Two-part lockable housing
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsGerhard Thomas, Karl Wutz, Ehrenfried Fabry
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Abstract
A housing, in particular for electric switchgear and control gear, includes a first housing part and a second housing part to be detachably attached to the former. The housing also includes a lock whose at least one blocking element is movable in a displacement direction from an open position into a closed position by an operating slide connected to it, with the first housing part having at least one element engageable in a recess in the second housing part in the closed position, with a seating face arranged parallel to the displacement direction, and a section of the blocking element being in contact with the seating face on a side of the recess opposite the operating slide.
Claims16
A housing for accommodating one of a switchgear and a control gear comprising:
- a first housing part;
- a second housing part having a recess with recess walls and being detachably attached to, the first housing part;
- a lock including at least one blocking element connected to an operating slide, the at least one blocking element being selectively movable in a displacement direction between an open position and a closed position by operating the operating slide, wherein the first and second housing parts are separable in the open position, and wherein the first and second housing parts are locked together in the closed position;
- wherein the first housing part includes at least one means for engaging the recess walls of the second housing part, the at least one engaging means including a seating face disposed parallel to the displacement direction of the slide, and
- a section of the at least one blocking element contacting the seating face on a side of the recess opposite to the operating slide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.