EP0797132B1 - Dispositif de fixation amovible d'un bracelet à une boíte de montre - Google Patents

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EP0797132B1
EP0797132B1 EP97810157A EP97810157A EP0797132B1 EP 0797132 B1 EP0797132 B1 EP 0797132B1 EP 97810157 A EP97810157 A EP 97810157A EP 97810157 A EP97810157 A EP 97810157A EP 0797132 B1 EP0797132 B1 EP 0797132B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C5/00—Bracelets; Wrist-watch straps; Fastenings for bracelets or wrist-watch straps
    • A44C5/18—Fasteners for straps, chains or the like
    • 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
    • G04B37/14—Suspending devices, supports or stands for time-pieces insofar as they form part of the case
    • G04B37/1486—Arrangements for fixing to a bracelet
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C5/00—Bracelets; Wrist-watch straps; Fastenings for bracelets or wrist-watch straps
    • A44C5/18—Fasteners for straps, chains or the like
    • A44C5/185—Attachment of fasteners to straps or chains
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C5/00—Bracelets; Wrist-watch straps; Fastenings for bracelets or wrist-watch straps
    • A44C5/18—Fasteners for straps, chains or the like
    • A44C5/20—Fasteners for straps, chains or the like for open straps, chains or the like
    • A44C5/2057—Fasteners locked by sliding or rotating of the male element of the fastener; Turn-button fasteners
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/21—Strap tighteners
    • Y10T24/2143—Strap-attached folding lever
    • Y10T24/2155—Jewelry-watch straps
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/47—Strap-end-attaching devices
    • Y10T24/4718—Watch pintle connected
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/47—Strap-end-attaching devices
    • Y10T24/4782—Watch strap

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  • the current invention falls into the second category and aims by therefore to provide a removable fixing device from a bracelet to a watch case that allows the use of a classic bracelet.
  • German patent application DE-A- 41 36 496 proposes a device in which the housings practiced in the horns of the box to receive the ends of the bar to which the bracelet is attached are open from below. This allows easy introduction of the two ends of the bar in their respective housings. In order to block the bar in these housings, a swivel plate covers the side openings of the housing. To change the bracelet, just do rotate the insert in the other direction, and extract laterally the bar secured to the bracelet.
  • Patent CH-A-681,762 as well as patent FR-A-2,601,864 Vassort, offer a device in which the bar is rigidly attached to the box at one end, so that only the bracelet is removed during change.
  • a pivoting locking member allows to lock the bracelet at the other end of the bar.
  • the locking member snaps into a notch on the end of the bar. If such device allows the use of conventional bracelets, has some drawbacks.
  • the notch locking system presents the usual defect of this kind of closures: it wears out enough quickly even if the parts of the organ of lock that are exposed to friction are made steel, as proposed in patent CH-A-681,762.
  • the bar held by one end only, is exposed to deformation, which can affect the solidity of the closure.
  • the closing device presents furthermore a protruding lug which can easily hang and open during a gesture any of the wearer.
  • the space left between the body of the box and the bar is necessarily narrow, which makes it difficult to introduce the bracelet, especially if its thickness is greater than usually; however, such variations in thickness are relatively common for leather bracelets, natural material whose thickness is not necessarily standardized.
  • Patent FR-A-2,694,484 discloses a system in which the bar, also fixed by one end to the box, has an obtuse angle.
  • the part that is pressed into the horn of the box constitutes one of the segment of the bar, and the one outside the other segment, each segment forming one side of the angle.
  • the first segment is fixed in the horn so that it can pivot.
  • the free end of the bar describes an arc of a circle in the event of pivoting.
  • the housing of this free end in the other horn of the box is open laterally. So you just have to do pivot the bar to extract it from its housing or to put it back there.
  • a closing device allows lock the bar in the closed position when the end free took place in its housing.
  • the essential advantage of the system is that it offers the user a larger space between the body of the box and the bar than in the system of patent CH-A- 681 762.
  • it has the disadvantage of an unusual construction and therefore difficult: fixing the bar in the box, which must allow rotation, is not simple, and the mounting hole must be drilled at an angle.
  • the present invention aims to provide a device for removable attachment of a bracelet to a watch case, which avoids the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • the invention relates to a removable device for attaching a bracelet to a box watch which includes at least one rod 1 fixed by one end to the box 2 so as to be able to pivot, at minus a housing 4 being provided in a part integral with the box and adapted to receive the other end 5 of said rod;
  • the device is characterized in that axis 3 pivot point is perpendicular to the pivot plane of said rod, the length of said rod being able to be decreased by longitudinal pressure exerted on elastic means 8;
  • said housing has an edge 6 obstructing the introduction of said other end rod in said housing;
  • at least one surface oblique 7 is placed at the point of contact between the box and said other end, either on said box, so contiguous to said edge 6, either on the other end 5, or on both; said oblique surface is dimensioned with way that the continuation of the movement of pivoting of the rod to its end causes a retraction of said rod by sliding on said surface oblique, to the point where said rod passes said edge 6 and
  • the device is characterized in that it comprises a pusher 9 placed in the bottom of the housing 4 and capable of being pushed from the outside so as to push the rod 1 and reduce its length until it can pivot around axis 3.
  • the device in a second embodiment, combined with the first, is characterized in that the pusher has outwardly a head 10 whose diameter is less than that of a passage 11 in which said head is placed, said head being thus able to slide in said passage.
  • the device is characterized in that the pusher comprises a lateral lug 12, an opening longitudinal 13 parallel to the axis of the pusher being formed in the wall of the passage of the pusher, the lug lateral projecting outside through said opening longitudinal whose length is at least equal to that of the stroke of the pusher.
  • the device is characterized in that the rod 1 is fixed by screwing to the box via a rotating part 14 mounted on axis 3.
  • the device is characterized in that the rod 1 passes through the intermediate rotary part 14 and presents towards the outside a shaped end of way to grip a screwdriver.
  • Figure 1 is a bottom view of a part of box watch fitted with the device which is the subject of the invention, with the support rod of the bracelet in the closed position, and, in dotted, in the open position.
  • Figure 2 is a view of B, i.e. a view side, of the part of the watch case shown in Figure 1, but provided with a variant of a pusher allowing to release the bracelet in which the head of the pusher is almost flush with the outer surface of the box.
  • Figure 3 is a view of A, i.e. a side view taken on one side of the adjacent and perpendicular box side B, and has a variant in which appears the head of the rod, which is screwed.
  • Figure 4 is a partial side view showing the rod fixing by screwing, as in the variant shown in Figure 3.
  • Figure 5 is a section of another variant of a pusher for releasing the bracelet, in which the pusher is provided with a laterally projecting lug.
  • the device according to the invention comprises at least one rod 1 intended to receive the end of the bracelet.
  • This rod is fixed by its first end to the box 2 by through a pivoting part 14 in which the rod is driven out, according to the variant of FIGS. 1 and 2, or screwed, according to the variant of Figures 3 and 4.
  • the part pivoting 14 is itself fixed to the box by means of a pivot or axis 3 which here takes the form of a simple screw.
  • the length of the rod is variable: the rod present, on the side opposite to that which is integral with the part pivoting 14, a cylindrical recess at the bottom of which a coil spring is placed 8.
  • a cylinder 15 integral with another cylinder of diameter lower, which protrudes from the cylindrical recess, and which forms the other end 5 of the rod.
  • this other end is placed in a housing 4 practiced in the box.
  • the bottom of the housing is closed by a pusher 9.
  • the head 10 of the pusher extends out of the box a distance equal to the length of the stroke made by the other end of the rod to its complete retraction.
  • the pusher head is almost flush with the surface of the box.
  • This conformation has the advantage of discretion and avoids the risk of catching the button. However, it requires the use of a sharp object, such as for example a ballpoint pen, for pressing the plunger.
  • the pusher 9 is provided with a lateral lug 12; a longitudinal opening 13, parallel to the axis of the pusher, is formed in the passage wall and allows the lug to protrude at the outside, so as to give grip to the finger of the user.
  • This solution also has the advantage discretion and may be preferred in some cases for essentially aesthetic reasons.
  • the Horn in which the housing 4 is made, between the outside and the edge 6 of the housing, an oblique surface 7 placed at the point of contact between the horn and the other end 5 of the rod when closing.
  • the rod pivots around axis 3, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the rod moves.
  • the end 5 of the rod meets the oblique surface 7.
  • the removal of the bracelet is done in reverse, in pushing back the end 5 by means of the pusher and exerting traction on the rod so as to make it rotate the other way.
  • the oblique surface 7 is formed on the end of the end 5. It is also possible to provide such surfaces oblique both on edge 6 and at the end of the end 5.
  • the rod passes through the rotary intermediate part 14 and its end exposed by the external opening present a slot for using a screwdriver, which facilitates mounting of the rod.
  • the slot can have any different shape that would be appropriate, like a cross shape.

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EP97810157A 1996-03-18 1997-03-17 Dispositif de fixation amovible d'un bracelet à une boíte de montre Expired - Lifetime EP0797132B1 (fr)

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CH690800A5 (fr) 2001-01-15
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ATE185004T1 (de) 1999-10-15
ES2140197T3 (es) 2000-02-16
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KR970064484A (ko) 1997-10-13
CN1169839A (zh) 1998-01-14
SG66358A1 (en) 1999-07-20

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