Quick release locking element pin

• US 3,145,441 A
• Filed: 04/09/1962
• Issued: 08/25/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theodore E. Strandrud
• Original Assignee: Theodore E. Strandrud
• Inventors: Strandrud, Theodore E.
• Application Number:
  US04/186,002
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• US Class Current: 411/347
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 19/109 Temporary rivets, e.g. with a spring-loaded pin special clamping devices for workpieces to be riveted together, e.g. operating through the rivet holes B21J15/42; hand tools for temporarily connecting sheets before or during assembly operations B25B31/005

Claims

1. A QUICK-RELEASE LOCKING DEVICE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED FOR SUPPORT IN A HOLE IN A SUPPORTING BODY, SAID LOCKING DEVICE COMPRISING A PIN BODY HAVING A LOCKING END AND A CONTROL END, AND BORED IN THE AXIAL DIRECTION, AND HAVING A TRANSVERSE APERTURE AT ITS LOCKING END, A LOCKING ELEMENT RECIPROCATIVELY GUIDED IN SAID TRANSVERSE APERTURE FOR RETRACTION AND PROTRUSION INTO LOCKING POSITION, BEYOND THE INNER END OF THE HOLE IN THE SUPPORTING BODY A SPINDLE ROTATIVELY SUPPORTED IN SAID BORE, MEANS INTERCONNECTING THE LOCKING END OF SAID SPINDLE AND SAID LOCKING ELEMENT FOR CONVERTING ROTATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE SPINDLE INTO RECIPROCATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE LOCKING ELEMENT, A PLUNGER GUIDED AT THE CONTROL END OF THE PIN BODY FOR AXIAL RECIPROCATION, AND CAM MEANS FOR CONVERTING RECIPROCATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE PLUNGER INTO ROTATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE SPINDLE.