EP1031895A2 - Uhr mit Anzeige sowohl der Ortszeit als auch der entsprechenden Zeit der 24 Zeitzonen - Google Patents

Uhr mit Anzeige sowohl der Ortszeit als auch der entsprechenden Zeit der 24 Zeitzonen Download PDF

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EP1031895A2
EP1031895A2 EP00830138A EP00830138A EP1031895A2 EP 1031895 A2 EP1031895 A2 EP 1031895A2 EP 00830138 A EP00830138 A EP 00830138A EP 00830138 A EP00830138 A EP 00830138A EP 1031895 A2 EP1031895 A2 EP 1031895A2
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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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/20—Indicating by numbered bands, drums, discs, or sheets
    • G04B19/21—Drums
    • 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
    • G04B19/22—Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces
    • G04B19/226—Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces three-dimensionally shaped, e.g. terrestrial globes, cylinders and the like

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  • This invention relates to a clock such as a table-clock or a wrist-watch displaying the local time in hour and minutes and the corresponding time of several countries according to the time zones.
  • the hour hand consisting of a pointer is replaced by a translucent cylinder on the surface of which the terraqueous globe or world map with seas, oceans and continents in both northern and southern hemispheres is drawn in cylindrical projection.
  • the generatrices of the cylinder corresponding to the meridians delimiting the twenty-four time zones forming one day are marked out on the geographical map of the cylinder surface.
  • a stationary band is provided at the base of the cylinder on an outer bell on which the 0-24 hours and as many arrows are shown pointing the time zones drawn on the cylinder moving above them.
  • the name of the most important town of each time zone is written in each time zone.
  • the cylinder is moved by a suitable mechanism which is mounted on the shaft of the hour hand which extends upwards so that it can rotate integral therewith.
  • the minutes are pointed by a minute hand mounted on the corresponding shaft coaxial with the hour shaft, such minute hand being preferably double because the indication of the minutes located at the top has a double numbering for a better view from any point of observation.
  • the mechanism for moving the cylinder rotates the same in anticlockwise direction, i.e. in the direction of rotation of the earth, so that the numbering of the inventive clock is oriented in the opposite direction with respect to the normal clocks.
  • a power supplied lamp is located inside the cylinder for lighting up the area of the world map where it is light, i.e. the lamp lights up the daytime zones.
  • the above assembly of the table clock, mechanism with rotating cylinder, relative frame, minute hand and lighting lamp is supported by a base carrying also the stationary glass bell which protects the assembly and is provided with hour and minute indications on horizontal lower and upper bands.
  • a circular dial plate rotating with the shaft of the hour hand is mounted on such shaft and is divided into twenty-four sectors with the same width corresponding to the twenty-four time zones.
  • Two fixed concentric circular crown portions are located outside the rotating dial plate and inside the watchcase, the inner circular crown portion carrying the twenty-four hours and the outer circular crown portion the sixty minutes. It is evident that such a watch carries only the minute hand pointing the outer stationary circular crown portion outside the hour circular crown portion.
  • the mechanism can be of any suitable, mechanical or electrical type, or a quartz mechanism or the like.
  • the clock includes a basement 10, a driving mechanism generally indicated at 11, a frame 12, a translucent rotating cylinder 13 rotated by mechanism 11, on the surface of which the world map is depicted in cylindrical projection, with the generatrices showing the 24 meridians defining the time zones, and an outside transparent bell 14 provided with a lower band 15 carrying the 24 hours of the day and an upper band 16 also carrying the 24 hours, the minutes being disposed above the latter on two half circles each carrying 60 minutes.
  • the driving mechanism 11 is a conventional mechanism which is mechanically or electrically moved e.g. by a battery power supply indicated at 18 in the anticlockwise direction, i.e. opposite to the conventional clocks.
  • the coaxial shafts of hours 19 and minutes 20 of mechanism 11 are very long and extend upwards beyond the top of frame 12.
  • the gear wheels of train 30 performing the functions of regulating and selecting the time are located and mesh together close to the upper end 31 of shaft 19.
  • a lamp 26 for lighting the portion of the cylinder 13 corresponding to the time zones where it is light is located inside the cylinder.
  • the mechanism 11 is of the conventional type provided with the necessary escapement, and then it will not be described herein in greater detail.
  • the upper end 31 of hour shaft 19 carries a wheel 32 supporting and driving cylinder 13, the top of which is opened (Fig. 2) and provided with a bush 33 for its insertion into end 31.
  • the arrangement of the components is such that when cylinder 13 is put into end 31 of shaft 19 and mechanism 11 is arranged on basement 10 and the outside translucent bell 14 is located on the latter, the base of cylinder 13 divided into twenty-four portions 34 with the same width is at the level of lower band 15 so that the twenty-four arrows 35 each indicate one of the twenty-four time zones.
  • the minutes are preferably arranged in two sets of 60' above the upper band 16, each set being arranged on a half circle of 180°. It is evident that frame 12 supports shafts 19 and 20 both at the base and the upper ends 31 projecting above the same and the train of gear wheels 30.
  • Fig. 7 shows the double hand 40 for indicating the minutes located above band 16 on bell 14.
  • Figs. 8 to 10 for wall-clocks, pocket-watches ad wrist-watches is essentially the same and in such figures like or similar parts and components as the embodiment of Fig. 1 are designated by the same numerals increased by 100. Consequently, a dial plate 113 is disposed inside watch 111 and pivotally supported by hour shaft (not shown) rotating in anticlockwise direction inside the stationary circular crown 115.
  • the dial plate is divided into twenty-four sectors with the same width, one for each time zone, each of them has the name of the main town in each time zone.
  • the hours of the twenty-four time zones are shown on the inside circular crown portion of the stationary circular crown 115, and the sixty minutes are shown on the outside circular crown portion and will be indicated by the central hand 140 supported by the minute shaft coaxial with the hour shaft. Likewise to the indication of the time of a determined time zone the corresponding time of any other time zone is also indicated.

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EP00830138A 1999-02-25 2000-02-24 Uhr mit Anzeige sowohl der Ortszeit als auch der entsprechenden Zeit der 24 Zeitzonen Withdrawn EP1031895A3 (de)

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ITFR990004 IT251519Y1 (it) 1999-02-25 1999-02-25 Orologio biquadrante.
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ES2164616A1 (es) * 2000-09-06 2002-02-16 Carregui Francisco Alagarda Reloj que visualiza distintas franjas horarias.
USD548621S1 (en) 2006-02-16 2007-08-14 Eduardo Antonio Assuncao Clock
WO2012084314A1 (fr) 2010-12-20 2012-06-28 Greubel Forsey S.A. Dispositif d'affichage des heures

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US2513465A (en) * 1944-02-10 1950-07-04 Fisk Ernest Thomas World time indicator
CH314698A (de) * 1952-06-18 1956-06-30 Zanetti Fu Vittorio Renzo Anzeigegerät
FR1411022A (fr) * 1964-03-25 1965-09-17 Falk Verlag Fa Dispositif de présentation d'une reproduction cartographique d'an moins une partie du volume du globe terrestre, dans une représentation constituée par un volume
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DE3727071A1 (de) * 1987-04-10 1988-10-20 Kraut Helmut Dipl Rer Pol Weltkugel-uhr
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ES2164616A1 (es) * 2000-09-06 2002-02-16 Carregui Francisco Alagarda Reloj que visualiza distintas franjas horarias.
USD548621S1 (en) 2006-02-16 2007-08-14 Eduardo Antonio Assuncao Clock
WO2012084314A1 (fr) 2010-12-20 2012-06-28 Greubel Forsey S.A. Dispositif d'affichage des heures
CH704244A1 (fr) * 2010-12-20 2012-06-29 Greubel Forsey S A Dispositif d'affichage des heures et pièce d'horlogerie comportant un tel dispositif.
US9201402B2 (en) 2010-12-20 2015-12-01 Gfpi S.A. Device for displaying multiple times

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