JPH08245084A - Hose winder bracket for air tower - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To cope with poles of different cross-sectional form with the same bracket by disposing a second holding plate opposedly to a first holding plate coming into contact with the peripheral surface of the pole of an air tower, through a clamping member, and forming the second clamping member in such a way as to be reversible and refittable. CONSTITUTION: A bracket for fitting a hose winder C is composed of a first pinching plate 3 coming in contact with the peripheral surface of a pole 1, a winder fitting plate 4 connected to the side edge of the first pinching plate 3, a second pinching plate 5 for holding the pole 1 opposedly to the first plate 3, and a clamping member 6 for narrowing a space between the first plate 3 and the second plate 5. At the time of fitting the bracket B, the second plate 5 is reversed inside out according to the cross-sectional form of the pole 1 of an air tower A so as to change the shape of a part correspondingly coming in contact with the peripheral surface of the pole 1. The bracket B can thereby be fitted positively even in the case of the cross-sectional form of the pole 1 being cylindrical, rectangular or square.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a winder for winding an air injection hose connected to an air tower (a device for injecting air into automobile tires) installed at a gas station. Bracket related.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An air tower installed at a gas station has a meter section for measuring pressure attached to the upper part of a pole fixed upright on the ground, and a hose equipped with an air chuck is connected to its tip. The hose is processed by bundling and hooking it on a pole or a hook attached to the outside of the meter section. However, in order to handle the hose by hooking it, a troublesome work of bundling the hose is required, so that it is common that the hose is hooked messy, and as a result, the hose has a problem that it is easily damaged. .

[0003]

As a means for solving such a problem, it is conceivable to wind a hose around a winder. In this case, the winder is fixed to a pole or the like of an air tower via a bracket. Is easy to handle and convenient. However, there are three types of pole shapes (cross-sectional shapes) of the above-mentioned air towers: "circular tube", "regular square tube", and "rectangular tube", and a special bracket is provided for each pole having a different cross-sectional shape. Creating is very expensive.

For this reason, in spite of the advantages of using a hose winder in the past, it has been hardly used due to the problem of the mounting bracket. And it is in the state using the hook attached to the old pole.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a winder capable of accommodating poles having different cross-sectional shapes with the same bracket. It is to provide a mounting bracket.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a technical measure taken by the present invention is to provide a winder mounting plate on a side edge of a first holding plate abutting on an outer peripheral surface of a pole of an air tower. Connected, and a second holding plate is disposed opposite to the first holding plate via a fastening member, and the second holding plate is provided with inner and outer sides on which the pole abuts on the inner and outer sides so that the second holding plate can be reversed and replaced. An arc having a predetermined curvature is cut out in a side of the first holding plate facing the pole, one of the inner and outer contact surfaces of the second holding plate is a flat surface portion, and the other is an arc surface.

The first holding plate and the second holding plate are made of a metal plate, a hard synthetic resin plate, or the like, and have a substantially U-shaped cross section having upper and lower portions having contact sides that contact the outer peripheral surface of the pole. . Further, a flat U-shaped bolt or a general straight bolt is used as a fastening member for arranging the second holding plate so as to face the first holding plate. Further, the hose winder mounted on the winder mounting plate connected to the first holding plate may be either a manual winder or an electric winder.

[0008]

According to the above means, the pole of the air tower is sandwiched between the first holding plate and the second holding plate which are opposed to each other, and the first holding plate and the second holding plate are fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the pole by tightening the fastening member. The holding plate is fixed, whereby the winding machine is mounted on the winding machine mounting plate connected to the first holding plate, so that the hose winding machine is integrally mounted on the pole. Moreover, since the arc is cut out at the center of the contact side facing the pole in the first holding plate, and the straight sides are formed on both sides of the arc, the first cross-sectional shape of the pole is the first. If the pole is sandwiched between the arc of the sandwiching plate and the side of the arc of the second sandwiching plate, and the cross-sectional shape of the pole is a square or a rectangle, the second sandwiching plate is
The outer side is turned over so that the straight side faces the pole, and is clamped between the straight portions on both sides of the arc of the first holding plate and the straight side of the inverted second holding plate, and fixed by tightening the tightening member.

When the winder mounting plate connected to the first sandwiching plate has a hinge structure and can swing freely, the hose can be smoothly rotated in the pulling-out direction of the hose to be smoothly fed out. Furthermore, when a coil spring is attached to the above-mentioned hinge structure, the winder mounting plate is urged in a predetermined direction by the coil spring, whereby the winder that has swung and swung is removed of the load. It is rotated in the biasing direction of the coil spring, and is automatically returned to a predetermined position (origin position).

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. A is an air tower installed upright at a gas station, and a meter section 2 is provided at the upper end of a pole 1 having a circular cross section. A hose winder C is integrally attached to the pole 1 of the air tower A via a bracket B as is well known today.

Bracket B for mounting hose winder C
Is a first holding plate 3 that abuts the outer peripheral surface of the pole 1, a winder mounting plate 4 connected to the side edge of the first holding plate 3, and a pole 1 facing the first holding plate 3. The second holding plate 5 for holding the first holding plate 3 and the second holding plate 3 and the second holding plate 5 for tightening the second holding plate 5 for holding the second holding plate 5 therebetween. Then, it can be attached to the tightening member 6.

The first holding plate 3 for holding the pole 1 is formed by bending a rectangular metal flat plate into a substantially U-shaped side surface to form holding sides 301 and 302 projecting vertically and horizontally at upper and lower portions. The end surfaces of the holding sides 301 and 302 facing the outer peripheral surface of the pole 1 are cut off at the center thereof with the curvature of the cylindrical pole 1 except for the straight portions 304 on both sides in the width direction to form an arc surface 303. In addition, a circular pin receiver 305 is formed on the upper and lower portions of one side edge of the first holding plate 3 in the width direction, and the pin receiver 305 has a center line on which one side edge of the winder mounting plate 4 is attached. Match the pin receivers 401 formed in the same configuration to the upper and lower parts, insert the pin 7 between both the pin receivers 305 and 401, and the winder mounting plate 4 swings with a hinge structure (hinge structure). It is rotatably connected. Further, a rib 306 is attached to the flat portion of the first holding plate 3 to reinforce strength against bending and the like, and U-shaped bolts 601 constituting the fastening member 6 are inserted through four corners of the flat portion. 308 is opened.

The winder mounting plate 4 to which the hose winder C is mounted is a rectangular metal flat plate, and has a pin receiver which is connected to the first holding plate 3 by the hinge structure at one side edge in the width direction as described above. 401 is provided in the upper and lower portions, and ribs 402 are formed in the same body on the upper and lower parts of the flat plate portion, so that even if the winder C is fixedly attached to the attachment plate with the screw 8, it is attached to the winder attachment plate 4. It is reinforced to prevent bending and warping. or,
A stopper 403 is formed between the upper and lower pin receivers 401 of the winder mounting plate 4, and the stopper 403 is in contact with the stopper 307 provided between the upper and lower pin receivers 305 of the first holding plate 3. By attaching the winder mounting plate 4
Is configured such that the swing range of the swing of the camera is restricted.
Further, the return coil spring 9 is wound around the pin 7 inserted between the pin receiver 305 of the first holding plate 3 and the pin receiver 401 of the winder mounting plate 4, and the end of the coil spring 9 is The winder mounting plate 4 is attached so as to urge the stoppers 307 and 403 in the direction in which the stoppers 307 and 403 collide with each other (a position where the first holding plate 3 and the winder mounting plate 4 are aligned). There is. The winding machine C is attached to the winding machine mounting plate 4 by fixing a metal plate 10 having a screw hole inside the case of the winding machine C, and attaching the winding machine C to the screw hole of the metal plate 10. Screws 8 are screwed in from the outside of the mounting plate 4 and fixed.

The second holding plate 5 disposed opposite to the first holding plate 3 is formed by bending a rectangular metal flat plate into a substantially U-shaped side surface in the same manner as the first holding plate 3 so as to be horizontal at the top and bottom. Nipping sides 501 and 502 projecting at right angles are formed, and the upper and lower nipping sides 501 and 502 are notched at the center in the width direction at the curvature of the cylindrical pole 1 at the end faces facing the outer peripheral surface of the pole 1. An arc surface 503 is formed, and both corners of the arc surface 503 are formed in a mountain shape. On the other side of the second holding plate 5 opposite to the side where the upper and lower holding sides 501 and 502 protrude, a flat surface portion 504 is provided, and the flat surface portion 504 has the holding edges 501 and 5.
The ribs 506 are attached in the direction of the protrusion of 02 to reinforce the strength against bending and the like. Further, through-holes 505 through which U-shaped bolts 601 constituting the fastening member 6 are inserted are formed at the four corners of the flat surface portion 504. Have been.

The tightening member 6 for connecting the second sandwiching plate 5 arranged so as to face the first sandwiching plate 3 and for sandwiching the pole 1 by narrowing the gap between the two is formed in a substantially U-shape in plan view. It is composed of a U-shaped bolt 601 and a nut 602 that is screwed into the threaded portions of the rods on both sides of the U-shaped bolt 601, and the U-shaped bolt 601 is inserted from the flat surface portion 504 side of the second holding plate 5.
The U-shaped bolt 601 is inserted into the through hole 308 of the first holding plate 3 across the pole 1, and the nut 602 is screwed from outside to hold the pole 1.

The mounting of the bracket B is performed by reversing the inside of the second holding plate 5 as a constituent member of the pole 1 of the air tower A in accordance with the cross-sectional shape of the pole 1 to change the shape of the portion corresponding to the outer peripheral surface of the pole 1. Try to change. That is, when the cross-sectional shape of the pole 1 is a square, as shown in FIG. 4, the second holding plate 5 mounted on the fastening member 6 is mounted with the inside and outside reversed, and the flat surface portion of the second holding plate 5 is mounted. The 504 faces the pole 1. As a result, the square pole 1 is firmly clamped by the straight portions 304 on both sides of the circular arc surface 303 of the first clamping plate 3 and the flat surface portions 504 of the second clamping plate 5, and as a result, the bracket B is securely fixed to the pole 1. It is attached. When the pole 1 has a rectangular cross-sectional shape, it can be firmly sandwiched by sandwiching it in the same manner as in the case of the regular square pole described above, but of course the second sandwiching plate 5 as in the case of the embodiment shown above. Is the arc surface 503 side facing the pole side,
It is also possible to clamp the rectangular pole 1 at both corners of the straight portion 304 of the first clamping plate 3 and the arc surface 503 of the second clamping plate 5.

[0017]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the bracket for the winder hose winder of the air tower can be securely mounted even if the cross section of the pole of the air tower is a circular cylinder, a rectangle or a square. And, when the winder mounting plate connected to the bracket for holding the pawl is swingable by a hinge structure as described in claim 2,
The winder can be smoothly rotated in the direction in which the hose is pulled out, and the hose can be prevented from being twisted. Further, when the return coil spring is attached to the hinge structure as described in claim 3, the winder mounting plate is always urged in the direction of the predetermined position by the spring force of the return coil spring,
Therefore, the winder is held at a predetermined position without swinging.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state in which a winder is attached to an air tower via a bracket according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional plan view taken along the line (2)-(2) of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway plan view showing a state where a bracket is attached to a square pole.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A ... Air tower B ... Bracket C ... Hose winding machine 1 ... Pole 3 ... First holding plate 4 ... Winding machine mounting plate 5 ... Second holding plate 6 ... Clamping member 9 ... Return coil spring

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A winder mounting plate is connected to a side edge of a first sandwiching plate that abuts an outer peripheral surface of a pole of an air tower, and a second sandwiching plate is arranged to face the first sandwiching plate via a tightening member. In addition, the second holding plate has a side in contact with the pole
It is provided on both outer sides to make it reversible and replaceable. Further, an arc of a predetermined curvature is cut out on a side of the first holding plate facing the pole,
A bracket for a hose winder of an air tower, wherein one of the inner and outer contact surfaces of the second holding plate is a flat surface portion and the other is a circular arc surface. 2. The air winder hose winder bracket according to claim 1, wherein said winder mounting plate is hingedly mounted to said first holding plate in a hinge structure. 3. A hose winding device for an air tower according to claim 2, wherein a return coil spring is attached to the hinge structure of the winder mounting plate and the first holding plate and is biased in a predetermined direction. Bracket for the machine.