Flexible safety cap for accommodating shafts of different diameters
AssigneeRose Plastic AG
InventorPeter Roesler
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Abstract
A flexible safety cap (1) for accommodating any tool (13, 14) among a group of tools having different diameters or different geometries, said cap having a terminating front wall (10) and an oppositely disposed clamping opening (8, 8′) with at least one non-round, acting clamping profile (5, 5′, 5″, 5′″, 5″″) wherein at least one slot (9) that penetrates through the wall of the safety cap (1) is disposed in the vicinity of the front wall (10) to establish an elastic, resilient clamping connection between an outside circumference of the tool (13, 14) and an inside wall of the safety cap (1).
Claims21
A flexible safety cap for accommodating a selected one of a plurality of objects, each of which have a different diameter or different geometry, said flexible safety cap comprising:
- a terminating front wall;
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- a clamping part that defines a clamping opening on the opposite end of said flexible safety cap from said terminating front wall, said clamping part having at least one dynamic, non-circular clamping profile that forms a clamping connection between the outside perimeter of the selected object and an inside wall of the clamping part, said clamping part having at least one slot that is located adjacent said terminating front wall and that penetrates through the wall of the clamping part.
A flexible safety cap that is adapted to receive an object that is selected from a group of objects that define different outer perimeters, said flexible safety cap comprising:
- a terminating front wall;
- at least two webs that are connected to said terminating front wall, said webs being separated by at least one slot between said webs;
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- an elastic clamping part that defines an inside wall and a first end that is connected to said webs, said clamping part also have a second end that is located oppositely from said first end that is connected to said webs, said second end defining a clamping opening having a major cross-section dimension and a minor cross-section dimension, said clamping part being elastically responsive to pressure against the outside of said clamping part in the direction of said major cross-section dimension to move said clamping part to a deformed position in which the major dimension of said clamping opening is decreased and the minor dimension of said clamping opening is increased so that, at times when said clamping part is in said deformed position, said resilient clamping part can receive said object in said clamping opening, and at times when said pressure against the outside of said clamping part in the direction of said major cross-section dimension is relaxed, the clamping opening of said elastic clamping part resiliently moves from said deformed position to a clamping position having a lengthened major dimension and a shortened minor dimension with the inside wall of the clamping part adjacent the shortened minor dimension contacting the outside perimeter of the object.
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