Apparatus for positioning and supporting optical laboratory instruments
OwnerJean Delageinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a device for positioning and supporting apparatus, particularly for optical instruments in a laboratory, constituted on the one hand by a support rail and on the other hand by a clamp mounted to slide on said rail, the rail being constituted by a linear circular-sectioned tubular structure, the tubular section having four diametrically opposite radial fins projecting therefrom, the clamp is adapted to be positioned on two adjacent fins, the clamp comprising two side branches, one of which receives an adjustable locking member abutling an outer face of a fin.
Claims4
A device for supporting and positioning relatively movable instruments such as optical apparatus used in laboratories, said device comprising:
- a rail constituted by a linear tubular structure and comprising at least three radial fins projecting from said tubular structure, the ends of said fins being equidistant from one another;
- a plurality of clamps, each clamp being constituted by a plate comprising a flat outer face adapted to fixedly receive said instruments, and an inner face slidably mounted on any two adjacent fins of said rail, the inner face of each clamp comprising a first side branch forming a groove whose section is substantially complementary to the section of a fin and receiving one of the two adjacent fins and, on the opposite side, a second side branch supporting a locking member having a surface adapted to abut in locking position the second fin, said groove and said locking member being situated at a distance from each other corresponding to the distance separating any two adjacent fins, thus permitting any clamp slidably to be mounted on any two of the radial fins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.