Power tool

• US 5,601,483 A
• Filed: 10/14/1994
• Issued: 02/11/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: C & E Fein GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: C & E Fein GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Veit, Thomas, Blutharsch, Walter, Peisert, Andreas, Rudolf, Boris
• Primary Examiner(s): Little, Willis
• Assistant Examiner(s): MORGAN, EILEEN P
• Application Number:
  US08/323,396
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 951/342, 951/344, 951/353, 951/359
• US Class Current: 451/359
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/022 Spindle-locking devices, e.g. for mounting or removing the tool
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 45/006 Quick mount and release means for disc-like wheels, e.g. on power tools

Abstract

A power tool, which is preferably configured as a right-angle grinder, has a motor-driven hollow spindle to drive a tool, which is fastened between a clamping flange and a counterflange by means of a quick clamping device via a tension spindle, coaxial with the hollow spindle, that is tensioned in the axial direction by means of elastic elements and is displaceable in the axial direction relative to the hollow spindle, by means of a clamping lever, between a clamped position in which the tool is nonrotatably retained between the flanges, and a released position. The clamping lever is mechanically coupled to the motor switch by means of a link rod in such a way that the clamping lever can be moved into the released position only when the motor is switched off. This rules out improper operation and any potential damage to the power tool.

Claims

1. Power tool, comprising a hollow spindle driven by a motor, a quick clamping device to receive a tool between a clamping flange and a counterflange, wherein the quick clamping device includes a tension spindle, coaxial with the hollow spindle, that is tensioned in an axial direction by means of elastic elements and is displaceable in the axial direction relative to the hollow spindle, by means of a clamping lever, between a clamped position in which the tool is nonrotatably retained between the flanges, and a released position in which the flanges are disengaged in the axial direction for manual changing of the tool;

and further comprising a switch movable into an activated position to actuate the motor, and a link rod arranged between said clamping lever and said switch and engaging said switch and said clamping lever so that said clamping lever is blocked against movement into said released position when said switch is in its activated position.

2. Power tool according to claim 1, wherein said link rod blocks said switch against movement into its activated position, when said clamping lever is in the released position.

3. Power tool according to claim 1, wherein the link rod is displaceable in a lengthwise direction between an activated position in which the switch is activated and a deactivated position, wherein at least one locking element is arranged between said link rod and said clamping lever, which in the activated position is interlocked with a counterelement.

4. Power tool according to claim 1, wherein the clamping lever is pivotably mounted at a first end about an axis and comprises an eccentric element which acts via a pusher stud on a pusher element in order to displace the tension spindle in the axial direction between said clamped position and said released position as the clamping lever pivots.

5. Power tool according to claim 4, wherein a first end of the clamping lever comprises at least a first recess adapted to receive a projection of the link rod when moving said link rod in its lengthwise direction for interlocking the clamping lever in the clamped position.

6. Power tool according to claim 5, wherein said clamping lever comprises a second end which is pivotable about said first end and comprises a second recess on said second end adapted to receive a second projection, projecting from said link rod in the lengthwise direction thereof.

7. Power tool according to claim 6, wherein said clamping lever comprises a projection extending substantially perpendicularly from the second recess thereof and, with the clamping lever in a position pivoted only slightly with respect to the clamped position, blocking the second projection of the link rod to prevent advancement of the link rod into an activated position, in which said switch is activated.

8. Power tool according to claim 1, wherein the link rod is configured in multiple parts.

9. Power tool according to claim 8, wherein the link rod comprises a front part facing the quick clamping device, and a rear part, which can be snap-locked with said front part.

10. Power tool according to claim 9, wherein at least said front part of said link rod is made of an electrically insulating material.

11. Power tool according to claim 8, which further comprises a motor housing and a slider projecting therefrom and being joined in a snap-lock fashion to the link rod.

12. Power tool according to claim 1, wherein said link rod is spring-biased via a spring element into the direction of a deactivated position in which said clamping lever is blocked against movement.

13. Power tool according to claim 4, comprising a brake disk which is arranged opposite an end surface of the hollow spindle which faces the clamping lever, said brake disk being adapted to decelerate said hollow spindle when said clamping lever is in the released position.

14. Power tool according to claim 13, wherein a pusher plate is arranged on said pusher element and joined positively to said hollow spindle, a surface of said pusher plate facing said pusher stud being configured as a friction surface.

15. Power tool according to claim 13, comprising a gear drive housing, wherein said pusher stud is fastened positively to prevent rotation.