US2510569A - Bell - Google Patents

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June 6, 1950 c. w. GARTHWAIT ET'AL 2,510,559

Filed Fab. 12, 1949 mmvrons cLme' m GARTHWAIT VINCENT TURNER ATTX Patented June 6, 1950 BELL Clyde w. Garthw'ait, Waterbury, com, and Vincent Turner, Bronxville, N. Y., assignors to Cly- Del Mfg. 00., Waterbury, Coma, a corporation 01' Connecticut Application February lz, 1949, Serial No. 76,044

. Thisinvention relates to bells, and more particularly to a bell which has a shape 'of the flared 0r Liberty bell type, and which is adapted to be economically formed from sheet metal.

One object of this invention is to provide a complete bell of the above nature consisting of only two interconnected sheet metal parts which require no additional parts for their securement.

Another object is to provide a bell of the above nature wherein the tongue-supporting and bell-- supporting means are provided by adjacent inner and outer loops which may be struck out of the body portion of the bell in a single machine operation.

Another object is to provide a bell of the above nature wherein the tongue may be attached to the body portion in a simple operation which will require no additional parts and no special tools.

Another object is to provide a bell of the above nature in which the body portion may be drawn from sheet steel, and which when struck by the tongue, will emit a clear musical tone.

A further object is to provide a bell of the above nature which will be simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to assemble and manipulate, compact, ornamental in appearance, and very eillcient and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, there has been illustrated on the accompanying drawing one form in which the invention may conveniently be embodied in practice.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front view of the improved bell.

Fig. 2 is a similar front view, partly in section, showing the interior construction.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the same, partly in section.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the inner end portion of the tongue, on an enlarged scale, showing the split eye as it would appear in its initial form before the tongue is assembled with the. body portion.

Referring now to the drawing, in which like reference numerals denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral l0 indicates a hollow body portion which comprises a substantially flat circular top section II, the

5 Claims. (Cl. 116-150) A spaced pair of curved loops l5, it are struck upwardly from the central portion of the circular top section I l in order to serve as means for suspending the bell from a suitable support-a curved intermediate loop I! being struck downwardly fromsaid top section I l in order to serve as means for supporting a clapper tongue IS. The loops IS, IS and II are preferably of the same size, and immediately adjacent each other.

The tongue I8 is formed of sheet metal and comprisesa striker or clapper l9 shaped in the form of a cup having an integral stem 20 extending upwardly from one edge thereof. The bottom end of the stem 20 is offset laterally so as to bring the striker l9 into a centered position in alignment with the upper part of said stem 20 in the body portion l0, and is of a suitable length to support the striker l9 normally in a position where it will project slightly below the body portion III to produce the most eflicient bell striking operation.

The upper end of the stem 20 is provided with an integral circular eye 2| which is split at its upper extremity so as to provide side portions 22, 23, which will be initially located out of the plane of said eye, in ofl'set relation as shown in Fi 4.

In assembling the tongue l8 of the bell with the body portion Ill thereof, the offset eye portions 22, 23 may be easily engaged around the inner tongue supportin loop I! of the bell, after which the eye 2| will be closed by flattening said oifset portions 22, 23 into coplanar relation as shown in Figs. Zand 3. This closing operation may be easily accomplished merely by twisting the tongue [8 manually, or if desired, any suitable pliers may be inserted into the body portion Ill and employed to press the offset eye portions 22, 23, together.

It will be apparent that both the body portion l0 and the tongue It may be formed from sheet metal by simple bending and drawing operations. Also each of these parts l0 and I8 may be completely formed in an ordinary eyelet machine without intervening manual operations.

The material employed in producing the body It and the clapper 19 will preferably have a thickness which is approximately proportional to the size of the bell. It has been found, for example,

that when the bell is one inch in diameter, the body Ill and clapper IQ of .012" sheet steel will be very satisfactory, and will produce a bell having a clear musical tone.

While there has been disclosed in this specification,onc form in which the invention may be embodied, it is to be understood that this form is shown for the purpose of illustration only, and that the invention is not to be limited to the specific disclosure, but may be modified and embodied in various other forms'without departing from its spirit, In short, the invention includes all the modifications and embodiments comin within the scope oi the following claims.

. Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new and for which it is desired to secure Letters Patent is:

1. In a bell, a tongue, a body portion having a top section of sheet-material, and separate inwardly and outwardly struck loops disposed centrally of said top section for supporting the tongue and the bell respectively, said loops being integral with said top section.

2. In a bell, a body portion having a top section of sheet material, a tongue-supporting loop struck inwardly from the center portion of said top section, and a pair of outer bell-supporting loops separately struck outwardly from said top section at opposite sides of said'tongue-supporting loop, said loops being integral with said top section.

3. In a bell, a tongue, a body portion of sheet material having a substantially flat top section, and a plurality of similar immediately adjacent central loops separately struck from the material of said top section and integral therewith, one or said loops extending upwardly from the body portion for supporting the bell, and another of said loops extending downwardly in said body portion and constituting a means for suspending the tongue.

4. The invention as defined in claim 3 in which said downwardly-extending loop is aligned with a space between two upwardly-extending loops.

5. The invention as defined in claim 3, in which the upper end of thetongue is provided with an eye for embracing said downwardly-extending loop, said eye being split at its inner extremity whereby the assembly of the tongue with the body portion will be facilitated.

CLYDE W. GARTHWAI'I'. VINCENT TURNER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name v Date 116,085 Nichols June 20, 1871 856,995 Arnold June 11, 1907 1,362,348 Patelis Dec. 14, 1920 1,453,082 Rosenberg Apr. 24,1923 2,082,739 Macwilliams June 1, 1937 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 2,956 Great Britain 1864

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