EP1591845A2 - Vorrichtung zum Einrasten eines Bodens und/oder einer Lunette im Mittelteil eines Uhrgehäuse - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Einrasten eines Bodens und/oder einer Lunette im Mittelteil eines Uhrgehäuse Download PDF

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EP1591845A2
EP1591845A2 EP05405230A EP05405230A EP1591845A2 EP 1591845 A2 EP1591845 A2 EP 1591845A2 EP 05405230 A EP05405230 A EP 05405230A EP 05405230 A EP05405230 A EP 05405230A EP 1591845 A2 EP1591845 A2 EP 1591845A2
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Stephane Dufour
Claude Moenne
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    • 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
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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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    • G04B37/0008—Cases for pocket watches and wrist watches
    • G04B37/005—Cases for pocket watches and wrist watches with cover or protection device which can be completely removed, either by lifting off or by sliding, or by turning (protection covers, protection cases also against humidity)

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  • the present invention relates to an assembly device notch of a bottom and / or a bezel on a middle watch case, in which at least one element Elongated elastic assembly is associated with at least one elongated housing formed in an assembly side face of one of the organs to be assembled and forming an opening in said assembly side face through which a lateral portion of the surface of said elongated member protrudes to be engaged by elastic deformation with a fastening element secured to the other member to be joined, when relative displacement in translation of these two organs to assemble them to one another, at least one of the faces of said detent fastener being shaped to maintain said elastic means assembly under elastic stress, and being oriented to break down the force exerted on it into a component parallel to said displacement in translation and whose meaning tends to maintain said assembled organs.
  • watch cases including of sealed watch cases in which the organs to be assembled on the middle part, the bottom and / or the telescope are set to notch.
  • This mode of attachment is particularly used for waterproof watches called form, that is to say watches of polygonal shapes, on which we do not can not make an assembly by screwing a thread arranged on the bottom in a thread on the middle part.
  • Such a mode of attachment is described in particular in the CH 556 'S67, referring to a box of form in which a notch is formed on the inner side face of the middle part by two faces inclined in opposite directions, a surface tilted inward followed by the other inclined surface inverted, so that a narrowing is left to the junction between these two surfaces.
  • the bottom has a rim extending towards the inside of the box and the surface outer of the upper end of this rim forms the surface assembly.
  • the distance between two assembly surfaces opposite of the bottom must be slightly larger than the corresponding dimension of the narrowing at the joining the inclined surfaces of the internal lateral face of the middle part.
  • the rim When the bottom is introduced into the middle part, the rim is deformed and resumes at least partly its initial position when he passed beyond the narrowing, thus retaining the substance on the frame.
  • a seal is housed in the outer lateral face of the rim bottom, below the assembly surface, so that this seal is compressed against the assembly surface of the middle angled outwards.
  • the bottom is not necessarily made of a material chosen for its elastic properties, so that the rim the bottom of which the elastic deformation serves to allow the notched attachment does not give good properties of elastic deformation. Therefore, as we can not exceed the elastic limit, the deformation margin for the hanging is necessarily weak.
  • manufacturing tolerances it is then no longer possible to assemble any background with any what size that can make it necessary to sort funds and squares according to the actual dimensions of distances between the respective opposite joining surfaces components to be assembled, or their diameters, in the case of round boxes.
  • Such work obviously constitutes a constraint that is not easy to manage.
  • the hanging properties such a method of assembly may vary, especially in depending on how many times you open and close the bottom of the box.
  • the first frustoconical surface serves to insert the middle portions of the polygonal ring in the throat of the middle, while the second surface truncated cone serves to axially apply the bottom against a gasket housed at the bottom of the opening of the middle part intended to receive the bottom of the box.
  • a bayonet fixing device in which two fastening tabs attached to the bottom of the box come engaged with two portions of a split elastic ring protruding inside the middle part, is described in US 2'737'010. In the closed position, the frustoconical surface bottom engaged with the split ring can produce an axial pressure to compress a seal.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy the less in part, to the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • the subject of the present invention is a device assembly of a bottom and / or a telescope on a watch case middle according to claim 1.
  • the use of a hanging tube according to this invention takes up little space.
  • the wall of a tube constitutes an excellent elastic element. Elasticity can be given by elastic deformation of the profile of the section of the tube.
  • the elongate element of tubular section can be a bending member held at both ends.
  • the gripping force in the case of a tubular element can be adjusted either by changing the thickness of the tube wall, or preferably by modifying the length of the tube. We can still adjust this snapping force by appropriate choice of the material of the tube.
  • the present invention is particularly applicable advantageous to boxes of polygonal watches too called form boxes (in other words, forms other than circular).
  • the bracelet watch case illustrated by FIG. 1 has a middle part 1, in this example, of rectangular shape, a bottom 2 having two brackets fixing notch 2a associated with two opposite sides of the bottom 2 and of which only one is visible in Figure 1.
  • Each bracket notch 2a extends above a nesting surface 2d of the bottom 2 and is intended to cooperate with an elastic element Elongated hanging, presenting in this preferred example the shape of a tube 3 whose wall is deformable from elastic way, as will be explained later.
  • Each of the two attachment tubes 3 is intended to be housed in a housing 1a formed in a side assembly face 1.
  • the two dwellings 1a are arranged in two respective opposite lateral faces.
  • Each of these housings 1a extends parallel to these faces opposite sides and parallel to the plans of openings of the middle part 1 closed by the bottom 2, respectively by the glasses 5.
  • a seal 4 is intended to be housed in a groove 2c formed around the entire periphery of the nesting face 2d of the bottom 2 in the caseband 1 ( Figures 2, 4, 5).
  • a bezel 5 is still intended to be attached to the middle part 1 by the assembly device object of the present invention.
  • An ice cream 6 and a gasket 7 are intended for be assembled on the middle part 1 when fixing on the screen of the telescope 5.
  • This telescope 5 comprises for this purpose two housings 5a formed in the internal faces of two legs fastening 5b intended to be housed between the horns 1c 1.
  • Each housing 5a, of which only one is visible in Figure 1 is intended to receive a shackle tube 3.
  • Each of these attachment tubes 3 is intended for allow the attachment of two notches 1b, arranged between horns 1c, on two opposite external lateral faces of the middle part 1.
  • Figure 2 illustrates the bottom 2 and the bezel 5 assembled on the middle part 1, the seal 4 being compressed between the inner side face of the middle part 1 and the bottom of the groove 2c.
  • the notch attachment of the bracket 2a of the bottom 2 is engaged on the attachment tube 3, which maintains the profile of the deformed cross section. This deformation is obviously in the limit of elastic deformation.
  • the inclined face 2a 2 of the fixing lug 2a on which the elastic force exerted by the deformation of the cross section of the attachment tube 3 breaks down this force into a component which constantly exerts on the bottom 2 a force which maintains its flange 2b applied against the base of the caseband 1.
  • Figures 3 to 5 show different phases of assembly from the bottom 2 on the caseband 1 by relative displacement in translation of these two organs, using the device assembly described above.
  • Figure 3 shows the assembly of the attachment tube 3 in its housing 1a of the middle part 1. It can be seen that the dimension of the opening of housing 1a in the internal lateral face of the middle part 1 is lower to the diameter of the hanging tube 3. In this case, this one must therefore be elastically deformed to penetrate in the housing 1a, as illustrated in Figure 3.
  • FIG. 4 shows the tube 3 in its housing 1a, which is shaped to allow it to recover the initial shape of the profile of its section and that a sector of the wall of the attachment tube 3 projects from this housing 1a and therefore of the side assembly face of the middle part 1a.
  • the notch fastening tab 2a of the bottom has an inclined introduction face 2a 1 . It first comes into contact with the sector of the wall of the attachment tube 3 which protrudes inside the side face assembly of the middle part 1. This inclined face 2a 1 makes it possible to transmit to the wall of the 3 a part of the force exerted to introduce the bottom 2 into the middle part 1. This force makes it possible to deform the section of the attachment tube 3, as illustrated in FIG. 5, to the hooking position final illustrated in Figure 2.
  • the assembly device could also work with an elastic deformation of the fastening tabs to notch 2a, or with elastic deformation distributed over the hooking tubes 3 and locking tabs 2a.
  • the subject matter of which does the bottom usually is not chosen according to its elastic property or at least this one does not constitute not his main property. This is not the case tube 3, so that advantageously, it has for vocation to provide the essential elastic properties of the assembly device.
  • the notch fastening is inside the space waterproof protected by the seal 4, so This notch attachment is protected from external aggressions.
  • the fastening force of the assembly device can to be adjusted using the hooking tubes 3.
  • the adjustment of the gripping force for a given tube wall thickness 3 will be by varying the length of these tubes.
  • tubular fastening elements 3 presents, between its two ends that serve as support for the ends of the element tubular coupling 3, a slight median recess, as illustrated by FIGS. 7, 9 and 11, chosen preferably to limit the degree of flexion of the fastening element tubular 3.
  • FIGS. 7, 9 and 11 chosen preferably to limit the degree of flexion of the fastening element tubular 3.
  • the element tubular 3 is in one piece and that it is substantially longer than the 2a locking tabs. These must obviously be located in the middle part of tubular hooking elements 3 to bend them.
  • the retention of the tubular elements 3 hanging in their homes 1a is obtained by narrowing of the entrance opening in these dwellings 1a, as in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 5, but only at the two ends of these dwellings 1a, then that the tubular elements of attachment 3 are free between their ends, so as not to hinder their flexion, within the limit set by the depth of the median recess of housing 1a, which is chosen according to the degree of flexion maximum chosen.
  • the fixing device according to the present invention is not intended exclusively for boxes of Waterproof watches, even if it is the favorite app of this invention.
  • Figures 10 and 11 show that when notches 2a of the bottom 2 are engaged on the elastic elements of attachment, the tubular fastening element 3 can not find necessarily its initial form illustrated by Figures 6 and 7, but that the notches 2a can also maintain it under a some flexion and that the resulting force is added to a component resulting from the deformation of the tubular profile and directed to apply the flange 2b of the bottom against the lower face of the middle part 1.
  • This variant in which bending is associated with the deformation of the tubular section of the fastening element 3 can facilitate adjustment of the snap force. It can also make more elastic the hanging and the stalling of the bottom and / or the telescope. It also allows to increase somewhat the manufacturing and choose for tubular fasteners 3 materials having better flexural elastic properties.
  • Figures 12 and 13 show a tool 8 that can be used to remove the shackles from their dwellings 1a.
  • This tool 8 has the shape of a loop in C-shape, elastically deformable. Both ends adjacent to the opening of this loop are straight and coaxial, so as to allow them to be introduced in the respective ends of the attachment tube 3 after to have them apart from each other. Once the extremities of this tool 8 are engaged in the ends of the snap tube 3, as shown in Figure 12, it just pull on the loop formed by this tool. is obviously not essential that the hanging tubes are fixed in dwellings 1a. However, this fixation removable hanging tubes 3 in their homes 1a significantly simplifies the work, compared to free hanging tubes, which could otherwise go out freely from their homes whenever one remove the bottom 2 or the bezel 5 and get lost easily.
  • the present invention finds particular application interesting in the case of bottom assembly and / or the bezel on a watchcase case middle of polygonal shape, especially square or rectangular.
  • this invention is not limited to this type of box. It could also be used for watch cases oval or round.
  • Figure 14 illustrates the object assembly of the present invention used to secure a circular bottom 2 on a round middle 1.
  • the assembly is realized in this variant as described above, to the only difference that the shackles 3 are shaped segments of torus and that the dwellings 1a provided for the receive in the internal lateral face of the caseband 1 are in the form of arcs with the same radius of curvature as the one torus segments forming the hooking tubes 3.
  • the shackle 3 could be formed by a spiral coil spring joined, this for all the described embodiments previously, in which the elongated fastening element is formed by a tube.

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CN113009811A (zh) * 2019-12-20 2021-06-22 劳力士有限公司 用于钟表的壳体或用于钟表的钟表部件

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CH215994A (fr) * 1939-03-30 1941-07-31 Piquerez Erwin Boîte de montre étanche.
CH217009A (fr) * 1940-10-25 1941-09-30 Anonyme Taubert Freres Societe Boîte de montre.
CH258894A (fr) * 1946-06-18 1948-12-31 Wehrli Jean Boîte de montre étanche.
US2737010A (en) * 1953-11-02 1956-03-06 Piquerez Ervin Fluidtight casing for watches
US2858663A (en) * 1956-02-14 1958-11-04 Erich Lacher Closure for wrist-watch cases

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CH215994A (fr) * 1939-03-30 1941-07-31 Piquerez Erwin Boîte de montre étanche.
CH217009A (fr) * 1940-10-25 1941-09-30 Anonyme Taubert Freres Societe Boîte de montre.
CH258894A (fr) * 1946-06-18 1948-12-31 Wehrli Jean Boîte de montre étanche.
US2737010A (en) * 1953-11-02 1956-03-06 Piquerez Ervin Fluidtight casing for watches
US2858663A (en) * 1956-02-14 1958-11-04 Erich Lacher Closure for wrist-watch cases

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CN113009811A (zh) * 2019-12-20 2021-06-22 劳力士有限公司 用于钟表的壳体或用于钟表的钟表部件

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