US162430A - Improvement in clocks - Google Patents

Description

R. H. STRONG.

Clock.

'Patented April 42o, 1875.

www Lvl/MJ UNTTED STATES 'PATENT ROBERT H. STRONG, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CLINTON S. HALSEY, OF SAME ILAOE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. {652,430, dated April 20, 1875; application iiled l January 2, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: sixty. It is held in place on the wheel B by Be it known that I, ROBERT I STRONG, oi being placed over the series of pins g, in such Galesburg, county of Knox and State oi Illimanner that it will rotate with said wheel, nois, have invented certain Improvements in and maybe readily and easily relocated there- Olocks, of which the following is a speciiicaon, as desired. H is a pointer or indeX-iinger tion: projecting outward and downward from the This invention relates to improvements in standard A to the edge of the dial-plate G. clocks; and it consists, irst, in a simple ar- I is a wheel-dial, mounted on an aXia bolt rangement of parts connecting or gearing the projecting from the top of the standard A, in main drive -wheel directly with the escapesuch manner that it rotates in a plane at right nient, second, in the combination or a revolvangles to the plane of rotation of the wheel ing dial with aforesaid improvement; third, B. Its periphery is graduated and numbered in the combination, with aforesaid devices, oil from l to l2, and carries a series oi' twelve a sprocket-wheel, which receives intermittent projecting pins, t', J is a tappet projecting motion from the revolving dial, to cause it to l from the dial K is the front face or casregister the revolutions ot said dial; and, ing, containing openings la 7c over the dials G fourth7 in the general combination and arand I, respectivel f. rangement ot' all the parts in such manner The operations are deemed obvious.' Being that they may be mounted in working posiwound up in the ordinary manner, the necestion on a single straight standard, all as heresary impulse will be given to the wheel B by inai'ter fully described. the coil-spring O,while the wheel B will actu- To enable others skilled iu the art to malte ate the wheel I), which will in turn, by means and use my invention, I will now proceed to ot' the escapement and pendulum, regulate describe the same with reference to the aecomthe movements ot' the whole device, iii such panying drawing, in whichmanner that the wheel R will rotate once in Figure I is a front elevation of a clock enione hour, thus presenting the graduating bodying my invention. Fig. 2 is the saine numbers on the dial G through the opening view as Fig. l, with the front face removed, k, and indicating the odd minutes of the hour and Fig. 3 is a side elevation. at the pointer H. At each revolution of the Referring to the parts by letters, letter A dial G the tappet J will strike one ot the prorepresents an upright standard, supported by jecting pins t and turn the wheel I the oneany suitable base, and supporting the operattwelfth of arevolution,thus bringing the grading parts, as hereinafter described. R is the uated hour-numbers consecutivelyT into view main drive-wheel, mounted on a shaft, b, havthrough the opening 7a', where they remain, at ing suitable bearings in the standard A, its all times indicating the hour, until another imi'orward end extended outward to form a windpulse is given by the tappet J. ing stein or shaft, b', and its rear end extended Should disarrangement occur, the wheel B through the standard A, where it receives the and dial G may be adjusted relatively at any coiled propelling-spring C, the inner end oi time by moving the dial G on the pins g. which is attached thereto, and the outer end I claimto the standard A.4 O' represents an ordil. The dial-carrying wheel B, arranged to nary ratchet and pawl. D is an eseapeinentrevolve once in each hour by means of spring wheel, the shai't ot' which has bearings in the C, escapement D E, and pendulum F, substandard A, and carries a pinion-wheel, d, stantially as and for the purpose specied. which gears with the cogged drive-wheel R. 2. The dial G, constructed and graduated E is an ordinary escapement or pallets, conas described, secured to and operating with necting the escape-wheel D with the pendulum F. G is an annular or ring-shaped dialthe wheel B, substantially as and for the purplate, graduated and numbered. from one to pose specified. l

3. The horizontally-rotating dial I, conn struoted as described, and provided ith prostandard A, when arranged substantially as ieoting pins z', combined with the dial G, havdescribed', and for the purpose specified.

ing a. tappet, J, the wheel B, esoapement D E and pendulum F, substant 7 ally as described, ROBERT H. STRONG. and for the purpose specified. Witnesses:

4. The dial I, wheel B, dial G, escapement J. J. TUNNICLIFF, D E, pendulum F, W. B; RIGHARDS.

spring C, and supporting-

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