Abstract A manually operated counter is mounted on the face of a wristwatch for accumulating and totalizing quantities, such as the daily intake of calories, number of cigarettes consumed, the quantity of pills or other medication taken, etc. The counter is provided by a rotatable member overlying the watch dial face and having an auxiliary scale marked on the periphery thereof. By rotating this member the auxiliary scale may be selectively set relative to an index point on the periphery of the watch casing. A central portion of the rotatable member is generally opaque to form a mask overlying coded warning indicator colors provided near the center of the dial face of the watch. One sector of this opaque mask is transparent to form a window which selectively exposes the indicator colors as quantities, such as daily calories, are accumulated by rotating the member scale. The appearance of certain indicator colors warns the user that his daily intake of calories, cigarettes, etc. is approaching, has been reached, or has been exceeded.
Inventors
👤 M Grossan
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-10-24 15:31
CPC Classifications
G; G04; G04B; G04B47/00; G04B47/003
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
176 words
A watch mounted counter comprising: a watch including a dial face and minute hand and hour hand indicators movable relative thereto, said dial face having a peripheral time scale; a visually coded indicator disposed centrally of said peripheral time scale and being fixed relative to said dial face; an auxiliary scale member overlying said dial face and said hands and said indicator, said member rotatably mounted to said watch for selective manual rotation relative to said dial face, said scale member having a transparent perimeter disposed in registration with said time scale and a generally opaque central portion overlying said coded indicator, said opaque portion having a transparent window therein to selectively expose said indicator by rotation of said auxiliary scale member, said auxiliary scale member further having a counter scale adjacent its perimeter, whereby said counter scale can be selectively manually set by rotation of said auxiliary scale member to accumulate and totalize a measureable quantity with said member window and coded indicator providing a displayed visual indication when the measured quantity reaches predetermined limits.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
176 words
A watch mounted counter comprising: a watch including a dial face and minute hand and hour hand indicators movable relative thereto, said dial face having a peripheral time scale; a visually coded indicator disposed centrally of said peripheral time scale and being fixed relative to said dial face; an auxiliary scale member overlying said dial face and said hands and said indicator, said member rotatably mounted to said watch for selective manual rotation relative to said dial face, said scale member having a transparent perimeter disposed in registration with said time scale and a generally opaque central portion overlying said coded indicator, said opaque portion having a transparent window therein to selectively expose said indicator by rotation of said auxiliary scale member, said auxiliary scale member further having a counter scale adjacent its perimeter, whereby said counter scale can be selectively manually set by rotation of said auxiliary scale member to accumulate and totalize a measureable quantity with said member window and coded indicator providing a displayed visual indication when the measured quantity reaches predetermined limits.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
68 words
The watch mounted counter of claim 1, wherein said indicator comprises a color coded warning pattern including differently colored sectors of a circle and said opaque portion of said auxiliary scale member having a generally circular configuration in which said transparent window forms a sector of such circle, and such circle overlies and is generally concentric with the circle defined by said differently colored sectors of said indicator.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
18 words
The watch mounted counter as defined in claim 1, wherein said indicator is provided on said dial face.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
35 words
The watch mounted counter of claim 1, wherein said coded indiator comprises at least three different and visually distinct zones, whereby said zones may represent a ''''safe'''' zone, a ''''caution'''' zone and a ''''danger'''' zone.