Device for fixing an interchangeable wrist-watch strap to a watch

• US 7,575,368 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2006
• Issued: 08/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Raymond WEIL SA
• Original Assignee: Raymond WEIL SA
• Inventors: Guillaume, Herve
• Primary Examiner(s): Luebke; Renee S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phan; Thanh S
• Application Number:
  US11/795,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20080106980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 368/282, 242/65.WS, 242/65.B, 24/68.J, 24/71.J, 24/69.J
• US Class Current: 368/282
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 37/1486 Arrangements for fixing to a bracelet building watches into bracelets (montre marquise) G04B37/12; arrangements for hanging pocket- or other watches on chains G04B37/1446
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/2155 Jewelry-watch straps

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch, comprising a gate connected to the watch by a link and defining a seat for the wrist band, characterized in that it comprises a latch mounted so that it can rotate around a pin and a control device that makes it possible to actuate the latch for moving it from the stable closed position, in which it holds the gate closed, and toward the open position, in which the gate is released and allows access to the seat.

Claims

1. A device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch, comprising a gate connected to the watch by a link and defining a seat for the wrist strap, wherein the device comprises a latch mounted so that the latch is movable relative to the gate and can rotate about a pin placed in a seat of a base of the watch, the latch comprising a front end interacting with the gate and a rear end interacting with a control device movable in a space of the base of the watch, the control device making it possible to actuate the latch for moving the latch from a stable, closed position, in which the latch holds the gate closed, toward an open position, in which the gate is released and allows access to the seat for the wrist strap.

2. The device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch as claimed in claim 1, wherein the front end of the latch comprises a hook part interacting with a slot of the edge of the gate and a flexible part interacting with the surface of the gate, the hook part releasing the gate and the flexible part generating its opening upon rotation of the latch toward the open position.

3. The device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control device comprises at least one oblong opening for connecting it to the base of the watch, movably by means of a screw passing through this opening, and a cavity interacting with the rear part of the latch.

4. The device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch as claimed in claim 3, wherein the gate is mounted in rotation on a support element of the watch about a pin placed at a periphery of the watch, and in that the pin of the latch forms a rounded upper part of the latch bearing on a lower face of this support element of the watch.

5. The device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch as claimed in claim 4, wherein an end of the control device is visible and can be actuated in a window of a lower face of the watch.

6. The device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch as claimed in claim 1, wherein the watch has a rectangular shape, and in that a support element forms an extension part of the watch, linked to an upper middle portion of the latch.

7. The device for fixing a wrist-watch strap to a watch as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seat for the wrist strap is capable of containing a rod of the wrist band.

8. A watch comprising a device for fixing a wrist-watch strap as claimed in claim 1.

9. A wrist-watch strap comprising a rod fixed at one end in order to interact with a fixing device as claimed in claim 1.