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US 4,020,624 AGranted
Pendulum clock
AssigneeUrgos Uhrenfabrik Schwenningen a.N. Haller, Jauch und Pabst
InventorsGerhart Steinle, Siegfried Rossmann
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Abstract
A pendulum clock which has its pendulum connected to a carrier member by means of a pendulum extension that is connected to the upper end section of the pendulum and is fixedly or detachably connected to a pendulum spring. The pendulum extension extends into a keeper fork which latter has connected thereto a connecting member with a fork-shaped end the legs of which straddle the pendulum extension below the pendulum spring.
Claims6
A pendulum clock which includes in combination:
- a pendulum having an upper end section, a pendulum extension having an upper end portion and a lower end portion, said lower end portion being connected to said upper end section of said pendulum, a carrier member, pendulum spring means supported by said carrier member and supporting said upper end portion of said pendulum extension, a keeper fork including a protective rigid connecting member with a fork-shaped portion having fork prongs thereof straddle said pendulum extension suspended below said pendulum spring means automatically to assure swinging oscillation in a common plane for said carrier member and said pendulum extension, and a keeper shaft operatively connected to said keeper fork, said keeper fork and said protective rigid connecting member with said fork-shaped portion consisting of a single integral piece that takes up turning forces upon said pendulum spring means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.