Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding a grooved phonograph disc
Patent
1977-08-17
1978-10-24
Price, William
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding a grooved phonograph disc
58 53, 58123, 58129, 206301, 206457, 310 39, D10128, G04B 3114
Patent
active
041214161
ABSTRACT:
A simulated clock apparatus utilizes a housing having an opening therein and a shelf disposed in the housing below the opening. A conventional wristwatch is adapted to be rested on the shelf so as to have the face of the clock exposed for external viewing through the opening. A pendulum is pivotably secured to the shelf and is displayed visibly through a second opening located below the opening. The pendulum may be continuously oscillated back and forth in conventional "Grandfather Clock" fashion by a bar passing through a solenoid coil, such that the bar is urged into oscillatory motion, when contacting an electrical switch at an end thereof such that the switch is operated into a closed position causing a current flow from the battery, housed within the housing, to exert a pulling force on a ferromagnetic portion of the center of the bar. When the bar moves away from its displaced non centric position towards a rest position, the switch is opened causing the current flow to cease such that the momentum of the bar causes an override and continued oscillation until the next cycle wherein the switch again is urged into a closed position by contacting the end of the bar. The pendulum, by moving back and forth, creates a miniature effect of a "Grandfather Clock," coupled with the actual operating of the wrist-watch hand. The wrist-watch may be secured into the storage position within the housing utilizing a block of foam rubber-like material.
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Bernstein Bruce H.
Farkas Robert D.
Price William
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