EP1784692B1 - Mechanism for displaying pictures, figures or signs produced on a timepiece dial - Google Patents

Mechanism for displaying pictures, figures or signs produced on a timepiece dial Download PDF

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EP1784692B1
EP1784692B1 EP04786221A EP04786221A EP1784692B1 EP 1784692 B1 EP1784692 B1 EP 1784692B1 EP 04786221 A EP04786221 A EP 04786221A EP 04786221 A EP04786221 A EP 04786221A EP 1784692 B1 EP1784692 B1 EP 1784692B1
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Enrico Barbasini
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  • the invention relates to a mechanism for displaying drawings, figures or animated signs on a timepiece dial.
  • the document JP 7,244,173 describes a mechanism for displaying animated signs on a timepiece dial comprising a first and a second series of gears driven in rotation by a ring gear itself driven by the base movement of the timepiece.
  • the display mechanism according to the invention can equip a basic movement with manual winding, automatic, quartz or autoquartz and the particularity of animating the watch face by reconstituting a given pattern for a chosen period (1 minute at 24h).
  • the additional mechanism for displaying animated drawings, figures or signs on a dial of a timepiece comprising a basic movement is characterized in that it comprises at least a first series of gears each toothed wheel of said at least one first series of gears being placed under an opening of a dial of a timepiece, and meshing with two toothed wheels of said at least one series of adjacent gears to form a first closed continuous gear train ; in that each toothed wheel of said at least one first set of gears is surmounted by a wafer located in the corresponding opening of the dial and bearing a drawing, a figure or a sign, at least one of the wafers being intended to be animated relatively to the dial; and in that one of the toothed wheels of the at least one first series of toothed wheels is driven via a first mobile, itself in connection with the basic movement of the timepiece.
  • the mechanism comprises a plurality of toothed wheels connected to each other or controlled separately or in groups.
  • the mechanism may comprise a first series of 12 gears placed at the periphery of the mechanism and a second series of 6 gears placed between the center of the dial and the first series of 12 gears.
  • the plates surmounting the gears are discs intended to rotate in a corresponding opening of the dial.
  • the discs can be positioned at the same level as the dial or arranged to stand out from the level of the dial or inlaid under the dial.
  • the mechanism may be arranged to animate at least one or more groups of disks.
  • Discs are usually used to animate a design or image. They can alternatively animate the hour, the minute, the month, the days of the week, the seasons, the equinoxes, the solstices, the day and the night, etc.
  • the drawing represents, as an example, an embodiment of a mechanism for displaying drawings, figures or animated signs on a timepiece dial object of the invention.
  • the mechanism shown in the drawing is in the form of an additional module that can equip parts including a basic movement with manual winding, an automatic movement or a quartz movement or autoquartz. It has the particularity of animating the dial of the timepiece by reconstituting a given pattern or design during a period previously chosen, for example 1 minute, one hour or 12 or 24 hours.
  • the Fig. 1 explains the implantation of the moving parts of the dial. This implementation is not exhaustive and can be modified at will, but the figure represents an example of a drawing, made according to the amount of possible dial designs.
  • the mechanism 1 consists of twelve disks 2 uniformly distributed over the railway of the minutes of a dial 3 and are placed halfway to the location of the hour markers. Alternatively, the location of the disks 2. could coincide with the place where the indexes indicating the hours are usually located.
  • An additional series of six disks 4 of the same diameter as the disks 2 are distributed concentrically around the dial 3 and arranged at a value of 1 ⁇ 2 angular step with respect to the series of the first twelve disks 2.
  • the set of disks 2 and 4 will be driven by the mechanism as described below and discs 2 and 4 will be placed in corresponding cutouts of dial 3, so as to be in the same plane as the dial 3.
  • the uncut part of the dial 3 keeps the decoration in a fixed manner; as for the 18 disks, they can be animated in rotation at a speed chosen between less than a minute and more than one day ( Fig.2 and 3 ).
  • the image represented in the figure 2 is thus decomposed and its reconstruction is carried out after a certain period of time to return to the drawing of the Fig.2 .
  • the disks 2 and 4 are trailing that is to say that they evolve in a linear way bringing the drawing of the dial in a progressive way, without ever really stopping on the image .
  • the mechanism 1 may however be arranged to perform a downtime on the reconstituted image.
  • one or a series of disks 2 and 4 can be driven independently of the others, so as to obtain special visual effects during the partial or complete reconstruction of the image.
  • the mechanism carrying the discs 2 and 4 is represented in the Fig.4 is working as follows:
  • the wheel or mobile 10 is secured to a mobile belonging to the base movement of the timepiece that receives the additional mechanism 1, such as the hour wheel of a basic caliber or timer, or any other mobile.
  • the mobile 10 rotates clockwise, it meshes directly with a mobile 11 which turns in the counterclockwise direction.
  • This drives a wheel 12 clockwise.
  • the wheel 12 is identical to the other 17 wheels 12 and 13 making up the mobile (18 with it).
  • These 18 wheels successively represent the 6 inner wheels 12 and 12 outer wheels 13.
  • Each of these wheels carries a disc 2, 4. These discs are visible on the dial side and give by their movement, the desired animation side dial. In our case, it is an insert that makes disc effect and which is fixed integrally to these wheels 12, 13.
  • these wheels 12, 13 have an identical diameter.
  • the wheel 12 rotating in the clockwise direction is positioned at the same height level as the other 5 wheels 12 in its group, alternately rotating the wheels clockwise and counter-clockwise.
  • the number of wheels of the group being even that allows the last wheel to mesh with the first without blocking it since it turns in the opposite direction.
  • the drive of these 6 wheels can be realized from any of these 6 wheels.
  • pinion 11 can be located angularly all around the mobile 10 so as to mesh with one of the 6 wheels 12.
  • the 12 outer wheels 13 of the same diameter as the previous 6 wheels are arranged at a different height, so that the teeth of these wheels do not touch the inner wheels 12.
  • the pinion 14 acting on 2 different heights receives its speed. rotation of the group of 6 wheels and redistributes it to the group of 12 wheels.
  • This pinion 14 can be placed at any place as long as its pitch diameter is tangential to a wheel of the inner group and tangent to a wheel of the outer group.
  • the number of wheels of the group of 12 being even, the direction of rotation of the mobile is alternately hourly and anti-clock can therefore describe a loop without stopping the mobile.
  • the figure 5 shows the two gear levels of the group of 6 wheels and the group of 12 wheels. It represents a section between an inner wheel 12 and an adjacent outer wheel 13.
  • On these wheels 12 and 13 are placed unrepresented pellets representing the disks of the Fig. 1 to 3 .
  • the mechanism shown in the drawing may comprise an unrepresented pulse member arranged to move the discs 2 and / or 4 by jerks of for example 30 ° at each jump. It would thus be possible to indicate the time with the aid of the 12 disks 13
  • the design or image affixed to the disks 13 would then be the succession of digits representing the twelve hours and the image would thus be decomposed except for a single disc indicating the time.
  • the displacement (successive recomposition of the numbers) is punctuated by the pulses received by the center mobile of our module when it is assembled on a movement or a jumping hour module.
  • the jumping hour movement or module inevitably contains a jumping hour wheel, as its name indicates, hour by hour, making leaps of 30 °.
  • the advantage of this arrangement is to be able to indicate the hour without hour hand if desired, the hour digit that it is recomposed at once and remaining displayed for a full hour.
  • the hour hand may be replaced by a transparent disk (sapphire disk) having a translucent area of different color so as to indicate the place where the recomposed digit is to be read, thereby facilitating the speed of reading the time.
  • a transparent disk thin disk having a translucent area of different color so as to indicate the place where the recomposed digit is to be read, thereby facilitating the speed of reading the time.
  • the mechanism is arranged to perform the action of disassembling and reconstructing a single design, signs or logo or several designs signs and logos on the same dial.
  • the mechanism can control the 12 outer disks 2 in one of the ways mentioned above, but rotate the 6 inner disks 4 (or only one of these disks) at a speed different from the 12 outer disks 2, so as to indicate for example the AM / PM using colored discs alternating between day and night.
  • the mechanism has the possibility of being added to a cage-whirl mechanism or any other mechanism involving not using one or more disks. For example, 8 discs can be removed to allow the Tourbillon cage to pass.
  • the components forming the mechanism may be machined or injected plastics, or machined or injected metal.
  • the example mechanism has an outer diameter of 30 mm and contains dial-side visible discs of 5.7 mm diameter.
  • the dial has a thickness of 0.4 mm.
  • the mechanism can also be used for larger hourly devices (from the clock to the flower clock of a square in a big city).
  • the series of 6 inner disks 4 can be replaced by 7 disks which indicate the day of the week (Monday to Sunday) and the series of 12 outer disks 2 would indicate the months and the decal or design of the dial which could include the four seasons , equinoxes and solstices, etc.
  • the gears of the 18 mobiles 12, 13 of the module of the Fig.4 it is possible to cover with a plate the gears of the 18 mobiles 12, 13 of the module of the Fig.4 .
  • This plate then has 18 holes of small diameters positioned on the axes of rotation of the 18 wheels allowing axes to exit through the holes in order to move objects fixed at their ends.
  • These objects can be in the form of platelets of different shapes (all possible geometric shapes) for the purpose of either animate parts in three dimensions, or to use them as "caches" of the lower plate.
  • These shapes can give the impression of being operated by each other. For example, with half-circles sometimes showing "hearts", sometimes "spades", the whole dial can be decorated sometimes with "hearts” sometimes “spades”.
  • the discs that we want to rotate may not be located in the same plane parallel to that of the indication hours and minutes.
  • the conical bezel with disks arranged circularly in the plane of the cone and, in order to operate the small disks in another plane, they are connected with a carbon fiber cable or equivalent.

Abstract

The inventive mechanism comprises a series of toothed wheels meshing each with other or by groups and driven by a mobile which is connected to a basic timepiece movement by means of a mobile, wherein each toothed wheel is superimposed by a disc carrying pictures, figures or signs and rotating in a corresponding bore of the timepiece dial.

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L'invention a pour objet un mécanisme d'affichage de dessins, figures ou signes animés sur un cadran de pièce d'horlogerie.The invention relates to a mechanism for displaying drawings, figures or animated signs on a timepiece dial.

Depuis quelques années, il existe sur le marché horloger des modèles dits de fantaisies (d'un caractère « fun » ou psychédélique), comme par ex. certaines Swatch ou des montres de la marque Silberstein ou l'Opus III de Harry Winston.In recent years, there exist on the watch market models called fantaisies (of a "fun" or psychedelic character), as for ex. some Swatch or Silberstein watches or Harry Winston's Opus III.

Toutes ces pièces ont la particularité d'être originales et de coller à l'esprit de mode, mais en général leur défaut majeur est une lecture mal aisée de l'heure.All these pieces have the distinction of being original and stick to the spirit of fashion, but in general their major flaw is a poor reading of the hour.

Le document JP 7 244 173 décrit un mécanisme d'affichage de signes animés sur un cadran de pièce d'horlogerie comprenant une première et une seconde série de roues dentées entraînées en rotation par une couronne dentée elle-même entraînée par le mouvement de base de la pièce d'horlogerie.The document JP 7,244,173 describes a mechanism for displaying animated signs on a timepiece dial comprising a first and a second series of gears driven in rotation by a ring gear itself driven by the base movement of the timepiece.

Le mécanisme d'affichage selon l'invention peut équiper un mouvement de base à remontage manuel, automatique, quartz ou autoquartz et à la particularité d'animer le cadran de la montre en reconstituant un motif donné pendant une période choisie (d'1 minute à 24h).The display mechanism according to the invention can equip a basic movement with manual winding, automatic, quartz or autoquartz and the particularity of animating the watch face by reconstituting a given pattern for a chosen period (1 minute at 24h).

Le mécanisme additionnel d'affichage de dessins, figures ou signes animés sur un cadran d'une pièce d'horlogerie comprenant un mouvement de base est caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend au moins une première série de roues dentées chaque roue dentée de ladite au moins une première série de roues dentées étant placée sous une ouverture d'un cadran d'une pièce d'horlogerie, et engrenant avec deux roue dentées de ladite au moins une série de roues dentées adjacentes pour former un premier train d'engrenage continu fermé ; en ce que chaque roue dentée de ladite au moins une première série de roues dentées est surmontée d'une plaquette située dans l'ouverture correspondante du cadran et portant un dessin, une figure ou un signe, au moins une des plaquettes étant destinée à être animé relativement au cadran ; et en ce que une des roues dentées de la au moins une première série de roues dentées est entraînée par l'intermédiaire d'un premier mobile, lui-même en liaison avec le mouvement de base de la pièce d'horlogerie.The additional mechanism for displaying animated drawings, figures or signs on a dial of a timepiece comprising a basic movement is characterized in that it comprises at least a first series of gears each toothed wheel of said at least one first series of gears being placed under an opening of a dial of a timepiece, and meshing with two toothed wheels of said at least one series of adjacent gears to form a first closed continuous gear train ; in that each toothed wheel of said at least one first set of gears is surmounted by a wafer located in the corresponding opening of the dial and bearing a drawing, a figure or a sign, at least one of the wafers being intended to be animated relatively to the dial; and in that one of the toothed wheels of the at least one first series of toothed wheels is driven via a first mobile, itself in connection with the basic movement of the timepiece.

Selon un mode d'exécution, le mécanisme comprend plusieurs roues dentées en liaison l'une avec l'autre ou commandées séparément ou par groupe.According to one embodiment, the mechanism comprises a plurality of toothed wheels connected to each other or controlled separately or in groups.

Le mécanisme peut comprendre une première série de 12 roues dentées placées à la périphérie du mécanisme et une deuxième série de 6 roues dentées placées entre le centre du cadran et la première série de 12 roues dentées.The mechanism may comprise a first series of 12 gears placed at the periphery of the mechanism and a second series of 6 gears placed between the center of the dial and the first series of 12 gears.

Dans un mode d'exécution préféré, les plaquettes surmontant les roues dentées sont des disques destinés à tourner dans une ouverture correspondante du cadran. Les disques peuvent être positionnés au même niveau que le cadran ou disposés pour ressortir par rapport au niveau du cadran ou encore incrustés sous le cadran.In a preferred embodiment, the plates surmounting the gears are discs intended to rotate in a corresponding opening of the dial. The discs can be positioned at the same level as the dial or arranged to stand out from the level of the dial or inlaid under the dial.

Le mécanisme peut être agencé pour animer au moins un ou plusieurs groupes de disques. Les disques sont en général utilisés pour animer un design ou une image. Ils peuvent cependant en variante animer l'heure, la minute, le mois, les jours de la semaine, les saisons, les équinoxes, les solstices, le jour et la nuit, etc..The mechanism may be arranged to animate at least one or more groups of disks. Discs are usually used to animate a design or image. They can alternatively animate the hour, the minute, the month, the days of the week, the seasons, the equinoxes, the solstices, the day and the night, etc.

Le dessin représente, à tire d'exemple, un mode d'exécution d'un mécanisme d'affichage de dessins, figures ou signes animés sur un cadran de pièce d'horlogerie objet de l'invention.The drawing represents, as an example, an embodiment of a mechanism for displaying drawings, figures or animated signs on a timepiece dial object of the invention.

Dans le dessin :

  • la figure 1 est une vue schématique de dessus du mécanisme,
  • la figure 2 est une vue de dessus du mécanisme, le cadran du mécanisme ayant été muni de figures à animer,
  • la figure 3 est une vue semblable à celle de la figure 1, le mécanisme ayant été mis en animation,
  • la figure 4 est une vue de dessus du dispositif d'entraînement d'un mécanisme des figures 1 à 3
  • la figure 5 est une coupe selon la ligne V-V de la figure 4
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  • the figure 1 is a schematic view from above of the mechanism,
  • the figure 2 is a top view of the mechanism, the dial of the mechanism having been provided with figures to animate,
  • the figure 3 is a view similar to that of the figure 1 , the mechanism having been put into animation,
  • the figure 4 is a top view of the driving device of a mechanism of Figures 1 to 3
  • the figure 5 is a section along line VV of the figure 4

Le mécanisme représenté dans le dessin se présente sous la forme d'un module additionnel pouvant équiper de pièces d'horlogerie, notamment un mouvement de base à remontage manuel, un mouvement automatique ou un mouvement à quartz ou autoquartz. Il a la particularité d'animer le cadran de la pièce d'horlogerie en reconstituant un motif ou un dessin donné pendant un période préalablement choisie, par exemple 1 minute, une heure ou 12 ou 24 heures.The mechanism shown in the drawing is in the form of an additional module that can equip parts including a basic movement with manual winding, an automatic movement or a quartz movement or autoquartz. It has the particularity of animating the dial of the timepiece by reconstituting a given pattern or design during a period previously chosen, for example 1 minute, one hour or 12 or 24 hours.

La Fig. 1 explique l'implantation des parties mobiles du cadran. Cette implantation n'est pas exhaustive et peut être modifiée à volonté, mais la figure représente un exemple d'un dessin, fait en fonction de la quantité de designs de cadran possibles.The Fig. 1 explains the implantation of the moving parts of the dial. This implementation is not exhaustive and can be modified at will, but the figure represents an example of a drawing, made according to the amount of possible dial designs.

Le mécanisme 1 est constitué de douze disques 2 répartis uniformément sur le chemin de fer des minutes d'un cadran 3 et sont placés à mi-chemin de l'endroit des index d'heures. Alternativement, l'emplacement des disques 2. pourrait coïncider avec l'endroit ou se trouve habituellement les index indiquant les heures.
Une série additionnelle de six disques 4 de même diamètre que les disques 2 sont répartis de façon concentrique autour du cadran 3 et disposés à une valeur de ½ pas angulaire par rapport à la série des douze premiers disques 2. L'ensemble des disques 2 et 4 sera entraîné par le mécanisme comme décrit plus loin et les disques 2 et 4 seront placés dans des découpures correspondantes du cadran 3, de manière à être dans le même plan que le cadran 3.
Lorsque le mécanisme 1 entraîne les disque 2 et 4 la partie du cadran 3 non découpée garde la décoration d'une manière fixe ; quant aux 18 disques, ils peuvent être animés en rotation à une vitesse choisie entre moins d'une minute et plus d'une journée (Fig.2 et 3). L'image représentée dans la figure 2 est ainsi décomposée et sa reconstitution est réalisée au bout d'un certain laps de temps pour revenir au dessin de la Fig.2.The mechanism 1 consists of twelve disks 2 uniformly distributed over the railway of the minutes of a dial 3 and are placed halfway to the location of the hour markers. Alternatively, the location of the disks 2. could coincide with the place where the indexes indicating the hours are usually located.
An additional series of six disks 4 of the same diameter as the disks 2 are distributed concentrically around the dial 3 and arranged at a value of ½ angular step with respect to the series of the first twelve disks 2. The set of disks 2 and 4 will be driven by the mechanism as described below and discs 2 and 4 will be placed in corresponding cutouts of dial 3, so as to be in the same plane as the dial 3.
When the mechanism 1 drives the discs 2 and 4 the uncut part of the dial 3 keeps the decoration in a fixed manner; as for the 18 disks, they can be animated in rotation at a speed chosen between less than a minute and more than one day ( Fig.2 and 3 ). The image represented in the figure 2 is thus decomposed and its reconstruction is carried out after a certain period of time to return to the drawing of the Fig.2 .

Dans le cas cité plus haut les disques 2 et 4 sont traînants c'est-à-dire qu'ils évoluent d'une façon linéaire amenant le dessin du cadran d'une manière progressive, sans jamais véritablement s'arrêter sur l'image. Le mécanisme 1 peut cependant être agencé pour effectuer un temps d'arrêt sur l'image reconstituée. D'autre part, un ou une série de disques 2 et 4 peuvent être entraînés indépendamment des autres, de manière à obtenir des effets visuels spéciaux lors de la reconstitution partielle ou compète de l'image.In the case cited above the disks 2 and 4 are trailing that is to say that they evolve in a linear way bringing the drawing of the dial in a progressive way, without ever really stopping on the image . The mechanism 1 may however be arranged to perform a downtime on the reconstituted image. On the other hand, one or a series of disks 2 and 4 can be driven independently of the others, so as to obtain special visual effects during the partial or complete reconstruction of the image.

Le mécanisme portant les disques 2 et 4 est représenté dans la Fig.4 est fonctionne de la manière suivante :
La roue ou mobile 10 est solidaire d'un mobile appartenant au mouvement de base de la pièce d'horlogerie qui reçoit le mécanisme additionnel 1, comme par exemple la roue des heures d'un calibre de base ou sa minuterie, ou tout autre mobile.The mechanism carrying the discs 2 and 4 is represented in the Fig.4 is working as follows:
The wheel or mobile 10 is secured to a mobile belonging to the base movement of the timepiece that receives the additional mechanism 1, such as the hour wheel of a basic caliber or timer, or any other mobile.

Le mobile 10 tourne dans le sens horaire, il engrène directement avec un mobile 11 qui tourne dans le sens anti-horaire. Celui-ci entraîne une roue 12 dans le sens horaire. La roue 12 est identique aux 17 autres roues 12 et 13 composant le mobile (18 avec elle). Ces 18 roues représentent successivement les 6 roues intérieures 12 et les 12 roues extérieures 13. Chacune de ces roues porte un disque 2, 4. Ces disques sont visibles côté cadran et donnent par leur mouvement, l'animation désirée côté cadran. Dans notre cas, c'est une pastille rapportée qui fait effet de disque et qui vient se fixer de façon solidaire à ces roues 12, 13. Comme on peut le voir dans le dessin, ces roues 12, 13 ont un diamètre identique. La roue 12 tournant dans le sens horaire est positionnée au même niveau de hauteur que les 5 autres roues 12 de son groupe, faisant tourner alternativement les mobiles dans le sens horaire et anti-horaire. Le nombre de roues du groupe étant pair cela permet à la dernière roue d'engrener avec la première sans la bloquer puisqu'elle tourne dans le sens contraire. L'entraînement de ces 6 roues peut donc se réaliser à partir de n'importe laquelle de ces 6 roues. Autrement dit, le pignon 11 peut être situé angulairement tout autour du mobile 10 de façon à engrener avec l'une des 6 roues 12.The mobile 10 rotates clockwise, it meshes directly with a mobile 11 which turns in the counterclockwise direction. This drives a wheel 12 clockwise. The wheel 12 is identical to the other 17 wheels 12 and 13 making up the mobile (18 with it). These 18 wheels successively represent the 6 inner wheels 12 and 12 outer wheels 13. Each of these wheels carries a disc 2, 4. These discs are visible on the dial side and give by their movement, the desired animation side dial. In our case, it is an insert that makes disc effect and which is fixed integrally to these wheels 12, 13. As can be seen in the drawing, these wheels 12, 13 have an identical diameter. The wheel 12 rotating in the clockwise direction is positioned at the same height level as the other 5 wheels 12 in its group, alternately rotating the wheels clockwise and counter-clockwise. The number of wheels of the group being even that allows the last wheel to mesh with the first without blocking it since it turns in the opposite direction. The drive of these 6 wheels can be realized from any of these 6 wheels. In other words, pinion 11 can be located angularly all around the mobile 10 so as to mesh with one of the 6 wheels 12.

Les 12 roues extérieures 13 de même diamètre que les 6 roues précédentes sont disposées à une hauteur différente, de façon à ce que les dentures de ces roues ne touchent pas les roues intérieures 12. Le pignon 14 agissant sur 2 hauteurs différentes reçoit sa vitesse de rotation du groupe de 6 roues et la redistribue au groupe de 12 roues. Ce pignon 14 peut être placé à n'importe quel endroit du moment que son diamètre primitif est tangent à une roue du groupe intérieur et tangent à une roue du groupe extérieur. Le nombre de roues du groupe de 12 étant pair, le sens de rotation du mobile est alternativement horaire et anti-horaire pouvant donc décrire une boucle sans arrêter les mobiles.
La figure 5 montre les deux niveaux d'engrenage du groupe de 6 roues et du groupe de 12 roues. Elle représente une coupe entre une roue intérieure 12 et une roue extérieure adjacente 13. On remarque dans la coupe de la fig. 5 les deux hauteurs de niveau entre les roues intérieures 12 et les roues extérieures 13. Sur ces roues 12 et 13 sont placées des pastilles non représentées figurant les disques des fig. 1 à 3.
Le mécanisme représenté dans le dessin peut comprendre un organe d'impulsion non représenté agencé pour déplacer les disques 2 et/ou 4 par saccades de par exemple 30° à chaque saut. Il serait ainsi possible d'indiquer l'heure à l'aide des 12 disques 13 le design ou image apposé sur les disques 13 serait alors la succession de chiffres représentant les douze heures et l'image serait ainsi décomposée à l'exception d'un seul disque indiquant l'heure. Le déplacement (recomposition successive des chiffres) est rythmé par les impulsions reçues par le mobile de centre de notre module lorsqu'il est assemblé sur un mouvement ou un module à heure sautante. Le mouvement ou le module à heure sautante contient inévitablement une roue des heures qui saute, comme son nom l'indique, d'heure en heure, réalisant des sauts de 30°.The 12 outer wheels 13 of the same diameter as the previous 6 wheels are arranged at a different height, so that the teeth of these wheels do not touch the inner wheels 12. The pinion 14 acting on 2 different heights receives its speed. rotation of the group of 6 wheels and redistributes it to the group of 12 wheels. This pinion 14 can be placed at any place as long as its pitch diameter is tangential to a wheel of the inner group and tangent to a wheel of the outer group. The number of wheels of the group of 12 being even, the direction of rotation of the mobile is alternately hourly and anti-clock can therefore describe a loop without stopping the mobile.
The figure 5 shows the two gear levels of the group of 6 wheels and the group of 12 wheels. It represents a section between an inner wheel 12 and an adjacent outer wheel 13. It can be seen in the section of the Fig. 5 the two level heights between the inner wheels 12 and the outer wheels 13. On these wheels 12 and 13 are placed unrepresented pellets representing the disks of the Fig. 1 to 3 .
The mechanism shown in the drawing may comprise an unrepresented pulse member arranged to move the discs 2 and / or 4 by jerks of for example 30 ° at each jump. It would thus be possible to indicate the time with the aid of the 12 disks 13 The design or image affixed to the disks 13 would then be the succession of digits representing the twelve hours and the image would thus be decomposed except for a single disc indicating the time. The displacement (successive recomposition of the numbers) is punctuated by the pulses received by the center mobile of our module when it is assembled on a movement or a jumping hour module. The jumping hour movement or module inevitably contains a jumping hour wheel, as its name indicates, hour by hour, making leaps of 30 °.

L'avantage de cette disposition est de pouvoir indiquer l'heure sans aiguille d'heure si on le désire, le chiffre de l'heure qu'il est se recomposant d'un seul coup et restant affiché pendant une heure pleine.The advantage of this arrangement is to be able to indicate the hour without hour hand if desired, the hour digit that it is recomposed at once and remaining displayed for a full hour.

La lecture de l'heure devient plus aisée que dans le cas d'un mécanisme traînant comme le précédent, mais un autre avantage est de pouvoir utiliser l'aiguille des heures du mécanisme de base, ceci dans deux perspectives :

  • Assurer une lecture standard et facile de l'heure ;
  • Utiliser cette aiguille des heures ou le chiffre (selon le choix ou le goût du porteur final) comme 2ème fuseau horaire.
Reading the time becomes easier than in the case of a trailing mechanism like the previous one, but another advantage is to be able to use the hour hand of the basic mechanism, this in two perspectives:
  • Ensure a standard and easy reading of the time;
  • Use this hour hand or the number (depending on the choice or taste of the final wearer) as 2nd time zone.

L'aiguille des heures peut être remplacée par un disque transparent (disque saphir) comportant une zone translucide de couleur différente de façon à indiquer l'endroit où l'on doit lire le chiffre recomposé, ceci facilitant la vitesse de lecture de l'heure.The hour hand may be replaced by a transparent disk (sapphire disk) having a translucent area of different color so as to indicate the place where the recomposed digit is to be read, thereby facilitating the speed of reading the time. .

Le mécanisme qui vient d'être décrit dans les figures 1 à 5 du dessin offre les possibilités suivantes :

  • Les disques 2 et 4 peuvent ou non apparaître sur le cadran, c'est-à-dire que l'on peut n'en faire bouger qu'un ou un nombre désiré entre 1 et 18 ou plusieurs groupes de disques.
  • Les disques 2 et 4 sont ou ne sont pas positionnés au même niveau que le niveau 0 du cadran (ils peuvent ressortir ou bien être incrustés).
  • Le design ou les décorations de ces cadrans peuvent représenter ou non un design cohérent.
  • Les disques 2 et 4 peuvent être traités de manière galvanique ou par tous les moyens connus aujourd'hui dans la décoration des cadrans, c'est-à-dire sertis - empierrés - guillochés - décalqués - gravés - découpés - etc.
  • Les disques 2 et 4 peuvent être tous des décalques identique ou différents, regroupés par genre ou non.
The mechanism just described in the Figures 1 to 5 Drawing offers the following possibilities:
  • The disks 2 and 4 may or may not appear on the dial, that is to say that one can move only one or a desired number between 1 and 18 or more groups of disks.
  • The discs 2 and 4 are or are not positioned at the same level as the level 0 of the dial (they can stand out or be inlaid).
  • The design or decorations of these dials may or may not represent a coherent design.
  • The disks 2 and 4 can be treated galvanically or by any means known today in the decoration of the dials, that is to say set - stonecut - guilloche - decalc - engraved - cut - etc.
  • The discs 2 and 4 may all be identical or different decals, grouped by genre or not.

Le mécanisme est agencé pour réaliser l'action de désassembler et de reconstituer un seul et unique design, signes ou logo ou plusieurs designs signes et logos sur un même cadran.The mechanism is arranged to perform the action of disassembling and reconstructing a single design, signs or logo or several designs signs and logos on the same dial.

Le mécanisme peut commander les 12 disques extérieurs 2 dans l'une des façons citées précédemment, mais faire tourner les 6 disques intérieurs 4 (ou un seul de ces disques) à une vitesse différente des 12 disques extérieurs 2, de manière à indiquer par exemple le AM/PM à l'aide de disques de couleur représentant alternativement le jour et la nuit.The mechanism can control the 12 outer disks 2 in one of the ways mentioned above, but rotate the 6 inner disks 4 (or only one of these disks) at a speed different from the 12 outer disks 2, so as to indicate for example the AM / PM using colored discs alternating between day and night.

Le mécanisme a la possibilité d'être additionné à un mécanisme avec cage-Tourbillon ou tout autre mécanisme impliquant de na pas utiliser un ou plusieurs disques. Par exemple, 8 disques peuvent être enlevés pour laisser passer la cage-Tourbillon.The mechanism has the possibility of being added to a cage-whirl mechanism or any other mechanism involving not using one or more disks. For example, 8 discs can be removed to allow the Tourbillon cage to pass.

En ce qui concerne les matières utilisées : Selon la gamme et la quantité des pièces fabriquées, les composants formant le mécanisme (cadrans, disque 2 et 4, roues 12, 13, etc. peuvent être en matières synthétiques usinées ou injectées, ou en métal usiné ou injecté.Regarding the materials used: Depending on the range and quantity of parts manufactured, the components forming the mechanism (dials, disk 2 and 4, wheels 12, 13, etc. may be machined or injected plastics, or machined or injected metal.

Selon un mode d'exécution préféré, le mécanisme cité en exemple a un diamètre extérieur de 30 mm et contient des disques visibles côté cadran de 5,7 mm de diamètre. Le cadran a une épaisseur de 0,4 mm.According to a preferred embodiment, the example mechanism has an outer diameter of 30 mm and contains dial-side visible discs of 5.7 mm diameter. The dial has a thickness of 0.4 mm.

Il va de soi que pour le même principe utilisé dans une montre de plus petite dimension, par exemple montre dame ou de taille intermédiaire, les dimensions du cadran et des disques seront différentes. Finalement le nombre de ces disques peut varier entre 1 et 50.It goes without saying that for the same principle used in a smaller size watch, for example a lady's watch or of intermediate size, the dimensions of the dial and the discs will be different. Finally the number of these discs can vary between 1 and 50.

Le mécanisme peut de plus être utilisé pour des appareils horaires de plus grande taille (de la pendulette à l'horloge fleurie d'une place d'une grande ville).The mechanism can also be used for larger hourly devices (from the clock to the flower clock of a square in a big city).

La série de 6 disques intérieures 4 peut être remplacée par 7 disques qui indiquent le jour de la semaine (du lundi au dimanche) et la série de 12 disques 2 extérieurs indiquerait les mois et le décalque ou design du cadran qui pourrait comporter les quatre saisons, les équinoxes et les solstices, etc.The series of 6 inner disks 4 can be replaced by 7 disks which indicate the day of the week (Monday to Sunday) and the series of 12 outer disks 2 would indicate the months and the decal or design of the dial which could include the four seasons , equinoxes and solstices, etc.

Selon une variante du mécanisme, il est possible de recouvrir d'une plaque les engrenages des 18 mobiles 12, 13 du module de la Fig.4. Cette plaque comporte alors 18 trous de petits diamètres positionnés sur les axes de rotation des 18 roues permettant à des axes de sortir par les trous afin de mouvoir des objets fixés à leur extrémité. Ces objets peuvent se présenter sous la forme de plaquettes de différentes formes (toutes les formes géométriques possibles) dans le but, soit d'animer des pièces en trois dimensions, soit de les utiliser comme « caches » de la plaque inférieure.
Ces formes peuvent donner l'impression d'être actionnées les unes par les autres. Par exemple, avec des demi-cercles montrant tantôt des « coeurs », tantôt des « piques », tout le cadran peut être décoré tantôt de « coeurs » tantôt de « piques ».
Ces pièces rapportées au bout des axes peuvent être des formes capables de faire passer d'une pièce à l'autre une pierre précieuse sertie dans une calotte cylindrique de façon à ce que cette pierre indique la minute. Si 12 disques accomplissent 1 tour en 10 mn, soit ½ tour en 5 mn, ils entraînent la pierre d'un module à l'autre en suivant une galerie fraisée dans le cadran de base en 12 x 5 mn = 60 mn.According to a variant of the mechanism, it is possible to cover with a plate the gears of the 18 mobiles 12, 13 of the module of the Fig.4 . This plate then has 18 holes of small diameters positioned on the axes of rotation of the 18 wheels allowing axes to exit through the holes in order to move objects fixed at their ends. These objects can be in the form of platelets of different shapes (all possible geometric shapes) for the purpose of either animate parts in three dimensions, or to use them as "caches" of the lower plate.
These shapes can give the impression of being operated by each other. For example, with half-circles sometimes showing "hearts", sometimes "spades", the whole dial can be decorated sometimes with "hearts" sometimes "spades".
These pieces attached to the ends of the axes can be forms capable of passing from one room to another a gem set in a cylindrical cap so that the stone indicates the minute. If 12 disks complete 1 turn in 10 minutes, or ½ turn in 5 minutes, they drag the stone from one module to another following a milled gallery in the base dial in 12 x 5 minutes = 60 minutes.

Finalement, les disques que l'on veut faire tourner peuvent ne pas être situés dans le même plan parallèle que celui de l'indication des heures et des minutes. Par exemple, on peut imaginer la lunette conique avec des disques disposés de façon circulaire dans le plan du cône et, afin de faire fonctionner les petits disques dans un autre plan, on les relie avec un câble de fibre de carbone ou équivalent.Finally, the discs that we want to rotate may not be located in the same plane parallel to that of the indication hours and minutes. For example, one can imagine the conical bezel with disks arranged circularly in the plane of the cone and, in order to operate the small disks in another plane, they are connected with a carbon fiber cable or equivalent.

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  1. Mechanism for display of animated drawings, figures or signs on the dial of a timepiece having a basic movement characterised in that it comprises at least a first group of toothed wheels (13), each of said wheels (13) of said at least first group of toothed wheels being placed under an opening of the dial (3) of a timepiece, and meshing with two toothed wheels of said at least first group of adjacent toothed wheels to form a first continuous closed gear train; in that each of said toothed wheels in said at last first group of toothed wheels carries a small plate (2,4) located in the corresponding opening of the dial and bearing a drawing, figure or sign, at least one of the small plates intended to be animated relative to the dial; and in that one of toothed wheels of said at last first groups of toothed wheels is driven by a first mobile (10) which itself is driven by the basic movement of the timepiece.
  2. Mechanism as claimed in claim 1 characterised in that it further comprises a second group of toothed wheels, each wheels (12) of said second groups of toothed wheels being placed under an opening of the dial (3) of the timepiece; and meshing with two toothed wheels of said group of adjacent toothed wheels to form a second continuous closed gear train; in that each toothed wheels of said second group of toothed wheels carries over a small plate (2,4) located in the corresponding opening of the dial and bearing a drawing, figure or sign, at least one of the small plates intended to be animated relative to the dial; and in that one of the toothed wheels of said second group of toothed wheels is driven via a second mobile (10), said second mobile (10) meshing with one toothed wheels of said at least first group of toothed wheels
  3. Mechanism according to claim 1 or 2 characterised in that the at least first group of toothed wheels (13) comprises twelve toothed wheels located on the outer part of the mechanism.
  4. Mechanism according to claim 3 characterised in that the second group of toothed wheels (12) comprises six toothed wheels (12) located between the center of the dial (3) and the at least first group of twelve toothed wheels (13).
  5. Mechanism according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the small plates surmounting the toothed wheels are disks (2, 4) designed to rotate in a corresponding opening in the dial.
  6. Mechanism according to claim 5, wherein the disks (12,13) are positioned at the same level as the dial.
  7. Mechanism according to claim 5, wherein the disks (12,13) are positioned to stand out with respect to the level of the dial or be inlaid under the dial.
  8. Mechanism according to claim 5, characterised in that the mechanism is constructed to animate at least one or several groups of disks (2, 4).
  9. Mechanism according to claim 5, characterised in that the disks (2, 3) are used to display any chosen design, image or sign, or the hour, the minute, the month, the days of the week, the seasons, the equinoxes, the solstices, day and night etc.
  10. Mechanism according to claim 1 or 5, characterised in that the disks (2, 4) and the dial (3) are treated galvanically or are mounted, jeweled, engine-turned, transferred, engraved, cut, etc.
  11. Mechanism according to claim 1 or 5, characterised in that it is constructed to drive the small plates or the disks at constant speed.
  12. Mechanism according to claim 1 or 5, characterised in that it is constructed to drive the small plates or the disks in jumps corresponding to an instantaneous angular movement of, for example, 30°.
  13. Mechanism according to claim 5, characterised in that the dial (3) has a diameter of 30 mm, the disks (2, 4) visible on the dial side having a diameter of 5.7 mm and the dial (3) having a thickness of 0.4 mm.
  14. Mechanism according to claim 5, characterised in that it is produced with its components, its disks and its dial made of injected or machined synthetic material or injected or machined metal.
  15. Mechanism according to claim 5, characterised in that the dial and its disks present one or several designs or logos.
  16. Mechanism according to claim 1 or 5, characterised in that the small plates are disks, hearts, spades, clubs, etc., or are fitted with precious stones or decorations.
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