A Winding Indicator for a Timekeeper or any other Machine with a Going Barrel to Indicate whether it Requires to be Wound or not.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Lett. 12th June. 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Winding Indicator for a Timekeeper or any other Machine with
a Going Barrel to Indicate whether it Requires to be Wound
or not.
SAMUEL STANLEY 48 Mortimer Street W. Watchmaker, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A wheel is placed in gear with the going barrel and carries a small wheel which
is planted on one of its sides. This small wheel gears in, and revolves round two
wheels of equal diameters, but of unequal numbers of teeth. The body of one of
these two wheels, is carried through the frame and has another wheel attached to it
on the other side of the frame, which wheel is connected to the barrel arbor by a
wheel or wheels & pinion.
When the timekeeper or machine is wound up the mechanism is actuated by the
barrel arbor and the index hand moves. When the timekeeper or machine works
the mechanism is actuated by the barrel and the index hand moves the reverse
way, and the condition of the timekeeper or machine, whether it requires to
be wound or not can be detected by the position of the index hand on its dial.
Dated this 21st day of March 1891.
SAMUEL STANLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Winding Indicator for a Timekeeper or any other Machine with
a Going Barrel to Indicate whether it Requires to be Wound
or not.
I, SAMUEL STANLEY of 48 Mortimer Street London W., Watchmaker,
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 :-
"
My invention relates to a winding indicator commonly known as an "Up and
down work for a timekeeper or any other machine with a going barrel to
indicate whether it requires to be wound or not.
The wheel a. Fig. 1. and 2. gears in the main wheel of the going barrel b.
and carries a small wheel c. which is planted on one of its sides.
The wheel c. gears in and revolves round the two wheels d. e. which are usually
of equal diameters but of unequal or different numbers of teeth.
One end of the arbor of the wheel e. fits loosely through the wheel a. and passes
through the pillar plate, and carries the index hand f.; the other end of the arbor
forms a pivot which fits into the wheel d.
The body or cannon of the wheel d. passes through the top plate and carries the
wheel g. which is fixed to its end.
The wheel g. gears in the idle wheel h.
The idle wheel . gears in the pinion i. which is fixed to the barrel arbor j.
When the timekeeper or machine is wound the barrel arbor turns the
wheels i. h. g. d. c. e. and the index hand moves.
When the timekeeper or machine works, the barrel turns the wheel a. and the
wheel c. revolves round the wheels d. e and the wheel e. rotates by reason of
the difference of its number of teeth to the wheel d. and the index hand moves the
reverse way. And the condition of the timekeeper or machine, whether it

page_text: requires to be wound or not, can be detected by the position of the index hand on
its dial.
Though a precise disposition of parts has been mentioned it is obvious that in
many cases alterations of positions might be made without in any way affecting the
working or principle of the indicator for instance :-
The pinion a. Fig. 3 and 4. gears in the main wheel of the going barrel b., one
end of this pinion passes through the pillar plate and projects outside passing
through the wheels m. m¹ n. which rotate freely on it.
The platform p. is fixed to the pinion a. and carries a small wheel o. which gears
in and revolves round the wheels m¹ n.
The wheels m¹ n. are usually of equal diameters but of unequal or different
numbers of teeth.
On the barrel arbor t. is fixed the wheel s. which gears in the wheel r.
The wheel r. carries the pinion 7 which gears in the wheel m.
The wheels m. m' are fixed to each other and rotate together.
It will be understood that by the term "going barrel is meant, any combination
of rotating barrel and barrel arbor driving the train direct by the means of teeth
without the intervention of a fusee. Also that this invention is equally applicable
to any modified combination of the ordinary going barrel: for example, in the case
where the train is driven by the main wheel fixed to the barrel arbor, the barrel
rotating only during the winding thereof.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :--
First. In a timekeeper or any other machine with a going barrel the construction
and arrangement of the mechanism for indicating whether the said timekeeper
or machine requires to be wound or not substantially as hereinbefore described and
shown.
Secondly. In a going barrel winding indicator the combination of two wheels
usually of equal diameters but always of unequal or different numbers of teeth one
of the said wheels acting intermittingly as a dead wheel and the other of the said
wheels deriving its alternate motion from a pinion or wheel gearing in and
revolving round both the aforesaid wheels substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown.
Dated this Twelfth day of June 1891.
SAMUEL STANLEY.