Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-08-27

duce- exchange clock. By the ways
this clock through electrical connec-
ton rings bells throughout the build
ing to notify members of the sessions
of the exchange"
rs that the largest town clock you
are prepared to make9"
mo. We have machinery ready
for clocks with dials fifteen feet in
diameter. But we can manufacture
them of any size. Tower clocks are
divided into time clocks and striking
clocks. The former simply indicate
the hour, the latter, in addition, strike
bells, and are either hour or quarter
strikers. Our clocks run from forty
! inch dial plates and up. The small
clocks are ordered for factories and
stables. We have one, for instance.
III William s.. Vanderbilt's stable
does the size of the bells depend
on the size of the clecks?"
1T does. Our clocks five feet
IN diameter are calculated to bring
the tone out of bells weighing fifteen
hundred pounds, our ten foot clocks
will handle bells of six thousand
pounds weight, and our ffteen>foot
clocks use bells of ten thousand
pounds weight"
rs there any rule for determining
the diameter Of the dlals?" !
The diameter Of the dial should
not be less than tenth of the height
OF It's center from the ground. The
center of the Mechlin clock is only
three hundred feet from the ground;
that of the Westminster clock $50
feet. Speaking again of the West
minister clock reminds nae that its
dlals cover an area of four hundred
feet, and cost 1884. The minute
PAGES are foot square and the figures
two feet long"
Usually tower clocks have four
dial plates. Are separate works re-
quired for each dial plate?
mo. You see here pointing to the
machinery in The window that the
sets of hands are all controlled by the
same weights. Speaking of the ma
chinery, while full description OF it
would be too technical To interest your
readers. l may say that we enjoy
two kinds of escapements, the escape
ments being the part of the movement
connected with the pendulum. The
| first escapment IS called the Graham
dead beat and the other the Denison
gravity. In the former the pendulum
receives direct impulse on each swing.
With the dead beat we guarantee a
clock to run inside of a minute a.
month; with the Denison gravity, in
slce OF ten seconds month. Many
| very less than two seconds For IN
stance, the produce exchange clock
varied only second and a half a
month"
do tower clocks often need regu-
lating and oiling2"
when they are only recently put
up the swing Of the pendulum Aas to
be heightened or shortened by the ad-
jus.ment OF a movable weight. A
drop Of oil should be put in the oils
hole once or twice month. When
the clock has settled down to steady
work drop of Oil every two Or three
months will do"
''Have you put up many clocks in
buildings that are well known besides
the produce exchanged"
1--WE have clocks in the Grand Cen
trail depot, DIR. Halls church, Union
Dime Savings bank, and Cooper union,
this city; in the Philadelphia court
house, all the Boston railroad 2epots,
the city hall in New Haven, and ia
tAe Smithsonian institution. By the
way, there are very few tower clocks
IN Washington, and very few IN the
south"
''Then you get more orders from
certain parts of the country than from
others?"
Eyes. Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana
form the best section for us. They
seem to have money to spend there,
and so they get tower clock for near
~ every public building they put up.
Most of our orders were formerly from
churches. Now the majority are for
new court houses. The court house
in Lima, O., has the largest quarter
striking clock 10 the country. The
university of Michigan has a clock
which is a quarter striker, and also
rings chimes both morning and eve
ming"
"How do the prices of tower clocks
range?"
Gall the way from $500 to $1,000.
The works for the largest as they
stand here, without dials and fxings,
are worth $1,700. The difference be-
tween that SUM and 81, 900 is made up
by the dials and the work required to
put the clock in."
"How do you get your orders?"
''By carefully reading over all ar
chitectural and building papers, and
keeping my eyes open when on the
road. I usually clinch q contract IN
person This takes me on the road
very often, When we find out that q
suitable building is projected we COM
municate with the projectors"
'Do you get orders from foreign
c9untries?"
Yes. We have two clocks n
Vera Cruz, one IN Havana, the De-
marara market clock in Georgetown,
one each in Guayaquil, Lima, Santa
Martha, Honolulu, and Toxic, and
three in India. The Indian clocks.
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