Sheet metal handle, and cover with sheet metal handle
AssigneeAesculap AG
InventorsSvenja Klemm, Matthias Henke
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Abstract
A handle, preferably for a lid of a medical sieve basket, and a method of forming a handle. The handle includes a base body having a handle bar and at least one holding portion adjoining the handle bar, and at least one eyelet-shaped or bent fixing lug arranged at an end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar for pivotal mounting of the handle. The base body is formed of a planar sheet metal that includes at least one lug-like projection at the end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar. The projection is bent to form the fixing lug. The handle can be pivotally secured to a lid.
Claims15
A handle for a lid of a medical sieve basket, the handle comprising:
- a base body having or forming a handle bar and a holding portion adjoining the handle bar;
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- at least one fixing lug that is eyelet-shaped or bent in a rounded shape and is arranged at an end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar for pivotal mounting of the handle,
- the base body comprising a planar sheet metal, which, at the end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar, is made as one piece into at least one lug-like projection extending the holding portion in a direction opposite the handle bar, the at least one lug-like projection being bent round with respect to the holding portion to form the at least one fixing lug such that the at least one fixing lug is configured over its width for pivotal mounting of the handle.
A medical sieve basket assembly comprising:
- a handle comprising:
- a base body having or forming a handle bar and a holding portion adjoining the handle bar;
- and
- at least one fixing lug that is eyelet-shaped or bent and is arranged at an end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar for pivotal mounting of the handle,
- the base body comprising a planar sheet metal, which, at the end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar, is made as one piece into at least one lug-like projection extending the holding portion in a direction opposite the handle bar, the at least one lug-like projection being bent with respect to the holding portion to form the at least one fixing lug such that the at least one fixing lug is configured over its width for pivotal mounting of the handle;
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- a lid comprising at least one fixing strut or at least one hinge pin that is circumferentially enclosed by the at least one fixing lug and to which the handle is pivotably attached.
A method of forming a handle for a lid from a sheet-metal blank, the handle comprising:
- a base body having or forming a handle bar and a holding portion adjoining the handle bar, and at least one fixing lug that is eyelet-shaped or bent and is arranged at an end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar for pivotal mounting of the handle, wherein the base body comprises a planar sheet metal, which, at the end of the holding portion opposite the handle bar, is made as one piece into at least one lug-like projection extending the holding portion in a direction opposite the handle bar, the at least one lug-like projection being bent with respect to the holding portion to form the at least one fixing lug such that the at least one fixing lug is configured over its width for pivotal mounting of the handle, the method comprising the steps of:
- forming the at least one lug-like projection into the at least one fixing lug, the at least one fixing lug being curved such that the at least one fixing lug takes on an open, bent shape;
- inserting a fixing strut of the lid into the at least one fixing lug so that the at least one fixing lug encloses the fixing strut;
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- forming the at least one fixing lug in such a way that a free end of the at least one fixing lug is arranged closer to the base body and/or the free end comes to rest on the base body and the fixing strut is enclosed and pivotably secured by the at least one fixing lug.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.