ES1058315U - Wristwatch strap - Google Patents

Abstract

"Clock Bracelet" of the type that being a largely ornamental element incorporates means to determine the time, essentially characterized by being made up of a body or chassis of ring or tubular configuration, on whose outer surface a minimum of twelve spheres are distributed independent with alternative operation for periods of one hour, each equipped with a minute indicator activated by an electronic mechanism, and coordinated with each other by a single electronic control supervisory circuit, in such a way that only one of the twelve mechanisms is always in motion signaling the minutes corresponding to that hour, while the other eleven minute hands remain at rest their corresponding activation turn. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Watch.

Description of the invention

The object of the present invention, as it is expressed in the statement of this specification, consists of a wrist watch that can be used interchangeably in watchmaking as in jewelry

In the market there are basically three types of personal watches: necklace, pocket and bracelet.

Wristwatches are made up normally by a clock face somehow coupled to a bracelet whose purpose is to be held around the wrist of the carrier person

The watch face can be analog type (i.e., with indicator hands typically of hours, minutes and seconds) or digital type (that is, with "display" or alphanumeric display), with the corresponding buttons and / or commands for setting the current time and date in addition of other possible auxiliary functions.

For its part, the bracelet to which the sphere can be rigid or flexible, with or without closure elements for attachment to the wrist; rigid bracelets are preferably metallic while the flexible ones can be constituted by links linked together or by a single annular oblong piece (or two, if equipped with closure) made of some flexible material such as leather or Rubber.

Currently the clock as a mechanical device has far exceeded its original task of monitoring the passage of time, acquiring a new social function as a personal symbol and on many occasions differentiating the individual who carries it, becoming in many cases a jewel that allows reading of the hour.

These watches with marked jewelry character, present an obvious formal limitation related to the usual formal configuration that any watch has to be able to Read the time. This formal limitation significantly reduces the expressive possibilities of jewelers and other designers who, by remarkably peculiar their creations are, these end by present a sphere in which the time is readable through two or three hands, or an alphanumeric screen.

The present invention improves current designs by allowing the expression of the time in a different way than conventional, opening a new field of possibilities for the development of new jewelry designs, so that its result The end is markedly different from what is conceptually considered a clock, thus reinforcing the concept of jewel.

The innovative model object of the present report It consists of a bracelet, in principle rigid and one piece (although it can be versioned in flexible or articulated, several pieces, with or without closing elements) on whose surface distribute a minimum of twelve independent spheres similar to those of a watch, each equipped with a minute indicator activated through an electronic mechanism, and coordinated with each other through A single electronic control circuit.

Each of the twelve spheres is related and links to a specific hour of twelve hours that has half day. Each sphere incorporates some type of indicator, which allows know the user what time this sphere represents.

Each time zone has in principle one single minute hand, but could optionally also carry second hand; this minute hand will be in charge of signaling the passing of the minutes during the interval corresponding to that hour concrete This minute hand can be replaced by a alphanumeric screen for displaying these minutes.

The wrist watch object of this memory has also of the necessary means to adjust the time current.

The operation of the watch bracelet is very Simple and ingenious and can be considered divided into two phases: the current time and normal operation setting.

Normal operation consists of synchronized and alternative activation of the minute hands of each of the twelve spheres, so that during the time that the sphere corresponding to the current time is active, your minute hand takes a full turn over the course of an hour and in how much it would touch the 12 o'clock position (which would indicate the end of one hour and the beginning of the next) would immediately activate the next sphere starting its minute hand, and so successively.

The novel invention therefore has twelve independent minutes but coordinated with each other in such a way that always only one of the twelve, the one corresponding to the time in course, is in motion signaling the corresponding minutes at that time, while the other eleven minutes remain in rest and at the 12 o'clock position, until their turn comes. So, to read the time, just locate the active sphere with what we will know the time, and the position of your hand, with What we will know the minute.

As for the preload phase, the device object of this invention has at least one button or button which once activated, accelerates the operation extraordinarily normal watch bracelet performing a full tour of the twelve minutes of the twelve spheres in record time, allowing the user quickly get into the time zone corresponding to the current time and set its corresponding minute in the current minute, after which it would continue with the normal operation described in the previous sections.

The synchronization of the set of spheres is performed through a control electronics that rules over the twelve machineries of the spheres. This management can be done in two different ways:

- Pulse government: Pulses are the signals electrical that the clock electronics emits against the motor electric "step-by-step" to advance a unit. The strategy is to use a single electronic synchronism that generates the clock movement pulses and the be supplied to each of the 12 machinery at the time timely. That is to say: the cycle would begin sending all the pulses to the first machinery until 1 hour is completed, when they would divert the pulses to the second machinery, and so successively.

- Government for food: This strategy consists of activating the single power supply and exclusively to machinery that must be working in every moment. To know what is the right time to be must cut the power to a machinery and activate it to another, a supervisory circuit is responsible for counting so unequivocally the clock pulses generated by each machinery, and at reach those necessary to complete your revolution, perform the switching power to the next machinery.

Optionally, the watch bracelet can have other controls such as activation, deactivation, deletion, etc.

Description of the drawings

In order to illustrate how much so far we have exposed, it is accompanied by the present specification, forming an integral part of it, some drawings by way of exemplary and non-limiting embodiment of the practical possibilities of the invention.

The illustrated example corresponds to a bracelet with rectangular spheres and minute marking by hand.

In said drawings, Figure 1 corresponds to a perspective view of the invention ,.

Figure 2 corresponds to a diagram of operation of the invention according to a system of government of the food spheres.

Description of a case study

The purpose of this report consists of a bracelet-watch consisting of a chassis in the form of ring (1), on whose surface twelve clock faces are placed (2), equidistant from each other. Each sphere incorporates a reference (3), in the example Roman numerals, which link the sphere at a certain time, as well as a single minute hand (4) that makes a revolution every 60 minutes driven by a watchmaking machinery that involves a motor step by step (5) and a pulse generator (6).

All machinery is powered by a same power supply (8) and to coordinate the operation alternative of all the spheres, the bracelet (1) incorporates a Supervisory circuit (7) that unequivocally counts the pulses generated by the pulse generator (6) of each machinery, and when you reach the necessary ones to complete your revolution, perform the switching of energy to the next machinery.

They will be independent of the purpose of this invention the materials used in the manufacture of different elements that compose it, as well as the forms, dimensions and accessories that may present, and may be replaced by other technically equivalent ones, provided that no affect the essentiality of it or depart from the scope defined in the claims section.

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Claims (7)

1. Bracelet-Watch of the type that being a largely ornamental element incorporates means to determine the time, essentially characterized by being a body or chassis of annular or tubular configuration, on whose outer surface a minimum of twelve independent spheres are distributed with alternative operation for periods of one hour, each equipped with a minute indicator operated by an electronic mechanism, and coordinated with each other by a single supervisory electronic control circuit, so that only one of the twelve mechanisms is always in motion signaling the minutes corresponding to said hour, while the other eleven minutes remain in rest their corresponding activation turn. 2. Bracelet-Watch, according to the preceding claim, characterized in that each of the spheres is related and linked to an hour by means of some type of indicator or reference, which allows the user to know what time it is that said sphere represents. 3. Bracelet-Watch according to previous claims, characterized in that each time zone basically has a minute hand operated by an electronic clockwork mechanism. 4. Watch-bracelet according to claim 3 characterized in that each sphere can incorporate in addition to the minute hand, a second hand. 5. Watch-bracelet according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that each time zone has an alphanumeric display operated by an electronic clockwork mechanism. 6. Watch-bracelet according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that all the machines are powered by the same power source and whose energy is supplied to them through the supervisory circuit that counts the pulses generated by the pulse generator of each machinery, and when reaching the necessary ones to complete its revolution, it realizes the commutation of energy to the following machinery. 7. Watch-bracelet according to claims 1, 2, 3 and 4, characterized in that the supervisory circuit comprises a single pulse generator that is distributed and supplied to each of the machines which lack an independent pulse generator, said distribution being made. alternative way and in blocks of one hour.