US1022078A - Watch. - Google Patents

Description

W. HAINES.

WATCH.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25, 1911.

1,022,078. P- Patented Apr;2,1912.

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WILLIAM HAINES, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ap1z`2, 1912.

Application rfiled August 25, 1911. Serial No. 646,023.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM I-IAINns, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in IVatches, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a watch or clock which is providedwith a device for indicating the condition that the watch or clock is wound or run down such as is shown in the Letters Patent No. 248,310, granted to William Haines and Lewis Breitinger, on the 18th day of October, 1881, the invention therein contained being applied to a key-wound watch.

The present invention consists of means for operating an indicator of the character in a stem-winding watch, the means emloyed being hereinafter described and the novelty thereof pointed out in the claim.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalit-ies as herein shown and described. y

Figure 1 represents a face view of a watch embodying an invention. Fig. 2 represents a view of the watch, the dial having been removed therefrom. Fig. 3 represents a view of a portion opposite to Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents an elevation of a detached portion of the mechanism of the watch. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section on line wam Fig. 2. Fig. 6 represents a section of a portion on line y-y Fig. 2. Fig. 7 represents a section of a portion on line z-z Fig. 2. Fig. S represents a perspective view of portion of a detached member. Fig. 9 represents face view of two members of the watch mechanism to be hereinafter referred to. Fig. 10 represents a side elevation of a detached member.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the casing of a watch of usual construction.

B designates the dial the same having thereon the additional dial C over which is the index finger D, to be hereinafter referred to, said dial C having graduations or characters adapted to indicate the condition of the watch whether entirely or partly wound or run down.

E designates the pinion of the stem-winding device of the watch the same being adapted to operate the wheels E. F. on the vibrating arm Gr usual in stein-winding watches.

II designates a spur wheel which is adapted to mesh wit-h the wheel F and with the wheel J this latter being attached to the arbor K which carries the wheel L. Referring to Figs. 3 and 7, it will be noticed that the wheels J. L. are o-n opposite ends of said arbor K and the latter passes through the pillow plate K and the adjacent plate K2 of the frame of the watch, the wheel J being on the plate K and the wheel L on the plate K2. The wheel L through the intermediate train of the mechanism, is geared over to the pinion M on the barrel arbor N, said pinion M meshing with the wheel P on whose post Q is the wheel It, the latter meshing with wheel S with which meshes the wheel T, these wheels R, S, T being mounted on the rocking lever or bar U on one end of which is the crook V which is fittedl freely on the conical neck V of the adjacent wheel of the train usual in such cases. One end of said lever has bearing against it the spring V2 for restoring said lever to its normal position and retaining it thereat, said spring being held in position by the keeper V3. The wheel T meshes with the pinion 'W which by intermediate mechanism serves to operate the indicator hand or index finger D hereinbefore referred to, the same being fitted on the sleeve of the wheel R. In the train are the wheel X and ratchet Y shown in Figs. 8, 5, and 9. On said wheel is the pin or stud Z, which is adapted to enter the elongated slot Z in said ratchet. These features together with the rocking lever U and connected. mechanism are well known for preventing back action on said ratchet in unwinding as well known.

It will be seen that when the stem is rotated motion is communicated to the wheels E, F, I-I, J and consequently to the other members of the train and to the pinion M, whereby the spring is Wound, the lever U oscillating and so being disengaged from iio and engaged with the pinion W as usual in such eases. lVith the Winding of the spring the Wheel R is rotated and the index finger D is carried around With the same thus indioating on the dial C the :tact that the Watch has been Wound-up. As the spring unWinds and the Watch runs down, the pinion W communicates motion to the Wheels T, S, R, the Wheel R now rotating in reverse order to its previous rotation, whereby the indeX finger D is carried around With the same on the dial C in the direction indicating the fact that the Watch is running down and may have run down to full extent or at any intermediate time.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a Watch, an arbor, adjacent plates of the Watch frame, said arbor being adapted to pass through said plates, Wheels on the ends of said arbor, and located respectively on said plates, one of said Wheels being adapted to operate an adjacent member of the Winding train, stem Winding mechanism including a spur Wheel Which latter is adapted to gear With and rotate the other Wheel on said arbor, and indicating mechanism of the wound or univound condition of the Watch, the same being adapted to be operated by said train.

C. D. MCVAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for 1ive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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