Annual calendar mechanism for a timepiece
AssigneeCompagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.
InventorFrank Vaucher
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Abstract
The annual calendar mechanism includes a calendar driving wheel (18) provided with a finger (17) adapted to drive a date wheel (19) through one step at the end of each month. An annual wheel (25), driven through two steps once per month by a long tooth (23) borne by an intermediate wheel (21), itself meshing with the date wheel (19), includes a plate (27) bearing five teeth (28). If one of these five teeth, corresponding to one of the months of less than thirty-one days, comes into the path of finger (17), the annual wheel, from being driven, becomes driving and drives the date wheel through an additional step via the intermediate wheel.
Claims7
An annual calendar mechanism for a timepiece, such calendar displaying through a window pierced in a dial or by division marks applied to the dial to which a hand points, such mechanism including a date driver wheel set making one revolution in twenty-four hours, said wheel set being fitted with at least one finger adapted to drive a date wheel including thirty-one teeth through one step once each day, said date wheel operating the calendar display, the date wheel driving an intermediate wheel including thirty-one teeth, thirty of which are truncated, the non-truncated tooth driving a first plate of an annual wheel bearing twenty-four teeth once per month through two steps, such annual wheel comprising a second plate fixed thereto and superposed thereon bearing five teeth, each corresponding to months of less than thirty-one days, each of such teeth being arranged so as to come into the path of the finger of the date driver wheel set at the end of the cited months so as to drive the annual wheel through one step, which has as consequence the driving of the date wheel through an additional step via said intermediate wheel at the end of said months.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.