EP1246713B1 - Einhändig bedienbare zange mit schnelleinstellung - Google Patents

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EP1246713B1
EP1246713B1 EP00964305A EP00964305A EP1246713B1 EP 1246713 B1 EP1246713 B1 EP 1246713B1 EP 00964305 A EP00964305 A EP 00964305A EP 00964305 A EP00964305 A EP 00964305A EP 1246713 B1 EP1246713 B1 EP 1246713B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B7/00—Pliers; Other hand-held gripping tools with jaws on pivoted limbs; Details applicable generally to pivoted-limb hand tools
    • B25B7/06—Joints
    • B25B7/10—Joints with adjustable fulcrum

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  • the present invention relates to a clamp Adjustable quick approach, manipulable with one hand, next the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention aims to provide an adjustable clamp fast approach that reconciles the benefits of both types above, that is, which, at the same time, is manipulated with one hand and memorizes the point articulation after adjustment.
  • the subject of the invention is a gripper of aforementioned type, characterized by the characterizing part of the claim 1.
  • the clip according to the invention may comprise one or several of the features of claims 2 to 19, singly or in any combination technically possible.
  • Each of the cheeks 3 and 4 has a front portion jaw holder 20, an intermediate hinge region 21, a rearward gripping region 22 and, between the latter and region 21, a rear support region 23 for the branch 8.
  • the two rear regions 22 form the fixed handle or lower part of the forceps.
  • Region 21 is arched and has a light 24 itself arcuate whose upper surface 25 is smooth and whose lower surface 26 is toothed and forms a curved rack.
  • the upper surfaces 27 and lower 28 of the region 21 as well as the surfaces 25 and 26 define four concentric arcs of which the center O ( Figure 3) is virtual and is clearly at outside and above the contour of the tool.
  • Region 23 is pierced by a rectilinear light 29 substantially directed towards the point O.
  • the upper jaw 5 has a rear heel 30 which is positioned, thanks to a light 31A and a shoulder 31B, on interior reliefs 32A and on a surface lower 32B of the front parts 20 of the cheeks 3 and 4, as described in FR-A-2 753 644.
  • the spacer 6 is positioned, thanks to reliefs not shown, between the lower part of the two regions 23 and between the two rear regions 22.
  • the spacer 6 has an upper recess 34 in its intermediate part for the lower support of the spring 18.
  • the slider 17 carries on each side a relief 35 of elongated shape adapted to be guided in the adjacent light 29.
  • the branch entered 8 also includes, from its jaw 9, an intermediate region articulation 36, a rear support region 37 and a rear gripping region 38 forming a handle.
  • a recess 41 is provided in the rear face of the notch 39, while the front face of this notch has a boss 41A at the entrance of the notch.
  • the rear support region 37 has a surface upper 42 substantially rectilinear, and its rear portion has an arcuate active lower surface 43, substantially in the shape of an arc of a circle, whose center of Curvature is virtual and located clearly outside and above the contour of the tool. This center can be confused with the aforementioned point O, or a neighbor of it in the different positions of branch 8 during the phase approach described below.
  • the carriage 11 is a single piece having the general shape of a U to which is attached a support washer 44.
  • Each wing of the U has a recess 45 substantially in three quarters of circle, these recesses being coaxial and of the same radius as the recess 40 of the branch 8.
  • the upper surfaces 46 (which extends the entire length of the carriage) and lower 47 (which extends only to the front of the recesses 45) of the U are arcuate in radii equal to those of the surfaces 25 and 26, respectively, lights 24.
  • the washer 44 is provided on one wing of the U, while the other wing carries a outer relief 48 dovetail crossed by the adjacent recess 45.
  • the finger 12 is in the form of a plate perpendicular to branches 2 and 8 and whose surface lower is toothed at 49 at its rear end.
  • the front end of the finger forms a cylindrical bead 50 adapted to be pivotally received in the three recesses 40 and 45, which together form a landing.
  • each wing of the U of the carriage is then guided in a light 24.
  • the longitudinal displacement of the mobile branch 8 is guided by the only cooperation of the wings of the carriage 11 and lights 24.
  • the finger 12, which has a freedom of limited clearance around the axis A of the recesses 40 and 45, is requested by the spring 13 so as to be normally engaged by its teeth 49 in the racks 26.
  • the axis A defines a fixed axis of articulation of branch 8 with respect to branch 2. Because of the permanent solicitation of the two jaws at the spacing exerted by the spring 16, the position of the axis A is maintained firmly, and the tool is used like a conventional forceps, up to a predetermined degree of angular opening of the two branches. Repetitive input / release operations of an object B can therefore be performed without fatigue.
  • clamping force at the level of the region of articulation, exerted only by compression longitudinal finger 12 between the racks 26 of the branch 2 on the one hand, the bottom of the recess 40 of the branch 8 on the other hand, without any effort being exerted on the carriage 11.
  • This can therefore be made in one light material, for example plastic.
  • the two handles are one from the other.
  • the surface 43 of the branch 8 comes into contact with the slider 17. This is maintained in the high position, with stop of its reliefs 35 to the upper end of the lights 29, by the spring 18, which has a relatively high stiffness.
  • the geometry of pieces is such that the continuation of the effort of approaching the handles causes the sliding of the surface 43 on the slider and, simultaneously, the sliding forward of the carriage 11 in the lights 24.
  • the carriage 11 and the slider 17 form together a cradle that guides the branch 8 forward following a substantially circular motion of center O.
  • the mobile branch is guided laterally, at the rear, by cooperation of his region 37 and cheeks 3 and 4.
  • the finger ratchet, and it engages with the teeth 26 as soon as that the movement ceases.
  • the normals N1, N2 at the contact points of the front guide surface 25 and the support surface 43 form an angle V slightly less than 90 ° or, in variant, substantially equal to this value, whose peak is directed towards the side of the branches opposite the jaws, that is, upwards.
  • the outer surface of the upper handle is externally convex, and the lower handle has a front recess 56 receiving the index or major ( Figure 8).
  • the outer surface of the bottom handle can be concave.
  • FIGS 10 and 11 schematically represent a another embodiment of the clamp according to the invention. This variant differs essentially from the previous one by the front and rear guide means of the branch crossed 8.
  • the lights 24 are rectilinear, as in conventional rack-and-pinion clamps; the cart 11 is deleted, and finger 12 is simply mounted freely rotating on a pin 57 secured to the branch 8.
  • the slider 17 is replaced by a arm 117 that runs through the space just in front of two handles.
  • the lower end of this arm is pressed by a spring 118 of relatively high stiffness, following branch 2, against a stop 58 in solidarity with this branch.
  • the upper extremity of the arm 117 has a transverse nipple 59 whose ends are received in guide lights 60 of the cheeks 3 and 4. These 60 lights have an S shape, with a top region 61 in an arc centered in 57, an oblique shoulder intermediate 62 and an extension down 63, offset forward relative to region 61.
  • the spring 16 for spacing the jaws is stretched roughly perpendicular to the direction the two branches, so as to solicit both branches and tend to spread the bits of one another.
  • This spring is judiciously oriented in relation to the lights and to the branches to permanently solicit the finger in engagement in the teeth 26.
  • the dead race of the nipple 59 in the part 61 of the lights 60 allows to use the tool as a classic forceps, as previously, that is to say to open the jaws without changing position of articulation, the finger remaining in racks.
  • the dead race is limited, on the one hand, by the upper end of the light 60, on the other hand, by the intermediate oblique shoulder 62. It allows a repetitive play without change of point hinge.
  • the counter 64 then comes into contact on the face back of the middle part of branch 2 and becomes a center of rotation of the branch 8, which tilts until the teeth 49 emerge from the teeth 26.
  • the nipple 59 continues its course following the lower portion 63 of the light 60.
  • the spring 16 by its adapted orientation, departs then the jaws to their maximum open position.
  • the arm 117 behaves like a arm articulated by its lower end on the branch 2, so that the pin 59, abutting the top of the light 60, moves in a substantially circular motion, by compressing the spring 118 more and more, while the pawn 57 moves forward along the lights 24 into clicking the finger.

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  1. Einstellbare, einhandbetätigbare Zange mit zwei sich kreuzenden Armen (2, 8,) von denen jeder eine Backe (5, 9) und einen Griff (22, 38) bildet und jeder Arm einen mittleren Gelenkbereich (21, 36) aufweist, der zwischen seiner Backe und seinem Griff liegt,
       wobei ein erster Arm (2) in seinem mittleren Bereich (21) einerseits eine vordere Führungsfläche (25) von länglicher Form bildet, längs der sich ein Führungsmittel (11) bewegen kann, das mit dem mittleren Bereich des zweiten Armes (8) verbunden ist, und andererseits eine Gelenkfläche (26), längs der sich ein Gelenkmittel (12) positionieren kann, wobei die Zange hintere Führungsmittel (17, 43; 59, 61) des zweiten Armes aufweist, die zwischen dem mittleren Bereich (36) und dem Griff (38) dieses zweiten Armes liegen und dazu ausgebildet sind, als Reaktion auf eine die beiden Griffe einander annähernden Kraft (F) eine Bewegung des Gelenkmittels (12) in Richtung auf den vorderen Teil der Gelenkfläche (26) zu bewirken,
       dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Gelenkmittel (12) gegen einen Abstützpunkt (54) der Gelenkfläche vorgespannt und normalerweise mit dieser -in Eingriff ist.
  2. Zange nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die vordere Führungsfläche (25) und die Gelenkfläche (26) bogenförmig gekrümmt sind und daß das Gelenkmittel (12) sich an einem Punkt (53) des zweiten Armes (8) abstützt, der in Längsrichtung längs dieser Flächen in bezug auf den genannten Abstützpunkt (54) versetzt ist.
  3. Zange nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Gelenkmittel (12) sich unter der Spannwirkung der Zange direkt an den beiden Armen (2, 8) abstützt.
  4. Zange nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Führungsfläche (25) und die Gelenkfläche (26) parallel sind.
  5. Zange nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die hinteren Führungsmittel einerseits ein Stützelement (17) eines Armes aufweisen und andererseits durch eine längliche Stützfläche (43) des anderen Armes, die dazu ausgebildet ist, mit diesem Stützelement in gegenseitiger. längs der Stützfläche beweglicher Anlage zusammenzuwirken,
       wobei die Anordnung so ist, daß während der Schließphase der Zange in jeder Position der Arme simultan eine Relativbewegung des vorderen Führungsmittels (11) längs der Führungsfläche (25) und eine Relativbewegung des Stützelements (17) längs der Stützfläche (43) stattfindet.
  6. Zange nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Stützfläche (43) und das Stützelement (17) während der Schließphase der Zange beide in im wesentlichen festen Positionen in bezug auf die jeweiligen Arme (8, 2) bleiben.
  7. Zange nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in allen Annährungspositionen der Arme die Lote (N1, N2) auf Berührungspunkte der vorderen Führungsfläche (25) und der Abstützfläche (43; 61) ein V bilden, dessen Spitze zu der Seite der Arme gerichtet ist, die den Backen entgegengesetzt ist.
  8. Zange nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Winkel des V etwas kleiner als 90°, insbesondere im wesentlichen gleich 90° ist.
  9. Zange nach Anspruch 7 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die hintere Stützfläche (43) bogenförmig gekrümmt ist, mit einem virtuellen Krümmungsmittelpunkt, der außerhalb des globalen Umrisses der Gesamtheit der Arme (2, 8) und auf der Seite der hinteren Stützfläche liegt, die den Backen (5, 9) entgegengesetzt ist.
  10. Zange nach den Ansprüchen 2 und 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Krümmungsmittelpunkte der vorderen Führungsfläche (25) und der hinteren Stützfläche (23) einander in allen Annährungspositionen der Arme (2, 8) benachbart sind und gegebenenfalls zusammenfallen.
  11. Zange nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß mindestens eine der genannten Oberflächen (25, 26; 43) ein kreisförmiges Profil hat.
  12. Zange nach Anspruch 5 oder einem der davon abhängigen Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die hintere Stützfläche (43) in einfacher Anlage mit dem Stützelement (17) zusammenwirkt und sich von diesem Element entfernen kann, um die Zange in jeder durch das Gelenkmittel (12) gegebenen Position längs der Gelenkfläche (26) zu öffnen.
  13. Zange nach Anspruch 5 oder einem der davon abhängigen Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Gelenkfläche (26) und das Gelenkmittel (12) gezahnt sind und daß das Stützelement (17) durch eine Feder (18) in Richtung auf die Stützfläche (43) und eine vorgegebene Anschlagposition vorgespannt ist.
  14. Zange nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die hinteren Führungsmittel (49, 61) eine Verbindung mit totem Gang aufweisen, die es gestattet, die Backen (5, 9) in jeder durch das Gelenkmittel (12) gegebenen Position längs der Gelenkfläche (26) um ein vorbestimmtes Maß zu öffnen.
  15. Zange nach Anspruch 14, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie an einem Arm (8) einen Anschlag (41A; 64) aufweist, der dazu ausgebildet ist, als Reaktion auf ein Öffnen der Backen (5, 9) über das genannte vorbestimmte Maß hinaus das Gelenkmittel (12) und die Gelenkfläche (26) zwangsweise voneinander zu lösen.
  16. Zange nach Anspruch 14 oder 15, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verbindung mit totem Gang zwischen einem Ende einer Stange (117) und dem zweiten Arm (8) gebildet ist, wobei das andere Ende der Stange längs des ersten Armes (2) beweglich und elastisch gegen einen Anschlag (58) desselben vorgespannt ist.
  17. Zange nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 16, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie eine Öffnungsfeder (16) aufweist, die die Tendenz hat, die beiden Backen (5. 9) dauerhaft voneinander zu lösen.
  18. Zange nach Anspruch 17, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Öffnungsfeder (16) eine Schraubenfeder ist, die bei der Spannwirkung der Zange durch die hintere Stützfläche (43) gebogen wird.
  19. Zange nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 18, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Gelenkorgan (12) ein Finger mit einem Endwulst (50) ist und daß das Führungsmittel (11) einen U-förmigen Schlitten aufweist, der längs der Führungsfläche (25) geführt ist, wobei jeder Schenkel des U sowie der zweite Arm (8) eine zum Teil kreisförmige offene Ausnehmung (40, 45) aufweisen und die drei Ausnehmungen miteinander ausgerichtet sind und zusammen ein Schwenklager für den Endwulst (50) bilden.
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