US968255A - Clock-dial. - Google Patents

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O. L. NEWLAND.

CLOCK DIAL. APPLICATION FILED JULY 10. 1908.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

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CHARLES LESLIE NEWLAND, 0F MERTON, ENGLAND.

CLOCK-DIAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 10, 1908.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

Serial No. 442,917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES LESLIE NEW- LAND, a subject of the King of England, residing in Merton, in the county of Surrey and Kingdom of England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clock-Dials, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clock dials and has for its object to provide a convenient and easily read lighting up or extinguishing table for lamps in connection therewith, specially adapted for use by motorists, cyclists, and the like.

The accompanying drawing shows the dial of a watch or clock arranged according to my invention.

Referring to the drawing it will be seen that I take each of the hour figures on the dial or face a of the clock as equivalent to the month of the year (marked in the inner ring 1)) to which the number refers, that is to say, I would be January, VI June, XI November and so on. The hour figures could if desired be in the ordinary Arabic numerals as well as Roman. Under these hour figures and along a radial line leading toward the center 0 of the watch or clock I put the lighting up times preferably in four or five sets of times, one for each week, arranged in concentric rings (Z, so that the figures read the most convenient way for ascertaining quickly the correct time. The second week in March, would under this system be the second time given between the hour III and the center, reading preferably from circumference to center. There would thus be five and in some months four rows or sets of figures under above or between each hour figure and the center. If the first lighting up time for each month is given for the first day of the month, the figures will operate for more than one year and in this case the only month which has four sets of figures will be February. In this way the regulation time for lighting lamps could be seen at a glance for any week in the year from the watch or clock itself without reference to a separate card or book now necessary.

Where a second hand or other similar or additional dial or indication is provided, the figures for suchv month, viz. June, if it were found inconvenient to place them on the dial could be transferred, engraved or otherwise provided on the glass. The lighting up or extinguishing figures could further if desired be printed or arranged on a separate plate which might be transparent if it covered the whole face of the watch or clock. Or this separate plate could be of such diameter as not to cover the hour figures and in this case it need not be transparent but could be of any convenient material. Instead of the hour figures I to XII I might use the actual names of the months from January to December with the usual abbreviated equivalents. It will be understood also that such an arrangement as herein described may be placed upon the dome or any other suitable position of the watch or clock, such as in the back or front case of a hunter type of watch or the like.

The times given in the drawing are according to the meridian of Greenwich, but other meridians could be equally well arranged according to the country in which such a watch or clock would be used. If more convenient the sunset times could be inserted on the dial, or when used for extinguishing,the sunrise times, although astronomical clocks or time pieces have been previously used with sunrise and sunset times on the margin of, or a segment surrounding, the dial but not according to my arrangement. If the extent of the country in which the watch is used were large a small table could be issued therewith showing the number of minutes to be added or deducted according to the position east or west of the meridian. In some cases a portion of the dial only need be marked and the others left blank, say the winter months only or the summer months only.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A dial for a watch or clock, having thereon a lighting up or extinguishing table, arranged in radial columns, each column being on the radius of an hour number, and having at its inner end, the name of a month, corresponding in number, to the hour number of the column, the figures of each column being between the hour number and the month named on the column.

2. A dial for a watch or clock, having thereon a series of hour numbers arranged in a circle, a series of month names arranged in a circle concentric and within the series of hour numbers, each month name being In testimony, that I claim the foregoing placed on the radius of an hour number coras my invention, I have signed my name in responding to the number of the month and presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

radially arranged columns of lighting up or CHARLES LESLIE NEVVLAND. extinguishing figures between the month WVitnesses: names, and the respective corresponding J. S. ARTHERs,

hour numbers. v E. CRESWICK.

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