Adjusting device for bracelet
AssigneeRolex SA
InventorJean-Sebastien Mace
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Abstract
Bracelet having adjustable length, which includes an adjusting link (6) with two parallel transverse articulation pins (5, 7), a first (5) being fixed and the second (7) being able to pivot with respect to the first (5) so as to reverse the respective positions of the pins and respectively create two, short and long, configurations, and an end link (8) having a first end (8i) pivoted on the second pin (7) and a second end (8j) designed to accept the fixing of the end of one bracelet strand, this second end (8j) having at least one first cutout (8e) designed to house a center link element (10a) of a link at the end of said bracelet strand, and a transverse second cutout (8c) arranged between the two ends (8i, 8j) of the end link (8) to house the first pin (5) of the adjusting link (6) in the short configuration.
Claims19
A bracelet comprising:
- a strand of a succession of first and second links, each of the first links comprising one center link element and two outer link elements, and each of the second links comprising two center link elements,
- wherein the first and second links are joined together in an articulated manner by at least one transverse pin, so that each of the link elements of the first and second links are juxtaposed in parallel across a width of the bracelet, each of the two center link elements of the second link being interposed between the center link element and a respective one of the two outer link elements of the first link and the two center link elements of the second link being offset longitudinally with respect to the one center link element and the two outer link elements of the first link, and
- at least one device for adjusting a length of the bracelet,
- wherein the adjusting device comprises:
- an adjusting link equipped with first and second parallel transverse articulation pins, the first pin being fixed and the second pin being able to pivot with respect to the first pin so as to reverse the respective longitudinal positions of these two articulation pins relative to one another and respectively create a short configuration and a long configuration of the adjusting device, and
- an end link comprising:
- a first end pivoted on the second pin of the adjusting link, and
- a second end configured to accept fixing of an end of a strand of the bracelet, the second end comprising:
- (i) at least one first cutout designed to house a center link element of a link at the end of the strand of the bracelet, and
- (ii) a transverse second cutout arranged between the first and second ends of the end link to house the first pin of the adjusting link when the adjusting device is in the short configuration, and
- a wall arranged at a level of the transverse second cutout of the end link to collaborate with the first pin of the adjusting link when the adjusting device is in the short configuration so as to catch on the first pin of the adjusting link and maintain the short configuration of the adjusting device in a stable manner, and
- wherein the wall forms a protrusion only in a central portion of the second cutout along a length of the transverse second cutout, so as to catch the first pin only in the central portion of the second cutout in the short configuration,
- wherein the end of a strand of the bracelet comprises one of the first links being articulated on a pin connected to the second end of the end link, the center link element of the first link being partially housed inside the first cutout of the end link and the two outer link elements of the first link covering part of exterior flanks of two lateral parts of the second end of the end link surrounding the first cutout.
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