AN IMPROVED KEYLESS WATCH
Year: 1885

page_text: I JOHN PHILLIPS of 33 Dunchurch Road Rugby in the County of Warwick
Watch Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED KEYLESS WATCH" to be as follows that is to say:-
The object of my invention for an improved keyless watch is in an easy and
simple manner to combine such new parts with the winding stud or key
mechanism as to enable the said stud to not only wind the watch but to turn
the hands by the same forward movement.
The winding stud has at the under end a face pinion cut with teeth straight on one
side and inclined on the other which gears into a large wheel having similar teeth
formed upon its periphery to correspond with the pinion. The large wheel is also
formed with internal teeth which gears into the under side of the winding ratchet
pinion. This external and internal toothed wheel having the teeth reversed is
hung in a bracket plate which is capable of sliding at one end at least sufficiently
far downwards to bring the outer teeth of the double wheel in gear with the
common pinion attached to the hands and thus by a simple pressure downwards
of the said winding stud the watch may be wound or the hands set and yet this
may only be done in the right direction.
Usually in keyless watches the ordinary joint of the case is dispensed with but
I do not confine myself to this mode as the joint may be retained when necessary.
GEORGE BARKER,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: I JOHN PHILLIPS of 33 Dunchurch Road Rugby in the County of Warwick,
Watch Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The object of my invention for an improved keyless watch is in an easy and
simple manner to combine such new parts with the winding stud or key
mechanism as to enable the said stud to not only wind the watch but to turn
the hands by the same forward movement.
The winding stud has at the under end a face pinion cut with teeth straight on
one side and inclined on the other which gears into a large wheel having similar
teeth formed upon its periphery to correspond with the pinion. The large wheel
is also formed with internal teeth which gears into the under side of the winding
ratchet pinion. This external and internal toothed wheel having the teeth
reversed is hung in a bracket plate which is capable of sliding at one end at least
sufficiently far downwards to bring the outer teeth of the double wheel in gear
with the cannon pinion attached to the hands and thus by a simple pressure
downwards of the said winding stud the watch may be wound or the hands set
and yet the winding may only be done in the right direction.
Usually in keyless watches the ordinary movement joint to the case is dispensed
with but I do not confine myself to this mode as the joint may be retained when
necessary.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
illustrated my invention in several Figures so that the action thereof may be seen
but of course the mode of carrying it into practice in various watches and under
different circumstances may be varied to meet such.
Figure 1. is a part sectional view of the inside of a watch showing those parts
which pertain to my invention or with which my invention is more or less
connected in its normal condition.
Figure 2. shows the same parts under different conditions viz under special
conditions hereafter to be more fully explained.
Figure 3. is a view of the same parts but with plate A removed.
Figure 4. is a view of the plate A when removed from Figure 1 or 2.
Figures 5 and 6 show two alternate positions for the pinion or gear B by which
the hands are set forwards and backwards.
From Figure 1 it will be seen that the button B is provided at its inner end
with a face pinion 6¹ which really forms the head of the pin C which is a detail of
the said button and passes up to the top and is secured by the nut c¹. The little
spring d enters into the recesses in the button and shank and always tends to keep
the button B in its normal position as shown by Figure 1. In this, its normal
position the wheel E gears into the ratchet winding wheel H at e¹ so that the
turning of the button B winds the watch through the internal teeth of the
double wheel E and the ratchet wheel is locked by the paul or catch e² so that

page_text: turning the button the wrong way merely has the effect of depressing the plate A
sufficiently to allow the teeth to pass around without effect.
The wheel E is hung in the plate A and the plate A is made to hinge down
upon the pivot a¹ sliding at the other end in the slot a² under the screw head a³.
Now when the button B is pressed down the wheel E and plate A are forced with
it until the outer part of the wheel E gears into the centre pinion K. as shown at
Figure 2 when it is out of gear internally with the winding ratchet H and the
button B may thus be turned freely in either direction thus setting the hands
back wards or forwards, at pleasure.
It will be obvious that the pinion K may be placed at the centre as shown by
Figure 5 or at the side as shown by Figure 6, the effect being the same with
suitable transmitting gear from one arbor to the other. The plate A is kept in its
normal condition as seen at Figure 1 by the spring m but this or other spring may
be placed at other parts with similar effect. This is probably the only keyless
watch where a dust cap can be used but the construction of my parts admits of
it easily.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
In keyless watches the improvements by which the double wheel E is made to
both wind the watch and also to set the hands substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 4th day of Fehmerv 1886
GEORGE BARKER,
Agent for Applicant.