US Patent Issued to Nivarox-FAR on Aug. 11 for "Winding device, in particular for a horological barrel, provided with a disconnectable winding gear train" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,811, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nivarox-FAR S.A. (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Winding device, in particular for a horological barrel, provided with a disconnectable winding gear train" was invented by Pierre Cusin (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland) and Laurent Jeanneret (Villers-le-Lac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding device, in particular for a barrel provided with a spring, including a ratchet fixedly mounted on a rotary winding shaft, the rotary winding shaft being, for example, a winding shaft of the barrel, the rotation of which winds the barrel, and a winding gear train meshing with the ratchet, the rotation of...