EP1276023B1 - Befestigungsvorrichtung für ein Zifferblatt in einem Uhrgehäuse - Google Patents

Befestigungsvorrichtung für ein Zifferblatt in einem Uhrgehäuse Download PDF

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EP1276023B1
EP1276023B1 EP01202680A EP01202680A EP1276023B1 EP 1276023 B1 EP1276023 B1 EP 1276023B1 EP 01202680 A EP01202680 A EP 01202680A EP 01202680 A EP01202680 A EP 01202680A EP 1276023 B1 EP1276023 B1 EP 1276023B1
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Gressly Chrystel
Kaelin Laurent
Schneiter Jürg
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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
    • G04B19/06—Dials
    • G04B19/14—Fastening the dials to the clock or watch plates

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  • the present invention relates to a device for fixing a dial in a watch case, or any other timepiece to allow a preassembly of the watch movement and the dial before mounting the other parts of dressing.
  • the invention relates more particularly to such a device in which the dial is secured to the casing ring.
  • a large number of devices has already been proposed for immobilizing a dial on or between the constituent elements of a watch case.
  • Many devices relate to the nip of the dial between one or more lower elements such as a platinum, a casing ring or a middle part, and one or more upper elements, such as a flange, an ice or a bezel.
  • These types of devices are well suited for manual assembly, but are less satisfactory for automatic or semi-automatic assembly, where it is desirable to have a pre-assembly of the movement, the dial and the display before assembling the elements. dressing.
  • the dial feet are glued inside housings formed in the casing ring.
  • the dial has no feet and where the gluing is performed directly on the upper surface of the casing ring.
  • the present invention therefore aims to provide a simple and economical assembly of a dial to a lower element of a watch case, in particular a casing ring, using an adhesive material.
  • the subject of the invention is a device for fixing a dial on a lower element for a box intended to receive a watch movement, or on a lower element arranged to be contained in it, the lower element has at least two through-passages each having a first portion of the dial side separated from a second portion of the opposite side by a throttling.
  • the device is characterized in that said passages are filled throughout their first part and in at least a portion of their second part with an adhesive material having a strong bonding power with at least the material forming the underside of the dial.
  • the first and second parts of the through passages constitute chimneys having their generatrices perpendicular to the general plane of the box, that is to say in fact to the dial itself. These chimneys obviously have a contour adapted to the space available to arrange the through passages through the lower element.
  • the axes of the first and second parts of the through passages form a broken line.
  • the lower element is preferably the casing circle or radial extensions of the platinum underside of the watch movement.
  • the device according to the invention is particularly advantageous when performing the fixing on the casing ring. Indeed, one of the most used materials for making casing rings is a polyoxymethylene, marketed by Dupont under the Delrin® brand because of its very low coefficient of friction facilitating assembly operations. Unfortunately, this material is exceedingly difficult, not to say impossible, to stick.
  • the device according to the invention thus makes it possible to benefit from its tribological qualities while allowing a gluing with a dial that does not require any particular conformation, such as fixing feet.
  • FIG. 1 To the figure 1 there is shown a chronograph watch having a rectangular box 1 in which the upper closure elements (ice, bezel or back of middle) are not shown.
  • the caseband 1 is provided with horns 2 allowing the attachment of a bracelet 4.
  • the rectangular dial 3 was transparent.
  • the chronograph watch conventionally comprises a crown 5, for example for setting the time of an analog display by means of hour-minute hands 6a, 6b and small seconds 6c on a dial at 6 o'clock.
  • the chronograph function is controlled by two push-buttons 7a, 7b, the display of the timed times being effected by means of a seconds hand at the center 8, a minute counter 9a, and a counter of 1 / 10 of a second 9b.
  • the movement that causes the display of the time and the chronograph function will not be described as not part of the invention and may be any movement known to those skilled in the art. In the majority of cases, the movement corresponds to a round caliber housed in a casing ring 10.
  • the term "casing ring" is used here by extension since the outer contour is of rectangular shape to fit the inner contour of the caseband 1. This construction therefore leaves four blind spots 11 which will be used for fixing the dial as explained below, also referring to the figure 2 .
  • each through passage 12 has two parts.
  • a first portion 13 forms an orifice 14 on the dial side 3; a second portion 17 is connected to the first forming a constriction 15.
  • the generatrices of the internal surfaces of each part are perpendicular to the dial 3 and the orifice 14 has a smaller section than the section of the second part so that the throat 15 is in fact constituted by a rim between the first part 13 and the second part 15.
  • the figure 3 represents a variant in which the first and second parts 13, 17 are exactly in the extension of one another, the constriction being formed by a rib 15a separating the two parts.
  • the figure 4 represents another variant in which the generatrices of the first and second parts 13, 17 are oblique departing from the direction perpendicular to the dial from a trimming edge 15b.
  • generatrices of the first part 13 could obviously be perpendicular to the plane of the dial 3, or even be in the extension of the generatrices of the second part 17, as shown in FIG. figure 5 , the constriction then being formed by the edge 15c of the orifice 14.
  • the axes of the first parts 13 and second parts 18 of the through-passages 12 are not parallel but instead form a broken line, so that the throttling zone is formed by the point of flexion between the two axes.
  • these two axes are perpendicular and the second part of the through passage has an orifice which opens on one side of the casing ring.
  • the material filling the passage forms a "plug", since it fills a portion of the second through-passage portion, regardless of the respective sections of the first and second parts.
  • a dial 3 perfectly flat, having only holes for the passageways of the axes of the needles, can be fixed by gluing by introducing into the through passages 12 a material 19 having a high adhesive power with at least the lower surface of the dial 3.
  • the amount of adhesive material 19 introduced must be such that it fills the entire first part 13 of the through passage 12 and that it overflows beyond the throat 15 in the second part 17
  • the adhesive material 19 is chosen to be liquid during the application, and solid at room temperature to form somehow a plug impossible to extract, even if said material 19 has little or no adhesive power with the walls of the through passage 12, as is the case when the casing ring 10 is made of Delrin®.
  • the adhesive material 19 is for example chosen from the range of hot melt (hot melt) including polyamides, polyesters and polyurethanes. It is also possible to use thermosets or epoxy adhesives.
  • the through passages 12 have a substantially triangular section.
  • the section will be shaped like a bean. If a round dial is used, the section of the orifice 14 will necessarily be more small, but it is possible to increase the number of through-passages 12; it may then be advantageous to connect all the lower parts by a ring nurse.
  • the dial 3 instead of fixing the dial 3 on the casing ring 10, it can be fixed, according to the same method as that just described, on another lower element such as the platinum underside of the movement or an extension of that -this.
  • the only difference will lie in the depth of the through passages 12.
  • the method according to the invention may have an advantage even if there are known materials capable of adhering to a metal, for example that used for platinum below. It is indeed well known that the adhesion strength on a metal depends on the precautions taken for the surface condition, and that it may be necessary to use a primer, so many operations costly for the final product, without guaranteeing the longevity of the bonding which depends for a metal much of the ambient conditions and in particular of the humidity rate.

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  1. Befestigungsvorrichtung für ein Zifferblatt (3) an einem unteren Element für ein Gehäuse, das dazu bestimmt ist, ein Uhrwerk aufzunehmen, oder an einem unteren Element (10), das dazu ausgelegt ist, darin enthalten zu sein, wobei das untere Element (10) wenigstens zwei transversale Durchgänge (12) aufweist, die jeweils einen ersten Abschnitt (13) besitzen, der eine Öffnung (14) auf Seiten des Zifferblatts (3) bildet und von einem zweiten Abschnitt (17, 18) durch eine Einschnürungszone (15) getrennt ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Durchgänge (12) in ihrem gesamten ersten Abschnitt (13) und wenigstens in einem Teil ihres zweiten Abschnitts (17, 18) mit einem Klebstoff (19) gefüllt sind, der eine hohe Verbindungskraft wenigstens mit dem Material, das die untere Seite des Zifferblatts (3) bildet, besitzt.
  2. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sich die Öffnungen der transversalen Durchgänge (12) an der oberen Seite auf Seiten des Zifferblatts und an der unteren Seite gegenüber dem unteren Element (10) befinden.
  3. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die inneren Oberflächen des ersten und des zweiten Abschnitts (13, 17) der transversalen Durchgänge (12) Erzeugende haben, die zum Zifferblatt (3) senkrecht sind, indem sie auf Seiten des Zifferblatts eine Öffnung (14) begrenzen, deren Querschnitt kleiner als der Querschnitt der Öffnung auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite ist, wobei die Einschnürung (15) durch eine Schulter gebildet ist, die zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Abschnitt (13, 17) erzeugt wird.
  4. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass auf Höhe des Übergangs zwischen den zwei Abschnitten (13, 17) der transversalen Durchgänge (12) unabhängig von der Orientierung der Erzeugenden des ersten und des zweiten Abschnitts in Bezug auf eine zum Zifferblatt (3) senkrechte Richtung der Querschnitt des ersten Abschnitts (13) kleiner ist als der Querschnitt einer direkt darunter befindlichen Zone im zweiten Abschnitt (17) jedes transversalen Durchgangs (12).
  5. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Einschnürungszone (15c) in den Rand der Öffnung (14) auf Seiten des Zifferblatts (3) übergeht.
  6. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Achsen des ersten Abschnitts (13) und des zweiten Abschnitts (18) eine unterbrochene Linie bilden.
  7. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das untere Element (10), das die transversalen Durchgänge aufweist, ein Gehäusering ist.
  8. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das untere Element (10), das die transversalen Durchgänge (12) aufweist, durch eine Platinenunterlage oder durch Verlängerungen hiervon gebildet ist, die so angeordnet sind, dass sie sich radial über das Gangwerk hinaus erstrecken.
  9. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Klebstoff (19) aus wärmeschmelzbaren und wärmehärtbaren Zusammensetzungen und aus Klebmitteln beispielsweise des Epoxidtyps gewählt ist.
  10. Befestigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Klebstoff (19) eine Klebekraft mit dem das untere Element (10) bildenden Material hat, die gering oder null ist.
  11. Gehäuse mit einer Form, die einen Gehäusering (10) aufweist, dessen äußerer Umriss sich an den inneren Umriss des Gehäuses anschmiegt und der dazu bestimmt ist, ein kreisförmiges Uhrwerk aufzunehmen, um dieses Letztere in dem Gehäuse zu halten, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es eine Befestigungsvorrichtung eines Zifferblatts (3) aufweist, die vier Durchgänge durch den Gehäusering umfasst, wovon jeder einen ersten Abschnitt auf Seiten des Zifferblatts mit einem Querschnitt, der kleiner als der Querschnitt des zweiten Abschnitts auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite ist, aufweist, wobei die transversalen Durchgänge im gesamten ersten Abschnitt und wenigstens in einem Teil des zweiten Abschnitts mit einem Klebstoff versehen sind, der eine hohe Verbindungskraft mit dem die untere Seite des Zifferblatts bildenden Material besitzt.
  12. Gehäuse nach Anspruch 11, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es rechtwinklig ist und dass sich die transversalen Durchgänge in toten Winkeln im Wesentlichen an den Positionen 1 Uhr, 5 Uhr, 7 Uhr und 11 Uhr befinden.
  13. Gehäuse nach Anspruch 11, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Klebstoff eine Klebekraft mit dem den Gehäusering bildenden Material besitzt, die gering oder null ist.
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ES01202680T ES2336074T3 (es) 2001-07-12 2001-07-12 Dispositivo de fijacion de una esfera en una caja de reloj.
DE60141068T DE60141068D1 (de) 2001-07-12 2001-07-12 Befestigungsvorrichtung für ein Zifferblatt in einem Uhrgehäuse
EP01202680A EP1276023B1 (de) 2001-07-12 2001-07-12 Befestigungsvorrichtung für ein Zifferblatt in einem Uhrgehäuse
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