CS471590A3 - Apparatus for determining time wherever in the world - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a device for determining time at any geographical location in the world relative to the time of any selected location. The device can be combined with a 24 hour automated mechanism. In the past, many devices and computing devices have been used to determine the time in different time zones of the world. All of these known environments require some calculation or professional activity on the part of the user or a high degree of knowledge and understanding of the subject. or geographic world. U.S. Patent No. 594,410 issued to Margolis discloses a one-off apparatus comprising two overlapping maps that co-rotate through the operation of a 24 hour clock mechanism, one map being the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere species. However, there is considerable visual confusion in such overlapping maps, and it is difficult to identify the location of the selected cities or the end of the country for such a combination. In addition, Margolis's patent does not provide visual coding means that would make it possible to directly distinguish the areas of the earth that fall under three-time zones. Margolis's instrument is still not suitable for marking cities and countries on maps alone because of the fact that there are two overlapping maps and therefore several areas have too many associated names to designate a given restricted area. 2

The present invention provides an apparatus for determining the daily time anywhere in the world and does not have the abovementioned disadvantages of the state of the art. The device can be manually operated or can be automated in the form of clocks. Essentially, the apparatus consists of a frame, a rotatable map disposed thereon, a first timezone coupled to the frame and determined by an annular strip that is outwardly concentric with the map and is evenly divided into 24 segments, and a second time zone determined by the circumferential ring uni-wall around the circumference maps and evenly divided into 24 segments. kapa is a projection of the world from the South Pole and can be rotated manually or by clock mechanism around the midpoint corresponding to the South Pole. Preferably, the hand is also provided with an hour hand. For both manual and automated designs, the hour hand rotates clockwise with the map. Each of the first time zone segments on the frame corresponds to a certain hour of consecutive 24 hour time periods. The appropriate hour is loaded in the middle of the sector. [S] If two-digit numeric scale is used, [a] a.m.a p.m is recommended. to distinguish the morning hours from the afternoon hours. Each of the second time zone segments on the map periphery is visually differentiated. Preferably, these segments are coded in color. These segments are centered on meridians, 15 ° apart, corresponding to one hour.

Geographic time domains consist of meridian countries having the same local time. For practical reasons, they are typically distinguished from surrounding ones by convention, such as territorial, state, or economic. The countries of the map are also visually coded to match the neighboring sector of the second time zone. Thus, each second time zone has an associated geographical area. The map should be rotated by concentrating the sector's second time zone zone with the first time zone sector to set the known local time of the selected geographic area. Thus, by associating sectors and the second sector of the Time Zone, the time coding of all geographic areas can be determined by visual coding. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the operation of the machine is automated by means of a 24-hour mechanism, where the clock-hand pointer proceeds with the map, that is, the map rotates with the clock hand.

To reset the zone, i.e., to reset the device in the selected geographic area, the clock hand may be placed in the center of the second time zone sector, which is color coded, as the selected geographical area, i.e., the relocation area. The stop mechanism allows the hour hand to be rotated in a counter-clockwise direction for adjustment. The map will not rotate against the clock hands with the clock hand.

To set the time, the hour, minute and second hand should be placed as desired, as for any - 4 - known clock, according to local time. The map will rotate with the clock hand clockwise.

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Another preferred exemplary embodiment relates to a handheld device. To do this, only the hour hand is provided. To adjust the zone, the clock hand rotates clockwise as described above. Then the semapa with the clock hand rotates in the clockwise direction toward the local time indicating point.

For both exemplary embodiments described above, after zone and time adjustment, the local time of any geographical area may be continuously read against the annular band of the first time zone using visual codification.

In addition, it is envisioned to create a computer database containing a South Pole world map in the form of a dial, first and second time zones using appropriate visual codification and an hour minute and second hand. The clock image can be removed from the computer's memory and displayed in a program view capable of also resetting the zone and time as described above.

A manual exemplary embodiment can be used as an example in schools for didactic purposes, that is, to explain to students the changes in date and time throughout the world. Automatic execution can be used in air and sea services, in armed forces and department stores. '· ^ »..:.; Ϊ́'ο; ΐ; Advantageously, the apparatus, whether hand-operated or clock-wise, includes additional visual coding means associated with the regions. countries on the map, which are in half-hour time zones and i.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 illustrates a world clock apparatus according to the invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a stop mechanism for clock adjustment or a zone map in FIG. stop mechanism for manual adjustment of clock and map.

The invention is described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 1-3. Exemplary embodiments of the invention of FIGS. 1-3 are chosen for illustrative purposes only, and it should be understood that other exemplary embodiments may be selected as desired. version, which is handled manually.

FIG. 1 illustrates a 10 world clock apparatus having a frame 15, a rotatable map 50 positioned above it, and an annular strip 85, a first time zone. The annular belt 85 is evenly divided into twenty-four sectors 20, 45 of the first time zone and is fixed to the frame 15 and arranged partially behind the outer periphery of the map 50. The circumferential ring 40 of the second time zone arranged on and around the perimeter of the map 50 is divided into twenty-four evenly. spaced second time zone sectors 30, 35.

The South Pole projection map 50o and the one-exemplary embodiment rotates clockwise around the center point 150 corresponding to the south pole. A conventional twenty-four hour clock mechanism 25 is installed below the frame map 50 of the frame 15. The clock mechanism 25 includes an hour hand 60, a minute hand 70, and a second hand 80. The hour hand 60 is mounted on the clock shaft 55 together with the rotary map 50 such that they are rotated together by a conventional twenty-four hour battery clock mechanism. The full circle rotation of the clock hand 60 and thus the map 50 takes place once in each 24 hour period. kappa / north pole projection is not suitable since the machine would not be able to use a conventional clockwise mechanism, but rotation in the counterclockwise direction would be required. Another disadvantage associated with the map projected from the North Pole would be the high concentration of the ground around the center of the map.

Twenty-four sectors of the first time zone 20 are designated to identify each hour of the 24 hour time period from 12 hours to half night to 11 hours before midnight. For clarity and improved readability, these clock marks may also include the noon designation in relation to the first time zone sector, labeled 12 hours day and midnight in relation to the first time zone sector designated 12 hours. Hour hand 60 passes sector 20 first time 7 zon in one hour. The minute hand 70 rotates once per hour, which is the same as a conventional 12 hour watch and therefore crosses each sector 20 of the first time zone in two and a half minutes. Similarly to the operation of the minute hand, the 70 second hand 80 passes each sector of the first time zone in 2.5 seconds. Hence, the time, as indicated by the hands 60, 70, 80 hours, shown in Fig. 6 for all regions of the country corresponding to sector 30 of the second time zone, is approximately 4 hours 26 minutes 58.5 seconds. This is for example in Vancouver, Seattle and LosAngeles. All areas of the earth in the world are shown on the map50 in a single plane with respect to the South Pole. The time zones corresponding to the geographical time zones of the map 50 are visually differentiated by color coding. For example, in FIG. 1, the color coding selected for geographic time zone 180, including the Canadian province of Manitoba, states US from Minnesota down to Douisiana, Mexico, and Central America, is red, which is shown in FIG. maps 50, this area crosses the meridians 175, 185. The second time zone sector 35 is also color coded with a red color such that all geographic time zones 180, which are color coded in red, correspond to a red color coded sector 35 a second time zone. The center of sector 2 of the second time zone 8 inches about 6 hours 26 minutes 58.5 seconds in the afternoon, being located between sector 45 of the first time zone in FIG. 1 indicating 6 o'clock in the afternoon and the sector of the first time zone indicating 7 o'clock in the afternoon. For any given geographical area, time may be read in a similar manner. In any map 50 quadrant, the color selected for visual coding of the country area in the geographic area is not duplicated to avoid confusion in identifying areas of the country.

Colors can be duplicated in opposite quadrants without confusion risk. Thus, in the exemplary embodiment of Fig. 1, it was chosen to use red colors for the second time zone and its associated earth regions diagonally opposite the second time zone 35 and time zones 180. The time for this geographical time region is approximately 6 hours 26 minutes 58.5 seconds.

Two types of melting are required to install the apparatus 10 for use in a given geographical area in which the user is located.

The first step consists of setting the zone. To this end, the hour hand should be rotated in a counterclockwise direction while the map is held in a stationary state toward a position where the hour hand lies in the middle of the respective second time zone, that is, the same color with the new location geographic region . The hour hand should be searched with this appropriate meridian. This is achieved by the use of a stop mechanism as shown in Figures 2 and 3. The clock shaft 55 is such that it reaches the above-positioned plate with a 50 s map with a clock hand 60. A 65 j Ae-T plate is attached to the back of the map. ~ / 7? The average is smaller than the diameter of the map. KSestava, consisting of map 50 and plate 65, is fixed in such a way that it can slip through the clock face. Plate 65 is provided with a resilient latch 75. Plate 65 rotates with map 50 and clock hand 60 through a clock shaft 55 clock mechanism 25 in clockwise direction. At the base of the frame along the perimeter of the central concave bottom 200, a plurality of ratchet teeth 95 is arranged. When the map 50 moves with the clock shaft 55 clockwise, the ratchet 75 slides over the ratchet teeth 85 of the circular row of pawls 95. When changing the zone is required, the clock hand 60 should be gently rotated counterclockwise toward the new desired position in the middle of the respective sector of the second time zone centered on the new zone's meridian. The pawl 75 will oppose the rotation of the map 50 as it will be locked between the two pawl teeth 95.

The second step consists of setting the time and this occurs in the clock allowing the bvl to complete the first step. To this end, the use of the classical wrist mechanism (with our + ZSdis1- & {γ ") means that the clockwise / counter-clockwise rotation is rotated in a clockwise direction and positioned to indicate time. The hour hand 6.0, the minute hand 70 and the second hand 80 will be positioned to indicate on the first time zone an hour, minutes, and seconds of this area, bearing in mind that each position of the first time zone corresponds to only two and half minutes or 2.5 seconds.

In Fig. 1, the apparatus 10 is set up to be used in a pre-selected geographic land area comprising Los Angeles, and the hour hand 60 moves toward the first time zone position designated "5 µm". The instrument determines time in the United States of America, such as 4 hours 26 minutes 58.5 seconds in the afternoon. The same time applies to all other areas of the country having the same code color as the second time zone selector 30, for example, Seattley USA, or VancouverY Canad®. To determine the time in any other selected geographic area of the country in this given space, it is necessary to determine the color associated with that area of the country, the sector of the second time zone closest to that area that corresponds to that color and subtract the time for the ringing] the first time zone corresponding to the second time zone sector. For example, as shown in Fig. 1, it can be seen that when the time in Alberta Λ7 '' 'Can ®, indicated by sector 100 of the second time zone is 5 hours 26 minutes 58.5 seconds in the afternoon, time in Los Angeles USA is less than one hour, that is, 4 hours, 26 minutes 58.5 seconds afternoon-no. At the same time, the time in all other areas of the country on the map% že can be determined according to the previous procedure. 11

With regard to the regions of the earth that are situated in half-hour time zones, different or additional visual coding means are used to identify those regions of the region. In the exemplary embodiment of FIG. vertical lines are used before the time of the neighboring country area having the same color code. Therefore, India is color coded with the same color as Pakistan and is also encoded with vertical lines to make it clear that time in India is half an hour before time in Pakistan. It is contemplated that exemplary embodiments wherein the base half-time zone is selected such that their time is subtracted by adding one half of the time of the neighboring region of the country having the same color is also conceivable.

The international data line SO denotes the date corresponding to the map regions of map 50. To illustrate this, FIG. It has been shown that one of the sectors of the second Alaska time zone indicates 3 hours 26 minutes 58.5 seconds in the first time zone and that the eastern sector of the second time zone Australia indicates 10 hours 26 minutes in the first time zone. , 5 se-kund in the morning. If the date of January 1 is in Ottavey Canada,

is a date in Alaska. Because it falls on the opposite side of Alaska, the time of this day in Ottawa 12

In addition, three circular concentric cavities, i.e., bottom, middle and top pits, can be included on the front of the frame. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, an annular row of latching teeth 95, as described above, is mounted along the periphery in the concave lower recess 200 for the latch mechanism. The central recess 210 includes a circular map 50 so that it can rotate freely, that is, without touching the walls of the cavity.

The upper recess 220 is formed to secure the annular band 85 of the first time zone. Preferably, the annular belt 85 partially closes the circumferential ring of the second time on the map guide map 50 to the frame 15. For the automated exemplary embodiments of the apparatus, the clock mechanism 25 is arranged below the frame face 15. Hourly, minute, and second 7Γ / 'z; a shaft protrudes through the frame frame to accommodate the clock hand and the map or minute hand in a possibly second hand loop. A cover for protecting the clock mechanism 25 may be provided on the rear and front walls of the frame.

While the foregoing description relates to the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiment described. Many variations of the specific features described above can be made, but all of which are within the scope of the invention. For example, as mentioned above, a clock mechanism may not be included if a hand-operated pocket device according to the invention is required instead. In the case of a manually operated apparatus, the user may prefer to rotate the frame in an anti-clockwise direction relative to the map for setting the time zone sectors by a predetermined region of the earth, rather than rotating the map, both of which are equivalent.

In addition, the common inclusion of a given geographical area in the time zone may vary due to political or economic reasons without altering the scope of the invention as set forth in the following subject matter.

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- 14 - PATENTS NAROK Ύ • o »> TJXJ> Oo <c · CD · <X>« _ 3Em> «o <r- ° -c mN- <u> o £ 4? —J τ-τ / An apparatus for determining time at any point on the world relative to a selected geographic area where the apparatus comprises a frame, a circular map of the world stored above said frame rotatable relative to said frame by a map of the world representing a modified South Pole world projection , spans around the center point of the south pole, and is divided into twenty-four geographic areas of sub-local time, where geographic time domains are color coded, with adjacent areas of color differing, the first time zone the first zone is uniformly distributed over the 24-hour unmarked indication as a calibrated 24-hour scale, and a second time zone, determined by the circumferential ring, circumferential location, and rotary circular circumference the map of the second temporal zone is equally divided into twenty-four segments / differentiated by different contiguous colors, where each segment / second time zone is associated with an adjacent geographic time domain having the same color, while mapping the segments of the second time zone associated with the selected geographical area with the first time zone segment according to the known local part of the selected geographic area, the local time of each of these locations in the world can be determined by reading the hour indication on the first time zone adjacent to the second time zone sector associated with the world. 15 2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a clock mechanism for the 24 hour counting, including a clock to read the time indicated on the first time zone, wherein the hour hand is attached to this map / so that this map / must rotate with that hour hand. 3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the tomatap / aal comprises coding means for geographic areas located in half-hour timing zones, wherein the coding means includes additional hatching, wherein the half-hour time zone has a half-hour interval from the time indicated on the first time zone. 4. Apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the map further comprises geographic coding means located in half-hour time zones, wherein the coding means comprises additional hatching, wherein the hour time zone time interval is half an hour from the time indicated on first zone. 5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a central clock hand and an adjusting device, wherein the adjusting device comprises a restraining means, fixed at the rear wall of the circular map and rotating therethrough. is the medication? is arranged to cooperate with a circular row of ratchet teeth (furthermore a circular row of ratchet teeth /% mounted on the frame / clock to cooperate with the detaining - 16 - (&amp; o) means, where when the hour hand is manually rotated in the direction opposite to the clockwise direction to move the device, the circular map / sweep movement is retained by the retention means, which is located between the two ratchet tabs of the ratchet row of ratchet teeth, and when the clock hand / hand is rotated clockwise, the circular map / of the world rotates with a clock hand. / wherein the holding means slides over a series of ratchet teeth. 6. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, further comprising an adjusting device, wherein the adjusting device comprises a restraining means mounted on a rear wall of the circular map with the latter rotated, wherein the retaining means is positioned for the cooperation with a circular row of latching teeth / annular row of latch teeth attached to the frame / clock for co-operation with the retention means, wherein in the case of clockwise rotation (in the direction opposite to the clockwise movement direction) the circular movement of the map / world held by the retention means, which is positioned between the two ratchet teeth / this circular ratchet row, and when the clock hand is rotated in the clockwise direction of the watch - (with the new mechanism./ circular map / world rotates with the clock hand, wherein the retention means slides over a plurality of engagement teeth> 5 /. 7. Apparatus according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the retention means comprises a plate, concentrically fixed - 17 - on the rear wall of the rnapv / world, wherein the plate is centered on the clockwise movement of the clock mechanism mechanism / forty-four hours dividing, and has a resilient latch on the exposed end face, whereby when the clock pointer is in the opposite direction to the direction of movement of the clock, the world map is retained by a resilient latch which engages between the two-latch teeth of the circular row of latch teeth while while the clock hand is clockwise clockwise clockwise. the mappout is rotating by the scribe / nodin hands / and the restraining device slides through the ratchet / An adjusting device adapted for use with a device according to the invention, characterized in that it comprises a restraining means located on the rear face of the circular map and rotated therewith where the restraining means is. stored for co-operation with a circular row of ratchet-toothed ring-row jaws mounted on the frame / for co-operation with the restraining means, wherein when the central clock handles / attached to the annular map are wound in the opposite direction of movement the circular map / world is held by this restraining means, which engages between the two ratchet teeth of the rifle bison, while while the clockwise hand is rotating in the clockwise direction, it is circular. map / seam ta 18 rotates with clock hand p restraint slide slides ratchet '^^ 9. An adjusting device adapted for use with the apparatus of claim 2, including a retaining means attached to the rear wall of the circular map and rotated, wherein the retaining means is positioned to cooperate with the circular row of latching teeth. and a circular row of locks, which are adapted to be connected to the frame / nodes for co-operation with the restraining means, whereby the clockwise rotation of the counterclockwise direction of rotation of the device is the movement of the circular map / world retained by the retention means which fits between the two ratchet teeth of the ratchet-rows of the ratchet teeth / while turning the clock hand clockwise by the clock mechanism the ratchet rotates with the clock hand and the retention device slides over ratchet ratchet ^ · ^ / 10. An adjusting device according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the retaining means comprises a plate concentrically attached to the rear wall of the circular map, where the plate is centrally penetrated by the clock shaft of the mechanism / with the 24 hour division and has a flexible latch / located on the exposed wall, the rotating clockwise / counterclockwise rotation of the apparatus being the movement of the circular map / light of the world is retained by Alive. Jk ......... - 19 - the latch is interlocked between the two latch teeth of the latch ratchets ^ while the clock hand / rotates clockwise through the clockwork <circular map / world rotates with the shaft / nodin UoL / handles and the restraint slides over the ratchet row: ubf ^ 7 11. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the frame (3) is made with central concentric depressions for the fire, in a spatial relationship, of a circular row of ratchet teeth (7) in the lower recess where the circular rhap / world it is in the middle depth and the annular belt / first time zone is in the upper depression, the annular belt / first time zone being arranged in the upper depression for partially closing the circumferential circle of the second time zone to form a guide for the circular map / leg in this frame / Zíy, 12. Apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the frame is formed with a central concentric recess to include a circular row of ratchet teeth (ff). at the bottom of the circle / world map / world is in the middle depression and the annular / first. the time zone being in the upper depression, wherein the annular belt (1) of the first time zone is arranged in the upper depression 34 to partially enclose the peripheral circle of the second time zone to form a guide for the circular map of the world in that frame. is attached to the frame / so. its concentric-20-ordered second minute shaft passes through the center of the frame to engage a clock hand (circular mapois or minute hand or second hand).