Positioning structure of a retractable handle

• US 20040211034A1
• Filed: 04/23/2003
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chia-Yu Chen
• Original Assignee: Chia-Yu Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chia-Yu
• Granted Patent: US 6,862,776 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 16/113.1
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 2013/267 the handle being slidable, extractable and lockable in one or more positions
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/04 telescopic; extensible; sectional
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 7/1463 with the expansion of an element inside the outer telescoping member due to the axial movement towards a wedge or a conical member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32501 Cam or wedge

Abstract

The present invention disclose the positioning structure of a handle comprising a base possessing an axial hole and two hollow spaces mounts on the inner tube; two movable pieces with slanting cambered face provided screw teeth thereon mounts in each of the hollow spaces of the base; a rotating ring mounts on the outer tube; a rotating cone has an axial multilateral hole mounting in the hole of the base and between the two movable pieces, and cone face of the rotating cone provided screw teeth to bite the screw teeth of the movable pieces; and a rotating rod passing through the axial hole of the rotating cone, and one end of the rotating rod is fixed on the rotating ring, so that when rotating the rotating ring can control the retract of the handle.

Claims

1. A positioning structure of a retractable handle comprising two mutually sliding tubes;

a base defining an axial hole mounted on one end of the inner tube, and two cavities provided on both sides of the base, said two cavities communicating with the hole;

two movable pieces mounted in each of the cavities of the base, the height of each of the movable pieces is smaller than the heights of the cavities, one face of each of the movable pieces having a slanting cambered face so that the width of the upper side of each of the movable pieces being bigger than the width of lower sides of each of the movable pieces, and the slanting cambered face of movable pieces provided with screw teeth;

a rotating ring mounted on the outer tube, and one end of a rotating rod fixed on the rotating ring;

a rotating cone having an axial multilateral hole, the cone being mounted in the hole of the base and positioned between the two movable pieces, and the outer periphery of the rotating cone provided with screw teeth to engage the screw teeth of the movable pieces, said rotating rod passing through the hole of the rotating cone, and one end of the rotating rod fixed on the rotating ring.

2. The positioning structure of a retractable handle as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the rotating cone having an outer periphery provided with a circular groove, the base having receiving holes in communication with the axial hole of the base, and two stoppers mounted in the receiving holes and with one end engaged in the groove of the rotating cone.