Screw-down orientable crown
AssigneeMeco Corporation
InventorsRémy THIRY, Ricardo MARCOS
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AssigneeMeco Corporation
InventorsRémy THIRY, Ricardo MARCOS
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A screw-down orientable crown (200) for watch case (100), including a tube (11) that can be axially inserted into a case housing (90), and a handling body (1) including a pattern (19) and a relief (15) extending axially and, in the coupled position, cooperating for indexing the pattern (19) relative to the case (100) with a complementary relief (55) that a fixed pipe (5) includes which is pushed back from the body (1) by a spring (12) trapped therebetween, and, in the disconnected position by compression of the spring (12) remaining axially distant from the complementary relief (55) and without cooperation therewith, and including an axial stop means (3) fixed to the body (1) to axially trap the fixed pipe (5) with a stroke corresponding to the deformation of the spring (12) to enable the disconnection, by a compression of the body (1), between the relief (15) and the complementary relief (55), which relief (15) is carried by a trunnion (4) integral with the body (1) and which is inside the fixed pipe (5).
A screw-down orientable crown (200) for a watch case (100) including a middle part (9) with at least one through housing (90) for receiving said screw-down orientable crown (200), which screw-down orientable crown (200) is arranged to cooperate with said housing (90) and tightly seal it, said screw-down orientable crown (200) including a pattern (19) on an end face (18) or in its vicinity, said screw-down orientable crown (200) including, on the one hand a sub-assembly (20) including a crown body (1) that can be manipulated by a user and including said pattern (19), and on the other hand a tube (11) arranged to be screwed-down or driven into said housing (90) in said axial direction (D), which are axially movable in an axial direction (D) relative to each other, where said sub-assembly (20) includes an indexing relief (15) integral with said crown body (1) extending in said axial direction (D) and arranged, in a coupled position, to complementarily cooperate with a complementary indexing relief (55) that a fixed pipe (5) includes, that said sub-assembly (20) includes and which extends in said axial direction (D) and tends to be pushed back from said crown body (1) by at least one crown spring (12) interposed and captively mounted between said crown body (1) and said fixed pipe (5) that it tends to separate from one another, and arranged, in a position disconnected by compression of said crown spring (12), to remain at an axial distance from said complementary indexing relief (55) and without cooperation therewith, the cooperation between said indexing relief (15) and said complementary indexing relief (55) defining a discrete number of relative indexing positions corresponding to so many relative orientations of said pattern (19) relative to said case (100), said sub-assembly (20) and said tube (11) being arranged to cooperate by screwing-down to an abutment position corresponding to a fully screwed-down position of said sub-assembly (20) in said tube (11), wherein said sub-assembly (20) includes an axial stop means (3) fixed to said crown body (1) to axially trap, in said axial direction (D), said fixed pipe (5) with an axial stroke corresponding to the range of deformation of said crown spring (12) to enable the disconnection, by a compression of said crown body (1), between said indexing relief (15) and said complementary indexing relief (55), and wherein said indexing relief (15) is carried by a trunnion (4) integral with said crown body (1) and which is inside said fixed pipe (5).
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