US3630018A - Timepiece escapement - Google Patents

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US3630018A
US3630018A US81402A US3630018DA US3630018A US 3630018 A US3630018 A US 3630018A US 81402 A US81402 A US 81402A US 3630018D A US3630018D A US 3630018DA US 3630018 A US3630018 A US 3630018A
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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
    • G04B15/00—Escapements
    • G04B15/06—Free escapements
    • G04B15/08—Lever escapements
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    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C5/00—Electric or magnetic means for converting oscillatory to rotary motion in time-pieces, i.e. electric or magnetic escapements
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  • a lever escapement for timepieces includes a guard pin at one end of a pivotable lever, which guard pin at least in part is constituted by a magnet having a predetermined polarity at its free end.
  • the safety roller cooperating with said guard pin is also constituted in part by a magnet the external part of the magnet facing the free end of the guard pin having the same polarity as the latter. The repulsion between the guard pin and the safety roller ensures the maintenance of the lever against a banking pin arranged to one side of the lever.
  • the present invention relates to lever escapements for timepieces.
  • Leer escapements which include an escape wheel, a lever or anchor having pallet arms at one end which carry pallets for cooperating with the escape wheel and a fork and a guard pin or dart at the opposite end.
  • the fork cooperates with a table roller provided with an impulse pin and the guard pin cooperates with a safety roller.
  • Such a known lever escapement can be designed to eliminate recoil of the escape wheel but some maintain the feature of recoil, since recoil is necessary when a draw action is required.
  • Draw is an important action in the operational sequence of the lever escapement, whereby, after the instant of locking, the escape wheel tooth continues to advance drawing the pallet firmly so that the lever engages one of a pair of banking pins arranged one on either side of the lever. The tooth holds the lever against release by an external shock or other cause until unlocked. The energy lost during unlocking and the disturbances of the period of the balance caused by the unlocking are relatively important.
  • the known lever escapements which work without recoil of the escape wheel, are those employing a stable device for maintaining the fork on the two banking pins, the device being a mechanical or magnetic jumper.
  • the two banking pins can be made as magnets.
  • the drawback of all the known devices is that the return force on the banking pins decreases according to the distance therefrom of the lever and in the case, where the banking pins are magnets, to the square of the distance, from the lever to the banking pin.
  • the lever 6 cooperates by means of fork 7 with an impulse pin 10 supported by a roller table 11 connected to a balance staff not shown.
  • the fork 7 is provided with a guard pin 12 engageable by a safety roller 13 having a recess 14.
  • the guard pin 12 is made of magnetic material and magnetized in the longitudinal sense with the end, facing the safety roller 13 having, for example, a negative polarity.
  • the safety roller 13 is also made of a magnetic material and is magnetized in a radial sense in such a way that its whole external surface facing the guard pin has a polarity of
  • An object of the present invention is the production of a lever escapement workingwithout recoil in which the return force of the lever on the banking pins increases according to the distance of said lever from said banking pins.
  • a lever escapement for a timepiece comprises an escape wheel, a pivotally mounted lever having at one end pallet arms carrying pallets for cooperation with the escape wheel a fork and a guard pin mounted at the opposite end of the lever, a table roller carrying an impulse pin for engaging the fork and a safety roller having a recess, for engaging the guard pin, the guard pin at least in part being constituted by a magnet having a predetermined polarity at its free end, and the safety roller constituted at least in part by a magnet, the external part of the magnet facing the free end of the guard pin having the same polarity as the latter.
  • FIG. I is a partial plan view of an escapement according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a partial elevation of the escapement of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross section on the line lll-lll of FIG. 1.
  • a lever escapement comprises a known escape wheel 1 having teeth 2.
  • the impulse face 3 of each tooth 2 successively coacts with an impulse face 4 of a pallet 5 of a pivotable lever 6.
  • the lever 6 has a fork 7. Movement of the lever 6 is limited by opposed banking pins 8 the same sign as that of the extremity of the guard pin, that is, a negative polarity, in order that a repulsion exists between the safety roller [3 and the guard pin 12.
  • the repulsion ensures the maintenance of the lever 6 against the banking pins 8, 9.
  • the repulsion increases when the guard pin 12 approaches the roller, which can happen in the case of certain shocks. Conversely, the repulsion increases as the distance between the guard pin 12 and the banking pins 8, 9 increases.
  • Such an escapement is particularly useful in high frequency movements where the number of oscillations in an hour is greater than 30, 000.
  • the saving of energy permits the assembly of a larger balance with a greater moment of inertia, or a barrel of the same dimension with a more important power reserve.
  • a lever escapement for a timepiece comprising an escape wheel, a pivotally mounted lever having at one end pallet arms carrying pallets for cooperation with the escape wheel, a fork and a guard pin mounted at the opposite end of lever, a table roller carrying an impulse pin for engaging the fork and a safety roller having a recess, for engaging the guard pin, the improvement which comprises the guard pin at least in part, being constituted by a magnet having a predetermined polarity at the free end of the guard pin and the safety roller constituted at least in part, by a magnet, the external part of the magnet facing the free end of the guard pin having the same polarity as the latter.

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EP3579058A1 (fr) * 2018-06-07 2019-12-11 Montres Breguet S.A. Piece d'horlogerie comprenant un tourbillon
US20200401083A1 (en) * 2019-06-19 2020-12-24 Manufacture D'horlogerie Audemars Piguet Sa Lever escapement assembly for a timepiece movement
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US1517008A (en) * 1921-12-09 1924-11-25 Ansel B Jones Balance mechanism
US2669089A (en) * 1949-04-05 1954-02-16 Straumann Reinhard Anchor escapement
US3059413A (en) * 1959-01-02 1962-10-23 Hamilton Watch Co Pallet fork contacting and indexing means for electric watch
US3183426A (en) * 1962-02-14 1965-05-11 Cons Electronics Ind Magnetically coupled constant speed system
US3481138A (en) * 1966-05-10 1969-12-02 Suwa Seikosha Kk Drive for a balance in an electric timepiece
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US20160370766A1 (en) * 2013-12-23 2016-12-22 Eta Sa Manufacture Horlogere Suisse Mechanical clock movement with magnetic escapement
JP2017500573A (ja) * 2013-12-23 2017-01-05 ニヴァロックス−ファー ソシエテ アノニム 安全手段を有する最適化された脱進機
US9665067B2 (en) 2013-12-23 2017-05-30 Nivarox-Far S.A. Optimised escapement with security means
US9804570B2 (en) * 2013-12-23 2017-10-31 Eta Sa Manufacture Horlogere Suisse Mechanical clock movement with magnetic escapement
CN107111277A (zh) * 2014-12-18 2017-08-29 M·A·让纳雷 用于钟表机芯的振荡器
CN107111277B (zh) * 2014-12-18 2020-08-21 M·A·让纳雷 用于钟表机芯的振荡器
US20170185041A1 (en) * 2015-12-23 2017-06-29 Montres Breguet S.A. Mechanical timepiece movement with a lever escapement
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EP3579058A1 (fr) * 2018-06-07 2019-12-11 Montres Breguet S.A. Piece d'horlogerie comprenant un tourbillon
CN110579954B (zh) * 2018-06-07 2021-06-18 蒙特雷布勒盖股份有限公司 包括陀飞轮的钟表
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US20210294270A1 (en) * 2020-03-18 2021-09-23 The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd Horological movement comprising an escapement equipped with a magnetic system
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