Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1896
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A communication from REINHOLD EGMUND GUNTHER, of No. 10 Wellington
Street East, City Toronto, County of York aud Province of Ontario, Canada,
Manufacturer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce a cheap, simple and efficient chime
clock, and it consists, essentially, of a chime movement preferably having an arm
attached to its starting spindle, which arm is moved at every quarter hour through
the medium of a disk placed on the centre arbor of the time movement.
It further consists of a chime movement having a pin placed on one of its wheels,
which pin is so arranged as to make one revolution each hour, and which is
located in the path of a wire connected with the starting spindle of an ordinary
striking movement, so that at the proper time the striking movement is set in
motion by the movement of said pin.
This improvement also consists in locating the case of the chime movement
substantially in the same plane as the case containing the time and striking
movements. By so arranging the cases of these movements, the casing of the
chime movement may be made in one piece with the casing of the time and
striking movements, or it may be made separate therefrom and be attached to
the frame to which the ordinary clock movement is secured, thus needing much
less room in the thickness of the clock case.
This invention also consists in a resonator of peculiar construction to which the
chime gongs are connected and in the peculiar construction, arrangement and
combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described.
In the accompanying drawings, which represent the preferable way of carrying
out this invention―
Figure 1, is a perspective view showing the chime movement placed below and
suitably connected with a time movement and a striking movement.
Figure 2, is a perspective view from the other side of the chime movement.
Figure 3, is a perspective detail of the resonator partly broken away.
In showing and describing the invention in detail, it will be unnecessary to
describe in detail all of the parts of the time and striking movements, as they
form no part of the present invention, and any of the well-known forms of such
movements may be used. It will, therefore, only be necessary to state that a casing
is provided which contains the time and striking movements, and that the letter i
represents the centre arbor of the time movement, and the letter m represents the
starting spindle of the striking movement.
A, is the main driving wheel of the chime movement.
B, is a pinion on the spindle C, with which the main wheel A meshes.
D, is a spur wheel rigidly connected to the spindle C, and meshing with the
pinion E, on the count wheel spindle F. G, is the count wheel which is sprung on
to the said spindle, preferably on the outside of the movement, as shown. The
spur wheel D, also meshes with the pinion H, on the chime drum spindle I.

page_text: J, is the chime drum which is rigidly connected to this spindle outside the
movement, as shown.
K, is a spur wheel rigidly connected to the chime drum spindle I, and meshing
with the pinion L on the locking disk spindle M. The end of the locking disk
spindle M, is carried by the bracket T, to give the necessary room for the warning
wheel R. To this spindle, the locking disk N, is rigidly connected.
O, is a spur wheel rigidly connected to the locking disk spindle M, and meshing
with the pinion P, on the warning wheel spindle Q. R, is the warning wheel
rigidly connected with this spindle.
S, is the fly driven from the warning wheel, as indicated.
U, is the lucking arm spindle, from which projects the locking arm V, having an
end adapted to engage with the notches in the locking disk N. An arm a also
projects from this spindle and has its end bent to engage with the notches of the
count wheel G.
bis a spindle having an arme which is adapted to engage with the locking
arm V. n is an arm attached to this spindle having its end adapted to engage
with a pino on the warning wheel R, when the said spindle b is rocked. From
this spindle another arm & projects, which arm is bent outwardly at its end and
engages with a wire e, the upper end of which is pivoted to the rock arm . This
arm is so located as to be alternately raised and dropped by the action of the
pin g on the quarter hour disk h which is connected to the centre arbor i of the
time movement. The rest of this movement is not shown in the drawings, as it
may be of ordinary construction.
is a pin projecting from the face of the count wheel G.
1 is a wire rigidly connected to the starting spindle m of the striking movement.
The lower end of the wire / lies in the path of the pin j, so that at the proper time
the wire is rocked and the striking movement set in motion. The drumj is of
course provided with suitable pins to operate the pivoted bell-hammers s in the
usual way. The drum J makes two revolutions, while the count wheel G is
making one. Thus it takes two complete revolutions of the drum to sound the
quarter hour, half hour, three quarter and four quarter hour chimes. As there
are thus ten quarter hour chimes sounded, the drum J must be provided with five
quarter hour sets of pins.
The operation of the chime clock is as follows:-By the revolution of the centre
arbor i, one of the pins g is caused to raise the pivoted rock arm which, through
the wire e and arm d rocks the spindle b. The arm c is thus made to lift the
locking arm V out of one of the notches in the locking disk N, and the arm a is
by the movement of the locking arm spindle 6 lifted out of the notch in the count
wheel in which it was lying; at the same time the end of the arm n is brought into
the path of the pin o on the warning wheel R. The train is thus left free to move
till the pin o comes in contact with the arm n. This motion of the train is
sufficient to bring the periphery of the locking disk under the locking arm V,
preventing the dropping of the locking arm, which prevents the arm a again
dropping into the notch in the count wheel G, when the spindle 6 is left free to
rock after one of the pins g on the quarter hour disk has passed from under the
pivoted rock arm fand allowed it to drop. When the pin on the quarter hour
disk has passed from underneath the pivoted rock arm f, the arm falls and thus
the spindle b is allowed to rock so that the arm n is removed out of the path of the
pino on the warning wheel and the train revolves till the next notch on the count
wheel G comes under the end of the arm a. At the same time, one of the notches
on the locking disk N is under the end of the locking arm V, and the two arms
simultaneously fall into their respective notches, and the movement of the train is
stopped. The chime drum J has thus been caused to revolve to an extent
regulated by the space between two notches on the count wheel G, which in the
movement illustrated, are spaced to ring the quarter, half, three quarter and four
quarter hour chimes. The pin ; on the count wheel G, is so located as to start the
striking movement as soon as the chime movement has completed the ringing of

page_text: the four quarter chime. It will be noticed that the gearing of the train is so
proportioned that four notches are required in the locking disk N, to insure that a
notch on the locking disk shall be below the locking arm, when one of the notches
on the count wheel G, is beneath the arm a.
My correspondent is aware that striking movements are made in which the count
wheel is geared to an intermediate spindle geared to the main driving wheel, but
in such movements the locking disk is placed on the same spindle as the striking
wheel which corresponds with the chime drum and the warning wheel is geared
to the striking wheel spindle. Such an arrangement is impossible in a chime
movement such as this, where the chime drum of necessity moves slowly, and
the difficulty has been overcome by placing the locking disk on an independent
spindle geared to the chime drum spindle and gearing the warning wheel spindle
to the said locking disk spindle. This arrangement increases the speed of the
locking disk and warning wheel and allows the locking arm to engage and
disengage from the locking disk and the warning to take place within the time
the chime drum is making one forty-fifth of a revolution, which is all the space
that can be allowed between each set of four chime pins.
Other mechanism than the wire e and rock arm might be used to set the chime
movement in operation without departing from the spirit of the invention.
From the above description it will be seen that a very cheap, simple and efficient
chime clock has been produced, and owing to the simplicity and compact nature of
the chime movement, it will occupy very little more space than an ordinary time
and striking movement.
It will also be seen that as the casing of the chime mechanism is on substantially
the same plane as the casing of the regular clock movement, it may easily be used
in connection with any ordinary clock mechanism or be attached to the casing or
bousing of clocks already manufactured without making the said housing or casing
any thicker.
When describing the movements as being on the same plane with each other,
I mean that the chime movement is placed in such a position relative to the regular
clock movement that the casing of the chime movement (or the front and back
plates which constitute said casing) is made in continuation of, or in line with, the
casing or front and back plates of the regular cleck movement, for when it is so
made, the chime movement may be placed either underneath or on the side of the
regular movement instead of in front or in back of said movement, and thus will
not take up any room in the thickness of the clock; there generally being much
superfluous room on the sides of and underneath the clock movement, while that
part of the clock immediately back of or in front of the movement is generally
taken up by some part of said movement. It will thus be seen that by making the
movements in line with or on the same plane with each other, that much less room
is occupied in the thickness of the clock.
In Figs. 1 and 3-
A' is a portion of the case of a clock.
B is a resonating chamber, preferably located at the bottom of the clock case.
This chamber is formed by the side walls C, D, E, F, and the upper and lower
vibratile walls or sound boards G', H', which are preferably made of spruce, or
other suitable resonant material.
is a standard supporting the weight J', to which are connected the chime
gongs K one of which is shown in the drawings. This standard is preferably
bent, as shown, at a¹ and after passing through the bole b¹ in the upper sound
board G', is rigidly bolted or otherwise secured to the lower sound board H', as
shown.
L' are two curved deflectors, the ends of which are connected respectively to the
walls E and F1 of the resonating chamber. These deflectors being quite
independent of the sound boards G and H₁, do not in any wise affect their
vibrations.
M, are a series of holes formed in the wall F, to permit of the escape of the

page_text: sound from the interior of the resonating chamber. From this construction it
follows that the vibrations of the gongs K are conveyed through the standard I,
to the sound board H', throwing it into vibration, and with it, the air contained in
the resonating chamber B', and also the upper sound board. The vibrations in the
contained air are gathered by the curved deflectors L and directed outwardly
through the holes M'.
It is found that by introducing the bend a¹ into the standard 11, the resulting
tone is much improved. This construction is also necessary in some clocks to
adapt the position of the gongs to the position of the striking hammers. It is not
essential that both the boards G and H should be of a vibratile or resonant
material, as one will in many cases answer the purposes of the invention, nor is it
essential that when both the boards G and H are constructed of such material,
that the standard I' should be connected to the lower, as substantially the same
results will be obtained by securing it to the upper sound board G.
The resonant chamber might also be placed at the side of the clock case, but the
position shown is considered preferable. When the resonator is used with a
cluck the improvement in the quantity and quality of the tone of the gongs over
that produced by gongs carried in the usual way, is very marked. This improve-
ment is specially noticeable in chime clocks, to which this resonator is consequently
a valuable adjunct.
Dated this 16th day of March 1806
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
A communication from REINHOLD EGMUND GÜNTHER, of 10 Wellington Street
East, City Toronto, County of York and Province of Ontario, Canada,
Manufacturer.
1, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT formerly of 323 High Holborn, now of
111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Chartered Patent Agent,
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 object of this invention is to produce a cheap simple and efficient chime
clock, and it consists, essentially, of a chime movement preferably having an ar.n
attached to its starting spindle, which arm is moved at every quarter hour through
the medium of a disc placed on the centre arbor of the time movement.
It further consists of a chime movement having a pin placed on one of its wheels,
which pin is so arranged as to make one revolution each hour, and which is located
in the path of a wire connected with the starting spindle of an ordinary striking
movement, so that at the proper time the striking movement is set in motion by the
movement of said pin.
This improvement also consists in locating the case of the chime movement
substantially in the same plane as the case containing the time and striking
movements. By so arranging the cases of these movements, the casing of the
chime movement may be made in one piece with the casing of the time and
striking movements, or it may be made separate therefrom and be attached to the
frame to which the ordinary clock movement is secured, thus needing much less
room in the thickness of the clock case.

page_text: This invention also consists in a resonator of peculiar construction to which the
chime gongs are connected and in the peculiar construction, arrangement and
combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described, and then definitely
claimed.
Referring to the drawings filed with the Provisional Specification which, with an
additional sheet of drawings lodged with this specification, represent the preferable
way of carrying out this invention :-
Figure 1, is a perspective view showing the chime movement placed below and
suitably connected with a time movement and a striking movement.
Figure 2, is a perspective view from the other side of the chime movement.
Figure 3, is a perspective detail of the resonator partly broken away.
Figure 4 is an elevation of a portion of the chime mechanismn showing the
driving of the chime drum and the count wheel, and
Figure 5 shows the chime drum as it would appear with its curved surface
flattened out.
In showing and describing the invention in detail, it will be unnecessary to
describe in detail all of the parts of the time and striking movements, as they form
no part of the present invention, and any of the well known forms of such move-
ments may be used. It will, therefore, only be necessary to state that a casing is
provided which contains the time and striking movements, and that the letter i
represents the centre arbor of the time movement, and the letter m represents that
starting spindle of the striking movement.
A, is the main driving wheel of the chime movement.
B, is a pinion on the spindle C, with which the main wheel A meshes.
D, is a spur wheel rigidly connected to the spindle C, and meshing with the
pinion E, on the count wheel spindle F, G, is the count wheel which is sprung on
to the said spindle, preferably on the outside of the movement, as shown. The
spur wheel D also meshes with the pinion H, on the chime drum spindle I.
J, is the chime drum which is rigidly connected to this spindle outside the
movement, as shown.
K, is a spur wheel rigidly connected to the chime drum spindle I, and meshing
with the pinion L, on the locking disc spindle M. The end of the locking disc
spindle M, is carried by the bracket T, to give the necessary room for the warning
wheel R. To this spindle, the locking disc N is rigidly connected.
O, is a spur wheel rigidly connected to the locking disc spindle M, and meshing
with the pinion P, on the warning wheel spindle Q. R is the warning wheel
rigidly connected with this spindle.
S, is the fly driven from the warning wheel, as indicated.
U, is the locking arm spindle, from which projects the locking arm V, having
an end adapted to engage with the notches in the locking disc N. An arm a also
projects from this spindle and has its end bent to engage with the notches of the
count wheel G.
b is a spindle having an arm c, which is adapted to engage with the locking
arm V. is an arm attached to this spindle having its end adapted to engage
with a pin o on the warning wheel. R, when the said spindle 6 is rocked. From
this spindle b another arm d projects, which arm is bent outwardly at its end and
engages with a wire e, the upper end of which is pivotted to the rock arm f. This
arm f is so located as to be alternately raised and dropped by the action of the
pin g on the quarter hour disc h which is connected to the centre arbor i of the
time movement. The rest of this movement is not shown in the drawings, as it
may be of ordinary construction.
jis a pin projecting from the face of the count wheel G.
7 is a wire rigidly connected to the starting spindle m of the striking movement.
The lower end of the wire lies in the path of the pin j so that at the proper time
the wire is rocked and the striking movement set in motion. The drum J is of
course provided with suitable pins to operate the pivotted bell-hammers s in the
usual way. The drum J makes two revolutions, while the count wheel G is

page_text: making one. Thus it takes two complete revolutions of the drum to sound the
quarter hour, half hour, three quarter and four quarter hour chimes. As there are
thus ten quarter hour chimes sounded, the drum J must be provided with five
quarter hour sets of pins.
This arrangement is illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 from which it will be seen that
the gear wheel D, meshes with an eight-toothed pinion H on the spindle I, of the
chime drum J, while it also meshes with a 16-toothed pinion E on the spindle F,
of the count wheel G, as seen in Fig. 3. This wheel D, is driven from the main
wheel A. Thus the chime drum makes two revolutions for one revolution of the
count wheel G. As the count wheel G counts the quarters and revolves once
every hour, the chime drum must revolve twice per hour.
Fig. 5 shows the position of the pins on the chime drum for ringing the
Westminster chimes. The drum and its pins operate upon the bell hammers
precisely the same way as the drums used in ringing ordinary tower chimes or the
drum used in music boxes. Each pin as it comes along raises the hammer, and as
it passes allows the hammer to fall again and ring the gong below its end.
The operation of this chime clock is as follows;-By the revolution of the centre
arbor i one of the pins g is caused to raise the pivotted rock arm f which through
the wire e and arm d rocks the spindle b. The arm c is thus made to lift the
locking arm V out of one of the notches in the locking disc N, and the arm a is by
the movement of the locking arm spindle b lifted out of the notch in the count
wheel in which it was lying; at the same time the end of the arm m is brought
into the path of the pin o on the warning wheel R. The train is thus left free to
move till the pin o comes in contact with the arm n. This motion of the train is
sufficient to bring the periphery of the locking disc under the locking arm V,
preventing the dropping of the locking arm, which prevents the arm a again
dropping into the notch in the count wheel G, when the spindle b is left free to
rock after one of the pins g on the quarter hour disc has passed from under the
pivotted rock arm f, and allowed it to drop. When the pin on the quarter hour
dise has passed from underneath the pivotted rock arm the arm falls and thus the
spindle b is allowed to rock so that the arm n is removed out of the path of the
pin o on the warning wheel and the train revolves till the next notch on the count
wheel G comes under the end of the arm a. At the same time one of the notches
on the locking disc N is under the end of the locking arm V and the two arms
simultaneously fall into their perspective notches, and the movement of the train is
stopped. The chime drum J has thus been caused to revolve to an extent
regulated by the space between two notches on the count wheel G, which in the
movement illustrated are spaced to ring the quarter half, three quarter and four
quarter hour chimes. The pin on the count wheel G is so located as to start the
striking movement as soon as the chime movement has completed the ringing of
the four quarter chime. It will be noticed that the gearing of the train is so
proportioned that four notches are required in the locking disc N, to insure that a
notch on the locking disc shall be below the locking arm, when one of the notches
on the count wheel G, is beneath the arm a.
I am aware that striking movements are made in which the count wheel is
geared to an intermediate spindle geared to the main driving wheel, but in such
movements the locking disc is placed on the same spindle as the striking wheel
which corresponds with the chime drum and the warning wheel is geared to the
striking wheel spindle. Such an arrangement is impossible in a chime movement
such as this where the chime drum of necessity moves slowly and the difficulty has
been overcome by placing the locking disc on an independent spindle geared to the
chime drum spindle and gearing the warning wheel spindle to the said locking dise
spindle. This arrangement increases the speed of the locking disc and warning
wheel and allows the locking arm to engage and disengage from the locking disc
and the warning to take place within the time the chime drum is making one forty-
fifth of a revolution, which is all the space that can be allowed between each set
of four chime pins. Other mechanism than the wire and rock armf might be
e

page_text: used to set the chime movement in operation without departing from the spirit of
the invention.
From the above description it will be seen that a very cheap, simple and efficient
chime clock has been produced and owing to the simplicity and compact nature of
the chime movement, it will occupy very little more space than an ordinary time-
and striking movement.
It will also be seen that as the casing of the chime mechanism is on substantially
the same plane as the casing of the regular clock movement, it may easily be used
in connection with any ordinary clock mechanism or be attached to the casing or
housing of clocks already manufactured without making the said housing or casing
any thicker.
When describing the movements as being on the same plane with each other,
I mean that the chime movement is placed in such a position relative to the
regular clock movement that the casing of the chime movement (or the front and
back plates which constitute said casing) is made in continuation of, or in line with,
the casing or front and back plates of the regular clock movement, for when it is
so made, the chime movement may be placed either underneath or on the side of
the regular movement instead of in front or in back of said movement and thus will
not take up any room in the thickness of the clock; there generally being much
superfluous room on the sides and underneath the clock movement, while that part
of the clock immediately back of or in front of the movement is generally taken up
by some part of eaid movement. It will thus be seen that by making the movement
in line with or on the same plane with each other, that much less room is occupie
in the thickness of the clock.
In Figures 1 and 3-
A' is a portion of the case of the clock.
B is a resonating chamber, preferably located at the bottom of the clock case.
This chamber is formed by the side walls C, D, E, F, and the upper and lower
vibratile walls or sound boards G, H₁ which are preferably made of spruce, or
other suitable resonant material.
I is a standard supporting the weight J, to which are connected the chima-
googs K', one of which is shown in the drawings. This standard is preferably
bent, as shown at a' and after passing through the hole in the upper sound
board G, is rigidly bolted or otherwise secured to the lower sound board H
as shown.
L' are two curved deflectors, the ends of which
the walls E and F of the resonating chamber.
independent of the sound boards G and H, do
vibrations.
are connected respectively to
These deflectors being quite
not in any wise affect their
M, are a series of holes formed in the wall F¹ to permit of the escape of the
sound from the interior of the resouating chamber. From this construction
it follows that the vibrations of the gongs K₁ are conveyed through the
standard to the sound board H' throwing it into vibration, and with it, the
air contained in the resonating chamber Bi and also the upper sound board.
The vibrations in the contained air are gathered by the curved deflectors I
and directed outwardly through the holes M'.
It is found that by introducing the bend a' into the standard I the resulting
tone is much improved. This construction is also necessary in some clocks to
adapt the position of the gongs to the position of the striking hammers. It is not.
essential that both the boards G' and H₁ should be of a vibratile or resonant
material, as one will in many cases answer the purposes of the invention, nor is it
essential that when both the boards G and H are constructed of such material,
that the standard I should be connected to the lower, as substantially the same
results will be obtained by securing it to the upper sound board G.
The resonant chamber might also be placed at the side of the clock case, but the
position shown is considered preferable. When the resonator is used with a clock,
the improvement in the quantity and quality of the tone of the gongs over that

page_text: produced by gongs carried in the usual way, is very marked. This improvement
is specially noticeable in chime clocks, to which this resonator is consequently a
valuable adjunct.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a clock, and in combination with the time and striking movements thereof,
a chime movement, mechanism between said time and chime movement adapted to
set said chime movement in operation, and a connection between said chime and
striking movements, so arranged that said striking movement is set in motion by
the operation of said chine movement, substantially as described.
2. In a chime clock, a chime movement located substantially in the same plane
as a time movement aud operated by a wire reciprocated by a disc connected to
the centre arbor of the time movement, in combination with a striking movement
having a wire rigidly connected to its starting spindle, the lower end of which
lies in the path of a pin attached to one of the wheels of the chime movement,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. In a chime clock, and in combination with the chime drum, count wheel, and
lock arms thereof, a rock armf; a disc h connected with the centre arbor of the
time movement and having pins g projecting therefrom arranged to operate said
arm fat each quarter revolution, and a connection between said rock arm and the
chime movement, substantially as described.
4. In a chime clock a chime drum making two revolutions in the hour; a count
wheel making one revolution in the hour, in combination with suitable stopping
and starting mechanism operated by an arm adapted to engage with notches in the
count wheel; a reciprocating wire operated by a disc connected to the centre
arbor of a time movement; and a wire rigidly attached to the starting spindle of a
striking movement, its lower end lying in the path of a pin on the count wheel,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
5. In a chime clock a chime drum making two revolutions in the hour and carried
by a spindle deriving motion from the main wheel of the movement, a count wheel
making one revolution in the hour and carried by an independent spindle also
deriving motion from the main wheel; a locking disc carried by a spindle geared
to the chime drum spindle a warning wheel carried by a spindle geared to the
locking disc spindle; suitably carried and operated lock arms adapted to engage
with the count wheel, locking disc and warning wheel; a wire adapted to raise the
said locking arms and operated from a disc connected to the centre arbor of a time
movement; and a striking movement having a wire rigidly connected to its starting
spindle, the lower end of which lies in the path of a pin attached to the above-
mentioned count wheel substantially as and for the purpose specified.
6. In a chime clock the combination of the following elements :-The chime
drum J carried by the spindle I revolving twice in the hour and deriving motion
from the main wheel A; the count wheel G revolving once in the hour and carried
by the independent spindle F deriving motion from the main wheel A; the locking
disc N provided with four notches and carried by the spindle M geared to the
chime drum spindle I; the warning wheel R, carried by the spindle geared to
the locking disc spindle M; the pin o; the spindle U carrying the lock arm V and
arm a; the spindle b carrying the arms en and d; the wire e; pivotted rock arm fi
disc carrying one or more pins g; wire l; pin j on the count wheel G; and
starting spindle m, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
7. In a chime clock a chime drum making two revolutions in the hour and
carried by a spindle deriving motion from the main wheel of the movement, in
combination with a count wheel making one revolution in the hour and carried by
an independent spindle also deriving motion from the main wheel; a locking dise
carried by a spindle geared to the chime drum spindle; a warning wheel carried
by a spindle geared to the locking dise spindle and suitably carried and operated

page_text: lock arms adapted to engage with the count wheel locking disc and warning
wheel, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
8. In a chime clock, a chime movement comprising the following elements :-The
chime drum J, carried by the spindle I revolving twice in the hour and deriving
motion from the main wheel A; the count wheel G revolving once in the hour,
and carried by the independent spindle F deriving motion from the main wheel A ;
the locking disc provided with four notches and carried by the spindle M
geared to the chime drum spindle I the warning wheel R carried by the
spindle geared to the locking disc spindle M; the pin o; the spindle U
carrying the lock arm V and arm a; and the spindle carrying the arms c and n
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
9. In a chime clock a resonating chamber provided with a sound outlet and
having a vibratile wall or sound board to which is connected the gong or bell,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
10. In a chime clock a resonating chamber provided with a sound outlet and
baving two vibratile walls or sound boards to one of which is connected the gong
or bell substantially as and for the purpose specified.
11. In a chime clock a resonating chamber provided with a sound outlet and
having a vibratile wall or sound board in combination with a bent standard rigidly
connected to the centre of the said vibratile wall a weight carried by the said
standard and a gong carried by the said weight substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
12. In a chime clock a resonating chamber having a vibratile wall or sound
board to which a gong or bell is connected in combination with deflectors suitably
held between the said vibratile wall and the wall opposite thereto and a suitable
outlet in one of the side walls of the chamber towards which the said deflectors
direct the sound substantially as and for the purpose specified.
13. In a chime ciock a resonating chamber comprising the side walls C¹ D' E' F',
and the vibratile walls or sound boards G' H', to one of which is rigidly connected
one or more gongs K¹ in combination with the curved deflectors L' counected to
the side walls E F1 one of which is provided with suitable sound outlets substantially
as and for the purpose specified.
14. In a chime clock a resonating chamber comprising the side walls C' D'E' F¹
and the vibratile walls or sound boards G' H', in combination with the standard I'
the weight J the gong K¹ and the curved deflectors L' connected to the side
walls E F the wall F being provided with a series of holes M¹ substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
15. In a chime clock the combination of the side walls C, D, E, F, the sound
board G¹ having a hole therein, the sound board H' the bent standard I' passing
through the hole and rigidly secured to the sound board H₁ the weight Ji
the gong K and the curved deflectors L' connected to the side walls E, F, the
latter wall being provided with a series of holes M' substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.