Device for holding a wheel set
AssigneeETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
InventorAdrian Kammer
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Abstract
A device for holding a wheel set of a timepiece movement mounted on a main plate includes a lever, intended to be mounted to slide on the main plate of the timepiece movement between a first and a second position and arranged to move in translation between the two positions. The lever includes, at a first end, a locking beak cooperating with a slot of a ring attached to the wheel set to hold and to guide the wheel set in rotation in the first position, and leaving the wheel set free in the second position, the lever being arranged to move in translation, between the retracted position and the deployed position.
Claims11
A device for holding a wheel set of a timepiece movement comprising:
- a lever mounted to slide via guide means on a main plate of the timepiece movement between a first and a second position, the lever slides in a linear direction corresponding to a longitudinal axis of the lever,
- wherein the lever includes, at a first end, a locking beak cooperating with means for holding the wheel set to hold and to guide the wheel set in rotation in the first position and leaving the wheel set free in the second position, the lever being arranged to move in translation between the first position and the second position, and
- wherein the first position is a retracted position and the second position is a deployed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.