DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING TIME

• US 20100020649A1
• Filed: 07/16/2009
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: D Swarovski & Company
• Original Assignee: D Swarovski & Company
• Inventors: KURTZE, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US12/504,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20100020649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 368/241
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 17/006 Gems provided with a cavity, e.g. for containing another gem
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 17/04 Setting gems in jewellery; Setting-tools
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 17/045 Mounting of the display

Abstract

A device for displaying time, in particular a wrist watch, comprising a plurality of gemstones and a plurality of illumination elements which are arranged on or at a carrier and via which the gemstones can be selectively illuminated or have light shone through them in order to display the time, wherein each gemstone being respectively held in its own mount protruding from the carrier.

Claims

1. A device for displaying time, in particular a wrist watch, comprising a plurality of gemstones and a plurality of illumination elements which are arranged on or at a carrier and via which the gemstones can be selectively illuminated or have light shone through them in order to display the time, wherein each gemstone is respectively held in its own mount protruding from the carrier.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts are embodied substantially cylindrically.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gemstones are held, on the side of the mounts that faces the viewer, by the mounts and the mounts are connected to the carrier on the opposite side.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts have a raised edge by which the gemstones are held.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gemstones are held by the mounts by means of an adhesive.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts protrude from the carrier between 0.5 mm and 3 mm, preferably about 1 mm.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts protrude from the carrier about 1 mm.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts are adhesively bonded to the carrier.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts and the carrier are formed in one piece.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the illumination elements are embodied as light emitting diodes or comprise light emitting diodes.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein illumination elements are arranged in a plurality of the mounts.

12. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein light emitting diodes are arranged in a plurality of the mounts.

13. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of the illumination elements are arranged next to the mounts or below the end of the mounts that is remote from the viewer.

14. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein said illumination elements are embodied as light emitting diodes.

15. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gemstones comprise natural or artificial glass stones.

16. The device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the glass stones are cut.

17. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface of the carrier forms substantially a curved face and the longitudinal axes of the mounts are each arranged substantially orthogonally to this face.

18. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein said curved face is convexly curved.

19. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gemstones are arranged, at least in certain portions, in rows and columns.

20. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the intermediate space between two adjacent mounts corresponds roughly to the average diameter of the mounts.

21. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounts and the gemstones held thereby are arranged or can be arranged as a separate component in the device for displaying time.

22. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tips or panes of the gemstones define an envelope face having a curvature.

23. The device as claimed in claim 22, wherein said curvature is convex.

36. A method for manufacturing a device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gemstones are fastened to the mounts and subsequently the mounts comprising the gemstones are mounted to the carrier.

37. The method as claimed in claim 36, wherein the mounts comprising the gemstones are individually mounted to the carrier.

38. The method as claimed in claim 36, wherein the mounts comprising the gemstones are jointly mounted to the carrier.

24. A device for displaying time, in particular a wrist watch, comprising a plurality of gemstones and a plurality of illumination elements which are arranged on or at a carrier and via which the gemstones can be selectively illuminated and have light shone through them in order to display the time, wherein each gemstone is respectively held in its own mount protruding from the carrier.

25. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the mounts are embodied substantially cylindrically.

26. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the gemstones are held, on the side of the mounts that faces the viewer, by the mounts and the mounts are connected to the carrier on the opposite side.

27. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the mounts have a raised edge by which the gemstones are held.

28. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the gemstones are held by the mounts by means of an adhesive.

29. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the mounts protrude from the carrier between 0.5 mm and 3 mm, preferably about 1 mm.

30. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the mounts protrude from the carrier about 1 mm.

31. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the illumination elements are embodied as light emitting diodes or comprise light emitting diodes.

32. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the gemstones comprise natural or artificial glass stones.

33. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the surface of the carrier forms substantially a curved face and the longitudinal axes of the mounts are each arranged substantially orthogonally to this face.

34. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the gemstones are arranged, at least in certain portions, in rows and columns.

35. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein the tips or panes of the gemstones define an envelope face having a curvature.