US 6,516,821 B1Granted

Stageless adjusting/locating device for sticks

OwnerShinichi Uemurainventor

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Abstract

A stageless adjusting/locating device for various kinds of sticks enables both right-handed user and left-handed users to conveniently stagelessly adjust the length of a stick. The stick is composed of multiple telescopic fitting tubes including mother fitting tubes and daughter fitting tubes nested in the mother fitting tubes. The adjusting/locating device is disposed at each of the mother and daughter fitting tubes. The adjusting/locating device includes a screw member formed by a threaded rod having outer threads and a locking member composed of two semicylindrical bodies mating with the threaded rod. A fastening ring is fixedly fitted around the locking member. The inner circumferential faces of the two semicylindrical bodies are formed with inner threads. An upper and a lower end of the inner threads are formed with thick sections converging from thin sections. The inner wall faces of the thick sections are formed with semielliptic arch faces. By rotating the daughter fitting tube in either a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction, the screw member is simultaneously rotated to expand the locking member so as to tightly abut against the inner circumferential face of the mother fitting tube and thus easily and reliably achieve an adjustment.

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Dependent claims

Stageless adjusting/locating device for a stick, the stick being composed of multiple telescopic fitting tubes including at least one mother fitting tube and at least one daughter fitting tube nested in the mother fitting tube, the adjusting /locating device being disposed between the mother and daughter fitting tubes for adjusting a position of the daughter tube relative to the mother tube and for locking the daughter tube in the adjusted position, said adjusting/locating device comprising:

a screw member which is a threaded rod having an outer circumferential face formed with an outer thread and upper and lower end faces, a lower end of the threaded rod being integrally connected with a cylindrical fixing section which is inserted into an insertion end of the daughter fitting tube, the upper and lower end faces of the threaded rod being formed with frustoconical surfaces converging in a direction away from the center of the threaded rod;
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a locking member which is composed of two semicylindrical bodies, adjacent sides of the semicylindrical bodies being connected with each other via connecting plates, an outer circumferential face of the locking member being formed with multiple annular grooves in which a fastening ring is fixedly inlaid, inner circumferential faces of the two semicylindrical bodies being formed with inner threads, an upper end and a lower end of the inner threads being formed with thick sections converging from thin sections, inner wall faces of the thick sections being formed with semielliptic arch faces arranged to be engaged by a respective one of said frustoconical surfaces upon rotation of said daughter fitting tube in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, the respective one of said frustoconical surfaces thereby causing the locking member to expand the locking member so as to tightly abut against the inner circumferential face of the mother fitting tube and thus adjustably locate the daughter fitting tube.

a screw member which is a threaded rod having an outer circumferential face formed with outer thread and upper and lower end faces, a lower end of the threaded rod being integrally connected with a cylindrical fixing section which is inserted into an insertion end of the daughter fitting tube, the upper and lower end faces of the threaded rod being formed with diverging large diameter sections having frustoconical surfaces;
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the a locking member which is composed of two semicylindrical bodies, the adjacent sides of the semicylindrical bodies being connected with each other via connecting plates, an outer circumferential face of the locking member being formed with multiple annular grooves in which a fastening ring is fixedly inlaid, inner circumferential faces of the two semicylindrical bodies being formed with inner threads, two ends of the inner threads being formed with slope faces arranged to cooperate with the diverging large diameter sections of the threaded rod to cause the slope faces of the inner threads to be engaged by a respective one of said frustoconical surfaces upon rotation of said daughter fitting tube in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, the engagement between a respective slope face and a corresponding one of said frustoconical surfaces thereby causing the threaded rod to expand the locking member so as to tightly abut against the inner circumferential face of the mother fitting tube and thus adjustably locate the daughter fitting tube.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.