Improvements in Movable Wax Figures.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1894-Accepted, 23rd June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Movable Wax Figures.
We, WILLY WEBER and HANS WEBER, Sculptor and Mechanician
respectively, of 21 Schwedter Strasse, Berlin, Germany, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The present invention consists of a device by means of which the head' and eyes.
of a wax figure may be made to move automatically, in a more natural manner than
has hitherto been attained by such figures.
The head of the figure is pivotally mounted and caused to turn to the right and
left, by means of a clock-work mounted in the body, and the eyes are mounted in
the head on vertical pivots, and connected up by means of levers forming a
parallelogram, and operated from a curved disc mounted in the body advantageously
on the frame plate of the clock-work and which operates to depress at intervals a
spring retained lever connected to actuating mechanism for the parallelogram of
levers connected to the eyes.
And in order to make the present invention more easily intelligible reference is.
had to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters denote similar parts.
throughout the several views:-
Fig. 1 being a vertical section through the device; Fig. 2 a horizontal section
on the line in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a vertical section on the line y-y in Fig. 1.
The figure head fits loosely over the socket a of the trunk and is carried by a.
ring c fitted rigidly inside the neck and having a cross piece to which is rigidly
attached a vertical spindle b, extending downwards into the trunk and having its.
lower end mounted to turn on a bracket d fixed to the frame plate of a clock-work A
arranged in the trunk of the figure. On the frame plate A is mounted to rotate a.
curved disc fto which is pivoted a connecting rod g having its further extremity
pivoted to a lever h projecting horizontally from the vertical spindle 6 and rigidly
fixed thereon. Thus when the said disc fis caused to revolve by the clock-work A,
the vertical spindle 6 will also be turned by means of the connecting rod g about
one quarter of a turn, backwards and forwards, thus slowly turning the head of the
figure to the right and left alternately.
The said disc bears with its well rounded off teeth on a pin i of a lever
pivoted at its end to the frame plate of the clock-work A at k, its free end being
connected by means of a cord or the like m to the horizontal arm of an angle
lever a mounted to turn on a pivot at the side of the head as shown at Fig. 3..
The vertical arm of the said lever n is connected up by means of a rod o to a lever q
pivoted at to the back of the head (Fig. 2) and slotted at its free end to embrace
a pin projecting downwards from the rear arm of the parallelogram of levers rrr
operating the eyes e e of the figure. The eyes are retained in the head on vertical.
pivots t t carried by and supported in the forked ends of a carrier ss fixed in the
head in suitable manner. The spring u (Fig. 2) holds the lever against the disc f
by pulling the lever g back after it has been actuated in the one direction by the
pulf of the cord m owing to the depression of the said lever I by the disc f. Thus
when the disc is rotated by the clock-work A the head of the figure will be slowly
turned to the right and left alternately by means of the rod g, lever hand spindle b..
whilst at the same time the eyes will be slowly moved in a corresponding direction
by the action of the disc on the pin of the lever 1, thus operating the paral-
lelogram r r through the angle lever n, cord m, rodo and slotted fever q pivoted at p
and the spring u.

page_text: The advantage of the present device is that owing to the form of the disc f the
lever will be very gradually raised and lowered or depressed, so that no jerking
movement of the eyes can take place, but merely an even natural motion of the
same is effected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
In a wax or other figure, the combination of a head carried by a vertical spindle b
and connected up to a curved disc f by means of a rod g and lever hand eyes e e
pivotally mounted in said head and actuated by a parallelogram rrr from the
slotted spring retained lever q pivoted in the head by means of the said curved
disc and pivoted lever I having pin i and by the oord m, angle lever n, and rod o
substantially as described.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention "Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.