Improvement in Clocks.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Clocks.
EDWARD PACKETT WEST 13 Charterhouse Street E.C. City of London
Clock Manufacturer and Merchant and CHARLES AUGUSTE REMANE 1 Napier
Terrace Islington in County of London Clock Maker do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the mode of winding clocks.
Generally the winding is done with a key which is a separate piece of
the clock.
In our invention the key is attached to the clock frame and is worked in the
following manner.
Where two separate windings are to be made the handle for winding is attached
to a bar which is fastened to the clock-frame where the winding arbors are, in
such a way that it can oscillate at the point of fastening, which point is at
the apex of a triangle having for its base the line joining the centres of the two
winding arbors.
The winding handle is fixed solidly to an axis; this axis passes through the
centre of a wheel with teeth similar to those on the winding arbors, and which
wheel is lodged in a recess in the oscillating end of the bar, between the clock frame
and the bar.
The object of the oscillating bar is to bring the wheel lodged in it into gear
with either winding arbor, so that the handle on being turned will turn the winding
arbors.
If the bar is moved to the left until the two wheels are in proper gear the axis
carrying the baudle is pushed into a hole in the frame-plate where it is maintained
by the pressure of the hand and a suitable spring during the action of winding.
To wind the second spring the handle is pulled out until the pivot of its axis
is released from the hole in the frameplate and is moved to the second winding
arbor until the wheels are in proper gear when the axis of the handle is pushed into
a hole in the frame plate and the second winding can take place.
The winding handle is hinged and can be placed horizontally or vertically.
It is also provided with a circular articulation as in the well known "Brequet'
keys allowing the handle to be turned the reverse way to the way of the winding
action.
If a single arbor is to be wound the circular articulation or "Brequet action"
is directly applied to the wheel on the winding arbor, one part of the articulation
being fixed to the wheel the other or upper part carrying the handle. The two
parts are held together by a spring.
Dated this 10th day of Januar 1900
EDWARD PACKETT WEST.
CHARLES AUGUSTE REMANÉ.

page_text: Improvement in Clocks.
EDWARD PACKETT WEST Clock Manufacturer and Merchant of 13 Charter-
house Street E.C. in the City of London and CHARLES AUGUSTE REMANE,
Clock Maker of 1 Napier Terrace, Islington, in the County of London 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:-
Our present invention relates to the mode of winding clocks. Generally the
winding is done with a key, which is a separate piece of the clock. In our
invention the key is attached to the clock frame and is constructed and worked as
we shall now describe, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon:
Fig. 1 is a back view of so much of a Freuch clockmovement as is necessary to
shew the application of our improvement thereto.
Fig. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are views and sections of the different parts of the
mechanism of the improvement.
In Fig. 1, A is the back plate carrying the winding arbors B, B' and the ratchet
wheel C, C D is a metal bar fixed to the plate A in E by a shouldered screw
which allows the bar D to oscillate between B & B F is the key or handle for
winding; it is fixed to the axis H by a screw g, which screw g serves as a pivoting
pin of a hinge, so that the handle F can be placed either horizontally or vertically
to the plate A. A wheel K is lodged between the plate A and the bar D in a
recess cut in the bar D facing the plate A. This wheel K has teeth of the
required shape on its circumference so that when brought into contact with
either C or C a proper gearing action takes place. The wheels C or C¹ will
therefore turn when the wheel K is turned and the clock will be wound.
As shewn in Fig. 2 the wheel K has a circular boss L; this boss revolves in a
hole in the bar D and projects through the hole above the bar. The axis H
passes through the centre of the wheel K as shewn in Fig. 4 & 5 and can be moved
up and down vertically to the plate A. Towards the plate the axis H ends in the
shape of a pivot which can be pushed into fitting holes drilled into the plate at
the points where the wheel K is in proper gearing depth with the wheels C or C'
maintaining the wheels in proper position during the action of winding. The
handle F is not fixed direct on the axis H by the screw g, but to a metal nut N,
see Fig. 3, 4 & 5. This nut N fits itself tight on the axis H and is secured rigidly
by the screw g. The handle F is hinged to the nut N by the same screw g. The
nut N and the projecting boss L of the wheel K are cut with teeth so as to form
couplings of a clutch T like in the well known "Brequet keys," see the Fig. 4 & 5.
The clutch is held closed by a spiral spring S, see Fig. 5. This spring is lodged
in a recess R in the wheel K as shewu in the section of the wheel K in Fig. 2. and
is held in the recess by a small shoulder on the axis H just above the pivot as
shewn in Fig. 5. Now if the clock has to be wound the bar D is shifted with the
handle F towards the ratchet wheel C until the wheel K is in gear with C when
the pivot of the axis is pushed into the hole O in the plate A, see Fig. 4. & 5.
By turning the handle the wheel C will turn and the arbor B will wind that part
of the clock. When B has been wound the handle F is pulled away from the
plate to a stop which allows it to be pulled enough for the pivot of the axis H to
be released from the hole in the plate A, and the bar D with the wheel K is shifted
to C where when K and Care in proper gear the pivot of the axis H is pushed
by the spiral spring into a hole in the plate A and the arbor B' can be wound by
turning the handle F. The clutch T formed by the couplings N and L will open
when the handle F is turned in a direction reverse to that of the winding action

page_text: so that the hand need not be released from the handle or key during the whole
time of the winding.
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:
1. The combination and arrangement of mechanism whereby the winding arbors
of a clock are alternately acted upon by a oscillating bar carrying a wheel of
similarly formed teeth as those on the wheels of the winding arbors.
2. The construction of the wheel and the axis in the oscillating bar of such
a form as to provide a vertical motion of the axis and to provide also a fixed
centre where the wheels are maintained in their proper position during the-
winding.
3. The arrangement of the couplings forming a clutch to allow a motion in the-
reverse way to that of the way of the winding.
Dated this 29th day of January 1896.
EDWARD PACKETT WEST.
CHARLES AUGUSTE REMANÉ..