An Automatic Pocket Apparatus Self Registering the Intervals of Rest and the Times and Distances Walked during the Day.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Pocket Apparatus Self Registering the Intervals of
Rest and the Times and Distances Walked during the Day.
DENIS DOYLE Master of Workhouse Youghal Co. Cork do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists in a combination of a time piece & pedometer furnished with
suitable mechanism for actuating a pencil moving on a card or cylinder so as
to describe thereon the resultant of their motions, similar to the modus operandi
of a self registering barometer.
Thus for instance the time piece will cause a horizontal motion of the pencil
when the pedometer is at rest, but when going a diagonal line, more or less
oblique according to the speed of walking. If a card or disc is used the pencil
may be made to describe a circle by the time movement only, and a snail or
spiral curve by both movements simultaneously.
The pedometer to be of the ordinary kind with vibrating lever driving rachet
wheel (patented A.D. 1831, February 15, No. 6078). The lever is however to
be made heavier so as to supply sufficient extra motive force to overcome the
friction of the pencil point moving on the disc or cylinder-and for a like
reason the main spring of the time piece is to be also of greater strength.
Dated 10th February 1892.
D. DOYLE,
Inventor.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Pocket Apparatus Self Registering the Intervals of
Rest and the Times and Distances Walked during the Day.
1 DENIS DOYLE Master of Workhouse Youghal Co. Cork, 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 :—
It consists in a combination of a time piece or watch and a pedometer
furnished with suitable mechanism for actuating a pencil moving on a card or
cylinder so as to describe thereon the resultant of their motions, similar to the
modus operandi of a recording barometer..
This may be effected in a variety of forms, & if the record hereinafter
specified be read with the aid of a magnifying glass results with very minute
precision can be obtained.
I have made one almost as follows:-Having procured an ordinary watch W W
and an ordinary pedometer P P (such as that patented A.D. 1831 No. 6078)
I fixed them in an oval flat close fitting case W P P W which is " deep.
The dials of both are exposed at the open side of case. Having removed the
glass & minute hand of the watch I mounted on the socket of the hour hand
a disc of common tin 1" in diameter. This disc_rotating like the hour hand
once in 12 hours carries a paper printed diagram D of equal size & fastened
on it by means of a smaller tin disc TBTS (about " in diameter), laid on
the paper centre to centre & held fast by the button B. Two short studs
rivetted to the upper disc at T T pass through the paper diagram & lower
disc & prevent the diagram from shifting. The diagram is divided as shown
into hour spaces, and these again are sub-divided into spaces corresponding to

page_text: 10 minutes each. And two concentric circles furthermore divide the space into
three rings as shown. The 12 hours are numbered in reverse order as indicated.
I then erected a pivot at V perpendicular on the bottom of the case, and on
it hinged the crank RV E, the arm V E of which carries the lead pencil E
the point of which scribes a line on the diagram D. The other arm V R is
furnished with a small roller R so fitted that it travels freely but not loosely
in the groove U GI of the cam C. Now this cam is mounted on the socket of
the pedometer hand, and it rotates once for every 2,500 steps walked by bearer, &
by reason of the eccentricity of the groove U GI causes the crank to oscillate
backwards & forwards uniformly at each revolution. Thus the pencil E is drawn
over three rings inwards & three rings outwards on diagram D for each 2,500 steps
walked; hence one ring crossed by the pencil denotes that about 417 steps were
walked by bearer half a ring about 208 & so on. And the time & duration of
such walking is ascertained by the position & length of the line drawn by the
pencil as measured by the hour spaces & their subdivisions shown on plan &
above specified.
When the bearer rests-as between 8 & 9 o'clock in diagram the pencil
describes the arc of a circle its length showing the duration of such rest, when
bearer walks as between 9 & 9.30 the pencil draws a diagonal line as shown.
The arm V E of crank is composed of spring steel, so fitted as to cause the
point of the pencil to touch the face of the diagram till worn off, and the tie
bar A is intended to improve the rigidity of the crank in that direction.
To obviate the necessity of the frequent pointing, the pencil requires, a stylus
of agate or other hard material may be used. The diagram in this case is to be
formed by laying a coat of white mixed with bee's wax on a black ground. The
divisions to be printed on this. The point of the stylus moving on this draws a
black line but does not blunt itself.
Instead of having the watch & pedometer in their separate cases as shown, the
works of both may be fitted into one case like those self winding watches that are
wound on the pedometer principle. But in this modification the crank arm V R
would extend underneath the watch works or rotating disc. The hook H is for
hanging the piece on the upper bem of the pocket.
Many other modifcations can be made-one for instance can be disguised in the
cover of memorandum pocket book with leaves for making notes, and the disc can
be made to record with greater accuracy by so fitting the movement of the time
piece as to cause the disc to rotate in a time less than 12 hours & the pedometer in
less than 2500 paces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
That the combination of a pocket time piece or watch and a pedometer with
mechanism for automatically recording their movements in respect to each other,
and the degree of movement is a new contrivance.
Dated Oth day of Novambou 1905.