US654018A - Graphophone drive mechanism. - Google Patents

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No. 654,018. Patented July I7, I900. 0. E. PAYNE.

GRAPHOPHONE DRIVE MECHANISM.

(Application filed June 14, 1899;) (NuVMm laL) Wows/Era.

THE NORRIS PEY'ERS c0.. PHOTO UTHO.. WASHINGTON, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHA E. PAYNE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GRAPHOPHONE DRIVE MECHANISM.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 654,018, dated July 17, 1900. Application filed June 14, 1899 Serial No. 720,589. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OMA E. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clocks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in clocks; and it consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed. Y

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my complete invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, showing a portion of the clock-dial, the phonograph partially in dotted lines, and the parts cooperating with the clock mechanism and the phonograph in full lines; and Fig. 3is a side view of my complete invent-ion.

The object of my invention is-to combine a phonograph, graphophone, or other machine or device for either representing the human voice or the representation of sounds with a clock or mechanism thereof or other timepiece, whereby the said phonograph will be intermittingly and automaticallyoperated or set in motion at each hour indicated by the timepiece, or fraction thereof, as may be desired, whereby the different intervals of time will be indicated by the reproduction of the human voice or other sound, as may be desired, instead of an'alarm or other indicator, as heretofore employed for this purpose.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a bed or support upon which the entire machine is secured, 2 an ordinary clock mechanism, and 3 a phonograph which is mechanically connected to the former. The phonograph proper is of the usual construction, the clock mechanism 2 being attached to thesame or located in close proximity thereto, and, as

- shown in the drawings, the shaft 4 of said clock mechanism, to which the minute-hand 5 is attached, projects a suitable distance rearward and through the side frame 6 of the phonograph, and secured to said projecting end of the shaft 4: is a short arm 7, which is adapted to be turned by the same and intermittingly brought in contact withthe arm 8 at every complete revolution of the shaft 4, said arm being secured to and carried by a transverse shaft 9, the opposite ends of which are journaled in the opposite side frames 6 of the phonograph. Also secured to said shaft 9 and depending therefrom adjacent to the arm 8 is an arm 10, having lower bent horizontal portion 11, which is adapted to be brought in contact with the long arm 12, carducedportion 15 of the cam 16, the'latter being secured to a shaft 17, forming a part of the phonograph. The shaft 13 is also provided with a hooked arm 18, which is normally in contact with one side of the disk 19,

forming a part of the ordinary speed regulator or governor 20, the latter forming the ordinary part of the phonograph, the said arm 18 and its cooperation with the disk 19 of the governor operating as a friction brake in checking the momentum of the mechanism comprising the phonograph proper before the same comes to rest. Depending from and also secured to the shaft 13 is a rod 21, the lower end of which isbent, forming an abutment 22, against which the pin 23 is normally in'contaet when the machine is at rest, the said pin being carried by and secured to one side of the gear-wheel 24, which also forms a part of the operating mechanism or gearing of the phonograph. Secured to and carried by the shaft 9 is a curved engaging arm 25, against which the pin 23 comes in contact after the same has been released by the rod 21, the said curved arm 25 holding said pin momentarily at the preliminary starting of the phonograph by the clock mechanism.

By the arrangement and construction of the parts previously described the minute-hand 5 when moved in front of the numeral 12 of the clock-dial 26 will cause the short arm 7 of the minute-shaft 4 to move to the right, rocking the shaft 9 and simultaneously bringing the horizontal portion 11 of the arm 10 in contact with the long arm 12, in which operation the horizontal portion 14 of said arm 12 will be moved out of the depression of the cam 16. In the same operation the lower end 22 of the arm 21, carried by the shaft 13, will be moved out of its engaging position with the pin 23 of the gear 24, and simultaneously with the rocking of said shaft the hooked arm 18 will be moved out of its frictional engagement with the disk 19 of the speed-regulator 20, whereby the operative mechanism of the phonograph is free to be operated by the usual spring mechanism forming a part of said phonograph. The short arm 7 when it first strikes the arm 8 rocks the shaft 9 sufficiently to bring the curved engaging arm in a position to hold the pin 23 momentarily; but as the said short arm 7 is further moved it will slip off the end of the arm 8 and allow said curved arm 25 to assume its normal position, whereby the mechanism of the phonograph is permitted to operate for a certain length of time or until the shaft 1'7 has completed one revolution and the horizontal portion 14 of the long arm 12 has again entered the depression 15 of the cam 16, in which operation friction will be applied to the speed-regulator 20 in a manner previously described and the lower end 22 of the rod 21 brought in a position to cause the pin 23 to strike the same, and thereby in stantly check the momentum of the machine.

In order to hold the various parts in their normal position or that shown in solid lines, Fig. 2, a spring 27 is employed, the free end of which engages with the curved arm 25, whereby all the parts carried by the shaft 9, to which the said arm is secured, are held in their proper position, and in order to hold the parts carried by the shaft 13 in theirnornial position a spring 28 is employed, the free end of which cooperates with the arm 21.

The device as above described is designed to be actuated once in every hour; but it is quite evident that any number of short arms 7 may be attached to the minute-shaft 4 of the clock mechanism, whereby the phonograph could be operated intermittingly during any fraction of an hour.

The casing 29, which surrounds or covers the spring mechanism for operating the phonograph and which is of the usual construction, may be supplied with any suitable winding mechanism 30, such as shown in Fig. l, and therefore I make no claim to this portion of the machine, the principal object being to mechanically connect a clock or other timepiece to a phonograph of any well-known construction in such a manner that the latter will be intermittingly operated or set in motion by the clock mechanism to indicate the hours or the fractions thereof in a manner previously described, and therefore I wish it distinctly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement as herein shown and described, as the same may be modified in many respects without departing from the nature of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim isl. A clock haviuga minute-hand shaft extending through the works and outside the rear thereof, a short arm carried by said shaft upon its extension, combined with a phonograph having suitable gearing, a cam operated by said gearing, ashaft, an arm secured to said shaft and operated upon by the cam, a rod also secured to said shaft, and intermediate means for causing the short arm to operate the last-mentioned arm to set the phonograph in operation.

2. A clock, comprising a phonograph, suitable gearing forming a part of the latter, a cam operated by said gearing, and provided with a depression, a shaft, an arm secured to the latter, and cooperating with said cam, a rod also secured to said shaft, a pin carried by the gearing ofthe phonograph, and cooperating with the lower end of said rod, a minuteshaft, a short arm forming a part of the same, and suitable mechanism with which the said short arm cooperates for releasing the gearing of the phonograph, whereby the latter is intermittingly operated, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OMA E. PAYNE.

Witnesses:

ALFRED A. llIATHEY, LoUIs P. KELLER.

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