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Fred Frick Waynesboro, Pa.
Five-Minute Program Clock
Fred
Frick of Waynesboro, Pa, started the manufacturing of clocks in August 1894 with his brothers Amos and A. O. Frick. Frick
won the First Prize for clocks in the 1900 World's Fair in San Francisco and his clocks gained popularity there after. In
1910 Frick sold his company to F. F. Landis and continued in business as the Landis Program Clock Co. until it was sold to
the International Time Recording Co. in 1938. These clocks were most often used to ring bells in factories or schools and
can be set up to do so every five minutes on up to six different circuits. The circuit dial is impulsed by the time movement
every five minutes and moves clock wise one five minute interval at a time. When a pin, properly placed in the wheel, comes
in contact with the circuit wire, the circuit is completed and the bell will ring. There is an indicator that shows the seven
days of the week and allows for the circuit to be voided at will. The clock and the program mechanism are wound separately
and are only connected by a pull cable directly off the time movement. Fred Frick held Patent # 535948 dated 3/19/1985, #
551372 dated 12/17/1895, # 692054 dated 1/28/1902, # 702299 dated 6/10/1902, # 1388458 dated 8/23/1921.
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