US2589052A - Watch winding and setting mechanism - Google Patents

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US2589052A
US2589052A US581203A US58120345A US2589052A US 2589052 A US2589052 A US 2589052A US 581203 A US581203 A US 581203A US 58120345 A US58120345 A US 58120345A US 2589052 A US2589052 A US 2589052A
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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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/06—Forming the passage for the winding stem through the case; Divided winding stems
    • G04B37/068—Stem passage not being part of the layout of the clockwork
    • 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
    • G04B1/00—Driving mechanisms
    • G04B1/10—Driving mechanisms with mainspring
    • G04B1/16—Barrels; Arbors; Barrel axles
    • 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
    • G04B27/00—Mechanical devices for setting the time indicating means
    • G04B27/02—Mechanical devices for setting the time indicating means by making use of the winding means
    • 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
    • G04B29/00—Frameworks
    • G04B29/02—Plates; Bridges; Cocks
    • 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
    • G04B3/00—Normal winding of clockworks by hand or mechanically; Winding up several mainsprings or driving weights simultaneously
    • G04B3/04—Rigidly-mounted keys, knobs or crowns
    • G04B3/045—Storing the operating element, also bringing it out of storage
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/10—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems

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  • the present invention relates more particularly to watches intended to be sold at a reduced price.
  • Another object of the invention is to enable machines of usual construction and, presses. to be used for the mass production of the watches in question.
  • the rst step consists in arranging, in known f manner in certain devices, the winding and hand setting stem, not parallel, but perpendicularly to the plane of the dial and in shaping the case atY that point in such a manner that the winding knob, in its position of rest and of Winding, is,
  • the mechanism per se of the watch can dispose of all the desirable space.
  • the stem and the knob are made integral byv riveting, soldering, screwing by means of a right hand thread, etc. and they therefore form part of the watch case the special shape of which, d ue to the way in which the knob is lodged, is's'o adapted as to constitute a bearing for the wind, ing stem.
  • the said stem is bored axially to house a spindle secured to the frame plate and serving as a guide for the sliding movement of the stem so as to ensure correct meshing of the winding pinion with either one of the pinions engaging ⁇ either the ratchet or the minute Wheel.
  • object is to simplify the construction of these:- Watches and therefore to further reduce their'- especially the longitudinal motion of the stem and prevents the winding pinion from going beyond its correct meshing position with the minute pinion.
  • the 3/4 frame plate is suitably ribbed by mere stamping in order to form a kind of a hood completely or partially surrounding the top of the barrel and extended to form three or more lugs which are folded back with a View to replacing the usual built up pillars and to serving as fixing means on the frame plate.
  • the latter can also be provided with the same peripheral ribbing.
  • Fig. l relates to a watch of the RoskoiT pattern with a lidless barrel, and is a sectional View taken on the axis of the barrel.
  • Fig. 2 relates to another watch with a conventional barrel, and is a developed sectional View taken on the axis of said barrel.
  • reference numeral I designates the arbor of the barrel 2.
  • the arbor on its opposite ends has journals 3 and 4 which pvot respectively in the frame plate 5 and in a bridge 6 described more fully hereinafter.
  • the bridge 6 is fitted in an opening in a frame plate 1.
  • the arbor I has a cross sectional cylindrical shape of large diameter serving as a pivoting member for the barrel 2.
  • a ratchet 8 is mounted on a cross sectionally square member 9 of the arbor near the journal 3.
  • the spring anchoring member I 0 is mounted on a cross sectionally square member II of the arbor I near the journal 4, and in proximity to the open face of the barrel 2.
  • the winding of the watch and the setting of the hands are effected by actu-ating a rotary and slidableY stem disposed perpendicularly to the plane of the dial 20.
  • This' stem 2l exhibits, at one end, a ange in which are formed the teeth of a pinion 22.
  • At the centre of this pinion issues a blind axial perforation 23 which receives a pin 24 integral with the fra-me plate 5, said pin serving as axis of rotation and as longitudinal guide for the stem 2
  • This stem is moreover guided in a perforation of the back portion of the watch case 34.
  • has an annular bulge 26, on which bears one end of a coil spring 21 passed over the stem. 'The other end of this spring abuts against a rigid Washer 28 which compresses aresilient washer 29, made of felt, for example, in contact with the back of the watch case.
  • the spring 21 fulfils a threefold purpose. It limits the longitudinal motion of the stem 2
  • a gear wheel 36 meshes with a minute pinionl.
  • the wheel 36 is disposed between'theratch'et 8 and the pinion 31. If desired the wheel 36 may be held on its free ,portion by means of asmall plate 38 locked in a recess of the frame plate 5, or the corresponding bridge, said plate 38 being cut out so as to leavethe wheel 36 free.
  • the invention is not limited to what is described and illustrated, but it also covers variants.- On the other hand, the invention can be applied, wholly or in part, to ⁇ all types of watches of all qualities. It leaves the designer complete freedom as to the choice of the appropriate escapement.
  • AIn a wrist watch the combination with hands, a pivot for said hands, a dial associated therewith, a frame plate carrying said dial and hands, a barrel on said frame plate controlling the hands, of a hand-controlled winding .and setting mechanism including a gearing adapted to wind the barrel, a gearing adapted to set the hands, twopinions.ofequalmoduli lyinen superposed -planes and engaging respectively the two said gearings, aspindle parallel .to the .hand pivot, acasing ,carrying the different above-mentioned parts provided with a recess in the surface opposed Vto the dialand frame plate and in which the spindle is revolubly mounted, the spindle being adapted to slide longitudinallybetween two predetermined positions inside the casing, the i .the spindle is in the innermost or outermost extreme position and a control knob carried by the slidable revoluble spindle on the outside of the casing and housed normally inside the reces
  • a wrist watch the combination with hands,a pivot forsaidhands, a dial associated therewith, a frame plate carrying said dialand hands, a barrel on said frameplate controlling the hands, of a hand-controlled winding .and setting mechanism including a.geari ng adapted to wind the barrel, a gearing adapted to set the hands, two pinions of y equal moduli lying in superposed planes and engaging respectively thel two said gearings, a casing carrying the different above-mentioned parts provided with a recess in the surface opposed to the dial and frameplate, a pin rigid with the frame plate and held inside the casing in a direction parallel to the pivot of the hands, a spindle provided with an axialblind perforation coaxially engaging saidpin, revolubly and adapted ⁇ to slide thereon between V.two extreme positions inside .the casing, .the innermost. position of the Vspindle .being its normal position.
  • spindle is in the rst innermost above dened position for which rotation of the knob provides a winding of the'barrel, said knob when .drawn outwardly out of the casing recess bringing .the spindle inits second outermost position for .which rotation of the knob providesa setting of the hands.
  • a frame plate oarryingsaid dial and hands, a barrel on said frame plate controlling, the hands of a hand-controlling winding and.
  • a setting mechanism including a vgearing adaptedl to wind the barrel, a gearing adapted to set'thev hands, two pinions of equal Amoduli lying in superposed planes and engagingv respectively the twoA said gearings, a spindle parallel to the hand pivot, a casing carrying the diierent above-mentioned parts provided outwardly with ⁇ a recess in thel surface opposed to the dial and frame plate ⁇ and in which the .spindle is revolubly mounted, ,thespindle being adapted to slidelongitudinally between two predetermined positions inside the casing, the innermost position of the spindle'being its normal position nearer .thelirame plate than in its outermost position in which the spindle is dis-y placed from its normal position, a ⁇ spring urging-- said spindle int'o 'extreme' innermost position' a' pinion keyed to said spindle and adapted to mesh selectively with the iirs
  • a hand-controlling winding and setting mechanism including a gearing adapted to wind the barrel, a gearing adapted to set the hands, two pinions of equal moduli lying in superposed planes and engaging respectively the two said gearings, a casing carrying the diierent above-mentioned parts provided with a recess in the surface opposed to the dial and frame plate, a pin rigid with the frame plate and held inside the casing in a direction parallel to the pivot of the hands, a spindle provided with an axial blind perforation coaxially engaging said pin, revolubly and adapted to slide thereon between two extreme positions inside the casing, the innermost position of the spindle being its normal position nearer the frame plate thanin its outermost position in which the spindle is displaced from its 6 normal position, a spring urging said spind

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US2990676A (en) * 1958-07-16 1961-07-04 Hamilton Watch Co Battery driven clock
US3113416A (en) * 1960-03-30 1963-12-10 Movado Montres Self-winding watch
US3499280A (en) * 1966-05-13 1970-03-10 Erard Raoul Henri Winding and setting pinions mounted in case independent of movement
US3837162A (en) * 1971-08-06 1974-09-24 H Meitinger Device for adjusting the dial train of watches
US3888077A (en) * 1973-05-11 1975-06-10 Ebauches Bettlach Sa Mechanical watch movement

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US3635012A (en) * 1970-04-13 1972-01-18 Timex Corp Set stem mechanism for watches
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US1099307A (en) * 1913-04-30 1914-06-09 Chelsea Clock Company Winding and setting mechanism.
GB104671A (en) * 1916-03-10 1917-03-29 Edouard Seignol Improvements in or relating to Watches or Clocks.
DE384340C (de) * 1923-11-24 Paul Rohrmann Aufzieh- und Stellvorrichtung fuer Uhren
CH115353A (fr) * 1926-01-16 1926-06-16 Francis Cornioley Mécanisme de remontoir et de mise à l'heure.
CH117392A (fr) * 1925-12-24 1927-01-17 Coultre & Cie Sa L Dispositif de remontage et de mise à l'heure d'une montre.
US1845440A (en) * 1927-10-13 1932-02-16 Piguet Frederic Timepiece winding and setting mechanism
US2133052A (en) * 1935-05-03 1938-10-11 Globe American Corp Electric clock
US2346476A (en) * 1941-11-14 1944-04-11 Hamilton Watch Co Protective device

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DE384340C (de) * 1923-11-24 Paul Rohrmann Aufzieh- und Stellvorrichtung fuer Uhren
US1099307A (en) * 1913-04-30 1914-06-09 Chelsea Clock Company Winding and setting mechanism.
GB104671A (en) * 1916-03-10 1917-03-29 Edouard Seignol Improvements in or relating to Watches or Clocks.
CH117392A (fr) * 1925-12-24 1927-01-17 Coultre & Cie Sa L Dispositif de remontage et de mise à l'heure d'une montre.
CH115353A (fr) * 1926-01-16 1926-06-16 Francis Cornioley Mécanisme de remontoir et de mise à l'heure.
US1845440A (en) * 1927-10-13 1932-02-16 Piguet Frederic Timepiece winding and setting mechanism
US2133052A (en) * 1935-05-03 1938-10-11 Globe American Corp Electric clock
US2346476A (en) * 1941-11-14 1944-04-11 Hamilton Watch Co Protective device

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2990676A (en) * 1958-07-16 1961-07-04 Hamilton Watch Co Battery driven clock
US3113416A (en) * 1960-03-30 1963-12-10 Movado Montres Self-winding watch
US3499280A (en) * 1966-05-13 1970-03-10 Erard Raoul Henri Winding and setting pinions mounted in case independent of movement
US3837162A (en) * 1971-08-06 1974-09-24 H Meitinger Device for adjusting the dial train of watches
US3888077A (en) * 1973-05-11 1975-06-10 Ebauches Bettlach Sa Mechanical watch movement

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