EP1550012A2 - Chronograph-type watch - Google Patents
Chronograph-type watchInfo
- Publication number
- EP1550012A2 EP1550012A2 EP02785776A EP02785776A EP1550012A2 EP 1550012 A2 EP1550012 A2 EP 1550012A2 EP 02785776 A EP02785776 A EP 02785776A EP 02785776 A EP02785776 A EP 02785776A EP 1550012 A2 EP1550012 A2 EP 1550012A2
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- pusher
- locking device
- control device
- watch
- displaying
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- G—PHYSICS
- G04—HOROLOGY
- G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
- G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
- G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
- G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
- G04F7/0823—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph with couplings between the chronograph mechanism and the base movement
- G04F7/0838—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph with couplings between the chronograph mechanism and the base movement involving a tilting movement
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- G—PHYSICS
- G04—HOROLOGY
- G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
- G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
- G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
- G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
- G04F7/0866—Special arrangements
Definitions
- the present invention relates to chronograph type watches. Such watches make it possible to measure a time from a given instant, the control being effected by pressing one or more pushers. It relates more precisely to a watch provided with a movement comprising:
- control device ensuring the start and stop of the means for displaying the timed time
- zeroing device for bringing the means for displaying the timed time to zero when a measurement is completed.
- This watch further comprises a box serving as a housing for the movement and comprising at least one pusher intended to control the control and zero-setting devices.
- a box serving as a housing for the movement and comprising at least one pusher intended to control the control and zero-setting devices.
- Such watches are susceptible to untimely maneuvers. Thus, a shock on one of the push-buttons can cause an ongoing measurement to stop unexpectedly. Such a situation can also occur in diving, where the water pressure acts on the start-stop button until it can interrupt a measurement in progress, which can be, to say the least, detrimental.
- the watch according to the invention is characterized in that it further comprises a locking device, arranged to cooperate with the control device, and capable of occupying first and second positions in which the device control can be activated or not, and an actuator intended to be accessible from outside the box to control the locking device. Thanks to this locking device, it is thus possible to prevent any accidental manipulation.
- chronograph type watches are known in which the pushers can be screwed onto the middle, so as to improve the seal. It is quite clear that a screwed pusher becomes inoperative. However, such an operation requires some attention, each pusher having to be locked by itself.
- the control member may as well be a pusher as a crown, depending on the desired objective.
- the control device be inactive as long as the timed time display means displays this other information.
- the locking device is arranged so as to be able to act on the control device only when the means for displaying timed time are at zero or display information other than the timed time.
- an action on the control member, and by it on the locking device makes the control device actuable and brings the l needle ensuring double display.
- the control member is advantageously a pusher.
- the locking device is arranged so as to make the zero-setting device also operable or not.
- the locking device advantageously comprises a blocking piece which acts on the pusher to immobilize it. In this way, the pusher cannot be moved accidentally, neither by a movement of the user, nor by the pressure of the water during the dive.
- the locking device comprises a movable connecting piece arranged so that, depending on the position it occupies, pressure on the pusher is or is not transmitted to the control mechanism.
- the locking device further comprises an apparent display member on the watch face, making it possible to indicate which position the locking device occupies. and, therefore, whether the control device is actuable or not.
- the actuating member can be formed of a crown pivotally mounted on the box. It can also be formed by a pusher.
- the locking device comprises: "a rod arranged through the box and intended to carry the crown which comprises the control member, and a pinion at its end inside the box,
- Figure 1 shows a watch provided with a mechanism according to the invention
- Figures 2a, and 2b illustrate a chronograph mechanism provided with a locking member of the single function" start-stop ", equipping the watch of Figure 1;
- Figures 3 to 3d relate to a device making it possible to deactivate, by blocking, the" start-stop “and” reset “buttons;”
- Figures 4 to 4d show a device making it possible to disengage the "start-stop” buttons and "zeroing", making them inoperative.
- the watch shown in Figure 1 is of the chronograph type. It comprises, in a conventional manner, a box 10 serving as housing for a movement, which carries a dial 12, hands for the hours of current time 14, minutes of current time and timed time 16 and seconds of timed time 20.
- the display of the current time is corrected by means of a time setting crown 22, connected to the movement organs by a time setting rod not visible in the drawing.
- the timing functions are performed by three pushers 24, 26 and 28 respectively arranged at two o'clock, four o'clock and eight o'clock.
- the pusher 24 controls the start and stop of a timed time measurement, while the pusher 26 ensures the setting of the hands 16 and 20 to zero when a timed time measurement has been interrupted.
- the pusher 28 allows the chronograph mechanism to pass from a first state, in which it is locked, to a second state in which it is unlocked.
- the mechanism comprises a locking device which will be described in more detail below and which has the effect of rendering the pusher 24 inoperative when the mechanism is locked, while the pusher 28 is off when a measurement is in progress.
- This mechanism is part of a movement which comprises, in a conventional manner and not visible in the drawing, an energy source such as a barrel, a time base such as a balance spring, a gear train, of which only a mobile 29 is visible in FIG. 2a, and an exhaust connecting the gear train to the balance for maintenance, as well as time-setting and chronograph mechanisms.
- the different components of the movement are arranged on a frame 30, formed of a plate and bridges, which ensures the relative positioning of the different moving parts.
- the chronograph mechanism shown in FIGS. 2a and 2b which is described in detail in patent application EP 02022505.8, allows the display of the minutes of timed time and of current time with the single hand 16.
- the part of the mechanism relating to the “start-stop” and “reset” commands could without other be replaced by any existing chronograph mechanism.
- the mechanism represented in the drawing essentially comprises locking, control and zero-setting devices, the parts of which are part of them are identified by the first two digits of their reference starting with 32, 34 and 36 respectively.
- the springs which this mechanism are schematically represented by arrows identified by the letter "F" followed by the number corresponding to the reference of the part on which it acts. The arrow is oriented, approximately, in the direction in which the spring exerts its force.
- the locking device 32 comprises:
- a switching member 321 comprising: "a body 321a in the shape of a bird, with a head 321b provided with a hole 321c in which is engaged a rod passing through the frame 30 right through and carrying a finger 321d visible on FIG.
- a beak 321e two wings 321f and 321g, the wing 321g being provided with a pin 321h, and a tail 321j, the head 321b being arranged on the side of the center of the movement and the tail 321j at the periphery, around 7 a.m.
- a switching cam for example a column wheel 322, diagrammatically shown, controlled in rotation by the pawl 321 ⁇ , rotating on the frame 30 at 322a,
- a locking lever 324 comprising an elongated body 324a, pivotally mounted on the frame 30 in its middle part, and one of the ends of which is provided with a nose 324b arranged to cooperate with the columns of the wheel 322, while the other end comprises a first oblong hole 324c in which a stud 325 is slidably mounted, intended to cooperate with the control device 34, and a second oblong hole 324d, in which is housed a pin with head 326, itself fixed on the frame 30, ensuring the positioning of the lever 324 in the plane of movement.
- the constituent parts of the locking device 32 are positioned by springs schematically represented by an arrow, and more particularly:
- the control device 34 comprises in particular:
- control lever 341 comprising:
- a body 341a disposed at the periphery of the movement from 2 to 7 hours, which pivots at 341b on the frame 30 slightly below 4 hours, and which is provided, at one of its ends, with a folding 341c s 'extending in the thickness of the pad 325, and
- a pawl 34 ld pivotally mounted on the other end of the body 341a, the function of which will be specified below, - a cam 342, for example of column wheel type, driven by the pawl 34 ld, which controls the chronograph clutch, not shown in the drawing, and positions the switching member 321 by its finger 321d.
- control device 34 The constituent parts of the control device 34 are positioned by springs and more particularly:
- the zero-setting device 36 is formed in particular by a lever 361 and a hammer 362.
- the lever 361 is provided with a pin 361a arranged opposite the pusher 26 and a groove 361b placed so that 'it can serve as a housing for the pin 321 h when the finger 32 ld is in abutment against a column of the cam 342.
- a spring F361 tends to push the lever 361 in abutment against the pusher.
- the hammer is also subjected to an elastic force by a spring F362 keeping it in abutment against the wheel 322.
- the hammer 362 will not be described in more detail, it is intended to cooperate with cams carried by the moving parts of the chronograph train carrying needles, to set them to zero. Such devices are well known to those skilled in the art.
- the pusher 24 acts on the lever 341 by means of the stud 325, which bears against the folding 341c. Also, when the pad 325 is not interposed between the folding 341c and the pusher 24, pressing on the latter has no effect.
- the pusher 28 pushes the pin 321m, which controls the lever 321k.
- the latter drives the pawl 321 p which rotates the column wheel 322.
- One of the columns of the wheel 322 releases the nose 324b which falls between two columns under the effect of the spring F324a, so that the stud 325 is placed between pusher 24 and folding 341c.
- a new pressure on the pusher 28 rotates the column wheel 322 by one step, so that the nose 324 b is raised and the stud 325 moves away from the pusher 24, which becomes inactive again.
- the finger 321d is then between two columns of this cam. However, it does not fall, despite the action of the spring F321a, because of the pin 321h retained in the housing 361b.
- the pusher 28 therefore remains inactive. If the pusher 24 is pressed again, the measurement starts again and the finger 32 ld is pressed against a column.
- FIG. 3 represents a watch of which the box 10, the time-setting crown 22 and two pushers 24 and 26 can be seen.
- FIG. 3a also shows the dial 12.
- the crown 22 is used for setting the time information relating to the current time, the pusher 24 for controlling the start and stop of a chronograph mechanism, and the pusher 26 for setting it to zero.
- This watch is shown in FIG. 3a cut along a plane A- A perpendicular to the drawing and in FIGS. 3bt and 3b 2 cut along a plane BB also perpendicular, in the locked position of the pusher 24 in 3b ⁇ and free in 3b 2 .
- Figures 3 c and 3 d show, seen from the side as indicated by the arrows C and D, part of the watch respectively in the locked and free position of the pushers.
- chronograph mechanism is only shown diagrammatically, by a portion of control lever 40 and of reset lever 42, these portions cooperating respectively with pushers 24 and 26.
- This mechanism can be of no any type controlled by two pushers.
- the box 10 also carries, at 8 o'clock, a second ring 44, which, as can be seen in FIG. 3a, is secured to a rod 46 passing through the wall of the box 10.
- the rod 46 is provided with a pinion 48 mounted on a square 46a of the rod 46 and held by a screw 50 engaged in a tapping made in the rod 46.
- the watch is also equipped with a ring 52 arranged inside the case 10, adjacent to the internal wall of the middle part and to the dial 12, which forms with the crown 44, the rod 46 and the pinion 48 , a device for locking the pushers 24 and 26.
- the ring 52 is provided, in its portion adjacent to the crown 44, with a sector of toothed edges 52a which meshes with the teeth of the pinion 48, thus allowing it to be driven in rotation, over a limited angle. As will be explained below, the ring 52 is intended to block the pushers 24 and 26.
- Figures 3b ⁇ and 3b 2 show the pusher 24 in section, engaged in the box 10, respectively in the locked and free positions.
- a tube 54 driven into a hole with which the box 10 is provided, serves as a housing for the pusher 24.
- the latter is formed by an external button 24a, on which the user presses, and by a rod 24b screwed onto the button 24a and engaged in the tube 54.
- a seal 24c is housed on the rod 24b and bears against the internal end of the button 24a, while a coil spring 55 surrounds the rod 24b and is supported on the one hand in the bottom of the tube 54, on the other hand against the seal 24c ensuring the return of the pusher 24 when it is subjected to a pressure.
- a washer can advantageously be interposed between the spring 55 and the seal 24c.
- the pusher 24 is held in the box 10 by means of a screw 56 engaged in a tapped hole in the rod 24b, which is not visible in the drawing.
- This screw is provided with a head 56a which cooperates with the lever 40 to control the chronograph mechanism.
- the head 56a has a groove 56b extending radially in its cylindrical portion.
- the ring 52 comprises a cylindrical portion 52b, of inside and outside diameters and of height such that this portion can be engaged in the groove 56b, as shown in FIG. 3c.
- the portion 52b is provided with a rounded cutout 52c, arranged so that, when it is aligned on the pusher 24, the groove is released, which makes it possible to move the pusher 24.
- the cutout 52c is aligned on the axis BB, so that the pusher 24 can be activated.
- the ring 52 is engaged in the groove 56b, thus blocking the pusher 24.
- the pusher 26, which has the same structure as the pusher 24 cooperates with the ring 52 identically to the latter. A detailed description would therefore add nothing more to the understanding of the device.
- the two extreme positions of the ring 52 can be defined by a jumper which has not been shown in the drawing, which would have the advantage of clearly marking these two positions.
- the ring 52 is provided with a display area 52c comprising two marks, for example of different colors 52d and 52e, which appear l one or the other in a window 12a of the dial 12, thus showing which position occupies the ring 52 and, in this way, whether the mechanism is in operation or locked.
- the ring 52 is made of elastic material, for example steel or beryllium bronze. It also comprises a cylindrical portion 52b, but in which are cut lamellae 52f, integral with the cylindrical portion at one of their ends, free and forming, by folding, a finger 52g at the other end. This finger 52g is at the same level as the screw head 56a. In this way, if the strip 52f is located opposite the screw head 56a, an action on the pusher 24 brings the screw head 56a to bear against the strip 52f, the finger 52g pushing the lever 40. In the vicinity of the folding 52g, the cylindrical portion is interrupted, so that by rotating the ring to bring it into its second position, the strip is no longer opposite the screw head 56a, the movement of the pusher 24 then taking place in a vacuum.
- the cylindrical portion 52b but in which are cut lamellae 52f, integral with the cylindrical portion at one of their ends, free and forming, by folding, a finger 52g at the other end.
- This finger 52g is at the same level as the
- control member could also be ensured by the time-setting crown 22 in its depressed position, especially in the case where the movement comprises a quartz time base and a source of electrical energy.
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Priority Applications (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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EP02785776A EP1550012B8 (en) | 2002-10-07 | 2002-12-02 | Chronograph-type watch |
Applications Claiming Priority (4)
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EP02022505 | 2002-10-07 | ||
EP02022505A EP1408383B1 (en) | 2002-10-07 | 2002-10-07 | Chronograph movement |
EP02785776A EP1550012B8 (en) | 2002-10-07 | 2002-12-02 | Chronograph-type watch |
PCT/IB2002/005054 WO2004031290A2 (en) | 2002-10-07 | 2002-12-02 | Chronograph-type watch |
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EP1550012A2 true EP1550012A2 (en) | 2005-07-06 |
EP1550012B1 EP1550012B1 (en) | 2010-02-10 |
EP1550012B8 EP1550012B8 (en) | 2010-05-19 |
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EP (1) | EP1550012B8 (en) |
JP (1) | JP4370252B2 (en) |
AT (1) | ATE457480T1 (en) |
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- 2002-12-02 AU AU2002351064A patent/AU2002351064A1/en not_active Abandoned
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