US1040344A - Combined clock and indicating device. - Google Patents

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J. w. JONES. COMBINED CLOCK AND INDIGATING DEVICE. APPLIOATIDN FILED HAY 12, 1909.

1,040,344. Patented 001;.8, 1912.

p extension of revoluble shaft 4 is the .worm 5,

spring has been completely wound up.

v Whichspeed-indicating device,preferably ina cywv vivir-p f ig i offrirvi M i i .irl/fidi EN it wie f e., e like?? To a'whom may commu v Be it known .that l, Josemi W. Jonas, a( citizen ofthe United States of Amer-ica, and"l a resident of New York city, Newv York, l have invented a new and .useful Improvement in Combined Clocks `and Indicatingfy Devices, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specifir`:atien.,l

My invention relates to a combined and registering or recording dev-ice.

The .purpose of the invention is to :provide means for keeping themain spring of the clock in a Wound-up condition, so as tol avoid Ythe necessity of having-to .open the, clockcase and wind the sameat stated intervals.-y l accomplish this bv.provid-inge.f, train of gears or lother connecting devices'be-j tween a constantly-driven revoluble-member of the registering or recording device aand the clock-wind of the clock, with means fori preventing' the former from continuing toi act upon the clock-wind after the minclock The invention will be best ,understood referenceto the annexed .drawings thatillustrate preferred embodiments thereof, inf' Figurel .illustrates .the invention as applied to the twin combination'of speed-0 5:

meterand clock; Fig; 2 showsl the invention i.

applied to .a clock located within a taxi-g meter; Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 show a detail.

. Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a i lindrical case; '2 is a clock, preferably' cy lindrical, and located adjacent thereto; and 3 is a web or the like'uniting the two. The speed indicating device and the clock are separate from each other in the sense that each constitutes no part of the mechanism of the other; they are individually complete. The device 1 is shown as of the well known Jones speed-o-meter type with pivoted hand swinging over a graduated dial face, and having openings in the dial to show the mileage traveled; but the employment in this connection of any registering or indieating device conta-imng a revoluble shaft operated by the travel of the vehicle, would embody my invention.

4 is the vrevoluble shaft, which is rotated, as by flexible-shafting driven from an automobile wheel. The end of this shaft 4 extends into the casing of the clock at the point shown);

where the two casings are united. On Ythis in imeshA with giunge worm-gear 6, which is journal-led with rictional contact, er a lslapwlrivef lon a transverse shaft-7. 'A smaller Fig. 4.-). rives large ;gear'8, which carries -a small pinion 9 Ain mesh with the' largewinding-gear 10 of the spring-barrel or main` spring olf the clock 2. This yclock-wind?has the usualpawl-andsratchet attachment (not Additional reduction-gearing may be fempoyed itt desired. Y

On .account efthegreat reduction bet-Ween the .worm 5 and the clock-wind 10, very little poweras required to wind thefmain-spring; 'and so long as the vehicle is lin .motion and shaft 4 is-,bei-ng rotated, it will'be winding up the main-s ring of the clock, untiil'the Iatterbeoones wound after the l friotional-contact (0r s 'pdr-ve), which` lis preferably located between worm-gear 6 and its shaft '7, will no lfonger impart movef,

ment to the clock-wind 10.*`

Fig. 2 shows the invention applied to a taximeter 11, show-n as of the Jones taximeter type, which has the revoluble shaft 14 that is driven from the vehicle wheeler the likaasby exible-shafting (nothownlin the well-known manner. 12 is the worm on thls shaft ier driving the odometer train (not shown), and 13 is theworm for driving ythe 'taximeter .train (not shown). Also on shaft 111l is the worm 1,5, in mesh with the large .worm-gear 16,. which is ournaled with frictonal contact, or a slip-drive, on transverse shaft 17; and a small spur-gear (30, in Fig. 4) on this shaft drives large gear 18, which carries a small pinion 19, 1n

mesh with the large @100k-wind 2o. The h parts 14-20 inclusive correspond res ectively with the parts 4-10 inclusive, in ig.

1; and, as with the latter, additional reduction-gearing may be employed.

, Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate a convenient form of slip-drive. The worm-gear 6 has a centrar aperture which permits it to fit loosely upon transverse shaft 7 which carries the spur-gear 30. The circular wall or flange 31 rises from the ear 6 and surrounds the central aperture. T is wall is cut away, preferably at two o posite places, as at 32 and 32, -to receive t e hardened steel balls 33 (33 of greater diameter than the thickness o wall 31. The portion of shaft 7 surrounded by the wall 31 and balls 33 is longitudinally uted, or provided with (coarse) gear-teeth 34, as seats for the inner portion amera.

r-gear on .shaft f7 (marked 30 in 6o Yduction-gearinr could loe oli bells 233:. A spring leevv 35 is secured9 es by screw til telring into vvulll, with its encls' resting egeinst tlie bells to force them in wendig into tlie eiljeeent sente 1%. A. coller i? eneircles 7 to hold the bells in piece, enti lee integrel with the slreit2 or ii preferred; is eeeurecl upon to oi cirenler Well 3L Se long es sliet i? 1s iree to reE volve9 leells'l ect es lreys, enel revolution of 6 eerries slieit i vvitli it; but vvlreny the mein-spring? (et l0) is fully Wound up, so: tliet slieit i is no longer iree to turn, ilutnl ings enel lcellsl eet es enescepeinent or' reteliet, to permit continued rotetionof geen 6 Without imparting further movement to, slieit il is the result of this invention l provideclockn which the ettendent (loes not lieve to vvincl up.. The operation of the registering clevioe, in its ordinary use, keeps tlie cloelr in the conclition of seing wound-up. lin effect9 ll provide e olook that requires no Winding. li, howevera it be desired, the clock een loe Wound in the usual manner, es when storting out after e long stay in the stable or garage.

lt Will loe reeolily unolerstood that some other construction enel arrangement of reemployed; some other lforni of s ip-clrive could loe substituted, and its location clinnged; and other modifications could be made; Without in any case departing from the spirit ci my invention, which consists of employing the driven-shaft of the indiceting-cl'evioe9 in combination with reducti'ongeezring emi e slip-drive, to keep tlie `malin-spring oi" e clock Woun-up.I When 'll/refer to an inclioetin -devioe or registering-device lf ineen on evioe (for registerings or Jfor merely indicating, either spee or rlistence or tlie ernennt of eiierges) in 'vvliicli tli'e veliicle-vvlieel or tlie lilre opere/es e movable eert (es e, revolutie eiwit) to oetuete tlie register or indiceton iineters9 en@ tlie 'like Heving thus eleserileecl my 'invention T eleinix,

l, The eornliinetion with e cloeli; endl 'en inelioetin'gdevice e revolulole slieilt in seiol device extending into seid elool enc?. lowing e Worin on its extremity, end e trie-in oi' reduction-geering eonneeting seicl erin enel tlie sleek-Wind, oi e slip-drive in feiri trein comprising; e sliefit enel spur, e viorimgear iitting looselvon seid she-ft enel hei/ing e. circuler Well surrounding the letter., e bell looeteel vin e cut-away portion oi seid will, ilutings er pockets in seid sli'eiit edljeoent seid bell., enel means for forcing solei loell into seiel pockets 2. llie combinetion with e velocit-Wind and the revolulole slisrit oi en inriceting-clevice driven :from the vehicle, of connectingmeens lietween the two containing e slipdrive comprising u drivengeer havingy e central aperture surroundeol by e circuler Wall, e shaft fitting loosely in seid aperture and lieving utings or pockets opposite seid Well and carrying e spur-gear, e plurality of bells seated in cutewey portions oi seid circuler Wall, enel e bow-spring enga 'ng seid loalls to force'the seme into sa-i poolets. ln testimony whereof l have signe this speoiiioution in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses JSEPH W. JONES. Witnesses:

(l A. L. Mesem,`

RALPH L. Score.

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