Timepiece alarm mechanism

Claim 1

IN AN ALARM TIME-PIECE INCLUDING A MOVEMENT, AN ALARM MECHANISM, AN ALARM LEVER OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH THE ALARM MECHANISM TO NORMALLY LOCK THE LATTER AND ADAPTED TO BE SHIFTED POSITIVELY BY THE MOVEMENT TRANSVERSELY OF THE MOVEMENT AT A PREDETERMINED ADJUSTABLE MOMENT TO TRANSIENTLY RELEASE THE ALARM MECHANISM, THE COMBINATION OF A MANUALLY OPERABLE STOP-CONTROLLING KNOB, A YOKE ADAPTED TO PIVOT SLIGHTLY TO ONE SIDE OF AND UNDERMENT, BETWEEN A POSITION SLIGHTLY TO ONE SIDE OF AND UNDERNEATH THE ALARM LEVER AND A POSITION REGISTERING VERTICALLY WITH THE LATTER TO BE URGED BY SAID KNOB WHEN DEPRESSED INTO ITS LAST-MENTIONED POSITION TO ENGAGE THE ALARM LEVER WHEN IN ITS ALARM-RELEASING POSITION AND RAISE THE LATTER INTO ITS ALARM-LOCKING POSITION AND HOLD IT THEREIN, A SPRING URGING THE ALARM LEVER INTO ITS ALARM-LOCKING POSITION FOR ENGFAGEMENT WITH THE YOKE IN ITS LAST MENTIONED POSITION, THE NEXT RELEASE OF THE ALARM LEVER BY THE MOVEMENT DISENGAGING THE YOKE WITH REFERENCE TO THE LATTER, AND ELASTIC MEANS URGING THE YOKE WHEN DISENGAGED FROM THE ALARM LEVER BACK INTO ITS STARTING POSITION TO THEREBY ALSO RETURN THE KNOB INTO ITS STARTING POSITION.