US3725615A - Pawl and ratchet mechanism for alarm clock timer sleep switch cam - Google Patents

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US3725615A
US3725615A US00242032A US3725615DA US3725615A US 3725615 A US3725615 A US 3725615A US 00242032 A US00242032 A US 00242032A US 3725615D A US3725615D A US 3725615DA US 3725615 A US3725615 A US 3725615A
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  • PAWL AND RATCHET MECHANISM FOR ALARM CLOCK TIMER SLEEP SWITCH CAM BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a clock timer, and more particularly, to an improved sleep switch movement for a clock timer which may be readily and reliably operated to close a switch for a predetermined time interval.
  • Our invention is concerned with such a sleep switch movement, and more particularly, to a unique pawl and ratchet drive mechanism for a sleep gear which does not require the use of a friction clutch mechanism for connecting the sleep gear to a continuously rotated timing gear.
  • a digital clock including a mechanism for driving minutes, tens of minutes, hours and tens of hours display indicators for a digital clock.
  • This invention is also concerned with the addition of a reliable sleep switch mechanism to such a digital clock.
  • an alarm clock timer includes a switch having an open and a closed position and a timing motor.
  • a sleep cam is operably connected to the switch for closing the switch for a predetermined time interval, and a knob or other manually operable means is formed integrally with or connected to the sleep cam for manually moving the sleep cam to open or close the switch.
  • Ratchet teeth are formed on the sleep cam for permitting the sleep cam to be moved from a switch closed position to a switch open position by the timing motor.
  • a pawl lever is positioned in the alarm clock timer mechanism and means is provided for moving the pawl lever into engagement with the ratchet teeth when it is desired to move the sleep cam in a direction for opening the switch.
  • a drive mechanism is operably connected to the timing motor for moving the pawl lever back and forth to incrementally move the sleep cam as a function of time in order to open the switch at the end of the time interval.
  • the sleep cam is not continuously rotated by the timing motor when it is being operated by the timing motor, but is only incrementally moved on one of the strokes of the pawl lever.
  • the sleep cam only places a load on the timing motor on one of the strokes of the pawl lever, and accordingly, during the return stroke of the pawl lever the motor will have available torque to drive other mechanisms.
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a digital alarm clock timer constructed in accordance with our invention
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary exploded front perspective view of a portion of the switch operating and sleep cam mechanism of the digital clock shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmentary exploded front perspective view generally similar to FIG. 2 with many of the parts of the display mechanism of the clock removed for purposes of illustration, the parts of our sleep switch movement being shown in a position wherein the parts are under the control of an alarm shut-off cam which overrides a sleep cam to move the switch to an open position to shut off the alarm;
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary exploded front perspective view similar to FIG. 3 showing the parts under the control of an alarm cam with the alarm cam in a position to hold a switch actuating lever and the switch in an open position;
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary exploded front perspective view generally similar to FIG. 4 showing the parts under the control of an alarm time cam wherein the alarm time cam has functioned to close the switch at the alarm time;
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary exploded front perspective view generally similar to FIG. 5 with the parts under the control of our sleep cam movement for closing the switch for a predetermined short time interval;
  • FIG. 7 is a fragmentary exploded front perspective view generally similar to FIG. 6 showing a plural position lever in an ON notch on the sleep cam and showing our sleep drive pawl lever on a smooth portion of the sleep cam;
  • a sleep cam for moving the sleep cam to a switch open position
  • FIG. 9 is a fragmentary front elevational viewgenerally similar toFIG. 8 showing the pawl lever held out of mesh with the sleep cam for permitting the sleep DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
  • the clock includes four numeral display indicators 2, 4, 6 and 8 which indicate minutes, tens of minutes, hours and tens of hours, respectively.
  • portions of the display indicators are identified by reference numerals 30, 32, 34, 46, 48 and 50
  • portions of the cams and other mechanism for driving the display indicators are shown by reference numerals52, 54, 56, 74 and 72
  • our improved alarm mechanism is generally identified by reference numeral 200.
  • the display indicators 2, 4' and 6 include a common front plate 24 which may be formed of a sheet of plastic that may be readily slotted or blocked out to reveal three clear numeral 8s, one for each of the display indicators 2, 4 and 6.
  • each of the display indicators 2, 4 and 6' includes a vertically movable shutter 30,32 and 34, respectively, for selectively blocking out one or more of the horizontal indicator bars 10, 12 and 14. It can be appreciated that all of the horizontal bars should be blocked out for displaying a numeral 1 while only the central bar 12 should be blocked out for displaying the numeral 0.
  • a plurality of opaque shutter bars 36, 38 and 40 may be painted or otherwise formed on the vertically movable shutter members 30, 32 and 34 for blocking out the appropriate horizontal indicator bars.
  • horizontally slidable shutters 46 and 48 and 50 are positioned behind the vertically slidable shutters for selectively obstructing the vertical bars l6, 18, 20 and 22 of the a cam follower 62 in order to appropriately position the vertically movable shutters 30, 32 and 34.
  • a cam groove (not shown) is also formed in the rear face of the rotatable cams 52, 54 and 56 for moving the horizontal shutters 46, 48 and 50 back and forth behind the vertical shutters 30, 32 and 34.
  • the front cam groove and cam follower causes the vertical sliders to move upwardly and downwardly with respect to the slotted numeral 8 numbers
  • the rear cam track causes the horizontal shutters 46, 48 and 50 to be moved to the right and left behind the vertical shutters slotted FIG. 8 numerals of the display indicators 2, 4
  • the vertical shutter has to be moved to one position while the horizontally movable shutter is required to be moved to a different position.
  • the vertically movable shutter has to be moved to leave all of the horizontal bars l0, l2 and unobstructed.
  • the horizontally movable shutter has to be moved to block out only the lower right and upper left vertical indicator bars 20 and 18, respectively.
  • two-faced-rotatable cams 52, 54 and 56 are provided for moving the vertical shutters '30, 32 and 34, respectively, and the horizontal shutters 46, 4 8 and 50,; respectively.
  • the front faces of each of the cams include a cam groove 60 for receiving and'the slotted numeral 8.
  • a mechanism is positioned between the minutes and tens cams 52 and 54 for indexing the minutes cam once every minute and for simultaneously indexing the tens cam one increment at the instant that the minutes cam is being indexed a tenth increment, so that the minutes cam and the tens cam are simultaneously indexed to the next succeeding numbers when the units cam is being moved to its-tenth increment.
  • the indexing mechanism includes a drive lever 86 which is pivotally mounted on the digital clock between the units and tens cams 52 and 54.
  • FIG. 2 An arrangement for oscillating the drive lever '86 to provide a rapid clockwise advance stroke of about 5 seconds duration and a slower return stroke once per minute is shown in FIG. 2.
  • the drive lever 86 is provided with cam surfaces for cooperating with an eccentric drive roller 106 mounted on a gear 108 that is rotated at one revolution per minute by a pinion 110 of a synchronous electric motor 111.
  • the gear 108 and its eccentric roller 106 are rotated in a clockwise direction and the roller 106 abuts a cam surface to pivot the upper portion of the drive lever 86 to the right about its lower pivot 88 to move a units pawl 112 of the pawl lever 84 to the right.
  • the pawl 112 moves against a tooth of the units cam 52 to move the units cam 52 one increment to thereby actuate the units display indicator 2 to display a next succeeding numeral.
  • Continued rotation of the eccentric roller 106 moves the roller into contact with a return stroke cam surface to move the drive lever 86 and the pawl lever 84 to the left as shown in FIG. 2.:
  • the pawl lever 84 is uniquely shaped, weighted and pivoted so that the relatively small pawl lever 84 may reliably index both the units cam 52 and the tens cam 54.
  • the pawl lever 84 includes a central portion 116 dexing the tens cam 54.
  • the pawl 84 is uniquely weighted by a counterweighted portion 113 in the vicinity of the units pawl 112 so that the pawl 112 gently rests on the units cam 52. In this position, it can be appreciated that the tens pawl 120 is located above the teeth 82 on the tens cam 54.
  • the tens pawl 120 clears the teeth 82 on the tens cam 54, and consequently, the tens cam 54 remains stationary.
  • the mechanism indexes both the units cam 52 and the tens cam 54 simultaneously so that the succeeding numerals will simultaneously appear at the display indicators 2 and 4.
  • the tenth tooth on the units cam is made much higher than the other nine teeth of the units cam which correspond to numerals 1 thru 9. This causes the left tens pawl 120 to be moved downwardly to engage one of the teeth 82 on the tens cam.
  • the units pawl l12 is in engagement with the high tooth on the units cam, and tens pawl 120 is in engagement with one of the teeth on the tens cam 54, and further rotation of the eccentric roller 106 against the drive lever 86 will cause the drive lever and the pawl lever 84 to be moved to the right to index both the units cam 52 and the tens cam 54 one increment.
  • this movement of both cams occurs simultaneously, and thus, a person viewing the digital clock will observe a simultaneous change in both the-units and the tens numerals which appear on display indicators 2 and 4, respectively.
  • the units cam 52 will bedriven at one revolution every ten minutes in order to display numerals from 0 thru 9 and the tens cam 54 will be driven at one revolution each hour.
  • I ALARM MECHANISM A switch and alarm mechanism is incorporated with the'digital clock thus far described so that the clock may be utilized as a radio alarm timer for automatically turning a radio on at a preset time.
  • the alarm mechanism is generally designated by reference numeral 200 in FIG. 2, and with particular reference to FIGS. 3, 4 and 6, it can be seen that a switch 201 for the alarm mechanism is positioned rearwardly of mounting plate 100.
  • the switch 201 includes a pair of switch blades 202 and 204 having a pair of switch contacts 206 and 208 mounted at their free end portions.
  • Rear switch blade 202 is somewhat longer than the front switch blade 204 and is formed of spring material for normally biasing the-rear switch blade forwardly to hold the switch contacts in a closed position.
  • the switch blades may be mounted on a conventional switch block member 210 which may be connected to the rear plate 100 of the digital clock by any suitable securing means. As shown, the switch is mounted so that the switch blades 202 and 204 are arranged in planes which are generally parallel to the base plate 100. With this arrangement, rearward or transverse movement of the free end portion of the switch blade 202 will open the switch contacts.
  • An elongated switch actuating lever 212 is positioned between the rear switch blade 202 and the base plate 100 for opening or closing the switch in response to movement of an alaim time cam mechanism 214, a SLEEP, ON or OFF cam mechanism 215 or an alarm shut-off cam mechanism 216. It can be appreciated that rearward transverse movement of the elongated switch actuating lever 212 will cause the lower end portion 217 of the lever to abut the front surface of switch blade 202 and further rearward movement of the lever will cause the switch blade 202 to be moved far enough rearwardly to open the switch contacts 206 and 208, as shown more particularly in FIG. 3.
  • the alarm cam mechanism for allowing the elongated switch actuating lever 212 to be moved transversely forwardly at a preset alarm time to close the switch contacts 206 and 208 to thereby turn on a radio or other alarm at a preset time will now be more particularly described.
  • the alarm cam mechanism includes two coaxially mounted gears 218 and 219 which .are provided with interacting cams 220 and 222,
  • cam gear 218 functions as an alarm time cam and is driven at one revolution every twelve hours by a pinion gear 224 which may be integrally formed with the tens of minutes cam gear 54.
  • the alarm time cam gear 218 is provided with a sufficient number of teeth on its outer periphery to achieve a suitable gear reduction from the tens of minutes pinion 224 so that the alarm time cam gear 218 will be driven at one revolution every 12 hours.
  • the alarm cam 220 is fixed to its gear 218 and their common shaft 242 in any suitable manner. As shown in FIG. 3 the cam 220 is generally circular in shape with a cutout or notch 226 which forms the operable portion.
  • the alarm set cam gear 219 is fixed to a shaft 230 which extends forwardly and rearwardly therefrom, and a knob 232 may be fixed to forward end of shaft 230 for manually rotating the alarm set cam 222 to any desired alarm time.
  • the alarm time cam 218, 220 and the alarm set cam 219, 222 are supported in coaxial relationship with respect to each other on the digital alarm clock by providing shaft 242 of the alarm time cam with a relatively small diameter so that it extends into a hollow end portion of shaft 230 of the alarm set cam.
  • the shaft 242 extends rearwardly through an aperture 244 which is formed in the mounting plate 100 and as shown in FIG. 2 the shaft 230 extends forwardly through an aperture 246 which is formed in a front plate 248 for supporting the alarm time cam and the alarm set cam on the digital clock.
  • a WAKE-NO WAKE alarm shut-off cam lever mechanism 216, 254 is provided for moving the alarm time cam gear 218, 220 rearwardly to position finger 222 on the front surface of cam 220.
  • the mechanism includes a bifurcated lever 254 which is pivoted by tabs 256 and 258 to the mounting plate 100 of our digital clock.
  • One downwardly extending arm 260 of the lever includes a U-shaped slot 261 for receiving an annular groove 262 which is formed on the shaft, portion 242 of the alarm time cam.
  • the lever 254 is loosely held to the alarm time cam gear 218.
  • the other left arm 264 of the lever 254 extends downwardly into a position to be actuated by the WAKE-NO WAKE cam 216.
  • the radio or alarm switch 206, 208 may be readily moved to the open position illustrated in FIG. 3 by rotating the WAKE-NO WAKE cam 216 clockwise from the position illustrated in FIG. to the position illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the cam 216 moves arm 264 toward the base plate 100 to thereby simultaneously move arm 260 and the alarm time cam 218 including its shaft 242 rearwardly to open switch contacts 206, 208.
  • This movement for opening the switch also simultaneously manually resets the cam finger 222 on top of the front surface of cam 220.
  • a manually settable SLEEP-ON-OFF cam mechanism 215 is arranged to control lever 268 and switch actuating lever 212. From the. preceding description of the alarm cam mechanism 218 and 219, it can be appreciated that the elongated switch actuating lever 212 serves as an intermediary between the end of shaft 242 and switch blade 202; i.e., when the end of shaft 242 is moved forwardly the lower portion of lever 212 and switch blade 202 is moved forwardly, and when the shaft 242 is moved rearwardly actuator 212 and the switch blade 202 are moved rearwardly.
  • the switch actuating lever 212 isuniquely shaped and positioned so that it may be manually pushed downwardly at any time to close the switch without disturbing the position of shaft 242.
  • an upper end portion 266 is pivoted to a plural position lever 268 which in turn is arranged to be actuated by the ON-OFF-SLEEP cam 215.
  • the upper end of the switch actuating lever 212 is formed with a forwardly extending shaft portion 270 which is received by an aperture 272 which is formed in the plural position lever 268.
  • a conventional pivot 274 may be provided for generally centrally supporting the plural position lever 268, and the right portion of the plural position lever may be provided with a forwardly extending tab 276 for riding on the surface of the ON- OFF-SLEEP cam 215.
  • a spring 278 may be stretched between a tab 280 which is formed on the plural position lever and a tab or other projection 282 which may be struck from the lower portion of the mounting plate 100. With this arrangement, the spring 278 will constantly urge the right portion of the plural position lever 268 downwardly as viewed in FIG. 5.
  • the ON-OFF-SLEEP cam 215 may be rotated at any time to close the switch without disturbing the position of the alarm time cam shaft 242. For example, should it be desired -to close the switch 206, 208 after the WAKE-NO WAKE alarm shut-off cam 216 has moved the switch to the position illustrated in FIG. 3, it is merely necessary to rotate the SLEEP-ON-OF F cam to move the switch actuating lever 212 longitudinally downwardly from the position illustrated in FIG. 3 to the position illustrated in FIG. 6.
  • the sleep cam portion 298, 302 of our unique ON- OFF-SLEEP cam 215 also operates the plural position lever 268 and the elongated switch actuating lever 212.
  • This sleep mechanism is provided for manually moving the switch 206, 208 to a closed position and automatically maintaining the switch in the closed position for a preselected adjustable time interval.
  • Such a mechanism is particularly useful for turning off a radio receiver in the evening after a person has gone to sleep, and thus, mechanisms that accomplish this function have been called a SLEEP switch.
  • the SLEEP portion of cam 215 includes a generally smooth raised cam surface 302 for cooperating with tab 276 for holding the switch 206, 208 in a closed or radio on position for a preselected time interval.
  • Ratchet teeth 298 are formed on the cam 215 for incrementally driving the gear and the sleep cam surface 302 in a clockwise direction as a function of time.
  • the gear 215 will have been rotated to a position wherein tab 276 is moved from the smooth raised sleep surface 296 into an off notch 294 SLEEP CAM DRIVE
  • a unique pawl and ratchet mechanism is provided for driving the sleep switch cam 215. With this mechanism, whenever the ratchet toothed portion 298 of the sleep cam is rotated to the position illustrated in FIG. 8 the pawl lever 300 will rotate the sleep cam one incremental movement every minutes.
  • the overall shape of the SLEEP-ON-OFF cam may be readily observed in FIGS. 5, 6 and the other FIGS. of the application, and in view of the foregoing description it can be appreciated that it performs a plurality of functions.
  • the entire cam 215 including the ratchet toothed portion 298, a shaft portion 304, an OFF notch 294, a raised ON notch 301, and SLEEP surface 302 are all integrally formed on a single molded part.
  • the switch will be placed in its closed position illustrated in FIG. 6 and the gear portion 298 of the sleep cam will be placed in a position to be actuated by the sleep drive lever 300.
  • the sleep drive lever will incrementally move the sleep cam to eventually move the tab 276 to the off notch at the end of the preset sleep interval, as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the pawl and ratchet mechanism 300, 298 is uniquely designed and combined with a units cam 52 and a drive lever 86 of -the digital clock disclosed in our aforementioned copending application, Ser. No. 196,479, filed Nov. 8, 1971, for indexing the sleep switch cam 215 one increment every 5 minutes when the cam 215 is rotated to any one of its SLEEP positions illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • the sleep pawl lever 300 is pivotally mounted on the drive lever 86 and is counterweighted at 303 for urging a pawl 305 upwardly into contact with the sleep cam 215.
  • the drive lever 86 is provided with cam surfaces for cooperating with an eccentric drive roller 106 to move the drive lever 86 and a units cam pawl lever 84 one incremental movement every minute.
  • the actuating movement for the units cam 52 occurs when the drive lever 86 is moved to the right as shown in FIG. 2.
  • the sleep cam actuating movement through pawl lever 300 occurs when the lever 86 is moved to the left as shown in FIG. 2.
  • the pawl drive lever 300 is also uniquely combined with the previously described digital clock structure for indexing the sleep cam 215 any number of increments during a ten minute period.
  • a shaft 322 which extends rearwardly from the units cam 52 is provided with two flat surfaces 324 and 326 for permitting the pawl 305 to move into engagement with the teeth on the sleep cam 215 only twice for each revolution of the units cam 52 ,or once every 5 minutes.
  • the units cam 52 is rotatedat one revolution every ten minutes for displaying numerals from 0 thru 9.
  • two flat surfaces will provide an incremental movement every 5 minutes, and the number of flat surfaces on the cam shaft 322 could be selected for achieving any desired number of incremental movements of the sleep cam 215.
  • an upper surface of the pawl lever 300 is arranged generally parallel to the flat surface 326 of the shaft 322, and therefore, the counterweight 303 of the pawl 300 is effective to move the pawl 305 into engagement with the teeth of the sleep cam 215. It can be seen that when the shaft 322 is moved approximately 36 from the FIG. 8 to the FIG. 9
  • the shaft 322 will hold the pawl in its lower position as shown in FIG. 9 to thereby hold the pawl 305 away from the ratchet teeth of the sleep cam during the next succeeding movements of the drive lever 86.
  • the units cam may be readily molded from a piece of plastic to provide all of the cam and tooth surfaces illustrated, and naturally, the surfaces 324 and 326 on shaft 322 may be also provided during the molding operation of the units cam 52.
  • the sleep cam knob 304 is rotated in a clockwise direction to position the tab 276 on the smooth cam surface 302 of the sleep cam. As shown in FIG. 1, any desired sleep time interval up to three hours may be selected.
  • the mechanism can now operate to drive the tab 276 along the smooth surface 296 of the sleep cam for the desired sleep time interval at which time the tab 276 will snap into the off notch 294 to thereby lift switch actuating lever 212 from the position illustrated in FIG. 6 to the position illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • our unique sleep cam indexing mechanism may be readily formed and added to any alarm clock timer and particularly the digital'alarm clock timer disclosed in our prior co-pending application Ser. No. 196,479, filed Nov. 8, l97l. Relatively few additional parts are required. It is merely necessary to pivot a pawl lever 300 on the drive lever 86 which is also usedfor indexing and driving the units and tens display indicators of the digital clock. Moreover, the pawl lever 300 is pivoted to-the drive lever at such a location. that it drives the ratchet of the sleep cam on the return stroke of the drive lever to thereby minimize motor load.
  • a sleep cam operably connected to said switch for closing said switch for a predetermined time interval
  • ratchet teeth formed on said sleep cam for permitting said sleep cam to be moved from a switch closed position to a switch open position by said timing motor;
  • a pawl lever having a pawl positioned in said alarm clock timer mechanism
  • a drive mechanism operably connected to said timing motor for moving said pawl lever and said pawl back and forth to incrementally move said sleep cam as a function of time to thereby open said switch at the end of said time interval.
  • a plural position lever having two arms is pivotally mounted on said clock timer;
  • a'switch actuating lever is connected to one of the arms plural position lever
  • said sleep cam being positioned adjacent to the other arm of the plural position lever; and i said manually rotatable sleep cam includes a lower cam surface for moving said plural position lever to open the switch, a raised notched surface for holding the plural position lever in one position to hold the switch open and a raised curved generally smooth cam surface for locating the plural position lever to hold the switch in a closed position for a predetermined sleep time interval.
  • An alarm clock timer as defined in claim 1 wherein a clock cam having a flat surface is rotated adjacent to the pawl lever for holding the pawl lever out of engagement with the ratchet teeth of the sleep cam to permit the pawl to drive the sleep cam only once during a number of consecutive to and fro movements of the pawl lever.
  • An alarm clock timer mechanism comprising:
  • a rotatable tens cam spaced from the units cam for progressively actuating the tens of minutes display indicator for displaying numerals to the left of the units numerals in order to display tens of minutes;
  • a drive lever pivotally mounted on said supporting means between said units and tens carns, said lever having a drive strokeand a return stroke;
  • a first pawl lever having a central portion and two side portions, the central portion -of said pawl lever being pivotally mounted on said drive lever, said pawl lever having a pawl formed in one of its side flat cam surfaces for permitting said second pawl lever to be moved into engagement with said sleep cam only twice for each revolution of the units cam whereby said second pawl lever may move said sleep cam once every five minutes.
  • a digital alarm clock timer as defined in claim 7 wherein said second pawl lever is counterweighted for urging said second pawl lever toward said units cam and toward said sleep cam.

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