EP1724715A1 - Golf game counting device - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a golf hole number indicator, a counter for counting the number of golf strokes and disks associated to return springs and a zero position stop against which the springs are drawn. A cam cooperates with ratchet levers (110, 124, 125) engaging with ratchet wheels. A kinematic link is provided between the cams and pushbuttons (P1-P3).

Description

The present invention relates to a golf counting device comprising a counter of the number of counts played per incrementally displaced hole, an actuating member of this counter, an indicator of incrementally displaced hole numbers, an organ of actuation of this indicator, a link between said indicator and said counter to reset the latter to each change of hole, a totalizer of the numbers of strokes played during the game, incremental movement and resetting means of the indicator, counter and totalizer.

There are already counting devices for the sport for a long time, especially for counting shots during a round of golf. Such a counter is described in particular in CH 663 318. This counter has four totalizers each controlled by an independent pusher and to simultaneously total the respective shots of four players and reset them simultaneously with a single pusher . Such a device is intended to determine the ranking of players. On the other hand, it does not give any indication as to the number of the hole played at a given moment, nor of the number of blows played since a player plays on a given hole.

Information giving separately the number of hits played on a hole and the totalization of the number of strokes since the beginning of the game is described in WO 00/54116. This mechanism requires four push buttons, which increases the risk of misusing the push when using.

Another device, giving in addition the number of the hole played, is described in EP 1 099 459. This mechanism comprises means for automatically setting the counter shots per hole to zero when operating the counter played hole number. , a totalizer for adding all the moves played from the beginning of the game. The disadvantage of this solution lies in the fact that the zeroing requires rotating a date disk disc date with the winding stem of the watch to which this counter is associated. Such an operation is tedious.

The object of the present invention is to overcome, at least in part, the aforementioned drawbacks.

For this purpose, this invention relates to a golf counting device according to claim 1.

• La figure 1 est une vue de l'affichage des données de ce dispositif associé dans cet exemple à l'affichage d'une pièce d'horlogerie;
• la figure 2 est une vue générale en plan de ce dispositif;
• la figure 3 est une vue partielle de la figure 2;
• la figure 4 est une autre vue partielle de la figure 2;
• la figure 5 est une vue en coupe selon V-V de la figure 4;
• les figures 6a, 6b sont deux autres vues partielles de la figure 2 dans deux positions différentes de ce mécanisme;
• la figure 7 est une vue en coupe selon VII-VII de la figure 6a;
• les figures 8a, 8b sont deux autres vues partielles de la figure 2 dans deux positions différentes de ce mécanisme;
• la figure 9 est une vue en coupe selon IX-IX de la figure 8a;
• les figures 10a, 10b sont deux autres vues partielles de la figure 2 dans deux positions différentes de ce mécanisme.

The accompanying drawing illustrates, schematically and by way of example, an embodiment of the counting device object of the present invention.

• FIG. 1 is a view of the display of the data of this device associated in this example with the display of a timepiece;
• Figure 2 is a general plan view of this device;
• Figure 3 is a partial view of Figure 2;
• Figure 4 is another partial view of Figure 2;
• Figure 5 is a sectional view along VV of Figure 4;
• Figures 6a, 6b are two other partial views of Figure 2 in two different positions of this mechanism;
• Figure 7 is a sectional view along VII-VII of Figure 6a;
• Figures 8a, 8b are two other partial views of Figure 2 in two different positions of this mechanism;
• Figure 9 is a sectional view along IX-IX of Figure 8a;
• Figures 10a, 10b are two other partial views of Figure 2 in two different positions of this mechanism.

The mechanism of this counting device for golf is represented in this example in combination with a wristwatch and the display of the various data of this device appears on or through the dial of this watch, as illustrated by FIG. 1.

In the center of the dial of this watch, in addition to the usual hour and minute hands, an additional needle 1a is intended to be moved in increments vis-à-vis a sector having 18 graduations, corresponding to the 18 holes of a round of golf and is an indicator of hole numbers. A second hand 103a is located in the center of a scale from 0 to 9 and is intended to be incrementally displaced and constitutes a counter of the number of counts played per hole. Finally, under the number 12 of the watch is a window in which three figures appear side by side to indicate the totalization of the shots played during the game.

Three pushers P1, P2 and P3 are arranged radially relative to the center of the dial of the watch, to control the aforementioned display members. In the remainder of the description, the reference numerals alone will indicate both the various movable members of the mechanism and conventionally designate their pivot points, the reference numerals accompanied by letters designate parts of these movable members or mobile elements of which the pivot axes are integral with these movable members.

The pusher P1 is intended to act on one of the ends 100a of a rocker 100 (FIG. 2) whose other end 100b comprises a toothed sector which meshes with a return gear 101 in engagement with a pinion of a mobile 102 on which are mounted two pawls 102a, 102b. A return spring R1, engaged with an element of the mobile 102, is intended to bring the mobile 102, the return 101 and the latch 100, in the rest position.

The pawl 102a (FIGS. 2 and 3) is intended to drive step by step a ratchet wheel 104 which constitutes the first mobile of the totalizer of the numbers of strokes played during the game, whereas the ratchet 102b is intended to cause no not a ratchet wheel 103 on the axis of which is fixed the needle 103a counter the number of shots played per hole. The ratchet wheel 104 is integral with a pinion 104b which meshes with a toothed sector 105a of a return lever 105 subjected to the pressure of a return spring R9 tending to rotate it in the clockwise direction of a shows.

The ratchet wheel 103 carries a pin 103b for engaging a radial arm 103d of a cam 103c which has two toothed sectors, one 103e engaged with a pawl spring R2 and the other 103f meshing with a return 116 (Figure 4).

The toothing of this ratchet wheel 103 is engaged with a pawl 117 subjected to a return spring R3. This pawl 117 comprises an arm 117a which bears against a radial edge of the cam 103c. Finally a pinion 103g integral with the ratchet wheel 103 meshes with a toothed sector of a rocker 118 with a return spring 118a tending to constantly bring the ratchet wheel 103 into the position illustrated in FIG.

The reference 116 (FIG. 4) meshing with the toothed sector 103f of the cam 103c meshes with a wheel 114a connected to a toothed sector cam 114 by means of a pin 114b integral with the cam 114 and engaged in an arcuate opening 114c. arranged in the wheel 114a concentrically to its pivot axis.

The toothed sector of the cam 114 meshes with the toothed sector 113a located at one end of a control lever 113 whose other end 113b is intended to be actuated by the pusher P2. The cam 114 is intended to move a ratchet lever 115 in a counterclockwise direction so that its pawl drives a ratchet wheel 119 integral and coaxial with a toothed wheel 119a meshing with a toothed sector. 1a of the mobile indicator hole played 1, subjected to the return force of a spiral spring R4 (Figure 4). The ratchet gear of the wheel 119 is positioned by a pawl 124a (FIGS. 2 and 10) integral with a ratchet lever 124 subjected to the force of a return spring R3, itself having a pawl spring 124b. The angular rest position of the wheel 119 is defined by a stop 119b integral with this wheel applied by the spiral spring R4 against a fixed stop (not shown).

When the flip-flop 113 is actuated by the pusher P2, the toothed sector 113a moves counter-clockwise, driving the cam 114 in a clockwise direction, which causes the lever to rotate. ratchet 115 for driving the toothed wheel 119 by one step.

The displacement of the cam 114 by the rocker 113 also causes the drive of the return 116 and that of the cam 103c whose movement in the direction of clockwise rotates the pawl 117 to release it from the toothing of the wheel ratchet 103 which is returned to its zero position by the toothed sector of the rocker 118 through the return spring 118a. The cam 103c is held in its declutching position of the pawl 117 by the pawl spring R2 until the pin 103b integral with the ratchet wheel 103 encounters the radial arm 103d of the cam 103c, bringing the cam back into its position. Zero shown in Figures 3 and 4, allowing the pawl 117 to engage with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 103. Thus, at each change of hole, the player exerts pressure on the pusher P2, moving the indicator of the number of the hole played 1 by one step and bringing back to zero the counter needle 103a of the number of shots played per hole.

A second case in which the needle 103a is automatically reduced to zero occurs when the number of shots played per hole exceeds 9 which is the maximum capacity of the counter of the number of shots played per hole. In this case, when the pusher P1 is actuated for the tenth consecutive time for the same hole, the pin 103b, after nine successive increments, has almost turned by one turn in the opposite direction to that of clockwise ( Figure 3). It is thus found, with respect to the radial arm 103d integral with the cam 103c, in a position substantially symmetrical to that illustrated in FIG. 3. By moving the ratchet wheel 103 a tenth time using the pusher P1, the ankle 103b drives the radial arm 103d, so that the cam 103c in turn drives the arm 117a of the pawl 117, allowing the rocker spring 118 to bring the ratchet wheel 103 to zero as previously described.

However, this tenth stroke was still totalized by the totalizer counter since the ratchet wheel 104 was driven by the pawl 102a together with the ratchet wheel 103. Moreover, the reset was canceled. needle 103a counter of the number of shots played per hole corresponds to a tenth stroke. Indeed if we continue to count the shots on the same hole, 0 then corresponds to 10, 1 to 11 and so on and especially, the totalizer always totals all the shots played.

It is precisely this part of the counting device which will now be described with particular reference to FIGS. 6a, 6b and 7. In FIGS. 6a and 6b, the ratchet wheel 104 is driven in increments of one step. by the pawl 102a of the mobile 102. This ratchet wheel 104 is integral with a snail cam 104a meshing with a rocker 106 integral with a toothed sector 106a meshing with a pinion 107 integral with an indicator disc of the units 107a of the totalizer numbers of moves played during the game. At each increment of the ratchet wheel 104 of ten teeth, a portion of the snail cam 104a closer to the center of the ratchet wheel 104 comes into contact with the rocker 106 which moves at each step of the ratchet wheel 104, a determined angle in the opposite direction to that of the clockwise driving the pinion 107 by an angle of 36 ° corresponding to a tenth of a revolution of the disk units 107a which has ten digits. When the ratchet wheel 104 moves from the position of FIG. 6a to that of FIG. 6b, the lever 106 makes a clockwise angular displacement corresponding to the ten incremental angular displacements, thus bringing it back to its position. departure. The rocker 106 is driven during this movement in the direction of clockwise by a spiral return spring R5 (Figure 7), one end of which is integral with the pinion 107.

This rocker 106 further comprises a pawl 106b engaged with a ratchet wheel 108 of ten teeth, integral with a tens disk 108a. As illustrated by FIG. 6a, when the flip-flop 106 is engaged with the last step of the snail cam 104a, corresponding to the display of the number 9 by the units disk 107a, the pawl is engaged with the ratchet wheel 108 When the flip-flop 106 returns to the starting position by turning in a clockwise direction, under the action of the return spring R5 following the displacement of a step of the ratchet wheel 104, the pawl 106b causes the ratchet wheel 108 one step, making thus turn the tens disk 108a a tenth of a turn.

As can be seen in particular in FIGS. 8a, 8b and 9, the ratchet wheel 108 is still integral with a toothed wheel 108b and coaxial with a four-pointed star 108c (FIG. 9) in engagement with a jumper spring R6 and integral with a disk of hundreds 108d. This star 108c has two diametrically opposed branches whose axial dimension is substantially larger than that of the other two teeth for the reason that will be explained later. The disk of hundreds 108d has four digits, two digits "1", alternating with two digits "0". For its reset to 0, this star 108c is still associated with a rocker 123 which will be described later. This flip-flop 123 is arranged so that it can only engage with the two highest teeth of the star 108c.

The toothed wheel 108b meshes with a ratchet wheel 109 secured to a disengagement cam 109a of a ratchet 110 for retaining the ratchet wheel 108. The ratchet wheel 109 still meshes with a wheel 111 integral with a cam 111a and subjected to the action of a return spring R7 (Figure 9). When it is driven by the ratchet wheel 109, the wheel 111 rotates in the opposite direction to that of the clockwise by arming the return spring R7. When the ratchet wheel 108 is moved by the flip-flop 106 to indicate the digit 10 of the tens disk 108a, the cam 109a raises the pawl 110 as illustrated in Fig. 8a, which releases the return spring R7 (Fig. 9).

By resetting the tens disk 108a driven by the return spring R7, the cam 111a drives the latch 112 which advances the star hundreds hundreds of steps by one, as shown in FIG. 8b.

It now remains to describe the part of the device allowing the general reset of all the indications displayed. This device comprises a reset latch 120 actuated by the pusher P3 which acts on an arm of the latch 120 to rotate it in the direction of clockwise. The arm of this resetting lever 120 on which the pusher P3 acts is connected to the end of the control lever 113 on which the pusher P2 acts, so that this control lever 113 can be actuated both by the push P2 during a hole change only by the P3 pusher, during the general reset. The other arm of this resetting lever 120 comprises a toothed sector 120a meshing with a wheel 121 itself secured to a toothed sector 121a meshing with a pinion 122 integral with a cam 122a and which meshes with a toothed sector 123a of the rocker 123.

The cam 122a is engaged with the three ratchet latches, the ratchet lever 110 engaged with the ratchet wheel 108, the ratchet lever 124 engaged with the ratchet wheel 119 and a ratchet lever 125 engaged with the ratchet When the pusher P3 pivots the latch 120 in the position illustrated in FIG. 10b, it causes the cam 122a to pivot in the clockwise direction, which has the effect of disengaging the three wheels. ratchet flip-flops 110, 124 and 125 of the ratchet gears 108, 119, respectively 104. These three ratchet wheels 108, 119 and 104 are subjected to the return forces of the springs R7, R4, respectively R9, transmitted by the wheels. toothed teeth 111, 109 and 108b, tooth sectors 1a and 105a, respectively. The zero position of the ratchet wheel 108 is defined by the radial edge of the cam 109a which abuts against the arm 110a of the ratchet lever 110 (FIG. 8b), the zero position of the wheel 104 is defined by the radial edge of the 104a which abuts against the edge 106c of the flip-flop 106 (Figure 6b). Finally, the zero position of the wheel 119 is defined by its abutment 119b against a fixed stop (not shown).

As for the star of the hundreds 108c, it is reset to position 0 by the reset latch 123 driven by the pinion 122. Given that the disk of the hundred 108d integral with the star 108c carries two 0 alternating with two 1, two of the teeth of the star 108c are lower than the other two so that the reset rocker 123 moves this star 108c only when the hundred disc 108d displays 1, but leaves the disk 108d immobile when it displays 0 at the time of the general reset of the device by the pusher P3.

Finally, the counter of shots per hole 103 is reset to zero as in the case where it operates only the control lever 113 with the pusher P2, as described above. Simply, in the case of the general reset controlled by the pusher P3 and the reset rocker 120, the flip-flop 113 is moved by the flip-flop 120 and not by the pusher P2. Actuation of this control lever 113 also has the effect of advancing the needle 1a of the hole indicator. However, since during this resetting operation, the wheel 119 is disengaged to allow the return spring R4 to bring it back to zero, this reset simultaneously cancels the action of the control lever. 113 on the needle 1a.

As can be seen in FIGS. 2 and 10b, when the reset lever 120 pivots under the pressure of the pusher P3, a latch 126 engages with it and a leaf spring R10 of the latch 100 is armed by this latch as illustrated in Figure 10b. At the same time, a pin 126a integral with the latch 126 comes into contact with the latch 100.

The reset latch 120 remains in the position shown in Figure 10b as the latch 100 subjected to the action of the pusher P1 is not moved by it. When pressure is exerted on the pusher P1, the latch 100 exerts a pressure on the pin 126a of the latch 126, releasing the three ratchet latches 110, 124 and 125 and disengaging the latch 123 of the star of the hundred 108c.

Claims (1)

Golf counting device comprising a counter (103a) of the number of hits played per hole, a stop (103d) of zero position of said counter, a return spring (118a) of said counter against said stop, an organ of incremental drive (102b) in a direction opposite to the direction of movement induced by said return spring, a detent member (117) to prevent its backing back, an actuator (P1) of this counter, an indicator ( 1a) of the hole numbers, an incremental drive member (115) of this indicator, a detent member (124) and an actuator (P2) of this indicator, a link between said indicator (1a) and an actuator (103c) of said detent member (117) of said counter (103a) at each hole change to allow the return spring (118a) to reset said counter to zero, a counter (107a, 108a, 108d) numbers of strokes played during the game, a binding of between said totalizer and said counter and reset means (P3) of the indicator (1a), the counter (103a) and the totalizer, characterized in that said indicator (1a) and display elements ( 107a, 108a) of the totalizer are each associated on the one hand with a return spring (R4, R7, R9) and with a zero position stop against which said return spring tends to bring it against the displacement generated. by said drive member and on the other hand with a detent member (110, 124, 125) for preventing said return spring from returning it backwards and in that a second actuating member ( 122a) is engaged with said latching members (110, 124, 125) of said indicator (1a) and said display members (107a, 108a) of the totaliser, a link kinematic being disposed between each of said disable members (103c, 122a) and a reset pushbutton (P3) of the indicator (1a), the counter (103a) and the totalizer.

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