Horology: time measuring systems or devices – Displays or display device details – Dial or hand
Patent
1982-02-23
1983-12-20
Weldon, Ulysses
Horology: time measuring systems or devices
Displays or display device details
Dial or hand
368 15, 368179, 368272, 368285, G04B 1906
Patent
active
044214219
ABSTRACT:
A time keeping clock that includes a kinetic clock sculpture arrangement in which the clock comprises the usual minute and hour hands journalled for rotation in clockwise directions about a common axis, and a time keeping mechanism for driving said minute and hour hands to keep time, with the clock including a kinetic sculpture arrangement comprising a relatively large, medially located, kinetic sculpture drive gear wheel that is vertically disposed and has its axis of rotation disposed horizontally and paralleling that of the common axis of the clock minute and hour hands, one or more driven gear wheels that are of a diameter which is relatively small as compared to that of the drive wheel gear, and which are disposed in coupled rotation to the drive gear wheel at spaced locations thereabout, with several of said driven gear wheels each driving a separate crank about a horizontal axis, and a drive gear wheel actuated mechanical linkage of miniature stick figure form articulated to each of the said cranks, with each of the said linkages being disposed in upright relation adjacent to and at the level of the crank to which same is articulated, with the stick figure linkages being contoured, anchored, and articulated in place for simulating front to back human like motion involving a rotation of the cranks, suggestive that they are assisting in driving the time keeping mechanism, with the kinetic sculpture also including drive gear wheel actuated cam arm and rocking beam arrangements to which similar stick figure linkages located at various positions about the clock are articulated for the same purpose.
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