EP1351104A1 - Vorrichtung mit Programmrad für den Mechanismus eines ewigen Kalenders sowie Uhr mit solchem Mechanismus - Google Patents

Vorrichtung mit Programmrad für den Mechanismus eines ewigen Kalenders sowie Uhr mit solchem Mechanismus Download PDF

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EP1351104A1
EP1351104A1 EP02076289A EP02076289A EP1351104A1 EP 1351104 A1 EP1351104 A1 EP 1351104A1 EP 02076289 A EP02076289 A EP 02076289A EP 02076289 A EP02076289 A EP 02076289A EP 1351104 A1 EP1351104 A1 EP 1351104A1
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    • 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
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    • G04B19/24—Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators, i.e. calendar clocks or watches; Clockwork calendars
    • G04B19/243—Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators, i.e. calendar clocks or watches; Clockwork calendars characterised by the shape of the date indicator
    • G04B19/247—Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators, i.e. calendar clocks or watches; Clockwork calendars characterised by the shape of the date indicator disc-shaped
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    • G04B19/25333—Driving or releasing mechanisms wherein the date indicators are driven or released mechanically by a clockwork movement
    • G04B19/25353—Driving or releasing mechanisms wherein the date indicators are driven or released mechanically by a clockwork movement driven or released stepwise by the clockwork movement
    • G04B19/2536—Driving or releasing mechanisms wherein the date indicators are driven or released mechanically by a clockwork movement driven or released stepwise by the clockwork movement automatically corrected at the end of months having less than 31 days

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  • FIG. 1 shows a perpetual calendar watch as described in the aforementioned Swiss patent, to which the reader can refer for more details.
  • This drawing represents not only the appearance of the watch seen from above, but also the calendar cogs allowing to display the complete date in watch face windows.
  • this watch includes a date display 3 appearing in a window 4. It also includes a display of the day of week 5, of month 6 and of the last two digits of the year 7, in respective counters arranged in a dial 8 comprising indexes 9.
  • the entire calendar mechanism is hidden behind dial 8, but it is shown in transparent view in the Figure 1 to simplify the presentation.
  • the perpetual calendar mechanism is driven by an hour wheel 11 linked to the hour hand 1. It mainly comprises a wheel of twenty-four 13 hours, going around in twenty-four hours, and a program wheel 14 doing one round per month. This program wheel can directly carry the ring on which are affixed the dates 3 appearing in the window 4.
  • the twenty-four hour wheel 13 has a toothing with twenty-four teeth 15 which mesh with the twelve teeth of the hour wheel 11. It comprises besides a finger that causes the display of the day of week 5, in a way that will not not described here.
  • the program wheel 14 is a mechanical assembly driven once a day by the twenty-four hour wheel 13 and arranged to do one revolution per month what whatever the length of the month. It is coaxial with a fixed wheel 16 and it comprises a main board 17 having an external toothing with 31 teeth, maintained in position by a jumper spring 18. The teeth 15 of the wheel 13 have one more tooth long which engages on board 17 to advance it one step at the end of each month.
  • the program wheel 14 also includes a second board 19 having an additional finger to drive, once a month, a pinion 20 which part of a cog represented in FIG. 1, but not described in detail, in order to actuate display of 6 months and 7 years.
  • the program wheel 14 advances by one, two or three steps additional at the end of months of less than 31 days, it includes a set satellite wheels which are rotatable on the board 17 and are driven in rotation by meshing on the fixed wheel 16 during the rotation of the program wheel.
  • Three of these satellite wheels, bearing the references 22, 23 and 24 in FIG. 1 have one or more teeth longer than the others, which emerge temporarily at the periphery of the program wheel and are retracted towards indoors the rest of the time.
  • these retractable teeth emerge at the periphery, they can be attacked by three additional teeth of the wheel of twenty-four 13 hours to generate the additional steps of program wheel 14 at the end of a month of less than 31 days.
  • An object of the present invention is to remedy this drawback by reducing the number of levels of program wheel components.
  • the present invention aims to create wheels of program whose movable elements with retractable teeth can be relatively simple and take up little space.
  • An additional aim consists in realizing the control mechanism of the movable elements in the form of toothed wheels having also tooth modules as large as possible, in order to be more robust and less expensive to manufacture.
  • the invention relates to a wheeled program device of the kind indicated in the preamble, characterized in that said movable element is an element sliding, mounted on the program wheel board so that slide between its active position and its inactive position.
  • Such a sliding element can replace one of the toothed wheels retractable from the prior art, which allows it to be juxtaposed with another of said wheels and thus decrease the total thickness of the program wheel.
  • control mechanism has cam surfaces located on a satellite wheel and arranged to bear against an edge of the element sliding to determine the respective positions of this edge in the two sliding element positions. This allows the sliding element to be positioned without resort to a spring.
  • the program wheel 200 is mounted on a plate 201 so as to rotate around a fixed axis 202 provided with a fixed wheel 203 with seven teeth. It includes a main board 204 with external teeth thirty-one teeth 205 evenly distributed.
  • the program wheel has a second board 206 provided with teeth to drive a ring of dates not shown, immobilized in a conventional manner by a jumper which has also to immobilize the program wheel. Otherwise, the ring of date could be secured to plate 204, since the latter advances by one step per day and do one tour per month, as will be explained later.
  • Plate 206 can also drive the pinion 20 shown in Figure 1.
  • the plate 201 further carries, by a fixed axis 207, the twenty-four wheel hours 13 with twenty-four teeth teeth 23 short teeth 15 and a long tooth 208.
  • the hour wheel 11 described with reference to FIG. 1 engages on this toothing and thus continuously drives the wheel 13 at the rate of one revolution per day.
  • the teeth 15 are too short to touch the teeth 205 of the wheel. program.
  • the long tooth 208 is able to mesh with the teeth 205 to rotate the program wheel one step from the toothing of the board 204, i.e. 1/31 of a turn, corresponding to the passage to the next day on the date ring. This one-step advance occurs every day at midnight.
  • the main board 204 of the program wheel carries three movable elements 210, 211 and 212 provided with teeth retractable, as well as a control mechanism 213 which positions these elements permanently and positively mobile.
  • These moving parts and the mechanism 213 are arranged on two levels, the elements of the lower level being drawn in bold line in FIG. 2 in order to clarify the drawing.
  • Fixed wheel 203 occupies both levels.
  • Element 210 is a wheel with twelve teeth called wheel of the months and turning around a stud 214 secured to the board 204.
  • the twelve teeth mesh on the fixed wheel 203; they include seven short teeth 216, corresponding to the months of thirty-one days, and five long teeth 217 corresponding to the shorter months.
  • the long teeth 217 can emerge around the periphery of the program wheel, superimposing on the teeth 205 of the board 204, then retracting inwards due to the fact that the diameter of their wheel 210 is smaller than that of the board 204.
  • Element 211 is a twelve-toothed wheel called a February wheel and turning around a stud 218 integral with stud 214, but of smaller diameter and off-center by relative to stud 214 in the circumferential direction of the program wheel.
  • the twelve teeth of the wheel 211 mesh with the fixed wheel 203; they include eleven short teeth 219 and a long tooth 220 which can emerge at the periphery of the wheel program, superimposed on a tooth 205 of the board 204, then retract inwards because the diameter of the wheel 211 is smaller than that of plate 204.
  • Element 212 is a sliding element provided with a retractable tooth 221 and called the leap element because its tooth is retracted on February 28 of leap years, but not February 28 of normal years. He is guided by three studs 222, 223 and 224 fixed to the board 204 and it has two spouts 225 and 226 which abut against studs 222 and 224 to define its active position, in which its tooth 221 emerges at the periphery of the program wheel, being superimposed on one teeth 205 of plate 204.
  • the command 213 has four satellite wheels 228, 229, 230 and 231 mounted rotary on board 204 and whose teeth are short enough not to emerge as much as the retractable teeth on the periphery of the program wheel.
  • Wheel 228 has twelve teeth 232 which mesh on the fixed wheel 203.
  • the wheel 229 is integral of the wheel 228 and has a tooth 233 between two recesses 234, with a bearing circular 235 on the rest of its periphery.
  • the wheel 230 has eight teeth 236 which mesh in the recesses 234, then slide on the circular surface 235 so that the wheel 230 is locked during the rest of the rotation of the wheel 229.
  • the wheel 231 has eight teeth which mesh on the wheel 230, namely three long teeth 238, spaced apart angularly 90 degrees, and five short teeth 239.
  • Teeth 238 and 239 play the role of cam surfaces by pressing against a rear edge 240 of the element sliding 212 to push it more or less far towards the periphery of the wheel program.
  • the element 212 When a long tooth 238 presses against the edge 240, the element 212 is kept in its active position shown in Figure 2. But if it is one of short teeth 239 which faces this edge, the element 212 can move back as is will describe later, up to its inactive position in which its tooth 221 is retracted.
  • each of the retractable teeth 217, 220 and 221 is disposed so that its active position, when the tooth emerges at the periphery of the wheel program, is located above one of the teeth 205 of the board 204.
  • they can have the same profile as teeth 205.
  • Each of the wheels 210, 211 and 228 meshing with the fixed wheel 203 performs 7/12 of a turn for a complete turn of the program wheel 200, carried out in one month. After a year, they have completed exactly seven laps and find themselves in the same position on the same date as the previous year. However, at the end of twelve months of the year, they have a different position each month and present so each time another tooth in front of the wheel 13.
  • the wheel 229 linked to the wheel 228 advances the wheels 230 and 231 by two steps, so a quarter turn, seven times a year.
  • the cam wheel 231 therefore has a quarter turn difference between February 28 of one year and that of the following year.
  • its long teeth 238 have the leap element sliding 212 into its active position three years in a row and let it return to retracted position the fourth year of the Julian cycle.
  • the wheel 13 has three additional teeth 241, 242 and 243 located higher than its teeth 15 and 208, so as not to touch the teeth 205 of the program wheel 200, but mesh respectively on the retractable teeth 221, 220 and 217 when these emerge on the periphery of the program wheel opposite wheel 13.
  • the teeth 241, 242 and 243 have the same length as the long tooth 208 and are each superimposed on one of the three short teeth 205 which precede this long tooth, to act just before the long tooth. They can therefore be united short teeth which they surmount, or fixed to the wheel 13 in the vicinity of these short teeth.
  • the tooth 241 is intended to drive the retractable tooth 221 of the element sliding leap 212 when the latter is in the active position opposite the wheel 13, the February 28 of normal years. This action takes place three hours before the action of tooth 208, so at around 9 p.m., and brings wheel 211 in front of wheel 13.
  • the tooth 242 is intended to drive the retractable tooth 220 of the wheel February 211 when tooth 220 is in the active position opposite wheel 13, at the end of February. This action takes place two hours before the action of tooth 208, so at about 22 hours, and brings the wheel 210 in front of the wheel 13.
  • the tooth 243 is intended to drive one of the five retractable teeth 217 of the wheel of months 210 when tooth 217 of the corresponding month (February, April, June, September, November) is in active position in front of wheel 13. This action takes place one hour before the action of tooth 208, therefore approximately 23 hours. Then, tooth 208 acts as every month on that of teeth 205 which is opposite wheel 13.
  • the program wheel 200 can be made with satellite wheels having a small number of teeth, so that the gears can have relatively large modules and fractions, which reduces the manufacturing cost.
  • This wheel is devoid of any return spring and operates without significant friction.
  • its structure presents a level of less as the program wheel 14 represented in FIG. 1.
  • this second sliding element could be positioned by a wheel mechanism satellites analogous to mechanism 213, putting this element in active position each year at the end of February thanks to a wheel similar to the cam wheel 231, but having four long teeth instead of three.
  • the display elements of the watch have conventional analog time indication devices, comprising a 41 minute hand and a 42 hour hand which rotate in front of a dial 43 carrying for example twelve fixed time markers (not shown). Needles 41 and 42 are conventionally driven by a clockwork movement to turn around the central axis of the watch. Well heard, we could still add a seconds hand in the center.
  • a calendar index 46 is driven by the watch movement of the shows so as to make a complete revolution in 28 days around the central axis of the hands 41 and 42, preferably clockwise, opposite a graduation of days 47 which is fixed on the dial 43.
  • the graduation 47 which extends all around the dial, is divided into twenty-eight equal sectors bearing the names of the days of four consecutive weeks.
  • Index 46 formed here by a central needle, can be driven either continuously or in steps of 1/28 of a turn in order to always be placed opposite from the middle of a sector of fixed graduation 47.
  • Dates 1 to 31 are distributed over respective sectors of two date discs 51 and 52, next to the graduation of days 47. Each sector with a calendar extends over 1/28 of a turn, so that it can be placed in exact match of a sector of the 47 days graduation.
  • the first disc of dates 51 carries a graduation 53 comprising the dates of a first part of the month, for example in this case the dates from 1 to 15 out of fifteen consecutive sectors.
  • the second date disc 52 carries a graduation 54 comprising the date of the second part of the month, that is to say in the case present from 16 to 31 in sixteen consecutive sectors.
  • the second disc 52 is located behind the first disc 51 and it has a larger diameter, so that its 54 graduation, arranged on a circular arc of larger radius than the graduation 53, is always visible along the periphery of the first disc 51 and that three sectors respective ends of the two graduations 53 and 54 can be juxtaposed, as seen in figure 4 for the dates 13 to 18.
  • the index 46 located opposite one of the sectors of graduation 47, bearing the name of this day, indicates at the same time the date being in correspondence of this sector. If the index was in an area where the two graduations 53 and 54 overlap (a circumstance that does not product not in the situation shown here), the observer should by convention read the calendar closest to the index, i.e. on the first graduation 53.
  • the perpetual calendar display includes a annular disc of months 56, bearing a graduation of months 57 composed of twelve sectors whose respective angles are proportional to the length of the months that they represent.
  • the disc 56 is driven by the clockwork movement so to follow the disc 48 and its index 46, but with a retrograde relative rotation for delay one turn per year.
  • Inside the disc 56 is an annular disc years 58 carrying a graduation 59 composed of ten equal sectors carrying the digits 0 to 9 of the units of the year.
  • the disc from the 58s is driven by the watch movement to follow index 46, but with a Retrograde relative rotation to delay by one turn in ten years compared to this index.
  • the index 46 indicates in an analog manner the current month on the graduation 57 and the last digit of the year on the scale 59, in addition to the day of the week and the calendar.
  • a central disc from the 60s is arranged concentrically in the center of the calendar display and carries an index from the 61s next to the graduation of the years 59.
  • the disc of the decades is trained so as to advance one turn in a hundred years compared to the disc of the years 58. Consequently, its index 61 indicates on the graduation 59 the tens digit of the current year. This can be reminded to the user by means of an inscription such as "x 10" on the index of the decades 61.
  • the watch movement driving the display organs shown in figure 4 can be any mechanical, electromechanical or electronic capable of operating an analog time display.
  • Figures 5 and 6 show a calendar mechanism capable of to activate the display shown in Figure 4 from the clockwork movement of the analog watch, more precisely from a central hour wheel 99 which is attached to the 42 hour hand and which obviously goes around in twelve hours.
  • the numbers written in italics represent the numbers of teeth of the mobiles which will be described below.
  • the hour wheel 99 meshes with a wheel 101 having a pinion 102 which meshes with a wheel 103 having a pinion 104, which meshes with a wheel 105 integral with two other wheels 106 and 107.
  • Wheel 105 meshes with a wheel 108 fixed on a barrel 109 which surrounds the axes of the needles 41, 42 and which carries calendar index needle 46. With the numbers of teeth indicated in the FIG. 6, it is verified that the transmission ratio between the hour wheel 99 and index 46 is 1/56. As the 99 hour wheel turns twice a day, the index 46 completes a clockwise turn in exactly 28 days.
  • the wheel 107 meshes with a central wheel 110 secured to the disc of the 58 years.
  • the disc 58 is driven by the wheel 99 with a transmission ratio of 1 / 56.432432.
  • the disc from the 58s turns clockwise a little slower than index 46, relative to which it undergoes the shift of -1/10 of a turn during an average year (365.25 days) of the cycle Julian.
  • the wheel 106 meshes with a wheel 111 secured to the disc for decades 60.
  • the latter is driven by the 99 hour wheel with a ratio of 1/56388889. So, we notice that the disk of decades turns clockwise less faster than index 46, but slightly faster than the record from the 58s. average year, it undergoes a shift of +1/100 of a turn compared to disc 58. From so, the index of the decades 61 takes a hundred years to cover the entire graduation of 59 years and clearly indicates the decade on this scale.
  • a driving wheel 112 which meshes with a wheel 113 integral with a wheel 114, which meshes with a central wheel 115 integral with the month 56 disc.
  • This disc is driven by the barrel 109 of the index 46 clockwise so that its offset from index 46 during of an average year is worth -1 turn per year.
  • the driving wheel 112 drives the date discs 51 and 52 via a perpetual calendar mechanism 120 represented in the right part of Figures 5 and 6.
  • the wheel 112 meshes with a wheel 121 integral a wheel 122 which meshes with a wheel 123, itself integral with a wheel 124 to a tooth 125.
  • the wheels 123 and 124 are driven by the barrel 109 at a rate of 12 clockwise turns per average year 365.25 days.
  • Two program wheels 126 and 127 are arranged on either side of the wheel 124, so that the single tooth 125 of the latter drives alternately the two program wheels counterclockwise, each once a month with a gap of half a month between one and the other. Note that this offset can be changed by slightly moving the wheel one tooth relative to the program wheelset.
  • Each program wheel 126 and 127 including the structure will be described later, does one complete revolution per calendar year, whatever the number of days this year.
  • the first program wheel 126 drives a pinion 130 step by step secured to a wheel 131 which meshes with an internal toothing 132 of the first date disc 51.
  • the second program wheel 127 drives step by step a pinion 134 secured to a wheel 135 which meshes with an internal toothing 136 of the second date disc 52.
  • the second program wheel 127 is omitted to clarify the drawing.
  • Figures 7 and 9 show the program wheel 126 in two situations which correspond respectively to April in a normal year and to the end of February of a leap year.
  • Program wheel 126 is a composite wheel which rotates on a fixed axis 139 fitted with a fixed wheel 140 with six teeth. It includes a first board 141 with entry teeth with twenty-four teeth 142 regularly spaced, one second board 143 provided with an output toothing 144 which will be described later, two satellite wheels 145 and 146 with eight teeth which mesh with the fixed wheel 140, and a sliding movable element 147 provided with a single tooth 148 preceded by a hollow 149 itself preceded by a shoulder 150 in an arc. Elements 140, 145, 146 and 147, which are drawn in bold lines to facilitate reading of the drawing, are housed between boards 141 and 143, in a recess 152 in the second plate 143.
  • the side wall of this recess has two shoulders 153 and 154 forming stops which define the two functional positions of the element sliding 147.
  • the satellite wheels 145 and 146 are rotatable around tenons respective 155 and 156 secured to the second board 143. With the fixed wheel 140, they constitute a control mechanism 157 for the sliding element 147, as will be described later.
  • the output gear 144 of the program wheel is a thirty-six toothing modules, but has only twenty-four teeth 158 and twenty-nine hollows 159 adjacent to these teeth, the teeth and the recesses being arranged in groups which are separated by five gaps corresponding to months of less than 31 days. These gaps are occupied by respective shoulders 160 to 164 in an arc, corresponding to the months of February, April, June, September and November respectively.
  • the shoulders 161 to 164 correspond to the removal of two teeth and a hollow between them, for the months of 30 days, while the shoulder 160 corresponds to the removal of three teeth and two hollows between them, for one month February 29 days.
  • the shoulder 150 of the sliding element 147 extends the shoulder 160 by one module, so that these two combined shoulders correspond to the removal of four teeth and three hollow between them for a normal 28-day February.
  • the height of the shoulders 150 and 160 to 164 i.e. their radius by relative to the center 151 of the program wheel, is sufficient for two teeth successive pinion 130 can slide by pressing against the shoulder, thus blocking the position of the pinion 130, the wheel 131 ( Figure 5) and the disc dates 51 associated with the latter.
  • the successive positions of the disc of dates are indexed by the output teeth of the program wheel, without need a jumper spring.
  • Such indexing and its benefits are described in Swiss patent no. 688 671 by the same applicant.
  • each shoulder 160 to 164 in front of the sprocket 130 turns it one step, so ultimately has the same effect as the passage of one of the teeth 158.
  • each revolution of the wheel 124 to a tooth 125 produces a two-step advance of the input teeth 142 of the program wheel, i.e. one twelfth of tower. Between these advance operations, the program wheel is stopped by the periphery circular 176 of the wheel 124, which presses against the head of the teeth 142. The program wheel, thus driven twelve times a year, does a full revolution by year.
  • the circumference of the program wheel is subdivided into twelve sectors equal to 30 degrees, numbered by Roman numerals I to XII and corresponding to the twelve months of the year.
  • the number of hollows 159 associated with each month determines the number of steps of the advance made this month by the pinion 130, the wheel 131 and the date disc 51. This number is equal to 0, 1, 2 or 3 depending on whether the month corresponds to twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty or thirty-one days, as explained above.
  • the sliding element 147 and its control mechanism are intended for change the number of steps of the advance corresponding to the month of February, depending on whether months to twenty-eight or twenty-nine days.
  • item 147 In the position shown in Figure 7, which corresponds to a 28-day February month, item 147 is in the withdrawal position and its additional tooth 148 is superimposed on a tooth 158a of the second plate 143.
  • the thickness of tooth 158a corresponds to the lower half of the thickness of the other teeth 158 of the teeth 144.
  • the two teeth 148 and 158a having exactly the same shape, the additional tooth 148 is somehow retracted and has no particular effect.
  • the hollow 149 which precedes it is opposite a hollow wider 166 of the board 143, which is also covered by the shoulder 150 of the element 147.
  • the pinion 130 will remain blocked by sliding on the shoulders 160 and 150 during the whole twelfth of a turn corresponding to the month of February of a normal year, and no advance of the date disc will be made.
  • the teeth of the two satellite wheels 145 and 146 are arranged to bear by sliding against two corresponding edges 168 and 169 of the sliding element 147 in order to position this element, namely to move it between its two positions shown in Figures 7 and 9 and position it positively permanently without using a spring.
  • the gear ratio between the fixed wheel 140 and each of the satellite wheels 145 and 146 being 3/4, each satellite wheel makes three quarters of a turn per year in the direction of the arrow it carries. In other words, a month's February to the following, it is shifted by a quarter of a turn in the opposite direction to the arrow.
  • the wheel 145 has a long tooth 171 and seven short teeth 172, so that its tooth long 171 will push the sliding element 147 in February every fourth year only, which will put item 147 in the leap or active position shown in Figure 9.
  • the satellite wheel 146 has five long teeth 173 which are pressed against the edge 169 of the element 147 to keep it in its retracted position of Figure 7, while the short teeth 172 of the other wheel satellite 145 pass along the opposite edge 168 of this element. This last one is retained by abutment against the shoulder 153. In the position of FIG. 9, these are the three short teeth 174 of the wheel 146 which pass freely along the edge 169 of the element 147, which is retained by abutment against the shoulder 154.
  • element 147 has a curved inner edge 170 which can be supported by sliding against the head of the teeth of the fixed wheel 140.
  • the second program wheel 127 is identical to the first 126 and works exactly the same way, to drive the second disc of calendar 52 with the same number of steps as the first, but with an offset half a month. If necessary, another value of this offset can be chosen by modifying the mutual positions of the axes of the program wheels and of the wheel 124 who trains them.
  • the program wheels 126 and 127 of the perpetual calendar mechanism can have a relatively construction simple and thin. Also, as the numbers of teeth of the elements that make it up are relatively small, the tooth modules are sufficiently large, which contributes to reducing the manufacturing cost. On the other hand, it should be noted that the whole of this mechanism is devoid of return springs or jumper springs, which would have the disadvantage of creating friction, therefore wear and an unfavorable influence on the running of the watch.

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