EP2196866A2 - Assembly comprising a ratchet-wheel fixed to the barrel-arbor and barrel-arbor for this assembly - Google Patents

Assembly comprising a ratchet-wheel fixed to the barrel-arbor and barrel-arbor for this assembly Download PDF

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EP2196866A2
EP2196866A2 EP09011789A EP09011789A EP2196866A2 EP 2196866 A2 EP2196866 A2 EP 2196866A2 EP 09011789 A EP09011789 A EP 09011789A EP 09011789 A EP09011789 A EP 09011789A EP 2196866 A2 EP2196866 A2 EP 2196866A2
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Béranger Reynard
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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
    • G04B1/00—Driving mechanisms
    • G04B1/10—Driving mechanisms with mainspring
    • G04B1/16—Barrels; Arbors; Barrel axles

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  • the present invention relates to an assembly comprising a winding ratchet fixed on a barrel shaft, and a barrel shaft intended to be part of a timepiece.
  • the winding ratchet In high-end timepieces, especially in those where all or part of the movement is visible, the winding ratchet has a square drive opening in which the end square of the barrel tree. This winding ratchet is then screwed with three screws generally in the end face of the barrel shaft as shown in FIG. figure 6 .
  • This method is particularly aesthetic but entails the disadvantage of requiring a large diameter barrel shaft unnecessarily occupying a large volume of the inner space of the barrel cage which requires limiting the length and number of turns of the spring barrel for a barrel cage of given diameter. This results in a decrease in the power reserve or an increase in the diameter of the barrel cage and therefore its size. This also results in a heavier barrel shaft.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device for fixing a winding ratchet on a barrel axis that makes it possible to obtain an assembly having the same aesthetic appearance as a ratchet screwed into the end face of a barrel shaft while by making it possible to reduce the diameter of the barrel shaft to a minimum value for a given spring thickness, thereby guaranteeing a minimum barrel size, a large power reserve and a reduction in the weight of the barrel shaft.
  • the subject of the present invention is an assembly formed by a winding ratchet and a barrel shaft, characterized in that one of the ends of the barrel shaft comprises a non-shaped training formation. circular and a groove adjacent to this training formation defining a reduced section portion of the barrel shaft whose shape and dimensions are such that they fit into the section of the training formation, a shoulder of the barrel shaft limiting the height of said groove on the opposite side to said drive formation; in that the ratchet has a central opening of shape and size corresponding to the drive formation of the barrel shaft; in that the ratchet comprises at least one tapping eccentric relative to the ratchet of a determined distance; in that it comprises a fixing washer having a central passage of shape and dimension corresponding to the driving formation of the barrel shaft and engaged with it in the assembled position and at least one piercing eccentric with respect to said washer by a predetermined distance equal to the eccentricity of the tapping of the ratchet; in that it also comprises at least one screw for screwing the fixing washer on the ratchet; and
  • the invention also relates to a cylinder shaft forming part of the assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a median portion intended to receive the inner coil of a mainspring located between two cylindrical portions serving as bearing for the box and the lid of a barrel, one of these cylindrical portions being terminated by a pivot forming one end of the barrel shaft for pivoting the barrel shaft in a plate of a watch movement; and in that the other of these cylindrical portions is separated from a non-circular drive member forming the other end of the barrel shaft by a groove whose inner diameter is smaller than the circle inscribed in the shape of the drive member and whose height corresponds to the thickness of a ratchet to be fixed to the barrel shaft.
  • the barrel ratchet a driven by a square b forming an end of the barrel shaft c is screwed with screws d directly into the end face of the barrel shaft c pivoted between the plate d and the barrel bridge e.
  • This type of fastener is generally used in high-end watch movements where the winding ratchet is visible.
  • This fixing with its three screws offset by 120 °, is very aesthetic and pleases users.
  • this method of attachment requires a large diameter of the barrel shaft, significantly larger than ten times the thickness of the barrel spring which is the norm, and therefore unduly reduces the volume of the barrel cage and the power reserve of the movement the spring having fewer turns for a given size of the barrel.
  • the fixing device of a winding ratchet on a barrel shaft makes it possible to produce an assembly having the same aesthetic appearance as those of the prior art but whose barrel shaft may have a lower diameter, determined optimally is about ten times the thickness of the mainspring only, which, for a cylinder of determined diameter diameter, frees space and increases the number of turns of the mainspring and therefore the power reserve.
  • the weight of the barrel shaft is also reduced.
  • the device for fixing a winding ratchet on a barrel axis comprises a particular ratchet, a barrel shaft whose end bearing the drive square has a particular shape, a drive washer and screw.
  • the winding ratchet 1 shown in plan at figure 4 has an external toothing and a central opening 2 square and threads 3, in the example shown three, evenly distributed around the axis O of the winding ratchet 1.
  • the central opening is square and or three screws are provided, one of the threads 3a is focused on a radius of the ratchet 1 passing through the center of one side of the opening 2 and the other two threads are located on rays of the ratchet 1 forming an angle of 120 ° with the radius passing through the tapping 3a.
  • the barrel shaft 4 has at one of its ends a driving square 5 whose dimensions correspond to the central opening 2 of the ratchet to be able to pass through this central opening 2.
  • the barrel shaft 4 comprises at its end comprising the driving square 5 a groove 6 whose inner diameter is smaller than the length of one side of the drive square 5.
  • the diameter of the middle portion 7 of the barrel shaft 4 is more large than that of the bottom of the groove 6 but is determined according to the thickness of the mainspring. Generally, optimally this diameter is approximately equal to ten times the thickness of the mainspring. This depends inter alia on the material in which the mainspring is made.
  • the diameter of the bottom of the groove 6 of the barrel shaft 4 substantially corresponds to the length of one side of the central opening 2 of the winding ratchet respectively of the driving square 5 of the barrel shaft 4.
  • the fixing device also comprises a fixing washer 8 comprising a central passage 9 of shape and dimension corresponding to the drive square 5 of the barrel shaft and the central opening 2 of the ratchet 1.
  • This fixing washer 8 further comprises holes 10, three in the example shown, in number equal to the number of threads 3 ratchet 1. These holes 10 are uniformly distributed around the center O 'of the washer 8. These holes 10 are located on a circle x of diameter identical to that y of the ratchet on which the threads 3 are arranged. By against the orientation of these holes 10 relative to the central passage 9 of the washer 8 is different from the orientation of the threads 3 relative to the central opening 2 of the ratchet 1.
  • the fixing device also comprises screws 11, three in the illustrated example, which, in the operating position, pass through the bores 10 of the washer 8 and are screwed into the threads 3 of the ratchet 1.
  • the barrel shaft 4 is pivoted between the plate 12 and the barrel bridge 13 of a clockwork movement using stones 14, 15.
  • the barrel shaft 4 serves as a pivot for the formed barrel cage of a cover 16 and a box 17.
  • a barrel spring (not shown) is fixed by its inner end to the median part 7 of the barrel shaft 4 and by its outer turn to the side wall of the box barrel 17.
  • the square 5 of the barrel axis 4 is passed through the central opening 2 of the ratchet 1 whose thickness is less than the height of the barrel. 6 of the cylinder axis 4.
  • This ratchet 1 is then rotated relative to the barrel shaft 4 by an angle ⁇ which in the illustrated example is between 5 ° and 40 °, preferably 15 ° to 30 °. In this way the square central opening 2 of the ratchet is no longer aligned on the square 5 of the barrel shaft 4.
  • the square 5 of the barrel shaft 4 is then placed in the square passage of the fixing washer 8.
  • the threads 3 of the ratchet 1 are then aligned with the bores 10 of the fixing washer 8 and the screws 11 are screwed into the threads 3 of the ratchet tightening this fixing plate 8 against the ratchet 1 and thus making it integral in rotation with the barrel shaft 4 by means of the square 5 engaged in the central passage 9 of the fastening washer 8.
  • the ratchet is simultaneously limited in its axial displacements with respect to the barrel axis by the lower face of the square 5 of this barrel shaft and by the shoulder 18 of this barrel shaft defining the height of the groove 6.
  • the diameter of the barrel shaft 4 can be reduced, the fastening screws 11 of the ratchet 1 no longer need to be screwed into the barrel. end of the barrel shaft 4.
  • the diameter of the central portion 7 of the barrel shaft can thus be determined according to the thickness of the mainspring, generally of the order of ten times the thickness of said spring of barrel, which leads to a sharp reduction in the diameter of this middle portion 7 of the barrel shaft relative to the conventional barrel shafts (see figure 6 ).
  • the space available for the mainspring in the barrel box 17 is larger, the spring can have more turns and the power reserve of the movement is increased for the same total size of the barrel.
  • the weight of the barrel shaft is decreased.
  • the shape of the end 5 of the barrel shaft 4 may not be square but oval or polygonal, generally non-circular, provided that the shape of the central opening 2 of the ratchet 1 and the central passage 9 of the fixing plate 8 is of corresponding shape.
  • the barrel shaft 4 comprises a median portion 7 receiving the inner coil of a barrel spring (not shown).
  • the barrel shaft On one side of this middle portion 7 the barrel shaft has a first cylindrical portion 19 serving as a bearing on the barrel box 17 and ending with a first pin 20 pivoted in the plate 12 by a movement by the stone 14.
  • the barrel shaft 4 On the other side this middle portion 7 the barrel shaft 4 has a second cylindrical portion 21 serving as a bearing barrel cover 16 followed by a second pin 22 pivoting in the barrel bridge 13 with the stone 15.
  • This second trunnion 22 is extended by the portion of the barrel shaft 4, having the groove 6 and ends with the ratchet 1 driving member, here the square 5.
  • the number of fastening screws 11 of the fastening washer 8 on the ratchet 1 may be different from three, for example two, four or five, but at least one.

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EP09011789.6A 2008-12-15 2009-09-16 Assembly comprising a ratchet-wheel fixed to the barrel-arbor and barrel-arbor for this assembly Not-in-force EP2196866B1 (de)

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CH01962/08A CH700058B1 (fr) 2008-12-15 2008-12-15 Ensemble comprenant un rochet de remontoir fixé sur un arbre de barillet et arbre de barillet destiné à cet ensemble.

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