US337377A

US337377A - Clock

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Publication number: US337377A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-03-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-03-09

Description

(No Model.)

W. D. CHASE.

CLOCK.

No. 337,377. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

WITNESSES:

N. PETERS, Pholu-Lnnogmpher, Wqsrunglon. 0,0

UNIT D STATES PATENT since.

CLOCK.

tBPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent Iil'o. 337,377, dated March 9, 1886.

Application filed September 28, 1885. Serial No. 178,408. (X0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that l, \VILLIAM D. CHASE, a resident of Hackensack, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Clocks, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a face View of my improved clock. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section, of the same; and Fig. 3, a central section through the dial and attachment hereinafter described. Fig. 4 is a face view of a modification.

This invention relates to a new attachment to clocks, which is to represent human or other figures in motion, thereby to add to the pleasure which the clock imparts to the beholder.

The invention consists, first, in combining the arbor of the anchor to the escapement with a projecting hook and counterpoise, and 4 with the plate or piece to be moved and displayed to the eye.

It also consists in constructing the dial in two parts, the main part having a portion cutaway, and the other or false dial being at a distance from said main dial, the movable part or figure being between the two parts of the dial.

- The invention also consists in other details of improvement that are hereinafter specified.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the frame of the clock. B is the anchor of the escapement, which is mounted upon the arbor a. This arbor a carries a projecting hook or rod, (3, which enters an aperture or eyelet, b, that is formed on the plate D. As the anchor oscillates, it will also oscillate the hook O, and thereby reciprocate the plate D. This plate D has the form of human or other figure or figures. In the drawings it is represented as composed of two human figures holding a saw, (I, which saw, as it is being r imposed upon the arbor of the anchor will be too severe unless a counterpoise or weight, f, is placed on a projection of the hook 3, which extends diametrically beyond the arbor a, as shown. The plate D, which is thus reciprocated, is placed behind the front dial, E, said dial being cut away at or about its middle, so as to let the desired portion of the plate D be seen, and behind this aperture in the dial said plate D moves, bringing its end portions alternately into view. The connec tion of the plate D with the hook O is hidden behind the solid part of the dial.

Behind the plate D is placed what I term a false dial, F, which is a stationary plate sufficientlylarge to form a background for the cat-away portion of the dial E.

In the illustration shown the farther part ofthe log 6 is represented on the false dial F.

On the inner side of the dial E is a backwardly-projectinglug, g, on which the sliding plate D rests. In the example shown the saw (6 rests on this lug g, and serves thus to support the slide D, of which it (the saw) forms apart; but the lug g is not visible, being hidden behind the dial E.

I do not limit myself. to the form or kind of ornamentation used with reference to the outline or decoration of. the slide D. Any other arrangement of figures such as a pair of dancers or the like-may be substituted without departing from the spirit of my in Vention.

By having the front dial, E, partly cut away and providing behind this the movable plate D and the false dial F, I am enabled also to provide for a rich decoration of the said dials, to enhance the effect which is pro duced by the addition of the movable plate D.

The false dial F may be in front of the perfor-ated main dial E instead of behind it, as in Fig. 4, theinovable plate D being between the two dials, as before.

I claim- 1. The combination, in a clock, of the arbor a of the anchor B with the book 0 and counterpoise f, and with the movable plate D, which is connected to said hook, substantiallv as herein shown and described.

2. In a clock, the combination of the dial 100 E, which is cut away at or near its middle, poise f, movable plate D, andilug g on the with the movable plate D and with thefalse dial, substantially as herein shown and de dial F, the plate D being between the dials E scribed.

and F, substantially as herein shown and de- WILLIAM D. CHASE. 5 scribed. Witnesses: 3. The combination' of the anchor-arbor a j GUSTAVfiOHNEPPE,

with the projecting hook C, having counter- HARRY M. TURK.