An Improved Combination Cruet.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination Cruet.
SAMUEL SKERRITT 63 Randall Street Sheffield Yorkshire Ironworker. I do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
What I claim for my invention is a hollow handle with gong. In the first
place I make the cruet in the ordinary way with bottom to stand on four feet,
I then get a piece of tube bell shaped at one end, I then make a round or oval
handle & pass the other end of the tube through the centre of handle. The bell-
shaped end I then braze or screw to bottom plate & underneath the cruet I
fasten a large or small gong which is worked by spur wheel & pinion with
loose hammer. I then pass the spindle which is fast to the spur wheel right
through the handle. I then place on top of spindle a knob which by turning it
strikes the gong & in appearance it is no more than an ordinary cruet.
Dated this 5th day of December 1892.
SAMUEL SKERRITT.
An Improved Combination Cruet.
SAMUEL SKERRITT, 63 Randall Street, Sheffield, Ironworker, 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:-
A cruet made in the ordinary way of any suitable material with a hollow
handle in the centre which can be made in a variety of designs. I make a
shallow gong with a driving wheel, a spur wheel & pinion & the pinion carries
the loose hammer which strikes the gong. The centre of the driving wheel
carries a shaft. The wheels are now mounted & framed & the gong is fastened
on the bottom of the frame. The bell is now complete with the shaft standing
out of the driving wheel 6 in. I then put the shaft through the centre of the
handle & fasten the bell under the bottom of the cruet. I then fasten a knob
on the top of the shaft that comes through the handle with the word "bell" on
it. It is now complete & by turning the knob it gives the alarm.
And in order to describe it more particularly and also the manner the same
may be performed I send drawings Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 where in Fig. 2. A. is the
gong, B. the driving wheel, C. the spur wheel and pinion, D. the pinion which
carries the loose hammer for striking the gong, E. the shaft affixed to driving
wheel B, and in Fig. 1. F. is the hollow handle, G. the bottom of the cruet,
H. the knob on the top of shaft E. Now in order to effect an alarm which is
caused by the loose hammer striking the bell or gong A. the knob H. is turned
sharply round either way consequently the shaft E carrying the driving wheel B.
revolves and as the latter engages the spur wheel and pinion C. which in turn
also engages the pinion with loose hammer D. The bell or gong A. is struck
in rapid succession by the hammer D.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. A bell placed underneath the cruet.
2. A shaft placed through the centre of a hollow handle and bell with a knot on
the top.
Dated this Fifth day of September 1893.
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SAMUEL SKERRITT.