Movable holder

• US 8,904,709 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2008
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sugatsune Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sugatsune Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ajiki, Shinichi, Oshima, Kazuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Strimbu, Gregory J.
• Application Number:
  US12/680,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20110131885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,259 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 49/246
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 17/32 consisting of two or more pivoted rods
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/34 with wings opening parallel to themselves
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 3/14 with four parallel pins and two arms
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1091 with a gas spring E05F1/1292 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1292 with a gas spring
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/14 with double-acting springs, e.g. for closing and opening or checking and closing no material
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furnitures, e.g. cabinets

Abstract

A moveable holder for connecting a moveable member to a stationary member includes two pivoting arms mountable between the members. The moveable member has a position abutting the stationary member and a position spaced away from the stationary member. One of the arms is spring-loaded such that the moveable member is easily urged to either the abutting position or the spaced-away position when the moveable member is located at a neutral position intermediate to the abutting position and the spaced-away position.

Claims

1. A movable holder including first and second mount members adapted to be attached to a movable member and a stationary member, respectively, and two link arms each having a first end pivotally supported on one of said first and second mount members and a second end pivotally supported on the other of said first and second mount members'"'"' said movable holder adapted to hold said movable member on said stationary member so as to be able to move said movable member forward and backward

between a first position where said movable member approaches said stationary member and a second position where said movable member is away from said stationary member by pivotal movement of said two link arms relative to said mount members, a spring urging said two link arms to automatically pivotally move toward either one of first and second positions of said link arms corresponding to said first and second positions of said movable member, respectively'"'"' when said two link arms are shifted from a neutral position of said link arms disposed between said first and second positions of said link arms toward a respective one of said first and second positions of said link arms, said movable holder characterized by further including a swinging arm having one end of said swinging arm pivotally attached to said first mount member adjacent to a pivotal attachment of one of said first and second ends of one of said link arms to said first mount member and another end of said swinging arm slidable along a linear guide provided in said one of said link arms and said spring being disposed between said one of said link arms and said swinging arm so as to urge said another end of said swinging arm along said linear guide and urge said link arms toward one of said first or second positions of said link arms, and wherein said linear guide comprises an elongated groove provided in said one of said link arms and the another end of said swinging arm has a pivotal pin slidably engaged within said elongated groove, wherein a longitudinal axis of said spring intersects said pivotal attachment of said one of said link arms to said first mount member.

2. A movable holder as set forth in claim 1, wherein a movable end of said spring is connected to said pivotal pin.