Illuminated watch-box.

(Application filed Jen. 14, 1902.)

Patented Oct. 28, 1902.

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United States Patent Office.

CAROLUS ARNOLD, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

ILLUMINATED WATCH-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming· part of Letters Patent No. 712,112, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed January 14,1902, Serial No, 89,675. (No model,·)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Carolus Arnold, a citizen of the State of Hamburg, residing at Weidenallee 59, Hamburg, in the German Empire, 5 have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Closable Watchcases with a Small Incandescent Lamp in the Lid and with a Receptacle for an Electrical Reservoir, of which the following is a specification.

io The present invention relates to an improved receptacle in which pocket-watches are to be kept during the night, in connection with a source of electric light in such a manner that on opening the lid of the receptacle 15 an electric circuit is closed and light thrown onto the dial of the watch by an incandescent electric lamp.

Further objects of the invention are to simplify and cheapen the construction and 20 to render more efficient, serviceable, and durable in operation devices of the kind referred to.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination, arrangement, 25 and adaption of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully, reference being had to the 30 annexed drawings, in which—

Figure 1 shows a transverse section through a receptacle constructed according to my present invention. Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the receptacle according to Fig. 1, with 35 the lid fully open.'

A receptacle a, made of any suitable material and of any desired shape and dimensions, possesses in its lower portion a' a chamber in which the source of electric light, suitably a 40 dry battery δ, is housed. Above the dry battery δ the pocket-watch is placed on a suitably-shaped rest a², which may be coated and decorated as desired. In the lid a³ of the receptacle an incandescent electric lamp 45 c is arranged in such a manner so as to throw light onto the dial of a watch when placed in the receptacle. The incandescent electric lamp c is introduced into the electric circuit of the source of electric light δ by suitable 50 connecting-wires—as,for instance,illustrated in Fig. 2; but it must be observed, and this constitutes part of my invention, that when the receptacle a is closed the electric circuit is broken and no light emitted by the lamp. However, on opening the receptacle bypress- 55 ing onto the button e, which pushes a locking-spring d of suitable construction out of engagement with a notch cd in the lid in the well-known manner, the electric circuit is closed by the contact of the said locking- 60 spring d with a metal plate constituting the second terminal, and in consequence light thrown onto the dial of the watch. When closing the receptacle by pressing the lid a³down and in engagement with the locking- 65 spring d, the button e will be released and the electric circuit broken again.

In order to render the lower portion a' of the receptacle a easily accessible, I may hinge the center portion cd, provided with the rest 70 a² for the watch, thereto, as shown in Fig. 1.