The Millennium Time Project: Alternative Time Measuring Mechanisms by Miltiadis A. Boboulos - HTML preview

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9.4. Design concept

The need to create an attractive time measuring device is considered not involving the ordinary clock stroke regulator as is the anchor and balance and the

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1 hour and 1 minute sphere showing through these openings but 5 hour and 10 minute spheres. The time shall be read from the first one in the clockwise direction.

We also decide to introduce a clamping washer on the inner side to push the spheres out through the openings (windows) on the dial face. This washer should be rotating in synchronization with the hour hand and another one – with the minutes hand.

The hours washer is driven by and rotates along with the axle of the hours hand and the washer for the minutes – by the axle of the minutes hand. I decide to use separators to prevent the balls from falling out or displacement.

I decide to use the same means to push the balls out for the minutes reading but the washer here is equipped with a face cam, which is not returning the balls (spheres) back. Instead, the separator performs this, which is a magnetic type.

The central section of the dial is left free so the ordinary hour and minute hands could be located there just behind the transparent section (circle) of the dial. This way, the clock could be also used to read time as an ordinary clock.