the circumferential portion and the back of the casing, said circumferential portion of the casing being formed with openings at the base thereof, and supporting feet extending through said openings in spaced relation to the walls fornied thereby and having their inner ends connected to the clock Works.

2. An alarm clock including clock-works, a single open-front casing which forms the bell, receives said clock-works on its interior and acts as a protector for said clock-works, the dial of the clock-works acting to close the open front of the casing, a closure part carried by the clock-works and disposed be tween the same and the casing, and feet passed through openings in the base of the casing so as to be free of contact with the latter, the inner ends of the feet being secured to the clock-works.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAROEL IRENEE GUERTIN.

Vitnesses CHAS. A. GAUDETTE, J A. MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 4

Washington, D. G.

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