Rod Clamps Patents (Class 292/305)
  • Patent number: 10422159
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a rod guide for mounting a latch rod to an enclosure. A guide member can include a guide-member support surface and a guide opening to receive the latch rod. A base member can include a base-member support surface. The base member can support the guide member with the guide opening at different distances from the surface of the enclosure when the guide-member support surface is seated on the base-member support surface with the guide member disposed at different respective rotational orientations relative to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Nepsha, Bruce W. Larson
  • Patent number: 10329809
    Abstract: A rod guide for guiding lock rods at sheet metal cabinet doors or the like, including a carrier which can be fixed on the inner surface of the door leaf, and a guide element which can be mounted on the carrier. The guide element forms a housing and has a guide surface having an adjustable distance from the inner surface of the door leaf when the rod is assembled. The carrier is a stud bolt or welded stud with a circumferential thread, onto which stud bolt an adjusting screw or adjusting nut is screwed or can be screwed. The adjusting screw or the adjusting nut is rotatably supported in the housing or guide element. The adjusting screw or adjusting nut has a circumferential surface for turning the adjusting screw or adjusting nut manually, which circumferential surface is accessible from the outside and is roughened or knurled or edged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Patent number: 9663962
    Abstract: A pole mount includes a telescoping, length-adjustable pole having a head end and a foot end, a coarse length-adjustment mechanism, and a fine length-adjustment mechanism. The fine length-adjustment mechanism is proximal to the foot end of the pole and the coarse length-adjustment mechanism is at an end of a segment of the telescoping pole nearest the head end of the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Zipwall, LLC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Whittemore
  • Publication number: 20140306465
    Abstract: An automatic locking apparatus mounted to a trash bin is provided. The automatic locking apparatus may also include a pair of lock bar arms and a lock bar that pivots from an unreleased position to a released position. The automatic locking apparatus may include a pivot bar, a biasing mechanism and a pivot rod. The pivot rod may rotate from a locked position to an unlocked position. The pair of lock bar arms may be perpendicularly joined to the pivot bar. The biasing mechanism may be disposed about the pivot bar so as to engage an upper tab provided by the bar pivot rod, when the bar pivot rod is in the locked position. When the pair of lock bar arms rotate to the released position, torque may be transmitted through the pivot bar to the biasing mechanism so as to urge the lock bar arms back to the unreleased position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventor: Joseph Daniel KREITZER
  • Patent number: 8661616
    Abstract: A pneumatic door closer having an arming and latching mechanism that once armed permits a door to be held open by placing it in the desired open position and easily released by opening the door slightly, resetting the arming and latching mechanism permitting the door to be closed. A lever having a flat-profile spring over a substantial portion of its exterior surface is rotated into a position adjacent a latching washer causing the latching washer to canter upon a slight closure of the door, locking the door in an open position. Upon release of the door by further opening the door slightly, the cantered latching washer is released and a recoil spring causes the released latching washer to straighten or become uncantered, permitting a piston rod to move freely relative to the latching mechanism causing the door to close. The single piece lever and external flat-profile spring are easily manufactured and assembled and provides a reliable latching mechanism that can be conveniently operated with one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Connecticut Manufacturing Co., S.A.
    Inventor: Valentin Luca
  • Publication number: 20130234454
    Abstract: A door latch device is disclosed that can attach to a wall in order to hold any door open by the handle. The door latch device comprises a threaded rod component that is screwed directly into a wall. The door latch device further comprises an engaging member for engaging a door handle to hold the door in an open position. The engaging member is a thin protrusion for engaging a lever-style door handle, or a thin curved protrusion for engaging a round knob door handle. The door latch device also comprises a securing component for locking the threaded rod component into a wall. The securing component locks the threaded rod component at a specific distance from the wall and at a level of the door handle, such that the door latch device engages the door handle when the door is in an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Axelsen
  • Patent number: 8251413
    Abstract: A bar guide for guiding locking bars on sheet metal cabinet doors, or the like, comprises a carrier which can be secured, e.g., spot welded, to the inside surface of the door leaf and a guide element which can be mounted on the carrier and which has a guide surface whose distance from the inside surface of the door leaf is adjustable. According to the invention, the carrier which is spot welded to the door leaf is a pin with a circumferential thread, and an adjusting screw or adjusting nut can be screwed, or is screwed, on this pin. The guide element is a housing which encloses the adjusting screw and which has a guide channel forming the guide surface for the locking bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: DIRAK Dieter Ramsauer Konstruktionselemente GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20120080132
    Abstract: Disclosed are various features associated with a securing mechanism for a wafer bonder. In certain situations, operation of securing mechanisms can generate undesirable particles and debris, and some them can be introduced to a wafer being bonded. In certain implementations, a securing mechanism can be configured to reduce the likelihood of such particles and debris being introduced to the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Canale, David J. Zapp
  • Publication number: 20110198880
    Abstract: In a hauling vehicle having a cargo compartment that can be covered by a pliable sheet canopy deployable from a reel mounted at one end of the compartment, a mechanism located at the opposite end of the compartment automatically grabs and locks a rod commonly found at the leading edge of the canopy. The locking mechanism is automatically released upon actuation of the very switch that triggers the retracting of the canopy. Pincer prongs automatically swing around opposite end sections of the rod and are immobilized by spring-biased pins. The pins are pulled back by solenoids energized upon actuation of the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Lynn Chenowth
  • Publication number: 20090152879
    Abstract: A cabinet having one or more doors is disclosed. The doors include a latch mechanism. The latch mechanism disclosed includes a single or multiple linkages between a latch slide and one or more multiple rods which move to latch the doors in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Malgorzata Pala
  • Patent number: 7222892
    Abstract: Device for locking two elongated elements the first of which slides in the second telescopically, comprises members for locking in the longitudinal direction the first element relative to the second element, which include a lock washer arranged around the first element and whereof a circumferential portion is placed between two longitudinally opposite supports of the second element and an elastic return member placed between the second element and the washer and acting on the washer in a point distant from said supports so as to bring the lock washer into an extreme inclined position relative to the first element wherein the two opposite parts of said washer are in contact with the first element so as to lock the first element relative to the second element in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Inventor: Pascal Guidetti
  • Patent number: 6676109
    Abstract: A rotary valve includes a main valve body that includes a body, a seat disposed in the body and a valve body disposed in the body so that the valve body is rotatable through the seat that are modulated as a common component part. A stem pierces the body and imparts opening and closing motions to the valve body. An attaching-detaching part is disposed at a position at which the stem pierces the body. An operating part is disposed on the stem and is adapted to operate the valve body. A coupling part is detachably fastened at one end thereof to the attaching-detaching part and is mounted at the other end thereof on the operating part for joining the attaching-detaching part and the operating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Kitz Corporation
    Inventors: Chikashi Gomi, Masaru Takusagawa
  • Publication number: 20020079710
    Abstract: A shaped part having a hollow cylindrical body (1) having at least two longitudinal slots (5) extending over a larger portion of a longitudinal extent of the hollow cylindrical body (1) and open at one of end surfaces of the hollow cylindrical body (1), and a circumferential undercut formed in an inner wall (3) of the hollow cylindrical body (1) in its longitudinal region intersected by the longitudinal slots (5), spaced from the one end surface, and having a flank (9) tapering toward the one end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Jurgen Wieser, Heinz Bisping, Claudia Zimmerer, Peter Scheffler, Erich Daigeler, Alois Kolbl
  • Patent number: 6357895
    Abstract: A luminaire, and in particular an arm-mounted spotlight or a picture light, having a long slim stem with a lighting head at one end and fixing elements at the other end. The fixing elements have clamping ends which engage at least partially around the stem and which can be operated by hand between a clamping position and a loosening position. In one embodiment, the clamping elements are each formed as clamping sleeves which embrace the stem annularly and have open ends which have flanges which can be moved toward each other by a finger grip in order to achieve the clamping action. In another embodiment, clamping elements are biased into a closed position by a spring and finger grips are provided to open the clamping elements when pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Azuma Limited
    Inventors: Bjoern Kierulf, Anton Bendis
  • Patent number: 6082503
    Abstract: A clamping device is disclosed for attachment to two elements in order to clamp the two elements in any desired relative position. The clamping device comprising a rod for attachment to one element and a collar for attachment to the other element and having an aperture through which the rod passes with clearance. A locking member mounted on the collar at a position spaced from the aperture along the axis of the rod is adjustable manually to apply a force between the collar and the rod in a direction to cause the collar to tilt relative to the rod, so as to jam the rod in the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: New Holland North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sergio Magrini
  • Patent number: 5836627
    Abstract: A locking device for use with a conventional liftgate support to retain a hatchback-type door of a vehicle in an open position. The locking device of the present invention is for use with a liftgate support to retain a hatchback-type door in an open position even in cold weather or after the liftgate support has worn out. The locking device is defined by a pair of opposed interdigitating body portions which encircle the rod. A threaded member locks the two portions together and secures the device to the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Dexter Automatic Products Company
    Inventor: Stephen A. Nemeckay
  • Patent number: 5538299
    Abstract: A locking device for use with a conventional liftgate support to retain a hatchback-type door of a vehicle in an open position. The locking device of the present invention is for use with a liftgate support to retain a hatchback-type door in an open position even in cold weather or after the liftgate support has worn out. The locking device is defined by a pair of opposed interdigitating body portions which encircle the rod. A threaded member locks the two portions together and secures the device to the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Inventor: Stephen A. Nemeckay
  • Patent number: 5373959
    Abstract: A container is disclosed for packaging food, paint or the like. The container includes a cover having a lip which engages a top edge of the container and is sealed on the container by one or more sealing elements. The sealing elements include a hook which engages a skirt located on the container and a jaw which engages the cover lip. The hook and jaw are lockable together. The skirt further includes handles and a recess so that the cover can be easily removed from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: HK-Plastics B.V.
    Inventor: Gerhardus M. Haasewinkel
  • Patent number: 5238213
    Abstract: A hood prop or support tubes two or more telescoping tubular members which are locked together by means of a plate retained within the larger diameter tubular member that is biased by one of the bearing supports for the inner tubular member, and which may be manually released by pushing the plate by the biasing force of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Lisle Corporation
    Inventor: James L. Pool
  • Patent number: 5207237
    Abstract: A liquid ozone system in which a liquid bath, preferably of distilled water, is kept in a pressure vessel and gaseous ozone is diffused into the liquid. The ozonenated liquid is then used as a steriliant in a container which is engagable with the pressure vessel. In the preferred embodiment the container and the pressure vessel are chilled to maintain the ozone diffused in the liquid. Excess liquid from the container is communicated to a destruct mechanism such as activated charcoal or discharged into the waste water system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Kew Import/Export Inc.
    Inventor: Terrence R. Langford
  • Patent number: 4826225
    Abstract: A locking system is disclosed for securing and locking sliding panels such as doors or windows of the type in which the opening and closing movement of a sliding panel occurs in a plane adjacent and generally perpendicular to a fixed surface which is substantially parallel to a side edge of the sliding panel. The system comprises first and second locking bars of predetermined fixed length for being positioned between one side edge of a sliding panel and one fixed surface opposite that side edge. First bracket means are mounted either upon the one side edge or upon the opposite fixed surface, and support one respective end of each of the first and second locking bars adjacent one another, and thereby maintain the ends against the side edge or the fixed surface. Second bracket means are mounted upon the other of the side edge or the opposite fixed surface, and support the other respective end of each of the locking bars in spaced relationship to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Inventor: William G. Styles
  • Patent number: 4822084
    Abstract: A door lock assembly of the type for use with sliding doors, windows or the like for securing a moveable member relative to a stationary member, the assembly including an elongated bar member adapted to be attached at one end to a support frame mounting the moveable and stationary members and having at its opposite end a selectively operable latch mechanism adapted to coact with the moveable member so as to selectively lock and unlock such moveable member relative to the stationary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Inventor: Brian Fox
  • Patent number: 4792169
    Abstract: In a double-hung window system of the type having upper and lower ventilating sliding sashes and a lock having a lapping assembly having upper and lower vertical lapping members the closer ends of which form a stop assembly together with a stop means cooperative therewith for stopping upward movement of the lower lapping member with respect to the upper lapping member. The upper lapping member is attached to the upper sash and the lower lapping member is attached to the lower sash whereby, with the window system open for ventilation, the amount of opening space available to a burglar who seeks to enter is limited so long as the lapping remains in place. The new feature thereof being means anchoring the upper end of the lapping assembly to the window frame so that a burglar cannot reach from the outside to the upper end of the frame anchored lapping assembly for forcing it inward out of its locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Inventor: William E. Petry
  • Patent number: 4771490
    Abstract: A gravity actuated lock for the e.g. dropside of a crib to hold the dropside elevated. A rotary lock enters a notch on the dropside rod under the influence of a relatively heavy manually manipulated member that is fixed to the rotary lock and actuates it to locking condition, with no spring present or needed. The lock is released by the operator by pulling or pushing upwardly on the member, which is available at the front of the crib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Inventor: Gerald J. Doiron
  • Patent number: 4758033
    Abstract: A window lock for a window that has an outer sash and an inner sash in a wall is provided and consists of an upper mounting bracket attached to interior surface on top rail of the outer sash of the window and a lower mounting bracket positioned onto bottom meeting rail of the outer sash of the window. The upper mounting bracket has a portion extending downwardly from the top rail to be received and adjustably secured within a portion of the lower mounting bracket extending outwardly thus allowing the inner and outer sashes of the window limited travel for the top meeting rail of the inner sash will contact the outwardly extending portion of lower mounting bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Inventor: Conrad Wolf
  • Patent number: 4567660
    Abstract: This disclosure depicts a clamp device in a measuring instrument wherein a slider having a detecting portion is clamped to a guide member, comprising: a holder provided on the slider and penetrated therethrough with the guide member; a movable block received in the holder and having a through-hole, through which the guide member extends; a screw member threadably coupled into the movable block; and a rotation locking mechanism for locking the movable block. Rotation of the screw member causes the forward end face thereof to contact the guide member, so that the slider can be clamped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Sakata, Eiichi Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 4535493
    Abstract: A double action latch for the drop side of a crib, wherein the drop side must be lifted slightly in order for the latch to be free to be actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Gem Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Edmond P. Guillot
  • Patent number: 4437265
    Abstract: The present invention provides a children's safety guard apparatus for installation into the frame of a window. A plurality of preferably square guard bars disposed in spaced relationship are connected to two support members, which are secured to the frame of a window. The bars are adjustable to a predetermined length, comprising two elongated members, one slidably mated inside the other. A means for locking the members so as to prevent them from sliding together is mounted to at least one bar of the plurality, the means being attached to the smaller member abutting the larger member. The means for locking includes a flexible sleeve portion surrounded by a flexible grip having flanges that can be drawn together or released via a bolt extending through bolt holes in the flanges, the bolt having a head provided with a keyway that fits a key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Inventors: Jerome Turro, Peter Nelson
  • Patent number: 4405166
    Abstract: This energy saving and burglar proof lock enables windows to be adjustably opened to about six inches, at night, for allowing fresh air to circulate throughout a dwelling, thus allowing the air conditioner to be turned off, and it further serves to prevent anyone from entering the windows. It includes a pair of plates, one of which is secured to the window frame, and the other is secured to the bottom window. It further includes an indented or toothed rod, welded to one of the plates, and slidably received in the other, the rod being held secured by a spring-urged pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Inventor: Luis H. Lovis
  • Patent number: 4368906
    Abstract: For adjustably locking relatively-sliding double closures, such as double-hung sliding sash windows, inserted between the adjacent frame and one of the sashes, this adjustable locking device includes a pair of interconnected first and second elongated bars, the first of which is T-shaped in cross-section and slidably movable in the channel-shaped second bar. One end of the first bar carries a pivoted screw upon which is threaded an adjusting collar, whereas its upper end carries a slidably mounted spring-pressed locking pin selectively engageable with one of a series of locking holes in the second bar. This pin is moved into and out of its selected locking hole by a thumb lever mounted on the first bar and having a pivotal connection therewith. A transverse attachment plate is secured to the upper edge of the upper bar for engagement with the upper channel of the window frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1983
    Inventor: Wade L. Briggs
  • Patent number: 4227725
    Abstract: A lock latch assembly for sliding closures (windows and patio doors) which is placed to limit the opening of such closures beyond an adjusted position and which prevents access through the closure opening. A simple integral notched plate as one element and a swiveled pin as a second element provides the structure, each held by fasteners which have substantially resistance in shear to any forcing of the closures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Inventors: Morris W. Lindquist, Henry P. Hines
  • Patent number: 4152018
    Abstract: A window security means for double hung casement windows includes a lower tube, open at its upper end and having a metal box rigidly fastened to its lower end, with the box being open at its bottom and shaped to fit over the window lock on one movable part of the window. An upper tube is telescoped within the lower tube and adapted at its upper end to engage another movable part of the window. A fastener is provided to fasten the upper tube immovably within the lower tube, and a shield can surround the fastener and limit access to the fastener to access essentially from one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignees: Randy J. Cantrell, Robert L. Barnes
    Inventor: Randy J. Cantrell
  • Patent number: 4005889
    Abstract: A security device for windows comprising a first tube member pivotally secured at its lower end to the upper end of the lower window unit and having a second tube member slidably received on the upper end thereof. The upper end of the second tube member is pivotally secured to the window frame or to the upper end of the upper window unit. The first tube member has a plurality of spaced-apart openings formed therein which are adapted to receive a bolt extending therethrough. The window units may be moved relative to the window until the bolt engages the lower end of the second tube member to prevent further movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1977
    Inventor: Cecil W. Patrick