Global clocks

• US 3,370,415 A
• Filed: 09/09/1964
• Issued: 02/27/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hubert A. Mcilvaine
• Original Assignee: Hubert A. Mcilvaine
• Inventors: Mcilvaine, Hubert A.
• Application Number:
  US04/396,804
• Time in Patent Office: 1,266 Days
• US Class Current: 368/24
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/22 Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces indicating by means of numbers or signs disposed on moving devices G04B19/20; illumination of dials or hands G04B19/30; combination with a terrestial globe in general G04B47/02; electronic time-zone watches G04G9/0076
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/226 three-dimensionally shaped, e.g. terrestrial globes, cylinders and the like

Claims

1. A GLOBAL CLOCK COMPRISING A BASE INCLUDING A HOLLOW SHELL, CLOCK MECHANISM MOUNTED WITHIN THE SHELL, A SUPPORT MOUNTED ON THE BASE AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY IN AN OBLIQUE DIRECTION, A CUP MOUNTED ON THE SUPPORT, A RING JOURNALED ON THE CUP FOR TURNING MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT THERETO, MEANS FORMING AN OPERARATIVE DRIVING CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CLOCK MECHANISM AND SAID RING, A GLOBE FIXED TO THE RING TO ROTATE THEREWITH, A SECOND RING CARRIED BY THE CUP AND EXTENDING AROUND THE GLOBE EXTERNALLY THEREOF IN A PLANE NORMAL TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION THEREOF, SAID GLOBE HAVING MAP PORTIONS DEPICTED THEREON WITH RESPECTIVE LINES OF LONGITUDE DIVIDING THE GLOBE INTO TIME BANDS, INDICIA CARRIED BY THE RING AND COOPERATING WITH THE TIME BANDS THEREON, ILLUMINATING MEANS MOUNTED WITHIN THE GLOBE, A SECOND SUPPORT MEMBER CARRIED BY THE FIRST-MENTIONED SUPPORT MEMBER AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM THROUGH THE GLOBE WITH A PORTION OF THE GLOBE JOURNALED THEREON, A SHADE FOR THE ILLUMINATING MEANS, AND MEANS MOUNTING THE SHADE ON THE SECOND SUPPORT MEMBER FOR TILTING MOVEMENT RELATIVE THERETO.