Snap-and-click hatrack fastener
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsMarkus Horst, Robert Hogh
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Abstract
The invention relates to a fastening device for installing a hatrack on a substructure of a means of locomotion, wherein the fastening device comprises a pre-locking device and a main locking device. In this arrangement the pre-locking device is designed for automatic provisional affixation of the hatrack to the fastening device when the hatrack during an installation movement of the hatrack is moved in the direction to the fastening device. The main locking device is designed for final affixation of the hatrack to the fastening device.
Claims16
A fastening device for installing a hatrack on a substructure of a means of locomotion, with the fastening device comprising:
- a pre-locking device;
- and
- a main locking device;
- wherein the pre-locking device is designed for automatic provisional affixation of the hatrack to the fastening device when the hatrack is moved in the direction to the fastening device during installation;
- wherein the main locking device is designed for final affixation of the hatrack to the fastening device.
A fastening device for snap-and-click installation of the hatrack to the substructure of the means of locomotion, comprising:
- a fork head having a fork that is formed by two limbs, wherein each limb comprises an opening;
- a main bolt that constitutes a main locking device and that is displaceable, along its longitudinal direction of extension, between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the main bolt in the locked position is held in the openings of both limbs, and in the unlocked position is held only in the opening of one of the limbs;
- an eye that is designed such that in an installed state it can be received between the two limbs of the fork head, wherein the main bolt in the locked position engages the eye in such a way that the eye is connected to the fork head, and wherein the main bolt in the unlocked position completely releases the eye;
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- a pre-locking device comprising a pressure member, wherein the pre-locking device on at least one limb of the fork head is designed and arranged in such a way that the pressure member can be dislocated between a locking position and a release position and that when the main bolt is in the unlocked position and the pressure member is in the locking position the eye rests in a pre-locking position on the pressure member, and that when the main bolt is in the unlocked position and the pressure member is in the release position the eye is completely released.
A method for installation of a hatrack on a fastening device, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- moving the hatrack in the direction of the fastening device;
- automatic provisional affixation of the hatrack by means of a pre-locking device;
- and
- final affixation of the hatrack by means of a main locking device.
A method for deinstalling a hatrack from a fastening device, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
- releasing a main locking device;
- dislocating the hatrack from a final affixation position to a provisional affixation position;
- undoing the pre-locking device;
- and
- removing the hatrack from the fastening device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.