EP0509403A1 - Mouvement d'horlogerie - Google Patents

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EP0509403A1
EP0509403A1 EP92106165A EP92106165A EP0509403A1 EP 0509403 A1 EP0509403 A1 EP 0509403A1 EP 92106165 A EP92106165 A EP 92106165A EP 92106165 A EP92106165 A EP 92106165A EP 0509403 A1 EP0509403 A1 EP 0509403A1
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Jean-Daniel Dubois
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Eberhard et Cie SA
Nouvelle Lemania SA
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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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/26—Clocks or watches with indicators for tides, for the phases of the moon, or the like
    • G04B19/268—Clocks or watches with indicators for tides, for the phases of the moon, or the like with indicators for the phases of the moon
    • 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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/26—Clocks or watches with indicators for tides, for the phases of the moon, or the like
    • G04B19/266—Clocks or watches with indicators for tides, for the phases of the moon, or the like with indicators for tides
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
    • G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
    • G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
    • G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
    • G04F7/0866—Special arrangements

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  • the present invention relates to a timepiece movement, in particular for a wristwatch, a chronograph watch or a pocket watch, which comprises a time display formed by a dial and a switch and possibly a chronograph display, as well than the conventional mechanisms associated with these displays.
  • This timepiece movement also includes a tideoscope, that is to say a display indicating both the movement of the tides and the lunations.
  • Document FR-A-2 500 181 also discloses a time-measuring device which comprises, in addition to a time display, a plurality of separate displays, such as a tide clock, a lunar clock, an astronomical clock with a sundial and a astronomical clock with moon dial and possibly a second time display. All these displays are separate and cannot be combined, which does not allow the use of such a time measurement device for a portable watch.
  • a time-measuring device which comprises, in addition to a time display, a plurality of separate displays, such as a tide clock, a lunar clock, an astronomical clock with a sundial and a astronomical clock with moon dial and possibly a second time display. All these displays are separate and cannot be combined, which does not allow the use of such a time measurement device for a portable watch.
  • it is essential to be able to read at a glance the indication of the movement of the tides and the indication of the lunations which cannot be achieved with the apparatus described in this document.
  • a time measuring device with tide indicator which comprises, in addition to the time display, a window in the dial whose periphery has indices cooperating with signs, carried by a rotating disc under the dial, the position of which relative to the markers indicates the state of the tide.
  • This is also a tide indicator only, this device does not include any indication relating to the lunations.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to make up for the shortcomings of existing clockwork movements and which in particular allows the use of sailors and boaters to integrate into a wristwatch or pocket watch an indicator simultaneously displaying the movement of the tides and the lunations .
  • the present invention relates to a timepiece movement comprising a time display and which is distinguished by the characteristics listed in claim 1.
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of the chronograph watch including a time display, chronograph displays and a combined display of tidal movements and lunar months.
  • Figure 2 is an enlarged and schematic plan view of the display of tidal movements and of the watches of the watch illustrated in Figure 1.
  • FIGS 3 and 4 show the adjustment of the tide view.
  • FIG. 5 is a plan view of the movement, on the dial side, of the watch illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 6 is a section along the line V-V in FIG. 4.
  • Figure 7 is a section along line VI-VI of Figure 4.
  • Figure 8 is a section along line VII-VII of Figure 4.
  • FIG. 9 is a section along line VIII-VIII of FIG. 4.
  • the chronograph watch illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises a box 1 in which is housed the clockwork movement.
  • This watch includes a time display comprising minutes 2 and hours 3 hands in the center, cooperating with a peripheral scale 4 of a dial 5.
  • Hands 2 and 3 are driven by a conventional switch activated by a barrel and a gear train engine and regulated by a conventional governor train not shown.
  • This chronograph watch also has a chronograph hand for the seconds in the center 6, a chronograph hand for the minutes in the center 7, both cooperating with the peripheral graduation 4 of the dial 5.
  • This chronograph watch also includes a chronograph hour counter having a hand 8 cooperating with a graduation 9 arranged at six o'clock from the dial 5.
  • the chronograph hands 6, 7 and 8 are driven by a chronograph mechanism, actuated by pushers 10 and 11, of the conventional type.
  • the illustrated watch also includes a small second hand 12 cooperating with a scale 13 located at nine o'clock on the dial 5.
  • the movement also includes a winding stem 14 with three axial positions.
  • the illustrated chronograph watch also includes a tideoscope or combined indicator of the lunar months and the movement of the tides, the display of which, located at three o'clock on the dial 5, includes a moon phase hand 15 pivoted concentrically to a rotating tide disc 16.
  • This moon phase hand completes one rotation per lunation and cooperates simultaneously with the tide disc, which performs a revolution in twenty-four hours, and with representations of the states of the moon, full, new, increasing and decreasing, arranged on dial 5 around the tide disc 16.
  • the display of the tideoscope is illustrated in detail in FIG. 2, it consists of the tide disc 16 visible through a circular aperture made in the dial 5.
  • This tide disc 16 comprises zones of different colors 17, 18 indicating respectively the high and low tides.
  • the portions of this disc 16 located between the areas 17, 18 may have color gradations.
  • This display also includes the lunation hand 15 pivoted concentrically to the tide disc 16.
  • This lunation hand 15 has at its end a graduated sector 19, extending over approximately a quarter of a circle. This sector therefore extends over an angular distance or arc corresponding to a quarter of the disc of the tides 16, that is to say over a distance corresponding to six hours, ie the time interval separating a low tide from a high tide.
  • the tide disc 16 makes a revolution in twenty-four hours and rotates clockwise, while the lunar hand 15 and its sector 19 representing half a tide cycle ( 6h 12 min) will carry out in the same direction a revolution in a lunation, that is to say 29.5 days.
  • This lunation hand indicates the age of the moon by cooperating with the signs 20, 21, 22, 23 representing the phases of the moon affixed on the dial 5 around the disc 16.
  • this hand 15 indicates the position of the tides in differential value of the position of the zones 17, 18 of the disc 16 relative to the tip of the needle 15.
  • the high tide is at its peak and it will enter its descending phase. It is expressed by two tides or periods in twenty-four hours forty-eight minutes and forty-eight seconds.
  • Figures 5 and 9 illustrate the mechanism of the movement of the chronograph watch which relates to the tideoscope, its operation and its adjustment.
  • the movement includes an hour wheel 25, the barrel 26 of which is pivoted in a bridge 27 located just below the dial 5.
  • a pinion 28 is mounted on the barrel 26 and engaged with an intermediate return of the tides 29 pivoted in the bridge 27 and itself engaged with a tide wheel 30 frictionally mounted on the hub 31 of the star 32 for adjusting the tide disc 16.
  • This star 32 carries the tide disc 16 and it is pivoted on the barrel 33 carrying the 'moon needle 15.
  • the barrel 33 is integral with a wheel 34 and is pivoted on an axis 35 mounted in a seat 36. In operation, the tide disc 16 is driven at the rate of one revolution in twenty-four hours by the hour wheel 25 using a reference 29 and the wheel 30.
  • the driving of the lunation hand 15 is also carried out from the hour wheel 26 using a cog effecting the reduction required for this lunation hand 15 to turn in 29.5 days.
  • This cog comprises a driving wheel 40 engaged with the pinion 28 secured to the hour wheel 25, driving wheel 40 pivoted on an axis 41 fixed in a support 42.
  • This driving wheel 40 carries on its upper surface a leaf spring 43 which cooperates with a tooth disc 44 of 59 teeth secured to 'a wheel 45 also pivoted on the support 42.
  • This toothed disc 44 is held in its successive angular positions by a jumper 46 and is driven by one step by the leaf spring 43 at each revolution of the driving wheel 40.
  • the wheel 45 is engaged with a driving gear 47, 47 ′ pivoted on the support 42 and comprising two wheels 47, 47 ′ of identical toothing tending to move angularly under the effect of a spring 48, so that the toothing of the wheels 47, 47 'trap the teeth of the wheel 45 and eliminates any play.
  • This driving reference 47, 47' is engaged with the wheel 34 secured to the barrel 33 carrying the moon needle 16.
  • the moon needle 16 is always trained from the hour wheel.
  • the tide disc 16 is driven to it in normal operation, as also described above from the hour wheel 25 but can be adjusted manually using the winding rod when the latter is in position two, either in the intermediate position.
  • the movement can be wound in a conventional manner using the winding rod 14 when it is in its first position; perform a rapid correction of the tide disc 16, without touching the switch, when the winding stem 14 is in its intermediate position; and cause the time setting, simultaneously causing the drive of the tideoscope, that is to say of the disc 16 and of the hand 15, when the winding stem is in a third axial position.
  • the operation of the winding stem in position one and three is conventional and is not described here for clarity.
  • the tideoscope can be adjusted as a function of the location, therefore of the tides, where one is. This is done for example in the manner described below with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • the tideoscope can be adjusted for a given port and a given instant. Once set, this tideoscope gives at a glance the indication of the moon phase, the current state of the tide and the possibility of estimating using sector 19 the time to elapse until a given tide state, high or low, depending on.

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FR2645977A1 (fr) * 1989-04-14 1990-10-19 Dubois Depraz Sa Module d'affichage pour mouvement d'horlogerie
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