Synthetic resin holder

• US 4,653,716 A
• Filed: 07/03/1985
• Issued: 03/31/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sakaguchi Plastic Industrial Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sakaguchi Plastic Industrial Company Limited
• Inventors: Sakaguchi, Keizaburo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US06/751,653
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 248/201, 248/316.7, 248/316.9, 248/316.6, 248/74.3, 248/74.1, 248/74.5, 248/113, 248/68.1, 248/55, 248/903, 248/440, 248/543, 248/73, 24/487, 24/543, 52/689
• US Class Current: 248/316.5
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 97/10 Supports for rods
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/1203 with a pair of arms moved automatically to closed position by overcenter spring

Abstract

A synthetic resin holder in which a pair of embracing arms having inner ends connected by a hinge and outer ends butted in an opening and closing manner are integrally connected by hinges on opposite ends of a circular spring plate having a support leg projected in the central portion thereof, and when a connected portion between the embracing arms is moved outwardly from a border-line which connects both ends of the spring plate, the embracing arms are opened, and conversely, when it is moved inwardly, the arms are closed. The present invention provides such a holder as described which can solve the opening of the embracing arms of themselves due to the flexure of the spring plate resulting from the load, vibrations or shocks of an article being held, by the upward provision of the embracing arms along with the spring plate on the base plate.

Claims

1. A synthetic resin holder for use on a wall, comprising a pair of embracing arms positioned internally of a circular arc-shaped spring plate, said embracing arms having inner ends connected by a hinge and outer ends butted in an opening and closing manner, said embracing arms being equally connected by hinges to upper and lower ends of the spring plate, of support plate project inwardly from the respective ends of the spring plate to define upper and lower support plates therefor, said support plates being parallel -o a center line of the holder with the lower support plate being longer than the upper support plate, and a base plate formed integral with the ends of both the support plates, said spring plate and said embracing arms being provided upwardly with respect to the base plate.

2. The holder according to claim 1, further comprising a retainer provided over opening and closing ends of the embracing arms, said retainer preventing the embracing arms from being opened of themselves.

3. The holder according to claim 2, wherein said retainer comprises a lever mounted on one of said embracing arms and a stopper mounted on said lever and in engagement with the other of said embracing arms.

4. The holder according to claim 2, wherein said retainer comprises a stopper mounted on one of said embracing arms and in engagement with the other thereof.

5. The holder according to claim 1, wherein oblique members to prevent flexure of said upper and lower support plates are integrally formed over said pair of support plates and said base plate.