Horological carriage-stop comprising two resilient stop elements

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11586148-B2
Application number	US-202016900274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 12, 2020
Priority date	Jul 23, 2019
Publication date	Feb 21, 2023
Grant date	Feb 21, 2023

Abstract

A limiting device for a watch, including an oscillator, and capable of blocking this oscillator carried by the carriage of a tourbillon or karussel, with two intermediate drive wheels integral with arbors pivoted in a plate and rotating in opposite directions to one another, one whereof is driven in rotation by an engaging rod engaging with a control member external to the tourbillon or karussel, each of the intermediate wheels carries at least one resilient element, is arranged so as to bear against a mobile component of the oscillator in order to stop same upon passage of the control member from a rest position to an active position wherein each resilient element bears against this mobile component of the oscillator, or against the carriage, and so as to remain remote from the carriage and from any mobile component of the oscillator when the control member is in the rest position thereof.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A horological limiting device for a watch, comprising:
an oscillator, the horological limiting device limiting a variation of rate of said oscillator in different positions of said watch;
at least one tourbillon or a carousel, which comprises
a carriage
which is mounted such that the carriage pivots about a carriage axis relative to a plate carrying a fixed wheel,
which carries said oscillator and comprises a carriage wheel being driven by an energy source of the watch or of a movement by way of a gear train, and
which carries an escapement mechanism engaging with said oscillator, and

an escape pinion meshing
with said fixed wheel when said limiting device comprises the tourbillon or
with a third wheel or a fourth wheel, comprised in said gear train, when said limiting device comprises the carousel, wherein said device is configured to block said oscillator; and

a first intermediate drive wheel and a second intermediate drive wheel, integral with arbors both pivoted in said plate and rotating in opposite directions to one another, one of the two thereof being driven in rotation by an engaging rod engaging with a control member external to said tourbillon or carousel, for synchronous rotation of said first intermediate drive wheel and of said second intermediate drive wheel under an effect of a movement exerted by said control member, wherein
said first intermediate drive wheel and said second intermediate drive Wheel each carry at least one resilient element, comprising at least one resilient strip and/or one resilient wire, bearing against at least one mobile component of said oscillator in order to stop said oscillator upon passage of said control member from a rest position to an active position, and
each said resilient element bears against a mobile component of said oscillator, or against an upper bridge of said carriage, and remains remote from said upper bridge and from any mobile component of said oscillator when said control member is in said rest position thereof.

2. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein said first intermediate drive wheel and said second intermediate drive wheel each have an angular displacement to allow said resilient element to bear against the upper bridge of said carriage.

3. The limiting device according to claim 1 , further comprising
a hand-setting stem, which constitutes or is configured to control said control member, wherein
the control member is configured to move said engaging rod in a first activation direction upon a passage of said hand-setting stem from a rest position T 1 to an activated position T 2 , and to move said engaging rod in a second direction opposite said first direction upon the passage of said hand-setting stem from said activated position T 2 to said rest position T 1 .

4. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein said control member comprises a pull-out piece mounted such that it pivots and arranged such that, during a translation of a control stem controlling a pivoting of said pull-out piece, it causes a translation of said engaging rod, which comprises a rack meshing with said first intermediate drive wheel or said second intermediate drive wheel for passing from the rest position to the activated position, or vice-versa.

5. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein said tourbillon or carousel comprises a dial pipe comprising a cylindrical wall about said carriage thereof, and wherein, in said rest position, said resilient elements are protected and concealed by said dial pipe, and are folded hack in contact with an inner surface of said cylindrical wall or in an immediate vicinity thereof.

6. The limiting device according to claim 5 , wherein said dial pipe comprises a annular frontal display surface, facing which moves a display index comprised in said carriage.

7. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein each said resilient element extends in a cantilever position relative to said arbor carrying said first intermediate drive wheel or respectively second intermediate drive wheel.

8. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein each said resilient element has a convex surface on a carriage side.

9. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein each said resilient element comprises, opposite the respective arbor thereof, a distal end comprising a loop with a concavity in the same direction as said resilient element, and a radius of curvature that is less than that of a part arranged so as to come into contact with said one mobile component of the oscillator.

10. The limiting device according to claim 1 , wherein said oscillator is a sprung balance assembly.

11. A watch comprising a horological movement, comprising:
an energy storage;
a hand-setting stem; and
the horological limiting device according to claim 1 , comprising said oscillator, wherein
said tourbillon or carousel
constitutes a display member of said watch, or
is configured to drive at least one display member of said watch, and

said hand-setting stem constitutes or is configured to control said control member.

Assignees

• Omega Sa

Inventors

• Jeanrenaud Timothee
• Monachon Jean-Claude

Classifications

• G04B27/004

  having several simultaneous functions, e.g. stopping or starting the clockwork or the hands (G04B27/02 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G04B17/06

  Oscillators with hairsprings, e.g. balance {(electrically driven balances G04C3/04; contacts actuated by a balance G04C13/065)} · CPC title

• G04B17/04

  Oscillators acting by spring tension · CPC title

• G04B1/12

  with several mainsprings {(installations with a mainspring and an auxiliary spring G04B1/225; winding-up several mainsprings simultaneously G04B3/008)} · CPC title

• G04B15/00

  Escapements ({in striking mechanisms G04B21/06;} electric or magnetic means for converting oscillatory to rotary motion in electromechanical time-pieces {G04C5/005}) · CPC title