US11236A - Mode op hanging bells - Google Patents

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J..B. YOUNG.

Door Bell'. No. 11,236. Patented July 4,1854.

UNITED STATES PATENT ,oFFIoE.

JEROME B. YOUNG, OF HARPERS FERRY, VIRGINIA.

MQZDE or HANGING BELLS.

Specification ofLetters Patent No. 11,236,} datdh1 4, 1854.

"and State of Virginia, have invented and made certain new and useful Improvements in Bells; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the method of construction and mode of operating the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, andmaking a part of thls specification, 1n wlnch- Figure l, is a view of the bell complete,

attached to a door (for which the improve ment is, principally designed), and showing the lever handle of the bell, which is attached to the screw G on the inside of the door. Fig. 2, shows section or fragment of the door rails A, with the bell B, B, B. The lever handle O, C, 0, passing in the direction of the dots through the tube D, D; the vertical pistons striker E, E, passing through the barrel or socket F, which is attached to thearm H, H, which has a screw thread O, to which is attached the bell B, B, B.

To enable others to be skilled in the use and application of my invention and improvements, I will proceed to describe the construction and operation thereof, the nature and principles of which, consist in constructing a door or signal bell, in the form of a bowl or dish like shape, indicated by B, B, B, Fig. 2, of any required size, and attaching the same by a female screw and a male screw G formed on the end .of an arm H, H, formed on the end of a cylindrical end of this tube, is formed an elbow and arm H, H; on the top of which is a barrel or socket F, through which passes and in which works a detached piston like gravitating st-ricker E, E, of steel or iron. The lower end of this striker rests on the small end of the actuating lever C, (1,0, when at rest. The. bell. B, B, B, being attached to the screw G, completes the whole device; which is designedprincipally to be used as a front door bell but which may beused in other ways and for other purposes.

Theiutility of my system of door bells is most obvious. First, because of the cheapness and simplicity of construction of the bell. Secondly, the non-liabi1ity to get out of order; the usualwires, cranks, &c., being entirely dispensed with. Thirdly, the ready action of the bell, and sonorous, distinct sound afforded, which arises in part, from thefact, that the door to which the bell is attached, acts as a sounding or reverberating medium; thus rendering the signal or alarm prompt and effectual.

The method of operating the same is simple, and is readily understood at a glance by v reference to diagrams, Figs. 1, 2. The outside or handle end C, c, is struck or pressed down by the fingers or hand; which depres sion of the handle, lifts or throws up the striker E, E, which being within the concavity of the bell, and having sufiicient room or play, strikes upward, against the inner circumference; thus producing the signal or sound. The striker E, E, being confined within the socket, can not by any ordinary means get out of place.

Having thus fully represented my improved hell by drawings, and described the construction thereof, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

I claim the construction of a bell having attached thereto, an arm H, H, formed on a tube D, D, having working through it, an actuating lever G, O, 0, combined with a gravitating piston striker E, E, working through a barrel or socket F, attached to the elbow and arm H, H, the whole used together with the tympanum B, B, B, and combined in its application with the door of dtylelling, or otherwise, substantially as set ort JEROME B. YOUNG.

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