PUSH ROD LOCK FOR A SWITCHGEAR CABINET HOUSING, CORRESPONDING ARRANGEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD

Abstract

The invention relates to a push rod lock for a switch cabinet housing, having a linearly adjustable push rod which is arranged on an inner side of a switch cabinet door and projects with a coupling piece from the inner side through the switch cabinet door, wherein a door lock plate which is mounted via an outer side of the switch cabinet door opposite the inner side is fixed to an actuating element which is coupled to the coupling piece via a mushroom pin connection on the switch cabinet door, wherein the push rod is adjustable between a second open position and a second closed position via the actuating element which is adjustable between a first open position and a first closed position, wherein the mushroom pin connection is arranged at least in a release position in which the door lock plate is removable from the switch cabinet door at least when the push rod is arranged in the second closed position and the actuating element is arranged in an intermediate position between the first open position and the first closed position, and wherein the mushroom pin connection assumes a locking position when the actuating element is transferred from the intermediate position into the second closed position when the door lock plate is placed on the switch cabinet door in the release position. Additionally, a corresponding arrangement and a corresponding method are described.

Claims

1. A push rod lock for a switch cabinet housing, having a linearly adjustable push rod which is arranged on an inner side of a switch cabinet door and projects with a coupling piece from the inner side through the switch cabinet door, wherein a door lock plate which is mounted via an outer side of the switch cabinet door opposite the inner side is fixed to an actuating element which is coupled to the coupling piece via a mushroom pin connection on the switch cabinet door, wherein the push rod is adjustable between a second open position and a second closed position via the actuating element which is adjustable between a first open position and a first closed position, wherein the mushroom pin connection is arranged at least in a release position in which the door lock plate is removable from the switch cabinet door at least when the push rod is arranged in the second closed position and the actuating element is arranged in an intermediate position between the first open position and the first closed position, and wherein the mushroom pin connection assumes a locking position when the actuating element is transferred from the intermediate position into the second closed position when the door lock plate is placed on the switch cabinet door in the release position.

2. The push rod lock according to claim 1, in which the mushroom pin connection has at least one keyhole-shaped opening through the switch cabinet door, in particular a door leaf plate thereof, and the door lock plate has at least one mushroom pin projecting from a support side, via which the door lock plate is placed on the outer side.

3. The push rod lock according to claim 1, in which the coupling piece projects through the switch cabinet door through an elongated hole extending in adjustment direction of the push rod, the coupling piece bearing against a longitudinal end of the elongated hole when the push rod is in the second closed position, so that the longitudinal end forms a stop for the coupling piece.

4. The push rod lock according to claim 1, in which the mushroom pin connection further comprises a locking bolt which is aligned with a recess in the switch cabinet door precisely when the mushroom pin connection assumes the locking position.

5. The push rod lock according to claim 4, in which the locking bolt is received in the locking position of the mushroom pin connection in one of the keyhole-shaped openings of the mushroom pin connection.

6. The push rod lock according to claim 4, in which the locking bolt is received in a bolt guide of the door lock plate, wherein the locking bolt has a spring-loaded bias relative to the bolt guide or is held in the bolt guide by frictional engagement.

7. The push rod lock according to claim 6, in which the actuating member is a lever which is pivotable and/or rotatable relative to a base of the door lock plate and the locking bolt projects from the base in its release position with an actuating pin over a side opposite the support side, wherein a free end of the actuating pin is displaced towards the side when the lever is transferred from the first open position in which it is pivoted or rotated relative to the side to the first closed position in which the lever rests on the side.

8. The push rod lock according to claim 1, in which the door lock plate is fixed via a support side of a base on the outer side of the switch cabinet door, the support side having a circumferentially closed sealing, and at least one mushroom pin of the mushroom pin connection and an adjusting element, via which the actuating element is coupled to the coupling piece, being arranged in a region enclosed by the sealing.

9. The push rod lock according to claim 8, in which the sealing is designed to have a friction coefficient as low as possible compared to a surface coating of the switch cabinet door, so that the sealing is a sliding bearing between the door lock plate and the switch cabinet door.

10. The push rod lock according to claim 1, in which a mushroom pin of the mushroom pin connection is a threaded bolt which is screwed into a threaded receptacle in a support side of the door lock plate, wherein a mushroom head of the mushroom pin has a tool receptacle which is accessible for a screwing tool via the inner side of the switch cabinet door.

11. An arrangement comprising a push rod lock according to claim 1 and a switch cabinet door which has a door hole pattern via which the door lock plate can be fixed to the switch cabinet door, wherein the door hole pattern has a first and a second keyhole-shaped opening and an elongated hole, the first keyhole-shaped opening being arranged below the elongated hole and aligned therewith, and the second keyhole-shaped opening being arranged above the elongated hole and offset with respect to the elongated hole, the door hole pattern preferably also having a cable passageway, the door hole pattern being concealed by the door lock plate when secured to the switch cabinet door.

12. A method for mounting a door lock plate on a switch cabinet door, wherein the door lock plate, when mounted on the switch cabinet door, is fixed via a mushroom pin connection by vertically displacing the door lock plate relative to the switch cabinet door, characterised in that the method comprises the steps: positioning an actuating element of the door lock plate in a first open position or in a first intermediate position between the first open position and a closed position of the actuating element; positioning a push rod, which is adjustable in vertical direction between a second open position and a second closed position at the inner side of the switchgear cabinet door, in the second closed position or a second intermediate position between the second open position and a second closed position of the push rod; placing the door lock plate with a vertical offset to its final mounting position on the switch cabinet door, wherein an adjusting element of an actuating element of the door lock plate is brought into engagement with a coupling piece of the push rod, and wherein furthermore at least one mushroom pin of the door lock plate is inserted into a keyhole-shaped opening of the switch cabinet door; if the push rod is not arranged in the second closed position, transferring the actuating element proportionately from the first open position or the first intermediate position in direction of the first closed position until the push rod is arranged in the second closed position; and when the push rod is arranged in the second closed position, transferring the actuating element into the first closed position and thereby displacing the door lock plate relative to the switch cabinet door until the door lock plate is arranged in an end position in which the mushroom pin connection assumes a locking position.

13. The method according to claim 12, in which in the end position a locking bolt is inserted in the keyhole-shaped opening of the switch cabinet door or in a further recess in the switch cabinet door, so that the door lock plate is fixed in vertical direction relative to the switch cabinet door.

14. The method according to claim 12, in which, in the course of transferring the actuating element into the first closed position, wherein a lever of the actuating element is pivoted or rotated into a receptacle in the base of the door lock plate, an actuating pin, via which the locking bolt projects into the receptacle, is displaced out of the receptacle in direction of the switch cabinet door.

15. The method according to one of claim 12, in which, for unlocking the door lock plate, the actuating element is first brought into the first open position and, to this end, a lever which is pivotable or rotatable relative to a base of the door lock plate is pivoted or rotated out of a receptacle in which the lever is received in the first closed position, wherein in the following the locking bolt is pressed into a bolt guide of the door lock plate from the inner side of the switch cabinet door, wherein the locking bolt is disengaged from the keyhole-shaped opening or from the further recess and projects with an actuating pin into the receptacle.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein in the end position the mushroom pin is further screwed into the door lock plate and thus the door lock plate is sealingly fixed to the switch cabinet door under compression of a sealing between the switch cabinet door and the door lock plate.

Description

DRAWINGS

[0032] The drawings described herein are for illustrative purposes only of selected embodiments and not all possible implementations, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure

[0033] Further details of the invention are explained in the following figure description, where the respective figures show:

[0034] FIG. 1 shows a top view of the support side of a door lock plate according to an embodiment of the invention;

[0035] FIG. 2 shows a top view of the support side of a door lock plate according to another embodiment of the invention;

[0036] FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a door lock plate according to an embodiment of the invention with opened swivel lever;

[0037] FIG. 4 shows a detailed view of the inner side of a switch cabinet door in the area of the door lock plate, wherein the mushroom pin connection is located between its locking position and its release position;

[0038] FIG. 5 shows a further detailed view of the inner side of a switch cabinet door, the mushroom pin connection being in the locking position;

[0039] FIG. 6 shows an enlargement of the view according to FIG. 5 in the area of the mushroom pin connection;

[0040] FIG. 7 shows a top view of the outer side of a switch cabinet door with the door lock plate disassembled;

[0041] FIG. 8 shows a detailed view of the push rod lock on the inner side of a switch cabinet door;

[0042] FIG. 9 shows a detailed view of the push rod lock on the inner side of the switch cabinet door according to yet another embodiment of the invention; and

[0043] FIG. 10 shows a door hole pattern according to an embodiment of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0044] Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0045] FIG. 1 depicts an exemplary embodiment of a door lock plate 6 showing the support side 10 of the door lock plate 6, via which the door lock plate 6 can be mounted on the outer side of a switch cabinet door (not shown). Two mushroom pins 11 extend perpendicularly to the support side 10, which have at their free end a mushroom head 25 with a tool holder 26, in this case a slot for a flat-head screwdriver, which is widened compared to the shaft of the mushroom pin 11. Furthermore, a circumferential sealing 21 is applied to the support side 10, via which the support side 10 rests on the outer side of a switch cabinet door. The sealing 21 can be an in-situ applied PU sealing which has a substance-bonded connection with the support side 10 and/or a low friction coefficient in order to facilitate the vertical displacement of the door lock plate 6 when locking it on the outer side of the switch cabinet door.

[0046] An actuating element 7 of the door lock plate 6 has, on the support side 10 facing the switch cabinet door, an adjusting element 22 with a form-fit adapter 28 via which the actuating element 7 can be brought into engagement with a coupling piece 4 of a push rod 3 of the push rod lock 1 (see FIG. 7), the form-fit consisting at least in the adjusting direction of the element 28.

[0047] One of the two mushroom pins 11 is provided with a locking bolt 14. The locking bolt 14 is guided in a bolt receiver 15 perpendicular to the support side 10. In an end position of the door lock plate in relation to the switch cabinet door, i.e. in an assembly position, the locking bolt 14 can engage in a recess in the switch cabinet door to fix the door lock plate 6 in its end position.

[0048] While the door lock plate shown in FIG. 1 is formed in the manner of a swiveling lever lock (see WO 99/36654 A1), the door lock plate shown in FIG. 2 is formed in the manner of a rack and pinion lock (see WO 99/16994 A1).

[0049] Analogous to the door lock plate shown in FIG. 1, the door lock plate shown in FIG. 2 also has a element 22, which has several form-fit receptacles 28 in order to be able to form the door lock plate 6 as an identical part both for the left and right stop of the switch cabinet door. In the case of the embodiment according to FIG. 1, the form-fit receptacle 28 is correspondingly wider to provide the stop variation in the direction perpendicular to the vertical direction, so that the form-fit receptacle 28 in the case of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 is designed for both the left stop and the right stop.

[0050] The actuating element 7 shown in FIG. 2 also has two diametrically opposed mushroom pins 11 with a shaft and a mushroom head 25. The bolt receptacle 24 is designed in the way of a threaded receptacle, i.e. the mushroom pin 11 is a threaded pin so that it can be pretensioned against the support side 10 of the door lock plate 6, e.g. to fix the door lock plate 6 in its end position on the switch cabinet door while compressing a sealing element 21 on the outer circumference of the door lock plate 6, or for adjustment purposes.

[0051] FIG. 3 shows a detailed view of a door lock plate 6 in the open position, i.e. with the lever 17 swiveled away from the receptacle 27, in the form of a swiveling lever. In this illustration a knee lever 30 of the actuating element 7 is visible, via which the lever 17 is operatively coupled with the adjusting element 22 (see FIG. 1). A locking bolt 14 (see FIG. 1) extends into the receptacle 27 on the side facing the receptacle 27 with an actuating pin 18 in the open position of the lever 17 shown in FIG. 3. The lever 17 is formed on the side facing the receptacle 27 in such a way that when the lever 17 swings completely into the receptacle 27, the free end of the actuating pin 18 hits the lever 17 and is moved by it further in the direction of the receptacle 27, so that the locking bolt 14 (see FIG. 1) is driven out of its bolt receptacle 15 in order to enter a receptacle in the switch cabinet door in the end position of the door lock plate 6 relative to the switch cabinet door and thus to fix the door lock plate 6 relative to the switch cabinet door.

[0052] The locking method is explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 to 7. Firstly, with reference to FIG. 7, a top view of the outer side 5 of a switch cabinet door 100 is shown, whereby the switch cabinet door 100 can be a sheet metal shaped part which, in particular at its vertical longitudinal edge opposite the door stop, has an L-edge, to which a push rod lock 1 with a push rod 3 guided on the inside of the door is assigned on the inner side of the switch cabinet door 100. The push rod 3 extends from the inner side 2 of the switch cabinet door 100 with a coupling piece 4 through the outer side 5 of the switch cabinet door 100 and projects beyond the outer side 5 with the coupling piece 4, so that when a door lock plate 6 is placed on the outer side 5, the door lock plate 6 can be coupled via its form-fit receptacle 28 in the adjusting element 22 with the actuating element 7 of the door lock plate 6.

[0053] The switch cabinet door 100 has a vertical elongated hole 12, along which the coupling piece 4 can be adjusted in vertical direction. Corresponding centering notches 37 in the coupling piece 4 and on a boundary side of the elongated hole 12 serve to pre-align the coupling piece 4 and thus the push rod lock 1 in order to facilitate the mounting of the door lock plate 6 on the switch cabinet door 100. As can be seen, the lower cabinet door notch 37 is closer to the lower elongated hole end 13 than the upper elongated hole end 13, and conversely the switch cabinet door upper notch 37 is closer to the upper elongated hole end 13 than the lower elongated hole end 13.

[0054] Thus, in the case of the right stop of the door 100 shown in FIG. 7, the door lock plate 6 in its open position can be fitted to the outer side 5 of the door 100 by coupling the coupling piece 4 to the outer side 5, so that the door lock plate 6 with its mushroom pin passes through the widened areas of two diametrically opposite keyhole-shaped openings 9 through the switch cabinet door 100. In the following, the door lock plate 6 is transferred from its open position to the closed position, for example by swiveling the lever 17 shown in FIG. 3 from the shown open position into the receptacle 27. In this case, the coupling piece 4 meets the lower longitudinal end 13 of the elongated hole 12 as shown in FIG. 7 before the closed position of the door lock plate or the actuating element 7 of the door lock plate 6 is reached, i.e. before the lever 17 (see FIG. 3) is completely swiveled into the receptacle 27, so that further swiveling of the lever 17 leads to the door lock plate 6 being displaced upwards in the drawing plane, i.e. along the outer side 5 of the door 100, and thus the mushroom pin connection formed between the mushroom pins 11 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) and the keyhole-shaped opening 9 (see FIG. 7) is transferred into its connecting position, and the door lock plate 6 is fixed to the door 100.

[0055] FIG. 4 shows the position which the arrangement assumes when the coupling piece 4 meets the longitudinal end 13 of elongated hole 12, which acts as a stop, while the door lock plate 6 does not yet assume its end position by further displacement in the vertical direction, in which the mushroom heads 25 have completely emerged from the widened region of the keyhole-shaped openings 9 and the connecting pin 14 is completely aligned with the keyhole-shaped opening 9, so that the connecting pin 14 can be driven into the keyhole-shaped opening 9 for fixing the door lock plate 6 to the door. The above mentioned end position is shown in FIG. 5, where the locking bolt 14 is aligned with the keyhole-shaped opening 9 over its entire cross-section. A detailed view of this is shown in FIG. 6.

[0056] In the end position shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the mushroom pin 11 can be further screwed into the door lock plate 6 via the tool receptacle 26, so that the door lock plate is braced against the switch cabinet door, whereby a sealing arranged between the door lock plate 6 and the outer side of the door 100 is compressed, so that the required IP protection class is achieved.

[0057] Accordingly, for dismantling the door lock plate 6 from the switch cabinet door, in a first step the mushroom pin 11 can be unscrewed from the door lock plate 6 again, if necessary, in order to release the pretension between the switch cabinet door and the door lock plate. The locking bolt 14, which can be particularly accommodated in the bolt receptacle of the door lock plate by means of friction engagement, can then be pressed from the inner side 2 in the direction of the door lock plate 6, so that the locking pin 14 is disengaged from the keyhole-shaped opening 9. Then, the mushroom pin connection can be released by manually moving the door lock plate in the vertical direction relative to the switch cabinet door 100.

[0058] FIGS. 8 and 9 show in particular that the push rod 3 on the inner side 2 of the door 100 can be formed by several parts, whereby the individual segments of the push rod 3 are fixed to the door 100 in the same way as the door lock plate via a mushroom pin connection, but are vertically displaceable. For this purpose, guide grooves 34 of the push rod segments 3 have pin receptacles 35 over which the push rod segments 3 can be placed on an undercut door pin 33 which extends perpendicularly to the inner side 2 of the door 100. At their longitudinal ends, the push rod segments each have hooks 38, via which the push rods 3 can be engaged with corresponding counter-holders on the frame of the switch cabinet housing in order to hold the switch cabinet door in a closed position. Connectors 39 are assigned to each hook 38 to fix the various push rod segments 3 together. In order to avoid accidental disengagement of the segments from the switch cabinet door, the push rod segments can be fixed to door 100 using holders 40, which are snapped onto door pins 33. By cleverly combining push rod segments 3 of different lengths, the push rod 3 can be variably adapted to different switch cabinet door heights.

[0059] In a variation of the door hole pattern shown in FIG. 7, FIG. 10 shows a door hole pattern associated with a folded edge 41 on the outer longitudinal edge of a door leaf of a switch cabinet door 100, via which a door lock plate (not shown) can be fixed on the side of the switch cabinet door 100 facing away from the hinge side. The door hole pattern has a first and a second keyhole-shaped opening 9 and an elongated hole 12, wherein the first keyhole-shaped opening 9 is arranged below the elongated hole 12 and aligned therewith and the second keyhole-shaped opening 9 is arranged above the elongated hole 12 and offset therewith. The door hole pattern further comprises a cable passageway 42 arranged below the second keyhole-shaped opening 9 and to the side of the first keyhole-shaped opening 9. The door hole pattern is completely covered by the door lock plate 6 when it is fixed to the switch cabinet door 100. The cable passageway 42 is optional and especially required for electronic door lock plates.

[0060] The features disclosed in the above description, drawings and claims may be essential to the realization of the invention, either individually or in any combination.

[0061] The foregoing description of the embodiments has been provided for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure. Individual elements or features of a particular embodiment are generally not limited to that particular embodiment, but, where applicable, are interchangeable and can be used in a selected embodiment, even if not specifically shown or described. The same may also be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the disclosure, and all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the disclosure.