MAKING OR CONSTRUCTING REPEATERS OR REPEATING WATCHES AND CHRONOMETERS UPON A NEW AND IMPROVED PRINCIPLE
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPIF
MOSELEY ELLIOT, late of the Parish of Saint Mary-le-bone, but now of the
Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Watch
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third'
did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Four-
teenth day of May, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said.
Joseph Moseley Elliot, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my method of "MAKING OR CONSTRUCTING REPEATERS OR REPEATING
WATCHES AND CHRONOMETERS UPON A NEW AND IMPROVED PRINCIPLE," within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should, in our discretion, seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that if I, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, should not par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what.
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal; and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court.
of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent and all liberties.

page_text: and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Moseley Elliot, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a method
of making or constructing repeaters or repeating watches and chronometers
upon a new and improved principle, so as to repeat the hours, quarters,
half-quarters, or every five minutes, the hours first, and then the divisions
thereof, or the divisions of the hour and then the hour, by turning the
pendent either to the right or left, with one hammer only, and which may be
mado either bell or dumb repeaters, is contained in the following description
thereof, and the Drawings in the margin hereof thereby referred to, that is
to say :-
A, B, Fig. 1, represents the upper side of the pillar plate; C, a collar of
brass rivetted into its center, on which moves the lever D either to the right
or left, according as it is required to repeat the hour or the quarter; E, the
hour snail; F, the jumper; G, the spring; H, dotted, the star, wheel; I, the
quarter snail; K, L, M, dotted, the minute and hour wheels; N, a spring
barrel, to draw. the lever D back after striking the hour or quarter, &c.;
O, the chain, moving freely between the steel rollers P, Q, one end of which is
hooked to the barrel N, and the other end to the tail of the lever D; R, a
small pallet, moving freely on the pivot of the hammer axis, having a spring.S,
Fig. 2, to keep the arms (answering the tails of the hammer) in the proper
position; T, the hour rack; U, the quarter rack; V, V, V, the studs of the
brass edge; W, the pin to shift the star wheel H. The above are, all the parts
contained under the dial.
The parts between the plates are as follows, viz:-Fig. 2, A, the hammer;
B, its center; C, its spring, which acts against a pin on the under side, which
pin has a double use, first, to throw the hammer forward when drawn back
by the racks T, U, Fig. 1, and secondly, the small pallet is made so as to act
against the same pin' to produce that motion. The end of the pin is seen at
the black dot, Fig. 1 and Fig. 4. The pendent being common to both Figures,
is described with the same letters of reference; for example,, a, Fig. 1 and
Fig. 2, represents part of the bell; b, part of the box at the joint; c, a socket
soldered into the same, through which moves the steel axis, Fig. 3, having at
one end the wheel d, Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and. Fig. 3, which wheel acts in the teeth
of the lever D, Fig. 1, the other end of which is made fast in the pendent stud
by the screw e, Fig. 1 and Fig. 2; for example, to find the time, hold the watch
in one hand, and with the other turn the pendent the same way as when you set