Improvements in and connected with Watches
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Watches,
BERNHARD REDEPENNING 11 North Crescent Bedford Square London W.C.
Watchmaker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Above mentioned invention is in the form of an ordinary watch with the move-
ment etc. to act as such only with the addition of a centre second fly back hand,
which revolves completely round the dial twice in 60 seconds, the pulse register is
arranged outside the ordinary figures in decreasing divisions starting from
15 minutes past the hour with the figure 160 and finishing at the full hour with
the figure 40.
The divisions are calculated to follow the different beats of the pulse.
Deted this 19th do of Tanu 1904
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Watches.
1, BERNHARD REDEPENNING, of 11 North Crescent, Bedford Square, in the
County of London, Inventor, 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 relates to improvements in and connected with watches, which
consists of a keyless watch with the dial spaced out into various divisions for
registering respiration and the beating or throbbing of an artery in the process
of carrying on the circulation of blood.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
which
My invention is in the form of an ordinary watch (keyless), with movements
to act as such; only with the addition of a centre second fly back hand
revolves completely round the dial d twice in 60 seconds; the pulse register a is
arranged outside the ordinary figures in decreasing divisions, starting from
15 minutes past the hour with the figure 160 and finishing at the full hour with
the figure 40. The divisions are calculated to follow the different beats of the
pulse, and the respiration register b is placed inside the aforesaid pulse register a
in divisions starting from 12 minutes past the hour and finishing at 3 minutes
after the hour. The divisions are calculated to follow the different acts of
breathing.
To find the rate of the pulse per minute, I press the keyless knob with the finger
of one hand, thus starting the chronograph hand c, while with the fingers of the
other hand on the pulse, mentally counting the arterial beats.
When twenty
beats have been counted, again I press the keyless button, and the figure at which
the chronograph hand c stops indicates the pulse-rate per minute. A third pressure
of the button places the hand c at zero.
The registering of respiration is carried out in a similar manner with the
exception that the calculation is made on the register b.

page_text: 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 1
claim is -
1. In keyless watches, the combination of a chronograph hand and the dial
spaced out into various divisions for registering respiration and the beating or
throbbing of an artery in the process of carrying on the circulation of blood,
substantially as herein described.
2. In keyless watches, the combination of divisions arranged on the dial outside
the ordinary figures for the purpose of registering respiration and pulsation,
substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 25th day of July 180A
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.