EP0178406B1 - Tubular container arrangement for writing utensils - Google Patents

Abstract

In a pen holder device, a pen holder body (3) contained in a support body (2) is pivotable between an operational position, which is slightly inclined from the perpendicular, and a generally horizontal readiness position, wherein an acute angle exists between the operational position and the readiness position. Bearing shoulders (15) provided on opposite sides of the pen holder body (3) rest with little friction upon support surfaces (12) having evenly curved surface areas. The center of gravity (21) of the pen holder body (3) alone is below the bearing shoulders (15) and the common center of gravity (20) of the pen holder body (3) and a writing instrument (4) inserted in it is above the bearing shoulders (15).

Description

The invention relates to a quiver device with a swivel-mounted quiver body in a holding body between a slightly inclined to the vertical operating position and a substantially horizontal ready position, between which and the operating position, into which a writing instrument, in particular a tube pen, is mounted can be used, in which the quiver body has bearing projections on opposite sides and the holder body each has a bearing projection, the interaction between the bearing receptacles and the bearing projections in the operating position and in the ready position with low friction and essentially only by supporting a uniformly curved surface area of the bearing projections on the bearing supports due to gravity and that the center of gravity of the quiver body below the bearing projections and the common center of gravity of the quiver body and input last writing instrument lies above the bearing protrusions.

In a known quiver device of this type in the form of a stand for writing utensils (DE-U-6935 126 = GB-A-1 298 120), the holder body consists of a box and the quiver body consists of a lid insert for the box, which has a plurality of quivers arranged next to one another is pivotally mounted in this, so that the inserted writing instruments are in the folded-down ready position in the box and this is closed by the cover wall attached to the quiver body. In the oblique operating position of the quiver body, all quivers are positioned so that writing implements can be inserted into them and writing implements can be removed from them. To transition from the ready position to the operating position and back to the ready position, the quiver body must be opened and folded back by the user with all the writing implements located in it and the cover wall provided on it.

Furthermore, a stand for writing utensils has become known (US-A-1 799 049), in which the caps of writing utensils are held in wire loops, which in turn are pivotally attached to a pedestal. When a writing instrument is pulled down out of the receptacle, the cap receptacle acts as a counterweight and the opening of the cap is pivoted upwards, in order to make it easier to insert the writing instrument into the cap. After inserting and releasing a writing instrument, it can then pivot into the starting position.

It is an object of the invention to provide a quiver device in which the respective quiver body automatically pivots into the ready position after inserting a writing instrument in the operating position, so that the inserted writing instruments are normally in the ready position.

To achieve this object, a quiver device of the type mentioned at the outset is designed in accordance with the invention in such a way that the bearing receptacles each have two receiving surfaces which are arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the quiver body which is in the standby position, and that the bearing projection has two spaced-apart positions Has storage areas for interacting with a receiving surface, of which the storage area for the ready position is closer to the upper end of the quiver body than the storage area for the operating position.

In the case of the quiver device according to the invention, the quiver body is thus pivotably mounted in the holder body, i.e. H. it is supported essentially only with a uniformly curved surface area in the bearing receptacle, so that it is not in clamping or inhibiting engagement with the bearing receptacle. Therefore, the position of the quiver body is determined by the position of its center of gravity. The center of gravity of the quiver body alone lies below the bearing projections, and as a result of this position of the center of gravity and the low-friction mounting, the quiver body automatically comes into the operating position. However, if a writing instrument is inserted into the quiver body, the center of gravity of the quiver body with the inserted writing instrument lies above the bearing projections, so that the quiver body with the writing instrument is automatically pivoted from the somewhat inclined operating position into the ready position.

In a special embodiment of the invention, the bearing receptacles can each have two receiving surfaces which are arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the quiver body which is in the standby position, and the bearing projection then has two bearing surfaces arranged at a distance for engagement with one receiving surface each, of which the storage area for the ready position is closer to the upper end of the quiver body than the storage area for the operating position. The two storage areas can be separated from each other by an increase provided between them.

In the case of a quiver device designed in this way, when the quiver body is in the operating position, the corresponding bearing is effective, which is located in the plane of the longitudinal axis of the quiver body and / or below which The center of gravity of the quiver body containing no writing instrument lies, while when the writing instrument is inserted into the quiver body, due to the position of the pivot point above the bearing projections, the tilting takes place in the ready position, with a transition from one bearing to the other, so that the tilting process takes place without the risk of jamming can run in the warehouse.

It should be mentioned that the quiver body is pivoted by the user by hand from the ready position to the operating position for removing a writing instrument located therein, and the writing instrument is then removed from the quiver body so that the empty quiver body remains in the operating position.

In a quiver device with bearing receptacles with two receiving surfaces and bearing projections with two spaced bearing surfaces, the bearing projections can be angular in cross section and the bearing surfaces can be formed at the free ends of their legs.

The bearing receptacle can be formed by an upwardly open incision in the holder body, in the base of which incision the receiving surface or the receiving surfaces is or are formed.

In order to precisely define the ready position and the operating position, a stop projection or pin can be provided at the lower end of the quiver body, which in the operating position and in the ready position lies against a stop surface formed on the holder body.

To remove the quiver body from the holder body, when the quiver body is in the ready position, its bearing projection can be slightly raised and displaced in the axial direction of the quiver body, so that the stop pin comes into an upwardly open slot in the holder body, as a result of which the quiver body is lifted upwards the holder body can be moved.

A quiver device according to the invention is frequently used both for transporting and for storing a writing instrument, and for this purpose the holder body can be part of a box-shaped receiving part which has a receiving region for the writing instrument which is adjacent to the quiver body and to which a cover part which is articulated between an open position and a closed position can be pivoted. With a quiver device designed in this way, it is expedient if it is ensured that the user only uses the quiver body as a temporary storage element for the writing instrument, while for prolonged storage the writing instrument, for example an ink or India pen, should be stored closed with its sealing caps.

In order to force the user to store the writing instrument in this way, the cover part can be pivotable about an axis parallel to the quiver pivot axis, which lies on the side of the quiver pivot axis facing away from the receiving area for the writing instrument and in the upper end region of the quiver body on the side facing the cover part an opening may be provided, while a projection is provided on the cover part in the plane containing the opening perpendicular to the pivot axis of the quiver, which protrusion extends through the opening and the quiver opening in engagement with the wall of the quiver body opposite the opening when the cover part is closed.

Thus, when the lid part is closed with the quiver body empty and therefore in the operating position, the projection moves through the opening and into engagement with the wall of the quiver body opposite the projection, thereby pivoting the quiver body into the substantially horizontal standby position, and the lid part comes into the closed position.

If such a pivoting movement of the lid part is still a writing instrument in the quiver body, the lid part cannot be closed because the projection provided on it cannot come into engagement with the wall of the quiver body opposite the opening, whereby the user is reminded that he should remove the writing instrument from the quiver body and seal it with the existing cap.

In order to achieve a very clear indication of the presence of the writing instrument in the quiver body by an early blocking of the pivoting movement of the cover part into the closed position and in such a pivoting movement not to burden the writing instrument by engaging with the projection, the opening can be removed an upwardly open incision, and in the standby position of the quiver, the distance of the bottom of the incision from the axis of the cover part can be smaller than the distance between this axis and the axis-facing surface portion adjacent to the bottom of the incision and in engagement with the opposite one Quiver wall standing projection and larger than the distance of the engaging with the opposite quiver wall end portion of the projection, while in the operating position, the distance of the bottom of the incision from the axis of the cover part is smaller than the distance of the de r axis of the surface of the projection of this.

Such a dimensioning ensures that the projection when the quiver body is in the operating position, So in the absence of a writing instrument in the quiver body by pivoting the lid part in the direction of the closed position through the incision and in contact with the opposite wall of the quiver body can move, so that the lid part swivels the quiver body into the ready position and even comes into the closed position.

However, if a writing instrument is present in the quiver body, it is in the essentially horizontal standby position, and pivoting the cover part in the direction of the closed position means that the projection cannot be moved into the incision in the quiver body, but for contact with the Outer wall of the quiver body comes below the incision, d. H. the cover part is blocked in this position and cannot be moved into the closed position.

Of course, a quiver device according to the invention can contain a plurality of quiver bodies which are arranged in the holder body so as to be pivotable independently of one another about a common quiver pivot axis.

• Figur 1 zeigt in perspektivischer Darstellung das Unterteil einer Röhrchenschreiberverpackung mit vier Köchereinrichtungen.
• Figur 2 zeigt einen Teilschnitt entlang der Linie II - 11 aus Figur 1 mit dem Köcherkörper in der Bereitschaftsstellung.
• Figur 3 zeigt in einer Darstellung entsprechend Figur 2 den Köcherkörper in der Bedienungsstellung.
• Figur 4 zeigt in einer Darstellung ähnlich Figuren 2 und 3, jedoch mit nur teilweise angedeutetem Köcherkörper in der Köcherentnahmestellung.
• Figuren 5 bis 7 zeigen in Darstellungen entsprechend Figuren 2 bis 4 ein anderes Ausführungsbeispiel.
• Figur 8 zeigt in perspektivischer Darstellung entsprechend Figur 1 ein weiteres Ausführungsbeispiel.
• Figuren 9 bis 11 zeigen in einem Teilschnitt entlang der Linie 111 - 111 aus Figur 8 verschiedene Stellungen von Köcherkörper und Deckelteil.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the figures showing the exemplary embodiments.

• Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the lower part of a tube recorder packaging with four quiver devices.
• Figure 2 shows a partial section along the line II - 11 of Figure 1 with the quiver body in the ready position.
• Figure 3 shows in a representation corresponding to Figure 2, the quiver body in the operating position.
• Figure 4 shows a representation similar to Figures 2 and 3, but with only partially indicated quiver body in the quiver removal position.
• FIGS. 5 to 7 show another embodiment in representations corresponding to FIGS. 2 to 4.
• Figure 8 shows a perspective view corresponding to Figure 1 another embodiment.
• FIGS. 9 to 11 show, in a partial section along the line 111-111 from FIG. 8, different positions of the quiver body and the cover part.

The lower part of a tube recorder package shown in FIG. 1 consists of a receiving box 1 to which a cover part, not shown, is articulated. The receiving part 1 contains a holder body 2, which has four receiving areas for the quiver body 3, 3 ', 3 "and 3'". These quiver bodies are arranged next to one another and can be pivoted independently of one another about a common axis and can each hold a tube recorder 4, 4 ', 4 "and 4"'. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the tube recorders 4 "and 4" 'lie in grooves provided in the receiving box 1 corresponding to the groove 5. This position is the storage position of the tube recorders, in which they are closed with their usual screw caps. The tube recorder 4 'is inserted into the quiver body 3', which is in its ready position, while the quiver body 3 is shown in the operating position. The tube recorder 4 is inserted into the quiver body 3, however the quiver body 3 has not yet moved into the ready position due to the inserted tube recorder 4, but it can be assumed that the tube recorder 4 has just been inserted and is therefore still in the position Operating position.

The partial section according to FIG. 3 shows the bearing arrangement of the quiver body 3 and the holder body 2 when the quiver body 3 is in the operating position according to FIG. 1. As can be seen, the holder body 2 has upwardly open incisions, of which in FIGS. 2 to 4 only the incision located on one side of the holder body 3 can be seen, while the incision existing on the opposite side and shaped in the same way is not shown. A uniformly curved receiving surface 12 is formed in the incision base. The bearing projections 15 are provided on opposite sides of the quiver body 3. They have a circular cross-section and each rest on the receiving surface 12 of the holder body 2. The diameter of the bearing projections 15 is chosen so that the radius of curvature of its peripheral surface is slightly smaller than the radius of curvature of the receiving surface 12, i. H. the bearing projection 15 is supported by gravity on the receiving surface 12 without being pinched by it.

In the operating position shown in Figure 3, the quiver body 3 is arranged with its central axis obliquely to the vertical, and the operating position is determined by the abutment of a stop pin 18 formed at the lower end of the quiver body 3 on a boundary surface 6 of the holder body 2. If no tube recorder 4 is inserted into the quiver body 3 in this operating position, the center of gravity 21 of the quiver body 3 lies below the bearing projection 15 and below the receiving surface 12, so that the quiver body 3 remains in the operating position.

If the tube recorder 4 is inserted into the quiver body 3, the arrangement of the quiver body 3 and the tube recorder 4 results in a common center of gravity 20, which lies on the longitudinal axis of the quiver body 3 but clearly above the bearing projection 15 (FIG. 3). As a result of this Center of gravity and the inclined position of the quiver body 3 in the operating position, the quiver body 3 with the tube pen 4 held in it automatically tilts clockwise (Figures 2 and 3), the stop pin 18 moving along the surface 8 until it comes to rest on the Holder body 2 formed contact surface 7 comes (Figure 2).

In order to be able to remove the tube recorder 4 in the ready position according to FIG. 2 from the quiver body 3, the quiver body 3 is pivoted again by lifting the tube recorder 4, so that it comes into the position according to FIG. 3 in which the tube recorder 4 is removed , so that the quiver body 3 then remains in the operating position according to FIG. 3.

In order to be able to remove the quiver body 3 from the holder body 2, the quiver body is pivoted into the ready position and its bearing projections 15 are lifted out of the receiving surface 12, so that the quiver body can be shifted somewhat to the left in FIG. As a result, the stop pin 18 comes free from the contact surface, -7 and into the area of an upwardly open slot 18 in the holder body 2. In this position, the quiver body 3 can be removed from the holder body 2, since the bearing projections 15 and the stop pin 18 follow freely can be moved out of the holder body 2 above.

The exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 5 to 7 largely coincides with the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 4 and the same or corresponding parts are each identified by reference numerals increased by 100. Parts which correspond in their structure and function to the parts from FIGS. 1 to 4 are not described again.

The quiver device according to FIGS. 5 to 7 has a bearing arrangement that differs from the quiver device according to FIGS. 1 to 4, as shown, two receiving surfaces 111, 112 are formed at the base of the incision 110 in the holder body 102, between which an elevation or rib 113 extends. The distance between the two receiving surfaces 111 and 112 is equal to the distance between the two bearing surfaces 116 and 117 of the bearing protrusion 115 provided on the quiver body 103. This bearing protrusion has two legs running at right angles to one another, on the free ends of which the bearing surface 116 and 117 are formed , the shape of which is adapted to the shape of the associated receiving surface 111, 112 so that the bearing surfaces can move without friction in the receiving surfaces without clamping. In this arrangement, as can be seen in FIGS. 5 and 6, the bearing surface 116 lies in the plane of the central axis of the quiver body 103.

In the operating position shown in FIG. 6, the bearing surface 116 of the bearing projection 115 is in engagement with the receiving surface 111 of the holder body 102. In this operating position, the center of gravity 121 of the quiver body 103, which does not contain a tube recorder 104, is below the bearing surface 116, so that the quiver body 103 is in gives the operating position.

If the tube recorder 104 is inserted into the quiver body 103, the arrangement of the quiver body 103 and the tube recorder 104 results in the common center of gravity 120, which lies on the longitudinal axis of the quiver body 103 but clearly above the bearing projection 115 (FIG. 6). As a result, the quiver body 103 is tilted into the ready position, as described in connection with FIGS. 2 and 3. During this tilting movement, the bearing protrusion 115 is pivoted in such a way that its bearing surface 116 comes free from the receiving surface 111 and its bearing surface 117 is supported on the receiving surface 112. The pivot axis of the quiver body 103 is therefore shifted further to the right (FIGS. 5 and 6) during the movement from the operating position according to FIG. 6 into the ready position according to FIG. 5.

The swiveling back of the quiver body 103 from the ready position into the operating position and the removal of the quiver body 103 from the holder body 102 takes place in the same way as described in connection with FIGS. 2 to 3.

The exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 8 to 11 corresponds in its basic structure and in the functioning of the quiver body to the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 4, and the same parts are therefore designated by the same reference numerals. The receiving box or the box-shaped receiving part 1 is designed in the same way with regard to its receiving area as shown in FIG. 1, and therefore the reference symbols for the grooves for receiving the tube recorders and for the tube recorders were not inserted again in FIG. 8.

The exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 8 to 11 differs from the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 4 by the presence of a cover part 22 which is articulated on the receiving part 1 and by the shape of the quiver 24.

As shown in FIGS. 8 to 11, the cover part 22 is fastened to the receiving part 1 so as to be pivotable about an axis 26. The axis 26 runs parallel to the quiver pivot axis 27, about which the various quivers 24 can be pivoted independently of one another, and the axis 26 lies further outside on the receiving part 1 than the quiver pivot axis 27.

On the inner surface of the cover part 22, projections 23 are formed, each lying in a plane perpendicular to the axis 6 and enclosing a right angle with their outer surfaces 28 and 30, the outer surfaces 28 and 30 intersecting to form the edge 29.

The quiver body 27 have on their upper End on the side facing the cover part 22 has an upwardly open incision 25 which lies in the plane of the associated projection 23 and whose width is greater than the thickness of the projection 23. The incision 25 ends in a groove base 31.

If the quiver body 24 is in the operating position (FIG. 10) and the cover part 22 is moved about the axis 26 from the open position shown in FIG. 8 into the closed position, the projection 23 enters the incision 25 because in this position the quiver body 24 the distance between the axis 26 and the base 31 of the incision 25 is smaller than the distance between the axis 26 and the surface 28 of the projection 23 facing it. As a result, the surface 30 comes to rest on the surface 32 opposite the incision 25 (FIG. 10) of the quiver body 24, and the quiver body 24 is pivoted about the quiver pivot axis 27 and, together with the cover part 22, reaches the closed position shown in FIG. 9, in which the bottom 31 of the incision 25 of the quiver body 24 is the section 28 ′ of the edge 29 that is removed from the edge 29 Surface 28 of the projection 23 is adjacent, while the surface 30 of the projection 23 rests on the surface 32 of the quiver body 24. The cover part 22 closes the receiving part 1 in this position.

If there is a tube recorder 4 in the quiver body 24 so that the quiver body is pivoted into the ready position (FIG. 11), when the cover part 22 is pivoted from the open position according to FIG. 8 in the direction of the closed position, the edge 29 of the projection 23 comes to rest on the Outer surface of the quiver body 24 below the base 31 of the groove 25, because in this ready position the distance of the base 31 of the incision 25 from the axis 26 of the cover part 22 is greater than the distance of the edge 29 of the projection 23 from the axis 26. As a result of this requirement the edge 29 of the projection 23 on the quiver body 24 prevents the cover part 22 from pivoting further, and the user cannot bring the cover part 22 into the closed position. This indicates that the tube recorder 4 should be removed from the quiver body 24 and sealed by the associated cap. The tube recorder thus closed can then be stored in a groove 5 (FIG. 1) and the cover part 22 can be brought into the closed position.

Claims (8)

1. A holding device for writing implements, with a holder body (3, 3', 3", 3"') which forms a part of a box-shaped receiving part and is mounted so as to be able to pivot between an operating position which is slightly inclined to the vertical and a substantially horizontal ready position, between which ready position and the operating position there is an acute angle, into which body a writing implement, in particular a tube writing pen (4, 4', 4", 4"') can be inserted from above, in which the holder body (3, 3', 3", 3"') has bearing projections (15) on opposite sides and the holding body in each case has bearing receptacles (10, 110) receiving a bearing projection (15), whereby the cooperation between the bearing receptacles (10, 110) and the bearing projections (15) in the operating position and in the ready position takes place with low friction and substantially only by supporting a regularly curved surface area of the bearing projections (15) on the bearing receptacles (10, 110) as a result of gravity, and that the centre of gravity (21) of the holder body (3) lies beneath the bearing projections (15) and the common centre of gravity (20) of the holder body (3) and the inserted writing implement (4) lies above the bearing projections (15), characterised in that the bearing receptacles (110) each have two receiving surfaces (111, 112), which are arranged at a distance from each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the holder body (103) in the ready position, and that the bearing projection (115) has two bearing surfaces (116, 117) arranged at a distance for cooperation with one receiving surface (111, 112) in each case, of which the bearing surface (117) for the ready position is closer to the upper end of the holder body (103) than the bearing surface (116) for the operating position.

2. A holding device according to claim 1, characterised in that the bearing projection (115) is angular in cross-section and that the bearing surfaces (116, 117) are formed on the free ends of its arms.

3. A holding device according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterised in that the bearing receptacle is formed by a recess (10; 110) which opens at the top, in the recess base of which the receiving surface (12) or the receiving surfaces (111,112) for the bearing projection (15; 115) is or are formed.

4. A holding device according to claim 3 with a bearing receptacle for a bearing projection according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that the receiving surfaces (111, 112) for the bearing projection (115) are separated from each other in the recess base by a raised part (113).

5. A holding device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that a stop projection (18; 118) is provided on the lower end of the holder body (3; 103), which projection in each case rests on one stop surface (6, 7; 106, 107) formed on the holding body (2; 102) in the operating position and in the ready position, and that the stop projection (18; 118) can be moved beyond the ready position by displacement of the bearing projections (15; 115) in the axial direction of the holder body (3; 103) for its removal from the holding body (2; 102) through a slot (9; 109) which opens at the top in the holding body (2; 102).

6. A holding device according to one of claims 1 to 5, in which the holding body is part of a box-shaped receiving part which has a receiving area for the writing implement adjacent to the holder body and to which a lid part is articulated so as to be able to pivot between an open position and a closed position, characterised in that the axis (26) about which the lid part (22) can be pivoted runs parallel to the holder pivot axis (27) and is on the side of the holder pivot axis (27) which faces away from the receiving area for the writing implement (4), that an opening (25) is provided in the upper end region of the holder body (24) on the side facing the lid part (22), and that a projection (23) is provided on the lid part (22) in the plane containing the opening (25) and running perpendicular to the holder pivot axis (27), which projection, when the lid part (22) is closed, extends through the relevant opening (25) and the holder opening, engaged with the wall (32) of the holder body (24) facing the opening (25).

7. A holding device according to claim 6, characterised in that the opening consists of a recess (25) which opens at the top, that in the ready position the distance of the base (31) of the recess (25) from the axis (26) of the lid part (22) is shorter than the distance between said axis (26) and the surface section (28'), which faces it and adjoins the base (31) of the recess (25), of the projection (23) which is engaged with the opposite holder wall (32), and also greater than the distance of the end region (29, 30) of the projection (23) which is engaged with the opposite holder wall (32), and that in the operating position the distance of the base (31) of the recess (25) from the axis (26) of the lid (22) is shorter than the distance of the surface (28) of the projection (23) facing the axis (26) from the latter.

8. A holding device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterised in that several holder bodies (3, 3', 3", 3"'; 24) are provided in the holding body (2) which can be pivoted independently of each other about a common holder pivot axis (26).

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