Improvements in and relating to Alarm Clocks.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1899-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE DIUIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Alarm Clocks.
We, ADOLF FABER, of Paulsdorf, near Zaborze, House Owner, and FLORIAN
PORALLA, of Zaborze, Boot Manufacturer, both in Upper Silesia, in the 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:-
This invention relates to an alarm clock and its object is to provide devices
by means of which a coffee mill or similar domestic machine may be released and
permitted to operate when the alarm is given by the clock.
The accompanying drawings, to which reference is hereinafter made, illus-
trate how these improvements may be carried into effect.
Figure 1 represents a combined alarm clock and coffee mill partly in vertical
section and partly in elevation.
Figure 2 shows the improved devices in plan.
Figure 3 is a view of the upper part of the apparatus taken at right angles to
the view illustrated in Figure 1.
a is an alarm clock of the usual or any convenient construction. indicates
a coffee mill which is operated by spring power and is released at a pre-determined
moment by the action of the clock. A lever c is mounted upon a shaft behind
the clock, one end of the lever engaging with the crown wheel e while the other
is capable of being depressed by some part 6 of the clock which is operated when
the clock gives the alarm. This part may conveniently be the key or winding
stem. When it rotates or otherwise moves, the nearer end of the lever c is
depressed, the farther end is raised from out of engagement with the teeth of
the crown wheel, and the mill is free to be operated by a spring contained within
the casing g.
The wheel e is attached to a sleeve f which forms part of the
casing g
The lever c is so mounted as to be capable of both angular and lateral motion
upon its shaft, and the latter is surrounded by a spring i which, when the end
of the lever is raised from the crown wheel, moves the lever laterally and causes
its end to mount upon an inclined plane formed at the forward end of a bracket k.
The end of the lever is thus held securely out of contact with the wheel while
the coffee mill is operating.
By pressing the button the lever may be returned to its working position
when the end drops into a recess in the bracket k, and again acts as a detent to
the wheel e. The coffee mill is wound up by means of the stem and devices m.
To put the apparatus in working order the clock and the mill are connected
by the lever c and both are wound up. Upon the alarm being given by the
clock the mill is released and commences working.
Having now particularly 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:-
The combination with an alarm clock of a lever, one end of which is adapted

page_text: to act as a detent to the mechanism of a coffee mill or the like while the other
is adapted to engage with the clock mechanism in such a manner that when the
alarm is given the mill is released, constructed and arranged substantially as
hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of June A.D. 1899.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.