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    • 专利摘要:
    A device is provided for adjusting the functions of a clock having a movement, a tige (8) connected to the movement and adapted to control the functions of the clock itself, a case (4) housing the movement and having a bezel (7) at its top. , the adjustment device comprising manually operable members external to the movement and defined both by the bezel (7) made rotatable and engaged to the rotation of the stem (8) by means of a toothed wheel (11) sliding axially on the stem (8), and by a lever (13) pivoted to the case (4) and extending transversely to the glass (7a) on an outer edge of the case (4).
    公开号:CH710302A2
    申请号:CH01465/15
    申请日:2015-10-09
    公开日:2016-04-29
    发明作者:Marcon Luca
    申请人:Tcm S R L；
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    专利说明:

    [0001] The invention relates to a device for regulating the functions of a clock, such as for example recharging, setting the time marked, the day of the week, the date, age, of the type specified in the preamble to the first claim. Similar devices are described in the patent applications: WO-A-97 39 386, JP-A-2007 085 895, EP-A-1 722 282 and CH-A-707 381. As is known, wrist watches and those however portable, whether mechanical or automatic or electric or electronic, quartz, analogue, digital, age, they include internally the so-called "movement" which realizes the organ appointed to advance the hands to mark the time, and also to advance the elements that highlight the day of the week and the date of the month, possibly the moon phases, etc.
    [0002] The movement of wristwatches or laptops is normally protected and enclosed in a case, which is the bodywork of the watch and which can be formed by several parts.
    [0003] Typically, the case comprises three parts: the central part or carrure, which defines the profile of the watch case; the lower part or bottom fixed removably to the central part; and the upper part or bezel (French lunettes and bezel in English), supported by the central part and leading to the glass of the watch dial. The bezel may include a rotating bezel bearing various indications.
    [0004] To adjust the various parameters of the movement, inside the case, a charge and / or adjustment rod is commonly known and diffused, commonly referred to as the French word tige, a term used below.
    [0005] The tige (earthworks in English) can both rotate and translate axially. When it is moved axially, it selects and hooks from time to time different organs inside the movement, for example those to restore the charge, in mechanical watches, or those for setting the time, the day of the week, the date, age.
    [0006] When it is rotated, the tige transmits - depending on its axial position - the motion necessary to manually load the watch or to move the hands or for other movements and adjustments in the dial.
    [0007] In order to be able to manually impose all the appropriate movements to the tige, a wheel protruding from the case and called the crown is generally prepared.
    [0008] The crown is positioned in correspondence with a special hole in the case and is at least largely external to the same and coaxial to the stem.
    [0009] By gripping the crown with your fingers and moving it in the direction of axial extraction, the stem can be shifted to varying degrees. By turning the crown the tige can be rotated.
    [0010] The said crown is structurally simple and yet it is an element that can create various practical problems.
    [0011] In fact, on the one hand the crown does not have to be large, so as not to change the shape of the watch too much, while on the other hand it must not be small, so as not to make its maneuver very difficult. The rotation and extraction of the crown are in any case difficult operations in a wristwatch. In some cases it is necessary to unfasten and remove the watch from your wrist to be able to act with precision.
    [0012] Among other things, the axial movement of the crown is performed empirically and by trial and error, because the extent of the translation that is performed is not obvious and can occur, for example, when the position of the hands is moved while trying to change the date.
    [0013] Finally, it is well known that the crown is to the touch the portion of a more uncomfortable and unpleasant wristwatch, because it protrudes towards the hand. In this situation, the technical task underlying the present invention is to devise a device for regulating the functions of a clock capable of substantially obviating the mentioned drawbacks.
    [0014] Within the scope of this technical task it is an important aim of the invention to devise a device which is convenient and ready to use.
    [0015] Another important aim of the invention is to devise a device that does not cause discomfort or unpleasant sensations at the level of a wrist. Not least object is to devise a device which substantially does not alter the shape of the respective watch.
    [0016] The technical task and the objects specified are substantially achieved by a device for adjusting the functions of a clock as claimed in the attached Claim 1.
    [0017] Preferred embodiments are highlighted in the sub-claims. The characteristics and advantages of the invention are explained below by the detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:Fig. 1 <SEP> shows a wristwatch equipped with the adjustment device according to the invention, shown in an exploded view;<tb> Fig. 2 <SEP> illustrates the clock in fig. 1 in an operative phase of the adjustment device in which a rotation command is performed;Fig. 3 <SEP> shows in section the clock and the devices of the device according to the invention that intervene in the phase of fig. previous one;<tb> Fig. 4 <SEP> presents the clock in an operational phase of the device in which a translation command is performed to identify a specific function to be adjusted;<tb> Fig. 5 <SEP> is a section of the clock and of the organs involved in the phase referred to in the previous figure;Fig. 6 <SEP> strongly shows some elements of the device according to the invention in the different positions assumed in the operative phase of figs. 4 and 5; is<tb> Fig. 7 <SEP> highlights an element of the device in an isolated position.
    [0018] With reference to the Figures, the adjustment device according to the invention is globally indicated with the number 1.
    [0019] The device is part of a watch 2 preferably from the wrist - as in the drawings - or even of another type, such as the portable ones, for example from a pocket or pocket, or from a desk or travel or bedside table, etc.
    [0020] In a manner known per se, the clock 2 typically comprises, with the aforementioned introduction, a portion which defines the functional part of the clock 2, said movement 3, also equipped with a quadrant 3a on which hands or the like are advanced to mark the time, and also - especially in wristwatches - other elements that highlight the day of the week and / or the date of the month, possibly the moon phases, etc.
    [0021] Movement 3 is a fundamental element of a watch, that which defines its functionality and precision and every intervention and modification or redesign of the same involves an extremely specialized, expensive, very delicate and expensive job.
    [0022] To protect the movement 3 a case 4 is provided which internally houses the movement 3 itself.
    [0023] The case 4 is the outer bodywork of the watch 2 and typically - or at least in many cases - is formed by several parts: the central part 5 commonly known as the case, the lower part or bottom 6 and the upper part or bezel 7 .
    [0024] The central part or carrure 5 is the one that most defines the profile of the watch case and defines its stiffness and strength.
    [0025] The prevailing annular development, supports the straps and is open both downwardly and superiorly.
    [0026] The lower part or bottom 6 is generally fixed in a removable manner to the central part 5, for example by interlocking or by screws or by direct screwing. It is removed when movement 3 has to be extracted from watch 2, passing right through the opening where the bottom is placed 6.
    [0027] The upper part or bezel 7 is supported by the central part 5 and ends at the level of the glass 7a of the watch 2. The glass 7a is placed immediately above the dial 3a.
    [0028] Between the movement 3 and the case 4, specified above, there develops a charge and / or adjustment rod, commonly known as tige 8.
    [0029] The tige 8 emerges integrally from the movement 3 in the direction of the central part or carriages 5 of the case 4.
    [0030] Advantageously, the tige 8 is defined by two sections aligned and integral with one another, for example by reciprocal screwing.
    [0031] A first section 8a of the tige 8 is engaged to the movement 3 and a second section 8b consecutive to the first extends outside the movement 3 and crosses an edge of the case 5. The second section 8b has a specific shape, as specified below .
    [0032] As already indicated, the tige 8 can both rotate and translate axially.
    [0033] When it moves, it selectively engages different parts of the movement 3, for example those for restoring the charge, in mechanical watches, or those for setting the time, the day of the week, the date, etc.
    [0034] When it rotates, the tige 8 transmits the motion necessary to charge the watch 2 or to move the hands or other elements of the dial 3a, in order to adjust or update the indications of quadrant 3a.
    [0035] In order to rotate and move the tige 8 axially, specific and advantageous members are provided which can be operated manually and all are external to movement 3, so as to avoid any intervention on the latter.
    [0036] These members define the adjustment device 1 according to the invention and comprise diversified and ready-to-actuate elements. Specifically, to rotate the tige 8, said members comprise a bezel 7 made rotatable and defining a revolving portion of the case 4, in which it is engaged by sliding interlocking, for example by means of a sliding interlocking ring 9.
    [0037] The rotating bezel 7 is designed to rotate with the tige 8 and in fact has a circumferential toothing 10 stably meshing with a toothed wheel 11 rotatably and coaxially engaged with the stem 8, and sliding on the latter.
    [0038] The engagement to the rotation and the axial sliding on the tige 8 is obtained, as shown in fig. 7, through a prismatic shaping of the inner channel 11a of the gear wheel 11 and of at least a portion of the tige 8, shaped complementarily to the inner channel 11a, as mentioned in fig. 1
    [0039] In particular, the toothed wheel 11 is engaged on the second portion 8b of the stem 8, specially shaped.
    [0040] In the illustrated embodiment, the glass 7a of the clock 2 remains preferably and advantageously fixed to the rotation even in the presence of the rotation of the bezel 7 in that the central part or carrure 5 of the case 4 has a tubular expansion 5a concentric to the bezel 7, so as to directly engage the glass 7a.
    [0041] In practice, the rotating bezel 7 substantially configures a rotating ring for manual control placed around the glass 7a.
    [0042] To facilitate the manual setting of the bezel 7 and its rotation, it is provided with an external knurling 12.
    [0043] In order to axially translate the tige 8 the said manually operable members then comprise a manual gripping element external to the case 4 and adapted to determine different projection positions of the tige 8.
    [0044] Advantageously, the manual gripping element is a lever 13 pivoted to the central part or case 5 of the case 4 and extending transversally to the glass 7a and to the bottom 6, on an outer edge of the case 5.
    [0045] Conveniently, the lever 13 is curved, in practice turned into a hook towards the bottom 6, and can be positioned adherent to the outermost edge of the clock 2 and of the case 5. Mechanically, the lever 13 is preferably a second-kind lever having a first end 13a pivoted and rotatably engaged to the case 5, above the tige 8, and a second end 13b free and engageable manually, located below the tige 8, when the glass 7a is defined as the upper element of the clock 2 and the bottom 6 as a lower element. Between the ends 13a and 13b, in an intermediate zone, the lever 13 engages the tige 8 through a transverse pin 14 and advantageously the lever 13 is provided with at least one slot 15 able to allow oscillations of the transverse pin 14, to avoid forcing of the tige 8 in a transverse direction to its development direction. It is then envisaged that the transverse pin 14 engages the tige 8 with the interposition of a substantially cylindrical cap element 16.
    [0046] The second portion 8b of the tige 8 has the outermost end shaped like an enlarged head and inserted in the cap element 16. Preferably, as in the illustrated embodiment, the lever 13 has two arms side by side and mutually integral, the hood element 16 is housed between them and engages the same by means of the transverse pin 14.
    [0047] Both lever arms are provided with slots 15 to allow the cap element 16 to remain aligned with the stem 8 when the lever rotates. The clock 2 has various other elements, such as a fixed cover or ring 17 for precise positioning of the stem 8, a waterproofing tube 18 and obviously also elements which are per se known pertaining to the technicians of the sector. The operation of the regulating device 1, described above in a predominantly structural sense, is as follows.
    [0048] The tige 8 remains the element which determines the adjustment of the functions of a clock and the same is equipped with a shaped portion 8b completely external to the movement 3 and slidably engaged with the toothed wheel 11.
    [0049] The same toothed wheel 11 can slide on the tige 8, when the latter is translated axially, and instead remain integral with the rotation with the stem 8, when a rotation movement is imposed.
    [0050] The translation and rotation commands are controlled by different and ready-to-use organs: the rotation of said tige 8 is imposed by the rotation of the bezel 7 and the translation of the same tige is obtained by moving the lever 13 pivoted to the case 4.
    [0051] In practice, depending on the position of the lever 13 and also rotating the bezel 7 the movement 3 is reloaded or the time is changed or the calendar indications are modified.
    [0052] The oscillation of the lever 13 results in axial movements of the stem 8 without forcing it in a direction transverse to its direction of development: the movements of the stem are imposed by means of a cap element and a transverse pin and both can vary the their position relative to the lever thanks to a slot 15 formed in the lever 13, or to a pair of slots 15 if the lever 13 comprises two arms side by side, as preferred.
    [0053] The invention achieves the proposed aims and allows important advantages.
    [0054] In fact, even if the movement 3 is not modified in any way, the operations for adjusting the movement 3 are made precise and simple.
    [0055] The crown is also eliminated and all the inconveniences and problems connected with it are eliminated.
    [0056] Even the structure of the case 4, although modified, remains simple and economically feasible for the industries of the sector.
    [0057] The invention is susceptible of variants falling within the scope of the inventive concept defined by the independent claims and their technical equivalents.
    [0058] All the details may be replaced by equivalent elements and the materials, shapes and dimensions may be any in the scope of protection defined by the independent claims and their technical equivalents.
    权利要求:
    Claims (9)
    [1]
    1. Adjustment device (1) for the functions of a watch (2),<tb> - <SEP> said clock (2) comprising:<tb> <SEP> - <SEP> a movement (3),<tb> <SEP> - <SEP> a tige (8) connected to said movement (3) and apt to control the functions of the clock (2),<TEP> <SEP> - <SEP> a case (4) housing said movement (3) and having at its top a bezel (7), and- <SEP> said regulating device (1) comprising:<SEP> - <SEP> manually operable members adapted to rotate and translate axially said stem (8), said manually operable members being external to said movement (3) and comprising:<tb><SEP> <SEP> - a lunette (7) defining a revolving portion of said case (4) and engaged in rotation with said tige (8),<tb><SEP> <SEP> - and a manual gripping element external to said case (4) and able to translate said tige (8) into positions of protrusion from said movement (3)and characterized in that said manual gripping element is a lever (13) pivoted to said central part or case (5) and extending transversally to said glass (7a) on an outer edge of said central part (5 ).
    [2]
    2. Device according to the previous claim, in which said bezel (7) has a circumferential toothing (10) and in which a toothed wheel (11) is provided for rotation with said tige (8) and is axially slidable thereto, said toothing circumferential (10) engaging said toothed wheel (11).
    [3]
    3. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, wherein said tige (8) comprises a first section (8a) engaged to said movement (3) and a second section (8b) consecutive to the first and external to said movement (3) , said toothed wheel (11) being engaged to said second portion (8b) of said tige (8).
    [4]
    4. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, wherein said case (4) comprises a central part or frame (5) expanding so as to directly engage the glass (7a) of the clock (2), called bezel (7 ) substantially configuring a rotating ring nut positioned around said glass (7a) and engaged by interlocking sliding in said case (4).
    [5]
    5. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, wherein said lever (13) is curved and can be positioned substantially adherent to said outer edge.
    [6]
    6. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, in which the said lever (13) is a lever of the second kind having a first end (13a) rotatably engaged to the central part or case (5) of the case (4), a second end (13b) engageable manually, and an intermediate zone engaged to said stem (8).
    [7]
    7. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, wherein said lever (13) is engaged to said tige (8) through a transverse pin (14) and comprises at least one slot (15) able to allow oscillations of said transverse pin (14), to avoid forcing of said tige (8).
    [8]
    8. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, wherein said transverse pin (14) engages said tige (8) with the interposition of a cap element (16), called tige (8) having an expanded head inserted in said hood element (14).
    [9]
    9. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, wherein said lever (13) has two arms side by side and mutually integral, said arms housing said cap element (16) between them and engaging the same through said transverse pin (14).
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