CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING CLOCKS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Robinson, of Aldersgate Street, Watch
Maker, in the employ of William Mott, of 36, Cheapside, London, for
the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING CLOCKS."
Sealed the 8th January 1856, and dated the 25th October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Robinson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 25th
October 1855.
I, JOSEPH ROBINSON, of Aldersgate Street, Watch Maker, in the employ of
William Mott, of 36, Cheapside, London, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING CLOCKS" to be as follows:-
This Invention principally relates to ornamental clocks or time-pieces
which are placed on stands and covered by glass shades, and consists in so
arranging them that they may be wound up without removing the glass
shades. The arbor or axis, which is usually made square to receive the key,
has a toothed wheel fastened on it, into which another toothed wheel mounted
on a vertical axis gears. At the lower end of this axis is fixed another wheel,
which gears with a fourth on a horizontal axis, which projects through the
stand, and has a knob or handle fixed on it, by which the clock is wound up,
or it may be made suitable to receive a key of the ordinary description.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Robinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ROBINSON, of Aldersgate Street, Watch Maker, in the employ of William
Mott, of 36, Cheapside, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give. and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Robinson, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
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 Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING CLOCKS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph. Robinson,. by an. instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 Joseph Robinson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
This Invention principally relates to ornamental clocks or time-pieces
which are placed on stands and covered by glass shades, and consists in so
arranging them that they may be wound up without removing tlie glass
shades. The arbor or axis, which is usually made square to receive the key,
has a toothed wheel fastened on it, into which another toothed wheel mounted
on a vertical axis gears. At the lower end of this axis is fixed another wheel,
which gears with a fourth on a horizontal axis, which projects through the
stand, and has a knob or handle fixed on it, by which the clock is wound up,
or it may be made suitable to receive a key of the ordinary description.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and

page_text: readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a front view of a clock or time-piece arranged according to
my Invention; Figure 2 shows a section of the same; Figure 3 shews a front
view of some of the working parts, the front plate and some of the parts being
removed. A and B are the arbors or axes, to which respectively the main
springs for actuating the striking and the going parts of the clock are
attached. On these axes are fixed the tooth wheels C and D, which both
work into the tooth wheel E, on which bevilled teeth are also formed, which
work into the bevilled wheel F on the vertical axis G. This axis is for
convenience made in two parts. At the lower end of the axis G is another
bevilled wheel H, working. with the wheel I on the horizontal. axis K,
which may either be made square at the end, as shown in the Drawing, to
receive a key, or, if preferred, it may have a knob or handle permanently
attached to it.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the exact details described; but what I claim is, the arranging clocks in
the manner herein-before described, so that they may be wound without
moving or uncovering them.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Robinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEO. PITT,
4, Old Square.
JOSEPH ROBINSON. (L.S.)