Monday, September 22, 2008
Summary Of Gadget Funtion....
Description of Main Components of The Gadget....
There are five basic parts in this gadget. First is Weight or spring - This provides the energy to turn the hands of the clock. Second, Weight gear train - A high-ratio gear train gears the weight drum way up so that you don't have to rewind the clock very often. Third, Escapement - Made up of the pendulum, the anchor and the escapement gear, the escapement precisely regulates the speed at which the weight's energy is released. Fourth, Hand gear train - The train gears things down so the minute and hour hands turn at the right rates. And the last is Setting mechanism - This somehow disengages, slips or ratchets the gear train so the clock can be rewound and set.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Description about Gadget...
Wind-up alarm clocks have been around a long time, but they are still fun to explore. For more information on clocks in general, please see the article entitled How Pendulum Clocks Work. Here is the clock we will be exploring today:
Removing the winding knobs and the back of the clock reveals the inside of the clock:
By removing the stand, alarm bells, hands, face and mounting ring, you end up with the clock mechansim itself.
This clock (like most table clocks and wrist watches) uses an oscillating wheel in place of a pendulum. The wheel and its spring are at the bottom. In the picture above, the clock's main spring is on the upper right. The spring on the left is for the alarm, which has its own gear train and escapement.
In the picture below you see the front of the mechanism. The hands go on the concentric shafts in the center.
Looking at the mechanism from the side shows how all of the different gears fit together.
The following picture shows you the oscillating wheel in the foreground, with gears delivering power to it.
Although this clock looks complicated, there only about a dozen moving parts. There are four gears between the main spring and the escapement wheel. The fourth gear's shaft drives the second hand. There is the escapement wheel, the anchor and the oscillating wheel and spring. There are four gears for the hour hand, minute hand and the alarm hand. There are two gears for the alarm hammer, one of which doubles as an escapement wheel.
Information:
This gadget is Wind-up Alarm Clock. Pendulum clocks have been used to keep time since 1656, and they have not changed dramatically since then. Pendulum clocks were the first clocks made to have any sort of accuracy. When we look at a pendulum clock from the outside, we notice several different parts that are important to the mechanism of all pendulum clocks:
There is the face of the clock, with its hour and minute hand (and sometimes even a "moon phase" dial). There are one or more weights (or, if the clock is more modern, a keyhole used to wind a spring inside the clock -- we will stick with weight-driven clocks in this article).
And there is the pendulum itself. In most wall clocks that use a pendulum, the pendulum swings once per second. In small cuckoo clocks the pendulum might swing twice a second. In large grandfather clocks, the pendulum swings once every two seconds. Its main components consist of escapement gear, pendulum and anchor.
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