Improvements in or relating to Musical Boxes or Clocks.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Musical Boxes or Clocks.
A communication from GUSTAV HERMANN KLUGE, of Frankfurter Strasse 25, Leipsic,
in the German Empire, Watchmaker.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex M.I.M.E.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention consists in an arrangement for the moving of Figures in
accordance with the rythm of the music of a musical box or clock.
To this end a pitch wheel is mounted on the drum or barrel of the musical box
and another pitch wheel is mounted on the face or arbor of a suitably journalled
disc. These pitch wheels are connected by a pitch chain so that the movement of
the drum or barrel is transmitted to the above disc. On the face of this disc are
fastened teeth which engage with one end of a pivotted two armed lever the other
end of which actuates a slide bar, sliding in suitable guides. To this slide bar is
attached the figure by means of a pin reaching through a slot formed in the case
of the instrument.
To move several figures simultaneously the slide bar may be connected to one or
more similar slide bars by means of cords or otherwise.
To produce the movement of the head or the arms or both of a figure the slide
bar is connected with one end of a hellcrank the other end of which is connected
with and actuates a system of levers and rods which carry the head and the arms.
According to the figure to be moved the dimensions of the slide bars and levers
and rods must be modified. The teeth of the disc operating the figure are arranged
in such a manner that the figure is moved according to the rythm of the music.
If the instrument is played by a disc instead of a drum or barrel the teeth operating
the levers and the slide bar can be fastened to this disc.
The slide bar may be spring actuated if desired.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Musical Boxes or Clocks.
A communication from GUSTAV HERMANN KLUGE, of Frankfurter Strasse 25, Leipsic,
in the Empire of Germany, Watchmaker.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.,
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 in an arrangement for the moving of figures in
accordance with the rythm of a music of a musical box or clock.
To this end a pitch wheel K' is mounted on the drum or barrel N of the musical
box and another pitch wheel is mounted on the face or arbor of a suitably journalled
disc N (Figs. 1 and 2). These pitch wheels are connected by a pitch chain K so
that the movement of the drum or barrel is transmitted to the above disc. On the
face of this disc are teeth or pins n which engage with one end of a pivotted two
armed lever o o' the other end o¹ of which actuates a slide bars sliding in suitable
guides. To this slide bar is attached the figure P by means of a pin reaching
through a slot formed in the case of the instrument.

page_text: To move several figures simultaneously the slide bars may be connected to one
or more similar slide hars by means of cords or otherwise.
To produce the movement of the head or the arms or hoth of a figure the slide
harsis connected with one end of a bell crank w w pivotted at d the other end of
which is connected with and actuates a system of lovers and rods ex which carry
the head and the arms of the figure.
According to the figure to be moved the dimensions of the slide bars and levers
and rods must be modified. The teeth of the disc actuating the figure are arranged
in such a manner that the figure is moved according to the rythm of the music.
If the instrument is played by a disc instead of a drum or barrel, as represented
in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the mechanism for actuating the figure P is situated between
two plates DD' and the figures will appear on the plate D'. The steel disc N
provided with the pins which act on the comb z is further provided with a series of
pins n which actuate the lover o (Fig. 5). When the lever o is depressed, the lover of
and the slide bars will be lowered while a spring not shown will lift them again.
Instead of the pins a the diso may be formed with holes n in which enters the
arin o of the levar o o' as the disc is being turned the arm of actuating the slide 'ar s
in the same manner as described above.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is ;—
1. In a mechanical musical box or clock a disc provided with pins or teeth and
actuated by or with the barrel of the instrument in such a manner that it causes the
movement of one or more figures in accordance with the rythm of the music sub-
stantially as described.
2. In a mechanical musical box or clock in which the musical sounds are caused
or controlled by or from a disc the combination with said disc of projections or
holes for rythmically operating one ог more dancing figures substantially as
described.
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