CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS APPLIED TO CLOCKS AND TO THE RECEIVING APPARATUS OF TELEGRAPHS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge
and Son, of Number 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
APPLIED TO CLOCKS AND TO THE RECEIVING APPARATUS OF TELEGRAPHS."—A
communication from abroad by Edouard Néel, of 89, Faubourg St.
Martin, Paris, France.
Sealed the 10th May 1867, and dated the 17th November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th November 1866.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
Number 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS APPLIED TO CLOCKS AND TO THE RECEIVING APPARATUS OF
TELEGRAPHS," (a communication, to me from abroad by Edouard Néel, of
39, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
For many centuries clocks and chronometers of every description seem
condemned to speak to the eye only by means of moveable hands, which is
also the case with the receiving dials of telegraphs. Now as regards clocks
this arrangement may be ungraceful and unartistic.

page_text: As regards the receivers of dial telegraphs the reading by means of hands
or indexes requires great hability, and often becomes a source of error, while
preventing the common use of the telegraph. To obviate this inconvenience
the Inventor proposes to replace the hands or indexes by a moveable dial after
the following manner :-Firstly, the mechanism of the clocks and telegraphs
is not changed, but as many moveable dials are fitted as there are indications
to be given, two, if it is desired, to have only the hours and the minutes, or
three or a greater number, according to the indications required from the
clock or chronometer; secondly, this moveable dial is placed on the axle of
the wheel of the hours, minutes, and seconds in such a way that the indication
of the minute corresponds perfectly with the tooth which establishes this
division of the minutes; thirdly, the moveable dials are hidden by a screen or
cover, and leave visible for the hours only, the hours corresponding to the
twelfth of the dial, in other words, only one hour, one minute, or one second
passes at a time, as illustrated on the annexed Sheet of Drawing.
The clockwork which causes the hands to travel will also advance with
equal regularity, the dials placed on the actual axle of the wheels indicating:
the hour, the minute, and the second. This modification is applicable to
telegraphs (as illustrated on the annexed Sheet of Drawing), and in this way
any person can read the dispatch which is addressed to him without any
special study, the letters presenting themselves on the screen, and there being
no necessity to follow the evolutions of an index.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others as
I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with; and no others, from time to time and at all'

page_text: times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS APPLIED TO CLOCKS AND TO THE RECEIVING APPARATUS OF
TELEGRAPHS," a communication to me from abroad by Edouard Néel, of
39, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawing hereunto
annexed and forming part of this my Specification:-
For many centuries clocks and chronometers of every description seem
condemned to speak to the eye only by means of moveable hands; this is also
the case with the receiving dials of telegraphs. Now as regards clocks this
arrangement may be ungraceful and unartistic.
As regards the receivers of dial telegraphs the reading by means of
hands or indexes requires great hability, and often becomes a source of
error, while preventing the common use of the telegraph. To obviate this
inconvenience the Inventor of these improvements replaces the hands or
indexes after the following manner :-Firstly, the mechanism of the clock
(or telegraphic apparatus) is not changed, but as many moveable dials are
fitted as there are indications to be given, two, if it is desired to have only
the hours and the minutes, or three or a greater number, according to the
indications required from the clock or chronometer; secondly, this moveable
dial is placed on the axle of the wheel of the hours, minutes, and seconds, in
such a way that the indication of the minute corresponds perfectly with the
tooth which establishes this division of the minutes; thirdly, the moveable
dials are hidden by a screen or cover, leaving visible for the hours only the
hours corresponding to the twelfth of the dial, in other words, only one hour,
one minute, or one second passes at a time, as illustrated on the annexed
Sheet of Drawing.
The clockwork which in ordinary clocks causes the hands to travel will also
advance with equal regularity, the dials placed on the actual axle of the
..

page_text: wheels indicating the hour, the minute, and the second. This modification
is applicable to telegraphs as illustrated on the annexed Sheet of Drawing,
and in this way any person can read the dispatch which is addressed to him
'without any special study, the letters presenting themselves on the screen, and
there being no necessity to follow the evolutions of an index.
Claim is made to the exclusive use of the arrangements above described
and illustrated on the annexed Sheet of Drawing, whatever the nature, form,
and dimensions of their constituent parts.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
WE GEDGE (1.0)