Horology: time measuring systems or devices – Toy
Patent
1997-11-21
2000-02-15
Roskoski, Bernard
Horology: time measuring systems or devices
Toy
368 3, G04F 800
Patent
active
060260610
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a watch, particularly to a wrist watch, a pocket watch or a table clock with a casing in which a clockwork and time indicating means are located.
Wrist or pocket watches are sufficiently known and very popular, since these watches can always be carried along near the body due to their small and compact design. Smaller table clocks having the approximate size of pocket watches are often placed onto desks or sideboards.
On longer journeys by bus, train or plane and/or during waiting periods, for example at the physician's, in authorities or the like, it would be pleasant to have an appropriate pastime to counteract upcoming boredom.
The object of the present invention is therefore to create a watch, particularly a wrist watch, a pocket watch or a table clock, which not only serves for reading the time but also for pastime during waiting periods.
The technical solution of this object is to develop a watch as mentioned above by accomodating a game of skill playable from outside into the casing.
A wrist watch, a pocket watch or a table clock designed according to this technical teaching has the advantage that a game of skill suitable for pastime is always carried along together with the watch and that it is thus always at hand on journeys and/or during waiting periods. As soon as the user of a watch according to the invention gets bored, he can kill the time with the game of skill.
In a particular embodiment of the invention the casing has a transparent protecting sheet under which the game of skill is accomodated and through which the course of the game can be observed. This protecting sheet can be made of glass, acrylic, plexiglass or of a transparent synthetic. A wire mesh or the like could also be used as protecting sheet.
A good visibility is thus achieved, so that the game of skill can be played without any hindrance.
The game of skill is preferably designed like a flipper. A movable body, e.g. a ball, a disk or the like is hereby launched out of a launching device and rolls or flies across a playing field before it lands in one of the reception pockets accomodated on the playing field. Usually, these reception pockets are valuated according to the difficulty encountered in aiming them, so that the skill of the player is involved when he tries to bring the ball or the disk for example into the desired reception pocket.
For the invention it is irrelevant whether the playing field has a horizontal, a vertical or an inbetween alignment. More important is that the player develops so much skill that he brings the movable body into the desired reception pocket.
The time indicators are preferably but not necessarily two traditional pointers. These pointers are accomodated in a depression or cavity of the playing field, whereas the pointers are located between the centre and the edge of the casing.
Further characteristics of the invention will be explained in the following description of an embodiment of the invention in connection with the claims and the drawing. The different characteristics can be realized each by its own or several together in embodiments of the invention.
The drawing shows a prefered embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1 shows a top view of an embodiment of a wrist watch according to the invention;
FIG. 2 shows a side view of the embodiment according to FIG. 1, in a section along the line II--II in FIG. 1.
The different figures of the drawing are partly very schematic views of the wrist watch and are not to be understood true to scale.
The FIGS. 1 and 2 are showing a wrist watch 2 with commercial pointers 4 actuated by a not represented clockwork. In the casing 6 of the wrist watch 2, a flipper-like game of skill 8 is accomodated additionally to the clockwork and the pointers 4. The pointers 4 and the game of skill 8 are hereby accomodated side by side in such a way that they both can be seen simultaneously through a transparent protecting sheet 10 of the casing 6.
The watch itself with its face is much smaller than the casing 6 and is accomodated in an area between th
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patent: 4128949 (1978-12-01), Marason, Jr. et al.
patent: 4395134 (1983-07-01), Luce
Hanrath James P.
Roskoski Bernard
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