GLASS PLATE HOLDER AND GLASS PLATE TRANSPORT DEVICE

• US 20160244245A1
• Filed: 10/15/2014
• Published: 08/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: MAEDA, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US15/032,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20160244245A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/48 for glass sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 49/062 Easels, stands or shelves, e.g. castor-shelves, supporting means on vehicles; vehicles adapted to carry glass sheets B60P3/002; storing articles B65G1/00 or A47B53/02; packaging for glass sheets B65D85/48
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/22 of resilient material, e.g. rubbery material F16B2/205 takes precedence

Abstract

This glass plate holder is a glass plate holder for holding a flat glass plate in a vertical position, and includes: a clip configured to grip both surfaces of the glass plate; a supporting body that supports the clip and that has a guide portion that allows the clip to move in a vertical direction; and an elastic member that biases the clip upward.

Claims

1. A glass plate holder for holding a flat glass plate in a vertical position, comprising:

a clip configured to grip both surfaces of the glass plate;

a supporting body that supports the clip and that has a guide portion that allows the clip to move in a vertical direction; and

an elastic member that biases the clip upward.

2. The glass plate holder according to claim 1, wherein the clip is supported by the supporting body so as to be able to move in a thickness direction of the glass plate.

3. The glass plate holder according to claim 1, wherein

the clip includes:

a first gripping member that has a first contact portion configured to be in contact with one surface of the glass plate;

a second gripping member that has a second contact portion configured to be in contact with the other surface of the glass plate; and

a pivot portion that supports the first gripping member and the second gripping member such that the first gripping member and the second gripping member are rotatable relative to each other, and

the supporting body

includes a pressing portion that presses at least one of the gripping members so as to narrow a gap between the first contact portion and the second contact portion as the clip moves downward.

4. The glass plate holder according to claim 3, wherein

the second gripping member:

has a center of gravity on a side of a surface that is farther from the first gripping member; and

rotates so as to move away from the first gripping member due to an effect of the center of gravity upon the clip moving upward.

5. The glass plate holder according to claim 1, wherein

the clip is provided with an engaging member,

the guide portion includes a guide groove with which the engaging member engages such that the engaging member is able to move in a vertical direction, and

an upward movement of the engaging member is restricted by an upper end portion of the guide groove.

6. The glass plate holder according to claim 5, wherein

the engaging member is provided on a lower end portion of the clip, and

a horizontal groove that extends in the thickness direction of the glass plate communicates with a lower end portion of the guide groove.

7. The glass plate holder according to claim 1, wherein the glass plate is a glass plate for a car.

8. The glass plate holder according to claim 7, wherein

a molding is attached to at least part of a peripheral portion of the glass plate,

the clip has a supporting portion that supports the glass plate, and

the supporting portion supports an edge portion of the glass plate to which the molding is attached.

9. A glass plate transport device that is provided with at least one glass plate holder according to claim 1.