JPH0534469A - Housing method of decorative body of equipment timepiece - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To increase change in the shape of a timepiece body at the tome when a stage is opened and when the stage is housed so as to strongly attract the attention of an observer by moving a decorative body mounted on the inner surface of an opening door during. opening/closing operation of the opening door so as to change the arrangement of the decorative body. CONSTITUTION:A clock tower is formed into a square-column form with columns 11 provided on the four corners, while the end of each left door 15 and right door 17 is mounted on the column 11 through a hinge 19. The operation of the doors 15, 16 is carried out through a feed nut 24 by rotating a driving motor 21 and a screw shaft 23. Each decorative body 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 is operated while the doors 15, 17 are opened, and when the operation is finished, each decorative body 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 is operated, and after the operation is finished, each decorative body 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 is arranged in line at a predetermined position, while the right and left doors 17, 15 are closed. Since the decorative bodies 35, 37, 39 mounted on the inner surface are operated while the doors 15, 17 are operated, large decorative bodies as many as possible can be stored even in a clock body of limited space, and the decorative body is arranged normally when a stage is formed, even when the arrangement thereof at the time of storing is not natural, and good appearance is thus achieved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention normally stores a decorative body incorporated in an equipment timepiece in the equipment timepiece and opens the door at every required time so that the decoration body appears from the equipment timepiece. Related to equipment clocks that form a stage
More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of accommodating and allowing a decorative object such as a doll to be stored and made to appear.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Today, a door is opened along with music in accordance with the hourly hourly hourly music, and a decorative body such as a doll incorporated in an equipment clock appears to form a stage. After that, a lot of equipment clocks such as clock towers that move this ornament to attract the attention of the viewer have been installed.

In such an equipment clock, in many cases, a decorative object such as a doll is placed on a rotating table and the rotating table is used.
The ornament is moved by rotating the bull so that a doll or the like appears from the inside of the equipment clock (for example, Shoukai 63-50090, Shouhei 1-1319).
No. 1 and JP-A No. 2-141693). or,
Recently, we decided to incorporate as many ornaments as possible into the stage, and to create a stage by pushing out the ornaments installed inside the equipment clock, and hide the ornaments so that they would not normally be visible. A decorative body is attached to the inner surface of the open door, and when the open / close door is opened, the stage is expanded with the decorative body attached to the inner surface of the open door to open the open / close door from the closed state. There is a method in which a large amount of various ornaments are incorporated into the limited space of the equipment timepiece as much as possible (for example, JP-A-2-31186).

[0004]

In a conventional large-sized equipment timepiece, a doll usually has a space formed inside the timepiece body, and as many decorations as possible are stored in this space and stored when the door is opened. The ornamental bodies such as the above are pushed out to form a stage. However, when opening the door, it is necessary to store as many decorative objects as possible in order to form a large stage, but the internal space of the watch body is limited, and with the door open. In order to improve the appearance of the decorative body to be shown, the shape and arrangement of the decorative body must be determined in advance, so that the size of the decorative body to be stored is limited and the size of the stage is also limited.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a timepiece having a decorative body on the inner surface of an opening / closing door which is opened every required time, and also having a decorative body which is pushed out from the inside of the timepiece when the opening / closing door is opened. In, the decorative body provided on the inner surface of the opening / closing door is operated in accordance with the movement of the door while the opening / closing door is moving to the open position, and when the opening / closing door is opened, the direction of the decorative body is set to the normal position, and, A method for accommodating a decorative body of an equipment timepiece characterized in that, when the opening / closing door is closed, the decorative body is operated after the opening operation of the door is started to correct the direction and position of the decorative body.

[0006]

[Operation] Since the present invention operates the decorative body attached to the inner surface of the opening / closing door during the opening / closing operation of the door, the decorative body is in a normal state when the door is opened, and the interior of the watch body is closed when the door is closed. The arrangement shape of the ornamental body can be made to match the shape of the space.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The embodiment of the present invention is, as shown in FIG. 1, an opening / closing door 1 of a clock tower 10 which is formed into a quadrangle by four columns 11.
Stage plates 45 and 4 inside the clock tower 10
7 is a method of forming a stage with a decorative body attached to the upper surface of 7, and housing the decorative body forming this stage in the clock tower 10 which is the equipment clock.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a clock tower 10 as the equipment clock is in the shape of a quadrangular prism having columns 11 at four corners, and the required height portions on two side surfaces of the clock tower 10 are opened and closed. As a door, the left end of the left door 15 is supported by a hinge 19 to support the pillar 1.
1, the right end of the right door 17 is also attached to the column 11 by the hinge 19, and the rotation is transmitted from the door opening / closing drive motor 21 to the feed screw shaft 23 via a gear train or the like, and the feed screw shaft 23 is rotated. The feed nut 24 which moves in parallel by rotation and the left and right doors 15, 17 are connected by a push rod 25, and the left door 15 and the right door 17 are opened and closed by the rotation of the motor 21.

The left and right doors 15 and 17 are not opened or closed by the feed screw shaft 23 or the push rod 25, but by an appropriate opening / closing mechanism such as a link mechanism or a rotating mechanism. It is enough if you do. Then, mounting tables 41 are provided on the inner surfaces of the left and right doors 15 and 17 and the dolls 3 are attached to the mounting tables 41.
The clock tower 10 also has a first stage plate 45 and a second stage plate 47 having coaxial axes of rotation, which are attached with ornaments such as 5, 37 and the like. The decorative body 31 is arranged on the upper surface of the plate 45, and the decorative body 33 is also arranged on the second stage plate 47. Further, the stage of this equipment timepiece is as shown in FIG. When the door 15 and the right door 17 are opened 90 degrees, the two dolls 35 and 37 provided on the mounting table 41 of the left door 15 are aligned and made to face the left door 15, and this doll 3
A musical instrument 39 such as a handbell is attached to the arms of 5, 5 and two dolls 35, 37 provided on a mounting table 41 of the right door 17 are also aligned and made to face the right door 17, and the doll 35 , 37 also has an instrument 39.

When forming the stage, after opening the left and right doors 15 and 17, the first stage plate 45 is rotated clockwise and the second stage plate 47 is rotated counterclockwise. Let
The decorative body 31 and the second body placed on the first stage plate 45.
The decorative body 33 placed on the stage plate 47 is attached to the clock tower 10
After the formation of the stage, the ornaments 31, 33 on the stage plate can be moved in accordance with the music and the dolls 35, 37 provided on the left and right doors 15, 17 can be placed in front of each other. Musical instrument 2
The ornamental bodies 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 are operated so that the faces of the character 9 and the dolls 35, 37 can be moved.

As described above, many ornaments 31, 33 placed on the first stage plate 45 and the second stage plate 47, dolls 35, 37 and musical instruments 39 provided on the inner surface of the opening / closing door, and the like. In the equipment clock for accommodating the decorative body, the present embodiment has the left door 15
And the decorative bodies 31, 33, 3 with the right door 17 opened
5, 37, 39 are activated, and at the end of the operation, each ornament 3
1, 33, 35, 37, 39 are aligned at predetermined positions to close the left and right open / close doors. As control for closing the left door 15 and the right door 17, the first stage plate 4 is used.
5 and the second stage plate 47 are rotated to retract the decorative bodies 31, 33 attached to the upper surfaces of the first stage plate 45 and the second stage plate 47, and then the left door 15 and the right door The opening and closing door driving motor 21 is simultaneously activated to start the operation of closing the left and right opening and closing doors.

When the left door 15 and the right door 17 are closed about 30 degrees from the open position, the arms of the four dolls 35, 37 provided on the left door 15 and the right door 17 are lifted up.
Each of the dolls 3 has a decorative body such as a musical instrument 39 held by 37.
The dolls 37 placed outside the respective mounting tables 41 of the right door 17 and the left door 15 are rotated by 45 degrees while being moved closer to 5, 37, and directed toward the outer oblique direction.

This operation is performed by keeping the left and right open / close doors closed at a constant speed without stopping the closing operation of the left door 15 and the right door 17, and is provided on the inner surface of the door by about 60 degrees. The decorations 3 provided on the inner surfaces of the opening / closing doors 15 and 17 are decided to complete the operations of the decorations 35, 37 and 39.
After the operations of 5, 37, 39 are completed, the closing of the left door 15 and the right door 17 is completed.

Also, when the left and right doors 15 and 17 are opened, the dolls 35 and 37 provided on the inner surfaces of the left and right doors 15 and 17 after the left and right opening and closing doors are opened about 30 degrees from the closed position. The doll 37 placed outside the mounting table 41 is mounted on the mounting table 41.
The left door 15 and the right door 17 are brought to the back according to the doll 35 arranged inside, and the arms of the four dolls 35 and 37 are lowered to put the ornaments 35 in the regular positions for stage formation. ，
The decorations 35 and 37 provided on the inner surfaces of the left and right doors are operated while the left door 15 and the right door 17 are being opened so that 37 and 39 are arranged.

In this embodiment, as described above, the decorative bodies 35 and 3 attached to the inner surfaces of the opening and closing doors 15 and 17 during the operation of the opening and closing doors.
Because of the operation of 7, 39, even in the limited space inside the watch body, more large decorative bodies 31, 33, 3
5, 37, 39 can be stored, and the stage is formed with the left door 15 and the right door 17 as the open positions even if the decorations 35, 37, 39 are unnatural when stored. The ornaments 35, 37, 39 can be arranged at regular positions to improve the appearance.
Since the arrangement of 39 is changed with respect to the decorative bodies 35, 37, 39 provided on the inner surface of the opening / closing door during the operation of the opening / closing door, it can be performed without making the operation of the opening / closing door conspicuous.

In the above embodiment, the stage plate is divided into the first stage plate 45 and the second stage plate 47, and the decorative body is also divided into two, and the clock is inserted from the back of the clock tower 10. Although the ornaments 31 and 33 that protrude toward the front of the tower 10 are formed, the ornament that protrudes from the back of the clock tower 10 is placed on a single rotating plate so that the rotating plate is rotated 180 degrees. In this case, various push-out operations can be performed, such as when the push-out operation is performed, when the push-out operation is performed by placing the slide plate on the slide plate and when the push-out operation is performed by hanging the rotation plate or the slide plate.

[0017]

According to the present invention, since the decorations provided on the inner surfaces of the left and right doors are operated to be changed, a large decoration can be stored in the limited internal space of the equipment clock. ,
Even if the arrangement during storage is unnatural, a large decorative body can be arranged in order when forming the stage when the opening / closing door is opened. It is possible to form a large stage, increase the change when the open / close door is changed from the closed state to the open state, and strongly attract the attention of the viewer.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a state in which a stage of an equipment timepiece for carrying out the method of the present invention is opened.

FIG. 2 is an external view of an equipment timepiece that implements the method of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of an essential part of an equipment timepiece for carrying out the method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Clock Tower 11 Struts 15 Left Door 17 Right Door 21 Opening / closing Motor 25 Opening / Closing Device 31, 33 Decorative Body 35 Inner Doll 37 Outer Doll 45 First Stage
Jig board 47 Second stage board

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. An equipment timepiece having an ornament on the inner surface of an opening / closing door that opens every required time, and also an ornament that protrudes from the inside of the timepiece when the opening / closing door opens. , After the opening / closing door starts to open, the opening / closing door is operated to correct the direction and position of the decorative body provided on the inner surface of the opening / closing door while the opening / closing door is moving to the opening position. Set the orientation and arrangement of the decorations on the inner surface of the
When the opening / closing door is closed, after the door starts to close, the decoration provided on the inner surface of the opening / closing door so as to correct the direction and position of the decoration body provided on the inner surface of the door during movement to the closing position of the opening / closing door. A method for accommodating a decorative body of an equipment clock, which is characterized by activating the body.