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US 8,424,174 B2Granted
Fastener for ornaments having a pin
AssigneeEri Kikunaga
InventorsEri Kikunaga, Katsushi Matsushima
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Abstract
A fastener for ornaments includes a housing 12 having a pin passing hole 16 and an opening portion 19. A guide 22 has a small diameter portion 23a at the pin passing hole 16 side. A movable operating body 32 has a grip member 34 protruded to an exterior from the opening portion 19 at one end 33a of a column portion 33 and having, at another end 33b, a small ball holder portion 35, with which in a latched state, a surface at a small ball 46 side of its outer peripheral surface 37 closely contacts an inner peripheral surface 24 of the guide 22. A coil spring 52 pressingly urges the movable operating body 35 in a pin clamping direction. A plurality of small balls 46 disposed in the movable operating body clamp an inserted pin (P).
Claims7
A fastener for ornament comprising:
- a housing including an upper housing member having a pin passing hole for entry and exit of a pin in an ornament, and lower housing member having an opening portion provided at a position directly opposite to the pin passing hole;
- a guide of frustoconical shape having a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion, the guide being entirely housed in the upper housing member and supported on an end of the lower housing member;
- a movable operating body having a cylindrical inner member including a pin introducing passage, through which the pin is introduced via a pin introducing hole facing the pin passing hole, and a small ball holder portion of frustoconical shape having an outer peripheral surface contacting an inner peripheral surface of the guide and including a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion, and outer pipe member fixed to an outer side of the cylindrical inner member and including a cylindrical column portion fixed to the cylindrical inner member and a grip member continuous to the cylindrical column portion;
- a coil spring pressingly urging the movable operating body in a direction of the pin passing hole, the coil spring being arranged on a circumferential side of the outer pipe member of the movable operating body, the coil spring having a frustoconical shape having a small diameter portion at the pin passing hole side and having a large diameter portion at the opening portion side;
- the guide having a small diameter portion side of the frustoconical shape positioned at the pin passing hole side;
- the cylindrical inner member of the movable operating body having the small diameter portion of the frustoconical shape of the small ball holder portion positioned at the pin passing hole side;
- the outer pipe member of the movable operating body having one end side of the cylindrical column portion latched to the opening portion of the lower housing member and having the grip member disposed so as to protrude from the lower housing member to an exterior of a case;
- a frustoconical inner peripheral surface of the guide and a frustoconical outer peripheral surface of the small ball holder portion being in contact while having a same taper angle in a range of 10 to 20 degrees with respect to a central axis of the guide and a central axis of the small ball holder portion;
- the small ball holder portion is being arranged from three small balls disposed in positional relationship of opposing each other, and an embracing portion housing the three small balls;
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- the respective small balls being housed in the embracing portion in a manner such that the small balls, which are pushed in toward an axial center when one side spherical surfaces of the respective small balls positioned at the outer peripheral surface side of the small ball holder portion pressure contact the inner peripheral surface of the guide, clamp the pin as a whole by pressure contact by other side spherical surfaces of the respective small balls at positions of directly facing the pin.
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A fastener for ornaments, comprising:
- a housing including an upper housing member having a pin passing hole for entry and exit of a pin in an ornament, and lower housing member having an opening portion provided at a position directly opposite to the pin passing hole;
- a guide of frustoconical shape having a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion;
- a movable operating body having a cylindrical inner member including a pin introducing passage, through which the pin is introduced via a pin introducing hole facing the pin passing hole, and a small ball holder portion of frustoconical shape having an outer peripheral surface contacting an inner peripheral surface of the guide and including a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion, and outer pipe member fixed to an outer side of the cylindrical inner member and including a cylindrical column portion fixed to the cylindrical inner member and a grip member continuous to the cylindrical column portion;
- a coil spring pressingly urging the movable operating body in a direction of the pin passing hole;
- the guide having a small diameter portion side of the frustoconical shape positioned at the pin passing hole side;
- the cylindrical inner member of the movable operating body having the small diameter portion of the frustoconical shape of the small ball holder portion positioned at the pin passing hole side;
- the outer pipe member of the movable operating body having one end side of the cylindrical column portion latched to the opening portion of the lower housing member and having the grip member disposed so as to protrude from the lower housing member to an exterior of a case;
- a frustoconical inner peripheral surface of the guide and a frustoconical outer peripheral surface of the small ball holder portion being in contact while having a same taper angle in a range of 10 to 20 degrees with respect to a central axis of the guide and a central axis of the small ball holder portion;
- the small ball holder portion being arranged from three small balls disposed in positional relationship of opposing each other, and an embracing portion housing the three small balls;
- a slit in the movable operating body such that the movable operating body reduces in diameter when a portion thereof including the embracing portion closely contacts the inner peripheral surface of the guide in a direction along the central axis;
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- the respective small balls being housed in the embracing portion in a manner such that the small balls, which are pushed in toward an axial center when one side spherical surfaces of the respective small balls positioned at the outer peripheral surface side of the small ball holder portion pressure-contact the inner peripheral surface of the guide, clamp the pin as a whole by pressure contact by other side spherical surfaces of the respective small balls at positions of directly facing the pin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.