A Mechanical Device for Driving or Winding up Musical Instruments, Clocks, Models, Advertising Apparatus, Fans, Sewing Machines, and Toys, and for like purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application; 9th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Mechanical Device for Driving or Winding up Musical Instruments,
Clocks, Models, Advertising Apparatus, Fans, Sewing Machines,
and Toys, and for like purposes.
I, ALBERT ANTOINE LATEULERE of 19 Clerkenwell Road, in the City and
County of London, Musical Box Manufacturer, 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:-..
This invention is designed to facilitate the application of some small motor, such
as a toy-steam-engine, or miniature gas or hot-air engine or electrical motor, to
wind up the springs of musical boxes and clocks and other articles driven by a
coiled spring, or to drive such instruments without a spring, that is to say, direct
from the motor with the interposition of this mechanical device.
I will now proceed to describe the invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which
Fig 1 shows a side elevation of the device, with a small toy engine ready to be
attached.
Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the device alone.
Fig. 3, shows a longitudinal section on line 1-2 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the brake for regulating the speed.
a is the frame to which the spindles of the various wheels are attached. b is
the cogwheel which receives motion from the toy engine, by means of the pin b'.
c is a pinion at the end of the spindle d which gears with b, and is interchangeable
therewith. is a disc at back of e, which has a hole to receive the pin b', when the
wheels b and c are exchanged.
a is a small vertical standard attached to the frame a, which supports the
spindles 62 and d.
Attached to d is the small pulley wheel e, from which power can be taken if
required. This pulley revolves quicker than the others and will consequently yield
a higher speed. Attached to this pulley e is the circular brake block e¹, upon
which presses the brake spring f. This spring is operated by the small collar g¹
on the handle J.
At the end of the spindle d is the worm d', which drives the toothed wheel h,
which is mounted on the spindle i. At the outer end of this spindle is the pulley
wheel j, from which also power can be taken, but slower than that from e.
Attached to the toothed wheel is the pinion h¹ which drives the toothed wheel k
on the spindle 1, at the outer end of which is the larger pulley wheel m. n and o
are lugs with screw holes for attaching the device to a musical box or other
instrument. a² is a small upright standard which forms the end bearing of the
worm spindle d.
The pulley wheels ; and m are interchangeable, so that in this way further
variations of speed are attainable. By the interchangeability of the toothed wheel b
and the pinion c before referred to, other modifications of speed are possible.
Two different speeds can also be taken off from the spindle and from the pinion
attached thereto. The pulley wheels ej, m, can each be formed double or treble
so as to admit of two or three speeds being taken from each of them, or by extending
the spindle on both sides of the pinion two pulleys may be used instead of one or
toothed wheels which are interchangeable may be employed instead of pulleys.
With a high speed motor great rapidity of action can be obtained as the above
device will either increase or diminish speed as required. By means of the brake
the action can be controlled to any speed desired.
When employed for winding up a coiled spring a tooth or pulley wheel or other

page_text: suitable attachment can be fixed to the arbor of 'the spring, and an arrangement
employed for disengaging the connection when the spring is fully wound.
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:
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1. A mechanical device consisting of the combination and arrangement of wheels,
pinions, worm, spindles, frame and brake, and with or without pulleys as shewn as
herein described and set forth.
2. The combination of the mechanical device herein described with a toy engine,
or other motor as and for the purposes set forth.
-Dated-this-9th-day-of February-1893.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.