Switch mechanism for electric spring wound clock

Claim 1

A switch for starting and stopping an electric motor which winds the main spring of a spring wound clock comprising; a. a driving gear rotated as a function of time; b. a lifting pin for actuating said switch positioned for rotation by said driving gear; c. a supporting member; d. a pair of flexible blades, each of said flexible blades having fixed ends secured to said supporting member, a converging portion, an intermediate portion, and a free end portion; e. a contact bar fixed to the intermediate portion of each of said flexible blades, the contact bar on one of said flexible blades arranged at an angle with respect to the contact bar on the other one of said flexible blades so that said contact bars form a generally X-shaped arrangement; f. said driving gear and said lifting pin located in close proximity to the free ends of said flexible blades and one of said flexible blades being shorter than the other one of said flexible blades so that upon rotation of said driving gear and said lifting pin, the lifting pin will first contact the shorter one of said flexible blades, lift both the shorter one and longer one of said flexible blades thereby causing the contact bars to start to slide along each other at one of the ends of said contact bars, and then separate from each other at the other ends of said contact bars when the lifting pin releases the shorter one of said flexible blades but continues to hold the longer one of said flexible blades.