Horology: time measuring systems or devices – Time interval – Electrical or electromechanical
Patent
1997-05-09
1999-04-13
Roskoski, Bernard
Horology: time measuring systems or devices
Time interval
Electrical or electromechanical
368223, G04F 800
Patent
active
058944575
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a soccer referees, especially a wrist-watch, with a dial plate with a minute scale, an electronic circuit, with a motor drive and a gear for driving analogous displays.
Since the last Soccer World Championship in the United States in 1994 the soccer referees have been adviced to punish arbitrarily extended game-interruptions, breaks, time-outs or the like by the one or the other team (for instance before free kicks or the like) by extension of the effective play-time by a respective injury time after lapsing of the regular play-time. It happened at those times that a game-half-time half-time has been extended nearly by a quarter of an hour. The soccer referees on their behalf had to determine such game-prolongations only by a simple stop-watch, as they had no other proper watches. Subject of the German Patent 42 05 585 discloses a watch for sport competitions with a couple of display surfaces, control means and a motor for driving the analogous display. One of said display surfaces is a centrically rotating signal disc for showing the time of the day, whereby circle sectors of different size are going to show the time of the day. This watch also comprises start and stop activation elements. Measure values (for instance temperature and time) are analogously represented without using any hands and scales. A determination and/or recording of game interruptions for determining the amount of all time-outs to be played as "injury time" after the regular play time is not possible with that device.
Subject of the German Patent Application 24 11 799 is a wrist-watch for showing the time of the day, whose display surface comprises a recess, through which a lower display surface provided with coloured sectors can be watched.
The U.S. Pat. 2,183,548 discloses an indicator for notifying the times of sport competitions comprising a couple of forwardly and backwardly running motors for driving the display elements.
The German Patent Application 39 18 480 discloses display devices for the normal course of the day symbolized by coaxially rotating surfaces. The purpose of those devices is that specified times of the day shall be efficiently re-presented by discs being arranged as segments and being rotated. These are design-watches missing hour- and minute-hands but showing other solutions. The combined representation of courses of the time with segment discs and watch-hands are not mentioned in this disclosure.
The subject of the German Patent Application 36 39 814 is a start chronometer for races, especially boat-races, whereby an only hand is moving with different speeds over certain marked sectors of a dial-plate. A determination of longer game interruptions provoced by players as happening sometimes during soccer games is not possible with this chronometer. A respective time to be played after the regular play-time (injury time) can not be determined or recorded with this watch.
The subject of the German Patent Application 39 40 326 finally shows "means for representing measured values". These are segment discs or full discs with marks, changeable colour effects or imprints moving in front of a scale disc. The task being fulfilled by a soccer referee watch, namely to determine, to record and to show the regular play-half-time as well as the game interruptions for being able to display the total play-time for compensating the game interruptions, is not specified or solved in this disclosure.
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a watch for soccer referees of the type mentioned above which enables the soccer referee to determine the injury time very simply, quickly and precisely and to make the same visible for the user.
This object will be solved according to the invention by the items and features characterized in claim 1. Inventive improvements and advantageous arrangements are disclosed in the sub-claims.
By means of the inventive watch, especially by the coloured (for instance red) identified signal disc will be reached that the referee can always watch and check the length
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patent: 3864904 (1975-02-01), Jung
patent: 4006588 (1977-02-01), McMahon et al.
patent: 4945522 (1990-07-01), Radel
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