Clock combined with a Phonograph or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1899 -Accepted, 29th July, 1899
Clock combined with a Phonograph or the like.
I, ERWIN EMIL GEORG TREITSCHKE, of Polzenstrasse, Oberblasewitz-Dresden,
Saxony, Royal Fire Insurance Inspector, 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:―
With the great demands to which at the present day people are individually
subject if they would compete with their fellows and by reason of the corporeal
and mental strain thereby occasioned nervosity has greatly increased, so much so
that it may even be observed in children. To such as suffer from nerves many
kinds of noise are very distressing, as the striking of the clock, which to many
sufferers seems to sound against the head and many cannot follow their employ-
ment at the time being until, after commencing to strike, the time of striking has
passed by, because during this time they are unable to sufficiently concentrate
their thoughts, and again many cannot follow the number of the strokes with
certainty.
The object of the invention is to provide a clock, or time measurer generally,
with an arrangement or device for making known the conclusion of given intervals
of time but, having reference to nervous persons, in a very gentle as distinguished
from a distressing way and without the strokes of the clock sounding in an
uncertain manner as hitherto.
The invention consists in the combination of a clock or time measurer with a
phonograph, graphophone, gramophone, or the like which speaks out in words
the conclusion of time intervals, for instance the hours and half hours.
The device of the invention is shewn in the accompanying drawing in two
forms, Figs. 1 and 2 being respectively an elevation thereof and a diagram of
the conductors, for electric working, and Figs. 3 and 4 respectively an elevation
and a plan of the device for purely mechanical working.
In Figs. 1 and 2 a are very light spring contacts arranged against the clock
face near the figures and b is the small band of the clock provided with a fine
vielding spring by which it comes into electric communication with the spring
contacts a.
The hand bis connected, through a wire e, communicating with a source d
of electricity, with a magnet bobbin e and likewise the spring contacts a are
connected, through wires f and a main wire g, with a magnet bobbin / which is
connected with the other bobbin by a bridge i.
The magnet armature & carries by a rod 7 a pawl m which by the action of a
counterweight n is adapted to lock a wheel o of a phonograph roller p having on
its periphery successively one after another impressions or indentations corre-
sponding to the twelve figures of the clock. The phonograph style can touch
into the impressions. The wheel o is provided with notches q (Fig. 5), corre-
sponding in number to the time intervals to be called out, into which the
pawl m can fall.
At the end of an hour when the hand comes into electrical communication
with one of the spring contacts (Fig. 1) the pawl m is thereby released by reason
of the bobbins e, h, attracting the armature k, the clockwork r of the phonograph

page_text: sets the roller p of the same in rotation, the phonograph speaks out the corre-
sponding number, and this being done the pawl m engages in the next notch of
the wheel o and holds it and the phonograph roller fixed until the next contact
takes place, and so on.
In Figs. and 4 the arrangement of the phonograph roller and the notched
wheel is as in the preceding example, but in this case the counterweight u is
actuated from a wheel of the clock, said wheel being, for this purpose, furnished
with triangular projections & which when the wheel turns engage the bent end t
of the pawl m and press it downward to release the pawl from the wheel o at the
given time intervals, thus permitting the movement of the phonograph roller.
When, in this way, the number of the hour has been spoken out the pawl m, in
this case also, falls into the next notch and locks the wheel o with the phonograph
roller and its driving mechanism until the lapse of another hour.
Whilst in the example of Figs. 3 and 4 the calling of the hours is accomplished
directly at the clock, in that of the electric working the phonograph for calling
out the hours can be located where desired or several phonographs may be
located each in a different place to call out the time from one clock with which
they are connected.
In both examples the phonograph roller may be provided with sounding lines,
for example, for giving off one or more call or alarm sounds preliminary to the
call of the hour.
As in the example of Figs. 1 and 2 the contacts may be removed to different
parts of the clock, so also in that of Figs. 3 and 4, may the phonograph roller be
locked from any other suitable part of the clock and also by other means than
projections such as s without affecting the invention.
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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1. A clock or time measurer in combination with a phonograph, graphophone,
gramophone, or like sound writing or speaking apparatus, by which the conclusion
of different time intervals is made known by calling and speaking sounds there-
from, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In the apparatus of the invention referred to in Claim 1 the release by
electrical means at the conclusion of time intervals, hours for instance of the roller
provided with the numbers and call or alarm marks to enable said roller to turn
for the purpose of speaking the respective numbers and calls, substantially as
described and shewn.
3. In the apparatus of the invention referred to in Claim 1 the release by
mechanical means at the conclusion of time intervals, hours for instance, of the
roller provided with the numbers and call or alarm marks to enable said roller
to turn for the purpose of speaking the respective numbers and calls, sub-
stantially as described and shewn.
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141
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1000
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
15, Took's Court, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.