Supports – Pipe or cable – Brackets
Patent
1999-02-19
2000-06-06
Ramirez, Ramon O.
Supports
Pipe or cable
Brackets
248 71, 248 743, 411437, 411433, F16L 322
Patent
active
060708360
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention pertains to a conduit holder with one or more holding areas and a receptacle area for two-sided engagement on a threaded bolt according to the preamble of claim 1. This conduit holder serves for fastening of liquid conduits, pipes or other long extended components onto sheet metal, preferably onto body floors of automobiles. It offers the advantage that they can be mounted on threaded bolts from both sides, so that the holding areas, depending upon the demands of the customer, either are hidden by the sheet metal of the body of the car or are open downward for filling.
A conduit holder of this type known from EP 0,628,737 A1 is equipped with obliquely opposing engagement parts (support lands) between two funnel openings on both sides, as well as longitudinal ribs in the middle section of the opening. When the receptacle area is attached, the threaded bolt passes through a collar of engagement parts and into the area of the longitudinal ribs, where it is guided laterally, while the collar of engagement parts rests on the flanks of the threads of the threaded bolt.
It is here considered a disadvantage that the threaded bolt is engaged and supported only by the engagement parts adjoining the funnel opening, while the opposing engagement parts do not participate in the support but are instead oriented against the threading of the bolt and are therefore in the way of the penetration of the threaded bolt. In order to achieve the necessary holding power, the design of the engagement parts must be relatively inflexible, whereas the assembly power must then be increased accordingly.
The objective of the invention is to configure the aforesaid conduit holder in such a way that the threaded bolt can be dubbed completely into the receptacle area on both sides and the holding power of the engagement parts is simultaneously increased thereby without the assembly or disassembly of the conduit holder being rendered more difficult.
This objective is realized in keeping with the present invention in that, between the obliquely opposed support lands, two oppositely situated spring tongues are provided, which protrude transversely into the receptacle space and form a small fissure in the middle with their reinforced ends, and which have such a separation from the cited support lands that, when the threaded bolt is inserted, their reinforced ends are pivoted in front of the opposing support lands and thus also rest against the threading of the threaded bolt.
It is thus realized that the support lands, which are opposingly oriented in the state of the art, are pressed away by the spring tongues when the threaded bolt enters and the tip of the threaded bolt can force its way into the opening of the opposingly oriented funnel, so that the receptacle area of the conduit holder is oriented on the axis of the threaded bolt. Moreover, the spring tongues resting on the flank of the threading of the threaded bolt are propped toward the wall by the support beams of the support lands, so that the additionally engaging spring tongues are pressed firmly on the flanks of the threading and the holding power in the receptacle area is significantly reinforced.
Additional characteristics of the invention are revealed in the subordinate claims and are explained in greater detail below with references to an embodiment example shown in the appended drawings. Depicted are:
FIG. 1, conduit holder for four conduits in side view;
FIG. 2, the conduit holder in top view;
FIG. 3, a partial section through the receptacle area on the line III--III in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4, a conduit holder with holding areas facing away from the sheet metal of the body of the car prior to its pressing onto the threaded bolt;
FIG. 5, the same conduit holder when the threaded bolt penetrates the receptacle area;
FIG. 6, the same conduit holder following its pressing onto the threaded bolt;
FIG. 7, a conduit holder pressed onto a suspended threaded bolt, with the openings of the holding areas oriented toward the carrier plate, and
FIG. 8, the same conduit holder presse
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Battie Emmanuel
Wandels Philippe
A. Raymond & Cie
Ramirez Ramon O.
Wood Kimberly
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