Means for Winding up Musical Works Applied to Table Bells, Money Boxes, and other Objects to which such Mechanism can be Adapted.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 3rd Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
Means for Winding up Musical Works Applied to Table Bells,
Money Boxes, and other Objects to which such Mechanism can
be Adapted.
I JOSEPH CORNELIUS HEINE, at Schoenenbach, near Furtwanger, Grand Duchy
of Baden, German Empire do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is, to arrange musical box mechanism in connection
with a table bell, a money box or other common place articles, so that on the bell
knob being struck or the bell lever pressed upon, a winding up action of a coiled
spring shall be effected, and a musical barrel be operated for producing sound
or sounds, the bell if desired being simultaneously struck.
The barrel is of the ordinary pinned or studded kind for lifting or depressing reeds
like in a musical box and a paul is provided to regulate the speed of rotation and
govern the length or time which the music shall play.
The push button is connected to a link pinned to a lever centred upon the axle of
the main spring for winding the spring up step by step. This lever has a stud
projecting from its lower end for engaging against a curved end of another lever,
whose opposite end has a helical spring attached and to a foot plate. The same end
of this additional lever bears upon the paul of the bell hammer, this paul having also
a helical spring for giving the blow.
A releasing appliance is arranged for preventing the action of the musical box gear
when desired.
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If the musical mechanism is fitted with a moneybox I arrange a plate or
for catching the dropped coin and as the leaf loses its balance the musical box gear is
released to play a tune for each coin dropped in. The push button or compression
lever as before described is fitted for winding up the main spring. The coin after the
leaf is freed is permitted to drop into a receptacle or money box.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1887
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. C. Heine

page_text: Means for Winding up Musical Works Applied to Table Bells,
Money Boxes, and other Objects to which such Mechanism can
be Adapted.
I, JOSEPH CORNELIUS HEINE, at Schoenenbach, near Furtzwanger, Grand Duchy
of Baden, German Empire 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 :-
The object of this invention is to arrange musical box mechanism in connection with
a table bell, money box, or other common place article so that on the bell knob being
struck, or the bell lever pressed upon, a winding up action of a coiled spring shall be
effected and a musical barrel be operated for producing a sound or sounds, the bell
if desired being simultaneously struck.
The barrel is of the ordinary pinned or studded kind for lifting or depressing reeds
like in a musical box and a paul is provided to regulate the speed of rotation and
govern the length of time during which the music shall play.
The push button is connected to a link pinned to a lever centred upon the axle of
the main spring for winding the spring up step by step. This lever has a stud
projecting from its lower end for engaging against a curved end of another lever, whose
opposite end has a helical spring attached and to a foot plate.
The same end of this additional lever bears upon the paul of the bell hammer, this
paul having also a helical spring for giving the blow.
A releasing appliance is arranged for preventing the action of the musical box gear
when desired.
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If the musical mechanism is fitted with a money box I arrange a plate or
for catching the dropped coin and as the leaf loses its balance the musical box gear is
released to play a tune for each coin dropped in.
The push button or compression lever as before described is fitted for winding up
the main spring.
The coin after the leaf is freed is permitted to drop into a receptacle or money
box.
The table bell is shown at Figures 1 and 2. A is a pressing bar with a button
head B. The lower end of the pressing bar A is jointed to a lever C movable on a
bolt and this lever is jointed in the same manner to a second lever D which is upon
the arbor E of a winding up spring. This lever D has at its underpart a pin or
stud D. which is caused to act on the arm F of a two armed lever G the last being
movable in a special axle, said lever receiving at its other arm a certain pressure by a
spring H fixed to the stand or foot plate I.
Below the lever G is another two armed lever J movable in a scrow bolt and
with one arm of hook or claw shape J and the other arm L is provided with a
spring K and has a bell hammer M for striking the bell or gong N.
Below the spring K is arranged a two armed bowed spring P and also
spring Q.
By pressing with the finger on the button B of the bar A the lever C will move
downwards and through the levers D, G, J, the spring P is acted on.
The spring in moving downwards locks into a pin of a spring behind and the last
presses towards a little ratchet wheel R.
The lever D in going downwards at the same time winds up the winding spring

page_text: which sets in rotation the great drive wheel S, the little ratchet wheel T will be
likewise turned round and the musical roller U begins to play.
In the same moment the lever D moves downwards pressing upwards the arm F
of the lever G, by this the other arm of the lever has pressed downwards the hooked
lever J and the bell hammer M fixed upon it has been forced to travel backward, again
springing forward pressed by the spring K the hammer is knocked with force, against
the bell N.
The musical roller U playing on turning round lets go in return the main spring
and in this manner also the whole of the levers with the pressing bar. As soon as the
piece of music has been finished, the mechanism returns to its original place and a
spring presses the musical roller sideways for playing the next piece of music.
In order that the table bell may be used without music a cog wheel V is placed
npon the driving wheel S. A spring paul W locks into the cog wheel V by an
eccentric X and by this also the tooth wheel T will be locked so that the musical
roller cannot turn round.
Figure 3 shows this winding up mechanism applied to a money box and set in
action in the same manner only unlocking the musical roller by the dropping in of a
piece of money on to the plate a of a lever 6 which pressing with its pin c towards a
crutch d will release by its paul e the transmission wheel T which is established upon
the same axle with the musical roller U and in consequence the driving wheel S can
turn the transmission wheel T and with it the musical roller.
But in order that the paule shall remain in the released position during the play
of the piece of music, the pin g of a spring f presses towards the paul e until it is
moved backwards by the crutch d.
As soon as the piece of music has been finished a little pin h upon the axle of the
musical roller U has come upwards pressing itself under the spring fand lifts it and
also its pin g so that the paul e can return under the pin g and again fall into the
transmission wheel T to stop it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The operating mechanism for musical works when in combination with table
bells, money boxes and other objects as described and shown.
2. The combination of two levers C and D, the last being firmly fixed upon the
arbor E of a winding up spring for moving the musical work. A spring P to lock
out the musical work and a two armed lever G pressing down with help of a spring H,
a hooked, two armed lever and a spring K pressing it again upwards to let spring
forward and backward, a bell-hammer M fixed upon the lever L to give a stroke of
the clock and finally of a spring Q always placing anew the musical work to play the
following piece.
3. In connection with money boxes, the same construction or arrangement of
mechanism as for the table bells only with the further construction of a lever 6 with a
plate a underneath a slit, a pin c pressing towards the upper arm of a crutch d unlocking
by a pawle of the crutch d a driving wheel of a musical work and finally of a spring
to fall towards the crutch d and going again backward, if a pin in the musical roller
shall lift it and again release the crutch d as set forth and shown.
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H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. C. Heine.