US3183659A - Watch with a sweep second hand and running-indicator means - Google Patents

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US3183659A
US3183659A US270716A US27071663A US3183659A US 3183659 A US3183659 A US 3183659A US 270716 A US270716 A US 270716A US 27071663 A US27071663 A US 27071663A US 3183659 A US3183659 A US 3183659A
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    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
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    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/06—Dials
    • G04B19/10—Ornamental shape of the graduations or the surface of the dial; Attachment of the graduations to the dial
    • G04B19/106—Special number markings
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B33/00—Calibers
    • G04B33/10—Calibers with seconds hand arranged in the centre of the dial
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • G04B45/0038—Figures or parts thereof moved by the clockwork
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • G04B45/0038—Figures or parts thereof moved by the clockwork
    • G04B45/0061—Moving parts of the clockwork, e.g. pendulum, hands in special form, mostly constructed as a figure

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  • the watch according to this invention comprises a rotary indicating member coaxial to the sweep second and driven by the watch movement counterclockwise at substantially the same speed as the sweep second.
  • a further object of this invention consists in arranging the extra indicating member, which is driven counterclockwise, on the periphery of the dial so that this member moves around the figures of the latter.
  • Still another object of this invention consists in providing driving means of the extra indicating member which are located below the dial, thus avoiding any interference with the usual hands of the watch.
  • FIG. 1 is a diametrical part sectional view of the watch according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the dial and of some watch movement parts
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view on a larger scale along line III-III of FIG. 2.
  • the watch represented in the drawings comprises a standard movement which includes a sweep second wheel I 1 journalled, on the one hand, in a bridge 2, and on the other hand, in a pipe 3 fixed to the base plate 4.
  • Pipe 3 protrudes from the base plate surface adjacent to the dial 5 and this protruding portion of the pipe 3 serves as pivot for a cannon-pinion 6 carrying a driving wheel 7 friction- ICC ally mounted on a bearing surface of cannon-pinion 6.
  • the latter in turn serves as pivot for an hour wheel 8.
  • the barrel 9 drives an eccentrically mounted second or great wheel 10 which drives a third wheel 11( FIG. 2).
  • the pinion 12 of the third wheel (FIG. 3) drives wheel 7 mounted on cannonpinion 6.
  • An hour hand 13, a minute hand 14 and a second hand 15 are secured in the usual manner to the hour wheel 8, the cannon-pinion 6 and the shaft of wheel 1, respectively.
  • a minute wheel (not shown) meshes with the toothing 6a of cannon-pinion 6 and drives the hour wheel 8 in the usual manner.
  • the watch according to the invention further comprises a pinion 16 which meshes with the third wheel 11 as the pinion of the sweep second wheel 1.
  • This pinion 16 is made integral with a shaft journalled in bridge 2 and base plate 4.
  • the shaft of pinion 16 is formed with a pivot projecting above the surface of base plate 4 adjacent to dial 5 and a wheel 17 is set onto this pivot.
  • Wheel 17 meshes with a wheel 18 coaxial to hour wheel 8.
  • Wheel 18 is located around a cylindrical bearing surface of a ring 19 secured to a plate 20 by means of screws 21.
  • This plate 20 is provided with an annular projection 22 in order to reduce the friction between wheel 18 and the framework of the Watch movement. Plate 20 is itself secured to the base plate 4 by means of screws 23.
  • Wheel 18 is axially held in place around ring 19 by means of, a spacer ring 24 fixed to ring 19 and plate 20 by means of screws 21.
  • the inner surface of ring 19 is provided with a screw thread to enable securing the dial 5 to the watch movement by means of a stud 25 screwed into ring 19.
  • stud 25 comprises a cylindrical surface around which dial 5 is located and can be oriented conveniently. Stud 25 further comprises a slotted head 26 axially holding dial 5 in place and permitting screwing stud 25 into ring 19.
  • dial Since the dial is fixed to the watch movement frame only by its central portion, the whole space comprised between base plate 4 and dial 5 and extending around wheel 18 is free. Moreover, the diameter of dial 5 is made smaller than the opening 27 of the watch case bezel 28, as shown in FIG. 1, so as to leave a free annular space between the dial and the wall of opening 27.
  • An arm 29, which can consist of a thin steel blade, is fixed to wheel 18 so as to extend between base plate 4 and dial 5 towards the periphery of the latter. The free end 30 of arm 29 is bent over dial 5 and an index 31 is fixed to this end 30.
  • FIG. 2 show the directions in which the wheels described rotate. It can thus be observed that wheel 18, arm 29 and index 31 rotate counterclockwise.
  • index 31 has advantageously been given the form of a rocket and dial 5 is provided with figures consisting of a sun 32, a moon crescent 33, a globe 34 and stars 35 and 36, the latter being set at ditferent distances from the center of the dial, in order to give the impression of a planetarium.
  • sun 32 indicating three hours can be made 1 with an independent central portion 37 which can be removed with a watch provided with a calendar.
  • annular portion of sun 32 surrounds a window provided through the dial and in which the month day indications appear.
  • Arm 29 can be made thin enough and be adjusted with a suflicient precision without leaving a great space between dial 5 and bezel 28, said space being masked by the thicker peripheral portion of the glass 38.
  • a watch comprising: a movement with a frame, a sweep second shaft journalled in the center of said frame and driven by said movement at a speed of one revolution per minute, an hour wheel having a pipe coaxial to the sweep second shaft and a cylindrical bearing surface on said frame in the central portion thereof, said bearing surface extending around said pipe coaxially thereto; a circular dial carrying figures and having a central portion fixed to a portion of said frame located within said cylindrical bearing surface, the remaining dial portion thereby being axially spaced apart from said frame so as to form a free flat space therebetween; a casing enclosing said movement and said dial and having an opening concentric to said dial and with a diameter somewhat greater than that of the dial thus forming around the dial a narrow annular free space between the casing and the dial; a glass fixed to said casing and covering said opening, said glass having an outer rim portion masking said annular free space, a sweep second hand secured to said sweep second shaft; and an extra indicating member comprising a wheel mounted for rotation on said cylindrical bearing

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USD256781S (en) 1978-05-18 1980-09-09 Mackey Victor L Eclipse clock
USD275840S (en) 1982-08-30 1984-10-09 Rhetts Carl L Wall clock
US4583864A (en) * 1985-05-10 1986-04-22 Graves Joseph R Solar system clock
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US4734895A (en) * 1987-07-20 1988-03-29 Jewelmasters, Inc. Novelty watch construction
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USD389767S (en) 1996-02-27 1998-01-27 Denufrio Daniel Watch face
USD410678S (en) 1996-08-05 1999-06-08 Laury Lear Calendar for charting life's rhythms
USD438482S1 (en) 1999-04-13 2001-03-06 Xelia Technologies Wristwatch screen
USD442497S1 (en) 1999-10-08 2001-05-22 Leona Lighting Design Ltd. Clock
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