Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1887..
Complete Left, 16th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
I GEORGE QUARRIE of the Colonnade Hotel Birmingham Manufacturer do hereby:
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The object, of this invention is, by the application of a mechanical contrivance, to.
bedrooms more particularly in hotels and all other establishments used by travellers
and others as lodgings, whereby such persons may be called or wakened by a person-
outside the bedroom, at various hours, without disturbing by the means used other.
sleepers in other rooms.
It is universally and well known that much annoyance is experienced by those who
stay at hotels &c. by the common custom of many of having the 'boots' or other
servant to call or "knock them up" by a loud knocking at their doors-this frequently
happening at very early hours in the morning to catch trains &c.
The singularly disturbing sound of this knocking is often sufficient not only to wake
those sleeping in adjacent rooms, but every sleeper on the same landing; and.
frequently even those on other landings. This is a most serious annoyance to many,
as once so wakened up, they find it impossible to sleep again before their usual rising.
time, which occasions in some cases great inconvenience, and even illness.
In carrying out this my invention, I fix inside the bedroom in any suitable place,
but preferably on the wall, or on the bedstead a machine or sounder which may be
insulated from the wall or other substance on which it is fastened, and may be either
electrically connected, or wound up by the hand, or any other desirable motive power.
used, and which the person outside of the room can by convenient means, set in
motion. It may also have indicators in duplicate inside the room and outside, or a
single indicator outside, by which the occupant of the room may show on an outside
plate or disc the exact hour at which he wishes to be called-such outside indicator
being protected from any outside interference by a covering of glass or other trans-
parent substance; it being acted upon only from the inside of the room.
It may be desirable to use other means than sound to wake the sleeper, such as
some mechanical movement which he would feel instead of hear, or a whistle may be
used or telephonic communication made, or any other device which may be deemed
most suitable to wake sleepers without disturbing others in other rooms.
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page_text: I, GEORGE QUARRIE of the Colonnade Hotel, Birmingham, Warwickshire, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to apply a mechanical contrivance to bedrooms, more
particularly in hotels and all other establishments used by travellers and others as
lodgings, whereby persons may be called or wakened by a person outside the bed-
room at various hours, without disturbing, by the means used, other sleepers in other
rooms.
In carrying out this invention I fix on the inside of the bedroom door a sounder
which may be insulated therefrom and which the person outside the room can by con-
venient means set in motion or cause to sound without opening the door.
In order that the invention may be well understood the invention is further
described more particularly and with reference to the accompanying drawing which
shew what is considered to be the best way for carrying the said invention into effect
but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise details
illustrated.
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate one method of carrying out my said invention in which the
sounder used is in the form of a gong or bell; Fig. 3 shews the said gong, or bell
separately in section; and Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate another method in which the
sounder is in the form of a whistle.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 a is a bedroom door of which
the inside is seen in Fig. 1 and 6 is a gong or bell supported by the frame c which is
fixed to the inside of the door by screws d. A spindle e passes through the door and
has a knob or button f on that end which is outside the door and the other end of
the spindle acts upon the clapper 9 and rings the gong when the knob or button
is pressed. A suitable escutscheon is provided for the spindle to work in. Thus
the gong or bell fixed on the inside of the door can be caused to sound from the
outside thereof without opening the door and the person occupying the room can
be roused without disturbing the occupants of adjoining rooms.
The particular kind of gong or bell illustrated on my drawing is simple and
answers well in practice but it is to be understood that I do not make any exclusive
claim to this kind of a gong or bell when used for other purposes and in a different
manner to that herein described, and it will be evident that without departing from
the nature of my invention any other kind of gong or bell can be fixed to the inside
of the door, such for instance as an ordinary call bell, and arranged to be sounded
from the outside of the door either by pushing or pulling or turning a connection of
the bell or gong passing through the door to the outside thereof.

page_text: Instead of employing a sounding gong or bell as above described, a whistle or other
instrument which is caused to sound by a current of air as by a person blowing may
be used, for instance as shewn by Figs. 4 and 5 where a whistle of tubular form
passes through and fits in a hole in the door where it is secured by being screwed
into the hole or by other means. The mouth piece end ; of the whistle is outside the
door and the sounding end k is inside the room.
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:
1st. The combination, with a bedroom door, of a bell or gong fixed on the inside
thereof and provided with means passing through the door by which the bell or gong
can be sounded from the outside of and without opening the door substantially as set
forth.
2nd. The combination, with a bedroom door, of a whistle or other like sounding
instrument passing through and fixed to the door with the mouth piece outside and
the sounding end inside thereof substantially as set forth.