EP0272515A1 - Batteriedeckel für ein Uhrengehäuse - Google Patents

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EP0272515A1
EP0272515A1 EP87117927A EP87117927A EP0272515A1 EP 0272515 A1 EP0272515 A1 EP 0272515A1 EP 87117927 A EP87117927 A EP 87117927A EP 87117927 A EP87117927 A EP 87117927A EP 0272515 A1 EP0272515 A1 EP 0272515A1
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ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/11—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of the back cover of pocket or wrist watches
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C10/00—Arrangements of electric power supplies in time pieces

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  • the present invention relates to a wristwatch box comprising a backband made in one piece with an enlarging circle equipped with supports for supporting a movement mounted by the top of the middle and provided with needles for displaying the time, said movement being powered by a battery, a circular opening made in the bottom of said case-back by which the battery can be inserted or removed and a removable cover mounted leaktight by means of a gasket on said bottom for close said opening.
  • the second mode of execution is exposed for example in the utility models JP-1 131 545 and JP-1 231 593.
  • the watch case is equipped with a case back which is sometimes called a monocoque case, where the movement is mounted from the top of the middle.
  • the documents cited show that the middle is equipped with an enlargement circle and supports to support the movement.
  • an opening is made which is just sufficient to change the battery. This opening is closed by a cover screwed into the bottom.
  • This second embodiment also has the advantage of offering a bottom which takes up little space in thickness.
  • the battery cover can be removed by any user and without the need for special tools.
  • the cover has a slot into which a coin can be inserted.
  • the detail of such a construction is shown in patent GB-A-1 408 610. It is immediately seen however that this cover takes up a large space in height first because of the space which must be provided for the receiving slot the coin, then because of the thickness that must be made for the thread and the gasket. Finally this way of doing things is unsightly due to the wart that the cover presents.
  • the document GB-A-1,568,475 proposes a large diameter cover provided with a notch by which the cover can be removed, for example by means of a coin. .
  • the notch is no longer located under the stack but next to it so that the thickness on stack of the movement is not increased by the presence of this notch.
  • the position of said notch is such that it requires a free space between the movement and the inner side of the cover, a space which ultimately results in an increase in the thickness of the watch in all cases where the thickness of the stack is substantially within the thickness of the movement.
  • no space is provided between the cover and the movement by the fact that the means for unlocking the cover are located outside the periphery of this movement, which has the effect of minimizing the thickness of the watch.
  • the watch case has a case-back 1 made in one piece with an enlarging circle 2 equipped with supports 3 to support a movement 4.
  • the movement causes the hands to 5 hours and 6 minutes sketched here in dashed lines.
  • These needles surmount a dial not shown and which is housed in the opening delimited by the wall 7.
  • a bezel provided with a crystal according to methods known from the prior art. Dial, flange, bezel and crystal have not been shown here as they are not affected by the present invention.
  • Movement 4, which generally includes a stepping motor controlled by a quartz, is powered by a battery 8 which is outlined by the dashed lines in FIG. 1.
  • a box of the type which has just been described, with mounting of the movement from above may have a bottom made in one piece with the middle part. In this bottom is then formed an opening to allow the change of the battery, opening which is closed by a cover.
  • This is what is actually found in the construction presented in FIG. 1 where the removal of the cover referenced 9 gives direct access to the battery 8.
  • the cover 9 of the present invention covers the entire movement 4 instead of covering only the single battery contained in this movement.
  • the removable cover 9 is mounted leaktight on the backband 1 by means of a sealing gasket 10, the latter being pinched between the cover 9 and a groove 16 formed in the bottom 11 of the backband 1 when the cover is in place.
  • FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the case back 1 drawn on a scale reduced by half compared to the scale used for FIG. 1, we see that the opening 12 made in the backband 1 is circular, that this opening is coaxial with the axis of the hands 5, 6 and has a diameter substantially larger than the diameter of the circle 13 circumscribing the movement 8, the circle 13 being shown in phantom in Figure 2.
  • Figure 2 also shows the enlargement circle 2 equipped with supports 3 against which the movement which is not represented here but which is imaginable by the contour 14 of the opening in which it enters and by the stack 8 sketched in phantom. This is a barrel movement, which explains the oblong shape of the opening 14. We could thus have a round movement, in which case the opening 14 would merge with the circumscribed circle 13.
  • the cover 9 is made integral with the backband by fixing means situated outside the circumscribed circle 13 and at a level situated above the lower face 15 of the movement 4. These fixing means, so to speak enveloping the movement in its periphery, bring the fixing of the cover in the thickness of the middle and no longer in the thickness of the bottom as was provided in the prior art discussed above, hence the obvious gain in space in the thickness watch overall.
  • the cover 9 carries a stiffening circle 17 made in one piece with it, this circle comprising at least two bent wings 18 cooperating with as many notched flanges 19 formed in the backband 1.
  • Figure 2 shows up a case back 1 provided with three arched inlets 20, 21 and 22 and three notched edges 19, 23 and 24. Each of the notched edges has a gently sloping entrance followed by a flat, the passage of a plane to the other being represented by the dotted line 25.
  • the respective wings 18 of the cover 9 are introduced into the arched inlets 20, 21 and 22 turns the cover clockwise by compressing the lining 10 in its housing 16.
  • the wings 18 then engage on the notched edges referenced 19, 23 and 24 respectively until they abut against the edges referenced respectively 26, 27 and 28.
  • the wing 18 cooperates with the flange 19 at a level located within the thickness of the movement 4.
  • the cover further carries means capable of being actuated by the wearer of the watch to open and close said cover.
  • these means consist of two notches 29 and 30 formed on the outer side of the cover 9. These notches can be cylindrical or of any shape and are arranged on the same diameter.
  • FIG. 1 also shows that the notches 29 and 30 are located opposite the fixing means carried on the inner side of the cover or, if preferred, opposite the stiffening circle 17 and this for obvious reasons of solidity and of the cover. In the notches can engage the ends of the branches of a U-shaped key not shown in the drawing and delivered to the purchase of the watch.
  • FIG. 3 shows such a solution.
  • the watch case the bottom 11 of which can be seen and the cover 9 secured to this bottom, is equipped with a bracelet represented by its strands 40 and 41.
  • the strand 40 has a loop 42 provided with a pin 44 which cooperates with one of the holes 43 of the strand 41.
  • each branch of the loop 42 has an asperity 45, 48 intended to cooperate with a notch 29, 30 formed in the cover 9.
  • the asperities 45, 48 are located in the extension of the branches of the loop 42.
  • Figure 4 shows another embodiment of the key forming an integral part of the strap buckle.
  • the roughness is no longer located in the extension of the branches of the loop but perpendicular to said branches in the form of pins referenced 46 and 47.
  • Figures 5, 6a and 6b show a second embodiment of the invention.
  • the cover 9 secured in the bottom 11 is devoid of the notches 29, 30 which characterized the first embodiment of the invention.
  • the cover 9 carries grooves 50 arranged radially on the outside of said cover and in the periphery of the latter. These grooves or grooves, arranged in bumps ( Figures 6a) or hollow ( Figure 6b) on the cover allow you to set up or remove this cover simply with your fingers. In this embodiment, a key is no longer necessary.

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EP87117927A 1986-12-17 1987-12-04 Batteriedeckel für ein Uhrengehäuse Expired - Lifetime EP0272515B1 (de)

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US7149153B2 (en) 2002-12-23 2006-12-12 Asulab S.A. Watch whose case includes a back cover or cover with a bayonet fitting for manual opening
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FR912019A (fr) * 1944-03-27 1946-07-26 Boîte de montre étanche
CH319291A (fr) * 1954-09-08 1957-02-15 Piquerez Sa Ervin Montre étanche munie d'un remontoir automatique
CH374937A (fr) * 1961-10-19 1964-03-13 Boites De Montres S Graber S A Boîte de montre étanche
GB1568475A (en) * 1977-03-08 1980-05-29 Citizen Watch Co Ltd Electronic wrist watch
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CH205592A (fr) * 1938-07-18 1939-06-30 Alpina Union Horlogere S A Boîte de montre.
FR912019A (fr) * 1944-03-27 1946-07-26 Boîte de montre étanche
CH319291A (fr) * 1954-09-08 1957-02-15 Piquerez Sa Ervin Montre étanche munie d'un remontoir automatique
CH374937A (fr) * 1961-10-19 1964-03-13 Boites De Montres S Graber S A Boîte de montre étanche
GB1568475A (en) * 1977-03-08 1980-05-29 Citizen Watch Co Ltd Electronic wrist watch
GB2087112A (en) * 1980-11-06 1982-05-19 Timex Corp Timepiece construction with a removable caseback

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EP0460525B1 (de) * 1990-06-07 1994-07-20 Eta SA Fabriques d'Ebauches Sitz für die Batterie einer Armbanduhr
US7149153B2 (en) 2002-12-23 2006-12-12 Asulab S.A. Watch whose case includes a back cover or cover with a bayonet fitting for manual opening
EP3062171A1 (de) * 2015-02-27 2016-08-31 ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse Armbanduhrgehäuse aus plastik oder galvanoplastisch erzeugtem material mit abnehmbarem uhrenglas
CN105929667A (zh) * 2015-02-27 2016-09-07 Eta瑞士钟表制造股份有限公司 带有可移除表镜的塑料或电铸成型的手表外壳

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