CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOCKS AND WATCHES
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PAYNE, of 163, New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, Watch and
Pedometer Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth
day of March, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the twelfth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Payne, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
William Payne, my exors, adñors, and assigns, and such others as I, the
said William Payne, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOCKS AND WATCHES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said William Payne,
should cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Payne, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the present Specification thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Firstly, my said improvements have reference to that class of clocks in
which the completion of the successive hours, half hours, and quarter hours,
or other spaces of time, are indicated by musical intonations or chimes. In
all clocks of this description, as hitherto constructed, the chimes have been
produced by means of bells struck by hammers, the latter being put in
motion by means of a train of wheelwork, springs, and levers, but the
multiplicity of the requisite machinery, and the space occupied by the bells,
have caused such clocks to be expensive and cumbersome, besides which they
are extremely liable to derangement when moved about from place to place.
Now my said Invention consists in the adaptation and arrangement of metallic
springs for the purpose of producing the sounds or musical notes by which
the liability to get out of order is almost completely obviated, and the sounds
produced are much finer and more easily brought into harmony with each
other.
The annexed Drawing is an end elevation of a clock fitted with these im-
provements. A, A, is the frame; B, a barrel containing a common clock
spring; C, a fusee which is acted upon by the spring in the barrel B, through
the intervention of the chain D; E, E, are wheels by which motion is
communicated from the fusee to a barrel F, which is studded with pins so
arranged and calculated as to produce the musical chime by acting upon the
elastic metal springs G, G. These springs are securely affixed to a cross
bar forming a part of the framework A, A. The means which are employed
for liberating the barrel F, and for regulating the extent of its revolution at
the different specified times at which it comes into action, are exactly similar
to those employed in chime clocks fitted with bells, and being well understood
do not require to be further explained.
Secondly, my improvements consist in the application of the arrangements
which have just been described to watches, so that they may indicate par-
ticular divisions of time by chimes. The manner in which this is effected is
so exactly similar to that described in reference to clocks (consisting of
the same parts, but on a reduced scale), that no further description will
be necessary to enable a competent workman to carry out this part of my
Invention.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner