EP3882719B1 - Conditionnement d aiguilles d horlogerie - Google Patents

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EP3882719B1
EP3882719B1 EP20164238.6A EP20164238A EP3882719B1 EP 3882719 B1 EP3882719 B1 EP 3882719B1 EP 20164238 A EP20164238 A EP 20164238A EP 3882719 B1 EP3882719 B1 EP 3882719B1
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Marine DÉBOIS
M. Gérard ROSSIER
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  • the invention relates to a packaging for watchmaking hands, said hands each comprising at least one barrel defining a needle axis, a support surface connected to the barrel and substantially perpendicular to the needle axis, and a barrel body. needle substantially radial with respect to the barrel, said packaging comprising at least one pallet provided for receiving, holding, storing and transporting said needles of the same needle height, said at least one pallet comprising a series of bores for receiving said guns according to a constant pitch, each said bore being contiguous to a housing arranged to house a said needle body resting on an upper surface of the paddle opposite a lower surface of the paddle.
  • the invention also relates to an automated production means for the manufacture of such watch hands, said automated production means comprising at least one manufacturing unit by stamping and/or milling and/or diamond coating.
  • the invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such watch hands.
  • the invention relates to the field of the manufacture of small horological display components, in particular hands or the like.
  • EP 3 336 615 A1 discloses packaging for small timepiece components, and in particular hands, as well as a method of manufacturing hands involving the use of said packaging.
  • the packaging according to this document comprises a pallet fitted with housings and bores.
  • the invention proposes to develop a packaging ensuring, from the initial shaping, generally by stamping and/or machining, but which can also come from foundry or three-dimensional printing, needles or small components of display for a timepiece with a geometry similar to needles, the collection of the blanks, their intermediate storage during all the operations of their manufacturing range, and their washing, these components preferably remaining permanently on the packaging tool according to the invention, as soon as the initial shaping has been carried out.
  • the invention relates to a packaging according to claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to an automated production means for the manufacture of such watch hands, said automated production means comprising at least one manufacturing unit by stamping and/or milling and/or diamond coating, according to claim 19.
  • the invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such watch hands, according to claim 23.
  • the invention proposes to develop a packaging ensuring, from the initial shaping, generally by machining, but which can also come from foundry or three-dimensional printing, needles, or small display components for parts of watches similar in shape to needles, the collection of the blanks, their intermediate storage during all the operations of their manufacturing range, these components preferably remaining permanently on the packaging tool according to the invention, as soon as the initial shaping has been carried out.
  • the first shaping operation will be referred to hereinafter as the "manufacturing operation", whether it is carried out by adding material (foundry, 3D printing, welding), or by removing material with a cutting tool ( stamping and/or milling and/or diamond grinding) or by abrasion (grinding), or both by adding and then removing material.
  • hand 2 a small display component comprising at least one barrel, carrying an indicator blade, called “hand body 5”, extending substantially radially in a plane passing through the axis of the barrel.
  • a needle 2 can also include a counterweight 6 extending diametrically opposite this needle body 5, more massive and of radial amplitude less than that of the blade.
  • the needle body 5 can itself be straight or curved.
  • a needle 2 comprises at least one barrel 4 defining a needle axis D, a bearing surface 3 connected to the barrel 4 and substantially perpendicular to the needle axis D, and a needle body 5 substantially radial with respect to at 4 barrel.
  • the most common needles feature a single 4 barrel.
  • Some deformable needles may have at least two barrels, as described in the patent EP2863274B1 .
  • Needle height is the maximum height of a needle, in the direction of its needle axis D, above its bearing surface 3.
  • This packaging 1 includes at least one pallet 10 which is provided for receiving, holding, storing and transporting such needles 2; preferably but not limitatively, a given pallet 10 is provided for needles 2 of the same height in the direction of the axis D, and, even more particularly, for needles 2 of the same type.
  • This pallet 10 comprises a series of receptacles, in particular constituted by bores 11, or else pins 110, for the reception of such guns 4, and preferably according to a constant pitch.
  • Each receptacle or bore 11 or trunnion 110 is contiguous to a housing 12, which is arranged to house a needle body 5, resting on an upper surface of the paddle 13, opposite a lower surface of the paddle 14 located on the opposite side of the considered pallet.
  • these housings 12 are parallel to each other, each arranged to receive such a needle 2 in a longitudinal direction DL of the pallet 10.
  • Each housing 12 is delimited by at least two lateral stops 120 in a transverse direction DT perpendicular to the longitudinal direction DL and to the needle axes D.
  • at least one pallet 10 comprises at least one transverse bearing surface 130, which is arranged to receive all the bearing surfaces 3 of a series of needles 2, and which is oriented in the transverse direction DT.
  • This at least one pallet 10 comprises, substantially parallel to this transverse bearing surface 130 and on a first side thereof, first oblongs 131 whose width in the longitudinal direction DL is adapted to the insertion of tweezers or robot grippers for loading or unloading such needles.
  • these first oblongs 131 have a width greater than or equal to 1.0 mm. More particularly still, these first oblongs 131 have a width greater than or equal to 1.4 mm.
  • first oblongs 131 are also arranged to limit, as much as possible, any cladding by capillarity of the needles 2 on the upper surface of the pallet 13 which would be detrimental to the handling of the needles 2, so as to facilitate the removal or recovery of the needles 2 by vacuum handling means, and to facilitate the passage of leaching fluids and/or the application of certain treatments, such as PVD, galvanization, or others, to the needles 2 deposited on this at least one pallet 10, at the through the thickness of this pallet 10.
  • this transverse support surface 130 is continuous and flat, between the bores 11 or pins 110 respectively that it comprises.
  • each first oblong 131 has, in the transverse direction DT, a length which is greater than or equal to the total length of at least two contiguous housings 12 .
  • each first oblong 131 has, in the longitudinal direction DL, a width which is greater than or equal to 1.5 mm.
  • At least one pallet 10 comprises, substantially parallel to the transverse bearing surface 130 and on a second side thereof opposite the first side, second oblongs 132, the width of which in the longitudinal direction DL is adapted the insertion of tweezers or grippers of robots for the loading or unloading of needles 2 at the level of counterweight 6 when these needles 2 comprise them.
  • These second oblongs 132 are also arranged to limit plating by capillarity of the needles 2 on the upper surface of pallet 13 so as to facilitate their removal or their recovery by a vacuum handling means, and to facilitate the passage of leaching fluids and/or the application of certain treatments to the needles 2 deposited on this at least one pallet 10.
  • each said second oblong 132 has, in the transverse direction DT, a length which is greater than or equal to the total length of at least two contiguous housings 12 .
  • each second oblong 132 has, in the longitudinal direction DL, a width which is greater than or equal to 1.5 mm.
  • each pallet 10 comprises position indexing means 20, to ensure its precise positioning with respect to a production means and/or with respect to a handling means.
  • each pallet comprises at least one spacer 15, which extends in a vertical direction (that is to say parallel to the direction in which the barrels 4 are threaded into their receptacles or bores 11, itself parallel to the axes of the needle D), and which is arranged to cooperate in abutment with a lower surface of the pallet 14 of another pallet 10, or else with a lower surface of the spacer that includes a spacer that includes the packaging 1.
  • a block has the same plane dimensions as a pallet 10, and it may be necessary to hold the needles 2 arranged on the upper pallet 10 in a stack of pallets.
  • Each spacer 15 extends in particular, from the pallet upper surface 13, over a pallet height which is greater than the needle height by the value of a predefined functional clearance J, in particular but not limited to the order of at least 0.05 mm.
  • spacers 15 can be formed from flanges surrounding the pallet 10, in particular from angled flanges such as visible in the figures, or from discrete projections distributed over its upper surface.
  • spacers 15 can also, for some, constitute polarizers, guaranteeing the stacking of pallets in a particular direction, and prohibiting overlapping head to tail.
  • an angled rim may have dimensions greater than the others, in particular at the level of a projection 16, paired with a housing 17 of corresponding profile on the opposite face.
  • At least one pallet 10 comprises, substantially parallel to the transverse bearing surface 130, a release pocket 135 or a succession of release pockets 135 for housing the distal ends of needles 2 bent according to the figure 18 or arched, or curved according to the figure 19 .
  • At least one pallet 10 comprises, in the transverse direction DT, at least one series of bores 11 or pins 110 respectively at a constant pitch.
  • each pallet 10 and/or wedge is inscribed in a rectangle in each plane perpendicular to the direction of the needle axes D.
  • the packaging 1 comprises a plurality of the same pallets 10, of identical plan size between them.
  • the packaging 1 comprises a plurality of the same pallets 10, of identical plan size between them.
  • each pallet 10 and/or said wedge is inscribed in a rectangle in each plane perpendicular to the direction of the needle axes D
  • allowing precise relative positioning in space of the pallets 10 of the same stack, or even clipping between neighboring pallets, at least one pallet 10, and more particularly each pallet of a stack comprises, extending beyond each spacer 15 from the upper surface of the pallet 13, at least one pin 16 for centering or clipping, which is arranged to cooperate with an implantation 17 for centering or clipping, and which comprises a lower surface pallet 14 of another pallet 10, or a lower surface of the wedge that includes a wedge.
  • At least one housing 12, or more particularly each housing 12, is separated from the adjacent housings 12 by at least one lateral abutment 120, which is interrupted at the level of each first oblong 131 that comprises the pallet 10 concerned.
  • This separation can, again, be achieved by bosses, which can themselves constitute spacers 15.
  • at least one such lateral stop 120 is interrupted at the level of each second oblong 132 that comprises the pallet 10 concerned.
  • each pallet 10 and/or wedge comprises means of identification 50 of its dimensioning, readable by an automatic, optical, magnetic, inductive detection means , mechanical, or other, and/or recognizable by an operator, in particular by colored and/or identification marking; the pallet 10 can, in particular, be made entirely in a color allowing its identification.
  • these identification means 50 comprise at least one colored pin, characteristic of the type of paddle or of the type of needle 2 that the paddle 10 in question can receive, inserted into a bore 31 that comprises the upper surface of the paddle 13.
  • the means identification 50 may also consist of an RFID chip embedded in the material of the pallet, or other, allowing the identification and traceability of the batch, at the same time as providing a guarantee of origin to the Customer.
  • each paddle 10 and/or wedge is entirely made of a material that is insensitive and resistant to the treatments included in the range of manufacture of the needles 2 concerned, for example made of plastic material or a material prepared for this purpose. effect, for example polycarbonate in case of cold treatment.
  • the packaging 1 comprises a plurality of pallets 10 and/or shims of the same plane size, each comprising at least two cutouts 40 made on opposite edge faces 41, 42, and arranged to receive at least one elastic bracelet 43 or clamping means arranged to temporarily secure all of the pallets resting on each other. More particularly, this packaging 1 then comprises only a plurality of identical pallets 10 and at least one such elastic bracelet 43. It is thus easy to group together under a reduced volume a large production of needles of a given model.
  • the elastic bracelet 43 is made of a material without latex or sulphur, and without outgassing.
  • At least one, or more particularly each pallet 10 and/or wedge comprises, in addition to the first oblongs 131 and the second oblongs 132, a plurality of other recesses which are arranged to allow the passage of fluid through its thickness.
  • each bore 11 is away from at least one such recess by a value less than or equal to the constant pitch between the bores 11.
  • the pallets 10 illustrated include markings 25 along the transverse direction DT, and 26 along the longitudinal direction DL, which make it possible to easily designate the position of a bore 11 or of a journal 110 by its Cartesian coordinates according to this marking, for example 5B or 6A, which simplifies programming of a position, or even the designation of a hand having a defect, or the like.
  • the invention also relates to an automated production means 100 for the manufacture of such watch hands 2.
  • This automated production means 100 comprises at least one manufacturing and initial shaping unit, in particular a manufacturing unit 1100 by stamping and/or milling and/or diamond coating, or by manufacturing on another manufacturing station adapted to the performing a needle manufacturing operation.
  • this automated production means 100 further comprises a palletizer mechanism 120, which is arranged to receive and identify a pallet 10 provided for the reception, maintenance, storage and transport of needles 2 of the same needle height. , and which comprises position indexing means 20 for its precise positioning on this palletizer mechanism 120.
  • this palletizer mechanism 120 comprises at least one automatic detection means 150, which is arranged to identify identification means 50 that each pallet 10 comprises.
  • the automated production means 100 comprises control and/or inspection means 170 for inspecting needles 2 kept positioned on pallets 10 after they have been shaped or machined.
  • the invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such clock hands 2.
  • these needles 2 machined and held in position on their pallet 10 are carried out in a step 940 at least one surface treatment and/or covering with a peripheral layer.
  • the needles no longer leave the pallet, in order to minimize handling costs, and to preserve the aesthetic quality of the product as much as possible until delivery. to the client.
  • the invention can also be used for watch components other than hands, such as counter disks, which can be fitted onto journals, or the like.
  • the figures illustrate four variants of pallets, which alone are sufficient to cover at least 90% of the production of a manufacturer of watchmaking hands, allowing correct removal of the hands with the extreme geometries.

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