Improvements in Bells.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bells.
I, PAUL SCHILLING, of Mehlis Thuringia, Germany, Manufacturer of Iron
and Steel Goods, 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 :-
This invention relates to bells suitable for cycles. According thereto the bell
comprises a fixed rack or toothed bar, which through suitably arranged mechanism
operates the hammer mechanism of the bell when the lower part or base of the bell
is moved bodily by lateral pressure over the rack or toothed bar, the parts being,
on the cessation of pressure, brought back into their normal relative positions by
a spring.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shows a bell constructed according to this
invention with the parts in their normal position, the dome being removed.
Fig. 2 shows the bell, after the bell-carrier or base (hereinafter called the base)
has been moved laterally to operate the striking hammers.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line A-B Fig. 1 but shewing the dome in
addition to the other parts.
b
a is a rack adapted to be rigidly fixed, as for instance by means of a clip d to
the handle bar e or other part of a bicycle. It is formed with a slot c in which
work guide pins 6 projecting from the base g of the bell. a¹ is a pinion and a
toothed wheel, both mounted on a spindle fixed to the base g, and a³ a pinion fixed
on a spindle about which the striking hammers rotate. To operate such a bell
the base g is moved laterally thereby through the fixed rack a pinions a¹ and a³ and
toothed wheel a², causing the striker mechanism to move in such a manner as to
strike against the dome of the bell.
A spring f, whose ends bear against pins on the base g and rack a respectively,
causes the return movement of the base g into the initial position shown in
Fig. 1.
The striker mechanism may be of any suitable construction and not necessarily
the arrangement shewn.
A bell according to the present invention differs from that forming the subject of
Letters Patent No. 20678, in that the rack a is fixed and the striker gear is
operated to sound the bell by moving the base g.
The latter may, for the purpose of providing a suitable abutment or fulcrum, be
provided with a vertical plate or piece h against which the thumb or the hand can
be pressed, and which also prevents the thumb or the hand from coming into
contact with the dome, which would interfere with the sounding of the bell.
With
a bell of the kind described, projecting parts such as tappets or thumb-levers are
obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A cycle bell comprising a rack a adapted to be rigidly fixed to a cycle and a
base g mounted in an elastic manner upon the said rack so as to be capable of being
moved relatively thereto, the arrangement being such that when the base g is moved
laterally, the striking mechanism will be actuated and a spring f put into stress and

page_text: that when pressure on the base g is removed, the spring will return the base g to its
normal position relatively to the rack, substantially as described.
2. A cycle bell constructed arranged and operating substantially as shewn in and
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1896.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.