Timer device and method of operating
CA 1209625 A · Owner: General Electric Company · Inventors: Renkes, Kenneth R.; Wandler, Richard A.
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A method of operating a timer device having means for indicating the remaining operating time during an operating time period selected for the timer device. The timer device includes a gear train having a pair of branches coupled with the indicating means to drive it in different preselected speed modes through the selected operating time period. In this method, the indicating means is driven in one of the preselected speed modes through one of the gear train branches during an operating time period in excess of a predetermined operating time period of the timer device with the sum of the excess and predetermined operating time periods comprising the selected operating time period, and the …
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- Granted August 12, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 12, 2003.
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