US474789A

US474789A - Watch-reg u lato r indicator

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Publication number: US474789A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-05-10
Anticipated expiration: 1909-05-10

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W. A. ALLEN. WATCH REGULATOR INDICATOR.

No.- 474,789. "Patented May 10, 189-2.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

l/VILLIAM ARTHUR ALLEN, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

WATCH-REG U LATOR IN DICATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,789, dated. May 10, 1892.

Application filed May 23, 1891. Serial No. 393.835. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern; either piece without disturbing or changing Be it known that I, WILLIA ARTHUR AL- the position of that piece. These pieces fare LEN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, not joined to nor do they exert any pressure residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartupon the regulating-lever; but when the lat- 5 ford and State of Connecticut, have invented ter is moved in either direction for adjustcertain new and useful Improvements in ment one of the pieces is pushed with the le- \Vatch-RegulatorIndicators, of which the folver while the other remains stationary, thus lowing is a full, clear, and exact specification. indicating by the space between the parts, as

The invention relates to the class of appliin Fig. 2, the amount of movement of the le- 1o ances which are used in connection with the ver. Should the lever then be at some future regulator of awatchor other ti me-piece,the obtime moved back toward its first position, the jectbeingtoprovideasimpleand cheap means pieces may be closed up to it or may both which can be readily applied to a watch or beleft stationary, and thus indicate the similar time-piece adjacent to the regulator, amount of the last two movements. An in- 15 whereby the amount of any movement of the dicator thus formed is simple, cheap, and can regulatorforadjustingthe balance-spring will be readily applied to the plates of watches be indicated, so that a watch may be quickly and similar timepieces, having all the various and surely regulated. 1 forms of regulating devices in which a mov- Referring to the accompanying drawings, ing lever is used. It does not interfere with 20 Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of regunor in any manner restrict the ordinary free lator provided with an indicator. Fig. 2 is a movement of the regulating apparatus nor ()0 plan view of the same, showingthe regulator any part of the train, and the amount of the moved, with the amount of movement indi-. last movement of the regulator is always incated. dicated regardless of the interval of time 2 5 In the views, the letter (1 indicates the back which has lapsed since the watch was reguplate of a watch, I) a balance-cock attached lated, so a watch may be regulated sooner thereto by any common means and practically and with much more certainty than was prea part thereofland c a regulator-lever supviously possible. ported by a bearing on this balance-cock with I claim as my invention-- 0 one end 0' adapted to be connected with the In a watch-regulator, the combination, with spring of the balance-wheel and the opposite the regulator-arm and its indicating-scale, of 7o end 0 adapted to travel across an index (1. two auxiliary pointers pivoted one on each Movably secured to the balance-cock, preferside of said arm, and between the fulcrum of ably by screw-pivots 6, adjacent to the end 0 said arm and the said scale, substantially as 35 of the regulating-lever, and between the fuldescribed.

cru m of said regulator lever or arm are pieces WILLIAM ARTHUR ALLEN.

f, which can be so moved as to make contact Witnesses: r with the regulating-lever, or so as to allow C. P. HANSEL, the regulating-lever to be moved away from i H. R. VILLIAMS.