Improvements in Oycle and other Bells.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1895
Lamplate Specification Lott 22nd June 1908 cented 25th July 1836
Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Lett, 22nd June, 1808 Accepted, 25th July, 1926
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oycle and other Bells.
We, ALFRED ERNEST COOMBS and JOHN REED COOмвя, trading as
Coombs Brothers, of Toledo Works, Aston Brook Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to cycle, call and other bells, and has for one of its
objects, the securing of the bell to a machine or the like by or through the
medium of the dome, and for another object, the dispensing of the use of loose
parts.
In carrying out our improvements in connection with a cycle bell, a base or frame
plate is taken with a turned-up lip edge and a screwed hole through its middle
taking upon a screwed shoulder part at the junction of a hollow sleeve and a hollow
bracket forming a solid end to a flexible band clip, whose other end is gapped and
turned up into knuckles formed suitable for receiving the ends of a cross piece
through the cross middle part of which, a tension screw directed upwardly through
a plain hole in the bracket and sleeve as aforesaid, passes.
The dome or ringing part of the bell has a lug or lugs upon its inner lip or
periphery and a screw box depending from the middle of its inside crown adapted
to take upon the end of the tension screw extending into the crown of the bell and
coming beyond the end of the sleeve. The said end of the sleeve forms an abutment
for the end of the screw box of the dome, so that by screwing the said dome
upon the end of the tension screw, with the end of the screw box abutting against
the adjacent end of the sleeve, the aforesaid screw is drawn up through the said
sleeve and bracket and the band tightened around the member or part of a machine
to which it is attached..
The bell or clapper-driving mechanism may consist of a pinion and toothed
wheel mounted loosely upon an axis carried by a frame or base and with a lever
toothed sector fulcrumed near the edge of the base engaging with and driving the
pinion, whilst the toothed wheel meshes with the teeth of a loosely rotated pinion
mounted upon the central sleeve and carrying upon its upper or outer part a table
or support having made fast to it, one, two or more clapper arms, having double or
treble loop coiled springs formed from the metal of them and with their axes
running horizontally and with their terminal free ends carrying hammers or strikers
which depend downwards and alternately wipe past the lugs on the inside of the
dome and by the coils first being contracted and then opened out, the bell is struck
with a sharp impact and so rung.
Dated this 11th day of November 1895.
ALFRED ERNEST COOMBS,
JOHN REED COOMBS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
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page_text: Improvements in Cyole and other Bells.
We, ALFRED ERNEST COOMBS and JOHN REED COOMBS, trading as
Coombs Brothers, of Toledo Works, Aston Brook Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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 cycle, call and other bells, and has for its object the
securing of the bell to a machine or the like by or through the medium of
'its dome.
In carrying out our improvements in connection with a cycle bell, a base or frame
plate is taken with a turned-up lip edge and a screwed hole through its middle
taking upon a screwed shoulder part at the junction of a hollow sleeve or hollow
post with the bracket, to which is connected the inner end of a flexible band clip,
whose other end is gapped and turned up into knuckles formed to receive a cross
piece or bush through the cross middle part of which, a tension screw directed
upwardly through a plain hole in the bracket and sleeve as aforesaid, passes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in vertical section the shell of
a cycle bell provided with attachment means constructed according to our invention
and shown secured to the handle-bar of a machine.
Figure 2 represents an elevation of the said bell but at right angles to the view
in Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an underside plan of the bell, with a part in horizontal section.
Figure 4 represents a back elevation of the bell and Figure 5 represents a
longitudinal vertical section of the middle piece or bush which is carried at the
outer and free end of the spring clip.
Figure 6.represents the dome and its screw pin separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 6 of
the drawing.
a is the dome of the bell, which has made fast with it, a drawing-up screw pin b,
with the lower end wormed at 1, and taking through the wormed middle part of a
screw box or bush e, fitted within a gapped knuckle end c³, of a flexible band clip c,
whose other end 3, is made fast to a bracket d, having a hollow post or sleeve dr.
through which the said drawing-up pin b, passes.
Threaded over the pillar and taking upon its lower wormed part d', is the base
plate or frame e, of the bell, and a washer f, is interposed between the inner end ³,
of the band c, and the underside of the base plate.
By rotating the dome of the bell and the drawing up screw pin b, with it in
one direction the normal distance between the adjustable end of the band clip
and the end of the screw pin is diininished and the clip tightened by the hanging
plug b, in the inside crown of the dome abutting against the top do, of the pillar or
post d'.
Figure 7 represents a modification of our invention, in which the lower end of
the tension pin (which is non-rotating) is plain and rigidly connected to the free
end of the band clip whilst the upper end is wormed and takes into a screw box
depending from the dome of the bell and abutting against the upper end of a sleeve
carried by the base plate of the bell.
a is the dome of the bell, having depending from its inside crown an internally
wormed lug or screw box a', abutting against the upper end d³, of the hollow
sleeve d², carried by the base plate d, up which the non-rotating tightening screw b,
is directed, with its wormed end 4, taking into the said screw box a', whilst its
lower end, is made fast to the bush c', rigidly connected to the free end of the
band clip c.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
First. In cycle and other bells, securing the same to their supports by rotating
the bell or a part of the bell which carries a tightening screw engaging with an end.
of the band clip.
Secondly. In cycle and other bells, the combination with a band or equivalent.
clip, one end of which is fixed and the other free and carries a screw box or
equivalent, of a bell or dome having a fast tightening screw passing through a
hollow sleeve carried by a bracket so that on rotating the bell and on the opposed
parts of bell and bracket coming together, the tightening of a band clip is effected,.
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Thirdly. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the parts of
the means for securing cycle and other bells, substantially as described and set forth.
in Figures 1 to 6.
Fourthly. In cycle and other bells, securing the same to their supports by a
non-rotating pin, whose one end is attached to the free end of a band or like clip
carried by a bracket, and whose other end is screwed and takes into a screw box în.
the depending middle lug of the dome of the bell, which, when rotated, brings the
opposed parts of bracket and bell together and draws up the pin, hence the
tightening of the band, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 7.
Dated this 19th day of June 1896.
ALFRED ERNEST COOMBS,
JOHN REED COOMBS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.