An Improved Electric Battery and Bell Combined.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Electric Battery and Bell Combined.
I, GUSTAVE MARKT, of the Firm Markt Brothers & Co., 38, Beech Street,
Barbican, City of London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, which has been communicated to me from abroad by Messrs. Markt Brothers
& Co., of No. 6, Charité Strasse, Berlin, Empire of Germany, to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, combining an electric battery and a bell, and
connecting by conducting wires that a push in a pear shaped handle capable of
suspension or placing in any position and any distance, can be the means for
signalling or calling attention to a person's wants.
To carry this invention into practice, a cylinder or barrel is provided with
screw threaded ends, one for the base and the other the head, to be attached by
screwing them in place. The cylinder or barrel contains a dry battery of corre-
sponding or other shape and has the pole connections and leads in conductable
positions with spring plates, so curled that they become compressed and form
contacts with ring plates in the head and from which wires to a make and break
appliance complete circuit with a hammer in a bell or gong fastened by a bracket
to the head, said bell or gong forming a dome shaped cover to the article.
The upper periphery of the head may be castelated and the bell may be so
shaped that the top of the article appears like a battery or tower top, and if the
sides of the cylinder be scored in imitation of loop holes an ornamental effect to
an useful article can be obtained.
The conduct or line wires braided or otherwise covered may be of any length
and they terminate in a pear shaped bulb in which the contact plates of the push
button are arranged.
A catch or hanger is affixed to the cylinder for suspension of the pear shaped
bulb when the apparatus is used as a table bell, the line wires being then
wrapped round the body of the cylinder or barrel.
The ring shaped conduct plates in the head admits of actual contact as the
head is screwed home.
The apparatus is portable and can be temporarily or permanently fitted or
fixed as desired.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Gustave Markt.
An Improved Electric Battery and Bell Combined.
I. GUSTAVE MARKT, of the Firm Markt Brothers & Co., 38, Beech Street,
Barbican, City of London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
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page_text: tion, which has been communicated to me from abroad by Messrs. Markt Brothers
& Co., of No. 6, Charité Strasse, Berlin, Empire of Germany, and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement: -
This invention has for object, combining an electric battery and a bell, and
connecting by conducting wires that a push in a pear shaped handle capable of
suspension or placing in any position and any distance, can be the means for
signalling or calling attention to a person's wants.
To carry this invention into practice and as shown on the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 section of apparatus, Figure 2 exterior elevation, Figure 3 under plan
of head, Figure 4 top plan of head with bell removed, a cylinder or barrel À is
provided with screw threaded ends, one for the base B and the other the head C
to be attached by screwing them in place.
The cylinder or barrel A contains a dry battery D of corresponding or other
shape and has the pole connections and leads in conductable positions with spring
plates E, F, so curled that they become compressed and form contacts with ring
plates G, H, in the head and from which wires to a make and break appliance
complete circuit with a hammer I in a bell or gong J fastened by a bracket K
to the head C, said bell or gong J forming a dome shaped cover to the article.
The upper periphery of the head may be castelated and the bell may be so shaped
that the top of the article appears like a battery or tower top, and if the sides
of the cylinder be scored in imitation of loop holes an ornamental effect to an
useful article can be obtained.
The conduct or line wires L braided or otherwise covered may be of any length
and they terminate in a pear shaped bulb M in which the contact plates of the
push button N are arranged.
A catch or hanger P is affixed to the cylinder A for suspension of the pear
shaped bulb M when the apparatus is used as a table bell, the line wires being
then wrapped round the body of the cylinder or barrel.
The ring shaped conduct plates in the head admit of actual contact as the
head is screwed home.
The apparatus is portable and can be temporarily or permanently fitted or
fixed as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
The apparatus shown on the annexed drawings with the several parts arranged
in the manner represented and constituting a portable combined battery and sound
producer, as set forth.
The 24th day of April 1899.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Gustave Markt.