US341786A - Stem winding and setting watch - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. V. WOERD.

STEM WINDINGAND SETTING WATCH. No. 341,786.

Patented May 11, 1886.

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Be it known that I, GHARLEs V. XVOERD, of Valt-ham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ste1n-\Vind ing Vatches, of which the following is a l'nll, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of stein winding and setting mechanisms of watchmovemcnts in which, in combination with a rotating arbor or stem, preferably located in the pendant-knob of the watchcase, is employed a train ot` gearing in constant connection with said rotating pendantarbor and carried by and arranged on a swinging or otherwise movable or shifting yoke, and all in such relation to the winding and hand arbors lor wheels of the watch-movement that the swing or movement of said yoke in one direction places said train of gearing into connection with thc winding arbor or wheel, and out of connection with the hand arbor or wheel, and its swing inthe other` direction places said train of gearing into connection with the hand arbor or wheel and out of connection with the winding arbor or wheel ot' the movement,

maintaining at all times its connection with the rotating pem'lant-arbor, and all otherwise substantially as well known.

This invention in stem winding and setting mechanisms for watch-movements of substantially the character above described consists of a rotating and longitudinally-sliding arbor or stem, preferably located in the pendantknob of the watch-case, and suitably adapted to communicate its rotaryanovement to mechanism suitably connected thereto, and which is constructed with a peripheral beveling or cam-face, in combination with a swinging or otherwise suitable moving or shifting yoke or plate carrying a train of gearing or other mechanism in constant connection with said rotating and sliding arbor, and suitable to secure, when placed in connection with either the winding or the hand arbor or wheel, and suitably operated, a rotation thereof from the rotation ol said arbor, and which is provided with an abutment in position to make direct bearing and rest on said arbor and its said peripheral beveling or cam-face, and all in such manner as to secure in the movement of said rotating arbor lengthwise in one direc- PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES V. VOERD, OF VALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTQ.

STEM WINDING AND SETTING WATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,786, dated May l1, 1886.

Application tiled Duce-uber, 1885.

Serial No. 196,900. (No model.)

tion, preferably an outward direction relative to the watcli-movement, a movement ol" the yoke to place the train of gearing or other mechanism carried by it'-, as aforesaid. into connection with the hand arbor or wheel and out ot' connection with the winding arbor or wheel of the watch movement, and in the movement of said rotating arbor lengthwise in the other and opposite direction, preteralily an inward direction relative to the watchmovement, a movement ot" the yoke to place the train of gearing or other mechanism carried by it, as aforesaid, into connection with the winding arbor or wheel and out of connection with thchand arbor or wheel ot1 the watchmovement, and all otherwise substantially as hereinafter described.

Again, this invention consists in constructving the rotating and sliding arbor or stem having a peripheral lieveling or caint'ace, substantially as has been above described, with a peripheral depression or groove suitably located to make a scat i'or said abutment of the yokc'when the train of gearing or other suitable mechanism carried by it, as aforesaid, is in connection with the hand arbor or wheel, and thus secure the retention and against accidental escape of said mechanism in such connection, all substantially as hereinafter described.

ln the drawings forming a part of this specitication, Figure l, isa plan or face view of the mechanism of this invention, and ct' a train ot' gearing suitable for its practical employment in connection with a watch-movement, and in position for winding the watch. Fig. 2 is a similar view to Fie'. l, but illustrating the parts as in position for setting the hands of the watch, and with some parts broken out and in section. Fie. 3 is asection online 3 3, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents the pillarplate; B, the top plate; U, the center wheel; D, the hour-wheel; E, the cannon-pinion; F, the minute-wheel; and G- its pinion, iliade preferably in one piece therewith; and H a gearwheel of the winding barrel or arbor, all as usual in watch-movements, and therefore needing no particular description herein.

J is the rotating and sliding stem or arbor of the contrivances ol' this invention, and preferably it is to belocated within the pend- IOO ant knob (not shown) of the watch-case and capable of turning in and sliding lengthwise through it, all as well known. This stem or arbor J is made in two parts or sections, K K, screwing the one into the other, all as shown, and so that they can be separated, leav- -Ying one, K2, in it-s bearings of stationary parallel blocks L of the pillar-plate A, and said part K2 is made square-sided, and thereon it carries a bevel pinion gear-wheel, M, which thus can tni'n with the arbor when it is rotated, while at the same time the arbor can be l moved longitudinally or lengthwise through it, the bevel-gear being confined against movement lengthwise of the arbor by and between said bearing-blocks L therefor.

The bevelgear M meshes with a crown bevel gear-wheel, N, concentric and either in one piece with orrigidly attached to a gearwhcel, O, and the two as one turning on and carried by a yoke or plate, P, centrally pivoted, as at Q, to the pillar-plate A. The gearwheel O meshes with gear-wheels R S, on opposite sides thereof, and the gear R is inA position to be meshed with the gear-wheel H of the winding barrel or arbor when said yoke is swung in one and the proper direction therefor, and the gear S is in position for a concentric pinion-wheelT thereof to be meshed with the minute-wheel F when the yoke is swung in the other and proper direction therefor.

The minute-wheel F meshes directly with the cannon-pinion E, and its concentric pinion G meshes with the hour-wheel D of the watch-movement. position has its gear-wheel R in engagement with the gear-wheel H of the winding arbor or barrel, and the pinion-wheel T of its gearwheel S out ot' engagement with the minutewhecl F in connection with the hour-wheel D and cannon-pinion E, as has been described, and the yokeis held in its said position by the action of a bent spring, V. The spring V at one end is rigidly secured to the pillar-plate A, and at its other and free end it has bearing against a pin, a, of the yoke P, located at the opposite end of the yoke to that at which the gear-wheel R is located. The swing of the yoke P to connect the train of gearing which it carries, as has been described with the minute-wheel F, is against the action of the spring V bearing 011 the yoke.

In 'all positions of the yoke its train of gearing is always in connection with the bevel gear-wheel M of the pendant arbor or stem J but in one position thereof, (preferably its normal positiom) Fig. l, only in connection' with the winding-wheel H, and in the other position thereof, Fig. 2, only in connection with the minute-wheel F.

So far as has been described, the two-part pendant arbor or stem J, the swinging yoke P, and train of gearing Q R S T'carried by it and the gearing to make connection between said train of gearing and either the gear-wheel H of the winding barrel or arbor or the min- Yend b is toward the bevel-wheel M of the ar- The yoke P in its normal nte-wheel F differ in construction and arrangement in no material respect from that shown and described in the schedule annexed to the Letters Patent of the United States issued to me, dated November 17, 1885, No. 330,537, and of themselves, either singly or in combination, they constitute no part of this i nvention, and have only been illustrated and described as a construction and arrangement of such parts which is most preferable, and by and through the means of which the real clements or contrivances of this invention, consisting in one. part of a rotating andV sliding arbor or stem, substantially suchA as already described, and a construction thereof, and of the shifting yoke, to be now describedin detail, can be most successfully and eficiently utilized for the purpose designed.

.U is a face surrounding the pendant-arbor J. This face bevels or inclines toward the axis of'the arbor, and its greater diameter or bor, and its smaller diameter or end cl toward the outer edge or periphery of the pillarplate.

XV is a pin or abutment carried by a side projection or arm, X, of the yoke P, and with the yoke in its normal position, Fig. l, said abutment is at rest upon thc arbor at the smaller end, d, of the beveling or cam-face U of the arbor. This abutment NV of the yoke is held to its bearing on the beveling or calnface U of the pendant-arbor by the tension of the spring V of the yoke, and inpul'ling the stem or arbor outward, said beveling bearingface of the arbor riding upon the abutment W of the yoke-causes the yoke to be swung upon its center at Q, and thus the connection of its train of gearing with the gear-wheel H of the winding arbor or barrel to be broken and a connection made between said train and the minute-Wheel F of the watch-movement, said abutment of the yoke finally coming to a seat or rest in a peripheral groove, Y, of the arbor at and inside of the larger end, b, of its beveling or cam-face U, and which is of suitable shape therefor and of suicient depth to secure a hold of the abutment W of the yoke therein against accidental escape as the pends ant-arbor is turned to set the hands, while at the same time, with a slight inward push 011 the pendant-arbor, it can escape therefrom and set the yoke free to the action of its spring to return the yoke and pendant-arbor to their normal position, and to place the train of gearing carried by theyoke out of connection with the minute-wheel F and into connection with the wheel H of the winding arbor or barrel.

The mechanism of this invention plainly is most simple, direct, positive, and eiiicient in operation, and, as is obvious, susceptible of most ready adaptation to varying arrangement of winding and hand-setting mechanism for watch-movements. Again, by reversing the direction of the cam-face U of the arbor or stem J the arbor may be adapted to pro- IOO duce aswineof the 7oke l) on an inward slide nient lV. of said foke bearine on the cam of thereof, instead of an outward slide, as has been particularly described.

Vhile the contrivances constituting this invention have been herein described in eonnection with one construction and arrange ment of a shifting yoke and a train of gearing thereon, it is to be understood that the invention is in no ivay to be limited thereto, said invention consisting, in substance, ofabearing cani-face upon a rotating and sliding arbor or stem, preferably located in the pendantknob ol' the ivatclrcase, and of an abutment on a swinging or otherwise suitably moving or shifting yoke directly bearing on said cam face, and which yoke carries mechanism by and through which, on a longitudinal movement oi' the pendant-arbor in the proper direction therefor, to establish connection between said arbor or stein and either the winding or thehand train of the xvatelrmoven'ient, as the ease may be.

Having thusdescribed my invention, ivhatl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a watclrmovement ot' otherwise suitable construction, in combination, a rotatory longitudi nally-slidiug stem or arbor, .l K,made in attachable and detachable parts to permit, detached, the then removal of' the movement from the case, a cam-periphery, U, and pinion-wheel, M, ol' said arbor, the pinion turning with the arbor, but otherwise confined against movement, a swinging plate or yoke, P,With spring 'V pressing against it, an abutsaid arbor, and meshing gear-Wheels O R S carried by the yoke, the one, O, driven from the pinion M oi arbor, and the others. R S, arranged to connect, respeetivelywith the Winding and setting trains of the watch-movement, substantially as described, for the purposes specilied.

2. in a watchmovement ol otherwise suitable construction, in combination, a rotatory longitndinally-sliding stein or arbor, J K, made in attachable and detachable parts to permit,detaeheththe then removal ofthe movement from the ease, a cainlperiphery, U, peripheral groove Y, and. pinioirwheel M of said arbor, the pinion turningwith the arbor, but otherwise confined against movement, a swinging plate or yoke, l), with a spring, V, pressing against it, an abutment, XV, of said yoke bearing on the cam U, and to seat in the peripheral groove Y oi" said arbor, and meshing gear-wheels O lt S carried by the yoke, the one, O, driven from the pinion M ot' arbor, and the others, RS, arrragedto connect, respectively,\\'ith the winding and setting trains oi the Watclrniovement, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

.l n testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence oll two subscribing witnesses.

{3i-IAS. V. XVOERD.

Xi tnesses:

'\\\r. S. BnLLoWs, Anania/r XV. BROWN.

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