AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Bernard Cole, of Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Watchmaker for an Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Bernard Cole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December 1882.
ARTHUR BERNARD COLE, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Watch-
maker, AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO WATCHES'
"
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The purposes of utility to which the present improvements in watches have
reference, are, to facilitate the winding up, the setting of the hands, and the
regulation of watches, and to dispense with a separate key; and to exclude dust
and air from the movements of the watch.
To effect these purposes, I arrange between the outer back case and the dome of
the inner case of the watch, exterior to the said dome, hinged thumb pieces which
I key or pivot upon the proper arbors of the movement, the arrangement being
such that these thumb pieces constitute fixed keys which lie on or flush with the
dome of the said inner case when the outer case is closed down, but which can be
turned up for being taken hold of for communicating rotary motion to the relative
arbors in winding up the movements, or setting the hands. The pointer. and
graduated are of the regulator I also adapt exterior to the said dome. By this
improved arrangement of such parts, the necessity for opening the inner case to get
at and regulate the movements is avoided; and all access of dust and air to the
movements is avoided; and the, chance of losing or misplacing the key of the
watch is prevented.
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Arthur Bernard Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th June 1883.
ARTHUR BERNARD COLE, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Watch-
maker. "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO WATCHES
"
The purposes of utility to which the present improvements in watches have
reference, are, to facilitate the winding up, the setting of the hands, and the
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page_text: regulation, of watches, and to dispense with a separate key, and to exclude dust
and air from the movements of the watch.
b.
The accompanying drawing illustrates a watch constructed according to this
Invention, and shows the same as removed from the case.
In carrying the Invention into effect, there is arranged between the outer back
case and the dome of the inner case of the watch, exterior to the said dome, hinged
thumb pieces 1, 2, which are keyed or pivotted upon the proper arbors of the
movement, the arrangement being such that these thumb pieces constitute fixed
keys which lie on or flush with the dome of the said inner case when the outer
case is closed down, but which can be turned up for being taken hold of for
communicating rotary motion to the relative arbors in winding up the movements
or setting the hands.
The thumb piece 1, which sets the hands is set on a square 3, which works
through a hollow barrel arbor and, ratchet 4. On the. inner end of the square or
arbor 3, is a pinion which gears with the wheel which turns with the cannon pinion
on' which the hand is fixed. The thumb piece 2, which winds up the movement is
set on a fuzee.
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The pointer and graduated arc of the regulator is also adapted exterior to the
said dome.
The drawing illustrates two modifications of the regulator, one to regulate through
a glass fitted in the dome of the case and showing the balance and regulator, and
the other without such a glass. The regulator 5, on the cock 6, is to regulate
through a glass in the dome of the case. The regulator 7; on the cock 8, acts by
a rotary motion through the dome of the case.
By. this improved arrangement of such parts, any necessity for opening the inner
case to get at and regulate the movements, and all access of dust and air to the
movements; is' avoided; and the chance of losing or misplacing the key of the
watch is prevented.
When the works illustrated on the drawing are placed within the case, all that
is seen exterior to the dome of the inner case and between it and the outer back
case, is the two thumb pieces, and the regulator, the graduated arc of which is
marked on the said dome, all the other works shown in the drawing are completely
enclosed.
my
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature and objects of
said Invention and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to
be novel and original and therefore. claim as constituting the Invention secured to
me by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is :-
i The application to watches of the improved means. hereinbefore described for
facilitating the winding up, the setting of the hands, and the regulation, of watches.
: .
In Witness whereof, I the said Arthur Bernard Cole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 6th day of June in the year of our Lord; one thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.