Vertical clock
OwnerAlcuin Kellyinventor
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Abstract
A vertical clock which indicates the time of day from the vertical position of colored cubes rather than from conventional hands on a numbered face. A power source, as an electric clock, has the minute hand removed, and through a gear, movement of the hour hand turns a plate from which there are suspended twelve strings of paper cubes, there being 12 cubes per string. Certain ones of the cubes are appropriately colored to indicate time at a designated position. A pendulum cube, dangling in the center of the others, is driven by the second hand, and it revolves accordingly.
Claims4
A vertical clock comprising an elongated case, clock works positioned on top of the case having an hour shaft eminating centrally downward therefrom, a linkage attached to the hour shaft of the clock works, a square plate connected to the linkage and rotated according to the rotation of the hour shaft, and twelve strings hanging from the periphery of the square plate such that radial lines extending from points where the strings hang from the periphery of the square plate to the center of the square plate define equal included angles and each string is provided on its depending portion with cubes consecutively representing one to twelve so that time may be observed from a referance point remote therefrom.
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