AN IMPROVED CALL BELL AND ACTIONS USED IN CALL AND OTHER BELLS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Glazebrook Stormont, residing at 59,
Constitution Hill, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Machinist and Brassfounder, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
CALL BELL AND ACTIONS USED IN CALL AND OTHER BELLS."
Sealed the 29th June 1875, and dated the 1st January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Glazebrook
Stormont at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 1st January 1875. .
I, JAMES GLAZEBROOK STORMONT, residing at 59, Constitution Hill,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Machinist and Brassfounder,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
CALL BELL. AND ACTIONS USED IN CALL AND OTHER BELLS," to be as follows :-
The said Invention consists of a base of wood or other suitable
material surmounted by an ornamental metallic cap, from which rises a
properly constructed pedestal of brass or other suitable metal, supporting
a dome or other shaped bell which is attached to it by means of a nut

page_text: or otherwise.
The said pedestal contains beneath the bell a vertical
aperture running parallel with its axis, in which a rod is made to slide,
carrying at its lower end a projecting foot or cam.
This rod passes
through and above the bell and is impelled upwards by a spring which I
prefer to be of helical form and surrounding the rod. It is also sur-
mounted by a suitable knob or mount on which the fingers are pressed
when it is desired. to ring the bell. Attached to the pedestal beneath
the bell is a lever swinging on a pivot, and which I prefer to make of
,sheet metal, on one end of which a hammer or clapper is fixed, and
which is actuated by a spring in the direction of the periphery of the
bell. The said hammer may strike the bell either inside or outside. At
the opposite end of this lever are fitted two or more moveable cams
which work on pivots.
When it is required to strike the bell the rod carrying the projecting
foot or cam is pressed downwards, and the said foot coming into contact
with cach lever cam in succession, causes the clapper arm to be carried
backward and suddenly released. The pressure being removed the rod
is again carried upward by its spring repeating in its ascent the action
above described, so that two, four, or more blows or rings according to
the number of lever cams are struck in succession with the pressure of
the fingers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Glazebrook Stormont in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 1st July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
GLAZEBROOK STORMONT, of 59, Constitution Hill, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Machinist and Brassfounder, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Glazebrook Stormont,
Her special licence that I, the said James Glazebrook Stormont, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Glazebrook Stormont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should 3

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any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED CALL BELL AND ACTIONS USED IN CALL AND OTHER
BELLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Glazebrook Stormont, 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 Invention, 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 James Glazebrook Stormont, do
hereby declare the nature of my 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 accom-
panying Drawing forming part of this Specification:-..
My Invention relates to an improved configuration of the parts of call
bells, and to an improved arrangement of springs, levers, and other
appliances, whereby a bell may be struck several times by one pressure
of the hand. Also to an improved method of making the clappers or
striking parts of call or other bolls.
The said Invention consists of a base of wood or other suitable
material surmounted by an ornamental metallic cap, from which rises a
properly constructed pedestal of brass or other suitable metal, supporting
a dome or other shaped bell which is attached to it by a nut or otherwise.
The said pedestal contains beneath the bell a vertical aperture running
parallel with its axis, in which a rod is made to slide carrying at its
lower end a projecting foot or cam. This rod passes through and above
the bell and is impelled upwards by a spring which I prefer to be of
helical form and surrounding the rod. It is also surmounted by a
suitable knob or mount on which the fingers are pressed when it is
desired to ring the bell. Attached to the pedestal beneath the bell is a
lever swinging on a pivot, and which I prefer to make of sheet metal, on
one end of which a hammer or clapper is fixed, and which is actuated by
a spring in the direction of the periphery of the bell. The said clapper
may be so arranged as to strike the bell cither inside or outside. At the

page_text: opposite end of this lever are fitted two or more moveable cams which.
work on pivots.
When it is desired to ring the bell the rod carrying the projecting foot
or cam is pressed downwards, and the said foot coming into contact with
each lever cam in succession causes the clapper arm to be carried back- &
ward and suddenly released. The pressure being removed the rod is
again carried upward by its spring repeating in its ascent the action
before described, so that two, four, or more blows or rings, according to
the number of lever cams, are struck in succession with one pressure of
the fingers. I propose to make the clapper before-mentioned by casting 1
it of soft metal on the end of the striking lever, and to insert in it a pin
of hard metal as shown in the accompanying Drawing.

page_text: removed the rod f is again carried upward by its helical spring h
repeating in its ascent the action before described, so that two, four, or
more blows or rings, according to the number of lever cams, are struck in
succession with one pressure of the hand.
Figure 4 represents the application of the action to the bell of a front
or entrance door; r is the door represented in section, and s, the knob
which being pulled and released in the ordinary way, causes the bell to
be struck two, four, or more times by means of the arrangement already
described.
I do not confine myself to the precise form of the parts represented in
the annexed Drawings.
I claim the action described as an improved arrangement of springs,
levers, and other appliances whereby a bell may be struck several times
by one pressure of the hand. Also the improved method described of
making the clappers or striking parts of call or other bells.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Glazebrook Stormont, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-seventh day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
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Witness,
JAMES GLAZEBROOK STORMONT. (L.s.)
BERNARD MCEVOY,
Greet,
Near Birmingham.