US1940453A - Time reminding device - Google Patents

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Dec. 19, 1933. s c coc 1,940,453

TIME REMINDING' DEVICE Filed Jan. 16, 1933 @ZZZ A'lTORNEY Patented Dec. 19,1933 g f V I I i i owne s-TB PA N M 7 1,940,453 y I TIME REMINDING DEvIoE Helen Sargent Hitchcock, New York, N. r Application'January 16,1933, seriainacsims Claims. (01. ncren My-present invention refers tocertain new and Similar characters of reference designate coruseful improvements in timing or remindingderesponding parts in thedifferent figures of the vices for nursea patients and others, that are drawing, z V s c usually capable of being set to indicate when a 1 denotes a clock dial or face, covered by glass predetermined interval of time has elapsed, or 1a, said dial having the usual hands, as hour when the point of time arrives when a future hand 2 and minute hand 3, the dial being marked event is to take place or an act to be performed, withthe usual time numerals of any kind and such as for example the taking of the next dose minute graduations. This is only one example of medicine by a sick person, or the performance of a clock or timepiece. My invention is general F of the next act in a recurrent series of acts at and can be applied, to any timepiece used for '65 specified intervals apart, some one of which acts marking time. might be overlooked if the memory alone were 4 denotes a body device or member that has depended upon to advise as to the appointed time a suction cup on one side at '7 and carries a hand for such act, or the time for the taking of such or pointer 5 which is designed to point to one of 5 medicine. The usefulness of such a reminding the hour numerals or minute degrees, or both, as 7 device is greatly increased by constructing the shown on the dial 1 near its periphery, so that device in a form or design which will attract and by attaching the suction cup '7 to the dialglass amuse the patient, especially when such patient 1a the device 4 can be located in some central is a child, by captivating the watchful attention or other position over the dial face 1 with hand and thus more effectually ensuring a recognition 5 in a stationary position, pointing at some one 75 of the time when the next dose is due or another of the dial figures. I act is to be performed. The suction member 4 may take a variety of The invention consists essentially in combinadifferent forms. In Figure '1 it'is made in the tion with a timepiece dial of any kind having a form of a mouse having on the under side a con- 5 face on which units of time are marked and emcave recess '7 in the rubber or other material of 80 p y vable hands or pointers that measure which the mouse is made. The suction of cavity or indicate the time, of a separate, distinct and 7 when the mouse image is pressed tightly independent device that is adapted to be removaagainst the face of glass is causes the mouse to y attached y Suction means otherwise adhere or stick closely to the clock. The mouse the face of the timepiece and which carries an n at any time be readfly'detached from clock adjustable hand r p in r whi h is adapted to be dial by slightly lifting the edge of the recess 7 fi y pointed at OF 130 the 110111 Ortime at Wh and allowing air to, enter and break the vacuum the next medicine dose is due, or at which some so that the mouse can be loosened and removed. 7 time interval will be concludedand some act is due Running through the solid rubber body of the 35 to be performed The Suction means may be demouse 4, by being imbedded therein when mold- 90' signed in form of a small animal, as a rodent, ed, above the cavity 7 is a pointer or hand'5, bird, or other living creature, or as a conventional hi h projects di t from mouse, t fi ure, ornam n d i n, r button, provi d y 1y or rearwardly or otherwise as preferred. This that it has a suction p n hand pointer hand 5 has a spiral section 6 where it enters the r 40 mounted thereon, the hand being adjustable as bodyof themouse, so that it can screw into said ,95

to its effective length. body for a greater or less distance and in this And'the invention also comprises numerous way the length f hand or pointer projecting details and peculiarities in the construction, comt ide of and away from themouse-figure can binat Oh a d arrangement of p Substantially be changed at will to enable the hand to be varied as Will be hereinafter described and claimed. in length to correspond with the different, length 100 r In the a mp nyin dr w ng i l r in my of radius of various clock faces with which the invention: timing device may be used.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved Instead of an animal figure of which the little timing device, shown as practically applied to rodent 4 is an example, the suction member may the face of a clock. be a round button, as 8, having a. suction cavity 195 Figure 2 i a r si nal elev i n f the 9 and operating in a manner similar. to the mouse same. i figure. The hand 5a having a spirally bent sec-' Figure 3 is a sectional view of an alternative tion 6a is passed screwlike through a cap or form of suction holder. protuberance on the button' 8 and allowed to 7 Figure 4 is a plan. view of the same. project one or both ways, one end. pointing to the" 1-0 time units'of the dial. This button may be of any form, and in any conventional shape or design.

The rather novel and fanciful appearance of a mouse design or other little animal onthe face of a clock dial will catch the thought and hold the gaze of a child, and even an older person, so that the mind will be kept on the pointer and the time reading that it is set to mark. For the child might suppose the mouse to be alive and might watch to see it jump or move, and thus the attention would be concentrated on the clock.

And from the fact that thechild or patient has his attention held and isamused by something curious, the nurse'or patient will be apt to notice also what the patient is noticing, so that the time interval will be Watched and the time for the next medicine or act will not be overlooked.

Obviously the mouse may have any form and shape, and other little animals of many breeds and kinds may be substituted, or plain designs of still forms, provided the same can carry a suction means to enable it to be fastened firmly and quickly on a dial glass and provided also that it can holdan adjustable finger which may direct the attention to a time figure at which an act is to be performed. Therefore the invention will be found to have a wide variety of applications. And even outside of the suggested field a pointer that can be removably attached to a clock crystal to note the future time for doing some act will be found of much value and service.

What I claim, is:

1. In a reminding device, the combination with a timepiece dial, of a body having suction means to attach it to the dial, and a time-indicating stationary pointer carried by the body and formed with a spiral section that screwsinto the body and adjusts the length of the pointer relativelyto the radius of the dial.

. 2. In a device of the class described, a clock face, a body having suction means to attach it thereto, and a time pointer screwed adjustably HELEN SARGENT HITCHCOCK;

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