JPH10118348A - Toy clock - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an infant to read the time of the clock by showing the figure of minutes on a display window in accordance with a numeral on the dial indicated by the long hand. SOLUTION: In a toy clock 1 designed to turn a knob 5 attached to the long hand 4, a display window 7 for showing minutes in blocks of five minutes is attached near the numerals 11 in a few places on the dial 3 of the clock 1; in addition, a mechanism 27 for controlling the minute display is also attached to the clock such that, when the long hand reaches a certain numeral 11 on the dial 3, the figure of the relative minutes appears on the display window 7, and that, in other times, no figure of minutes appears on the display window 7. Accordingly, with the clock body turned around, a relation between the numeral the long hand indicates on the dial and the minute figure on the display window is visually clearly understood even by an infant.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a toy watch that allows an infant to read the display on the watch.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Similar to a real timepiece, a toy watch has a dial, a long hand rotatably mounted on the dial, a knob attached to the long hand for moving the long hand, and a toy which moves in conjunction with the long hand. It has a short hand. By pinching and moving the knob, the infant can freely move the long hand and the short hand to display any time and play.

[0003]

However, in the case of a toy watch, like a normal timepiece, the dial is a decimal number, and the minute display of the time is not displayed on the dial.
Because it is a hexadecimal display, it was difficult for infants to understand the minutes on the dial indicated by the long hand.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide a toy watch in which an infant can read the display of the watch while playing.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toy watch of the type in which a knob attached to a long hand is picked up and rotated, wherein a number near a dial on the dial of the toy watch is provided. A minute display unit in units of 5 minutes, and when the hour hand reaches the numeral of the hour display on the dial, the corresponding minute display unit is displayed, otherwise the number on the minute display unit is not displayed. A minute display control mechanism was installed to bring the display state.

[0006] Since the minute display is known from the minute display portion corresponding to the numeral on the dial indicated by the long hand, the time indicated by the clock can be read even by an infant.

[0007] The minute display section of claim 2 is a member composed of twelve rotatable blocks, and draws a 5-minute unit corresponding to the number on the dial on at least the back surface of each block. Turn the knob and when the hour hand reaches the number on the dial for a certain time on the dial, it will rotate and the back side will draw a 5-minute number, and when the hour hand passes the number on the dial, it will reverse and return to the original The surface was configured to come out.

When the hour hand reaches the numeral of the hour display on the dial by turning the knob, the block rotates to display the minute indication of the time indicated by the hour hand and the hour hand, and when the hour hand passes the numeral on the dial, Since the original surface comes out after being inverted, the relationship between the numerals on the dial indicated by the long hand and the minute display can be impressively clearly understood even for an infant.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, a toy watch according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a toy watch according to the present invention. The toy watch 1 has a dial 3 provided on a surface 2a of a casing 2, a long hand 4 rotatably mounted on the dial 3, and a long hand 4 A knob 5 attached to the long hand 4 for moving the hand, a short hand 6 that moves in conjunction with the long hand 4, and a minute display unit 7 attached to the outside of the dial 3 in 5-minute units.

The dial 3 has 60 points 8... Provided at equal intervals, 12 large points 9... Depicting a fifth point 8. "1, 2, 3, ... 1
2 ”of numbers 11... An opening 12 is provided at the tip of the long hand 4 which moves on the numeral 11 on the dial 3 when the knob 5 is pinched and the long hand 4 is rotated, so that the numeral 11 on the dial 3 can be seen.

The minute display section 7 includes rotatable blocks 14 housed in three transparent cases 13 at four locations, up, down, left and right, near the dial 3 (outside of the dial 3 in the embodiment).
... .. Correspond to the numerals 11 of “1, 2, 3,... 12” on the dial 3, respectively. Each of the blocks 14... When the hour hand 4 reaches the numeral 11... On the dial 3 (“9” is shown in the figure)
The number on the minute display section 7 is displayed in a reversed state (“45” representing 45 minutes is shown in the figure), and at other times, the number on the minute display section 7 is in a non-display state,
The surface with a solid color or an arbitrary pattern appears. Such an operation is performed by a minute display control mechanism described later.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a back cover to be fitted into the casing 2 from behind, and 16 denotes legs for standing the casing 2.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the toy watch with the back cover removed. The long hand 4 is fixed to a shaft 21 with a screw 22 (see FIG. 3), and the shaft 21 is rotatable on a bracket 23 with a screw 24. Attach to The bracket 23 is fixed to the back surface 2b of the casing 2 with screws 25. A fan-shaped block driving member 26 that rotates integrally with the long hand 4 is
Fix with 4. The block driving member 26 is connected to the block 14 ...
The mechanism for driving the block driving member 26
This will be described in detail in the minute display control mechanism 27, which will be described later, which is composed of

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line 3-3 in FIG.
8, the large gear 29 meshing with the small gear 28 is rotatably mounted between the bracket 22 and the back surface 2b of the casing 2. Forming a small gear 31 integrally with the large gear 29,
A large gear 32 meshing with the small gear 31 is rotatably attached to the shaft 21 on the back surface 2b side of the casing 2. Large gear 32
Is a sleeve 3 extending to the surface 2a side of the casing 2.
The short needle 6 is fixed to the sleeve 33. Due to the combination of the small gear 28, the large gear 29, the small gear 31 and the large gear 32, when the long hand 4 rotates 360 °,
The short hand 6 is set to rotate by 30 °.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the minute display control mechanism.
And blocks 14... Block drive member 26
Are a pair of elastic members 35 provided at intervals at the distal end,
35 is provided. A pressing plate 36 is attached between the elastic members 35. A spring 37 is wound around the telescopic members 35, 35 to press the block driving member 26 and the pressing plate 36 in the directions of the arrows in the drawing (the directions opposite to each other) (see also FIG. 3). A rubber plate 38 is attached to the pressing plate 36, and the rubber plate 3
8, a taper 39 is formed at the right end (the rotation direction side of the block driving member 26 indicated by the arrow in the figure).

The block 14 has a shaft 41 extending vertically.
Is provided. The upper end and the lower end of the shaft 41 are
The upper stay 42 is rotatably attached to upper and lower stays 42 and 43 formed on the back surface 2b side (the upper stay 42 is not shown in FIG. 3). Reference numeral 44 denotes an attachment member for attaching the shaft 41 to the three lower stays 43.

A large-diameter contact portion 45 is provided below the shaft 41 between each block 14 and the stay 43 in the drawing. When the knob 5 is turned to move the block driving member 26 in the clockwise direction indicated by the arrow in FIG.
8 comes into contact with the shaft 41 and the blocks 14a, 14
b and 14c are sequentially rotated clockwise.

The blocks 14 are a front surface 51 and a back surface 52.
Are cut in parallel and formed flat (the back surface 52 is not shown; see also FIG. 5). The surface 51 is solid or has an arbitrary pattern. On the back surface 52, “1, 2,
3, ... 12 ", one by one," 5,10,
15, ..., 0 "and the number in minutes in 5-minute increments (see also FIG. 1).

The pins 46 are erected on the upper surfaces of the blocks 14.
A spring 48 is stretched between the pin 46 and a pin 47 provided on the back surface 2b side of the casing 2 (see FIG. 5).
The block driving member 26 moves and the rubber plate 38
The back surface 52 is turned upside down while in contact with 5,
When the rubber plate 38 comes off the contact portion 45, the spring 48
The surface 51 returns by the force of.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line 5-5 in FIG. 2. Two rollers 55, 55 are provided on the back cover 15 at the end of the block driving member 26 pressed by the spring 37. The rollers 55 are brought into contact with the convex portion 56 of the back cover 15 projecting outward so that the block driving member 26 moves smoothly.

The operation of the toy watch having the above configuration will be described below. FIG. 6 is an operation diagram of the toy watch of the present invention,
In (a), the knob 5 is pinched and the long hand 4 is rotated clockwise from “12” of the dial 3.

In (b), when the hour hand 4 reaches the number “1” on the dial 3, the block 14 of the minute display unit 7 provided outside the dial 3 starts to be inverted and displayed on the back surface 52. The minute display “5” starts to appear.

In (c), the back surface of the block 14 is turned up, and the minute display “5” is completely displayed, and the display state is brought about.
When the hour hand 4 reaches the number "1" on the dial 3, the infant can be informed that the minute display of the number "1" on the dial 3 indicated by the hour hand 4 is "5 minutes". Since each block 14... Of the minute display unit 7 is near the corresponding numeral 11... Of the dial 3, the numeral “1” of the dial 3 indicated by the hour hand 4 is displayed.
Since the correspondence between the number and the minute display "5" can be clearly understood by the infant, the infant can be impressively and clearly understood the relationship between the number on the dial 3 and the minute display.

When the hour hand 4 passes the "1" of the dial 3, the back surface 52 is instantaneously inverted by the force of the spring 48,
The original surface 51 comes out. In the same manner, turn the knob 5 further so that the hour hand 4 turns the numerals “2”, “3”, “4”,.
Each time "12" is reached, the corresponding 5-minute unit "10", "15",
"20",... "0" are displayed.

The minute display unit 7 is not a block as in the above-described embodiment, but a mechanism in which a window is opened to display a display or a liquid crystal display, when the long hand reaches a numeral of a time display with a dial. Alternatively, the corresponding minute number may be displayed.

[0026]

The present invention has the following advantages because it is configured as described above. Claim 1 is a toy watch of the type in which the knob attached to the hour hand is picked up and rotated, a minute display unit in units of 5 minutes is attached near the numeral of the dial of the toy watch, and a time table in which the hour hand has the dial. A minute display control mechanism is provided to display the number in the corresponding minute display section when the character number is reached, and to hide the number in the minute display section otherwise.

[0027] Since the minute display is known from the minute display section corresponding to the numeral on the dial indicated by the long hand, the time indicated by the clock can be read by an infant.

The minute display part of claim 2 is a member composed of twelve rotatable blocks, and draws a number in units of five minutes corresponding to the number of the dial on at least the back surface of each block. Turn the knob and when the hour hand reaches the number on the dial for a certain time on the dial, it will rotate and the back side will draw a 5-minute number, and when the hour hand passes the number on the dial, it will reverse and return to the original The surface was configured to come out.

When the hour hand reaches the numeral of the hour display on the dial by turning the knob, the block rotates and the minute display of the time indicated by the hour hand and the hour hand appears, and when the hour hand passes the numeral on the dial, Since the original surface comes out after being inverted, the relationship between the numerals on the dial indicated by the long hand and the minute display can be impressively clearly understood even for an infant.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a toy watch of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the toy watch of the present invention with the back cover removed.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-3 in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of a minute display control mechanism.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line 5-5 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is an operation diagram of the toy watch of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Toy clock, 2 ... Casing, 3 ... Dial, 4 ... Long hand, 5 ... Knob, 6 ... Short hand, 7 ... Minute display part, 13 ... Case, 14 ... Block, 21 ... Shaft, 26 ... Block driving member, 27: minute display control mechanism, 36: pressing plate, 37: spring, 38: rubber plate, 51: front surface, 52: back surface.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A toy watch of a type in which a knob attached to an hour hand is picked up and rotated, a minute display unit in units of 5 minutes is attached near a numeral on the dial of the toy watch, and the hour hand has a time on the dial. A toy clock characterized in that a minute display control mechanism is attached to display the number on the minute display section when the number of characters of the character reaches the display state, and otherwise hide the number on the minute display section. . 2. The minute display section is a member composed of twelve rotatable blocks, and draws a 5-minute unit corresponding to the number on the dial on at least the back surface of each block. Turn the knob to rotate the hour hand when it reaches the number on the dial for a certain time on the dial. The toy watch according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the toy is formed.