Feeler gage mounting system

• US 4,498,239 A
• Filed: 05/19/1983
• Issued: 02/12/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kastar (U.S.A.) Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kastar (U.S.A.) Inc.
• Inventors: Epstein, Harry
• Primary Examiner(s): Stearns, Richard R.
• Application Number:
  US06/491,368
• Time in Patent Office: 635 Days
• Field of Search: 33/168 R, 33/174 H, 33/181 AT
• US Class Current: 33/567
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/32 Holders therefor

Abstract

A feeler gage mounting system comprising a case having a pair of opposed walls, a pin having an elongated pin body having opposed first and second ends, the first end being non-rotatably affixed to one of the walls of the case. The second end of the pin is connected to the other case wall. A plurality of feeler gage blade members are removably rotatably connected at two circular holes to the pin body. The pin body forms a key and the blade members form keyway sheets leading to the circular holes, the keyway slots being adapted to receive the pin body so that the blade members can be mounted onto or removed from the pin body at a particular angle at which the key of the pin body is positioned.

Claims

1. A feeder gage mounting system comprising in combination:

a case having a pair of flexible opposed walls,

a pin including an elongated pin body having opposed first and second ends,

said first end being non-rotatably affixed to one of said walls,

means for connecting said second end of said pin body to the other of said walls and for flexing said other wall towards said one wall whereby said opposed walls are pressed against said plurality of blade members, and

a plurality of blade members, each of said blade members being a flat, elongated member having opposed blade end portions, each said blade member forming an approximately circular hole spaced proximate to one of said blade end portions, said hole being adapted to accept said elongated pin body in rotatable association, each of said blade members forming a slot joining said one end portion and said circular hole adapted to pass said pin body into a rotatable connection with said blade members at said hole and from rotatable connection with said blade members at said hole,

said elongated pin body having a first pair of opposed sides spaced apart at a maximum first distance joining a second pair of opposed sides spaced apart at a second distance, said second pair of sides being planar, said first distance being greater than said second distance, said first distance being slightly less than the diameter of said hole,

said slot having opposed planar surfaces spaced apart at a third distance slightly greater than said second distance and less than said first distance of said opposed sides of said pin body,

whereby said pin body can be slid into and from said circular hole.

2. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said one of said walls of said case forms a passage having a first pair of opposed surfaces and a second pair of opposed surfaces, said second pair of surfaces joining said first pair of surfaces, said first and second pairs of surfaces being spaced apart at distances slightly greater than said first and second distances respectively of said pin body, wherein said pin body is adapted to be received snugly in said passage.

3. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 2, wherein said case has a bottom wall affixed at approximately right angles to said pair of opposed walls, said case being elongated and having opposed case end portions, said passage being formed proximate to one of said case end portions, said case being adapted to receive said plurality of blade members wherein said blade members fit snugly between said side walls against said bottom wall between said case end portions.

4. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 3, wherein said bottom wall of said case lies in a first plane and said second pair of opposed surfaces lie in a pair of parallel second planes, said pair of second planes being aligned at an angle with said first plane, said angle lying between approximately 5 degrees and 180 degrees measured relative to the other of said case end portions.

5. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 4, wherein said angle ranges from approximately 30 degrees to about 60 degrees.

6. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 5, wherein said pin is provided with a head connected to said pin body, said head being positioned on the outside surface of said one wall of said case, said head having a mark aligned approximately at said angle, whereby a user is directed to said angle at which said blade members can be removed from the pin member by way of said keyway.

7. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 6, said case further including an end wall secured to said side walls and to said bottom wall.

8. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 7, wherein said side walls of said case form opposing cutouts adjoining said bottom wall, whereby a user can press said blade members from said case.

9. A feeler gage mounting system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for connecting said second end of said pin body to said other of said walls of said case includes said second end being provided with a threaded portion and said other wall forming a hole adapted to pass said threaded portion;

said means for connecting further including a threaded nut adapted to be screwed onto said threaded portion at the outer surface of said other wall.