US3917106A - Watch-repairing set-up - Google Patents

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US3917106A
US3917106A US299267A US29926772A US3917106A US 3917106 A US3917106 A US 3917106A US 299267 A US299267 A US 299267A US 29926772 A US29926772 A US 29926772A US 3917106 A US3917106 A US 3917106A
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  • a watch-repair set-up including a watch movementholder strip, a repair-materials box which is connected to the strip, a slide in which the strip and box may move in unison and a cover which covers the slide.
  • the materials box includes a series of rows of cups which hold watch parts and the strip includes a plurality of openings, each of which accepts a movement holder. Each row is aligned with an opening so as to ensure that, during repair of a watch movement, parts will be replaced in the proper movement.
  • the watchrepair set-up including the above-mentioned components is also designed so that when not in use for watch repair, it may be assembled into a compact arrangement for easy storage or transportation.
  • the object of the present invention is a watch-repair set-up comprising a movement-holder strip and a repair-materials box provided with means for connecting the strip and box side by side, and a guide along which both the strip and the repair-materials box may be displaced jointly.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to create a repair set-up of the kind mentioned above, which is of modest bulk and may be disassembled and which, in the disassembled state, may be stored while taking up a minimum of space so as to permit working at home.
  • the set-up according to the present invention is thus characterized in that the slide comprises two components of equal length, where this length is equal to that of the strip and of the repair-materials box, and that the two slide components are provided with hook-up elements allowing connection of them end to end. Further, these slide components are so made that they may be separated one from the other and may be placed in an upside down position one upon the other.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of part of the assembled set-up components which allow dismantling or reassembly of the movements.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view in fragmentary form of strip 1 and the repair-materials box 2 are of the same length, such length being the same as that of each of the two slide elements 3 and 4.
  • the strip and the repair-materials box are placed side by side, they take up a width equal to the space between the two unequally high vertical walls 6 and 7 of the respective slide elements 3 and 4.
  • the repair-materials box 2 and the strip 1 are positioned on the flat bottom 8 of the slide elements 3 and 4, with the upper edge of the repairmaterials box 2 extending precisely to the level of the upper edge of the higher wall 6 of the slide elements and the opposite edge of the strip 1 extending to the height of the upper edge of the lower wall 7 of the slide elements.
  • Each slide element comprises an end wall 27 with a trapezoidal cross-section enclosing it at one of its ends with each slide element open at the other end.
  • Element 3 is provided with dovetail tenons 9 projecting from the bottom slab 8 whereas the element 4 is provided with recesses 10, also in the shape of a dovetail 10, thereby allowing the two elements to be hooked up end to end in the position shown in FIG. 1.
  • two longitudinal bands 11 of a synthetic material or rubber which extend in parallel along the entire length of the element and allow the assembly to be placed on a bench, are mounted to that bottom 8.
  • the slide elements 3,4, the repair-materials box 2 and the strip 1 may be made of a fairly rigid plastic material which in turn may be made by injection molding or pressure molding.
  • the T-shaped bands 11, for instance, may be glued between the two longitudinal projections 12 which are formed when molding underneath bottom 8 of each slide element.
  • the repair-materials box Z comprises a certain number of cups which are arrayed as rows of three cups each. There are five rows with the cups of each row being aligned one next to the other in the transverse direction as regards the slides 3,4. As seen in FIG. 1, these cups are located at different heights and are of different sizes.
  • Strip 1 comprises five openings 13 for accepting respectively one movement-holder. Thus each movement-holder is opposite a row of cups.
  • the repair-materials box 2 is provided with tenons 14 in its longitudinal side whereas the strip 1 is provided with corresponding hollows 15 that extend upwards from the base of its outer longitudinal side. Therefore, when the repair-materials box 2 and the strip 1 are placed in theslide, as shown in FIG. 1, any displacement of one causes the displacement of the other.
  • the repairman located in front of the bench supporting the set-up may therefore consecutively bring before him all the movement-holders.
  • the cups in the row immediately behind a movement-holder then will be within his reach.
  • each cover 5 In order to protect the movements from dust, use is made of two identical covers 5,. Their cross-section is rectangular with the lateral front wall 16 being higher than the lateral back wall 17. The end edges of the lateral walls 16,17 are bent over inwards so as to form edges 18. The latter penetrate into grooves 19 which comprise two longitudinal ribs 20 and 21 molded into the outer sides of the slide elements.
  • the pairs of ribs 20,2] of the higher wall 6 of the slides 3,4 are located at a'greater height than the pairs of ribs of wall 7, which constitutes the front wall of slides 3,4. They are also more separated from one :another; With the.lateral walls of the covers themselves being of different heights, it may be seen that each cover may be made to slide by its edges 18 in the two grooves 19 of a slide. element in such manner that the upper wall of the.
  • the length of this tool-holder 22 is equalto thatof the strip land the repair-materials box 2;
  • the general shape of the box 22 is that of a trapezoidal prism;
  • the described set-up comprises thenecessary components for. dismantling and re-assembly work-as.
  • the cup'bottoms. of the repair-materials box 2 may be made of ceramics so as to completely eliminate staticzcharge effects.
  • the runners 1.1 may also be molded into a different shape, where their projecting'parts will be used fo effecting hook-up.
  • FIG. 4 shows-a'section of elements 3 and 4 so arranged as to be put intoaibox.
  • the repair-materials box 2 and the strip;.l are placed in one ofthe slides, for instance slide. 4,.while the other'slide 3 is turned upside down on the former one and covers same, thus'defining together I a space of rectangular cross-section;
  • the repairmaterialsbox 2'and the strip 1 occupy a trapezoidal volume in this space, which corresponds to less'than half the volume available.
  • the tool box 22, which is turned upside-down on the repair-materials box 12- and striprl, is located in the remainder of'this'volume.
  • the bands 11' making up the slide runners will be compressed between the cover elements 5 and this ensures thatthe' diverse assembled components willibe kept in place.
  • a piece of foam rubher or an alveolar plastic element may be placed in one ofthe cups'of the tool-box, which would assume the role" of a cushion andwould'allow emplanting certain tools such as a screw-driveror oil-pike.
  • the repair-mate'rialsbox is of a particularly practical kind.
  • two covers 5 may penetrate by -their"e'dge's*l8 into grooves 19 in such :manner thateach cover is bound to two lateral edges 24 of the higher part of box 22 will i press against'the bottom of strip 1.
  • the shoulder 25-separating the upper two cups from the lower four cups of tool box 22 will press against the r rear wall" of parts-holder 1 and against the front wall of the-'rep'ai'r-materials box 2.
  • the height of the tool-box 22 will be so selected that when the set-up is arranged as in FIG. 4,"all pieces will be kept in place without'any possibility of shifting themwith respect to one another.
  • thfatthe described set-up may also comprise supporting or resting elements adapted to the slide elements as accessory components.
  • said strip and materials box said strip, said box and said elements having the same length
  • said strip and said box being provided with longitudinal sides, at least one tenon projecting from one of said longitudinal sides and at least one corresponding recess in the other longitudinal side for receiving said tenon and for assembling said strip and said box side by side
  • each of said slide elements having two longitudinal walls spaced apart a distance equal to the width of the assembled strip and box, and said slide elements being provided with corresponding hook up means for removably assembling said elements end to end.
  • a watch repairing set up according to claim 1 further comprising pairs of longitudinal ribs projecting outwardly from said longitudinal walls of said slide elements and defining grooves therebetween, and two covers having a length equal to the length of the slide elements and lateral walls with recessing edges, said recessing edges being adapted to engage said grooves.
  • a watch repairing set-up comprising seven parts including a movement-holder strip, a repair materials box, two slide elements, two covers and a tool box, all of said parts having the same length, and each of them having two parallel longitudinal sides, said strip and said repair materials box being provided with assembling means for assembling the same side by side, said assembled repair materials box and strip being slidable in said slide elements, said assembled repair materials box and strip having a cross-section of trapezoidal shape and said tool box having a cross-section of trapezoidal shape complementary to the shape of the assembled repair materials box and strip, said tool box and said assembled materials box and strip occupying a space of rectangular cross-section when said tool box is piled on said assembled materials box and strip, said two covers covering, respectively, the top and bottom of the piled tool box and assembled materials box and strip.
  • said covers comprise an upper wall and two side walls of unequal heights, said longitudinal walls of the slide elements are provided with grooves at unequal heights and said side walls of the covers are provided with recessing edges for alternatively engaging grooves in both longitudinal walls on one of said slide elements or grooves in both longitudinal walls having the same height, each of which is provided with another one of the slide elements, said cover upper wall and said slide bottom being parallel to one another in both engaging positions.

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US4089413A (en) * 1977-02-23 1978-05-16 Katsuhiko Fukuyama Needle container
US4475022A (en) * 1980-02-22 1984-10-02 Tenex Corporation Desk accessory system
US4693371A (en) * 1981-11-16 1987-09-15 Berlex Laboratories, Inc. Medication dispenser and container
US4416372A (en) * 1982-09-29 1983-11-22 Polk Gary L Drywaller's tool box
US4593823A (en) * 1983-12-05 1986-06-10 The Mead Corporation Gravity feed display device
USD311210S (en) 1986-11-04 1990-10-09 Bottcher Dallas R Combined palette and holder therefor
US5007552A (en) * 1987-12-11 1991-04-16 Ponderosa Corporation Serving bar and container for food
US6065478A (en) * 1999-02-03 2000-05-23 Strombecker Corporation Fingernail stamper craft set
USD422141S (en) * 1999-07-07 2000-04-04 Dembicks Andrew E Nine compartment tray
US20050279745A1 (en) * 2004-06-22 2005-12-22 Nikhil Gupta Portable palette and workstation
US20070068942A1 (en) * 2005-09-26 2007-03-29 Smudde Anton M Multiple container cart with individual foot pedal/lid actuation
US7878358B2 (en) * 2005-09-26 2011-02-01 Covidien Ag Multiple container cart with individual foot pedal/lid actuation
USD612690S1 (en) * 2008-01-25 2010-03-30 Villeroy & Boch S.A.R.L. Plate
US8210355B2 (en) * 2010-04-16 2012-07-03 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Tray assembly
US9596930B2 (en) * 2013-01-04 2017-03-21 Linda Carol VanHeusden Pivoting add-on storage caddy
US9063517B1 (en) 2014-07-29 2015-06-23 John J. O'Neil Device for pressing back to a watch without removing wrist band

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