Supports – Brackets – Article holding means
Patent
1986-03-10
1987-03-24
Ramirez, Ramon O.
Supports
Brackets
Article holding means
30433, 30434, 30435, 403349, A47F 500
Patent
active
046519629
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a holder for household implements, especially a can opener, comprising a bracket which at one end is adapted to be attached to a supporting surface and at the other end has a mounting for a casing of the household implement.
Wall-mounted holders for can openers have been known for many years. They suffer from the disadvantage that they can be mounted on a vertical surface only, and furthermore they are normally obtainable only in a design in which the can opener is mounted for right-handed persons, which is inconvenient to the left-handed operator. The object of the present invention is to eliminate this disadvantage and to provide a holder for household implements that can be mounted on vertical, horizontal and inclined surfaces and besides facilitates attaching of the implement such that it can be used by left-handed as well as right-handed persons. To this end, the mounting for the casing of the household implement consists of a transverse through opening in the bracket, in which opening a member formed in one piece with the casing is insertable from either side of the bracket in the desired turning position until means arranged on said casing member to counteract turning engage with corresponding means in the opening, and an abutment on the casing abuts the side of the bracket from which the casing member is inserted; that at least the outer or free end portion of the member insertable in the opening is cylindrical and has bayonet joint ridges arranged after each other in the circumferential direction; and that a clamping ring having bayonet joint ridges corresponding to said ridges is adapted to be slipped over the cylindrical end portion and turned, the surfaces of the two sets of bayonet joint ridges, which are facing each other and inclined relative to the circumferential direction, abutting each other until the clamping ring and the abutment of the casing are firmly pressed against the opposed sides of the bracket.
The invention will be described in detail below, reference being had to the accompanying drawings illustrating an embodiment chosen by way of example.
FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a holder according to the invention, in which a can opener adapted to be used by a right-handed person is mounted;
FIG. 2 is a lateral view, partly in section, of the main portion of the holder shown in FIG. 1, i.e. a bracket adapted to be attached to a supporting surface;
FIG. 3 is a lateral view of a casing for receiving the household implement, said casing having a lid on one surface;
FIG. 4 shows a clamping ring for clamping the casing in a bracket opening provided therefor; and
FIG. 5 is an exploded top plan view of a holder according to the invention.
FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a holder which has been manufactured according to the invention and in which the can opener is mounted. The holder comprises a bracket 10 which at one end has an attachment member 11 for attachment to a supporting surface. In an opening in the end of the bracket 10 facing away from the attachment 11, a casing 12 is mounted in which the household implement, in this case a can opener, is mounted. The casing 12 is retained in the opening by means of a lid 13 on one side of the casing 12 and a clamping ring 14 on the other side of said casing, said clamping ring engaging with the casing by means of a bayonet joint as described in detail below. In conventional manner, a crank 15 is provided for operating the can opener. The can opener as shown is adapted to be used by a right-handed person but, as is evident from the following, the opener can easily be modified such that it can be used also by a left-handed person. The can opener proper may be of highly conventional type and therefore is not shown or described in detail below.
The main part of the holder is the bracket 10, whose end portion 11 is adapted to be attached to a wall by means of a plate fastened to the wall with screws and having a projection portion dovetailed in cross-section and adapted to be received in an undercut groove 21 (FIG. 5) i
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patent: 3540686 (1970-11-01), Bryse
patent: 4138055 (1979-02-01), Harrison
patent: 4532672 (1985-08-01), Anderson
patent: 4575881 (1986-03-01), Rozek
patent: 4580665 (1986-04-01), Saxton et al.
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Ramirez Ramon O.
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