Longcase_clock_movement.png
Summary
Description Longcase clock movement.png |
English:
Drawing of cross section of English
longcase
(grandfather) clock movement from the mid-1800s. It is described as: "The going part of a common regulator, or house-clock of superior character... The movement is that found in long-cased hall clocks..." This is a weight driven, pendulum clock with a one second (1 meter) pendulum, anchor or deadbeat escapement, second hand, and no striking mechanism.
Drawing also appears in
Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1889)
The Clock Jobber's Handybook
, Crosby, Lockwood & Son, London, p.63, fig.14
with more information in text. Alterations: removed figure number. Labeled parts are identified in the text as:
(A) escapement pallet
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Date | |
Source | Downloaded 2007-12-1 from Edmund Beckett Grimsthorpe (1874) A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells , Lockwood & Co., London, UK, p.129, fig.25 on Google Books. |
Author | Edmund Beckett (Lord) Grimsthorpe |
Permission
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Public domain - Beckett died 1905 |
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