EP0148185B1 - Seilblockiervorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0148185B1
EP0148185B1 EP19840900768 EP84900768A EP0148185B1 EP 0148185 B1 EP0148185 B1 EP 0148185B1 EP 19840900768 EP19840900768 EP 19840900768 EP 84900768 A EP84900768 A EP 84900768A EP 0148185 B1 EP0148185 B1 EP 0148185B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/24—Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blinds
    • E06B9/26—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds
    • E06B9/28—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with horizontal lamellae, e.g. non-liftable
    • E06B9/30—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with horizontal lamellae, e.g. non-liftable liftable
    • E06B9/32—Operating, guiding, or securing devices therefor
    • E06B9/324—Cord-locks
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
    • E06B9/78—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor for direct manual operation, e.g. by tassels, by handles

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  • This invention refers to a locking device for cords preferably but not exclusively intended to lock pulling cords for roller blinds, venetian blinds and the like and including a holder and a locking arm which is pivotally mounted in relation to said holder and has a pointed locking portion intended to be in preferably resilient contact with the cord.
  • a locking device of this general character is described in SE B-427203 as well as in WO 82/00849 and comprises a U-shaped holder and a locking arm positioned between the flanges of said holder and pivotally connected thereto by means of a transverse shaft.
  • the locking arm has a pointed portion by means of which the cord can be caught and pressed against the web portion of the holder. Since the pointed portion is to fulfill a clamping action it will be subjected to a wear which tends to ruin the shape of the point in that the sharp point will be pressed flat. The pointed portion is then no more capable of catching the cord without slip and such a slip further deteriorates the pointed portion such that the device can no longer serve its purpose. When the locking arm is made from metal the sharp point will have a tendency to cut the cord when pressing the latter against the web portion of the holder.
  • the primary object of the invention is to eliminate these drawbacks and to provide a locking action without slip and with a minimum of wear.
  • a further object is to provide a locking device which may be easily and rapidly mounted respectively dismantled.
  • numeral 1 generally designates the holder of the locking device.
  • This holder has a bottom wall 2, which is provided with countersunk holes 3 for fastening screws such that the holder can be secured to a support.
  • Projecting from the bottom wall are two spaced apart flanges 4a, 4b. The space between the flanges 4a, 4b is denoted 5 in the drawing.
  • each of the flanges 4a, 4b there is provided a hole 6 for a pivot shaft not shown.
  • the holes are of course coaxial.
  • the locking device further includes a locking arm, generally designated as 10, which has a portion 11 formed as a locking lug, an operating portion 12, two annular projections 14a, 14b which surround the pivot hole 13 of the locking arm, further a stud 15 extending from the operating portion 12 and preferably having a bead, intended to hold with friction one end of the spring 9, and finally a tongue 16 which terminates in a friction portion 17.
  • a locking arm generally designated as 10, which has a portion 11 formed as a locking lug, an operating portion 12, two annular projections 14a, 14b which surround the pivot hole 13 of the locking arm, further a stud 15 extending from the operating portion 12 and preferably having a bead, intended to hold with friction one end of the spring 9, and finally a tongue 16 which terminates in a friction portion 17.
  • the bottom surface of the space 5 is designated as 18 and the cord 19 is intended to be pressed against said bottom surface by the locking arm.
  • the width and the depth of the recesses 7a, 7b are dimensioned in such a manner relative to the dimension of the annular projections 14a, 14b that said projections, when inserted into the recesses 7a, 7b and in contact with the bottom of said recess will keep the locking arm positioned in such a manner relative to the holder that the holes 6 in the flanges of the hodler and the hole 13 in the locking arm will be concentric which means that the pivot shaft (not shown) can be inserted without any kind of adjustment and independent of the angular position of the locking arm relative to the holder. It is thus very easy for any person to assemble the locking device after a disassemblance thereof.
  • the locking arm as well as the holder is preferably made from a suitable plastic material.
  • the device works in the manner that the locking arm by means of the spring 9 normally is in contact with the cord 19 and thus clamps the cord to surface 18 by means of its locking lug 11.
  • the locking arm In order to release the cord for movement the locking arm is depressed by pressing a finger against the operating portion 12 thereof. Since in most cases, as in roller blinds, the cord is attached to an object which will give the cord an accelerating movement to the left in figure 1 it is of importance that this rapid movement can be retarded and for this purpose the locking arm is provided with the tongue 16 which by means of the friction portion 17 comes into contact with the cord when the locking arm is fully depressed. This retardation occurs softly and successively since the tongue is obliquely directed, possibly somewhat resilient and located at a relatively big distance from the pivot center of the locking arm.
  • the locking arm 10 has a first pointed portion 20 which easily can catch the cord and carry the latter.
  • This first, pointed portion has its point situated at such a distance from the pivot center X of the locking arm that the portion in question should not be able to lock the cord since it would not clamp it against the bottom 18 of the holder but instead just pass the locking position and then completely free the cord.
  • the pointed portion 20 will not come into contact with the cord until it is at a minor angular distance from a normal to the bottom surface passing through the pivot center X. This means that the pointed portion in question effectively engages the cord to catch and carry it and the wear of the point will be very moderate since no clamping action takes place.
  • the locking arm further has a second, locking portion 21, which is located at such an angular distance from the first, pointed portion 20 that said second clamping portion will not come into contact with the cord 19 until the first pointed portion has started to be carried by the cord but before it has been freed from it.
  • the design is preferably such that the second locking portion will come into contact with the cord just when the first pointed portion is passing through the locking position.
  • the second locking portion 21 can have the shape of a cam surface with a lowermost point 21a located at a certain distance from the pivot center X and a highest point 21b, located at a somewhat bigger distance from the pivot center X than the lowermost point 21a.
  • the locking device is not overloaded. Such an overloading can for instance occur when a curtain is forced downwards instead of being allowed to go down by means of its own weight and the weight of a rod. Such a maltreatment of a roller blind with pulling cord would mean damages to one or several parts of the blind.
  • At least one of the parts of locking arm has teeth.
  • the bottom 18 of the holder 1 there are in such a case provided a corresponding number of grooves which are located such that the teeth of the locking arm are received in said grooves.

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1. Seilblockiervorrichtung, vorzugsweise für die Zugschnüre von Jalousien u. dgl., mit einem Halter (1) und einem Blockierarm (10), der im Verhältnis zum Halter schwenkbar montiert ist und ein spitzes Blockierorgan (20) hat, das vorgesehen ist, in vorzugsweise federnder Berührung mit dem Seil zu stehen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Blockierarm (10) ein erstes Blockierorgan (20) aufweist, dessen Spitze in einem solchen Abstand von dem Schwenkmittelpunkt (X) liegt, daß sie infolge einer auf das Seil ausgeübten, mäßigen Zugkraft schwenkt und durch die Blockierstellung des ersten Organs passiert, ohne aber das Seil zu blockieren, und daß der genannte Blockierarm (10) in einem Winkelabstand vom ersten Organ (20) ein zweites Blockierorgan (21) mit einer Blockierfläche (21 b) aufweist, welche in einem solchen größeren Abstand von dem Schwenkmittelpunkt (X) des genannten Blockierarmes liegt, daß das Seil, wenn eine Zugkraft auf das Seil ausgeübt wird, nicht oder nur mit Schwierigkeit durch die Blockierstellung des zweiten Organs passieren kann.
2. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das zweite Blockierorgan (21) eine Fläche aufweist, die dem Zugseil (19) eine beträchtliche Berührungsfläche gewährt.
3. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Winkelabstand zwischen dem ersten Organ (20) und dem zweiten Organ (21) von der Art ist, daß das genannte zweite Organ (21) erst dann mit dem Seil (19) in Berührung kommen wird, wenn das genannte erste Organ (20) mit dem Seil in Berührung gekommen ist und beginnt vom Seil getragen zu werden, jedoch ehe das Seil und das erste Organ voneinander freigegeben werden nach ihrem Lauf durch die Blockierstellung des ersten Organs und vorzugsweise in der Nähe des Punktes, wo das genannte erste Organ (20) durch seine Blockierstellung laufen soll.
4. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das genannte zweite Blockierorgan die Form einer Nockenfläche mit allmählich zunehmendem Abstand (21a, 21 b) von dem Schwenkmittelpunkt (X) des Blockierarmes hat.
5. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß zumindest das eine Organ des Blockierarmes radial vorspringende Zähne hat und daß der Halter (1) in seiner Bodenfläche Nuten aufweist, durch die die genannten Zähne passieren können, wenn der Blockierarm durch seine Blockierstellung läuft.
6. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Halter (1) zwei im Abstand voneinander liegende Flansche (4a, 4b) hat, zwischen denen der Blockierarm mittels eines Zapfens schwenkbar montiert ist, und daß der Blockierarm (10) zumindest einen seitlich vorspringenden, vorzugsweise ringförmigen Ansatz (14a, 14b) aufweist, welcher zum Zapfenloch (13) konzentrisch ist, daß in zumindest einer der einander gegenüberliegenden Flächen der Flansche (4a, 4b) des Halters (1) eine nach oben offene Ausnehmung (7a, 7b) angeordnet ist von einer der Außenabmessung des Ansatzes hauptsächlich entsprechenden Breite und von einer solchen Tiefe, daß der Blockierarm (10), wenn er zwischen den Flanschen (4a, 4b) eingesetzt ist und sein ringförmiger Ansatz (14a, 14b) in die Ausnehmung (7a, 7b) eingeführt ist und gegen Boden derselben anliegt, derart im Verhältnis zum Halter (1) ausgerichtet ist, daß das Zapfenloch des Blockierarmes (10) den entsprechenden Zapfenlöchern (6) in den Flanschen (4a, 4b) des Halters (1) gegenüberliegt, wodurch der Zapfen ohne Ausrichtvorgänge in die Zapfenlöcher des Halters und des Blockierarmes eingeführt werden kann.
7. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Blockierarm (10) eine Partie (15) hat, die vorgesehen ist um das eine Ende einer Druckfeder (9) durch Reibung festzuhalten, während das entgegengesetzte Ende der Feder mit Spiel in eine Öffnung (8) in den Flanschen (4a, 4b) des Halters (1) eingeführt ist.
8. Blockiervorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Blockierarm eine schräggestellte Zunge (16) aufweist, die in einem Reibungsglied (17) endigt und die in einem größeren Abstand vom Schwenkmittelpunkt (X) des Blockierarmes (10) liegt als eine Partie (15) desselben, welche zum Festhalten einer Feder (9) vorgesehen ist.
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SE8301206A SE452783B (sv) 1983-03-04 1983-03-04 Anordning vid lasorgan for linor foretredesvis draglinor for rullgardiner och liknande
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