IMPROVEMENTS IN BELL LEVERS AND BELL PULLS
Year: 1884

page_text: We, JOHN WALLER, of 47 Hanover Street, Brighton, in the County of Sussex,
Bell Hanger; and BENJAMIN FARRINGDON of 5 North St Quadrant, Brighton, in
the County of Sussex, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BELL LEVERS AND BELL PULLS," and in
what manner the same is to be performed; to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :—
The object of this Invention is to provide a Bell Lever or Bell pull which shall
by its construction save much labor and expence in fitting, and at the same time be
more convenient to ring. For instance, should there be two or more Bells com-
municating with the door of a house, warehouse, workshop or offices, these two or
more Bells may in our Invention each be set in motion by the movement of one
Bell pull or Bell Lever in the manner hereinafter described.
In our Invention several bells may be in communication with a single bell pull
or Lover and each bell may be set in motion separately and singly by the working
of such Bell pull or lever. To accomplish this, we have an arrangement of cams
with levers to which chains or wires, in communication with the various bells, are
connected. These cams work upon a central pivot inside a hollow drum cast upon
the Bell Crank. By the motion of this Bell Crank or Handle one way or the other
one or other of the levered cams is turned and the desired bell is rung. The Cams
and Drum are enclosed in a metal box attached to the wall with or without a face
plate fixed to the fronts as in the ordinary Bell Pulls now. used.
Two or more Cranks, Handles or Bell Pulls each in communication with 2 or
more Bells in the manner before described may be arranged working from tho
same box.
By moving a Regulator wo control the working of any number of Bells. The
advantages gained by using these our Bell pulls are :-
1st Our one Lever pull constructed according to this invention can be pulled
either way, & can be fixed either at front door, drawing rooms, dining rooms,
bedrooms or area doors, in fact in any position, and will also be of great advantage
where cupboards or shelves are fixed after the Bell tubing is fixed which we find
is very often the case thereby causing an alteration to be made which alteration is
avoided by using these our Bell pulls. They can also be fixed to locks, and are
more easily fixed than the old Lever pulls.
2ndly With our two pull Lever, two bells can be rung separately from the one
pull in two distinct places, for instance one up and one Bell down, and may be fixed
in any position as mentioned above, thus, this our two pull lever will do the duty
of two ordinary Bell Lever Pulls and two of these our Bell pulls will do the, duty
of 4 ordinary pulls, thereby saving Bell pulls, tubing, cranks, wire, bell blocks,
mouth pieces, bell rings, screws, nails &c, and above all a great amount of labour.

page_text: Our front door pulls are of great advantage in every respect, for instance the
servants and the visitors' bell is each rung from the one pull separately, office and
house bells, day and night bells, house and shop bells, and so on all apply in the
same manner, and are more easily fixed than the ordinary front door pull.
The ordinary wheel and chain is entirely dispensed with.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS,
Figure 1 (Sheet 1) shews our improved Bell pull or Bell Lover fitted so that two
bells may be pulled from the same "lever" or "pull."
Figure 2 (sheet 1) shews the cams of same with front plate and lever removed,
and Figure 3 (sheet 1) is a cross section of the wholo.
a is the bell crank, bb are the cams with levers b¹ b, c are the wires or chains
connected with bells; d is the metal box enclosing the cams.
(Sheet 1) shew the levered cams separately on a larger scale.
Figures 4 and 5
Figures 6 and 7 (Sheet 1) are a front view and cross section respectively of a
4 pull bell lever constructed according to this Invention. The cams bb are operated
by the lever a in the mauner above described, and the cams c c are operated in a
similar manner by the lever d which turns upon its centre c.
Figure 1 Sheet 2 illustrates our method of ringing a number of bells from the one
pull, a a a are the cams each having a lever b to which is attached the wire or chain
connected to the bells. These cams a revolve upon a spindle c and in spindle c
we make longitudinal grooves in which our regulator d works. To the regulator d
we fit catches e which take into cams a and upon being turned (when desired to
ring a bell) turn said levered cam with it and cause the bell to bo sounded.
The aforesaid cams a are shewn in Fig 3 and 4, which are a plan and section of
same respectively. One half of the disc a we make thicker than the other, so as to
form a stop for the catch e of regulator d.
The regulator d as shewn in the accompanying drawings has two stops e each of
which takes into a can a. Thus when turned to the right one bell is pulled and
when turned to the left another bell is pulled. By drawing regulator d out as
shewn in Figure 2 (Sheet 2) another pair of bells may be manipulated, and by
drawing out still further another pair of bells may be manipulated and so on,
for as many different bells as it may be found convenient to have fitted to one
bell pull.
Figure 5 sheet 2 is an end view of spindle c shewing grooves in which the
regulator d works also aperture g in which dravels centre bar h of regulator. The
centre bar h may be marked so as to indicate with which bells the regulator d is
at any time in connection.
Fig 6 Sheet 2 is an end view of regulator d.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of our said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :—
First. The principle & method of causing two or more bells to be rung from
one and the same bell pull as herein before set forth.
Second. The general construction and arrangement of bell levers and bell pulls
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and described.
Dated this 10th day of October 100A.