US439855A

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Publication number: US439855A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-11-04
Anticipated expiration: 1907-11-04

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets--Sheet 1.

A. BANNATYNE. MOTION CLOCK.

No. 439,855. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

2 e h S q t e e h S 2 m M n N m M Em A d 0 M 0 w No. 439,855. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARCHIBALD BANNATYN E, OF XVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE VATERBURY CLOCK COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MOTlON-CLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,855, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed December 27, 1887. Serial No. 258,976 (No model.)

To coZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD BANNATYNE, residing at Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motion-Clocks; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of, the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in motion-clocks in which one or more pictorial parts actuated by the clock'movemcnt co-operate with a picture upon the dial in reproducing some familiar and pleasing eifect,the object of my invention being to improve the adaptation of the dial for fulfilling its part in the effect, to improve the connections be tween the pictorial part or parts with the clock movement, and to provide specific means for reproducing the action of an oldtime side-wheel river-steamer.

\Vith these ends in view my invention con sists in a motion-clock having its dial struck up at a point thereon and a pictorial part adapted to play in the dial at such point in the production of a vanishing effect.

My invention further consists in a motionclock having its dial struck up at two points in the same horizontal line, a pictorial walking-beam, and two pictorial connecting-rods respectively located at the opposite ends of the walking-beam and having their lower ends entered into the struck-up portions of the dial.

My'invention further consists in a n1otionclock having its dial provided with a substantially semicircular opening and a pictorial part representing a paddle-wheel located behind the opening in the dial, so as to be partly exposed through it and connected with the clock-movement, so as to be actuated thereby.

My invention further consists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in front elevation of one form which the clock-movement and the back of the clockcase. Fig. 3 is a detached view, in front elevation, of a dial-blank, showing how it is struck up and cut out in being adapted for the particular motion-clock in hand. Fig. at is a detached view, in front elevation, of the pictorial walking-beam and the pictorial connecting-rods. Fig. 5 is a similar view of such parts in rear elevation, showing also the carrier to which the pictorial walking-beam is attached. Fig. 6 is a detached view, in front elevation, of the pictorial paddle-wheel. Fig. 7 is a similar reverse View thereof, showing also its stiffener and the carrier to which it is attached. Fig. 8 is an enlarged broken view, in vertical section, taken on the irregular line a b of Figs. 1 and 3, and showing the front frame-plate of the movement, the projecting forward end of the verge-arbor, the dial, the pictorial walkingbeam, the carrier thereof in its connection with the projecting end of the verge-arbor, and one of the connectingrods arranged to play in a struck-up portion of the dial and Fig. 9 is an enlarged broken View, in vertical section, taken on the line 0 (Z of Figs. 1 and 3, and showing the front frameplate of the movement, the dial, and the semicircular opening therein, the pictorial paddle-wheel, the stiffener, and the carrier thereof, the special arbor to which the said carrier is attached, and one of the special wheels of the paddle-wheel train.

As herein shown, the clock-dial A has printed upon its face the representation of a side-wheel steamer under full headway. The distant shore and crafts are seen in the background. The said dial has a perforation B located above and at one side of its center and aligned with the verge-arbor C, which is constructed to project forward through the front frame-plate D of the clock-movement. The dial is struck up below the perforation B and at equally-separated distances therefrom to form two leaves E E, located in the same horizontal line and set back from its face, so as to leave an opening F (see Fig. 8) under each of the leaves, which preserve the dial unbroken, as it were, in its pictorial effect. Directly below the center of the dial is located a semicircular opening G, having its straight edge uppermost and in a horizontal plane and its curved lower edge slightly broken for producing an irregular water-line.

A pictorial part H, representing a walkingbeam, is located in front of the dial and applied to the outer face of a circular flange I, formed at the outer end of and integral with a short pillar J, having its inner end drilled and split, as at K, to adapt it to be sleeved over the projecting forward end of the verge-arbor O, as clearly shown by Fig. 8 of the drawings, the said circular flange and split and drilled pillar forming a carrier for the part H and connecting the same wit-h the time-movement of the clock.

Pictorial connecting-rods L L, respectively pivoted to the opposite ends of the pictorial walking-beam H, are bent inward at their lower ends, so as to p ss through the openings F, formed at the ower ends of the leaves E, by striking them )elow the faceof the dial A, as set forth. /The said connecting-rods play freely up and down through the holes F, their lower ends disappearing and reappearingin thefamiliar manner. I

A circular pictorial paddle-wheel M, located behind the dial, so as to be exposed through the semicircular opening G, and provided upon its back with a circular metallic skeleton stiffener N, is attached to the outerface of a circular flange 0, formed at the outer end of and made integral with a short pillar P, having its inner end drilled and split, as at Q, to adapt it to be sleeved over the forward end of a special arbor R, projecting through the front frame-plate D of the clock-movement. This arbor It carries a wheel S, meshing into a wheel T, carrying a pinion U, into which meshes a wheel V, secured to the outer end of the arbor WV of the fourth wheel (not shown) of the time-train, such arbor being projected through the front frame-plate of the clock-movement for the purpose. By thus driving the paddle-wheel train, consisting of the wheel V, pinion U, wheel T, and wheel S, directlyfrom thefourth wheel of the time-train the arbor R, and hence the pictorial paddlewheel M, will receive an impulse with every beat of the time-movement. The pictorial walking-beam H, being actuated directly from the verge-arbor O of the movement, also receives an impulse with every beat thereof, and the paddle-Wheel train being virtually coupled with that arbor the walking-beam and the wheel will act together with highlyrealistic effect.

It is obvious that in applying my invention in the production of effects other than those herein described the dial may be struck-up differently. It is apparent, also, that other connections than those set forth may be employed for connecting the pictorial parts and the time-movement.

- I would, therefore, have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention. I am well aware that, broadly considered, motion-clocks are very old, Dutch clock-makers of upward of a century ago having actuated a variety of toy figures and objects in front of pictorial backgrounds located in the upper parts of clock-dials by power derived from the time-movements of the clocks. I am also well aware that within the last decade small clocks in cylindrical metal cases have been provided with pictorial faces and pictorial parts operating within the circle formed by the hour-characters, and often before false dials or backgrounds located behind the true or time dials.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a motion-clock, the combination, with a dial displaying a picture and having one'or more portions of it partially detached and struck or set back from the plane of its surface to form openings through it at substantially a right angle with the said plane, of one or more pictorial parts forming parts of the picture on the dial and arranged to play through the said openings, and means for connecting the said part or parts with the clockmovement for actuation thereby, substantially as described.

2. In a motion-clock, the combination, with a dial displaying a picture of a steamboat and having an opening below the wheel-house in the picture and cut and upset to form two other openings without removing any part of the dial or picture, of a pictorial paddle-wheel located below the opening first mentioned, a pictorial walking-beam located in front of the dial, pictorial connecting-rods connected with the ends of the said beam and having their lower ends inserted into the two openin gs formed by cutting and upsetting the dial, and connections between the Wheel and beam and the clock-movement, whereby they are actuated, substantially as set forth.

3. In a motion-clock, the combination of a dial displaying the picture of a steamboat and having a segment-shaped opening and cut and upset to form two other openings, substantially in the same horizontal line with each other, with a pictorial paddle-wheel mounted upon an arbor behind the dial and having its lower portion exposed through the segment-shaped opening-in the dial, gearing whereby the said arbor is driven by the clock-movement, the verge-arbor projecting through the dial, the pictorial walking-beam mounted thereon in front of the dial,'and the pictorial connecting-rods having their lower ends passing down through the upset openings behind the dial, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses ARCHIBALD BANNATYNE. Witnesses:

HERBERT J. Downs, OLIFFORD'H. HALL.