IMPROVEMENT OF WATCHES THAT WILL RUN EIGHT DAYS WITH ONCE WINDING UP
Year: 1884

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, DAVID EDWARDS, of Bull's Head Lane, Stoke, near Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Watch-maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for THE
IMPROVEMENT OF WATCHES THAT WILL RUN EIGHT DAYS WITH ONCE WINDING UP
to be as follows:-
I do away with the Barrel, Fusee, and Chain, using instead a going Barrel-arbor
and wheel, which wheel I call the "Main-wheel," and make as large as possible.
My first or intermediate wheel is as small as possible with pinion of twelve. My
center wheel has a pinion of twelve also. Center, third, fourth and escape wheels,
and pallets are six sizes less in proportion to movement. The name-plate is double
the ordinary thickness, and hollowed out to form a recess with a corresponding
hollow in the top-plate for the main-spring. Hence a wider, longer and stronger
main-spring may be used.
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page_text: I DAVID EDWARDS of Bull's Head Lane, Stoke Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Watch Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
EIGHT DAY WATCH and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
I make a watch movement, without barrel or fuzzee useing instead a going
barrel arbor and wheel, the teeth of which are cut with hollow bottoms, the top
plate is made wider on that side on which the barrel hollow is pierced, this hollow
is turned and filed as wideras, possible this I use as part of chamber for the
mainspring.
The cock and pottance are planted to a greater distance than usual from the
barrel hollow in a line between the escape wheel and pallet staff holes in order
that the ballance may be free of the barrel hollow and mainspring. The name-
plate or barrel barr is made thicker than, that) hitherto used and is hollowed
on the underneath side to a sufficent deepth, and to the same dimentions as the
coresponding opening in the top plate, the opening, in the top plate and the recess
in the barrel bar or nameplate, together forming the chamber for the mainspring
a 14 or 16.0 size.movement, can thus be made to receive a 31. size mainspring..
The mainspring may be of the ordinary kind, but the best is one graduated in
thickness that is to say, of a slightley gradualy increased thickness toward the
inner end of the coil.
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I cut a slot in the top' plate, on the edge of the mainspring chamber which forms
the hook for the outer end of the mainspring, the hook in the arbor is formed in
the usual
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The main wheel is made as large as possible and if a 16 size movement the
following combination is what I should prefer.
An intermediate, wheel with a 33 size pinion of 10 leaves, the center, third,
fourth, escape wheel, pallets and ballance of No 8 size, the "lever, a No 6 size the
rollar a No 9 size, the pallets having about 4 degrees, more, of, drive than, usually
given.
Having now particularly discribed 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 making a watch without Barrel or Fuzzee for the purpose of making it
go eight or more days.
2nd The thick bar, with recess in the underside corresponding with the opening
in the top plate forming the spring chamber.
3rd The hook formed in the top plate to hold the mainspring.
4th The application of the going arbor for the purpose of making a watch go
eight or more days.

page_text: I, WILLIAM HAYHURST of No 1 Catlow Street, Burnley in the County of
Lancaster, Cramp Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDFASTS EMPLOYED BY CARPENTERS, JOINERS,, WHEEL-
WRIGHTS, CABINET MAKERS, AND OTHERS," to be as follows:-
"
In this class of mechanism a holding down lever is employed for securing and
holding upon the workman's bench the article under operation.
Hitherto this lever has been secured in position by a set screw, which acted
against a pillar employed for supporting the mechanism.
My Invention consists in securing and holding this lever in position by an
eccentric which is caused to move on its centre by a handle or rod, so that when it
is turned downward, the rear end of the said lever is raised whilst the front or
opposite end thereof is depressed, by which means the article is firmly secured
upon the bench, but when the handle is raised the article is released.
The underside of the eccentric may be smooth or serrated, so as to bite and
prevent slipping.
By the employment of the eccentric for purposes mentioned the holding down
lever is fixed and released very much quicker than can be done by a screw.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1884.
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TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, WILLIAM HAYHURST of No 1 Catlow Street, Burnley in the County of
Lancaster, Cramp Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDFASTS EMPLOYED BY CARPENTERS, JOINERS, WHEEL-
WRIGHTS, CABINET MAKERS AND OTHERS and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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In this class of mechanism a holding down lever is employed for securing and
holding upon the workman's bench the article under operation.
Hitherto this lever has been secured in position by a set screw, which acted
against a pillar employed for supporting the mechanism.
My improvement is illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of drawings where
A is a bench having a loose piece of wood B thereon, C is the pillar of an ordinary
cramp or holdfast having a lever D hinged at E, arranged in the usual manner.
On the front end of this lever is hinged a collar F which was formerly forced upon
the article B by means of a set screw and handle operated same as a vice, which screw
passed through the opposite end of the lever D, but by my Invention the said screw
is dispensed with, and a more ready and reliable piece of mechanism substituted
consisting of the handle G, the bottom part of which is centered eccentric to the
end of the lever in such manner that when the handle is in a vertical position as
shewn in Figure 1 that the collar F is clear of the article B, but when the handle
is, turned down as shewn in Fig 2 the short end of the lever is raised and the point
end depressed, by which means the collar F is forced upon the article B, and
thereby firmly, held down on the bench.
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The article can however be instantly released by lifting the handle into an
upright position., :
By the adoption of this eccentric handle the holdfast can be much more readily
employed than is the case with those having a set screw to operate. the lever D.
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;
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The employment in a holdfast of the eccentric and handle in manner and for
purposes substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 24th day of November 1884.