Timer

Details Timer Timer

1978-05-01

1980-04-15

Scott, James R.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Retarded

Chain or flexible drive

200 38F, H01H 4310, H04B 106

Patent

active

041985516

ABSTRACT:
To turn off a television set for a selected period of time during a commercial and have it automatically turned on after that time, a timer includes a telephone-type dial outside of the front panel which turns a ratchet-cam wheel inside the housing of the timer. The ratchet-cam wheel includes a plurality of notches in its rim and a plurality of posts corresponding to the openings in the telephone dial and to periods of time, with a push-button switch being closed when the telephone dial is in its initial position by a large notch in the rim of the ratchet-cam wheel and opened when it is displaced from that position. To disconnect the television set, a timer motor drives a spring-biased ratchet wheel so that turning the dial moves the posts past the teeth of the ratchet and opens the switch and the timer motor turns the teeth of the ratchet to slowly move the dial back into position where the switch is closed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2308037 (1943-01-01), Abadjieff
patent: 2671165 (1954-03-01), Gilpin et al.
patent: 2863996 (1958-12-01), Hill et al.
patent: 2916570 (1959-12-01), Nakamura
patent: 2946902 (1960-07-01), Hagen
patent: 2966278 (1960-12-01), Drury
patent: 3032618 (1962-05-01), Johnson

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