Improved Apparatus for Rocking Cradles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Rocking Cradles and the like.
I, ERNEST MITCHELL, of 7, Sutherland Street, Winton, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct a simple and inexpensive automatic
apparatus for rocking children's cradles, swings, and the like.
**
The invention is applicable to such kinds of cradles, swings, and the like as are
hung upon arms or hanging levers supported on a fixed standard or standards,
and the principal novel feature of the invention is that I use for this purpose a
simple form of clockwork consisting of a coiled spring, a short train of toothed
wheels and a pallet wheel and pallet or escapement and I so connect the latter
to the arm (or to one of the arms) supporting the cradle, swing, or the like, that
the arm or hanging lever acts as the arm of the pendulum for regulating the action
of the escapement the cradle or seat acting as the "bob" or weight thereof.
In some cases, of course, a weight may be used instead of a spring as the moving
power but I prefer to employ an ordinary clock spring for the purpose, as being
less cumbersome and more easy of application.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
I, ERNEST MITCHELL, of 7, Sutherland Street, Winton,, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Mechanic, 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:-
1
The object of this invention is to construct a simple and inexpensive automatic
apparatus for rocking children's cradles, swings, and the like.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a side view of a simple
arrangement of mechanism for this purpose and Fig. 3 is an elevation of a modi-
fication of the same.

page_text: The invention is applicable to such kinds of cradles, swings, and the like as are
hung upon arms or hanging levers supported on a fixed standard or standards, and
the principal novel feature of the invention is that I use for this purpose a simple
form of clockwork which may be constructed as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, consisting
of a coiled spring contained in a box a, a short train of toothed wheels b and a
pallet wheel c and pallet or escapement d and pendulum e and I so connect the
latter to the arm (or to one of the arms) supporting the cradle, swing, or the like
by a rod f, that the arm or hanging lever e acts as the arm of the pendulum
for regulating the action of the escapement, the cradle or seat acting as the "bob "
or weight thereof.
In some cases, of course a weight may be used instead of a spring as the moving
power but I prefer to employ an ordinary clock spring for the purpose, as being
less cumbersome and more easy of application.
In the modification shown at Fig. 3 I dispense with the pallet wheel c and
pallet d and substitute therefore an eccentric g and a clip h which forms the
upper part of the pendulum lever c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
The arrangement of clockwork connected from a pendulum lever by a rod
to the cradle, swing or other article to be rocked substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated the 3rd day of February 1899.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.