US591599A - Samuel goulden - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

\ S. GOULDEN.

BIGYVGLE BELL.

No. 591,599. Patented 001;. 12, 1897K UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

SAMUEL GOULDEN, OF NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-IYIALF TO EDWARD ZUSI, OF SAME PLACE.

BICYCLE-BELL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 591,599, dated October 12, 1897.

Application iiled June 7, 1897. Serial No. 639,721 (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GOULDEN, a British subject, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Bicycle-Bells, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This improvement relates to that class of bells in which revolving hammers are employed in connection with a' pushing device to operate the same; and its Objectis to provide a bell of this class that can be cheaply made, easily operated, and not likely to get out'of order.

To these ends the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described, and then definitely claimed at the end hereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is y a plan of a bell constructed according to my improvement with the gong removed. Fig. 2 is a similar plan with the parts in another position and with parts represented as broken away. Fig. 3 is a vertical centralsectionof the bell. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation' i'li detail of the bell-striker.

Referring now to the details of the draw/ings by numerals, 1 is a flanged base having a small slot 2 formed in the langeLa larger curved slot 3 in its bottom, studs/4 and 5 fast inthe bottom, and in the center a post 6 for carrying the gong 7 and Whose lower end serves as a rivet for attaching the upper half of the clamp 8 to the base. l

Working through the slot 2 is a pusher 9, having at one end a push-button 10', at the other a curved slot 11, and in its centerV a straight slot 12, through which the post 5 passes and serves as a guide to the pusher.

Pivoted on the stud 3 is a segmental rackplate 13, having a slot 14 and a headed pin 15 fast therein, which pin passes up through the slot 3, formed in the base, and through the slot 11 in the pusher 9. A spiral spring 1G has one end caught in a hole 17 in the rackplate 13, and its other end hooks into a hole in a projection 17', punched in from the flange ot' the base.

The rack 18 on plate 13 meshes with a pinion 19 (see Fig. 2) beneath `the gear 20, said pinion and gear being rigidly connected and working on the stud 5. The gear 2O meshes with a pinion 21 (see Fig. 2) beneath the hammer-carrier 22, said pinion and carrier being rigidly connected, so as to revolve together on the post 6. AAbove the hammer-carrier is a spiral spring 23 to keep the carrier from shaking and rattling.

On the hammer carrier are two small weights or hammers 24, each of which is hollow to contain a spring 25 and has a stud 26, which passes through a slot 27 in one of the arms of the hammer-carrier and is upset or riveted to holda retaining-washer 28. Between the spring 25 and the carrier-arm is another washer 29. vents all noise from the shaking of the bell when the bicycle is in motion and the bell silent, yet will allow of the weights easily sliding on the carrier-arms.

`The position of the parts is normally like that shown in Fig. 1; but when it is desired to operate the bell the pusher is driven in,

which causes the near Wall of the slot 11 to pushY against the pin 15 and thus lcause the parts to assume the position shown in Fig. 2. Asl the parts pass from one position to the other the'rack operates the pinion 19, thus driving the gear 20, which in turn gives motion to the hammer-carrier through the pinion 21. When pressure on the pusher is stopped, the spring 16 retracts the rack to its former position and motion is again given to the hammer-carrier, but in a reverse direction. This will be found to be a very convenient construction ofl bell, as the main parts can be readily struck up out of sheet metal, and by the use of the headed pin the pusher and rackfplate are kept in their proper place,

while the arrangement of the springs within Vthe hammerweights,although allowing a very easy movement of the weights, will keep them from rattling through accidental shaking.

What I claim as new is y 1. In a bell, the combination of a slotted base, a pusher, a gong, and a hammer-carrier with a segmental rack-plate provided with a pin passing through said pusher and into the This arrangement pre- IOO slot in the base, and intermediate gearing between the rack and the haminer-earrier, substantially as described.

2. In a bell, the combination of a base having a curved slot, a pusher having a slot arranged at an angle to the slot in the base, a pivoted rack-plate Carrying a headed piu Working in the slots in the pusher and base7 a hammer-carrier, a gong on which the hain- Io mer operates, and intermediate gearing,r bein the presence of two Witnesses, this 5th day i of June, 1897.

SAMUEL GOULDEN.

XVi tn esses CATHERINE E. TATE, FRANCIS J. SWAYZE.

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