Opening-closing device with limited lifting range

• US 6,327,457 B1
• Filed: 04/13/2000
• Issued: 12/04/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kem HongKong Limited
• Original Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Company Limited
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Braun, Fred L.
• Application Number:
  US09/549,144
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 399/365, 399/379, 399/380, 355/75
• US Class Current: 399/379
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/638 Cams; Ramps
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/605 Holders for originals or exposure platens for photographic purposes in general G03B

Abstract

An opening-closing device is capable of automatically positioning an opened pressing mechanism horizontally in relation to a supporting table. A base member is provided for fixation to a body of an apparatus on which the pressing mechanism is to be used. A supporting member is secured pivotably to the base member and a lifting member is provided to which a rear portion of the pressing mechanism is fixed to a free end of the supporting member with a supporting pin reversibly in a direction in which the lifting member will overlap the supporting member. An elastic member forces the supporting member along with the lifting member in the opening direction of the pressing mechanism while forcing the lifting member in a direction in which the lifting member will overlap the supporting member. The opening-closing device further has a mechanism for limiting to a predetermined range, the range of the lifting member being reversible about the pivoted position relative to the supporting member and an adjusting mechanism abutting a part of the base member or the apparatus body to reverse the lifting member.

Claims

1. An opening-closing device for an original pressing device, having:

a base member for fixation to the body of an apparatus on which the original pressing device is to be used;

a supporting member secured pivotably to the base member with a hinge pin;

a lifting member to which the rear portion of the original pressing device fixed directly or with any fixing member to the free end of the supporting member with a supporting pin reversibly in a direction in which the lifting member will overlap the supporting member; and

an elastic member provided between the base member and a different position from the pivoted position of the lifting member relative to the supporting member to force the supporting member along with the lifting member in the opening direction of the original pressing device while forcing the lifting member in a direction in which the lifting member will overlap the supporting member;

the opening-closing device further comprising;

means for limiting to a predetermined range the range of the lifting member being reversible about the pivoted position relative to the supporting member; and

an adjusting means abutting a part of the base member or the apparatus body when the lifting is closed to reverse the lifting member.

2. The opening-closing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the elastic member is a compression spring provided between the base and lifting members.

3. The opening-closing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the elastic member is a compression spring provided between a cam slider sliding on a cam surface of a cam member installed on a side of the base member and a pressure receiving pin fixed at a different position from the supporting pin of the lifting member.

4. The opening-closing device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the limiting means includes a sliding pin fixed to the cam slider, the supporting member having a pair of side plates, elongated guide holes formed in both side plates of the supporting member and in which the sliding pin is inserted movably at opposite ends thereof, the lifting member having a pair of side plates, and elongated control holes formed in both side plates of the lifting member and each having an enlarged portion at a beginning end thereof and in which the sliding pin is inserted movably at opposite ends thereof.

5. The opening-closing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the lifting member has a pair of side plates and the adjusting means is a rolling member installed on one or both of the side plates of the lifting member.

6. An opening-closing device for an original pressing device, comprising:

a base member for fixation to the body of an apparatus on which the original pressing device is to be used, consisting of a base plate and side plates rising from opposite ends of the base plate;

a cam member fixed to the base member;

a supporting member consisting of a back plate and side plates bent downward from opposite ends of the back plate, the side plates being coupled pivotably to outside the side plates of the base member with a hinge pin;

a lifting member to which the original pressing device is fixed, consisting of a back plate and side plates bent downward from opposite ends of the back plate, the back plate being overlapped on the back plate of the supporting member and the side plates being coupled pivotably to the outer free ends of the side plates of the supporting member with a supporting pin;

a compression spring provided between a cam slider retained slidably between the side plates of the supporting member and abutting the cam member and a pressure receiving pin fixed at a different position from the supporting pin of the lifting member;

a sliding pin fixed to the cam slider and extending through elongated guide holes formed in the side plates of the supporting member near the hinge pin and elongated control holes formed in the side plates of the lifting member near the free ends and each having an enlarged portion at the beginning end thereof; and

a ball bearing fixed by means of a holding member to at least one of fixing plates provided perpendicularly to the lower ends of sides plate of the lifting member and which abuts the apparatus body when the original pressing plate is closed.