Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04D—APPARATUS OR TOOLS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR MAKING OR MAINTAINING CLOCKS OR WATCHES
  • G04D7/00—Measuring, counting, calibrating, testing or regulating apparatus
  • G04D7/006—Testing apparatus for complete clockworks with regard to external influences or general good working
  • G04D7/009—Testing apparatus for complete clockworks with regard to external influences or general good working with regard to the functioning of the automatic winding-up device
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
  • A47F7/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials
  • A47F7/02—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for jewellery, dentures, watches, eye-glasses, lenses, or the like
  • A47F7/022—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for jewellery, dentures, watches, eye-glasses, lenses, or the like for watches or for bracelets therefor

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for winding automatic watches, which can also be used as a display.
• Automatic watches use the movement of the owner's arm of such a watch to raise the spiral spring of their barrel. This movement allows an oscillating mass to drive a set of wheels that, thanks to a reduction, will be able to provide the energy necessary to refit said spring.
• the automatic watch winding devices are intended to maintain a self-winding watch even when its owner does not wear it. This is particularly important for watches with a perpetual calendar whose stop imposes the return to a watchmaker to put the wheels back into the cycle of the day.
• Document EP 1136893 discloses a device for winding a watch comprising a drum rotating about a horizontal axis, said drum having means for receiving a watch. Although this device is technically efficient, that is to say it goes right back to the watch, it has very little interest in the presentation.
• EP 0846988 also describes an apparatus for reassembling automatic watches.
• This apparatus has a cylinder for receiving a watch, rotating about an axis inclined about 60 ° relative to the vertical. Although 30 having only a rotational movement this apparatus fulfills its function with regard to the reassembly of the watch, but it has no function of. presentation.
• Other documents describe devices for winding automatic watches, but always the emphasis is on the technical side and almost never on the aesthetic side.
• the purpose of the invention is to provide a device for winding automatic watches presenting a complex rotational movement of the watch to be wound up, and having an aesthetic appearance reminiscent of the wheels of a watch in order to be able to use it as a display stand.
• Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a gear assembly of a device according to the invention.
• FIG. 2 represents a section along A-A of the assembly of the figure represented in FIG. 1, to which a plate has been added.
• a device has a gear assembly consisting of a bridge 2 formed of 3 arms 18 connected, in the embodiment shown, by curved portions constituting a ring 15 rotatable about an axis 1, driven by an electric motor not shown.
• On the bridge 2 are arranged three pinions 4 meshing on a wheel 5.
• the wheel 5 is secured to a plate 10 (see Figure 2).
• the plate 10 will be fixed on a base (not shown), this base can have any shape, the only requirement is that it maintains the axis 1 in any position.
• the motor will advantageously be arranged in the base.
• the base and the motor have not been represented because they have no difficulty to be realized by a skilled person.
• the pinions 4 are mounted on the bridge 2 so as to be rotatable about three axes 6, 6 ', 6 "parallel to the axis 1. Said pinions 4 are mounted integral in rotation with parts 7, for example nuts, on which supports for watches are fixed These supports are of any shape, for example, they are constituted by a band, or blade, C-shaped or oval open on which is available the bracelet of the shows, as specified in published application WO 03/037147.
• the bridge 2 comprises recessed portions 9, and the pinions 4 and the toothed wheel 5 are made in the form of hollowed wheels, that is, ie to spokes.
• the toothed wheel 5 has spokes 8, the bridge 2 of the recessed portions 9 and the gables 4 of the spokes 17.
• the embodiment of the winding device according to the invention described operates as explained below.
• the axis 1 is rotated by an electric motor with a gear (not shown, because within the reach of a skilled person) so as to rotate the bridge 2 at a relatively low rotational speed.
• the rotation of the bridge 2 rotates the pinions 4 about the axes 6, 6 ', 6 ", which engrain on the toothed wheel 5 fixed to the plate 10 and causes the rotation of the parts 7.
• As the parts 7 support The latter watches will be rotated, since the axis 1 is inclined, the watches will turn in an inclined plane, which will have the effect of moving their oscillating weight and thereby moving them upwards. will rotate on themselves about the axes 6, 6 ', 6 "and around the axis 1. This movement will be used advantageously for an original presentation and particularly aesthetic.
• the bridge is fixed on a plate and it is the toothed wheel is driven.
• the watches will turn around parallel axes, for example oblique, as the plans of the watches make an angle with the axes of rotation, the reassembly of the watches is assured.
• the bridge has an elongated shape and is fixed at both ends on a plate.
• This elongated shape can be rectilinear or curved, the purpose of this construction is to resemble a watch gear assembly.
• the bridge has a bridge-like bridge or barrel bridge or anchor or any other bridge reminiscent of the wheels of a watch. At this bridge are fixed at least one toothed wheel and a pinion.

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