Swiss Lever Escapement Simulation

See a simulation of a typical Swiss Lever Escapement.
Simulation einer typischen Schweizer Ankerhemmung

[carmelpule]

The Swiss Lever escapement is just fascinating when one goes into its detail. It is not a case of just locking the escapement wheel and then it impulsing and pushing back each pallet on the lever. The angle of the locking surface on the pallet must be such that as the locking occurs, the locking surface on both of the lever pallets must be such that there is a "springy" action which tends to further lock the lever into its final locking position. Thus the locking is not just a simple lock, it is a sliding positive lock. In fact, I would say that if when locked one tries to lift the lever off its stops, the lever would spring back on to the stops. This "springy" locking action can only be obtained by making the exit moment arm holding one pallet, longer than the incoming moment arm holding the other pallet.
To think that this hidden LOGICAL PROCESS/OPERATION originated a few hundred years ago is just bewildering. And to think that in our early schools we still only teach the basic symbols of reading and writing with no real natural harmonious logic frightens me. Well, I suppose, if there were no language symbols, I could have never described the hidden logic of the "sliding lock"! Looking at the diverse watch escapements, it would be beneficial for a commentator to learn the accepted standard vocabulary in horology. I must learn all the accepted vocabulary in horology and not only the engineering logic involved.

[nils]

Cooles Video, hat mir gut gefallen! Weiter so!😃

[xt]

was mir fehlt ist der punkt, wo der federantrieb ansetzt???

[sandeep]

Can u provide me drawing of this escapement?? Plz

[michaelbauers]

I get confused by the details. I think the mainspring powers the escape wheel, and the escape wheel powers the balance wheel, which oscillate predictably in association with a hairspring. So there's a two way relationship between the escape wheel and the balance wheel. But what''s not clear, is what sets the balance spring in motion when the mainspring is wound up. The mainspring's power must provide an initial impulse to the balance wheel to start it in motion?