EP0476517A1 - Haltevorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0476517A1
EP0476517A1 EP91115449A EP91115449A EP0476517A1 EP 0476517 A1 EP0476517 A1 EP 0476517A1 EP 91115449 A EP91115449 A EP 91115449A EP 91115449 A EP91115449 A EP 91115449A EP 0476517 A1 EP0476517 A1 EP 0476517A1
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strap
support
coupling element
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Antony George Stead
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AGRIFRAMES LIMITED
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G7/00—Flower holders or the like
    • A47G7/02—Devices for supporting flower-pots or cut flowers
    • A47G7/04—Flower tables; Stands or hangers, e.g. baskets, for flowers
    • A47G7/044—Hanging flower-pot holders, e.g. mounted on walls, balcony fences or the like

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  • THIS INVENTION relates to a holding device, particularly for securing a plant pot holder removably to a beam.
  • My British patent 2146233 describes a plant pot holding bracket in the form of a flattened strap-like coil of resilient material the two ends of the coil overlapping, the outermost end of the coil being provided with a hole so that a screw attaches the bracket to a vertical surface so that the coil protrudes horizontally, into which a plant pot of a suitable size to cause it to fit snugly into the coil can be inserted from above.
  • a device suitable for securing one or more objects such as plant pot holders removably to a beam-like support comprises: a strap or strap assembly including other straps or strap extension pieces at least sufficient in length to embrace the support; means to tighten the strap about the support; and at least one coupling element having means to cooperate with said strap or assembly and with said object(s).
  • the invention provides the combination of the device with one or more plant pot holders especially of the type in the form of a flattened strap-like coil of resilient material. It provides further a garden comprising a framework carrying a plurality of said combinations.
  • the invention provides the straps and the coupling units as herein described.
  • the device is also useful for supporting other objects, for example lamps, notices, surveillance means and containers such as rubbish bins.
  • Preferred forms of the invention take account of the special requirements of supporting plant pot holders. For example whereas a plant and its soil may not be heavy when first installed, the plant becomes heavier with growth and the soil with watering. As the stems of the plant lengthen, they will tend to lean over from vertical and interfere with those of neighbouring plants; this is especially noticeable when it is desired to support several plant pot holders side-by-side to the same vertical beam. Therefore the device preferably has at least one of the following features:
  • the device preferably includes other features affording strength and convenience in use, as will appear from the ensuing description. Provision of a downward extension of the coupling unit, and/or positioning the linkage to the object below the linkage to the strap, is particularly advantageous.
  • the strap is formed with a rack of teeth preferably upstanding from its surface and the tightening means includes a make screw engageable therewith in a worm-and-rack mechanism.
  • the rack preferably occupies an axial portion of the strap, for example one-third to two thirds of its width, and the outer portions of the strap are smooth.
  • the face of the teeth is preferably concave.
  • the teeth are preferably formed on the full thickness of the strap.
  • the strap is formed with a bearing which houses the male screw and includes a guide channel for the strap.
  • the guide channel preferably is profiled to relate to the upper and lower surfaces and edges of the strap and also to the sides of the rack.
  • the bearing is preferably blind. It may be formed with an axial hole through which a tether for the screw may be inserted.
  • the bearing is moulded integrally thereon.
  • the male screw is preferably actuated by a butterfly nut which may, if desired, be separable therefrom and couplable by for example a spigot and socket mechanism.
  • Actuation by butterfly nut is especially convenient in horticulture since it makes it unnecessary to use a tool, which might require more than two hands, an inconvenience and possible hazard if attempted from a latter.
  • the make screw may be formed with one or more sockets for engagement with the butterfly or other tool, and the socket and tool profiles may be designed to be uncommon, so as to make unauthorised removal of the device more difficult.
  • the male screw may be cylindrical, it is preferably tapered inwardly from its actuation end whereby its axis is angled to the plane of the rack 10 and the bearing is correspondingly tapered. Its maximum diameter is suitably between 1.25 and 3.0 times its minimum diameter over 6 pitches and the ratio is correspondingly less over a smaller number of pitches.
  • a tapered screw has an apparent disadvantage in that it cannot engage fully with the concave-faced rack teeth, when these are all equal in concavity; however, the tapered screw has the advantage that its axis is extra-tangential to the circle of the closed strap. Therefore the span of the butterfly nut can be greater than that of a tangential-axis screw as shown for example in figures 1 - 3 herein, and the purchase applied to it by fingers can be greater.
  • a further advantage is evident in assembling the device about a support, in that, after pulling the strap through the guide channel and hand-tightening, there is substantially no slip-back on insertion of the screws.
  • the strap may be formed integrally with at least one said coupling element, for example moulded thereon. However, for some uses it is more convenient that the strap and coupling elements be separable. This can be provided for by a linkage to the strap, such as a buckle through which the strap passes. There may be locating means such as guide holes or grooves. Each coupling element is typically slidable on the strap when not tightened. Alternatively the linkage may be a flat hook or plurality of hooks over and/or under the strap. There may be a frictional or mordant coupling. These arrangements apply equally to strap extension pieces. The effect of such a buckle or flat hook or plurality of hooks is to engage the coupling element with the strap over a sufficient circumferential length to limit circumferential swing of a secured object.
  • the device is applicable particularly in the following situations:
  • strap 10 is formed with female end 12 on which is mounted bearing block 14 in which operates worm 16 actuated by butterfly 18; and male end 20 which is slotted obliquely at 22 (see figure 3).
  • Bearing block 14 is distanced from strap 10 sufficiently to provide a guide channel affording a sliding fit of male end 20 and engagement of rack slots 22 with worm 16.
  • coupling elements 24 are formed with projections 32 to enhance tightening about the beam.
  • strap 110 has female end 112 and male end 120.
  • Female end 112 carries blind bearing 114 in which is to operate conical screw 116 to be described.
  • strap 110 is formed with a rack 123 of upstanding broad teeth (of which only 4 are shown) angled to its axis.
  • Blind bearing 114 is distanced from strap 110 by channel 115 permitting a sliding fit of the strap and guiding it by relation to its surfaces and edges and the side of rack 123 for engagement of the teeth thereof with the thread of tapered screw 116.
  • the female end 112 of strap 110 may be formed with ribs to bridge the curvature of the support to which the strap is applied and thus ensure that rack 123 lies substantially flat when in engagement with screw 116.
  • strap 110 is to carry coupling elements 125 to be described.
  • tapered screw 116 is formed with a thread profiled to engage with rack 123 on strap 110.
  • male end 120 thereof is led about a support and through channel 115 until rack 123 appears in blind bearing 114, then pulled through until hand-tight; now tapered screw 116 is inserted into blind bearing 114 - this involves substantially no slide-back of strap 110 - and turned by means of butterfly 118 until strap 110 is sufficiently tight about the support.
  • Tapered screw 116 may be left in position, but alternatively, if desired, the male end 120 of strap 110 may be secured externally by any suitable means such as a pawl or wedge. Tapered screw 116 is then available to tighten another strap.
  • butterfly 118 may be separable from screw 116 but engageable with its threaded portion e.g. by spigot and socket, possibly with uncommon profile to inhibit tampering. If screw is to be tethered, it may be formed at its thread end with a thin axial rod terminating in a swelling and insertable through an axial hole in blind bearing 114.
  • coupling element 125 includes a dovetail recess similar to that shown in figures 1 and 2, that is, wider at the top 126 than at the bottom 128 and having jaws 130. However, it now includes also back plate 140 having a buckle portion 142 which, when in use, is positioned upwards of the recess portion. Back plate 140 is at 144 profiled concavely or ribbed in the same sense as the contour of a cylindrical support to which the device is likely to be secured. Buckle portion 142 is formed with openings 146 separated by crossbar 148. Coupling elements 125 are applied to strap 110 by leading the male end of strap 110 through openings 146, then through space 115 as described in the preceding paragraph.
  • crossbar 148 is disposed behind the plane of buckle portion 142 and thus strap 110 lies in front of it and the weight of the coupling element and anything supported by it is carried by crossbar 148. It is likewise possible for strap 110 to be disposed forward of the plane of buckle portion 142, so that strap 110 lies in front of the outer bars 150 of buckle portion 142; this arrangement can carry a greater weight, provided the concavity or ribbing at 144 bridges the curvature of the support to which the strap is to be applied. In either such arrangement the buckle could be at the same level as the strap, provided the back plate includes a downward extension to bear on the support. Disposing the recess portion downwards of the buckle portion, or downwardly extending the back plate, limits the extent to which the weight of an object secured by my device can pull the upper edge of strap 110 away from the support.
  • the recess portion of coupling unit 125 can be angled appropriately to the buckle portion 142 thereof.
  • the coupling element will be generally tangential to the support and will preferably be displaced or formed with an extension in a generally tangential direction from the point of its attachment to the strap, with in either case preferably a perpendicular extension reaching back onto the strap.
  • a suitable coupling element is based on figure 4 with its buckle crossbar turned through one right angle. If the object is to be held in the upper or lower quadrant of a horizontal support, the recess portion can be angled with a radial component to the surface of the support. If the device is to be used for an oblique support, the two portions of coupling element 125 can be at an appropriate angle. The two portions of coupling unit 125 could be mutually swivellable.
  • the coupling units could be formed with male members cooperative with female recesses formed on the object to be secured.
  • Other coupling means could be used.
  • the coupling element whether integral or separable, may be formed with a slot which the loose end of the strap may be retained after tightening.
  • each strap could consist of a part having two female ends joined by a part having two male ends.
  • the strap of the device is preferably made of a plastics material that is sufficiently flexible to be tightened about the profile of the intended support, yet sufficiently rigid and tough for a screw tightening mechanism.
  • a hard plastic material could be used for the screw and a softer plastic for the couplings, if the beam is substantially non-circular in cross-section.
  • Suitable plastics materials include crystalline polymers such as polypropylene, nylon, polyethyleneterephthalate, cellulose acetate, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene and acetal resin, for example "DELRIN" (RTM).
  • RTM acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
  • plastics is advantageous in avoiding corrosion and in making the device available in a variety of colours, as well as facilitating repetition manufacture, in that the device or its parts can be made by injection-moulding.
  • Use of a crystalline polymer has the advantage that a whitening becomes visible at full tightening and thus enables over-tightening to be avoided.

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EP91115449A 1990-09-15 1991-09-12 Haltevorrichtung Expired - Lifetime EP0476517B1 (de)

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GB909020227A GB9020227D0 (en) 1990-09-15 1990-09-15 Holding device
GB9020227 1990-09-15
GB9102792 1991-02-09
GB919102792A GB9102792D0 (en) 1991-02-09 1991-02-09 Holding device

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GB2286966A (en) * 1994-02-28 1995-09-06 Antony George Stead Horticultural basket support
FR2765789A1 (fr) * 1997-07-11 1999-01-15 Bernard Nivet Dispositif de maintien pour pot et porte-pot de fleurs
EP1055363A3 (de) * 1999-05-27 2001-04-25 Elizabeth Ebanks Sharon Hängekorb mit Treibhäuschen
CN111802277A (zh) * 2019-04-12 2020-10-23 艾伦·温德林 用于杆件的挡板组件

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FR561607A (fr) * 1923-01-31 1923-10-25 Support extensible rendant les pots de fleurs inversables
US1793072A (en) * 1928-02-15 1931-02-17 Arthur E Fanan Flowerpot-lifting ring
US3193234A (en) * 1963-09-04 1965-07-06 Thurman Austin Flower pot hanger
US3311959A (en) * 1964-09-21 1967-04-04 Ideal Corp Screw-operated tightening devices
GB2056541A (en) * 1979-08-13 1981-03-18 Wilkin A Band clamps
GB2146233A (en) * 1983-09-12 1985-04-17 Anthony George Stead Plant pot holding bracket

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US4366937A (en) * 1979-05-10 1983-01-04 Heard Robert A H Device for mounting an object to a post
NZ195997A (en) * 1981-02-26 1985-11-08 M R Taylor Load securing strap with stirrup fastenings at each end

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR561607A (fr) * 1923-01-31 1923-10-25 Support extensible rendant les pots de fleurs inversables
US1793072A (en) * 1928-02-15 1931-02-17 Arthur E Fanan Flowerpot-lifting ring
US3193234A (en) * 1963-09-04 1965-07-06 Thurman Austin Flower pot hanger
US3311959A (en) * 1964-09-21 1967-04-04 Ideal Corp Screw-operated tightening devices
GB2056541A (en) * 1979-08-13 1981-03-18 Wilkin A Band clamps
GB2146233A (en) * 1983-09-12 1985-04-17 Anthony George Stead Plant pot holding bracket

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2286966A (en) * 1994-02-28 1995-09-06 Antony George Stead Horticultural basket support
FR2765789A1 (fr) * 1997-07-11 1999-01-15 Bernard Nivet Dispositif de maintien pour pot et porte-pot de fleurs
EP1055363A3 (de) * 1999-05-27 2001-04-25 Elizabeth Ebanks Sharon Hängekorb mit Treibhäuschen
CN111802277A (zh) * 2019-04-12 2020-10-23 艾伦·温德林 用于杆件的挡板组件

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AU647517B2 (en) 1994-03-24
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NZ239709A (en) 1994-08-26
EP0476517B1 (de) 1996-08-14
ATE141143T1 (de) 1996-08-15

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