US1143606A

US1143606A - Mechanical movement.

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Publication number: US1143606A
Application number: US687184D
Authority: US
Inventors: Tonjes August Carl Both
Original assignee: Zee Socket & Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: Zee Socket & Manufacturing Co
Priority date: 1911-12-30
Filing date: 1912-03-29
Publication date: 1915-06-22
Anticipated expiration: 1932-06-22

Description

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Specification oi. Letters Patent.

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original applicationfiled December to, tail, serial No. ace-eta. Divided and this application filed march To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that l, 'loNJns Answer CARL Born, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Mechanical Movements, of which the following is a specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of the same, this application being a division of my copending application Serial No. 668,632, for improvement in mechanical movements and electriclight sockets.

My invention relates to mechanical movements adapted for universal application. 1F urther to electric light sockets and to certain details of construction of both the mechanical movement and the electric light socket, which will be more fully hereinafter described in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

I have shown my mechanical movement as a switch mechanism in an electric light socket, to which it is particularly adapted owing to its simplicity, the few parts, and the small space occupied by them. When so used, it makes a quick make and a quick break of the electric current, without arcing, upon the operation of the driving member in either direction.

v Among other advantages my mechanical movement permits the socket to be formed smaller and stronger for the opening in which the mechanical movement is mounted need not be so large as for other switch mechanism. ln illustrating my invention l have, therefore, by way of example, shown it as a switch mechanism in an electric light socket, but it is to be understood, of course, that the mechanical movement is not to be limited to this use.

lln the accompanying drawing showing illustrative embodiments oil my invention and in which the same reference numerals refer to similar parts in the several figures, Figure l is a transverse horizontal section substantially on the line l-l oi Fig. 2: Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved electric light socket, partly broken away; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of my electric light socket, looking in the direction of the arrow 3; of Fig... 2; Fig. t is a side elevation of a Preferably l Serial No. aerate.

modified form of intermediate or hill and valley member; Fig. 5' is a plan view of the intermediate member illustrated in Fig. at.

In the illustrative embodiments of my invention shown in the drawing, 1 is an electric light socket including an insulating member 2 formed of a plurality of parts. form the insulating mem' her 2' of two complementary parts 3 and l, each of them being provided with recesses 5 and 6 to form an interior chamber '2 within which my mechanical movement is mounted. The recess 6 in the member 3 is provided with two

openings

8, 8 to receive the driving members or push buttons 9 and 10., These buttons are provided with shoulders ll, 11 which coeperate with the shoulders l2, 12 in the insulating member 3 to limit the outward movement of the respective driving members or push buttons.

My driven member is preferably a resilient member such as the spring 13 which will be caused to reciprocate with a quick snap within the chamber 7 formed by the two openings 5, 6* in the members 3 and 4:. While ll may use any suitable form of intermediate movable, or bill and valley member, ll preterably use such a member formed out oil? insulating material such as M which is pivoted on the pin 15 and is" connected by the pins 16, 1'6, at its respective ends, to the driving members which as illustrated are push buttons 9 and 10. The pin 15 is prob erably journaled in the grooves 37, 37 on the insulating member 3.

By pushing in the driving member or push button 9, the intermediate movable hill and valley member M will be caused to rock upon its pin 15 and will store up the power in the driven resilient member l3 until such time as the kicker or accelerator 17 crowds orpushes theend 18 of the resilient driven member 13 out of the valley 1% and over the ledge 20 when the entire resilient member 13 will snap over with a quick snap and when employed as a switch mechanism make a connection between the screw shell contact 21, Fig. 2, carried by the screw shell 22 and the contact 23 of the binding ost 2t carrying the binding screw 25'. When the mechanical movement is used as a switch mechanism and it is desired to disconnect the consuming device, it is merely necessary to llltl lllfl depress the driving member or push button 10 which will have then been elevated. Alternate pressure upon the driving members or push buttons, whichever push button is for the moment extended, will cause the resilient driven member 13 to alternately snap into and out of 'contact with the

contacts

21 and 23.

The binding post 26 is provided with an arm 27 which is the center contact for the consuming device. This binding post 26 is provided with a binding screw 28 and is held to the insulating member 3 by means of the locking screw 29. The binding post 24 is secured to the insulating member 4 by the locking screw 30 which is passed through the insulating members in the opposite direction from the locking screw 29. In this manner the insulating members are secured together at the same time that these screws secure the binding post to the insulating members. This same operation will also secure the screw shell 22 to the insulating members 8 and 4 by holding the dovetail surfaces 31 on the insulating members in contact with the dovetail 32 011 the screw shell 22.

The intermediate member 14 I preferably form in any suitable manner out of some insulating material as porcelain so as to insulate the driven member 13 from the push buttons '9 and 10 permitting them to be formed out of metal or conducting material Without being provided with an insulating operating surface. I may, however, in some cases make this intermediate member out of metal. In Fig. 4 I have shown an intermediate member 33 made from a stamping and provided with the valleys 34:, 34: each valley having a ledge .35. Associated with each valley is also preferably an accelerator or kicker 36 to crowd orkick the operating end of the resilient driven member 13 out of the valley, upon the intermediate movable member reaching a certain predetermined position, thereby permitting the operating end of the spring to fly from one valley to the other and at the same time cause the en tire resilient member to move laterally with a quick and positive snap. I also preferably provide the intermediate member with the

trunnions

38, 38 to be received inthe grooves 87, 3'? in the insulating member it which forms a bearing for the intermediate member.

My mechanical movement converts a slow or fast pressure on the raised drivingmemher into a quick and positive reciprocating movement of the resilient driven member 13. When used as a switch mechanism, as shown, it serves to make a quick make and a quiclr. break of the electric current, without arcing, upon operating the push buttons.

My push buttons, it will be noted, are located on the same side of the socket and jacent to each other forming a strong me chanical structure and one which can be readily operated with the minimum inconvenience. This arrangement of the push buttons is also quite pleasing to the eye.

My improved socket is adapted to be used without the usual socket shell and cap, though I preferably surround my socket with such a shell and cap. As these, however, are no part of my present invention, I have omittedfthem from the drawing.

It would be possible in some cases to use only one push button or driving member which would be pushed in in the ordinary manner. It would be moved in the other direction by pulling on it in any suitable manner as by grasping it by the thumb and finger. My invention, therefore, includes either one or more push buttons for actuating the intermediate member. Preferably, I use two such push buttons, as shown.

Having thus described this invention in connection with illustrative embodiments thereof to the details of which I do not desire to be limited, what is claimed as new and what it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claims:

1. A mechanical movement comprising two independent reciprocating driving members, an independent intermediate member pivotally connected to the reciprocating driving members and provided with valleys at its ends, and a reciprocating spring having a surfaceto cooperate with the valleys in the intermediate member.

2. A mechanical movement comprising two reciprocating driving members, a pivoted intermediate member connected to the reciprocating members and provided with valleys at its ends, a reciprocating compressionspring having a surface to cooperate with the valleys in the pivoted intermediate member and to be compressed by the pivoted intermediate member.

3. A mechanical movement comprising two independent reciprocating driving mem- .bers, an independent intermediate member 'pivotally connected. to the reciprocating members and provided with valleys an kickers at its ends, and a reciprocating spring having a surface to cooperate with the valleys in the intermediate member.

4:. A mechanical movement comprising two independent reciprocating driving members located adjacent to each other, an independent intermediate member pivotally connected. to the reciprocating driving members and provided with valleys at its ends, and a reciprocating spring having a surface to cooperate with the valleys in the intermediate member.

A mechanical movement including a support, two reciprocating driving members located on the same side of the support and. of the intermediate member, an intermediate inember connected to the reciprocating driving members and provided with valleys at its ends, and a reciprocating resilient driven member located on the side of the intermediate member opposite from the driving members and'having a surface to cooperate Iigvith the valleys in the intermediate memer.

6. A mechanical movement comprising two reciprocating driving members located adjacent to each other and on one side of the pivot .of the intermediate member, an intermediate pivoted member connected to the reciprocating driving members and provided with valleys at its ends, and a recip rocating resilient driven member located entirely on the opposite. side of the pivot of the intermediate member and having a surface to cooperate with the valleys in the intermediate member.

7. A mechanical movement including a support provided with stop surfaces, two reciprocating driving members provided with stop surfaces to cooperate with the stop surfaces carried by the support, an intermediate member connected to the reciprocating driving members and provided with valleys at its ends, and a reciprocating resilient compression driven member having a surface to cooperate with the valleys in the intermediate member and to be compressed by the intermediate member.

8. A' mechanical movement including a support provided with stop surfaces, two reciprocating driving members provided with stop surfaces to cooperate with the stop surfaces carried by the support, an intermediate member connected to the reciprocating members and provided with valleys and kickers at its ends, and a reciprocating compression spring having a surface to cooperate with the valleys in the intermediate member and be compressed by the intermediate member.

9. A mechanical movement comprising one or more reciprocating driving members, an intermediate member operated by the reciprocating driving member or members and provided with grooves or valleys, and a reciprocating resilient driving member located entirely on the opposite side of the intermediate member from the driving member or members and having a surface to cooperate with the grooves or valleys in the intermediate member.

TONJ ES AUGUST CARL BOTH.