AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SOUNDING A BELL OR OTHER SOUNDING BODY OR BODIES ON A BUOY OR רדיו Am MAUNA
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles James Harrison of 4 Barnes Street Limehouse
in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR SOUNDING A BELL OR OTHER SOUNDING BODY OR BODIES ON A BUOY OR
רדיו Am
MAUNA DOD
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles James Harrison at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th July 1883.
CHARLES JAMES HARRISON of 4 Barnes Street, Limehouse in the county of
Middlesex "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SOUNDING A BELL OR OTHER
SOUNDING BODY OR BODIES, ON A BUOY OR OTHER MOVING BODY
My invention relates to apparatus for sounding a bell or other sounding body or
bodies attached to a buoy or other moving body. All apparatus hitherto employed
for this purpose has been inore or less complicated, inefficient and liable to get out
of order or repair. The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus which
shall be thoroughly efficient with the slightest rolling, lateral or other movement,
and so simple and durable as to reduce to the minimum the risk of its becoming
inoperative from derangement or breakage
My invention consists of a disc or table arranged immediately below or just
within the edge of the bell the said disc or table being provided with suitable
supports by which it is sécured to the buoy or other body or it may be secured to
the frame from which the bell is suspended. The upper surface of the said disc or
table is a true plane and upon it a ball is placed so as to roll freely thereon. The
said table may be formed of iron or other suitable material and is provided on its
upper surface with three or more deflectors arranged so as to come inside the edge
of the bell for the purpose of throwing the said ball out of a circular course and
causing it to repeatedly strike the bell. The said deflectors may be curved, angular
or of other suitable shape and may be formed of any material or combination of
materials suitable for the purpose. The said deflectors may also be formed
separately and attached to the disc or table in any convenient manner, or may be
formed or cast in one piece with the said disc or table. The bell and the said table
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page_text: or disc are both fixed rigidly to the buoy or other moving body, the slightest
rolling, lateral or other movement of which is sufficient to cause the ball to
repeatedly strike the bell and give the desired signal or sound. The bell and my
improved apparatus may be fixed at any desired height above the buoy or other
body or when the deck or surface of the, buoy or other moving body, or that
portion of the said deck or surface over which the bell is fixed, is a plane, the
portion of the said surface covered by the bell may be made to serve the purpose
of the before-mentioned disc or table, the said deflectors being attached to the
said surface and the ball rolling thereon.
My apparatus is applicable to bells of all sizes and forms and may be arranged
so as to be used with other sounding bodies and the action of my improved
apparatus may be relied on when the said bell or other sounding body or bodies
are attached to a buoy or other floating or moving object having a rolling, lateral
or other motion.

page_text: When the surface of the buoy or other body, or that portion of the deck or
surface over which the bell is fixed, is suitable, it may be made to serve the purpose
of the before mentioned disc or table, the deflectors & being attached to and the
ball rolling on the said surface, or if the stanchions are inside the bell the deflectors
may be arranged as, in that case, herein before described.
My improved apparatus is applicable to bells of all sizes and forms and may be
arranged so as to be used with gongs or other sounding. bodies, and its action may
be relied on when the said bell or other sounding body or bodies are attached to a
buoy or other moving body.
Having thus fully described my said invention and shown how the same may be.
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice I claim
First The disc or table a and deflectors d, the said deflectors being formed on
or fixed to the said disc or table, or formed by, or on, or fixed to, or in front of or
around the stanchions or frame of the said disc or of the bell or other sounding
body to which the said apparatus is applied, or fixed to both the. said disc and the
said stanchions or frame, in combination with the ball e substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Second. 'The deflectors d formed on or fixed to the surface of the buoy or other
moving body over which the bell or other' sounding body is suspended, or formed
by, or on, or fixed to, or in front of or around the stanchions or frame of the said
bell or other sounding body, or fixed to both the said buoy or other body and the
said stanchions or frame, in combination with the ball é substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Charles James Harrison have hereunto set
my, hand and seal this cleventh day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four
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Witness
THOS N PALMER
Patent Solicitor
62 Lansdowne Road.
Dalston