US672357A - Clock-dial. - Google Patents

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Q Patented Apr. l6, l90l. G. C. DAVISON. CLOCK DIAL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GREGORY CALDWELL DAVISON, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

CLOCK-DIAL.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,357, dated April 16, 1901.

Application filed November 28, 1900. Serial No. 38|04=5- N mod l To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GREGORY CALDWELL DAVISON, of the United States Navy, serving on board the United States torpedo boat Rodgers, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys; 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 a certain novel toy, which may be either used as representing a clock or watch face and operated by hand to amuse children or to teach them how to tell the time, or it may be applied directly to a clock-face and operated by the clock mechanism of the clock itself.

My invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings,in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters throughout both views.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a clock-face constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 represents a section along the broken line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

A represents the face of the clock or dum myclock, through which projects the tube B,carrying the separately-movable legs 0 and D, which representthe'hands of the clock or watch.

E represents a plate secured in front of the legs and rigidly attached to the face of the clock in any convenient way, as by means of the washer b on the tube B, and the sleeve F and bolt f, which are shown as passing through the upper part of this plate E. This plate is made in the form of a skirt and body of a ballet-dancer, having a waist portion 6 and arms 6' and e One or both of each of the latter may be rigidly attached to the face of the clock, as shown at f, or this plate E may be secured to the tube B only.

The legs D and C may be loosely mounted on the tube B and may be turned about by hand, if desired; but preferably they should be operated in the same way as the hour and minute hands of a watchthat is, the leg 0 may be used to indicate the hour-hand and the leg D may be used to indicate the minute= handand thus the time of day would be indicated by the position of the two legs, and the device would afford a great variety of postures of the ballet-dancer during each cycle of twelve hours.

Where the legs are used in place of the hands operated by clock mechanism, a glass plate G may be provided to protect the parts, if desired.

It would be obvious that the details may be changed in a great variety of ways, and I do not intend to limit myself to the precise details shown in the drawings.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A toy comprising a clock-face, a plates in the shape of the legs of a ballet-dancer forming the hands of said clock and mounted upon a central pivot, a second plate mounted on said pivot outside of and at a distance from said legs, said second plate representing the skirt and upper portion of the body of the ballet-dancer, with outstretched arms, and a rigid connection between one or both of said arms and said clock-face, said outer plate being small enough to permit the legs of the ballet-dancer to be seen at every portion of their movement, substantiallyas described.

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

GREGORY CALDWELL DAVISON.

Witnesses:

JAS. F. FARRELL, JOHN L. QUINN.

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