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In this section you will find lots of information regarding Gents products, please scroll down the page and click on the thumbnails to view a larger image. You are welcome to download any image to your PC for viewing at your leisure, but due to their compressed size, the resolution may not be good enough to read all the writing on those pages with written content.
Should you experiance reading any of the written matter on the imgaes once enlarged, I am more than happy to send the original sized images, just use the contact form page and I will send your requests onto you.
Gents C4770 (WMC) Watchman's recorders
Thumbnails show a 1940's example with 40 stations, as can be seen from the brochure it cost £80.00
The image Gentswmc1933 is taken from their 1933 catalogue
Mores images from a Gents 1950 C4770 WMC brouchure, included is one of a paper roll as fitted to this recorders that was marked each time the watchman turned a key, to show that he was doing his job
Gents C64 Automatic Lighting Switch
Dating from around 1925, these photos were taken with the switch still in place although not working. Thankfully I had my camera with me at the time, to take these photos and include them here.
Connected into the time circuit (as any slave clock would be), illumination of turret clock dails could take place automatically. The Time Cams on the 24 hour dial, are adjustable by hand, so that changes may be made to suit the gradual changes of the Seasons.
At the time required, the movement would trip the lighting switch and the two prongs mounted on the counter weighted arm, would drop into the two mercury filled pots and so make the circuit and illuminate the dials. Then switch the lighting off by lifting the arm and breaking the circuit at the pre-set time.
Gents Distribution Board
Like Synchronome, Gents also made Distribution Boards to operate large installations. The example shown here is for a 3 circuit system, so could run upwards of 250-300 clocks from the 1 Master clock. Examples with up to 15 cicuits I have seen and they may have made them even larger. A large 15 circuit Distribution Board could run over a 1000 clocks from the 1 Master, impressive.
Unlike Synchronome, Gents took a different approach to how they wired and connected their Distribution Boards to the Master clock.
You will notice in the top of the case 3 relays, one for each circuit. The purpose of these was to take the laod for each circuit they operated, so taking the strain off the Master clock contacts. So in effect as far as the Master was concerned, it was only operating these 3 relays, plus its pilot dial, so a very light load of only 4 slaves were put on the contacts in the Master clock, with this 3 circuit Distsribution Board and so on depending on the size of the system. It also kept the operating voltage to a more exceptable level.
Synchonome on the other hand didn't operate their Distribution Boards the same, so the Master could have upwards of 2 amps going through the small contacts on the Master, as it took the full load, but it worked non the less.
The 3 switches on the left hand side of the case marked A R N, are for A advancing the clocks in that circuit, R for retarding the clocks and N for normal, all clocks in step with the master.
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