The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-22
MAKE PEOPLE THINK.
soME FUNNr INTENTIONS FOUND
IN THE PATENT OFFICE.

A Bracelet THAT Rcminds Ono or Ones Engage.
nonts-A Red which Throws Out the sleepy
Citisen on Tiuhe-a Device which Prevents
unJseeds IRON hiowing o"t the Gas.
From the Philadelphia Times.
wAsHtNGToS. Aug. 1i.-Psychologists assert
that civilized human beings are growing more
absent minded. Tho average man OF intclll.
gence to-day Is not so alert, not so conscious OF
his immediate environments. as he was n cen.
tury ago. lie does moro thinking than he did
then. and q greater part OF his business in life 10
left to the purely mechanical brain functions.
The inventors, always n stop ahead OF the ro-
quiromonts OF tho times. are already ut work do
vising contrlvanccs to summon absent atten.
ton. One Of tho latest OF these ia n bracelet
that has an alarm watch attached to IL. Tho
wearer, having nm engagement at n certain
hour, sets the watch, and when the timo arrives
n little needle point bricks her arm and reminds
her Of tho duty to be performed. This is only
one Of many devices for like purposes. People
want to be relieved OF the trouble OF calling
thlnga TO mind. and that is one reason why there
arc 30 many inventions employing clock
Al the Patent Office a large class Of inven.
tions il comprised under the head OF alarms
these being machines by which persons who
o,'n ""u ,.s, y =" .sa,..a aIuU ~ LINE
Willingly. to get up at a certain time in the
morping To provide for tbi, reouiremo,t
many ingenious persons have applied their tai.
cnts to the production OF contrivanccs for awak.
eninR people and compelling them to arise.
There is a kind Of bedStead. for example, which
holds It's mattress in a frame that Is retained in
IN. ,or,nol ,,,si,,o, hy N oo,,b A. IN. nror.,
~ II pos'''o" y u '"o'n. At u proper
honr the CATCH operated by a ciockwork mechan'
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There Is another sort OF bod which lets the
head Of the sleepy person drop when eettipR.up
lapsing. But one of the queerest OF the patented
methods of waking people up involves the en-
ployment of a tin pan and a weight hung by =
, ,ain no mh1 ,na the m.i hands IS Of a clock reach a Ger.
~" po."'' ~. "e'sn' = released ana '".is upon
oddity is a frame from which are suspended a
numDer of ,ork,, Daring IN. NIGH, i, "a Iowsr.d
gradually. by n clockwork mechanism. until at
the proper hour and minute the dangling corks
begin 10 bob against the nose and face of the
sleeper. or course he wakes up. The most OBJ
v,ous advantage OF these sleep alarms is that
they render anxiety on the part OF the sleeper
can snooze undisturbed hv The nsosssi,v ~
watchins himself. 'e "e'e''''' Oh
blowing out ,bD -. IN .me fIty Wal insist on
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how oui he ~ i n1s . , peliiron !. ~ 1ttenaPts 10
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stnbie and lets dow, thhe re opn ra,ae IN tns
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