Year: 1886

page_text: 1 JACOB FELLHEIMER of 57 St. Mary Axe in the City of London Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention (being a communication from
abroad by William Donald Chase of New York United States America) to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in exhibiting on the dial of a clock, a mechanical figure,
figures or other device worked by the clock mechanism.
According to this invention I suitably connect to the clock mechanism a lever
or levers passing through an aperture or apertures formed in the clock dial to the
end of this lever passing through the dial I attach that part of the figure it is
desired to work, for instance, to represent a boy cleaning boots, the arm would be
connected to a lever connected to the mechanism so as to oscillate, thus causing the
arm to work back wards and forwards as in the act of cleaning boots and this might
be employed to advertise a particular blacking, or a woman might be represented
in the act of scrubbing in order to advertise a soap and so on.
Dated this 28th day of January 1886
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, JACOB FELLHEIMER of 57 St. Mary Axe in the City of London Manufacturer
do hereby declare my invention (being a communication from abroad by William
Donald Chase of New York United States America) and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention consists in exhibiting on the dial of a clock a mechanical figure,
figures or other device worked by the clock mechanism.
According to this invention I suitably connect to the clock mechanism a lever or
levers passing through an aperture or apertures formed in the clock dial to the end
of this lover passing through the dial I attach that part of the figure it is desired
to work, for instance; to represent a boy cleaning boots the arm would be connected
to a lever connected to the mechanism so as to oscillate thus causing the arm to
work backwards and forwards as in the act of cleaning boots and this might be
employed to advertise a particular blacking or a woman might be represented in
the act of scrubbing in order to advertise a soap and so on.
And in order to explain the said invention more fully I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing in which fig. 1 shews
front view of a clock with this invention adapted thereto. Fig. 2 view of clock as
seen from back of dial. The same letters are employed in both views to denote
the same parts. The drawing represents a boy cleaning boots to advertise a blacking
for example. A shews an arm or lever attached to the "Pallet staff" B rocked by
the Pallet B¹ taking into the escape wheel B' in the ordinary way.
This arm or
lever A passes through a hole a in the dial a¹ and is connected to the boy's arm in
order to move the same as in the act of cleaning boots. C shews the ordinary
lever, D balance wheel furnished with the usual hair spring (latter not shewn in
the drawing): The clock mechanism is of ordinary construction which it is
unnecessary to illustrate.
It is obvious I may have any description of mechanical figure, figures or other
device in the place of that described and shewn worked in a similar manner thereof
by the mechanism of the clock in order to advertize any article or articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained 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 :-
In combination with a clock of a mechanical figure, figures or other suitable
device working by the clock mechanism as a means of advertising on the dial of
said clock substantially as set forth.
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