Device for holding rod-like objects

• US 4,691,883 A
• Filed: 07/28/1986
• Issued: 09/08/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nifco Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Nifco Incorporated
• Inventors: Kurihara, Kazumasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Machado, Reinaldo P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chin-Shue, Alvin
• Application Number:
  US06/890,868
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 248/74.2, 248/74.5, 248/74.1, 248/68.1, 248/69, 248/49, 248/60, 248/62, 248/71, 248/73, 24/16 PB, 174/40 CC:175
• US Class Current: 248/74.2
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/13 and engaging it by snap action F16L3/1203 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/237 for two pipes
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 55/035 in the form of specially adapted hangers or supports

Abstract

A device for holding a rod-like object comprises a base portion, a lock portion projecting from one side of said base portion and a holding arm section projecting from the other side and having a receiving recess for fitting a rod-like object therein in a direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the object. The holding arm section is provided with an engagement portion for engaging with the rod-like object fitted in the receiving recess with an elastic restoring force.

Claims

1. A device for retaining and guiding a rod-like object comprising:

a base portion;

a lock portion projecting from one side of said base portion;

a holding arm section projecting from an opposite side of said base portion and having a receiving recess for receiving a rod-like object therein inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of said rod-like object and for retaining said rod-like object sufficiently loosely to permit longitudinal motion; and

a damper having canter levered arms laterally extending from a free end of said holding arm section in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said rod-like object and having an engagement portion provided at the free end thereof for engaging with the rod-like object received in said holding arm section with an elastic restoring force in the direction opposite to the direction of insertion of said rod-like object.

2. A device for retaining and guiding a rod-like object comprising:

a base portion;

a lock portion projecting from one side of said base portion;

a holding arm section comprising opposing arm portions having free ends projecting from an opposite side of said base portion and defining a receiving recess therebetween for receiving and substantially encircling a rod-like object therein inserted between said free ends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of said rod-like object; and

a relatively flexible damper element having canter levered arms extending outward from a free end of said holding arm section in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said rod-like object, and having an engagement portion provided at the free end thereon spaced laterally from said arm section for yieldably engaging a rod-like object retained in said holding arm section with sufficient elastic restoring force in the direction opposite to the direction of insertion of said rod-like object to prevent rattling of said rod-like object while still allowing vertical movement thereof.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein said damper element has a straight finger-like portion having a length greater than a maximum transverse dimension of said rod-like object immediately adjacent to and integral with said holding arm section and an integral loop portion disposed at a distal end.