Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
  • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
  • B43K24/00—Mechanisms for selecting, projecting, retracting or locking writing units
  • B43K24/02—Mechanisms for selecting, projecting, retracting or locking writing units for locking a single writing unit in only fully projected or retracted positions
  • B43K24/06—Mechanisms for selecting, projecting, retracting or locking writing units for locking a single writing unit in only fully projected or retracted positions operated by turning means
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
  • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
  • B43K7/00—Ball-point pens
  • B43K7/12—Ball-point pens with retractable ball points
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
  • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
  • B43K8/00—Pens with writing-points other than nibs or balls
  • B43K8/24—Pens with writing-points other than nibs or balls characterised by the means for retracting writing-points
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
  • B43K—IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
  • B43K5/00—Pens with ink reservoirs in holders, e.g. fountain-pens
  • B43K5/16—Pens with ink reservoirs in holders, e.g. fountain-pens with retractable nibs

Definitions

• the invention relates to a portable writing device comprising a mobile writing means between two deployed and retracted positions.
• the invention relates to the field of handheld devices, comprising content usable on demand by the user, and preserved, when not in use, in a container ensuring both the safety of the user and that of the user. this content.
• One particular category relates to writing apparatus, such as pens, ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils, and the like.
• a small portable device such as a pen or the like
• DE 1296 02 851 A1 in the name of STAEDLER discloses a pen with a retractable tip in a body, and a rotary clip between two positions in which the body allows or prohibits the passage in the housing opening of this clip, and where the tip is respectively out of this body or retracted axially in this body.
• the document FR 2 413 224 A1 in the name of BATITEC describes a pen with an upper outer anterior element and a posterior outer element rotating relative to each other for the removal or the exit of a writing tip.
• a posterior internal element is constantly secured to the anterior external element and with a cartridge carrying the writing tip, and is provided with a longitudinal lug turned towards the posterior part of the pen, and capable of generating, by its rotation inside a housing formed in an element secured to the rear part of a fastening clip and subjected to action of a radial spring tending to pull this clip out of its seat, the radial displacement of this rear part. between a retracting position of the staple within the posterior outer member, and a position protruding from that member.
• EP 0 402 558 A1 in the name of MONGARDI discloses a pen with a tubular outer body, in which, at its two ends, a lower portion carrying a writing cartridge, and a top portion carrying a clip, slide synchronously and inversely, each in cooperation with a helical cam, during the relative maneuver of the upper part relative to the outer body.
• EP 1 884 374 A1 in the name of FIAT RICERCHE discloses a writing instrument with a tip supported in a fixed position in a body, and surrounded by a tip-cap member slidably mounted in the body and movable by means of an activation of a metal alloy element to shape memory, which constitutes means of actuation and passage between an open position and a closed position, between positions where the tip covers covers or discovers the writing tip.
• the invention proposes to provide a portable device for safety, use and easy implementation, designed for easy disassembly, with a simple and brief operation control of deployment or retraction of content, which also allows deploying or retracting at least one other component than this content.
• the invention relates to a portable writing device comprising a mobile writing means between two deployed and retracted positions, characterized in that said portable writing device comprises first means for transforming a pivoting movement. relative to first and second peripheral components in a longitudinal movement of said writing means, and second means for converting said relative pivoting into a substantially radial movement of at least one third movable component of said portable writing device, and in that it comprises a central crew containing said writing means, mobile only longitudinally with respect to an intermediate crew movable only longitudinally with respect to said first peripheral component, the end of said intermediate crew being set back or respectively outside of a front orifice of said first peripheral component in said extended or retracted position, characterized in that said central crew extends in a longitudinal direction in which it is only movable relative to said intermediate crew in which it is enclosed and which also extends in said direction, said intermediate crew being mobile only in said direction with respect to a front outer crew extending in said direction and constituting said first peripheral component, and in that said intermediate crew is, in said deployed position
• said central crew carries pivoting drive means of a mobile component that comprise said first movement transformation means, and constitutes a part of said second motion transformation means, to ensure a movement longitudinally of said synchronized intermediate crew with a substantially radial movement of said third component between the respective end positions of said intermediate crew and said third component.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic view in longitudinal sectional view of a portable writing device constituting a particular application of the invention, in a first service position corresponding to the deployment of its contents, constituted in this example by a cartridge writing;
• FIG. 2 represents, in a similar manner to FIG. 1, the same writing device, in a second position corresponding to the retraction of its contents;
• FIG. 1 are marked the fields corresponding to the details illustrated successively, from a so-called front end of the apparatus to a so-called rear end of the apparatus, in FIGS. 3 to 8;
• FIGS. 9 to 14 are marked the fields corresponding to the details illustrated successively, from a so-called front end of the apparatus to a so-called rear end of the apparatus, in FIGS. 9 to 14;
• FIG. 15 schematically shows, in four views 15A, 15B, 15C, 15D, a closure plug comprising two guide screeds, one for guiding a carriage for radial operation of a staple, and the other for the orientation of a tie,;
• Figure 16 shows the operating carriage, schematically, in two views 16A, 16B;
• Figure 17 shows this tie schematically in two views 17A, 17B.
• the invention relates to a portable instrument, retractably enclosing at least one internal content, such as a writing means, a lighting means, a tool, a blade, a key, an identification means, a means measuring, a sensor, or other.
• This portable instrument comprises a container in at least two peripheral parts movable relative to each other, able to contain the content safely for both the user and for this content.
• the invention describes the particular application, not limiting, to writing devices, such as pens, ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils, and the like.
• the invention relates to a portable writing device
• this portable writing device 1000 comprises first means of transforming a relative pivoting movement applied to a first peripheral component 300 and a second peripheral component 400, which it comprises both. , in a longitudinal movement of this writing means 500, and / or second transformation means of the same relative pivoting in a substantially radial movement of at least one third mobile component 600 that still includes the portable writing device 1000 .
• the portable writing device 1000 comprises a central crew 100 containing this writing means 500.
• This central crew 100 extends in a longitudinal direction D, and is movable only longitudinally, along the same longitudinal direction D, with respect to an intermediate crew 200 that includes the portable writing device 1000.
• This intermediate crew 200 extends in the longitudinal direction D, is movable only longitudinally, along the same longitudinal direction D, relative to the first peripheral component 300.
• This intermediate crew 200 is set back or apart from this first peripheral component 300 in the deployed position or the retracted position, respectively.
• the central crew 100, the intermediate crew 200, the first peripheral component 300 and said writing means 500 are coaxial about a pivot axis A parallel to the longitudinal direction D.
• both the central crew 100, the intermediate crew 200, the first peripheral component 300, the second peripheral component 400 and the writing means 500 are coaxial around this pivot axis A.
• the portable writing device 1000 comprises first means for transforming a relative pivoting movement applied to a first 300 and a second peripheral component 400 of this portable writing device 1000, in a longitudinal movement of this writing means 500, and / or in a substantially radial movement of at least one third mobile component 600 of this portable writing device 1000.
• the central crew 100 is enclosed in the intermediate crew 200, and the first peripheral component 300 is constituted by a front outside crew, and encloses the intermediate crew 200.
• the end of the intermediate crew 200 is, in the extended write position, partially set back from the first peripheral component 300, and, in the retracted position, is in the fully extended position relative to a front opening 1 A of this first peripheral component 300.
• the portable writing device 1000 comprises at least these first means for transforming a relative pivoting movement applied to the first peripheral component 300 and the second peripheral component 400, in a longitudinal movement. of this writing means 500.
• the first peripheral component 300 and the second peripheral component 400 are grippable by a user, and extend in the same direction D about the longitudinal pivot axis.
• the first peripheral component 300 and the second peripheral component 400 are pivotally movable relative to each other, and a relative pivoting movement impressed by a user allows, in the direction of rotation, the expansion or retraction of at least one writing means 500 housed inside this portable writing device 1000.
• the invention is described, for the sake of simplicity, with a single content, such as this writing means 500. It also applies to a multiple content, such as for example a pen comprising a barrel of writing cartridges. several widths and / or colors.
• the first peripheral component 300 is a front outside crew 301, on a front side where the writing means 500 can project; and the second peripheral component 400 is a rear outer body 401.
• the first peripheral component 300 is a front outside crew 301, on a front side where the writing means 500 can project; and the second peripheral component 400 is a rear outer body 401.
• the invention is illustrated with two end positions corresponding to a relative pivot angle between the rear outer body 401 and the outer front crew 301, with a preferred value, but not limited to 180 °.
• the user grasps the rear outer body 401 by a cap 22, and grasps a drum 2 that includes the outer front crew 301, and prints a relative pivoting movement, relative to the longitudinal axis of pivoting A, along which the barrel 2 and this cap 22 also extend.
• the figures are shown in a maneuver in which the user holds the cap 22 fixed and prints a pivoting at the barrel 2.
• the user drives the drum 2 while holding the cap 22 fixed, it thereby causes a barrel socket 9, which is mounted inside the barrel 2, to be pivoted, and which has a first notch 91 A, and a second notch 91 B, which extend longitudinally in the longitudinal direction D, and symmetrical to each other with respect to the axis A.
• the first notch 91 A and the second notch 91 B respectively guide radial pins 8A and 8B.
• the central crew 100 is here intended to receive the writing means 500, and in particular a cartridge 501, provided with a stylet 504 which constitutes the functional part thereof and which must be able to project both from the central crew 100 and of the intermediate crew 200 in the writing position.
• This central crew 100 comprises several tubular elements, extending in the direction D, preferably coaxial about the axis A, and screwed to each other, so as to allow its disassembly for the exchange of the cartridge 501.
• One of these tubular elements is a front tube 7, which comprises two radial blind housings 71 A and 71 B respective housing of these pins 8A and 8B.
• the central crew 100 comprises, from the front to the rear, and assembled by threads and tappings axis A, a tip body 4, a front tube 7, a central guide tube 13, and a rear tube 21.
• the portable writing device 1000 further comprises, between the front outer crew 301 and the central crew 100, an intermediate crew 200.
• This intermediate crew 200 extends in the direction D, and has a tip 3 serving both as guiding and as means of protection by means of writing 500.
• this intermediate unit 200 is axially movable, in this longitudinal direction D, and in a first longitudinal stroke with respect to the outer crew before 301, and relative to the central crew 100.
• the end of the intermediate crew 200 is partially set back from the front orifice 1 A of the front outside crew 301, while in the retracted position of Figure 2, this end is in the fully out position relative to the front port 1 A of the front outside crew 301.
• This intermediate crew 200 comprises, assembled by screwing at the tip 3, an inner tube 6 of axis D, which comprises two notches 61 A and 61 B, which extend longitudinally in the longitudinal direction D, and in symmetry one of the other in relation to axis A.
• the first notch 61 A and the second notch 61B respectively guide the radial pins 8A and 8B.
• the intermediate crew 200 comprises, from front to rear, and assembled by threads and tappings of axis A, a point 3 and an inner tube 6.
• the outer front crew 301 comprises, from front to rear, a front ring 1 having the front opening 1 A and driven into the barrel 2, and, and assembled by threads and tappings of axis A, this was 2, the barrel sleeve 9, and a barrel ring 1 1.
• the outer rear body 401 comprises, from front to rear, and assembled by threads and tappings of axis A, a central ring 12, a threaded guide bush 15, and the cap 22.
• This cap 22 still carries, in the rear part, a closure cap 26 driven and glued, as well as sealing elements, sealing and dressing such as a cabochon 32 or similar.
• a cap ring 16 is enclosed between the central ring 12 and the cap 22.
• this rear zone can be modified to integrate functional components such as a push button, a control crown, a pull tab, a removable plug, or other. It is then possible to control other functionalities of the content, in particular the writing means, by selecting a parameter such as an output length, a color, or the like.
• the central crew 100 preferably comprises a central guide tube 13, which is here screwed to the front tube 7, and which has a single notch 130, which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction D.
• the portable writing device 1000 comprises a cam 17, or respectively a transmission tube 14, secured to the first 300 or second 400 peripheral component, this cam 17, or respectively this transmission tube 14, cooperating with a transmission tube 14, or respectively a cam 17, slaved to pivot with the central crew 100 and arranged to exert an action on the intermediate crew 200 against an elastic return means 5, in particular a spring.
• the invention is described below in a particular variant, not limiting, where the cam 17 of axis A and which comprises a ramp 170 is carried by the rear outer body 401, screwed into the cap 22 with which this cam 17 is pivotally integral.
• the portable writing device 1000 comprises a transmission tube 14, of axis A.
• This transmission tube 14 is mounted crazy and trapped between, radially, the central guide tube 130 of the 100 and the rear outer body 401, and longitudinally in the direction D, between firstly a rear end face 62 of the inner tube 6 of the intermediate crew 200 with which rear end face 62 cooperates in abutment with a first end 141 of the transmission tube 14, and secondly the ramp 170 of the cam 17.
• the transmission tube 14 On the side facing this cam ramp 170, which is in particular of helical profile or the like, the transmission tube 14 comprises an arm 140 extending in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction D, and whose distal end 142 is provided to bear against the cam ramp 170.
• This arm 140 comprises a finger 143 protruding from the side facing the axis A. This finger 143 cooperates with the notch 130 of the central guide tube 13.
• the pivoting of the central crew 100 and more particularly of the notch 130 of the central guide tube 13, with respect to the cam 17, has the effect of modifying the longitudinal position of the transmission tube 14 relative to the cam 17, and thus to modify the longitudinal position of the intermediate crew 200.
• the forward limit of the transmission tube 14 corresponds to reaching an abutment position between the notches 61 A, 61 B of the tube intermediate 6, with the respective pins 8A and 8B.
• FIG. 1 showing an expansion position of the writing means 500, the spring 5 is in its greatest elongation, and the inner tube 6 is as close as possible to the cam 17, thus the tip 3 of the intermediate crew 200 is partially set back from the front opening 1A of a front ring 1 that includes the outer front crew 301 at its front end which is opposite the rear outer body 401.
• a first front end 41, opposite the rear outer body 401, of a tip body 4 that includes the central crew 100 and which is screwed to the front tube 7 of the front side opposite the rear outer body 401 comes into an abutment position on an inner bearing surface 31 that has the tip 3.
• the central crew 100 comprises a rear tube 21 screwed onto the central guide tube 13.
• This rear tube 21 comprises, on the rear side opposite the tip body 4, a partition 213 having a internal support surface 214 around a bore 215.
• the rear tube 21 encloses a tubular cam 20 having a similar partition 203 with an inner bearing surface 204 around a bore 205.
• This tubular cam 20 has, on the side opposite this partition 203, a flange 206, a rear face 207 cooperates in the bearing position with an inner shoulder 216 of the rear tube 21.
• the tubular cam 20 is pressed against the bearing face 214 of the rear tube 21 by a collar 191 of a tie 19.
• This tie 19 is held in abutment by a nut 28 crushing an O-ring 27 bearing against a rear face 261 of a closure cap 26 fixed, in particular by driving and / or gluing, or other, to the cap 22 of the rear outer body 401.
• it comprises two plates 192 which cooperate with a parallel-face guide 262 formed in a partition 263 of the closure plug 26.
• the central crew 100 comprises an inner chamber 101 which receives, in its front part, the writing means 500, in particular a cartridge 501 in the nonlimiting example illustrated by the figures, and, in the rear part, a pin sleeve 18 partially guided in the tubular cam 20.
• the rear tube 21 In its rear part receiving the tubular cam 20 and the stud sleeve 18, the rear tube 21 has no symmetry of revolution: it comprises, opposite a zone of greater section 217 delimiting the inner shoulder 216, a notch 212 extending longitudinally in the longitudinal direction D.
• This notch 212 is arranged to receive, in a single angular position, a lug 181 which radially bears the pin sleeve 18, so as to allow a release stroke of the pin sleeve 18 to the tubular cam 20 and to the wall 213 of the rear tube 21, as shown in Figure 2.
• a spring 503, in support of the front side opposite the rear wall 213, tends to push the writing means 500, in particular a cartridge 501, pushing the pin sleeve 18 on the Tubular cam 20.
• the pin sleeve 18 comprises a flange 182 bearing an O-ring seal or the like and provided, on the front side, with a front toothing 183, intended to cooperate with a front toothing 505 forming a cam.
• the pin sleeve 18 generally includes a standardized refill cartridge 501.
• FIGS. 1 and 2 show a rear face 184 of the lug 181 of the lug bushing 18 in abutment on respectively a first end 208 and a second end 209 of a cam profile, helical or similar, of the tubular cam. 20.
• the pin sleeve 18 is spaced at the maximum of the rear wall 213, and the writing means 500, including a stylus 504 of a cartridge 501 (here guided in the tip body 4 by means of a guide 502), is in the most advanced position possible, the spring 503 is compressed to the maximum, the tip body 4 is in the maximum depression position in the tip 3, and the stylet 504 constituting the front end of the writing means 500 is then salient with respect to a front orifice 3A that the tip 3 has.
• the pin sleeve 18 is as close as possible to the rear wall 213, the pin 181 is in the notch 212 of the rear tube 21, and the means of 500 writing, including a cartridge 501, is in the most retracted position possible, the spring 503 is expanded to the maximum, the tip body 4 is in the minimum depression position in the tip 3, and the stylet 504 is set back by relative to the front orifice 3A of the tip 3.
• the axial stroke of the pin sleeve 81 relative to the tubular cam 20 thus constitutes a withdrawal or advancing stroke of the writing means 500.
• the longitudinal movement of the intermediate body 200 and that of the pin sleeve 18 are simultaneous, and in the opposite direction: the cartridge 501 is pushed towards the outlet when the intermediate crew 200 is moved back, and reciprocally.
• the tip body 4 has four outer radial lugs 43, which cooperate with four grooves 32 of orientation and stroke limitation that includes the tip 3, extending in the longitudinal direction D.
• the tip 3 comprises eight external facets 33, arranged to cooperate with eight internal facets 1 B that includes the front ring 1.
• the portable writing device 1000 comprises second means for transforming a relative pivoting movement applied to two peripheral components 300 , 400, of this portable writing device 1000, in a substantially radial movement of at least a third mobile component 600 of this portable writing device 1000.
• this third movable component 600 is a staple 23, pivotally mounted via a pin 230 in a bore 231 of the staple 23, on a carriage 25, mounted in the outer body rear 401.
• This carriage 25 comprises a housing 251 receiving the end of a spring clip 24 which tends to move away from the rear outer body 401 a first end 232 of the clip 23, and to approach the outer rear body 401, by way of lever, around the pin 230, a second end 233 of the clip 23.
• the clip 23 is retractable in a housing 221 of the cap 22, during a relative pivoting movement between the rear outer body 401 and the outside crew before 301.
• the rear tube 21 comprises, at its rear wall 213, an eccentric surface 21 1 eccentric with respect to a bore 215, which is coaxial with the pivot axis A and constitutes the guide of the tie rod 19.
• the carriage 25 comprises two parallel faces 255, and is slidably movable in a parallel-face guide housing 265 that the cap 26 comprises. It comprises, around the axis A, a housing 253 of oblong section arranged to allow the passage to the tie rod 19, in all the radial positions that can occupy the carriage 25.
• This carriage 25 also comprises upper bearing faces 254 and lower 256, on which the eccentric bearing surface 21 1 is supported for respectively moving away as in FIG. 2, or as close as in FIG. 1, the staple 23 of the axis A, substantially parallel to this axis A.
• the staple 23 is eclipsed in the writing position, and deployed when the writing means 500 is entered into the body of the portable writing device 1000, thus guaranteeing the user safety of use.
• the carriage 25 slides radially with respect to the axis D.
• An oblique sliding can be achieved by the same means, insofar as the eccentric surface 21 1 is of sufficient length to always be supported on one side.
• the third mobile component 600 is a staple.
• This third component may be constituted by any component or object, functional and / or decorative, which it is desired to eclipse in the writing phase.

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