A Combination Watch or Clock and Appointment Indicator.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Watch or Clock and Appointment Indicator.
We JAMES KENDAL of 106 Cheapside in the City of London Watch & Clock
Manufacturer and MARC LAVAL of 106 Cheapside aforesaid Commission Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The combination with an ordinary watch or time piece of an appointment indicator
in the nature of a minature dial sunk into the watch dial with hour and minute
hands capable of being set by means of a setting motion carried to the outer edge
of the watch and worked by the finger.-The setting motion (which is altogether
independent of the movement of the watch) is fitted under the watch dial and
consists of two or more wheels with pinions working into each other and connected
with a small setting apparatus let into the side of the watch so as to be easily
accessible for the finger but without any inconvenient projection.-This appointment
dial may of course be in addition to the sunk second or any other subsidiary dial on
the watch. By means of this invention a person desirous of keeping an appointment
or catching a train at a particular time may by means of the setting apparatus set
the hands on the appointment dial at the time required and thus have the time of
the appointment before him whenever looking at the watch.
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1000
LESLIE ANTILL,
1, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, E.C., Solicitor,
Agent for the said J. Kendal.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Watch or Clock and Appointment Indicator.
We JAMES KENDAL of 106 Cheapside in the City of London Watch and Clock
Manufacturer and MARC LAVAL of the same address Commission 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 provide an appointment Indicator for use on the
dial of a watch or other time keeper.
A minature hour circle is marked on the dial of the watch or other timekeeper
and suitable hour and minute hands are caused to travel round this circle by
turning a disc or button at the edge of the case so that the said hands may be
adjusted to point to any time of the day it is desired to record the minature circle
being either sunk in or painted on the dial as in the case of a seconds dial the
mechanism for working this appointment indicator being entirely independent of and
separate from the watch movement. The accompanying drawings represent the
outline of a watch with the dial removed to show the mechanism by which our
appointment indicator is worked. Immediately underneath and projecting from the
edge of the dial is a disc (a) with a knurled or serrated edge. When the bezel
or cover of the watch case is opened the disc (a) may be caused to rotate either
backwards or forwards by an application of the thumb nail to its projecting edge.
Attached to the disc (a) is a toothed wheel represented by the dotted circle (6). This
toothed wheel (b) gears with what is technically called the minute wheel (c) of an
ordinary set of motion works. The minute wheel (c) engages with a canon pinion in
the usual manner and the minute wheel nut (d) engages with the hour wheel (e). So
that as the disc (a) is rotated the minute and hour hands of the appointment Indicator
travel concentrically from the centre ("/") the minute hand being attached to the
pipe of the canon pinion and the hour hand to the pipe of the hour wheel. The

page_text: minature circle with divisions for showing the hours and minutes is represented
by the dotted, circle (g). Similar mechanism with necessary modifications is used
when applied to a clock. Of course the Appointment Indicator need not be placed
in the position shown but may occupy any other convenient place on the dial and
if preferred may be substituted for the comparatively useless seconds circle in the
position usually occupied thereby indicated by the dotted circle (h). In some
cases it may be desirable to work the Appointment Indicator by means of the
winding button of the watch or by means of a pusher through the side of the case
instead of using the disc (a) as here described and shewn. By means of this
invention a person desirous of keeping an appointment or catching a train at a
particular time may set the hands on the appointment indicator at the time required
and thus have before him the time of the appointment whenever looking at his watch.
Having more particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The combination with a watch or other timekeeper of an appointment indicator
in the nature of a miniature time circle on the dial with a hand or pair of hands
connected with suitable mechanism for readily setting the hands independently of
the watch movement so as to point to any particular time which it is desired to
record substantially as hereinbefore set forth and described.
Dated the 14th L
1000
LESLIE ANTILL,
1, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, E.C.,
Agent for the said James Kendal and Marc Laval.
LESLIE ANTILL,
1, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, E.C.,
Agent for the said James Kendal and Marc Laval.