Timepiece display mechanism with a resilient hand
AssigneeMontres Breguet S.A.
InventorsChristophe Bifrare, Alain Zaugg, Patrice Golay, Marc Stranczl
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AssigneeMontres Breguet S.A.
InventorsChristophe Bifrare, Alain Zaugg, Patrice Golay, Marc Stranczl
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A timepiece display mechanism with a resilient hand including a first and second device for driving, about an output axis, a first and a second pipe mounted at the ends of a flexible strip, and including a display index distant from the pipes, these drive devices being arranged to deform the flexible strip, by varying the angular position of one pipe with respect to the other about the output axis, and to vary the radial position of the display index with respect to this axis, this mechanism includes a first differential on the drive train of the first pipe, one input of which is formed by a first cam, and a second differential on the drive train of the second pipe, one input of which is formed by a second cam.
A timepiece display mechanism of variable geometry, comprising at least one resilient hand, which includes a first drive pipe integral with a first end of a flexible strip and a second drive pipe integral with another end of said flexible strip, and comprising a display index which, in an unconstrained free state of said resilient hand wherein said first pipe and said second pipe are not subject to any stress and are distant from one another, is distant from said first pipe and said second pipe, the operating position of said resilient hand being a constrained position wherein said first pipe and said second pipe are coaxial to one another about an output axis, said display mechanism comprising first means for driving said first pipe about said output axis and second means for driving said second pipe about said output axis, said first drive means and second drive means being arranged to deform said flexible strip, by varying the angular position of said second pipe with respect to the angular position of said first pipe about said output axis, and to vary the radial position of said display index with respect to said output axis, wherein said display mechanism comprises a first differential on the drive train of said first pipe having one input which is formed by a first cam, and a second differential on the drive train of said second pipe having one input which is formed by a second cam, and wherein said first differential and said second differential carry planets each comprising an off-centre feeler arranged to follow its respective cam.
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