Calendar mechanism with season display for a timepiece
AssigneePatek Philippe SA Geneve
InventorsSamuel Tanner, Julien Feyer
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Abstract
The calendar mechanism with display of the seasons for a timepiece includes a drive wheel, the angular position of which is representative of the date, a season display member and a season display drive member arranged to be driven by the drive wheel and to drive the season display member only during a predetermined time interval, of less than thirty days, every three months.
Claims18
Calendar mechanism with display of the seasons for a timepiece, comprising:
- a drive wheel, the angular position of which is representative of the date,
- a season display member, and
- a season display drive member arranged to be driven by the drive wheel and to drive the season display member only during a predetermined time interval, of less than thirty days, every three months,
- wherein the season display drive member is arranged in order, during the predetermined time interval, to move the season display member by several pitches distributed over several days.
Calendar mechanism with display of the seasons for a timepiece, comprising:
- a drive wheel, the angular position of which is representative of the date,
- a season display member, and
- a season display drive member arranged to be driven by the drive wheel and to drive the season display member only during a predetermined time interval, of less than thirty days, every three months,
- wherein the season display drive member forms part of a wheel assembly arranged to be driven by the drive wheel and further comprising a month display drive member, and
- wherein said wheel assembly is a quarter year wheel assembly making one turn in three months, wherein the season display drive member is a wheel comprising a toothed sector and wherein the month display drive member is another wheel comprising three teeth located at 120° with respect to each other.
Calendar mechanism with display of the seasons for a timepiece, comprising:
- a drive wheel, the angular position of which is representative of the date,
- a season display member, and
- a season display drive member arranged to be driven by the drive wheel and to drive the season display member only during a predetermined time interval, of less than thirty days, every three months,
- wherein the drive wheel is coaxial to a date wheel arranged to drive a date indicator member and to be driven by a date drive wheel assembly, and
- wherein the drive wheel is arranged to be driven by the date drive wheel assembly in a time-offset manner with respect to the driving of the date wheel during the predetermined time interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.