US358997A - Mechanism - Google Patents

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(No Modem A. P. VALON.

CLOCK WINDING MEGHANISM.

No. $58,997.', Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (")EEICEe AIME ERANQOIS vALoN, ou GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, ASSIG'NOE rro E. vAIIoN a co., or SAME PLAGE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,997, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed October 6, 1856. Serial No. 215,446. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AIME FEANoIs VALoN, watch-manufacturer, at Geneva, in Switzerland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clocks, oi' which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the winding up of clocks of all kinds Vand systems by means of a very simple mechanism, allowing to wind up simultaneously and without opening the clock the two or three mainsprings of the clock.

My mechanism needs no heling of thc dial, and no key is wanted to act upon it.

The accompanying drawings show a clock With two barrels provided with my mechanism. The latter may also be iitted to a clock with only one barrel, or to one having three barrels, (one for the work, one for striking the hours, and one for alarm.)

Figure l is a front View of the mechanism, the dial being supposed to be broken off. Fig. 2 is asection through X Y, showing the disposition of the winding-up mechanism upon the upper plate of the clock-work and the disposition of the plates and oi the glass and winding-ring in and upon the clock-case. The other parts of the work, having no relation to the invention, are not shown in the drawings.

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The plates B and D are bound by means of four pillars, b. The axis A of spring-barrel A is aiixed with one of its pivots to the plate B, and with the other one to a bridge, C, screwed upon the plate D. rlhe latter has an opening,giving passage to the barrel A. The axis A is provided with asquared end,c, which bears two ratchet-wheels, F and G, placed between the plate B and the ring E, the latter bearingthe dial. These ratchet-wheels are afiiXed tothe square @,While the wheel IvLwhieh is placed between F and G, turns freely around the axis A. rihe two spring-ratchets ff are affixed in a recess of plate Band act upon the ratchet-wheel F. The ratchet-wheel G,placed between the wheel H and bridge I, is acted upon by the two spring ratchets g g, which are affixed to wheel H. rlhe teeth of the ratchetwheels for the spring-barrels stand in opposite directions, so that one will act in one direction in winding up the mainspring, andthe other in the reverse direction in winding up the second spring, and the clock will be wound up by turning the ring J first one way and then the other. A circular tooth-range, J', which is affixed to a ring, J, engages with wheel H, and the ring J is made with a circular rib projecting around the clock-case, so that the said ring may be turned first one way and then the' other to wind up the clock. The ring J is held with but little friction between the case K and the ring E. The latter is connected to the plate B by means of three pillars, e. L is the dial. M is a ring which retains the dial upon the ring E, and N is the glass bezel, which is affixed upon the ring M.

The windingeup mechanism of the second barrel, A, is a symmetrical reproduction of the even-described one, so that by turning the bezel J from left to right the spring of barrel A is wound up, while the wheel H ol barrel A turns backward without turning the axis A, and by turning the bezel J from right to left the Spring of barrel Ais wound up, while wheel H of barrel A" turns backward without turning the axis A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with the mainspringaxis A, having a squared portion, a, of the two ratchet-wheels F and G, with reverse clickteeth and squared holes, the wheel H,with a round hole, and provided with spring-ratchets g, acting upon the wheel G, and of the springratchets f, affixed to the plateB and acting upon F, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

AIME EIiANoIs vALoN. 'Witnesses v LYELL T. ADAMs,

U. S. Consul, Genera. THEODORE TRUER.

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