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US3389550A
US3389550A US562278A US56227866A US3389550A US 3389550 A US3389550 A US 3389550A US 562278 A US562278 A US 562278A US 56227866 A US56227866 A US 56227866A US 3389550 A US3389550 A US 3389550A
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    • 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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/28—Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time
    • G04B19/283—Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time on rotatable rings, i.e. bezel
    • 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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/06—Dials
    • G04B19/18—Graduations on the crystal or glass, on the bezel, or on the rim
    • 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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/28—Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/081—Complete encasings for wrist or pocket watches also comprising means for hermetic sealing of the winding stem and crown
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/10—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/10—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems
    • G04B37/103—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems by screwing the crown onto the case
    • 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
    • G04B39/00—Watch crystals; Fastening or sealing of crystals; Clock glasses
    • G04B39/02—Sealing crystals or glasses

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  • a ring is rotatably mounted at the interior of the case and can be actuated by an exterior control member.
  • a catch is engaged in a position of rest in some notches formed on the movable ring, in a way to immobilise it in a definite position, this catch being disengaged by the control member in order to effect an angular displacement of the said ring.
  • Other devices use two pinions of which one, rigid with the control rod which can occupy two axial positions, the second pinion which engages with the movable ring, while in the other axial position of the rod, the two pinions are uncoupled.
  • the object of the present invention is a watch case comprising a ring equipped with at least one reference mark and rotatably mounted under the glass, and a rod equipped with a pinion at its interior end, engaging with the teeth of the said ring, this rod being rigid with a control member, and being able to occupy two axial positions by sliding in the interior of a tube driven into the case, characterised by engaging means rigid with the said rod, coming into engagement in one of the two axial positions of this rod with corresponding engaging means rigid with the case, the arrangement being such that the said control member is rotatably locked in one of the said axial positions of the rod and unlocked in the other position.
  • the engaging means rigid with the rod comprises a plurality of flutes
  • the engaging means rigid with the case comprises a plurality of projections.
  • This flute-projection assembly can also be disposed at the interior of the control button where it is disposed radially with more room than at the interior of the said channel of the case-band. This advantageous arrangement permits moreover the construction of the rod to be simplified without complicating appreciably that of the control button.
  • the said flute rigid with the rod is then carried by the control member and the said projection rigid with the case is carried by the exterior end of the tube driven into the case.
  • the device according to the invention has the advantage of being able to be adapted to any of the above- 3,389,550 Patented June 25, 1968 mentioned watches whatever, without the addition of supplementary pieces, reducing thus the encumberance at the interior of the case and requiring no particular assembling.
  • FIGURES 1 and 2 are sectional views of a first embodiment of the case, illustrated for two axial positions of the control rod;
  • FIGURE 3 is a cross-section'taken along line III--III of the control rod
  • FIGURE 4 is a cross-section taken along line-lV-IV of the tube guiding the knob
  • FIGURE 5 is a view in axial section of a second embodiment of the case
  • FIGURE 5a is a cross-sectional view taken along line
  • FIGURE 5b is a cross-sectional view taken along line VI-VI of FIGURE 5
  • FIGURE 6 is an axial view of a third embodiment of the case;
  • FIGURE 6a is a cross-sectional view taken along line VII-VII of FIGURE 6;
  • FIGURE 6b is a cross-sectional view taken along line VIII VIII of FIGURE 6.
  • the case shown comprises a case-band 1, pierced with a radial opening 2 in which is driven a tube 3.
  • a control member or knob 4 is mounted on the part of the tube situated at the exterior of the case-band.
  • a rod 5 is screwed in the part 6 of the knob and penetrates into the interior of the tube 3. This rod passes through the tube and-is terminated at its interior end by a pinion 7 which engages with the teeth 8 of the ring 9, rotatably mounted under the glass 13.
  • the interior wall of the tube 3 has on a part of its length some flutes 10 of a diameter less than the piercing of the tube.
  • the control rod has also on a part of its length some flutes 11 of which the diameter is larger than that of the rod 5.
  • a shoulder 12 serves to limit the axial displacement of the knob.
  • the knob 4 is pushed against the caseband 1, in this position the flutes of the rod 5 penetrate into the complementary openings situated between the flutes 10 of the tube 3 thereby preventing all rotation of the knob 4.
  • the control member is displaced axially until the shoulder 12 of the rod 5 comes to abut against the tube 3 producing a declutching between the flutes 11 of the rod 5 and the flutes 10 of the tube 3.
  • the knob 4 can then be rotatably displaced, driving by this fact the pinion 7 rigid with the rod 5, which causes an angu lar displacement of the ring 9. This latter can carry a guide-mark situated opposite the dial.
  • FIGURE 5 which shows the rod in its locked position
  • the knob 4 is screwed on the rod 15 and carries on the periphery of its threaded sleeve 16 the flutes 17 shown in section in FIGURE 5a. These flutes are from this 'fact rigid with the rod during movement of the latter and come in the example described, firom fabrication with the sleeve 16 of the knob 4.
  • the flutes 17 cooperate with the projections 18, shown in section in FIGURE 5b, to assure the locking of the rod 15.
  • a tight joint 22 is disposed between the tube, rigid with the case, and the peripheral sleeve 23 of the knob 4.
  • FIGURE 6 which shows the rod in its locked position according to another embodiment of the present invention
  • the knob 4 is also screwed on the rod 25 and carries, on the interior periphery 31 of its exterior sleeve 101, the flutes 41 in the form of teeth, represented in section in FIGURE 6a.
  • These flutes in the form of teeth are by this fact rigid with the rod during movement of the latter and come, in the example described are formed integrally with knob 4.
  • These flutes cooperate with the projection 51 carried by the external periphery of the tube 71 driven into the case band 81 of the case and assure, by this fact, the locking of the rod.
  • a tight joint 91 is formed at the free end of the tube between the internal surface of the tube and the external surface of the threaded interior sleeve 32 by which the knob 4 is screwed on the rod 25.
  • a watch case comprising (i) a case-band and a watch glass,
  • the ring havingat least one guide-mark
  • a control member including a manually operable knob and a rod, the knob and the rod being rigidly interconnected
  • control member being movable axially of its rod
  • control member and the tube each being provided with engaging means adapted to engage with the cooperating engaging means on the other part in one axial position of the control member whereby the control member is immobilised with respect to the tube
  • a watch-case according to claim 2 in which a plurality of flutes are provided on the control member, and a plurality of projections are provided on the tube.
  • a watch-case according to claim 3 in which the projections are situated on the interior wall of the tube rigidly mounted in the case, and are formed in one piece with the tube.
  • a watch-case according to claim 3 in which the flutes rigid with the rod are carried by the control knob while the projections, rigid with the case are carried by the exterior end of the tube.
  • a watch-case according to claim 3 in which the flutes are disposed at the external periphery of a threaded sleeve of the control knob while the projections are disposed on the internal periphery of the exterior end of the tube, the rod being screwed into the threaded sleeve.
  • a watch-case according to claim 3 in which the flutes are disposed at the internal periphery of an exteriorlsleeve of the control knob and the projections are disposed on the external periphery of the tube.
  • a watch-case according to claim 3 in which the projections are formed in one piece with the tube.

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US3977178A (en) * 1974-08-20 1976-08-31 Boninchi S.A. Watch winding crown assembly
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US20030030230A1 (en) * 2001-07-28 2003-02-13 Manufacture Jaeger-Lecoultre Sa Sealed crown for watch casing
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US20070147186A1 (en) * 2003-10-24 2007-06-28 Laurent Morel Control device with a disengageable crown for a wristwatch
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US20060153012A1 (en) * 2001-04-27 2006-07-13 Nobukazu Oomori Wrist-portable apparatus
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US20030030230A1 (en) * 2001-07-28 2003-02-13 Manufacture Jaeger-Lecoultre Sa Sealed crown for watch casing
US6902169B2 (en) * 2001-07-28 2005-06-07 Richemont International Sa Sealed crown for watch casing
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