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US 4,301,600 AGranted
Locating mechanism
AssigneeGeneral Hardware Manufacturing Company
InventorPeter W. Charnley
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AssigneeGeneral Hardware Manufacturing Company
InventorPeter W. Charnley
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A locating mechanism in which a pin or bolt is slidably accommodated in a bore for movement between a locking position and an unlocking position. The pin has a locking projection at one end and is provided with means for preventing rotation of the pin within the bore and hence ensuring that the locking projection is at all times oriented in the desired direction. The means is also operable to limit the extent by which the pin or bolt may slide longitudinally within the bore and, hence, serves to control the degree of travel of the locking projection. The means is a C-spring which extends radially outwardly from the pin or bolt and is seated in a registering recess which opens into the bore. In this manner the C-spring will prevent rotation of the pin within the bore and will permit longitudinal displacement of the pin in the bore by an extent corresponding to the permissible flexing of the C-spring until such time as the limbs of the C-spring come together into abutting relationship.
A locating mechanism comprising a body having a bore extending therethrough, an elongated pin seated and longitudinally displaceable within said bore, and a C-spring having a first end seated within a transverse bore in said pin and a second end accommodated in a registering bore in said body.
A locating mechanism comprising a body slidably mounted on a track, an elongated pin seated within a bore in said body and having a locking projection engagable with said track, a C-spring having one end seated in a transverse bore in the pin and the opposite end seated in a registering bore in the body and means for displacing said pin through said bore against the bias of said spring to move the projection into locking engagement with the track.
A drawing angle for mounting on a rule, said angle comprising a body having an angle reference surface and a slot opening into said reference surface, a bore within the body and opening into said slot, an elongated pin longitudinally displaceable within said bore and having one end provided with a locking projection disposed in said slot and the opposite end in screwthreaded engagement with a nut operable to draw the pin longitudinally through said bore, and a C-spring having one end seated in a radial bore in the pin and the other end seated in a registering recess in the body to prevent rotation of the pin within the bore while permitting limited longitudinal displacement of said pin in said bore.
In drawing protractor and rule combination comprising an inner member keyed on a reference base and bearing an angular scale and an outer member rotatable around the inner member and incorporating a reference surface antularly displaceable with respect to said reference base to form therewith a selectively adjustable included angle, the improvement wherein the keyed mounting between the inner member and the reference base incorporates a groove extending at least part way along said base, a pin slidably accommodated in a bore formed in the inner member, said pin having a locking projection at one end seatable within said groove and means proximate the other end for drawing said pin through said bore away from said groove to draw said projection into locking engagement with the groove sidewall, and a C-spring having a first end seated within a transverse bore in the pin and a second end seated in a registering recess opening into the pin accommodating bore to prevent rotation of said pin within said bore and to limit sliding movement of said pin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.