World globe pocket clock and world globe desk clock
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InventorMiguel Guillermo Ochoa Loaiza
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InventorMiguel Guillermo Ochoa Loaiza
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A time keeping device that provides a user with the time of day at any point on earth and the current day or night condition of any point on earth. The time keeping device includes a translucent external globe indicia for indicating time and an internal globe rotatably mounted within the external globe, and a support mechanimsm adapted for rotating the internal globe about a pair of axis, so that the time at a particular point on the internal globe can be read by a user by peering through the external globe to see the location of the indicia as projected on the internal globe.
A time keeping device that provides a user with the time of day at any point on earth and the current day or night condition of any point on earth, the time keeping device comprising:
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Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces: three-dimensionally shaped, e.g. terrestrial globes, cylinders…
Planetaria; Globes: globes
Mechanically-driven clocks or watches
Educational or demonstration appliances
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(a) Field of the Invention
The field of endeavor to which this invention pertains is Globe Clocks as defined in the U.S. Patent Classification and Sub-classification Definition: 368/23 Globe/Clock Horology Time Measuring Systems and Devices. This invention pertains in particular to world globe in combination with a mechanism which rotates a device inside an scaled earth globe in such a manner that the current lightened and darkened portions of the earth are accurately displayed in accordance with the current combination of the Rotation and Translation movements of the Earth relative to the Sun. Additionally month, day, hour and minute readings are displayed from inside of the globe in a very easy way to read and to set-up.
(b) Discussion of Known Art
The accompanying drawings illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention according to the best mode presently devised for making and using the instant invention, and in which:
FIG. 1 is a simplified section of the World Globe Clock arrangement.
FIG. 2 is a simplified section of the Based World Globe Clock arrangement.
While the invention will be described and disclosed here in connection with certain preferred embodiments, the description is not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodiments shown and described here, but rather the invention is intended to cover all alternative embodiments and modifications that fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the claims included herein as well as any equivalents of the disclosed and claimed invention.
Most of the pieces that the World Globe Clock and Based World Globe Clock encompass may be molded from polymers of different types in accordance with the requirements of transparency, refraction, friction, opaqueness, resistance and weight of each element. Some other pieces have to be manufactured from metals like the motor driver, the pressure clutch device, gear shafts and circuitry.
FIG. 1 is simplified representation of the basic kinetics of the World Globe Clock Arrangement and FIG. 2 is a simplified representation of the basic kinetics of the Based World Globe Arrangement.