US704446A - Watch-dial illuminator. - Google Patents

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Patented July 8, I902.

F. M. DURKEE.

WATCH DIAL ILLUMINATUR.

(Application filed Sept. 28, 1901.)

(lo Modal.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

FREDERICK M. DURKEE, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ULRIC BLATTER, OF JAMAICA PLAIN, BOSTON, MASSACHU- SETTS. I

WATCH-DIAL ILLUMINATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,446, dated July 8, 1902.

Application filed $eptemher 26, 1901. Serial No. 76,662. (No model.)

To all wh m i m y mhaving a lamp 2', which is arranged to illumi- Beit known thatI, FREDERICK M. DURKEE, nate the dial of the watch d. The casing a of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and is adapted to contain a dry battery or cell 71, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain and suitable means are provided whereby the 55 5 new and useful Improvements in atch-Dial lamp is electrically connected with said bat- Illuminators, of which the following is a specitery and whereby the circuit through the batfication. tery and lamp may be closed to illuminate This invention has for its object to provide the lamp, said means including a flexible caconvenient means for holdinga watch in poble composed of two wires 7; 7c, which are 60 1'0 sition to be viewed conveniently from a bed electrically connected at their inner ends or couch and for illuminating the same whenwith the battery, their outer ends being conever the occupant of the bed wishes to ascertained in a handle or holder m, which is protain the time. vided with a circuit-closing push-piece m,

The invention consists in the improved apadapted when pressed inwardly to connect 65 pliance which I will now proceed to describe the ends of the wires 7t 7t, and thus close the and claim. circuit.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a The casing a is provided with flexible clips part of this specification, Figure 1 represents 0 o of conducting material, which contact a front elevation of a watch-holder and dialwith suitable conducting parts at the ends of 7o illuminator embodying my invention. Fig. the battery 71 and are sufficiently resilient to 2 represents a side elevation of the same. make good electrical contact when the bat- Fig. 3 represents a partial section on line 3 3 tery is inserted between said clips, as shown of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a partial section in Fig. 3, the battery being readily inserted on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. and removed through the open back of the 75 The same reference characters indicate the casing.

same parts in all the figures. It will be seen that the described appliance My improved Watch-holder and dial-illumimay be hung upon a wall or other support nator comprises a casing (1, adapted to conadjacent to the bed and that the handle on tain a dry battery or cell, said casing being and push-piece m may be left in convenient 8e preferably U-shaped in crosssection and position to be reached by the occupant of the open at the back. The casing 0; is provided bed, who is thus enabled to close the circuit with means whereby it may be supported on and view the dial of the watch without risinga a wall or other vertical support, said means I do not limit myself to the described form in the present embodiment of my invention and arrangement of the parts of the described 85 5 being a perforated ear b, affixed to the upper appliance, and the same may be variously end of the casing and located at one side modified without departing from the spirit of thereof, said ear being adapted to engage a my invention. hook or other device affixed to a wall. The I claimfront side of the casing a is provided with 1. A watch-dial illuminator comprising a o means for holding a watch 01, said means comcasing having an open back, the top and hot prising a hook e, affixed to the upper portion tom of the casing having flexible conducting= of the casing, and a plate f, affixed to the casclips adapted to contact with the top and boting below the hook c, said hook and plate betom of a battery-cell inserted through the said ing relatively arranged, so that when the open back, said casing having means for en-= 95 5 pendant-bowf of the watch is hung upon the gagement with a supporting device, and havhook the back of the watchcase will rest ing a watch-holder at its front, a bracket pro against the plate f, which may have a facing jecting outwardly beyond the watch-holder, of velvet or other yielding material. an incandescent lamp engaged with the outer 9 represents a bracketaffixed to the casing portion of the bracket and electrically con roe (b above the watch-holder and provided at its nected with said clips, and a circuit-closer outer end with an incandescent-damp socket connected with the said clips.

2. A watch-dial illuminator comprising a of the bracket and electrically connected with casing having an open back, the top and botsaid clips, and a flexible cable composed of tom of the casing having flexible conducting- Wires connected with the clips and provided clips adapted to contact with the top and bot with a circuit-closer at its free end.

5 tom of a battery-oellinserted through the said In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig- 15 open back, said casing having a perforated l nature in presence of two Witnesses. ear at its upper end and having a watch FREDERICK M. DURKEE.

holder at its front, a bracket projecting out- Witnesses:

G. F. BROWN.

i wardly beyond the watch-holder, an incan- ULRIO BLATTER, r0 descent lamp engaged with the outer portion 1

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