And Spring Or Resilient Extension Biasing About Pivot Patents (Class 24/611)
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Patent number: 11564458Abstract: A locking buckle assembly for coupling and decoupling a web strap includes a strap plate and a base part. The base part includes a front plate and a rear cover. A locking mechanism including a release button and a locking peg is positioned between the front plate and the rear cover. The release button and the locking peg are biased by a spring through respective openings in the front plate. A lock plate is provided on a surface of the front plate. Respective longitudinal axes of the lock plate and the front plate are angularly offset from each other. The strap plate includes an opening sized to receive the lock plate and couples to the base part when the lock plate captures the strap plate and the longitudinal axes of the strap plate and the base part are aligned. In that orientation, the locking peg couples to the strap plate and the strap plate and the base part are only decoupled by pressing of the release button in opposition to the urging of the spring.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: ANGLEInventor: James Steven Keith Pelletier
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Patent number: 9119468Abstract: A drawer has a front door and a locking-regulating apparatus of the front door. The apparatus has a first locking-regulating device of the door with respect to the drawer according to the “X” horizontal axis and to the “Y” vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: ESSETRE S.R.L.Inventor: Stefano Mensa′
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Patent number: 8522409Abstract: A side release buckle includes a plug and a socket into which the plug is inserted for engagement. The plug includes: a base being provided with a belt attachment and a pair of legs; and an engaging portion being formed to each of the legs. The socket includes: a body being provided with a belt attachment and an insertion opening; a housing space being formed in the body and capable of housing the legs inserted from the insertion opening (22); and an engaged portion being formed in the body and engageable with the engaging portion. The body includes an undulation being continuously formed in an insertion direction of the legs on at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Yasutaka Nishida
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Publication number: 20120131774Abstract: A retainer structure having excellent workability of attaching to and removing from a panel is obtained. In an approximately cylindrical retainer main body (22), a cap holding portion (26) for attaching a cap (18) which is an attached member, and a panel clamping piece (32) contacting a body panel (14) from a side opposite to a seal packing (20) so as to clamp the body panel (14) between the panel clamping piece and a flange portion (24), are formed. The cap holding portion (26) and the panel clamping piece (32) are formed at positions different in a circumferential direction of the retainer main body (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Yoshiki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7954211Abstract: A quick connect coupling assembly has a first and second component, and a locking assembly structured to retain the components in an attached orientation with one another. The locking assembly includes a plurality of locking elements each having a locking arm with a locking member mounted to a distal end, wherein the locking members are maintained in an outwardly extending orientation by a biasing mechanism. The biasing mechanism comprises a spring mounted between oppositely disposed locking elements, wherein the spring is structured to maintain the locking members in an outwardly extending orientation. The quick connect coupling assembly also includes a release mechanism to permit the locking members to be temporarily disposed into a retracted orientation, thereby permitting the first and second components to be detached from one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Debien Products, Inc.Inventor: Humberto De Bien
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Publication number: 20110030180Abstract: A releasable buckle including a latch having locking arms adapted to lockingly engage a female component. A folding bridge structure extends between the locking arms. The bridge structure includes a pivot connection zone adapted to engage an elongate release member. Upon tensioning the elongate release member the locking arms are pulled inwardly to disengage from the female component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INCInventors: Brian M. Parisi, Scott D. Kolasa, Craig E. Ernst, JR., Jeffrey D. Anderson
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Patent number: 7523529Abstract: The present invention proposes an engagement mechanism employed in a first assembly part and a cooperating second assembly part. The engagement mechanism comprises a pivot member assembled in the first assembly part; and an elastic member having a double-wedged surface at an endmost portion thereof which extends outwardly from the projecting portion of the first assembly part. The elastic member is employed to provide an elastic force of maintaining the projecting portion extending outwardly from the first assembly part to engage with the second assembly part. The present invention, via the design of the double-wedged surface of the projecting portion, facilitates easy engagement or disengagement of the engagement mechanism, and overcomes the problem of having to provide extra disengagement arrangement in the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Inventec CorporationInventors: Yung-Chi Yang, Yue-Jun Hu, Mike Cai, Li-Ming Le
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Patent number: 6381814Abstract: A clasp (1) for bracelets, necklaces and similar items has a female element and a male element fastened together by a plug belonging to the male element that fastens in a corresponding hole in the female element by a locking belong to an extending member. The extending member has a protruding actuator end and a first part held in a first seat of the plug, which has a fork at its end created by two arms spread apart that meet to create a seat that encloses across a fixed pin set crossways through the first seat of the plug. The plug has an opening to introduce a tool suited to closing the arms rotating around the fixed pin.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Colpo & Zilio SrLInventor: Renzo Colpo
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Patent number: 6041479Abstract: The invention is a clasp for jewellery items comprising a female element suitable for housing a protruding element belonging to a male element. Said protruding element is provided with a pair of coupling elements, each one positioned at one end of a pair of shaped rods cooperating with operating means suitable for achieving the caliper-like movement of said rods around a pin that connects them to each other and to the body of said male element in order to obtain the connection or the disconnection of said coupling elements to or from corresponding check elements belonging to said female element.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1998Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: Colpo & Zilio SrlInventor: Renzo Colpo
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Patent number: 5511856Abstract: A retractor for controlling the withdrawal of a belt therefrom operated by the locking engagement of a buckle and buckle tongue. A retractor frame having a spring biased rotatably mounted spool wrappingly receives one end of a belt harness, with the opposite end of the belt harness having fixed thereto either a buckle or a buckle tongue. Attached to a seat is either a buckle or a buckle tongue that receives the corresponding mating part of the buckle tongue combination which is attached to the belt harness. A locking bar is engagable with the ratchet shaped end plates of the spool to prevent further withdrawal of the belt harness. The locking engagement of the buckle and tongue causes movement of the locking bar into contact with the ratchet shaped end plates, which prevents the spool from rotating to allow any further withdrawal of the belt harness.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: David D. Merrick, Allan R. Lortz, James R. Chinni, Jeffrey E. Peterson
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Patent number: 5351372Abstract: A cargo fastening belt is provided with a detachable end metal fitting so that different types of end metal fittings can be provided for a single type of cargo fastening belt. A rail engaging metal fitting that is attached to one end of a cargo fastening belt is adapted to be detachably engaged with a slot in a rial for fastening cargo. The detachable end metal fitting is thus detachably attached to the rail engaging metal fitting by the provision of a slot in a metal fitting main body for connection with the rail engaging metal fitting. Alternatively, the cargo fastening belt may have a ring portion at one end thereof, and the detachable end metal fitting may be detachably attached to the ring portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1992Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Ihara KogyoInventor: Ryoseki Ihara
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Patent number: 5056954Abstract: A releasable gripping or locking device having a body part for sliding cooperation with a rope to be releasably gripped or locked with respect to the body part. A gripping or locking member is movably mounted on the body part for movement between a free condition and a gripping or locking condition in which loading applied to the device is borne by the gripping or looking member. A control member is provided for controlling movement of the gripping or locking position. The control member includes telescoping components having interengageable latching elements which are actuated by relative movement between the device and the rope.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1989Date of Patent: October 15, 1991Assignee: Latchways LimitedInventors: Peter R. Flux, Alan W. Tupper
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Patent number: 4993470Abstract: A roll-up door for a container body of a van or the like is provided with a winch which is located in a compartment formed in the header of the door. The winch is connected by flexible winding straps to the upper door panel and the lower door panel so that it is operable to drive the door between the open and closed position. The door panels are hingedly connected by hinges in which the hinge pin is located at the inner face of the door. Flexible sealing members are connected to each jamb and bear against a marginal edge portion of the outer face of the door when the door is in the closed position. A control system for controlling the direction of rotation of the reversible D.C. motor is provided which includes a master control circuit and a slave control circuit which is selectively operable.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1989Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Assignee: Diesel Equipment LimitedInventors: Jan Ballyns, John C. Martin, Paul H. Martin
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Patent number: 4657212Abstract: A control cable anchor for securing a control cable in an opening having an elongated body with a shouldered end, axial slots in the body surface and locking pawls positioned within the slots. The pawls have a first end spaced from the shouldered end of the body which cooperates with the shouldered end to sandwich a wall which defines the opening. The pawls have a fulcrum point which engages the bottom of the slots. The pawls are biased into their first or locking position but may pivot about the fulcrum to be retracted at least partially beneath the body surface for insertion through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1985Date of Patent: April 14, 1987Assignee: Acco Babcock Inc.Inventors: William J. Gilmore, Leland E. Easter
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Patent number: 4644617Abstract: A releasable locking device comprises a tubular housing (180) having a pair of rotary pawls (182) mounted therein. The angular position of the pawls are controlled by spring-loaded balls (183). A line (179) passing through the housing has a collar (184) thereon which latches with the pawls when the collar is brought into engagement therewith, the pawls being rotated so that the balls then bear on adjoining surfaces of the pawls. When the line is subsequently slackened the balls (183) act on the pawls to rotate them further into the housing so that on subsequent engagement by the collar (184), they are free to rotate so as to allow the collar to pass through the housing. This system provides an automatic latching of the line (179) followed by automatic disengagement of the latch simply by releasing tension in the line followed by reapplying such tension. Therefore latching and unlatching can be effected simply from a position remote from the latching mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1984Date of Patent: February 24, 1987Inventors: Alan W. Tupper, Peter R. Flux
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Patent number: 4530611Abstract: A trolley of a printer includes a pair of angularly upright projecting dovetail-like fingers spaced apart near a left edge thereof, and a spring biased wedge pin located near a right edge thereof, for slideably engaging chamfer-like surfaces on the left and right-hand sides of a printhead assembly, respectively, for permitting the assembly to be snapped into and out of retention upon the trolley, the trolley further including right and left hand leaf springs located near its rear edge for pushing the printhead assembly forward toward the front edge of the trolley to a forwardmost position determined by one of the pair of dovetail-like fingers striking a "stop" located upon one side of the printhead assembly for preventing further forward movement, whereas the printhead assembly is pushed rearward upon the trolley in the event of a paper jam developing between the printhead and a platen.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1983Date of Patent: July 23, 1985Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.Inventors: Frank Borcenk, Jeffry A. Forsythe, Frank L. Roe