Classifications

• • 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
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
  • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
  • A44C5/00—Bracelets; Wrist-watch straps; Fastenings for bracelets or wrist-watch straps
• • 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
  • G04B19/20—Indicating by numbered bands, drums, discs, or sheets
• • 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
  • G04B19/30—Illumination of dials or hands
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G04—HOROLOGY
  • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
  • G04F1/00—Apparatus which can be set and started to measure-off predetermined or adjustably-fixed time intervals without driving mechanisms, e.g. egg timers
  • G04F1/04—Apparatus which can be set and started to measure-off predetermined or adjustably-fixed time intervals without driving mechanisms, e.g. egg timers by movement or acceleration due to gravity
  • G04F1/06—Apparatus which can be set and started to measure-off predetermined or adjustably-fixed time intervals without driving mechanisms, e.g. egg timers by movement or acceleration due to gravity by flowing-away of a prefixed quantity of fine-granular or liquid materials, e.g. sand-glass, water-clock

Definitions

• the geometric two-pointer position enables the brain to record the time in a short period of time by means of stored geometric patterns, however, if one wants to know exactly, the concretization is missing, and one has to reshape the geometric image, if one wants to pronounce it, through thought work .
• pronouncing one must therefore implement the time that can be grasped by just looking.
• the digital display of time in numbers the opposite is true.
• the concretization that is, the accuracy of the time information is given, as is the possibility of pronunciation without thinking, by pronouncing the time data, but the brain has to convert the time into numbers into an imaginable picture through thought work.
• the invention has for its object to combine the advantages of both known time display devices in one and to eliminate the disadvantages of both. Furthermore wants they simply offer alternatives to the two known, eternally identical time display devices and thus create something new that inspires the eye.
• the invention solves the problem in that in some configurations it combines both the geometric representation and the legibility in numbers in such a way that the time information corresponding to the hours, minutes or seconds is readable by numbers corresponding to the time on a known geometric one Time picture corresponding location is displayed.
• the solution is that the time is displayed by a moving and at the same time numerical mechanism.
• the mean of the colors is also used in a configuration as a further element supporting the idea of time.
• the advantages of the invention therefore consist in a double visual effect, which enables spontaneous reading through numbers and at the same time spontaneous presentation of time through the moving or geometric effect combined with the numbers.
• Fig. 1 is a time display device in which the hour numbers are arranged in a conventional manner in a circle on a dial, but the minutes by one around the hour number circle and self-rotating circular disc (l) with circularly arranged minute numbers at the point of contact (3) of both number circles, which simultaneously marks the valid number of hours, so that a well-known hour hand image is retained, but with the direct reading of the minute numbers on the respective number Hourly number location is possible,
• Fig. 2 is a time display device in which the hour numbers are arranged in a conventional manner in a circle on a dial, but the minutes are indicated by a circular disc rotating around the hour number circle at the respective hour number location in such a way that a pointer (4) on the circular disc O) on which the minutes are arranged in a circle, rotates according to the time, an hour hand ( ⁇ ) jumping from hour to hour being additionally arranged here,
• Fig. 3 shows a time display device in which the hour numbers are arranged in a conventional manner in a circle on a dial, but minutes and seconds are indicated by two digital elements (5) on a circular disk rotating around the hour number circle U), the minute numbers (3) during of the revolution always at the point of contact of the rotating circular disk) with the hour number circle, and minute and second numbers are always in a position parallel to 12, achieved by a slow self-rotation of the circular disk during its revolution, during which the digital elements (5) perform a slight tilting movement , and an additional hour hand ⁇ ), which points in the direction of the contact point, thus also performs a uniform rotation around the hourly number circle,
• FIG. 4 shows a time display device in which the hour numbers are arranged in a conventional manner in a circle on a dial and in addition a concentrically larger minute number circle is attached, and On both number circles, a circular aperture (7) with a cutout (9) corresponding to the number arrangement rotates according to the time, so that only the respective hour and minute numbers are visible at the location of the known geometric image formed by the two-hand position.
• FIG. 5 shows a time display device in which two digital elements (10) for displaying the number of hours are attached, and many individual small digital elements (II) which follow the large digital elements in their arrangement for representing numbers, and a scale of 60 minutes from bottom to top attached to the digital numbers, so that the hours are represented in numbers and the minutes, so to speak, as a filling quantity of these numbers by controlling the small digital elements in such a way that they open up one after the other in accordance with the time to shine,
• FIG. 6 (1) shows a time display device in which the hourly numbers are attached to elements (12) which are arranged in a circle and can be rotated about their own center, and the respectively valid number of hours corresponding to the time is the one which appears to be the only one which is not rotated ( 13), whereby, as here, a small additional pointer can be attached, and the elements (12) can perform their rotary movement over time as a result of their arrangement one behind the other by elements (14) designed as toothed wheels, so that only one element must attack from below a driving mechanism that rotates an element by 30 ° every hour on the hour, the minutes being indicated here by a rotating hand around a concentrically smaller minute circle,
• Fig. 7 is a bracelet designed time display device, the surface of which is equipped with digital display elements, and digital time information (15) once around the bracelet to simulate the elapsed time so that digital time information during its circulation not changed and can be selected frequently, for example as here new time information circulates every 15 seconds, it being possible to switch over to time information which changes during the circulation,
• Fig. 8 shows a time display device as a three-dimensional spiral, i.e. a spiral turn (16) rising from the circular bottom (19) which rotates so that it either (as the left part shows) a marking element (18) on a time scale (17) (here for minutes or seconds) of time shifts accordingly, or (as the right part shows) a marking frame (20) is shifted outwards along a time scale without numbers, so that the number corresponding to the time is always framed by the spiral on the floor and follows at the same time at a particular location on the time scale that is helpful for the presentation of the time information, with the rotation being able to take place in steps from number to number in the frame or uniformly, in which case the frame and the arrangement of the numbers should be chosen such that a transition from one to another number is visible within the frame (the size-proportional arrangement of numbers and spiral is correct in the right te not for illustration reasons, the spiral would be smaller).

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