DE7624641U1 - Tilting foot for housings of electrical measuring and display devices - Google Patents

Description

PATENT ADVOCATE DR.-ING. KLAUS DURM KARLSRUHE FELIX-MOTTL-STRASSE 1 a TELEFON 590455

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July 16, 1976

Schroff & Co Limited Liability Company Straubenhardt-Feldrennach

7541 Straubenhardt 1
industrial area

Tilting foot for the housing of electrical measuring and display devices

The innovation is a tilting foot for the housing of electrical measuring and display devices, consisting from a base having a base to which a pivotable support is articulated.

The proposed tilting foot is used in particular in small and medium-sized electrical table-top devices Dimensions in which there is often a need to be inclined backwards for better usability to set up.

Tilting feet for the housing of electrical measuring and display devices have been available in various designs known for some time. Made of die-cast, they have a foot part and a pivotable support Tilt feet are expensive to make

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Individual parts, they require machining because of the drilling of holes for the swivel joint and they require assembly times due to the need to insert a detent spring and to press in the pivot pin.

There are already known skew feet, which consist to reduce the cost of plastics material, wherein the support is hinged to the base part by means of two lateral pivot pins. However, due to their unfavorable technical shape, these tilting feet have not really proven themselves, because in many cases they are not up to the stresses that occur.

The aim of the proposed innovation is a technically improved tilting foot, which is also inexpensive can be produced.

The starting point is an overview of the description at the beginning This type of goal is achieved in that the foot part has a joint shell that is open towards its bottom and the support carries a pivot pin that fits into the joint socket. The use of only one pivot pin in an open joint shell allows large material cross-sections that can withstand high loads, In addition, the simple technical design does not require any complex compression molds. The assembly of the just off two parts existing inclined foot is exhausted by inserting the pivot pin into the open joint shell. ·

In an advantageous embodiment of the innovation, a quarter-circle segment is provided on the foot part At the end there is a rest, and also

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the support sits an integrally formed, resiliently designed and duf the segment sliding pawl. This segment with its two notches forms in connection with the pawl a double-acting snap mechanism that locks the support in both the swiveled in and swiveled out position

According to a further essential feature of the innovation, a pivoted-out position is on the support Foot section should be placed on the shoulder. This shoulder absorbs the load to be borne by the support and relieves the load on the pivot pin and the joint socket.

The support expediently ends in a fork, at the ends of which the pivot pin is molded.

A nose is advantageously provided on the joint shell, it prevents the pivot pin from falling out as long as the tilting foot is not yet on the housing. iac.

An embodiment of the proposed tilting foot is shown in the accompanying drawing, which is explained in more detail below. Show it:

Figure 1 shows a tilting foot in a rare view, the support in pivoted Position, in a hatred rod enlarged approximately to twice, with the pivoted position of the support dash-dotted lines is indicated;

Figure 2 the tilting foot according to Figure 1, In

a view from below;

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Figure 3

a housing for electrical measuring and display devices, which has tilting feet is provided, in a side view;

Figure 4

the front part of the housing according to Figure 3, the supports of the front Tilt feet in the swiveled-out position, the housing tilted, shown in dash-dotted lines,

A tilting foot 1 according to the present invention consists of two parts, namely a foot part 2 and a pivotable support 3, foot part 2 and support 3 consist of a tough and hard one Plastic or metal.

The cuboid foot part 2 has a flat base 4 with which it (see FIG. 3) on the underside of the housing 5

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Housing 5 is provided with a screw hole 6 with a cylindrical extension provided for receiving the screw head 7. In a rectangular blind hole 8 sits a prismatic buffer 9 made of an elastomeric material.

A quarter-circle segment 10 is provided on the foot part 2, in the center of which there is a joint shell 11 which is open towards the bottom 4. The joint shell 11 is equipped with a nose 12 which narrows its opening. At the two ends of the segment molded onto the foot part 2 10 a latch 13 or 14 is arranged in each case.

The support 3, which is elongated and rectangular in plan, is air-guided at the foot part 2. For this purpose, the support 3 runs into a fork from, at the ends of which a pivot pin 16 is formed. This

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The pivot pin 16 is rotatably seated in the joint shell 11 of the foot part 2.

On the support 3, a resiliently formed pawl 17 is formed, which with the segment 10 and the two notches 13 and 14 cooperate. When the support 3 is pivoted, the pawl 17 slides on the segment 10 and engages in the pivoted position into the detent 13, in the pivoted position into the detent 14 resiliently.

Furthermore, a wide shoulder 18 is provided on the support 3. This shoulder 18 is arranged in such a way that it rests against the upper side 19 of the foot part 2 when the support 3 is swiveled out - compare the swiveled-out position of the support 3 in FIG . ■

The housing shown in Figures 3 and 4 carries

adjustable feet 1. While, however, the one on the front of the housing 6 arranged inclination feet 1 consist of foot part 2 and support 3, are near the rear of the housing only foot parts 2 mounted so that the supports 3 are saved there.

Foot part 2 and support 3 of the new tilting foot 1 are each, manufactured in one piece by injection molding or transfer molding. In the foot part 2 the buffer 9 is glued or pressed in. Then the pivot pin 16 of the support 3 is in the joint socket 11 pressed in, the resistance of the nose 12 must be overcome.

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July 16, 1976 Addition of the salary figures used

1. Tilting foot 2 Foot part 3 support 4th floor 5 casing 6th Screw hole 7th extension 8th Blind hole 9 buffer 10 segment 11th Joint shell 12th nose 13th Rest 14th Rest 15th fork 16 Pivot pin 17th pawl 18th shoulder 19th Top

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Claims (5)

Sch 1653 / 7S - 6 - July 16, 1976 claims 1. tilting foot for housings of electrical measuring and display devices, consisting of a foot part having a floor to which a pivotable support is articulated, characterized in that the foot part (2) has a joint shell open towards its base (4) (11) and the support (3) carries a pivot pin (16) which fits into the joint socket (11). 2. Tilting foot according to claim 1, characterized in that that on the foot part (2) a quarter-circle segment (10) is provided at the ends there is a catch (13 and 14) in each case, and that the support (3) is an integrally formed, resiliently formed, has a pawl (17) sliding on the segment (11). 3. tilting foot according to claim 1 or 2, characterized characterized in that on the support (3) one rests in the swiveled-out position on the foot part (2) Shoulder (18) is provided. 4. tilting foot according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the support (3) runs out into a fork (15), at the ends of which the pivot pin (16) is formed. 5. tilting foot according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that on the joint socket (11) a nose (12) is provided. 7624641 18.1176