CN114609883A

CN114609883A - Novel clock structure

Info

Publication number: CN114609883A
Application number: CN202210346320.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 缪洁
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2022-03-31
Filing date: 2022-03-31
Publication date: 2022-06-10

Abstract

The invention provides a novel clock structure, which relates to the technical field of clocks and watches and comprises a movement and a dial plate, wherein the movement is provided with a week disc and a calendar ring, and also comprises a week ring support, a week color ring, a calendar ring support and a calendar ring sheet, wherein the week color ring is provided with a plurality of week color areas representing week information; the calendar ring piece is provided with calendar numbers and a light-transmitting part, the calendar ring support is arranged on the calendar ring and can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring, the calendar ring support is overlapped with the calendar ring piece and the week color ring, and the calendar ring piece is positioned between the dial and the week color ring. The user can observe the calendar numbers on the upper layer and the color representing the week calendar on the lower part through the observation window, and the purpose of realizing double calendar display under the window-opening style of the single calendar is achieved.

Description

Novel clock structure

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of clocks and watches, in particular to a novel clock and watch structure.

Background

In existing horological products, there are two types of classic styles: one is a window type single calendar (calendar), the other is a window type double calendar (calendar + week), the existing product is influenced by factors such as design of the calendar money, attractiveness and the like, and the single calendar is more common and is more accepted by the market public. On the premise of keeping the style and layout of the classic windowing single calendar, how to realize the function of the double calendars (calendar + week calendar) is a problem to be solved urgently.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a novel clock structure, which is used for solving the technical problem that double calendar display cannot be matched under the condition of a single calendar window type in the prior art.

Based on the purposes, the application provides a novel clock structure, which comprises a movement and a dial plate, wherein the dial plate is provided with an observation window; the machine core is provided with a calendar disc and a calendar ring;

the calendar is characterized by also comprising a week ring support, a week color ring, a calendar ring support and a calendar ring sheet;

the week ring support is arranged on the week disc and can synchronously rotate with the week disc, the week color ring is connected with the week ring support and can synchronously rotate with the week ring support, and a plurality of week color areas representing week information are arranged on the week color ring;

the calendar ring support is arranged on the calendar ring and can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring, the calendar ring piece is connected with the calendar ring support and can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring support, and the calendar ring piece is provided with calendar numbers and a light-transmitting part;

the calendar ring sheet is positioned between the dial and the week color ring, and the dial, the calendar ring sheet and the week color ring are sequentially overlapped along the axis direction of the movement;

the calendar numbers arranged on the calendar ring piece can be observed from top to bottom through the observation window, and meanwhile, various week color areas which are arranged on the week color ring and represent week information can be observed through the light-transmitting parts arranged on the calendar ring piece.

Furthermore, the calendar ring piece is made of transparent or semitransparent materials, the calendar numbers are arranged on the calendar ring piece and are not transparent, and the light-transmitting part arranged on the calendar ring piece is a transparent or semitransparent material part except the calendar numbers.

Furthermore, the calendar ring piece is made of transparent or semitransparent materials, the part outside the calendar number is covered by the opaque materials, the area which is not covered by the opaque materials forms the calendar number, and the light-transmitting part arranged on the calendar ring piece is the calendar number part.

Furthermore, the calendar ring piece is made of opaque or semitransparent materials, the calendar numbers are arranged on the calendar ring piece in a hollow-out mode, and the light-transmitting part arranged on the calendar ring piece is a hollow-out calendar number part on the calendar ring piece.

Further, the plurality of types of day color areas provided on the day color ring are arranged along the circumferential direction of the day color ring.

Furthermore, the plurality of colors of the plurality of calendar color areas arranged on the calendar color ring are arranged in sequence in a connection way or at preset intervals.

Furthermore, the week ring support and the week color ring are of an integrated structure.

Further, the week ring support and the week disc are of an integrated structure.

Furthermore, the week color ring, the week ring holder and the week disc are of an integrated structure.

Further, the calendar ring support and the calendar ring are of an integrated structure.

Further, the calendar ring holds in the palm including bottom plate and riser, the bottom plate sets up on the calendar ring, the riser sets up the outer fringe of bottom plate, the riser is equipped with the annular groove, calendar ring piece outer fringe with the connection can be dismantled to the annular groove, makes the calendar ring holds in the palm and can drive calendar ring piece synchronous rotation, and the assembly maintenance time calendar ring piece can hold in the palm the separation with the calendar ring and dismantle.

Further, the outer edge of the calendar ring piece is provided with a radial protrusion, the vertical plate is correspondingly provided with a clamping groove along the radial direction, and the radial protrusion is clamped in the clamping groove to ensure that the calendar ring piece can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring support.

The calendar color ring is arranged at the upper end of the calendar disc support, and the calendar color ring is positioned between the dial and the calendar ring sheet;

the color ring of the monthly calendar is provided with a plurality of monthly calendar color areas representing different months along the circumferential direction, the colors of any adjacent monthly calendar and weekly calendar color areas are different, each monthly calendar color area is provided with a monthly calendar window, and the lower calendar ring sheet and the weekly calendar color area can be observed through the monthly calendar window.

Further, the calendar color zone is divided into 12 areas, and the color of each area is different.

Further, 12 time scales on the dial are respectively set to be 12 colors, and the color of each time scale is in one-to-one correspondence with the month color corresponding to the month color zone.

Adopt above-mentioned technical scheme, the novel clock and watch structure that this application provided compares in prior art, and the technological effect that has:

in the novel clock structure, the calendar and week driving structure of the original double-calendar watch is reserved, the dial is replaced by the dial of the single-calendar watch, a week ring support and a week color ring are added, a plurality of week color areas representing week information are arranged on the week color ring, the week ring support is arranged on the week disc and can synchronously rotate with the week disc, and the week color ring is connected with the week ring support and can synchronously rotate with the week ring support;

the novel clock structure also comprises a calendar ring support and a calendar ring piece, wherein the calendar ring support is arranged on the calendar ring and can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring, the calendar ring piece is connected with the calendar ring support and can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring support, and the calendar ring piece is provided with calendar numbers and a light-transmitting part; the calendar ring sheet is positioned between the dial and the week color ring, and the dial, the calendar ring sheet and the week color ring are sequentially overlapped along the axial direction of the movement. The user can observe the upper layer calendar numbers and the color of the week calendar represented below through the observation window on the dial plate, so that the upper layer can read the calendar numbers, the lower layer can read the color of the week calendar, and the purpose of realizing double-calendar display under the windowing mode of the single calendar watch is achieved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a novel timepiece structure according to a first embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a novel clock structure provided in an embodiment of the present application (a dial is omitted);

fig. 3 is a schematic view (numbers are hollowed out) of another novel clock structure provided in the first embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of another layout of a color area of a calendar in the novel timepiece structure according to the first embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of a calendar ring piece and a calendar ring holder in the novel timepiece structure according to the first embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a timepiece structure according to a second embodiment of the present application (a dial is omitted);

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating an effect of the timepiece structure according to the second embodiment of the present application.

Icon: 1-movement; 2-week disk; 3-a calendar ring; 4-dial plate; 41-observation window; 5-week ring support; 51-week calendar color ring; 511-week calendar color zone; 6-calendar ring holder; 61-calendar ring piece; 611-a radial projection; 62-a bottom plate; 63-vertical plate; 631-an annular groove; 632-card slot; 7-monthly calendar tray; 71-calendar color ring; 711-calendar color zone; 712-monthly calendar window; 8-month calendar disc; time scale 9.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it should be understood that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Example one

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a novel timepiece structure according to a first embodiment; fig. 2 is a schematic view of the novel timepiece structure provided in the first embodiment with the dial omitted;

as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the novel clock structure provided by this embodiment includes a movement 1 and a dial 4, the movement 1 is equipped with a week disk 2 and a calendar ring 3, the week disk 2 and the calendar ring 3 can be driven by the movement 1 to rotate, and the dial 4 is provided with an observation window 41;

in addition, the novel clock structure further comprises a week ring support 5 and a week color ring 51, wherein the week ring support 5 is arranged on the week disc 2, so that the week ring support 5 can synchronously rotate with the week disc 2, the week color ring 51 is connected with the week ring support 5, the week color ring 51 synchronously rotates with the week ring support 5, and the week color ring 51 is provided with a plurality of week color areas 511 with week information;

the novel clock structure further comprises a calendar ring support 6 and a calendar ring piece 61, wherein the calendar ring support 6 is arranged on the calendar ring 3, so that the calendar ring support 6 can synchronously rotate with the calendar ring 3, the calendar ring piece 61 is connected with the calendar ring support 6, the calendar ring piece 61 and the calendar ring support 6 can synchronously rotate, and calendar numbers and light-transmitting parts are arranged on the calendar ring piece 61;

the observation window 41 of the dial 4, the calendar ring sheet 61 and the various week color areas 511 of the week color ring 51 are sequentially overlapped along the axis direction of the movement, wherein the calendar ring sheet 61 is positioned between the observation window 41 of the dial 4 and the various week color areas 511 of the week color ring 51;

when the calendar ring piece 61 is used, the calendar ring piece 61 is positioned above, the week color ring 51 is positioned below, the calendar ring piece 61 can be made of transparent or semitransparent materials, calendar numbers can be printed on the calendar ring piece 61, the calendar numbers are not transparent, and at the moment, the light-transmitting part arranged on the calendar ring piece 61 is a transparent or semitransparent material part except the calendar numbers; when the calendar is observed through the observation window 41 on the dial 4, the colors of the multiple week color areas 511 on the lower-layer week color ring 51 can be observed through the transparent or semitransparent material part of the calendar ring sheet 61, so that the upper layer can read the calendar numbers, and the lower layer can read the week colors.

In an alternative embodiment (please refer to fig. 4), the plurality of types of the day color areas 511 are arranged along the circumferential direction of the day color ring 51, and in practical applications, the plurality of types of the day color areas 511 may be set to 14 equal parts, and the plurality of types of the day color areas 511 are arranged in sequence.

It should be noted that, according to the structure of the conventional movement 1, the calendar disk 2 is divided into 14 equal parts, and jumps twice every day (two jumps twice around twelve o' clock at midnight), that is, two sets of calendar display modes (usually one set of Chinese characters and one set of English characters are printed, and the two sets of calendar display modes can be manually switched in use) can be printed on the calendar disk 2. If the novel clock structure of this embodiment uses the mode of the conventional movement 1, the multiple week color areas 511 (i.e., carrying week information) on the week color ring 51 can be arranged at preset intervals (see fig. 4), the interval areas of the multiple week color areas 511 are uniform colors (i.e., not carrying week information), one set of the color calendar (calendar plus week) can be displayed, and the other set of the color calendar can be displayed as a common calendar.

In an alternative embodiment, the calendar ring sheet 61 is made of a transparent material, the calendar ring sheet 61 is covered with an opaque coating, the area which is not covered by the opaque material forms a calendar number, and when the calendar is observed, the colors of the corresponding multiple week color areas 511 on the lower-layer week color ring 51 can be seen through the transparent area of the calendar number, so that the reading of the calendar number on the upper layer and the reading of the week color on the lower layer can be realized, and the change of the color of the calendar number can also be considered.

In an alternative embodiment, the calendar ring piece 61 is made of an opaque material, the calendar numbers are arranged on the calendar ring piece 61 in a hollow manner (see fig. 3), and when observing, the colors of the corresponding various week color areas 511 on the lower-layer week color ring 51 can be seen through the hollow areas of the calendar numbers, so that the upper layer can read the calendar numbers, the lower layer can read the week colors, and the colors of the calendar numbers can also be considered to be changed.

In an alternative embodiment, the day ring support 5 and the day color ring 51 are integrally formed during processing.

In an alternative embodiment, the day ring holder 5 is a unitary structure with the day plate 2 during processing.

In an alternative embodiment, the day color ring 51, the day ring holder 5 and the day disk 2 are integrally formed during processing.

In an alternative embodiment, the calendar ring holder 6 is of one-piece construction with the calendar ring 3 during manufacture.

In an alternative embodiment, the calendar ring holder 6 comprises a bottom plate 62 and a vertical plate 63, the bottom plate 62 is arranged on the calendar ring 3, the vertical plate 63 is arranged at the outer edge of the bottom plate 62, the vertical plate 63 is provided with an annular groove 631 for clamping the outer edge of the calendar ring piece 61, so that the calendar ring holder 6 can drive the calendar ring piece 61 to synchronously rotate, and the calendar ring piece 61 can be separated from the calendar ring holder 6 for assembly and maintenance.

In an alternative embodiment (please refer to fig. 5), the outer edge of the calendar ring piece 61 is provided with a radial protrusion 611, the vertical plate 63 is provided with a radial slot 632, after the calendar ring piece 61 is clamped with the calendar ring holder 6, the radial protrusion 611 is clamped into the corresponding slot 632, so as to ensure that the calendar ring piece 61 and the calendar ring holder 6 can rotate synchronously.

The novel clock structure provided by the embodiment enables the calendar ring sheet 61 and the week color ring 51 to carry functional information on the basis of keeping the function of the original calendar, and the information content is the week calendar. I.e. the days of the week are indicated by a change in the colour of the calendar numbers or a change in the colour of the day colour ring 51. The colors can be divided into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple which correspond to Monday to Sunday, so that the extraction of the translation week information is more convenient and faster when the system is used by a user.

The novel clock structure that this scheme provided keeps the classic on the premise of windowing single calendar dish 4 styles, makes original formula calendar of windowing have two kinds of functions simultaneously, the calendar adds the week calendar promptly.

In addition, it should be noted that the movement 1, and the calendar disc 2, the calendar ring 3 and the dial 4 mounted on the movement 1 in the present embodiment are of conventional structures.

Adopt the novel clock and watch structure that this application provided, have following advantage at least:

the double-calendar display function is realized by utilizing the existing clock structure with the calendar disc 2 and the calendar ring 3 and adopting the single calendar disc 4 with higher popular acceptance; the dial plate only has a small windowing area to realize the purpose of double calendar display.

Example two

Fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram (dial omitted) of the novel clock structure (three calendars) provided by the present embodiment; fig. 7 shows an effect schematic diagram of the novel clock structure (three calendars) provided by the embodiment;

as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the novel clock structure provided by this embodiment is an improvement made on the clock structure of the first embodiment, and specifically includes a month calendar disc tray 7 and a month calendar color ring 71, the movement is equipped with a month calendar disc 8, the month calendar disc 8 rotates once every month, the bottom of the month calendar disc tray 7 is connected with the month calendar disc 8, the month calendar color ring 71 is disposed at the upper end of the month calendar disc tray 7, and the month calendar color ring 71 is disposed between the dial 4 and the calendar ring sheet 61; when the calendar disc 8 rotates, the calendar disc support 7 and the calendar color ring 71 are synchronously driven to rotate together, so that the updating function of the calendar is realized;

the calendar color ring 71 is provided with a plurality of calendar color areas 711 representing different months along the circumferential direction, the colors of any adjacent calendar color areas 711 are different, each calendar color area 711 is provided with a calendar window 712, the size of the calendar window 712 is smaller than that of the observation window 41 on the dial 4, and the lower calendar ring sheet 61 and the week color area 511 can be observed through the calendar window 712.

In an alternative embodiment, the calendar color zone 711 is divided into 12 zones, each zone having a different color, for example, 12 zones respectively representing 1-12 months, each month being shown in a color.

In an alternative embodiment, 12 time scales 9 on the dial are respectively set to 12 colors, and the color of each time scale 9 corresponds to the month color corresponding to the month color zone 711 one by one, as a translation table of the month colors, for example, the color of the month color zone corresponding to one 6 month is red, and the color of the time scale 6 is also red, so that the user can quickly determine the month corresponding to the month color zone through the color of the current month color zone and the color of the corresponding time scale.

The time scale can be Roman numerals, Arabic numerals, graduated bars, etc.

Through the clock structure that this embodiment provided, can realize the simultaneous display function of month calendar, week calendar and calendar on the basis of current single calendar dial plate, be convenient for the user to read multiple function information.

The working principle of the calendar disk 2, the calendar ring 3 and the calendar disk 8 on the movement 1 is explained as follows:

in the existing structure, the calendar ring is assembled on a machine center, and only the rotational freedom degree of the axis passing through the center of the calendar ring and being normal to the plane of the calendar ring is reserved. The calendar ring is provided with thirty-one teeth on the inner side, the calendar ring is driven by a calendar shifting piece on a calendar shifting piece wheel in the movement, the zero-point calendar shifting piece shifts one tooth on the inner side of the calendar ring every day, so that the calendar ring rotates by one tooth pitch, and the movement is also provided with a calendar ring positioning piece in the movement, so that the calendar ring can be ensured to rotate at a correct angle every time.

In the existing structure, the week disc is assembled on a machine center, and only the rotational freedom degree of the axis passing through the circle center of the week disc and being normal to the plane of the week disc is reserved. The week calendar disc is provided with fourteen teeth, the week calendar disc is driven by week calendar shifting pieces on a machine core inner circumference calendar shifting piece wheel, and the zero-point week calendar shifting piece shifts two teeth of the week calendar disc every day, so that the week calendar disc rotates by two tooth pitches. Besides, the movement is also provided with a calendar disc positioning piece, so that the correct rotation angle of the calendar disc can be ensured. The week calendar disk can switch between odd number teeth and even number teeth by the watch, so as to switch between English week calendar and Chinese week calendar.

In the prior art, the monthly calendar plate is assembled on the center of the frame, and only the rotational freedom of the axis passing through the center of the monthly calendar plate and being normal to the plane of the monthly calendar plate is reserved. The monthly calendar disc is provided with twelve teeth, the monthly calendar disc is driven by monthly calendar shifting sheets on monthly calendar shifting sheet wheels in the movement, and the monthly calendar shifting sheet shifts one tooth of the monthly calendar disc at the end of each month to enable the monthly calendar disc to rotate by one tooth pitch. In addition, the movement is also provided with a calendar disc positioning sheet, which can ensure that the angle of each rotation of the calendar disc is correct.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; while the invention has been described in detail and with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. A novel clock structure comprises a movement and a dial plate, wherein an observation window is arranged on the dial plate; the machine core is provided with a calendar disc and a calendar ring;

2. The novel timepiece structure of claim 1, wherein the calendar ring piece is made of a transparent or translucent material, the calendar number is opaque and disposed on the calendar ring piece, and the light-transmitting portion disposed on the calendar ring piece is a transparent or translucent material portion other than the calendar number.

3. The novel timepiece structure of claim 1, wherein the calendar ring piece is made of a transparent or translucent material, the portion other than the calendar number is covered with an opaque material, the calendar number is formed in an area not covered with the opaque material, and the light-transmitting portion provided on the calendar ring piece is the calendar number portion.

4. The novel timepiece structure of claim 1, wherein the calendar ring piece is made of opaque or translucent material, the calendar number is arranged on the calendar ring piece in a hollowed-out manner, and the light-transmitting portion arranged on the calendar ring piece is a hollowed-out calendar number portion on the calendar ring piece.

5. The novel timepiece structure according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of day color zones provided on the day color ring are arranged in a circumferential direction of the day color ring;

and the various week color areas arranged on the week color ring are sequentially arranged in a connecting way or arranged according to a preset interval.

6. The novel timepiece structure of claim 1, wherein the day ring holder and the day color ring are of a unitary construction.

7. A novel timepiece structure according to claim 1 or 6, wherein the day ring holder is of one-piece construction with the day disc.

8. The novel timepiece structure of claim 1, wherein the calendar ring holder is a one-piece structure with the calendar ring.

9. The novel clock structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the calendar ring holder includes a bottom plate and an upright plate, the bottom plate is disposed on the calendar ring, the upright plate is disposed on the outer edge of the bottom plate, the upright plate is provided with an annular groove, and the outer edge of the calendar ring piece is detachably connected to the annular groove, so that the calendar ring holder can drive the calendar ring piece to rotate synchronously.

10. The novel clock structure as claimed in claim 9, wherein a radial protrusion is provided on the outer edge of the calendar ring, a slot is provided on the vertical plate along the radial direction, and the radial protrusion is engaged with the slot to ensure that the calendar ring can rotate synchronously with the calendar ring holder.

11. The novel timepiece structure according to claim 1, further comprising a calendar plate and a calendar color ring, wherein the movement is provided with the calendar plate, the bottom of the calendar plate is connected to the calendar plate, the calendar color ring is disposed at the upper end of the calendar plate, and the calendar color ring is located between the dial and the calendar ring plate;

12. The novel timepiece structure of claim 11, wherein the monthly calendar color zone is divided into 12 zones, each zone having a different color.

13. The novel timepiece structure of claim 12, wherein 12 time scales on said dial are set to 12 colors, respectively, and wherein the color of each of said time scales corresponds one-to-one to the month color corresponding to said month color zone.