US729527A - Time-reminder. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903. F. W. BAYNES. TIME REMINDER.

. APPLIUATION FILED DEO.'2, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

I IIIIII I ATTO RN Exa- UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

I FFICEs FREDERICK WALTER BAYNES, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO PHILIP EOKHAUS, OF WEST KENSINGTON, ENGLAND. v 7

. TIME-REMINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 729,527, dated une 2 1903.

' Application filed December 2, 1902. Serial No. 138,640 (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern: 1

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WA TER BAYNES, a subject of the King of Great Brit: ain, and a resident of Chancery Lane, London, in the county of Middlese'x, England, have invented a new and useful Improved Automatic Appointment-Reminder, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to an improved automatic appointment-reminder in which a clock is used connected with a bell which is made to sound at any predetermined time or other reminder is given that such time has arrived; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to cause a bell to ring exactly at a predetermined time, and, second, to cause a tablet to be simultaneously ejected or delivered from the apparatus, such tablet having had the nature of the reminder to be given written upon it and having been previously deposited in the proper position in the'apparatus to insure its ejection at the exact time. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the device. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 a front view, of one of'the tablets which I use.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. 1

a is'an ordinary horizontal clock or .timepiece fixed upon a standard I) and capable of being wound up and having the hands ad justed in the usual way from below.

0 is a light frame fixed at its center to the spindle of the hour-hand of the'clock and carrying light annular plates (Z c f concentric with the case 9 of the clock.

9 represents stays by which the plates at e f are maintained rigidly parallel with each other, but at a certain distance apart, so that they are carried around with the hour-hand. The upper and middle plates (Z and e have radial slots it cut through them from their periphery nearly .to their inner edge, while the lower plat/e f is plain and without slots. These slots receive small rectangular tabletst' of strong lightmaterial, such as celluloid or aluminium, whichv canbe-freely inserted in the slits.

A bellj is fixed upon the base of the clock,

and k is a" hammer-arm made to strike the bell when required by the coiled springl upon thevertic'al spindle in of the arm 10'. An-

other rigid arm n is fixed upon the top of the spindle m in such a position that its free end 'is pressed back bythe projecting edge of the tablet (which has been inserted in the proper one of the slots) as it revolves, but passes and releases the arm 'at the exact moment required, and the arm flies back and its hammer strikes the bellj. Supposing, as shown, the bell is arranged to sound when thetablet comes opposite the hour VI on the dial, the person using it Will insert the tablet in a groove as many hou rs and quarters back from the VI as there are between the time of insertion and that when the signal is desired.

0 is a light bent spring fixed at one end to the case of the clock, while its free end is bent outward, so that when the outer vertical edge of a tablet is passing and pressing back the spring-arm it its inner vertical edge bends back the light spring 0, which is of little strength. At the moment that the arm 'n is released from the tablet and the bell sounds the spring ou-ejects the tablet radially out from the grooves in which'it is carried, and it falls upon the table or into a tray-piece to The writing on the tablets can be obliterated after use, so that they'can be used as often as desired.

The device is used as a register of times and places of appointments, the person using it writing the particulars on the tablet, and at the prearranged time the owner will be antomatically reminded by the sound of the bell and the simultaneous ejection of the tablet.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination a clock at having an hour-hand arbor, annular plates the, f connected to and carried by the hour-hand arbor, the said plates 01 and 6 having radial slots h therein, a signal, a hammer-arm adapted to operate said signal, a spindle m carrying said arm, an arm or also connected with the spin- .suitable for use on any ordinary office-table.

and a tablet adapted to the slots in the plates given, substantially as described. 10 d and e, substantially as described. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 2. In combination with the hour-arbor of a I hand in the presence of two witnesses.

dle, a spring Z connected with the spindle I from the carrier after the signal has been clock, a carrier having slots therein, tablets FREDERICK WALTER BAYNES. adapted to said slots, a signal with means Witnesses: for operating the same from contact with the ARTHUR E. EDWARDS,

tablets and a spring for ejecting the tablet I I. L. HILDRETH.

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