ELECTRICALLY REGULATED.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 39, 23 December 1893, Page 11

ELECTRICALLY REGULATED.

The Sydney Town and Country Journal writes : One of the most satisfactory of all the systems which have been devised for the regulation, and maintenance of uniform time throughout the various rooms and buildings of a factory, or in different departments of any extended business, is a self-winding regulator, as shown in the illustration, to be placed in the main office or some central and conspicuous position, and any desired number of secondary clock dials placed in the various rooms and departments and electrically connected with the central regulator. There is no winding to be done to the secondary clocks, neither do they require setting or cleaning, as the driving and setting is all done from the regulator, and there is nothing- to clean, there being only two wheels in the secondary. These secondary dials are made in various sizes, and the hands move only once a minute, but with a certainty that they are in exact accord with the time of the regulator. The regulator has a full length pendulum, which beats seconds, and it is wound by electricity ; that is, it is self-wind-ing. The circuits are so connected that every dial can be set by means of a key in the regulator. A gaug-e is also connected in circuit, showing' the state of the battery, and so adjusted that when the battery becomesat all weakened through use or otherwise, the bell will tap every minute until the battery is put in order. It is said that there are hundreds of instances where the dials have been in use for years without ever giving- inaccurate time. The advantages of such a time system are obvious for any extended business, embracing numerous departments where a uniform standard is not easily obtainable from a number of separate timepieces* even if these be of the best class.