Patents by Inventor Giuseppe Fini

Giuseppe Fini has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4998230
    Abstract: A timepiece having a pivot supporting an hour hand, a coaxial shaft supporting a minute hand and a dial, having hour and minute indicia and openings corresponding to time zones. A gearwheel having a number of teeth corresponding to the number of time zones, is supported on the pivot and bears a disk having time-zone indicia. A first elastic element biases a radially movable body towards the gearwheel. A cam acts on the body every hour to move it against the biasing action of the first elastic element to a disengagement position, whereat the first elastic element causes a snap-action movement of the body towards the gearwheel. A pawl pivoted to the body is radially aligned with a tooth space of the gearwheel by a second elastic element. The resultant rotational traction of the gearwheel corresponds to a one-hour movement of the disk and the time zone indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Inventor: Giuseppe Fini