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,PILS.

e. .BAPST s; L. PALIZE TIME ALARM.

Patented June 12, 1888.

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G, BAPST & L. FALIZE, PILS.

TIME ALARM. I I

11%. 384,412. PatentedJune 12,1888.

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G. BAPST Sn L. FALIZE, PILS.

- TIME ALARM. No. 384,412. Patented June 12 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERMAIN BAPST AND LUCIEN FALTZE, FTLS, OF PAlilb, FRANCE.

TIME-ALARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,412, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed September 27, 1886. Serial No.2l4fil9. (No model.) Patented in France December 5,185..1No. 172,729; in Belgium September 6, 1886, No. 74,462, and in England September 7, IBM}, No. 11.390.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GERMAIN BAPST and LUGIEN FALIZE, Fils, of Paris,.France, have invented an Improved Alarm for Vfatches and Clocks, of which the'following is a speci fication.

Letters Patent have been granted to us for,

. upon by suitable means to causethe plate to be vibrated, and thereby produce a rattling or clatteriug sound of great intensity,

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section and elevation of the plate in a dishing-form. Fig.

I 2 shows by a section and elevation a fiat plate secured in a frame. Fig. 3 shows sectional views representing an electro-maguet as the means for vibrating the plate. Fig. 4. is an elevation showing a toothed wheel as the means for vibrating the plate.' Fig. 5 is av sectional view of part of a clock fitted with the sonorous alarm. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan ofa portion of the base of said clock. Fig. 7 is a section of the flexible plate and elevation of its actuating 'wheel as arranged for a watch. Fig. 8 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is an elevation of the exterior of a clock, showing the movable bezel and the hand for setting the alarm. Fig. 10 is an elevation, partly in section, of a Watch fitted with-onralarm. Fig. 11. is a section at about the line m a: of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is an elevation of the tubularnrbor that carries the hand for setting the alarm. Fig. 13. is a view of a portion of the bezel of the watch or clock. 14 isnn clevationofthe disk and arbor ofthe hand for setting the alarm.

In Figs. 10 and 11 only portions of the ti me- ,m'overnent are shown, so as to represent the more important parts with greater clcarness. These figures are in larger size.

As our invention is especially applicable to time-pieces, we will describe it with reference thereto.

E is the watch-case ring orcenter, and. F the inner and G the outer case at the back of the watch. These two cases are hinged to the ring E, as usual. The spring-barrcl of the timemovement is shown by dot-ted lines at H, Fig. 10, and the teeth upon said spring-barrel gear with the pinion I upon the tubular urbor J, that carries the center wheel, K, and this wheel K gives movement to the usual train oi gearing leading to the escapcment.

Within the tubular arbor J is the arbor L, carrying the minute-hand M, and loose upon said arbor is a tubular arbor, N, having ntits outer end the hour-hand O and at its inner end the wheel I. This hour-hand O and wheel]? are revolved once in every twelve hours through the wheels P, Q, and it.

The spring-barrel of the alarm-movement is represented by dotted lines at S, Fig. 10, and said barrel gives movement to the fly 1 through the pinions and wheels 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, and S.

b is a pinion gearing directly with the spring barrel S.

c is a plate of thin sheet metal secured at its 7 edge to a circular rib, V upon the inner back face of the case F, and a is a finger projecting from said plate, and with its free end passing in between two teeth of the pinion Z). If the free end of this pin is moved and then released, a vibration of the pin from 0 to o is produced, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and this vibration is communicated to the plate 0, thereby producing sound-waves of great intensity.

vibrating the sonorous plate 0, and we will now describe the means for releasing the toothed wheel at the proper time for vibrating the sonorous plate and sounding the alarm.

12 is a tubular arbor concentric with the arbors of the hour and minute hands, and this arbor is fitted to turn within an opening in the dial-plate 18, and is held to said dial with a slight friction by a clamping nut or rim, 1%. Upon the inner end of said arbor 12 is a. disk, 24, having a V-shaped groove, 28, in its face, and at the outer end of said arbor is the hand 18 for setting the alarm.

19 is a V-shapcd pin upon the wheel Rand this pin is kept in contact with tin: taceot' the l disk 24 by a spring, 20, that bears against/said wheel P. Atthe outer and free end of the 2o in Fig. 1

3 -sounded, and the alarm is sounded, as aforea,

35 seen' whensetting the hand 18, and-the notch ,36 for said hand 18 isin line'iwith the center the fingeraand sonorous diskc, soundingythex the wheel P in its revolution has carried the I pin 19 out of the groove 26 in the diskQtand and'said bezel has ,an inward flange, 31,..pr'o- *partsthis pin 21 keeps the fly from rot bi f 'while the pin 19 rests agai nst thesurl'acept-the '5 disk 24, as shown in Fig. 11; but wheneveeth-epin'19 reaches the groove. 26 in the disk 24,

(which is at the time the hour-hand is'dirfe'ctly .over the hand 18,)then said pin 19 passes'into' said groove .26- by the spring 20,"foroing?the? :0 wheel B'a'nd its tubular arbor along uponthe arbor L. At the same time the spring 20 car-1 ries the pin 21- away from the fly T,-releasing the latter, and the pinion bis at onces'et 'i'n;

fmotion bythe spring-barrel S and .vibrat alarm. The alarm' continues to soun'dnntil" i brought the parts backto the position shown;

1, with the'tly held by til-e pin 21.

' At the front of the wa tch is the lnzel'30,

with its glass 47;fbut the bezel, instead of be ing hinged to'the ringE, is fitted to turnupon;

an undercut cirenlar'rib'. 32, upon sai'dri-ug --vided.with a notch" at 36 toreceive the outer end of the hand 18; hence by turning said .bezel thehand 1.8-is' also turned, and can be placed at the hour at which the alarm is to be said, when the hour-hand comes imm'ediateljf over said hand 18.1" j -',l,he bezel ismadewith an opening at 38, so that the "minute divisions of the dial tube of said opening p WTithwatchesitis preferable to place the wheel b 'n aplane paraltel'with that of the 40 sonorousplate' g," as in. Figs. '7 S,10, and 11; butiin clocks the-wheel b may be in a plane atv right anglesgto that of the disks, as seen in Fig. 5. In Fig. 5 the sonorous' plate is bei neath'an opening in a plate, A, and is clamped to-said plateby aring, b, screwed into a flange,

fa'", upon'said plate A.

The plate c may-'be slightly dishing, asin Fig. 1', and it may be of wood, metal, glass, or I of any material t-hatca'n be vibrated, and it" 5o may be vibrated by an'electro-magnetbrought into actio'n at the proper time by time mechan-ism, or by the opening or closing of a cir-. cu'it, as in burglar or other alarms.

We claim as our invention-- Y 1. 'Thecombination,with the watch'or'clock .55 movement and case, of a'son'orous metal'plate eld securely at its edges'within the case, a. :fing'eror 'pin secured :to and projecting from said'platei atooth'ed wheel contiguous to the fingerf-anda spring-barrel and trainpf jgearing forirrotat ngthe toothed wheel 1 and-moving the iingerto vibratethe plate, and

amovahie stopbroughtintoactionby the time mechanjsmjfor ailowing the alarm mechanism to qper'atejsntstantiany as specified. 6 --'Th jcombination, with the-spring-barrel gsPiiiiQnf; b,*fly T, and gearing for rotating said plate,-.th'e-wheel 1?, pin 19, and tubular arbor ofthesonorous plate 0,,finger a upon said IN, the grooved disk 2;, its tubular arbor. 12 7o andhand 18, the1spri'ng20, 'for pressingthe wheeLP-toward the disk 24, a stop, 2i, at the outer endof the spring 20, the wheel P of the time-movement, and the gearing between the v nensr'and-P, for rotating'the latter once inevjery'twelve hours, substantially as specified. 3'. 'In an alarm for time pieces, the combination, with the spring-barrel 8, its train of gearingfanda fly rotated by said gearing, of the wheel]? audits tubular arbor fitted to slide upon theminute-arbor L, a pin upon the face of said wheel 1?, the tubular arbor 12, and grooved disk 24, the hand 18,secured to said; "arbor 12, the spring 20, bearing-uponthe wheel P, and a stop-,:21, -at'the moving end of 8 5 saidspring, substantially as and for the purposes specified. I

4. The gombination, with the tubular'a-rbor 12 11116 its hand 18, of the ring and its cir- -cn'larzrib"32, .the'bezel 3O, fitted to turn upon said'rib,,and the flange 31'up'on' said bezel, having anotjch to receive the outer end of said hand 18, substantially as and for the purposes specifiedr In-testimony whereof we have signed this 5 specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. l p

GERMAINB'APST. LUCIEN FALIZE, Fins. Wit'nesses: "JULESFAYOLLE, AUG. Vmox.

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