US685045A - Clock-chime. - Google Patents

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No. 685,045. Patented Oct. 22, |90I.

' C. A. JACQUES.

CLOCK CHIME.

(Application led Feb. 12, 1901.) (N o M o d e I Patented 0pt. 22, 190|.

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(Applicatiun filed Feb. 12, 1901.)

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CHARLES A. JACQUES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BAWO a DOTTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CLOCK-CHIIVIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685 ,045, dated October 22, 1901.

Application filed February 12, 1901. Serial No. 46,975. (Nemodel.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. JACQUES, a citizen of the United States, residingin the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hammers for Clock- Chimes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hammers for clockchimes.

I will describe a hammer embodying my invention and then point out the novel features thereof in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a clock-chime and hammer, the latter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of ahammer construction embodied in my invention. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are modiiied forms of hammers. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are drawn to a larger scale than Figs. l and 2.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures. y A A' represent a pair of uprights, each having a laterally-extending arm a, and A2 a cross-bar connecting them. This cross-bar is provided with a number of projections a', from which are suspended tubular bells B. I do not make any claim to the form of bell herein shown, as the same constitutes the subject-matter of a copending application iiled Junel2, 1901, Serial No. 64,269. This suspension is accomplished by means of sepa- 'rate cords da, which engage said projections and pass through the tubes.

A3 represents a support for a clock mechanism A4, which clock mechanism operatesat intervals a pin-cylinder A5.

d4 represents a number of levers pivoted intermediate their ends on a cross-bar-d5, the lower ends of which levers are engaged by the pins on the cylinder A5 to move them on their pivots. The upper ends of the levers are connected through cords a5 to hammers C, which are supported by a cross-bar a7, secured to the uprights A A. A hammer C is provided for each bell B. Y

Each hammer C is provided with a supporting-arm c, a head c', having a striking-face c2, and a weighted end c3. In practice the hammer is so supported as to have its head c in balance above the hammer-support. When the pin-cylinder A5 is operated to move the levers a4, the heads c are drawn back, and as the heads move out of the vertical plane of their supports the weight c? of each hammer assists in moving it backward. The advantage of this is that a much lighter weight A6 for the clock mechanism may be employed in starting the mechanism which rotates the pin-cylinder.

The preferred form ofham mer is shown in Fig. 3. Referring to this figure, the arm c is a flexible one and consists of spring metal. At the upper end of the arm two plates c4 are secured toit, and pivoted between these plates is the lower end of a rigid stem c5, to which the head is secured. The stem c5 is movable upon its pivot, and its movement forward or toward the bell is limited by the stem c5 engaging with the end of the arm c, and in its backward movement it is limited by its end engaging a pad c, ixed to the arm c. In the operation of this hammer as itis drawn back the arm c is bowed or iexed, and as the lever is disengaged from a pin on the pin-cylinder the spring of the arm throwsthe head forward; but the forward movement of the arm c' is limited by the cord a of the hammer. The sudden stopping of the lever causes the head to move forward on the pivot of the stem c5 and to strike the bell. After the bell has been struck the head is thrown back, by reason of the stem c5 engaging the end of the arm c, to its original position. T-he various positions are illustrated in Fig. 3. The cord e6 is secured to the two plates c4.

In Fig. 4 instead of a rigid and pivoted stem c5 I substitute a exible stem, and abutting against the flexible stem (designated by e7) is a spring es. This spring c8 serves to return the head to its normal position.

In Fig. 5 instead of a flexible arm c I employ a rigid arm o9. The rigid arm c is impelled forward and toward the tubular belLby. means of a spring om, which is secured tothe support of the hammers.

In Fig. '6 I also employ a rigid arm e9, which is impelled toward the tubular bell by a spring 010. I also bifurcate the rigid arm and pivot the stem c of the head in the bifurcation, The movement of the head on its pivot may be limited in any desired Way.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isfl. A hammer for striking bells consisting of a supporting-arm supported at one of its ends and adapted to have movement at its free end, a stem connected With the free end of said supporting-arm and adapted to have movement at its free end, and a eonnterbalanced head carried by the free end of said stem.

2. A hammer for striking bells consisting of a supporting-arm supported at one of its ends and adapted to have movement at its free end, a stem pivoted at one of its ends to the free end of said supporting-arm, and a connterbalaneed head carried by the free end of said stem.

A ham mer for striking' bells, consisting;r

of an arm, a weighted head pivoted to an end of said arm, means for limiting` the movement of said head on its pivot, and means for moving the arm to cause the head to strike.

4. A hammer for striking bells, Consisting of a flexible arm, a Weighted head having a rigid stem pivoted through said stem to said arm, and means for limiting the movement of said stem on its pivot. l

5. A hammer for striking bells, consisting of a flexible arm, a Weighted head having a rigid stem by which it is pivoted to said arm, means for limiting the movement of said stem on its pivot, and means for moving said arm to canse the said head to move on its pivot.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speoiiieation in the presence of two subsoribilmr Witnesses,

CHARLES A. JACQUES. IVitnesses:

GEORGE H. BIRCH, Gno. E. CRUsE.

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