US3841084A - Calendar mechanism for time-pieces - Google Patents

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US3841084A
US3841084A US00347623A US34762373A US3841084A US 3841084 A US3841084 A US 3841084A US 00347623 A US00347623 A US 00347623A US 34762373 A US34762373 A US 34762373A US 3841084 A US3841084 A US 3841084A
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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
    • G04B19/24—Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators, i.e. calendar clocks or watches; Clockwork calendars
    • G04B19/243—Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators, i.e. calendar clocks or watches; Clockwork calendars characterised by the shape of the date indicator
    • G04B19/247—Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators, i.e. calendar clocks or watches; Clockwork calendars characterised by the shape of the date indicator disc-shaped
    • G04B19/253—Driving or releasing mechanisms
    • G04B19/25333—Driving or releasing mechanisms wherein the date indicators are driven or released mechanically by a clockwork movement
    • G04B19/25373—Driving or releasing mechanisms wherein the date indicators are driven or released mechanically by a clockwork movement driven or released stepwise by an energy source which is released at determined moments by the clockwork movement
    • G04B19/2538—Driving or releasing mechanisms wherein the date indicators are driven or released mechanically by a clockwork movement driven or released stepwise by an energy source which is released at determined moments by the clockwork movement automatically corrected at the end of months having less than 31 days

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  • Such device is improved so as to be simple and UNITED STATES PATENTS compact in structure and to occupy substantially mini- 2,286,000 6/1942 Neyhart 58/5 mized space in time piece. 2,483,775 10/1949 Klaris 2,709,885 6/1955 Van Kampen 58/5 8 Clam, 1 Drawmg Flgure CALENDAR MECHANISM FOR TIME-PIECES BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • This invention relates generally to calendar mechanisms and more particularly to calendar mechanisms of the type in which the date indication or date disc is visible through an opening in the dial and the changing occurs by instantaneous steps, said mechanism comprising a date disc and means for the advance of the date disc, wherein said date disc revolves by a predetermined number of steps one time in 24 hours.
  • Mechanisms of this kind take the length of the month into account and make any manual corrections at the end of the 28 or 30 days-months unnecessary.
  • an object of this invention is to provide a calendar mechanism of the described type which is compact and of which the dimensions allow its use in small timepieces.
  • a calendar mechanism according to this invention comprises a main lever having at one end an advancing-and locking-device for the date disc, said lever having further a cam surface engaging a gudgeon or pin one time every 24 hours, said gudgeon being controlled by the clockwork to set and then to release said main lever, a part of said main lever leaning on a month cam which determines the displacement of said main lever. according to the length of the months, and advancing means controlled by said date disc, being provided for shifting the cam month at the end of every month.
  • the month cam is locked by a gear.
  • a main lever 32 is rotatably mounted on a fixed shaft 61 and has a beak 33 leaning on the circumference of a month cam 34 which determines its displacement in a manner which will be described hereafter.
  • the main lever 32 has at its end 35 a pinion 36 with ten teeth, which pinion is fixed on a plate 37 supporting two gudgeons on pins 38 and 39 adapted to engage the teeth or the date disc 40.
  • the month cam 34 is resiliently mounted on a toothed wheel 41 having 48 teeth.
  • This wheel 41 is driven by a pinion 42 having teeth and mounted on a star 43 having ten branches 44.
  • a second cam 45 making a revolution in 24 hours controls a second lever 47 having a toothed segment 46 which is in engagement with the pinion 36 of the main lever 32.
  • a toothed wheel 48 is concentrically mounted above the hours-wheel (not shown) with which it rotates clockwise and shifts, by the gudgeon 49, the main lever 32 every 24 hours and releases it at midnight: it causes the instantaneous displacement of the date disc 40.
  • Two springs are provided acting on levers 32 and 47, namely a spring 50 acts on lever 32 and a spring 51 acts on lever 47.
  • the toothed wheel 48 mounted above the not-shown hourswheel makes one clockwise revolution in twentyfour hours.
  • the gudgeon 49 fixed on this wheel 48 comes into contact with the main lever about six hours before midnight to rotate it clockwise about pivot 61 thereby lifting beak 33 away from cam by a slight distance.
  • the gudgeon 49 releases the main lever 32 which is pushed by the spring 50 and shifts the ,date disc 40 by the gudgeons 38 and 39.
  • the main lever 32 is a single assembly from its beak 33 to the end 35, but the beak 33 is not in the same plane as the end 35; it is offset upwardly as indicated in the drawing by a broken and a continuous line around the shaft 61.
  • the cam 34 makes one revolution in one year. Therefore, it is driven periodically at the end of every month between the 28th and the 31st day by rotation through 4/48 of a revolution, by four pins 52, 53, 54 and 55 placed under the date disc 40.
  • each month is represented by a sector 56 which is subdivided into four parts one for each 1/48 revolution caused by a corresponding one of the four pins.
  • the beak 33 of the main lever 32 butts against the peripheral first quarter 57 of a sector 56; at the 29th day, the beak 33 butts against the second quarter 58, at the 30th day, against the third quarter 59, and at the 31st day against the fourth quarter 60 because the pins 52 to 55 rotate the month cam during this four days each by a step of l/48 revolution.
  • the fourth quarters 60 of the sector 56 are smaller in diameter in order to allow to the main lever to give the date disc 40 a displacement corresponding to 2 days.
  • the second, third and fourth quarters 58, 59 and 60 of the sector 56 corresponding to February are so small in diameter that the main lever 32 gives to the date disc 40 a displacement corresponding to four days the mechanism being illustrated in the position assumed immediately following the shifting of the date from Feb. 28 to Mar. 1.
  • month cam 34 be. resiliently mounted on the toothed wheel 41 because the rotation of the month cam 34 and the penetration of the beak 33 of the main lever 32 into this month cam 34 occur at the same time, in order that the beak 33 be able to disengage from the notches of the month cam 34 and that this cam be able to rotate;
  • This resilient coupling can be realized with a ring or an axis of plastic material.
  • the gudgeon 49 is retractably mounted on the toothed wheel 48 to allow its sliping under the main lever 32. This can be realized with known means, for example with a spring.
  • a calendar mechanism for timepieces with date indication through an opening in the dial and changing by instantaneous stepping comprising a date disc and advancing means for shifting said date disc by a predetermined number of steps once every 24 hours, said advancing means including a main lever having at one end thereof an advancing and locking mechanism for cooperation with said date disc and further having a cam surface, a gudgeon responsive to a dial train of the time-piece for coaction with said cam surface once every 24 hours to set and then to release said main lever, a month cam, a part of said main lever cooperating with said month cam during release thereof from said gudgeon for determining the displacement of said date disc by said main lever according to the length of the month, and advancing means controlled by said date disc for advancing said month cam at the end of every month.
  • Mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein said advancing and locking mechanism of said date disc comprises a pinion and a plate.
  • Mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gudgeon for the shifting of said main lever is retractably mounted on a wheel which is coaxially mounted above the hours-wheel, said wheel making a single revolution in 24 hours.
  • Mechanism as claimed in claim 7, comprising a star-like gear having ten branches, said gear being adapted to be engaged by said pins of the date disc for driving said month cam.
  • Inventor's name should be: Cyril Vuilleumier Not: Cyril Vuill Eumier Signed and sealed this 14th day of January 1975.

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