An improved escapement for recorder clocks
Frederick Better · Transactions American Geophysical Union · 1941
The clock is the heart of any continuous recorder, and, as “clock‐trouble” is the cause of about 90 per cent of lost records, I have endeavored to remedy this condition by improving the escapement. This small integral part is likewise the heart of the clock and, therefore, is the subject of my paper (Fig. 1). On account of the remote locations of most continuous water‐stage recorders and recording precipitation‐gages it was my idea that if the escapement only could be easily detached and replaced by a standard part, leaving the rest of the mechanism intact, clock‐stoppage could be reduced to a minimum.