EP2685327B1 - Poussoir pour pièce d'horlogerie incorporant une soupape - Google Patents

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EP2685327B1
EP2685327B1 EP12175537.5A EP12175537A EP2685327B1 EP 2685327 B1 EP2685327 B1 EP 2685327B1 EP 12175537 A EP12175537 A EP 12175537A EP 2685327 B1 EP2685327 B1 EP 2685327B1
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Sébastien Briswalter
Eric Vuillème
Gregory Kissling
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G04B3/00—Normal winding of clockworks by hand or mechanically; Winding up several mainsprings or driving weights simultaneously
    • G04B3/04—Rigidly-mounted keys, knobs or crowns
    • G04B3/046—Operation by rotation and axial movement with extra function of axial shift of operating element, e.g. crown combined with push button
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G04B3/00—Normal winding of clockworks by hand or mechanically; Winding up several mainsprings or driving weights simultaneously
    • G04B3/04—Rigidly-mounted keys, knobs or crowns
    • G04B3/048—Operation exclusively by axial movement of a push-button, e.g. for chronographs
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G04B37/10—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems
    • G04B37/106—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems of push buttons
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C3/00—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means
    • G04C3/001—Electromechanical switches for setting or display
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G04B17/00—Mechanisms for stabilising frequency
    • G04B17/32—Component parts or constructional details, e.g. collet, stud, virole or piton

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  • the present invention relates to a pusher for a timepiece comprising a cylindrical armature inside which is disposed longitudinally and in a manner passing through a pusher (or a corrector) made of a head having a lower face abutting against a first shoulder formed in the armature when manual pressure is exerted on the head and a rod terminated at its end by a screw limiting the axial fretting of the rod in the armature, rod around which is wound a first return spring of the pusher.
  • Pushers executed as described above are well known in the state of the art. They equip eg chronographs or wristwatches to correct, for example, the date. They are called pushers when they protrude from the middle and allow to correct a function when pressed with a finger. When the pressure stops, they resume their initial position. They are called rather correctors when they are drowned in the middle part.
  • each pusher is linked to the correction of a single function, a plurality of functions to be corrected then requiring a plurality of pushers to be installed on the middle part of a timepiece, which weakens the actual sealing of this part. watchmaking.
  • the idea of the present invention is to make play a classic pusher an additional role, this to avoid drilling the middle part, this additional role consisting of a valve for equipping a diving watch.
  • diving watches often include, on the one hand a winding crown and on the other hand a valve avoiding the explosion of the watch when the diver back to the surface.
  • a winding crown and on the other hand a valve avoiding the explosion of the watch when the diver back to the surface.
  • professional divers go down to great depths to perform work and are then brought to the surface using a pressurized caisson that allows to properly manage the decompression phases necessary for the health of the diver.
  • these phases of decompression of gases essentially helium, enter the casing of the diving watch through the seals which are essentially adapted to prevent the entry of water or dust inside. of the watch.
  • the document JP 4908072 discloses a pusher having a head extended by a rod which cooperates with a frame driven into a wall.
  • the present invention provides a pusher meeting the definition given by claim 1 of the patent.
  • the pusher comprises a cylindrical armature 50 inside which is disposed longitudinally and through a pusher 51 made of a head 9 having a lower face 11 abutting against a first shoulder 52 formed in the armature 50 when a pressure
  • the cylindrical armature 50 is in two parts composed in the first part of a tube 7 fixed in the middle part of the timepiece.
  • the tube 7 is screwed into the middle part by its lower part 81 and has, in its median part a bulge 82 provided with a groove in which is housed an O-ring 83 ensuring its sealing at the box.
  • the tube 7 is terminated by an emerging upper portion 56 of the middle part. This emerging portion 56 is provided with a thread 6.
  • a ring 1 constitutes the second part of the frame 50. This ring 1 is provided on its inner circumference 3 with a threaded portion 5 adapted to be screwed onto the thread 6 of the tube 7.
  • the pusher 51 comprises a rod 8 whose end is terminated by retaining means limiting the axial fretting of this rod in the armature 50.
  • the retaining means are formed by a screw 53 screwed into the end face of the rod 8 in the axial extension of the rod so that the head of the screw 53 abuts against the end face of the tube 7 disposed side build. The screw thus allows the mounting of the pusher on the frame 50.
  • first return spring 10 of the pusher Around the push rod 8 is wound a first return spring 10 of the pusher.
  • This spring 10 is disposed between the lower face 11 of the pusher head 9 and the first retaining means 54 partially derived from the armature 50.
  • these first retaining means 54 comprise a second shoulder 2 arranged in the ring 1, the second shoulder 2 having an upper face 57 on which the first spring 10 bears and a lower face 58 on which the upper portion 59 of a cylindrical spacer 12 attached to the rod 8 bears.
  • the cylindrical spacer 12 has in its upper end a flange 12a whose function will be described below.
  • the rod of the pusher is movable relative to the spacer 12.
  • a second spring 13 is wound around the rod 8. This second spring 13 bears at one of its ends on said first retaining means 54 and at the other of its ends on second retaining means 55 partially derived from the frame 50.
  • This second spring 13 is arranged to bend and play the role of valve spring if the pressure inside the timepiece is greater than the pressure prevailing outside said part.
  • the second retaining means 55 comprise a third shoulder 18 arranged at the inner end of the tube 7, this third shoulder having an upper face 60 surmounted by a first seal toric 15 followed by a bearing washer or ring 14, the second spring 13 being disposed between said ring 14 and the lower part 61 of said spacer 12.
  • the first spring 10 has a stiffness greater than that of the second spring 13.
  • the cylindrical spacer 12 is made of deformable material to seal the pusher.
  • the cylindrical spacer 12 is made of a material having a Shore hardness between 50 and 100 and even more preferably between 75 and 90.
  • this spacer may be made typically nitrile rubber (nitrile butadiene rubber NBR).
  • figure 1 presents the valve pusher whose crown 1 is screwed on the tube 7, the pusher 5 being in the rest position. In this situation the valve is closed, the second spring 13 being compressed between the spacer 12 and the ring 14.
  • the figure 2 illustrates the same screwed situation, the pusher 51 being activated, the screw 53 of its rod 8 actuating a correction system specific to the timepiece to, for example, correct the date displayed on the dial.
  • the Figures 1 and 2 show that the tightness of the pusher is ensured, firstly by the deformable spacer 12 whose flange 12a is gripped between the lower face 58 of the shoulder 2 and the end of the emerging portion 56 of the tube 7 and on the other hand at the tube-box connection by the O-ring 83.
  • the figure 3 presents the pusher-valve whose crown 1 is unscrewed from the tube 7.
  • the second spring 13 is expanded and the seal formed by the collar 12a of the spacer is no longer active.
  • the seal 15 is likely to lift against the restoring force of the second spring 13 when the pressure inside the watch case is higher. higher than that prevailing outside which allows the operation of the valve, helium overpressure in the timepiece can escape through the space between the cylindrical spacer 12 and the push rod respectively the inner wall of the tube 7 and then by the threaded portion 5 of the crown 1.
  • the figure 4 presents a second variant of the first embodiment in which is added to a non-deformable spacer 12 a second O-ring 16 which has been disposed between the lower face 58 of the second shoulder 2 and a clearance 62 formed in the spacer 12 It is observed that this second seal 16 presses the end 63 of the tube 7 when the crown is screwed onto the tube.
  • the O-ring 16 plays the role of the collar 12a illustrated in FIGS. Figures 1 to 3 .
  • the pusher comprises a cylindrical armature 50 inside which is disposed longitudinally and through a pusher 51 made of a head 9 having a lower face 11 abutting against a first shoulder 52 formed in the armature 50 when a Manual pressure is exerted on the head 9.
  • the armature 50 comprises in this embodiment a single tube 7, a lower portion 80 comprises a first portion 90 screwed into the middle and a second middle portion 91 provided with an O-ring 83 sealing against said middle part .
  • the pusher 51 comprises a rod 8 whose end is terminated by a screw 53 with a head allowing the mounting of the pusher and limiting the axial fretting of this rod in the armature 50, the head of the screw 53 coming into abutment against the end face of the tube 7 disposed on the middle side.
  • first return spring 10 Around the rod 8 is wound a first return spring 10, this spring being disposed between the lower face 11 of the head 9 and first retaining means 54 partially from the armature 50.
  • first retaining means comprise a second shoulder 70 formed in the inner wall of the tube 7 and on which a washer 71 rests, the upper face 72 of this washer acting as a support for the first spring 10.
  • a second spring 13 is wound around the rod 8, this second spring 13 bearing at one of its ends on said first retaining means 54 and at the other of its ends on second retaining means 55 partially derived from the armature 50, this second spring being arranged to flex and act as a valve if the pressure inside the timepiece is greater than the pressure prevailing outside of said room.
  • the second retaining means 55 are the same as those mentioned with respect to the first embodiment, namely a third shoulder 18 formed at the inner end of the tube 7, this third shoulder having an upper face 60 surmounted by a first O-ring 15 followed by a ring 14, the second spring 13 being disposed between said ring 14 and the lower part of said washer 71.
  • Figures 5 and 6 show a pusher-valve whose pusher is in a state of rest in figure 5 and in activated state in figure 6 .
  • the valve is potentially active whatever the position of the pusher and operates in the same way as described in connection with the push valve illustrated in FIGS. Figures 1 to 4 .
  • the seal 15 can be raised against the restoring force of the second spring 13 which allows the air under pressure in the timepiece to escape through the space between the rod of the pusher and the inner wall of the tube 7.
  • the Figures 5 and 6 therefore represent an automatic valve, while the Figures 1 to 4 represent a manual valve

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EP12175537.5A EP2685327B1 (fr) 2012-07-09 2012-07-09 Poussoir pour pièce d'horlogerie incorporant une soupape
US13/921,593 US8764284B2 (en) 2012-07-09 2013-06-19 Push button for timepiece incorporating a valve
CN201310283948.8A CN103576526B (zh) 2012-07-09 2013-07-08 并入阀的用于钟表的按钮
RU2013131258A RU2620870C2 (ru) 2012-07-09 2013-07-08 Нажимная кнопка для часов со встроенным клапаном
JP2013142319A JP5616495B2 (ja) 2012-07-09 2013-07-08 弁を組み込んでいる時計の押しボタン構造

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