CN1725130A

CN1725130A - World clock

Info

Publication number: CN1725130A
Application number: CN 200410054836
Authority: CN
Inventors: 窦迎峰
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-07-25
Filing date: 2004-07-25
Publication date: 2006-01-25

Abstract

A world clock is composed of a case, a core, a dial plate, a second hand, a minute hand and a combined time plate, which includes a plate, a small shaft and a time zone plate, many transparent windows and arrow heads are set on the plate, every window has a small shaft with a time zone plate, which is divided into two parts written with names of cities of the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere in the time zone. An ordinary clock can become a world one by taking the hand of any pointer clock in the world to match with invented combined time plate.

Description

World clock

One. technical field:

The present invention relates to a kind of world clock.The present invention relates to or rather can read the time all over the world on a kind of not only daytime, and also can read the world clock that showed in 12 hours of time all over the world evening.

Two. technical background:

According to the newspaper introduction, people from Wenzhou invented the world clock that a kind of pointer twenty four hours shows, this world clock must be done bigger change to the gear train of the clock and watch that showed in existing 12 hours, could realize its world clock function, so can not on the clock and watch of demonstration in existing 12 hours, directly use.

Three. summary of the invention:

World clock of the present invention is meant the clock and watch that can show two above times of time zone simultaneously.The present invention is a kind of invention that replaces the clock and watch hour hands with the combined type hour indicator.The present invention is made up of watchcase, movement, combined type hour indicator, minute hand and second hand.The combined type hour indicator is made up of disk body, time zone disc and little axle.A hole that cooperates with the hour hand axle of clock and watch is arranged at the center of disk body, disk body is divided into transparent region and opaque or translucent area with the method for blocking or inlaying.Distributing on the circumference of disk body minimum one, maximum 24 saturating name windows, window can be located at the hour numeral outer shroud on the dial plate, also can be located at the interior ring of hour numeral, can also all establish window at the inner and outer ring of hour numeral.The hour hands figure of printing clock and watch on the disk body and with set the corresponding 1-24 of a window number arrow, the hour numeral on the arrow points dial plate.There is a little axle at each center of setting window, and a hole that cooperates with little axle is arranged on the time zone disc, and time zone disc is contained on the little axle.Time zone disc divides single time zone disc and two time zone disc, and single time zone disc is to print at least one city or regional title in the same time zone on time zone disc.Two time zone discs divide two parts up and down, and at least one city or regional title in the same time zone, the Eastern hemisphere (or the Western Hemisphere) are gone up in the first half printing, and the latter half is printed and gone up at least one city or regional title in the same time zone, the Western Hemisphere (or Eastern hemisphere).Dial plate is made of translucent or transparent material.Time zone disc is made of translucent or transparent material.There is shade at the cylindrical position at the hour indicator back side.Two ring cavitys are arranged in the watchcase, and two ring cavitys also can be merged into a ring cavity, and light-emitting component is housed in the ring cavity.

But the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of direct reading world clock that showed in 12 hours of different cities and zone time in the world.The present invention is can not reading time and must the movement or the gear train of existing clock and watch be made certain improvements at night in order to solve, and could read the drawback of the world clock of different time zone time.

World clock before the present invention is the world clock that a kind of twenty four hours shows.This world clock is with the movement of the clock and watch One Earth One Family instrument inside of packing into, and three table axles that stretch out clock and watch from the South Pole or the arctic of terrestrial globe are contained on the hour hand axle with the dial plate of 1-24 numeral, and the numeral on the dial plate is exactly the time in pairing time zone.What this world clock showed is the time in whole time zone, and the time that know a certain city must be known the time zone at this place, city or find the particular location in this city on terrestrial globe.The people who only possesses certain geographical knowledge just can understand this world clock.This world clock also must be done necessary change to the movement of the clock and watch that showed in 12 hours, guarantees that hour hand axle rotates a circle at twenty four hours, could realize its function.The present invention need not do any change to the movement and the gear train of the clock and watch that showed in 12 hours, also needn't know and remember the time zone at place, a lot of city, more needn't search the particular location in city, without any the people of geographical knowledge, the time in these cities of read purposefully that can come into plain view at daytime and night.

Four. description of drawings:

Fig. 1 is the front view that window and arrow are located at the combined type hour indicator of dial plate hour numeral outer shroud.

Fig. 2 is an A-A cut-open view among Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is the longitudinal sectional drawing of world clock.

Five. embodiment:

The present invention is made up of watchcase (9), movement (10), dial plate (7), combined type hour indicator, minute hand and second hand.The combined type hour indicator is made up of disk body (1), time zone disc (3) and little axle (5).At the center of disk body (1) hole that cooperates with the hour hand axle of clock and watch is arranged, disk body is made by transparent material, with the method for blocking or inlaying disk body (1) is divided into transparent region and opaque or translucent area, the zone of beating profile line among Fig. 1 is opaque or translucent area.The zone of not beating profile line that comprises arrow (4) is a transparent region.Occlusion method is pasted the paper method mainly by the japanning method, pastes methods such as opaque or trnaslucent materials.The disk body of the bright material of full impregnated of the no any occlusion area of employing can be realized the present invention's function in the same old way.The transparent region that sees through disk body can be seen hour numeral on the dial plate (7) and the city title on the time zone disc (3).On the circumference of disk body (1), be provided with window, one of the minimum number of window, maximum 24.The shape of window can be circular, also can be shapes such as square, hexagon.Window can be located at the outer shroud of dial plate hour numeral, also can be located at the interior ring of hour numeral, can also all establish window in the inner and outer rings of hour numeral.It is better that window is arranged on the outer shroud of dial plate hour numeral.On disk body (1), print clock and watch hour hands figure (2) and with set corresponding 1-24 the arrow (4) of window number, the hour numeral of arrow points dial plate.Hour hands figure on the hour indicator can draw, and also can be on printing, and can also be on pasting.There is the little axle (5) of a projection at each center of setting window, and the protrusion direction of little axle can be at the back side of hour indicator, also can be in the front of hour indicator.The shape of time zone disc (3) generally with circle for well, also can be square or other shapes.There is one to do the hole of clearance fit on the time zone disc (3) with little axle (5), the hole can be located at the center of gravity above (promptly eccentric the setting) of time zone disc, also can be located on the center of gravity, at the lower edge position of time zone disc weight-adding hammer (6), the purpose of eccentric setting and weight-adding hammer is in order to make the literal on the time zone disc be in horizontality forever when being located at center of gravity.According to window on the hour indicator difference of position is set, time zone disc can be contained in the outer shroud of dial plate hour numeral, also can be contained in the interior ring of hour numeral, can also all load onto time zone disc at the inner and outer ring of hour numeral.Time zone disc is contained in the outer shroud better appearance of hour numeral.Time zone disc can be contained in any one side of hour indicator, with the back side for well.Time zone disc divides the single time zone disc and two kinds of two time zone discs of representing two time zones of representing a time zone, single time zone disc is to print at least one city or regional title in the same time zone on time zone disc, to represent the time zone disc in east, the Western Hemisphere to be placed on the inner and outer rings of dial plate (7) hour numeral respectively, and make respectively of the translucent or transparent material of two kinds of different colours.Two time zone discs divide two parts up and down, can make of a kind of translucent or transparent material of color, also can make, can make, also can adopt bonding method to make of the whole block material of two kinds of colors of the translucent or transparent material combination of two kinds of different colours.At least one city or regional title in the same time zone, the Eastern hemisphere (or the Western Hemisphere) are gone up in the first half printing of time zone disc, and the latter half is printed and gone up at least one city or regional title in the same time zone, the Western Hemisphere (or Eastern hemisphere).Dial plate (7) is made of translucent or transparent material.Alleged transparent material is meant flint glass, organic glass, plastic or other material among the present invention.Trnaslucent materials is meant materials such as coloured glass, coloured organic glass, coloured plastics material, nylon, paper.Trnaslucent materials general reference can printing opacity, but the material of material back side scenery be cannot see or do not seen to naked eyes when leaving the material certain distance.Literal on the time zone disc (3) can be an entity text, also can be blank literal, and literal can be transversely arranged, also can be radiation along circumference and arrange.When the occlusion area of hour indicator (1) was opaque state, arrow (4) was transparent (not blocking), also can inlay or stick on the transparent region of arrow with the translucent or transparent material of other color.When the occlusion area of hour indicator (1) was translucent, arrow can be transparent, also can be blacking.There is a circle to prevent the refractive power ring (8) of light at the cylindrical position of hour indicator (1) to external reflection.Be provided with two ring cavitys (101) and (102) in the inside of watchcase, two ring cavitys also can be merged into a ring cavity, and light-emitting component (11) is housed in the ring cavity, and light-emitting component is along the outer shroud site distribution of dial plate (7) and hour indicator (1).Light-emitting component can be in parallel many bulbs, light emitting diode, annular daylight lamp, annular neon bulb etc.Do not have night under the condition of exterior lighting, can demonstrate city title (literal) on the time zone disc and hour hands and the arrow on the hour indicator under the shining of light-emitting component after the energized, can also demonstrate the hour numeral on the dial plate and be contained in minute hand, second hand on the table axle.Giving reading time at night provides convenience.

The twenty-four theory district regulation execution that puts in order and formulate in each time zone by international longitude meeting.The manner of execution of single time zone disc: time zone, place, the city sum on two time zone discs is 12.Example: New Zealand's capital Wellington of eastern No.12 District is placed on the time zone disc, the London in zero zone is placed on another time zone disc, the time zone sum is 12+0=12, these two time zone discs are placed on the inner and outer rings of same hour numeral, when Beijing time was at 8, the arrow of two time zone discs all pointed to 12.The manner of execution of two time zone discs: the time zone sum at the place, two cities on each time zone disc east, the Western Hemisphere is 12.Example: the Georgetown, capital, Guyana in Beijing in Dong Ba district and Xisi district is placed on upper and lower two parts of same time zone disc, and the time zone sum is 8+4=12, arrow points 8.The time difference of pointing to two cities of thing hemisphere of same hour numeral is 12, as the Wellington time be the midnight, the London time then is high noon; Beijing time is at 8 o'clock in afternoon, and the Georgetown time then is at 8 o'clock in the morning.Be printed on the hour indicator the hour hands figure can with any one window on a ray, that is to say that hour hands can point to any numeral of 1-12 in the accompanying drawing, answer the on-site local time of directed towards user usually.The multiples that the window adjacent with hour hands is 30 degree or 30 degree distribute, according to window is provided with what, window can be a five equilibrium, also can be five equilibrium not.Interior ring in dial plate hour numeral is not preferably established window, to embody the characteristics of traditional clock and watch.Print more than one on the hour indicator, maximum 12 hour hands figures, on the hour hands figure, print the city title in each time zone, also can realize the present invention, but along with the rotation literal of hour indicator can occur tilting and phenomena of inversion.

The hour hands of the clock and watch that showed in any pointer 12 hours are in the world taken off from the axle that hour hands are installed, keep minute hand and second hand, load onto combined type hour indicator of the present invention on the clock and watch hour hand axle of hour hands taking off, common clock and watch just become world clock, and are one can only be at the world clock of reading time at night.

Claims

1. world clock, by watchcase (9), movement (10), dial plate (7), the combined type hour indicator, minute hand and second hand are formed, the combined type hour indicator is by disk body (1), time zone disc (3) and little axle (5) are formed, there is a hole that cooperates with the hour hand axle of clock and watch at the center of disk body (1), on the circumference of disk body, be provided with transparent window, on disk body (1), print hour hands figure (2) and the arrow (4) corresponding with the window number, window center has little axle (5), a hole that cooperates with little axle is arranged on the time zone disc (3), time zone disc is contained on the little axle, time zone disc divides single time zone disc and two time zone disc, print the title at least one city in the same time zone on single time zone disc, two time zone discs divide two parts up and down, the first half is printed and is gone up at least one city or regional title in the same time zone, the Eastern hemisphere (or the Western Hemisphere), the latter half is printed and is gone up at least one city or regional title in the same time zone, the Western Hemisphere (or Eastern hemisphere), there is shade (8) at the cylindrical position at the hour indicator back side, two ring cavitys (101) and (102) are arranged in the watchcase (9), light-emitting component (11) is housed in the ring cavity, the present invention's the hour hands that are characterised in that the clock and watch that pointer-type was shown in 12 hours take off, load onto combined type hour indicator of the present invention on the clock and watch hour hand axle of hour hands taking off, common clock and watch just become world clock.

2. world clock as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that one of transparent window minimum number, maximum 24 on the hour indicator (1), transparent window can be located at the outer shroud of dial plate (7) hour numeral, also can be located at the interior ring of hour numeral, can also all establish window at the inner and outer ring of hour numeral.

3. world clock as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that two ring cavitys (101) in the watchcase (9) and (102) can with and be a ring cavity.

4. world clock as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the hole on the time zone disc (3) can eccentric be provided with, also can be below time zone disc weight-adding hammer (6).

5. world clock as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that light-emitting component can be bulb, light emitting diode, annular daylight lamp, annular neon bulb etc.