Device for triggering a gas spring
AssigneeIngeborg Wandschneider
InventorGuido Wandschneider
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Abstract
A device for triggering a gas spring (b 1) with an actuating device (2) and an actuating member (4) operatively connected to the actuating device (2) and acting directly upon a terminal trigger (3) of the gas spring (1) is designed and constructed for a simple and reliable actuation with reduced triggering forces and an infinitely variable regulation of the extension speed and extended position such that the actuating member (4) is constructed as a force and/or distance reducing or multiplying lever arrangement (5), and that one of the levers—triggering lever (6)—directly presses the trigger (3)
Claims7
A device for triggering a gas spring having a trigger which is moveable between a locked position and a release position and comprising
- a triggering lever having one end mounted for pivotal movement about a first fixed axis and positioned for engagement with said trigger at a medial location along the length of said triggering lever,
- a connecting lever pivotally connected at one end thereof to an opposite end of said triggering lever,
- an actuating lever having one end mounted for pivotal movement about a second fixed axis, with the actuating lever having an opposite free end, and with the connecting lever being pivotally connected to the actuating lever at a location intermediate the ends of the actuating lever, and
- an actuating device for moving said opposite free end of said actuating lever so as to cause said triggering lever to engage and move said trigger toward one of said locked and release positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.