IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INDICATING TIME, PARTLY APPLICABLE TO REVOLVING APPARATUS FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Marcius Silber, of the Firm of Silber
and Fleming, of Wood Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Manufacturers and Importers, and Frederick White, of Camber-
well, in the County of Surrey, Watchmaker in the Employment
of the said Firm, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR INDICATING TIME, PARTLY APPLICABLE TO REVOLVING APPARATUS FOR
OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 10th June 1870, and dated the 20th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Marcius Silber
and Frederick White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 20th December 1869.
We, ALBERT MARCIUS SILBER, of the Firm of Silber and Fleming,
of Wood Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufacturers and
Importers, and FREDERICK WHITE, of Camberwell, in the County of
Surrey, Watchmaker in the Employment of the said Firm, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS

page_text: FOR INDICATING TIME, PARTLY APPLICABLE TO REVOLVING APPARATUS FOR OTHER
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists mainly in combining a globular or otherwise
shaped appliance bearing on its surface indications of intervals of time,
with a platform or support caused to revolve in a regulated manner by
means of clockwork of the description called lever escapement move-
ment, or Patent lever movement, or horizontal escapement movement,
and with this arrangement gas, oil, petroleum, wick, or other illumi-
nating agent may be employed to light the globular or other graduated
appliance. The graduated appliance revolves on the platform or
support, and an index or pointer is used to shew the number or
character marking the time. The movement may be so contrived as to
work for eight days consecutively without requiring to be freshly wound
up. The winding action may be operated by a key, which (or the axis
or spindle on which it fits) is a fixture at the side of the clockwork,
that is to say, not removeable. An alarm may be connected with the
works to sound at the required interval of time. Sometimes we place
the clockwork at the bottom of a stand, figure, or other support and
cause it to communiaate with the platform by a rod or other appliance.
But the clockwork may be placed at the side or other convenient part of
the apparatus.
In one arrangement the key acts a pinion in gear with a wheel which
operates the barrel spring, and the platform or other revolving support is
mounted on or works on an arbor or axis worked by a toothed wheel
actuated by the barrel. A lever with a single free end is mounted on
a pallet in gear with the escapement wheel, and works a semicircular
piece on the arbor of the balance. The clockwork may be combined with
a platform or support caused to revolve for purposes other than holding
a globe or other apparatus for indicating time, as, for instance, for
supporting busts in hairdressers' windows, or trays of jewellery or
other marketable articles in tradesmen's shops, public exhibitions, or
elsewhere.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Albert Marcius Silber and Frederick White in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALBERT
MARCIUS SILBER, of the Firm of Silber and Fleming, of Wood Street,

page_text: Cheapside, in the Oity of London, Manufacturers and Importers, and
FREDERICK WHITE, of Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, Watch-
maker in the Employment of the said Firm, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Albert Marcius Silber and Frederick
White, Her special licence that we, the said Albert Marcius Silber and
Frederick White, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Albert Marcius Silber and Frederick White, our
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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INDICATING TIME, PARTLY APPLICABLE TO REVOLVING
APPARATUS FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Albert Marcius Silber and Frederick White, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our
or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or
them, 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 we, the said Albert Marcius Silber and Frederick
White, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what.
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists mainly in combining a globular or otherwise
shaped appliance (bearing on its surface indications of intervals of time)
with a platform or support caused to revolve in a regulated manner by
means of clockwork of one of the descriptions or arrangements called
lever escapement movement, or Patent lever movement, or horizontal
escapement movement, and with this arrangement gas, oil, petroleum,

page_text: wick, or other illuminating agent may be employed to light the globular
or other graduated appliance. The graduated appliance revolves on the
platform or support, and an index or pointer is used to show the numbers
or characters marking the time. The movement may be so contrived as
to work for eight days (or more or less) consecutively without requiring
to be freshly wound up. The winding action may be operated by a key,
which (or the axis or spindle on which the key fits) is a fixture at the
side of the clockwork, that is to say, not removeable. An alarm may be
connected with the works to sound at the required interval of time.
Sometimes we place the clockwork at the bottom of a stand, figure, or
other support, and cause it to communicate with the platform by a rod
or other appliance. But the clockwork may be placed at the side or
other convenient part of the apparatus.
In one arrangement the key works a pinion in gear with a wheel
which operates the barrel spring, and the platform or other revolving
support is mounted on or works on an arbor or axis worked by a toothed
wheel actuated by the barrel. A lever with a single free end is mounted
on a pallet in gear with the escapement wheel and works a semicircular
piece on the arbor of the balance. The clockwork may be combined
with a platform or support caused to revolve for purposes other than for
holding a globe or other apparatus for indicating time, as, for instance,
for supporting busts in hairdressers' windows, or jewellers' trays or
other marketable articles in tradesmen's shops, public exhibitions, or
elsewhere.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify the mode in which the
Invention may be carried into effect.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a statuette lamp constructed according to
this Invention.
a is a statuette holding a hollow spear or lance b and standing on a
base or pedestal c, which is hollow and contains clockwork which com-
municates rotary motion to a rod which passes up through the hollow
spear or tubular lance 6, and by a pinion at its upper end transmits rotary
motion to a platform or gallery d, which carries a glass globe e marked
with the horal and sub-divisional figures. f is an index or pointer fixed
to a stationary part, as, for example, to the statuette or the spear. As
the globe revolves the index f points to the consecutive hours. The
clockwork is a horizontal lever movement, and it does not require any
pendulum.

page_text: Figure 2 is a vertical sectional elevation of a lamp with hour
indicating globe constructed according to this Invention. With this
lamp a statuette or figure may be combined, its feet resting on the base
and its hand holding the pillar or hollow column r, which may be, for
instance, a lance or spear; Figure 3 is a plan or horizontal section taken
at A showing the gearing by which the gallery is caused to revolve;
Figure 4 is a horizontal section taken at B of the pillar or hollow
column r enclosing or surrounding the tubes s, t, u, herein-after referred
to. k is a reservoir or chamber containing oil for the lamp, it is formed in
the plinth or base; 2, piston or diaphragm, and m spring of the ordinary
construction and arrangement used in moderator lamps; n is a chain
wound on a windlass or barrel o mounted on a spindle or axis p, one end
of which is made square to receive a winding key. The spindle p is
supported and turns in bearings q fixed to the sides of the chamber k.
The hollow pillar contains the three vertical portions s, t, u; s is the
tube through which oil is supplied to the burner; t is the waste pipe or
return pipe of the spent or overflowing oil; " is a tube through which
passes (and by which it is surrounded) the rod o which is actuated by
the clockwork movement in the base of the figure, and which transmits
graduated rotary motion to the gallery or socket which supports the
globe; w, plinth or base containing the oil reservoir. The rod works
a pinion which drives a wheel y fixed within and on the gallery or
platform d, thereby causing the platform to revolve; z is a perforated
or openwork gallery fixed or stationary on the pillar; 2* is a flange on
the outer part of the gallery & supporting it on the top of the gallery z.
The clockwork which moves the platform by the rod v is a horizontal or
lever escapement movement.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, we declare that we claim,―
First. The application of a lever escapement movement, Patent lever
movement, or horizontal escapement movement for effecting the gradual
rotation of a platform or support, substantially in the manner and for
the purpose described.
Secondly. The arrangement whereby the winding action is effected by
a key or an axis or spindle forming a fixture at the side of the lamp, as
described.
Thirdly. Connecting an alarm with the clockwork so that it may
sound at a required interval of time, as described.

page_text: Fourthly. The arrangement of apparatus in which the clockwork is at
the bottom of a stand, figure, or other support, and communicates
motion to a gallery or support carrying a globe or other appliance
marked with indications of time, substantially in the manner and for the
purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Albert Marcius Silber and
Frederick White, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Seventeenth day of June, in the year One thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
Witness,
E. DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
A. M. SILBER. (L.s.)
(L.S.)
F. WHITE.