EP3279745A1 - Ausrichtbare geschraubte krone - Google Patents

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EP3279745A1
EP3279745A1 EP16182372.9A EP16182372A EP3279745A1 EP 3279745 A1 EP3279745 A1 EP 3279745A1 EP 16182372 A EP16182372 A EP 16182372A EP 3279745 A1 EP3279745 A1 EP 3279745A1
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Simon Waeckerlin
Christian Olvaszto
Jean Baebler
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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
    • G04B3/041—Construction of crowns for rotating movement; connection with the winding stem; winding stems
    • 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
    • G04B3/043—Locking of the operating element, also by mounting in a concealed place
    • 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
    • G04B3/06—Keys or the like with means preventing overwinding
    • 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
    • G04B37/103—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems by screwing the crown onto the case

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  • the invention relates to a device for adjusting the orientation of screw crowns or screwed crowns for timepieces and more particularly for such crowns having a pattern or a logo on their end face and in which the pattern can to be oriented at will.
  • Screwed crowns are commonly used to equip watches in order to improve the sealing of these at their winding or control rod.
  • This type of crown has the particularity of being able to take a unscrewed position in which the watch can be reassembled, put on time etc. and a screwed position in which the ring is screwed and locked on a tube driven or screwed into the middle of the watch case to compress a seal, thus improving the seal of the watch.
  • the screwed position is therefore that which corresponds to the normal position when the watch is worn and which is more or less always the same with the wear of the seal near.
  • a solution allowing to adjust, in a position or determined orientation, a crown after screwing it on the tube has already been proposed in the document EP 1 124 167 A1 .
  • a shape memory alloy ring is placed either between the middle and the tube, or between the crown and the tube.
  • a temporary clearance between the caseband and the tube respectively between the crown and the tube can be created, which allows an angular adjustment of the crown in its screwed position.
  • a disadvantage of this solution lies in the fact that shape memory alloys are not commonly available in the form of small bars, so that it is difficult and expensive to machine the rings in question in the small dimensions required. for the applications concerned.
  • this process is intended only for the initial assembly of the crown by the watch manufacturer, but not for subsequent adjustment operations of the orientation of the crown, which could damage other parts of the crown. the watch, sensitive to temperature variations.
  • the document EP1701225 discloses a screwable turnable crown comprising a head integral with a winding stem and a cover on which there is an inscription, the head and the cap being secured in rotation by means of frustoconical surfaces held in mutual contact with the aid of an elastic element.
  • the adjustment of the angular position of the cover is performed by removing axially the latter relative to the middle part along the longitudinal axis of the crown.
  • a major drawback of this solution is that the rotational solidarity of the cover relative to the head is ensured only by the friction forces between the frustoconical surfaces, which does not prove sufficiently reliable over the lifetime a watch, and in particular when the compressive forces exerted by the elastic element gradually fade.
  • another drawback is that it can not be guaranteed that the same angular position can be obtained in such a way that precise, the angular position can be determined only by successive approximations.
  • the document EP1411401 discloses a ring comprising a steerable substrate on its outer upper face, the substrate being provided with an inscription and being detachable in rotation from the head of the ring when exerting a pressure going against braking means.
  • the disadvantage of this solution is that it is not robust relative to shocks, the latter may also exert a pressure force on the substrate and thus inadvertently reorient the substrate relative to the body of the ring; Moreover, when gripping the crown it is necessary to take many precautions to not involve any pressure force to the middle part to avoid inadvertent rotation of the substrate, which makes the use inconvenient.
  • the invention particularly aims to overcome the various disadvantages of these known techniques.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a device for the orientation of a screwed crown of simple and economical construction, comprising a pattern such as a logo or a mark and in which the position of the logo or the mark affixed to the end face of the crown can easily be adjusted to a specific position or orientation.
  • the invention also aims to provide a steerable screwed crown more reliable than those proposed so far.
  • a rotatable screw-in crown comprising a hood integral with a tube and receiving a distinctive sign, a fixed body. mounted in a watch middle and intended for receiving the tube, and means for adjusting the angular orientation of the cover relative to the middle part.
  • the means for adjusting the angular orientation of the cover comprise a ring arranged to be screwed onto the tube, said ring comprising first indexing means arranged to cooperate with second indexing means formed in the body. , the ring being driven and positioned in the body by means of the first and second indexing means.
  • the orientation of the pattern carried by the cover can be easily adjusted in a determined angular position and reproducible in a sustainable manner relative to the middle part, while simultaneously preventing any error of fortuitous manipulation on the part of the user.
  • this new construction has the advantage of being invisible to the user from outside the crown, the proposed adjustment device being covered and hidden by the hood. The aesthetics of the watch is thus not affected.
  • the invention also relates to a method of mounting a crown according to the invention on a middle part of a watch case.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising a crown according to the invention.
  • a sagittal cross-sectional view of a screw-down crown designated by the general reference C, along its axis of rotation AA, is shown to reveal the adjustment mechanism of the orientation according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the ring is shown in the screwed position, and comprises a cover 1 integral with a tube 3 sliding in a fixed body 2 which can be driven away, or screwed and / or glued, in a sealed manner in a middle part 100 of shows.
  • the crown C also comprises means for adjusting the angular orientation of the cover 1 relative to the middle part of the watch, so as to be able to orient the angular position of the distinctive sign L on the cover 1.
  • sealing means 10 are arranged between the cover 1 and the body 2.
  • the sealing means comprise a seal 7, for example an O-ring, interposed between the body 2 and the skirt 11 of the cover 1 so as to ensure the seal of the watch.
  • the seal 7 is disposed in an annular housing 110 formed in the skirt 11 of the cover 1 which extends along the body 2 and is held in place by means of a ring 71 for holding.
  • the means for adjusting the angular orientation of the cover 1 comprise a ring 4 arranged to be screwed onto the tube 3, the ring 4 comprising first indexing means arranged to cooperate with second indexing means formed in the body 2
  • the tube 3 comprises an external thread 32 arranged to cooperate with a threaded section 40 of the ring 4 to screw and / or unscrew the ring.
  • the ring 4 is positioned and then driven into the body 2 by means of the first and second indexing means.
  • the first and second indexing means comprise splines or toothing configured to axially engage one another in order to be able to correctly position the cover 1.
  • the ring 4 is driven into the body 2 once screwed onto the tube 3 supporting the cover 1.
  • the central part of the crown is connected to a winding stem (not shown) of the clockwork movement through the threaded blind hole 50 formed in the lower part 51 of a piston 5, housed in an axial cavity 30 inside the tube 3.
  • the piston 5 slides against a spring 6 abuts on an inner surface 10 of the cover 1, and allows in particular to bring out the cover 1 of the middle when unscrewing the crown to make an adjustment.
  • the piston 5 being intended to be connected to the winding stem, its axial position relative to the middle part is indexed according to typically three discrete values, a first corresponding for example to the winding of the barrel, another to the time adjustment and a third to the setting of the date.
  • the cover 1 is assembled to the tube 2 so that they are usually integral in rotation and axially from one another, this assembly is made so as to be detachable or reversible.
  • the cover 1 comprises an axial skirt 11 inside which is formed an annular groove 12 arranged to receive the end of the body 2 integral with the middle part 100, but also the tube 3, the ring 4 being placed between the tube 3 and the body 2.
  • the cover 1 comprises an upper surface on which is affixed a distinctive sign L such as a logo or a mark visible from the outside of the crown - we can guess for example in the figures the Omega logo.
  • the first and second indexing means are interposed between the inner surface 200 of the body 2, and the outer surface 400 of the ring 40, and comprise grooves 201 and 401 respectively arranged on the surface. internal of the body 2 and the outer surface 400 of the ring 40.
  • the splines cooperate axially in the direction of the axis of rotation AA, to perform the adjustment operation of the orientation of the crown vs.
  • the Figures 2a and 2b illustrate a preferred embodiment of the indexing means according to the invention.
  • the indexing means consist of the collaboration of grooves 201, 401 or teeth set against each other mutually. We can also observe the grooves 201 and 401 on the exploded view at the figure 3 .
  • Such an arrangement has the advantage of reducing the number of parts to be used for adjusting the angular orientation of the proposed ring 1.
  • the body 2 comprises an internal shoulder 20, arranged in the lower part of the body 2, forming a stop for the ring 4 when it is driven into the body 2.
  • the body 2 also comprises, above and in the immediate vicinity of this internal shoulder 20, splines 201 extending over a portion of the height of the body 2.
  • the splines 201 could be replaced by teeth, grooves or any other shaped element capable of guiding in translation and block in rotating the ring 4 on the body 2.
  • the tube 3 comprises a stop surface 31 formed in its upper part, to abut against the ring 4 when the ring is screwed.
  • the stop surface 31 of the tube 3 covers the ring 4 and is flush with the upper part of the body 2, the ring 4 then being housed between the body 2 and the tube 3.
  • the ring 4 is driven out of the outside of the body 2 and the crown is then screwed onto the ring 4 at the level of the skirt 11.
  • the grooves 201 are on the inner surface of the body 2 and the grooves 401 are on the outside of the ring 4.
  • the screwed crown C will keep its orientation, and after each screwing and / or unscrewing the distinctive sign will be correctly oriented.
  • the invention also relates to a watch case comprising a screwed crown
  • the present invention is not limited to the illustrated example and is susceptible of various variations and modifications that will occur to those skilled in the art. It will be understood that the invention is also applicable for example for a valve, manual or automatic, and a pusher, a corrector or a steerable bottom.

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EP16182372.9A EP3279745B1 (de) 2016-08-02 2016-08-02 Ausrichtbare geschraubte krone
JP2017139674A JP6356877B2 (ja) 2016-08-02 2017-07-19 ねじ込み式の向きを合わせることが可能な竜頭
KR1020170092663A KR101986012B1 (ko) 2016-08-02 2017-07-21 스크류-다운 배향가능 크라운
CN201710647546.XA CN107678268B (zh) 2016-08-02 2017-08-01 可定向的旋入式表冠
US15/665,458 US10228656B2 (en) 2016-08-02 2017-08-01 Screw-down orientable crown
HK18109019.8A HK1249590A1 (zh) 2016-08-02 2018-07-11 可定向的旋入式錶冠

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