Supports: racks – Special article – Article includes elongated portion
Patent
1995-01-27
1997-02-11
Chin-Shue, Alvin C.
Supports: racks
Special article
Article includes elongated portion
211 66, 211 89, 211 94, 248113, 2483162, 2483163, 2483165, A47B 8102
Patent
active
056011962
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention concerns a device for suspending in an orderly manner, in particular, a substantially elongated object. The device comprises at least one clamp pointing towards a wall or toward another clamp for the purpose of wedging the object in-between by the object's own weight. The invention further concerns a system comprising at least one device to orderly suspend substantially elongated objects of different widths or thicknesses.
A number of devices and means are known to suspend in an orderly manner tools, household implements, hobby and gardening tools, skis, snowboards and the like. Illustratively, European Patent Document No. A 507,721 describes a clamp receiving an object forced into it. However, such a clamp has the drawback that only objects of a particular size, i.e., objects evincing particular stem-, handle- or stick-diameters, can be received.
Clamps are proposed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,170,333 and European Patent No. 180,884 for orderly mounting work implements. These clamps are based on the principle of gradually constricting horizontal cross-sections. In both devices, the object is inserted into a clamp-like structure, the horizontal cross-section at insertion being comparatively large. By letting go of the implement to be suspended, the clamp also is pivoted downward and the horizontal cross-section thereby reduced resulting in the implement being clamped in place. Again, the drawback incurred is in that these clamps are applicable only to implements of particular sizes, i.e., of particular cross-sections, and moreover the implements preferably should evince a round stem. The clamps incur a further drawback in that when let go, the implement does not hang vertically, but illustratively is pressed in its lower region against a wall at its back. Such clamps are unsuitable, for example, to hang up skis.
Again, U.S. Pat. No. 4,852,747 describes a holder achieving a clamping effect by the own weight of an object between an obliquely displaceable arm and a wall. The clamping arm or roller is obliquely displaceable downward and will press, for example, the skis when let go against a wall. However, once more a drawback is incurred in that the clamping effect of the downward pointing clamping roller is insufficient if the objects are fairly heavy since, as a result, the object will slip between the arm and the wall.
Lastly, German Offenlegungsschrift No. 38 18 031 discloses a tool holding system wherein clamping is achieved upon letting the tools go between two displaceable cylindrical bodies connected in rotational manner by two gear segments. This system entails the drawback that when the two clamping rollers are not aligned precisely horizontally to each other, the object clamped between them will tip, i.e., will hang obliquely. In this case, there is the danger again that the object will not be properly held and will slip.
Accordingly, one of the objects of the present invention is a holder to orderly suspend substantially elongated objects, such as tools, gardening implements, skis and the like, the holder making possible reliable, simple and tipping-free mounting of an object.
Another object of the invention is to orderly arrange objects of different widths or thicknesses in such a holder.
This problem is solved by the invention.
To neatly suspend in particular a substantially elongated object, such as a tool, a gardening or household implement, skis or the like, the invention provides a device comprising at least one clamp displaceable toward an opposite wall or toward another clamp for the purpose of holding the object, such as a tool or the like, in-between in a clamping manner by means of its own weight. It is essential in this respect that the minimum of one clamp comprise at least two rest segments spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction and/or at least one planar rest zone in order to engage one object side when clamping, i.e., in a suspended mounted state, and to force the object against the other wall or toward the other clamp.
In one embodiment, the minimum of
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Dubach Alfred
Heer Alfred
Chin-Shue Alvin C.
Heer Alfred
Turgeon Michael J.
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