Improvements in Clocks.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clocks.
I, HENRY WILLIAM LEY, 16 Bear Street, Leicester Square, London, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The combination of a pendulum-clock movement the crutch of which is not inverted
with a clock-case of which the height above the centre of the clock-face is greater
than the depth from that centre to the bottom of the case and the portion containing
the face is of the nature of a base to the portion above the clock-movement being part
in each portion.
Improvements in Clocks.
I, HENRY WILLIAM LEY, 16 Bear Street, Leicester Square, London, Engineer,
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 has for its object the production of clocks of artistic and pleasing
designs at a less cost than it has heretofore been possible to produce the like and is of
the combination of a pendulum-clock movement the crutch of which is not inverted
with a clock-case of which the height above the centre of the clock-face is greater
than the depth from that centre to the bottom of the case and the portion containing
the face is of the nature of a base to the portion above the clock movement being part
in each portion.
The drawings hereunto annexed represent a clock constructed according to my said
Invention. The portion A B D E (Fig. 1) of the clock-case A B C D E contains the
face of the clock. L' is the winding -square. In Fig. 2 the front of the portion A B D E
is in great part removed also part of the upper portion BCD in order to show the
clock movement and its disposition in the case. To the back of the clock case by
screws a, b, d, e, is fixed the clock movement of which F G H K is the front clock-
plate L the great wheel M the centre wheel N the scape wheel O the escapement
P the crutch Q the pendulum suspension and QR the pendulum R being the
pendulum bob. The movement in its details follows established practice, further
description is unnecessary. As will be seen from the drawings the height from S the
centre of the clock face to the top of the clock case is greater than the depth from S
to the bottom of the case the portion A B D E of the case which contains the face is
of the nature of a base to the portion B C D above in this design a bust of the Queen
and the clock-movement the crutch of which is not inverted is part in the portion
A B D E of the case and part in the portion B C D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The combination of a pendulum-clock movement the crutch of which is not inverted
with a clock case of which the height above the centre of the clock face is greater

page_text: than the depth from that centre to the bottom of the case and the portion containing
the face is of the nature of a base to the portion above the clock movement being
part in each portion,-in the manner and by the means substantially as hereinbefore
described.