WO2000075735A2 - Dispositif et procede substitutifs d'une aiguille des secondes - Google Patents

Dispositif et procede substitutifs d'une aiguille des secondes Download PDF

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WO2000075735A2
WO2000075735A2 PCT/US2000/015165 US0015165W WO0075735A2 WO 2000075735 A2 WO2000075735 A2 WO 2000075735A2 US 0015165 W US0015165 W US 0015165W WO 0075735 A2 WO0075735 A2 WO 0075735A2
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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
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • G04B45/0038—Figures or parts thereof moved by the clockwork
    • G04B45/0046—Figures or parts thereof moved by the clockwork with oscillating motion, in pocket- or wrist watches

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  • This invention relates to an improved watch having decorative features wherein a substitute is provided for the second hand so that the decorative features are animated in time with a sixty-second per minute repetitive motion.
  • the standard clock face may be said to include an hour hand, a minute hand, and a second hand, each of these hands revolve around the center of the clock face in a "clock wise" direction.
  • the second hand essentially divides the clock face into sixty equal segments and completes one revolution around the clock face in sixty seconds.
  • Novelty clocks and watches have been around for quite some time. Some of these novelty clocks and watches provide additional entertaining movement besides just the hour, minute and second hands.
  • An example of a novelty clock is disclosed in Chase U.S. Patent
  • U.S. Patent 373,441 also discloses a clock which produces "pleasing effects to the beholder", including, in this case, the movement of a woman at a washing tub holding a piece of soap which, with the reciprocal motion of the invention, appears to be rubbed on clothes.
  • Other inventions substitute the minute and hour hands of normal design for arms of an animated character.
  • Puff U.S. Patent 4,531,841 each disclose an audio/visual time piece wherein Mickey Mouse's arms are substituted for the normal hour and minute hands.
  • the body of the mouse character is attached to the second sleeve and rotates once per minute which, according to the inventor, is fast enough to produce a sense of action in the eye of the beholder.
  • the Puff patents disclose minute hands and hour hands which also function as the characters arms. At least one other device has made use of the second hand to provide animated action.
  • the Ushikoshi patent, U.S. Patent 4,421,420 discloses an electronic analog time piece having an illustration on the dial that provides animation by including a portion of the illustration on the second hand and by giving the second hand an erratic motion.
  • a drawback to the novelty clocks and watches known in the art is that none of them provide a user with relevant time lapse information as provided in the normal sweeping second hand.
  • a novelty clock and/or watch which provides an attractive animated watch face without a sweeping second hand while still providing, by means of the animation, an ability to track the passage of time in second by second intervals. It, therefore, is an object of this invention to provide an improved novelty watch and/or clock with a second hand substitute such that decorative features are animated in time with a sixty-second per minute repetitive motion without the presence of a clockwise rotational second hand.
  • a second hand substitute for a watch includes a connection attached to a second hand movement for translating clockwise rotational second hand motion to a reciprocal back and forth motion in time with a sixty-second per minute beat.
  • a primary decorative feature is provided on or near the watch face.
  • a secondary decorative feature is attached to the connection.
  • the secondary decorative feature includes at least one decorative feature attached to the connection.
  • the secondary decorative feature includes two separate decorative features. In this embodiment the two separate decorative features are attached to the connection so that the two separate decorative features move toward each other and away from each other in one second intervals.
  • the two separate decorative features are formed into representative shapes selected one from a group including: hands, feet, legs and feet, and arms and hands.
  • a corresponding method for providing a second hand substitute is also disclosed and claimed as more fully described hereafter.
  • FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a preferred embodiment of the second hand substitute of the present invention with the housing of the watch being partially broken away to reveal the internal connection;
  • FIGURE 2 is a side view of the invention of FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 3 is a top view of the invention of FIGURE 1 in three parts:
  • FIGURE 3A illustrates at least one secondary decorative feature (a hand) attached to the connection and in one position and FIGURE 3B shows the hand in a second position so that it illustrates the hand moving back and forth in a waving motion, and FIGURE 3C shows the direction of movement by means of directional arrows;
  • FIGURE 4 also shows at least one secondary decorative feature in two positions:
  • FIGURE 4 A shows a hand in a raised positioned showing a hand apparently painting
  • FIGURE 4B shows the same hand in a lowered position and FIGURE 4C shows directional arrows indicating the movement of the single hand feature;
  • FIGURE 5 shows a second preferred embodiment of the invention with two separate decorative features that move toward each other and away from each other in one-second intervals:
  • FIGURE 5A shows feet apart
  • FIGURE 5B show feet together
  • FIGURE 5C shows by directional arrows, the movement of the feet
  • FIGURE 6 is another illustration of the embodiment of FIGURE 5: FIGURE 6A shows hands raised above the head together and FIGURE 6B shows hands spread apart and lower and FIGURE 6C shows, by way of directional arrows, the movement of the arms; and
  • FIGURE 7 shows another illustration of the embodiment of FIGURE 5
  • FIGURE 7A illustrates legs and feet apart and FIGURE 7B shows the legs and fees together and FIGURE 7C illustrates , by way of directional arrows , the movement of the legs and feet.
  • FIGURES 1-7 The preferred embodiment of the present invention is illustrated by way of example in FIGURES 1-7.
  • the second hand substitute apparatus of the present invention is illustrated by reference to an analog watch 10 with a watch case 12, a transparent watch cover 14, a watch face 16 and a watch interior 18. Also, illustrated are hour hand 20, minute hand 22 and second hand 24.
  • mechanisms 26 standard inner- workings and hidden mechanisms of analog watches, known in the art and not hereafter disclosed or described, are represented by mechanisms 26. As is known in the art, mechanisms 26 operate either electronically or mechanically to provide separate movement to hour hand 20, minute hand 22 and second hand 24.
  • FIGURE 2 a side view of the analog watch 10 is shown with the watch cover 14 off revealing the center post 28 to which hour hand 20, minute hand 22 and second hand 24 are attached. Also, illustrated is time and date setting knob 30. As is known in the art, time and date setting knob 30 could also be used to mechanically wind internal mechanisms of a mechanical analog watch 10 as needed. Center post 28 is divided into three separately moveable sections, hour section 32, minute section 34 and second section 36.
  • second hand 24 is removed from second section 36.
  • a step motor 38 is connected to second section 36.
  • Step motor 38 is provided to rotate second section 36, which is divided so as to provide movement in opposite directions in order to produce the desired back and forth movement.
  • Second hand 24 is replaced at the base of the stem 40 with two separate decorative second hands, secondary decorative feature 44, that are attached below the hour hand 32 and the minute hand 34 to second section 36.
  • the second hands then have a maximum 90 degree separation between the two hands on the dial of a watch or 15 seconds apart.
  • the second hands then move towards each other in one second increments crossing in the middle or at the 8th second and then moving away from each other.
  • the watch movement could be place so that it could be positioned at any 90 degree angle on the watch face 16. This will create the motion as in FIGURE 5.
  • secondary decorative feature 44 is used as in FIGURE 3 , it is placed again below the hour hand 32 and minute hand 34 and moves 90 degrees or 15 seconds and then reverses movement the other way. This creates a waving type motion on the watch while at the same time moving in increments of one second.
  • step motor 38 of any type now known or hereafter developed, in combination with second section 36 creates connection 40.
  • FIGURE 3A a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated.
  • FIGURE 3 A shows primary decorative feature 42 attached to watch face 16 in the form of a female mouse known as the familiar Disney figure Minnie Mouse.
  • secondary decorative feature 44 attached to connection 40.
  • Hour hand 20 and minute hand 22 perform their normal functions around the watch face 16 as is known in the art.
  • FIGURES 3B and 3C the substitute movement for second hand 24 is illustrated.
  • secondary decorative feature 44 is the gloved hand of Minnie Mouse.
  • the secondary decorative feature 44 a gloved hand, moves up and down as also indicated by the arrows of FIGURE 3C.
  • This movement is in time with the familiar and useful sixty-second per minute beat. That is, while second hand 24 has been removed, secondary decorative feature 44 substitutes the second hand movement with a sixty-second per minute beat which is familiar to all users of watches with second hands 24.
  • the dual purpose of adding animation while retaining the ability to determine seconds of a minute are thereby accomplished by way of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 3 Additional preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed herein and represented by FIGURE 3 are also provided for purposes of illustration. Referring to FIGURES 4A,
  • FIG. 4B and 4C another illustration of primary decorative feature 42 is provided in the form of a standing female mouse in the recognizable form of Minnie Mouse.
  • the primary decorative feature 42 of this illustration has the female mouse holding a paint pallet in one stationary hand.
  • the secondary decorative feature 44 of this embodiment is an arm and hand that contain a paint brush. As illustrated by reference to FIGURES 4A and 4B, the secondary decorative feature 44 in the shape of a hand holding a paint brush moves up and down suggesting the painting of the numbers as the secondary decorative feature 44 moves to a sixty-second per minute beat.
  • the primary decorative feature 42 in this illustration is the form of a male mouse, Mickey, and Mickey's hands, shoulders and head.
  • the secondary decorative feature 44 in this case is a pair of independently moveable legs and feet.
  • FIGURES 5A, 5B and 5C it is illustrated that secondary decorative feature 44 attached to connection 40 enables the movement of Mickey's legs (and feet) back and forth, apart and together. This accomplishes the purpose of the invention of providing animation in a unique and novel way, as well as retaining the ability to determine the passage of seconds, because of the fact that the legs move apart and together with a sixty-second per minute beat.
  • FIGURE 6 is another illustration of the dual movement embodiment of the present invention.
  • the primary decorative feature 42 illustrated in FIGURE 6 is the duck known as Donald Duck, the head, body and feet of which are stationary.
  • the secondary decorative feature 44 are, in this illustration, a pair of arms with hands that move as illustrated by reference to FIGURES 6A, 6B and 6C.
  • FIGURE 7 a final illustration of the embodiment of the present invention first disclosed with reference to FIGURE 5 is shown.
  • primary decorative feature 42 is the head, body, arms and hands of the Disney figure Goofy.
  • the secondary decorative feature 44 attached to connection 40 are Goofy 's legs and feet.
  • Goofy 's legs appear to dance as they move back and forth toward each other and apart. Again, importantly, the legs move in time with a sixty-second per minute functionality.
  • a second hand substitute is provided such that the decorative features are animated in time with a sixty-second per minute repetitive motion without the presence of a clockwise rotational sweeping second hand.
  • the present invention provides for the substitution of the standard analog watch second hand 24 with a secondary decorative feature 44 attached to connection 40.
  • connection 40 drives secondary feature 44 back and forth in a sixty-second per minute beat.
  • Secondary decorative feature 44 may be a single decorative element as illustrated in FIGURES 3 and 4 or multiple decorative figure elements as illustrated in FIGURES 5, 6 and 7.
  • any means now known or hereafter developed for driving the decorative features in the sixty-second per minute beat is appropriate to the invention.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif de remplacement d'une aiguille des secondes d'une montre analogique (10) dotée d'une connexion (40) la reliant au mouvement (36) de cette aiguille, ce qui permet de transformer le mouvement circulaire en sens horaire de l'aiguille des secondes (24) en mouvement de va-et-vient, à une cadence de 60 battements par minute. Dans un mode de réalisation, un premier élément décoratif (42) principal est fixé directement sur la face visible (16) de la montre (10) et reste statique. Un second élément décoratif (44) est relié à la connexion (40) et se déplace à une cadence de 60 battements par minute. Un mode de réalisation préféré de l'invention comprend deux seconds éléments décoratifs (44) séparés, reliés à la connexion (40) de manière à se déplacer l'un vers l'autre puis à s'éloigner mutuellement dans un intervalle d'une seconde. L'invention permet ainsi d'obtenir des animations sympathiques, en supprimant le mouvement de balayage de l'aiguille des secondes mais en gardant la caractéristique des 60 battements par minute, chère aux utilisateurs de montres analogiques.
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EP1164442A1 (fr) * 2000-01-24 2001-12-19 Seiko Instruments Inc. Piece d'horlogerie electronique comprenant des aiguilles indicatrices
EP1164443A1 (fr) * 2000-01-24 2001-12-19 Seiko Instruments Inc. Piece d'horlogerie electronique comprenant des aiguilles indicatrices
EP1577718A1 (fr) * 2004-03-18 2005-09-21 L' heure Nouvelle SA Mouvement pour pièce d'horlogerie muni d'une animation

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EP1164442A1 (fr) * 2000-01-24 2001-12-19 Seiko Instruments Inc. Piece d'horlogerie electronique comprenant des aiguilles indicatrices
EP1164443A1 (fr) * 2000-01-24 2001-12-19 Seiko Instruments Inc. Piece d'horlogerie electronique comprenant des aiguilles indicatrices
EP1164443A4 (fr) * 2000-01-24 2005-06-15 Seiko Instr Inc Piece d'horlogerie electronique comprenant des aiguilles indicatrices
EP1164442A4 (fr) * 2000-01-24 2005-06-15 Seiko Instr Inc Piece d'horlogerie electronique comprenant des aiguilles indicatrices
EP1577718A1 (fr) * 2004-03-18 2005-09-21 L' heure Nouvelle SA Mouvement pour pièce d'horlogerie muni d'une animation

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