U.S. patent application number 12/067403 was filed with the patent office on 2008-10-09 for device for holding arrangement of oblong objects.
This patent application is currently assigned to A.RAYMOND ET CIE. Invention is credited to Gianni Chiorboli.
Application Number | 20080244874 12/067403 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 37499979 |
Filed Date | 2008-10-09 |
United States Patent
Application |
20080244874 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Chiorboli; Gianni |
October 9, 2008 |
Device for Holding Arrangement of Oblong Objects
Abstract
A device for holding an elongated assemblage of articles
comprises a fastening body (3) to effect fastening to a support
part (21), a looping strap (2) that stands connected by one end to
the fastening body (3), and a strap receiving part (4), which via
at least one flexible connecting portion (14, 15) is arranged on
one side of the fastening body (3) and connected to the fastening
body (3). The looping strap (2) is directly connected to the
fastening body (3) in a strap fastening region (6), and the strap
receiving part (4) is on the opposite side of the fastening body
(3) from the strap fastening region (6) when the or each connecting
portion (14, 15) is in the relaxed state. In this way, the
assemblage of articles can be positioned very tightly against the
fastening body, and the inventive device is distinguished by high
variability with respect to the number and size of the assemblage
of articles to be held.
Inventors: |
Chiorboli; Gianni; (Carisio,
IT) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BAKER & DANIELS LLP;111 E. WAYNE STREET
SUITE 800
FORT WAYNE
IN
46802
US
|
Assignee: |
A.RAYMOND ET CIE
Grenoble
FR
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Family ID: |
37499979 |
Appl. No.: |
12/067403 |
Filed: |
September 15, 2006 |
PCT Filed: |
September 15, 2006 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/EP2006/008994 |
371 Date: |
May 7, 2008 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
24/16PB ;
24/662 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F16L 3/137 20130101;
Y10T 24/45775 20150115; Y10T 24/1498 20150115; H02G 3/30
20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
24/16PB ;
24/662 |
International
Class: |
B65D 63/10 20060101
B65D063/10 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Sep 24, 2005 |
DE |
10 2005 045 840.8 |
Claims
1-4. (canceled)
5. A device for holding an assemblage of elongated articles with
respect to a support part, comprising: a fastening body attachable
to the support part; a looping strap connected at one end thereof
to a strap fastening region on a first side of said fastening body;
and a strap receiving part connected to two mutually opposite sides
of said fastening body via a flexible connection including a pair
of connecting portions and a pair of tie brackets, said connecting
portions attached to tie ribs that jut out laterally from said
fastening body and said pair of tie brackets laterally attached to
said strap receiving part, said strap receiving part disposed on a
second, opposite side of said fastening body when said flexible
connection is in a relaxed state.
6. The device of claim 5, wherein said strap receiving part and
said strap fastening region are disposed on mutually opposite end
regions of said fastening body.
7. The device of claim 5, wherein said tie ribs extend to a foot
region of said fastening body, said foot region including base
plates connected to said fastening body and to said tie ribs, said
base plates extending laterally outwardly of said fastening
body.
8. The device of claim 6, wherein said fastening body includes at
least one clamping rib disposed laterally of said strap fastening
region of said fastening body, said at least one clamping rib
extending in the direction of said looping strap.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention provides a device for holding an
assemblage of elongated articles.
[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art
[0004] One device is known from GB 1 242 278 A. The device of the
generic kind for holding an elongated assemblage of articles
comprises a fastening body to effect fastening to a support part
and has a looping strap that stands connected by one end to the
fastening body. Also present is a strap receiving part, which via
at least one flexible connecting portion is arranged on one side of
the fastening body and connected to the fastening body, said
looping strap being directly connected to the fastening body in a
strap fastening region, and said strap receiving part being on the
opposite side of the fastening body from the strap fastening region
when the or each connecting portion is in the relaxed state.
[0005] Known from U.S. Pat. No. 3,302,913 and DE 93 17 983 U1 are
devices for holding an elongated assemblage of articles that
comprise a fastening body to effect fastening to a support part.
The fastening body is configured at one end with a latching foot
that snaps into a recess configured in the support part. Configured
on the upper side of the fastening body, i.e. the opposite side
from the latching foot, are a looping strap and, via a connecting
portion, a strap receiving part, which can be brought into
engagement with each other to hold the assemblage of articles
against the upper side of the fastening body opposite from the
latching foot.
[0006] Known from DE 89 11 414 U1 is a device for holding an
elongated assemblage of articles that comprises a fastening body to
effect fastening to a support part, and a looping strap that stands
connected by one end to the fastening body. Also present is a strap
receiving part, which, via a rigid connecting portion, is arranged
on the other side of the fastening body and connected to the
fastening body.
[0007] A further device configured as a cable tie is known from EP
0 751 597 A1. In this prior cable tie, a strap receiving part is
formed, via a flexible connecting portion, on a fastening body
adapted to effect fastening to a support part . One end of a
looping strap is attached to the opposite side of the strap
receiving part from the connecting portion, and the strap is
thereby indirectly connected to the fastening body. The free end of
the looping strap can be inserted in the strap receiving part and
can be locked in place after being tightened, so as to hold
multiple cables, in particular, as an assemblage of articles.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0008] The present invention provides a device for holding an
assemblage of elongated articles by means of which the assemblage
of articles can be positioned very tightly against the fastening
body and which is distinguished by high variability with respect to
the number and size of the assemblage of articles to be held.
[0009] By virtue of the inventive tethering of the strap receiving
part to the fastening body, the article or articles to be held lie
against the fastening body when the looping strap is tightened,
bending the strap receiving part, in the extreme case, all the way
over to the side occupied by the looping strap, said bending-over
of the strap receiving part resulting in a broad range of
applicability in terms of total enlooped cross section.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0010] The above mentioned and other features and objects of this
invention, and the manner of attaining them, will become more
apparent and the invention itself will be better understood by
reference to the following description of embodiments of the
invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings,
wherein:
[0011] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of a
device according to the invention;
[0012] FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the exemplary embodiment
according to FIG. 1 in the region of a fastening body;
[0013] FIG. 3 is a section of the exemplary embodiment according to
FIGS. 1 and 2 in the region of the fastening body;
[0014] FIG. 4 is a side view of the exemplary embodiment according
to FIG. 1 to 3 with a looping strap inserted in a strap receiving
part and intended for an assemblage of articles having a relatively
large total cross section; and
[0015] FIG. 5 is a side view of the exemplary embodiment according
to FIGS. 1 to 3, with a looping strap inserted in a strap receiving
part and intended for an assemblage of articles having a relatively
small total cross section.
[0016] Corresponding reference characters indicate corresponding
parts throughout the several views. Although the exemplifications
set out herein illustrate embodiments of the invention, in several
forms, the embodiments disclosed below are not intended to be
exhaustive or to be construed as limiting the scope of the
invention to the precise forms disclosed.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0017] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of a
device according to the invention, configured as a cable tie 1 for
holding preferably multiple cables of an assemblage of elongated
articles. The cable tie 1 comprises an elongated, relatively long,
band-like looping strap 2, which is attached by one end to a
fastening body 3 having a square basic shape. The fastening body 3
serves to effect fastening to a support part not shown in FIG. 1.
The cable tie 1 further comprises a strap receiving part 4,
connected to fastening body 3.
[0018] FIG. 2 shows the cable tie 1 according to FIG. 1 in an
enlarged representation in the region of the fastening body 3
comprising a strap receiving part 4 in a relaxed arrangement. It
can be seen from FIG. 2 that the looping strap 2 is attached to a
broad side of fastening body 3, in a strap fastening region 6
located in a foot region 5 that is at the bottom in the depiction
of FIG. 2. It can be recognized from FIG. 2 that configured in
strap fastening region 6 on both sides of looping strap 2 are two
clamping ribs 7, 8 that extend away from foot region 5 in the
direction of a head region 9 of fastening body 3 that is arranged
at the top in the depiction of FIG. 2, and that jut out from
fastening body 3 in the direction of looping strap 2. Said clamping
ribs 7, 8 preferably extend, as shown in FIG. 2, from foot region 5
to roughly the middle region of fastening body 3.
[0019] It can also be gathered from FIG. 2 that strap receiving
part 4 has a latching tongue 10 that extends into a through-space
11. Attached laterally to strap receiving part 4 are tie brackets
12, 13, which extend from the opposite side of fastening body 3
from strap fastening region 6, initially transversely to the
longitudinal direction of looping strap 2 along the other broad
side of fastening body 3, and are then bent in the direction of the
longitudinal direction of looping strap 2, such that they lie
parallel to the narrow sides of fastening body 3.
[0020] The ends of tie brackets 12, 13 that lie parallel to the
narrow sides of fastening body 3 each give way to a respective
connecting portion 14, 15 which is bent around flexibly in the
direction of foot region 5, and both of which are relaxed in the
depiction of FIG. 2, said connecting portions 14, 15 in turn being
attached to tie ribs 16, 17 formed on the narrow sides of fastening
body 3. The tie ribs 16, 17 extend from head region 9 into foot
region 5 and are disposed roughly in the middle of the narrow sides
of fastening body 3.
[0021] A respective base plate 18, 19 is configured between strap
fastening region 6 and each of the ends of tie ribs 16, 17 that are
disposed in foot region 5, and has the overall effect of increasing
stability and the load-bearing area of the cable tie 1 in foot
region 5.
[0022] In the arrangement of looping strap 2 and strap receiving
part 4 described in conjunction with FIG. 2, strap fastening region
6 is on the opposite side of fastening body 3 from strap receiving
part 4, and strap receiving part 4 and strap fastening region 6 are
disposed at mutually opposite end regions of fastening body 3,
namely foot region 5 and head region 9.
[0023] FIG. 3 shows a section through the cable tie 1 according to
FIGS. 1 and 2 in the region of the fastening body 3. In the
depiction of FIG. 3, fastening body 3 is mated onto a threaded bolt
20, which is connected to a support part 21. Configured in a bolt
receiving space 22 of fastening body 3 are retaining claws 23, 24,
tilted in the insertion direction of threaded bolt 20, that come
into engagement with the thread of threaded bolt 20 and appreciably
increase the withdrawal force of cable tie 1 from threaded bolt 20
compared to the mating force.
[0024] It can further be understood from FIG. 3 that looping strap
2 is configured in this exemplary embodiment with a multiplicity of
strap teeth 25 shaped complementarily to tongue teeth 26 formed
outwardly on latching tongue 10, such that when the free end of
looping strap 2 is inserted in through-space 11, the strap teeth 25
and the tongue teeth 26 come into engagement with one another, and
after the looping strap is tightened, an enlooped assemblage of
articles not shown in FIG. 3, such as a single article, for example
in the form of a relatively thick cable or tube, or a number of
articles, for example a plurality of small cables or tubes of
relatively small cross section, is held practically
irreleasably.
[0025] FIG. 4 is a side view of the cable tie 1 according to FIGS.
1 to 3 in an arrangement for holding an assemblage of articles
having a relatively large total cross section. It can be seen from
FIG. 4 that in this arrangement, strap receiving part 4 is bent
over from the relaxed arrangement according to FIGS. 1 to 3, in
which it is disposed oppositely from fastening region 6, in the
direction of the side of fastening body 3 comprising strap
fastening region 6, and is still disposed above head region 9. The
free end 27 of looping strap 2 passes through strap receiving part
4 and has already been shortened.
[0026] FIG. 5 shows the cable tie 1 according to FIGS. 1 to 3 in an
arrangement for holding an assemblage of articles having a
relatively small total cross section. It can be seen from FIG. 5
that looping strap 2 is stretched out essentially straight in this
arrangement, and that compared to the relaxed arrangement according
to FIGS. 1 to 3, strap receiving part 4 is completely flipped over
to the side of fastening body 3 where strap fastening region 6 is
located. Hence, providing clamping ribs 7, 8 extending in the
direction of looping strap 2 makes it possible to reliably hold an
assemblage of articles having a very small total cross section.
[0027] In addition, it will be noted that after looping strap 2 is
inserted into strap receiving part 4, strap receiving part 4 and
the free end 27 of looping strap 2 are disposed on opposite sides
of foot region 5 whether the assemblage of articles to be enlooped
has a large or a small cross section, thereby simplifying the
operations of pulling taut and cutting off the excess length of
free end 27, since the strap receiving part 4 and the free end 27
are facing toward the user.
[0028] While this invention has been described as having a
preferred design, the present invention can be further modified
within the spirit and scope of this disclosure. This application is
therefore intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of
the invention using its general principles. Further, this
application is intended to cover such departures from the present
disclosure as come within known or customary practice in the art to
which this invention pertains and which fall within the limits of
the appended claims.
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