Electric timing clock
AssigneeGebruder Junghans GmbH
InventorsEgon Rapp, Heinrich Oertel
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Abstract
An electric, particularly battery-operated timing clock which includes electric time setting components for an electrical switching device arranged about a clock dial. A signal emitter is adapted to be actuated by the switching device. In order to actuate the signal emitter at preselectable time periods, a contact switch element which rotates about the hour-hand shaft of the clock forms, through a contact path and a slide contact, one pole of the switching device, the other pole of which is formed by an electrically-conductive segmented ring with radial segments. Each segment includes a free end actuatable through a latchable setting component, and a contact finger which projects into the path of movement of the contact switch element upon actuation of the free end.
Claims13
An electric clock having an hour hand on an hour hand shaft and an electrical switching device which includes a plurality of time setting means (2) arranged about a clock dial (1), which are selectively manually displaceable at preselected time points between on and off positions, wherein each time setting means (2), has an associated contact finger (18) extending radially below the clock dial (1), with a ring shaped conductive connection of the contact fingers (18) to each other, and wherein a contact maker (13) is provided rotating with the hour hand, characterized in that said contact fingers (18) are elastic segments on a segmented ring (15) and are pivotally maintained projecting into the path of rotation of said contact maker (13) when an associated time setting means (2) is engaged in an on position and acts on the opposite free segment end (17), and said contact maker (13) is resiliently deflected opposite to the path of its rotational movement by the contact fingers (18) pivoted into its path of movement.
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