US1015978A - Watch or clock spring carrier. - Google Patents

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M. M. RIG LANDBR WATCH 0R CLOCK SPRING CARRIER.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1911.

1,015,978, Patented Jail. 30, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES M. RIGLANDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HAMMEL, RIGLANDER & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WATCH OR CLOCK SPRING CARRIER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Mosns M. RIGLANDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, (whose postoffice address is 4:7 Maiden Lane, in said city,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watch or Clock Spring Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements have special reference to the packing and transportation of springs for watches, although the same may be employed in connection with springs for clocks and other devices.

The improvements belong to that class of device in which there is a case or capsule having an opening in its base in which a coiled spring is placed so as to avoid rusting the spring due to handling. In another form of the same device there has been em ployed a disk set within the capsule upon which the spring rests, and which is employed both for the purpose of carrying advertising or other matter and providing means for readily ejecting the spring from the capsule into the barrel of the watch so as to avoid handling the spring.

All springs of the class herein referred to are provided with means at one end for se curing them to the barrel of the watch. In watch springs, either hair or main, where the springs are relatively very small and delicate these securing means are bulky and have caused considerable difiiculty in packing the spring in a flat and unobtrusive manner. In order to avoid this it has been necessary to make the capsule very much deeper than the width of the spring so as to allow for the unsymmetrical disposition of the spring in the capsule. This involves a waste of material-on the one hand, renders the removal or pushing out or other form of ejectment of the spring from the capsule unnecessarily difficult and attendant with danger to the spring. By the use of my invention the capsule need be no deeper than the width of the said securing means, and the spring is received and held symmetrically within the capsule without protrusion of any part thereof whereby the spring is freed from possible injury, packing facilitated and rendered more easy of accomplishment, the spring is prevented from having a creeping movement in the capsule, and by utilizing my invention in connection with an Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 21, 1911.

Patented Jan. 30, 1912.

Serial No. 650,561.

ejecting disk, the spring, disk, and capsule can be locked together, thereby preventing inadvertent movement of the ejecting disk, without in any manner impairing the facilities with which the spring may be ejected from the capsule.

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the drawing forming part hereof in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of the capsule and contained spring embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Both of the foregoing figures are considerably enlarged for the purpose of illustration. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section of one portion of the capsule and ejecting disk, taken on the line a m Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 4E is an enlarged perspective view of one end of the spring, showing the watch barrel connection. Fig. 5 is a section of a portion of an ordinary capsule, one end containing a spring showing the unsymmetrical disposition of the spring in capsules generally in use.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several vlews.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of my invention, in which the capsule 1 comprises a base 2 having a centrally located aperture 3 and an annular wall 4. In the embodiment shown the base 2 of the capsule is provided with an aperture 5. At 6 is shown the spring which the capsule or car'- rier is intended to hold, at one end of which is formed the means for securing it to the watch barrel, in the present case consisting of an ear 7 having lugs 7 extending transversely some distance below the upper and lower edges of the spring, as shown in Fig. 4.

In Fig. 5 is shown an ordinary capsule with the spring 6 unsymmetrically disposed therein, the attaching ear 7 rising considerably above the same. With the parts thus related it will be noted that such carriers cannot be conveniently packed together, the spring is distorted, and when allowed to remain in that condition for some length of time it frequently gets a permanent set, which renders the spring unusable. In order to avoid this condition it has frequently been found necessary to make the casing considerably deeper than the width of the spring, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5. While this serves the purpose of protecting the projecting lugs 7 and preventing them from engaging adjacent object it does not do away with the unsymmetrical position of the spring in the capsule. The added depth to the capsule presents a considerable surface upon which moisture may accumulate and injuriously affect the spring. The most serious objection, however, to the form of packing shown in Fig. 5 is that it disalines the ear 7 (or other barrel device) attaching with respect to the flange 4 of the capsule, so that when the spring is ejected, if an ejecting disk is employed, the ear 7 or other equivalent means, cannot be readily inserted into its appropriate seat in the watch barrel, if it can be done at all. To avoid this difliculty, I form in the base 2 of the capsule closely adjacent to its wall 4t the aperture 5, conforming, as near as may be, to the exterior shape of the transverse end of the lugs 7 (or corresponding with the shape of the end of whatever other case attaching means are employed) into which the lug-end projects, as shown in Fig. l.

The capsule may be intentionally made to correspond in internal width with the internal width of the watch barrel, and the means for receiving the spring-end in the spring-barrel is located adjacent or on its wall, the spring may be ejected from the casing in any desired way as by inserting an appropriate instrument through the aperture 5 and the spring be properly seated in the spring barrel and its connection therewith made by alining the aperture 5 in the capsule directly with the spring barrel means for securing the spring. In this way the spring is symmetrically contained within the capsule, unnecessary frictional surface or surface opposed to cli- Copies of this patent may be obtained for matic conditions is dispensed with, the capsule made just deep enough to receive the spring and the attaching lug, 7 (or other equivalent device) held in the capsule in such a way that it can be readily connected with the spring barrel.

If my improvements are employed in connection with a capsule having an ejecting disk such as 8, an aperture as 9, would be formed therein corresponding with the aperture 5 and alined with it, so that the lugs 7 will hold the capsule disk and spring firmly together and prevent any creeping or inadvertent movement between the parts.

It will be observed that my invention may be variously embodied, so that I do not limit myself to the'exact form shown and described herein, but intend that my invention shall be taken to be as broad as the scope of the claims appended hereto.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In an article of the class described, a capsule having a base and flange, a spring coiled within said flange, an aperture formed in the base adjacent to the flange and an enlargement or projection formed at the end of the spring and extending transversely thereof, the lower end of said enlargement passing into said aperture.

2. In an article of the class described, the

combination of a capsule having a base and flange, an aperture in the base adjacent the flange and an ejecting disk located within the flange and resting on the base and having an aperture adapted to be alined with the aperture in the base.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York this 20th day of September, 1911.

MOSES M. RIGLANDER. lVitnesses I GUs'rAvE I. Anonow, H. RADZINSKY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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