WALL THROUGH FIXTURE DEVICE

Abstract

A pair of latch members 36R, 36L in a case 20C protrudes from an outer face of the case 20C by a spring 38 and when the case 20C is passed through a wall hole 22H, the latch members 36R, 36L are narrowed by an engagement between outer edge (guiding) slant face 36ROI, 36LOI and a wall hole 22H and after the case 20C has passed through the wall hole 22H, the latch members 36R, 36L are spread by a spring 38 so as to engage the engagement slant faces 36RLI, 36LLI with the wall hole 22H and also while fixing temporarily the case 22C to the wall 22 together with a flange 20FL of the case 22C. After that, a screw 32 is screwed to draw the nut 34 toward the flange 20FL and to engage securely the latch members 36R, 36L held to the nut 34 with the wall hole 22H to complete secure fixing of the case 20C.

Claims

1. A wall through fixture device comprising a case with a flange of an object, the flange being engaged with an outer face of a wall, the case being passed through the wall and a wall inner face engagement means held by the case, the wall inner face engagement means being driven so as to engage with an inner face of the wall, thereby fixing securely the object to the wall with sandwiching the wall by the flange of the case and the wall inner face engagement means characterized in that the wall inner face engagement means comprises: a screw being rotatably supported to the case; a nut being held non-rotatably in the case and being allowed to move along to a direction becoming near and apart with respect to a face of the wall; at least one latch member being held displaceably to the nut in a direction along to a face of the wall and being engaged with an inner face of the wall and; a resilient member for urging the latch member apart from the nut; wherein the screw is screwed into the nut so as to make the nut and the latch member move toward the inner face of the wall, thereby sandwiching the wall between the flange of the case and the latch member.

2. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein between the latch member and a hole of the wall a drawing back means is disposed and the drawing back means moves so as to draw back the latch member from an outer face of the case by engaging with the hole of the wall for allowing passage through the hole of the wall against the resilient member when the case passes through the hole of the wall.

3. The wall through fixture device of any one of claim 2, wherein the drawing back means consists of an outer peripheral slant face disposed at an outer periphery of the latch member and the outer peripheral slant surface makes the latch member move near to the nut against the resilient member by engaging with an edge of the hole of the wall when the case pass through the hole of the wall.

4. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein the case comprises a guide disposed in the case for engaging into a guide recess of the nut which allows the nut and the latch member to move slidably along to a direction becoming near and apart to a face of the wall and supports non-rotatably to a rotation direction of the nut.

5. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein the case comprises a backup tapered face disposed in the case and the backup tapered face backups the latch member such that the latch member engages with the backup tapered face for not coming the latch member near to the nut when the nut and the latch member move toward the flange side of the case in the direction becoming near and apart to a flange side of the case.

6. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein the latch member is supported slidably to a direction along to a face of the wall by a protrusion formed to the nut.

7. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein the latch members comprises an engagement slant face for locking to an inner edge of the hole of the wall, and the engagement slant slope allows the latch members to move toward the inner edge of the hole of the wall together with the nut with respect to screwing of the screw so as to fix the object to the wall together with a flange of the case.

8. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein the resilient member has a form of an almost U-shape comprising a spring piece extending along to an inner face of the latch member.

9. The wall through fixture device of claim 1, wherein the wall through fixture device further comprises at least one pair of latch members and the pair of latch members is disposed symmetrically at both sides of the nut.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0024] FIGS. 1A and 1B show a hanger hook (object) according to the present invention having a wall through fixture device. FIG. 1A shows a perspective view of a state prior to fixing the hanger hook to the wall and FIG. 1B shows a perspective view of a state after the hanger hook is passed through the wall and is securely fixed.

[0025] FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of a hanger hook (object) prior to fixing to a wall and the hook is under its used state is shown.

[0026] FIGS. 3A and 3B show an exploded state of a hanger hook having the device according to the present invention. FIG. 3A shows a perspective view from a rear side and FIG. 3B shows a perspective view from front side.

[0027] FIGS. 4A through 4C show an assembled state of a hanger hook having a device according to the present invention. FIGS. 4A through 4C show a front view, a right side view and a rear view, respectively.

[0028] FIGS. 5A through 5E show a cross section of a hanger hook of FIG. 4A; FIG. 5A show a 5A-5A cross section of FIG. 4A. FIGS. 5B and 5C show 5B-5B line and 5C-5C line cross sections of FIG. 4C. FIG. 5D shows a cross section under a state in that a pair of latch members is spread; and FIG. 5E shows a cross section under a state in that a pair of latch members is contracted.

[0029] FIGS. 6A through 6C show a relation between a pair of latch members and a spring. FIG. 6A shows a perspective view thereof, FIG. 6B shows a top view thereof and FIG. 6C shows a bottom view thereof.

[0030] FIGS. 7A through 7D show a state fixing a hanger hook (object) having a device according to the present invention. FIGS. 7A through 7D show a state prior to insertion of the object, a state under the insertion, and a securely fixed state after the insertion and a vertical cross section of a securely fixed state to a thin wall, respectively.

[0031] Now, embodiments of the present invention will be detailed with referring to drawings. FIGS. 1A and 1B show an object 20 having a wall through fixture device 10 of the present invention is to be a hanger hook 20, F and FIG. 1A shows a state prior to fixing the hanger hook 20F to the wall 22 and FIG. 1B shows a state after the hanger hook 20F is passed through a wall hole 22H of the wall 22 and fixed thereto. In the descriptions hereunder, the hanger hook 20F will be merely referred to the object 20.

[0032] The wall through fixture device 10 of the present invention, as shown from FIG. 1A to FIG. 3B, may be constructed by the object 20 itself which is passed through the wall or may be constructed from a case 20C having a flange 20FL which is to be engaged with an outer face of the wall 22 and a wall inner face engagement means 30 (refer to FIG. 3A) hold by the case 20C while being driven to engage with the inner face of the wall 22. The wall through fixture device 10 of the present invention securely fix the object 20 to the wall 22, under the condition that the case 20C has passed through the wall 22, by fastening and sandwiching the flange 20FL of the case 20C and an engagement part of the wall inner face engagement means 30 with outer and inner faces of the wall 22. In the embodiment shown in the figure, the case 20C is one section of the object itself 20 and also is to be a case of the hanger hook 20F, but not limited thereto, the case 20C may be a case of a holding body for holding any object.

[0033] The hanger hook 20F comprises a hook member 24 receivable within a front recess 20R of the case 20C and the hook member 24 is supported pivotally with a pin 26 extending through walls of both sides of the case 20C (refer to FIG. 5A). To the pivot region, a return spring 28 is disposed and the hook member 24 may be supported such that the hook member 24 may be received normally in the recess 20R of the case 20C. Here, to this pivot moving region, a dumper (not shown) is disposed and the dumper restrains sudden return of the hook member 24 when the thing is removed from the state in that the hook member 24 is opened as shown in FIG. 2 and an optional thing is hanged on the hook member 24.

[0034] The wall inner face engagement means 30 used in the present invention comprises, as shown in FIGS. 3A-3B and FIGS. 5A through 5E, a screw 32 rotatably supported to a plane wall 20W (refer to FIG. 5A) disposed at the bottom of the recess 20R of the case 20, a nut 34 hold non-rotatably to the recess 20WR at the rear side of the wall face 20W (refer to FIG. 5A), which is allowed to move to a first direction (A direction in FIGS. 3A and 3B) coming near and apart with respect to the wall face 20W of the case 20C, a pair of latch members 36R,36L (refer to FIGS. 5B through 5E) which is disposed and held symmetrically at both sides of the nut 34 and is displaceable slidably with respect to a second direction (B direction in FIGS. 3A and 3B) extending along to the wall face of the plane wall 22W so as to engage with an inner face of the wall 22, and a resilient member 38 (refer to FIG. 5C and FIGS. 6A through 6C) which is disposed inside the pair of latch member 36R, 36L for urging the pair of latch members 36R, 36L to spread apart each other.

[0035] In the embodiment shown in the figure, the nut 34 has, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, a crosswise shape and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is held slidably to protrusions 34PR, 34PL extending both sides of the cross-shape such that the pair of latch members 36R, 36L may move along to the direction of an arrow BR, BL so as to come near and apart each other with respect to the protrusions 34PR, 34PL of the nut 34.

[0036] The resilient member 38 comprises, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B and FIGS. 5A through 5E, a base part 38B engaging with the rear face of the nut 34 and a pair of spring pieces 38P extending from the base part 38B. The resilient member 38 has a generally U-shaped form such that the spring pieces 38P engage with the inside of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L and urge the pair of the latch members 36R, 36L to the direction being apart each other so as to make the pair of latch members 36R, 36L projects from the both sides of the case 20C. The spring piece 38P of the spring 38 comprises, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, an aperture 38PO which allows to escape from the protrusion 34PR, 34PL and is located between the body of the nut 34 and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L and also comprises an aperture 38H into which a tip of the screw 32 is engaged. Here, the resilient member 38 may not fall off from the nut 34 with a folded end 38PE engaging with the protrusion 34PL of the nut 34 at tips of the pair of spring pieces 38P.

[0037] In the embodiment shown in the figure, the case 20C comprises a guide 20CG disposed inside the case 20C for supporting slidably the nut 34 and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L to the first direction while supporting non-rotatably to a rotation direction of the nut 34 (refer to FIG. 3A). This guide 20CG engages with a guide recess 34G disposed at an inward edge of the nut 34 (refer to FIG. 3B) and guides the nut 34 and the pair of the latch members 36R, 36L to move toward the first direction.

[0038] The pair of the latch members 36R, 36L comprises outer periphery (guiding) slant faces 36ROI, 36LOI (refer to FIG. 7A) which guide, when the object 20 passes through the hole 22H of the wall 22, the passage thereof by engaging with an inner face of the wall hole 22H while being displaced to become narrow against the spring 38.

[0039] Here, motion of the wall through fixture device 10 for the object according to the present invention will be described. The pair of latch members 36R, 36L is held such that they normally project apart each other from both sides of the case 20 by the spring piece 38P of the resilient member 38 (in the width almost same as the flange 20FL of the case 20C) (refer to FIGS. 5B through 5D and FIG. 7A). Spacing of outer faces of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is wider than an inner face width of the wall hole 22H (refer to FIG. 7A), when the object 20 is just inserted into the wall hole 22H, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L are displaced with becoming narrow along to the outer slant faces 36ROI, 36ROI of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L so as to be drawn back from an outer face of the case 20 so that the object 20 may be allowed to pass through the wall hole 22H.

[0040] When the flange 20FL of the object 20 has passed through the wall hole 22H to abut an outer face of the wall 22 and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L has passed through the wall hole 22H, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is displaced to spread apart each other by the resilient member 38. Therefore, the inner edges 36RI, 36LI of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L abuts to the inner face of the wall 22 so that the pair of latch members 36R, 36L may not be fallen out and furthermore, the object 20 may be fixed temporarily by sandwiching the wall 22 between the flange 22FL thereof and the inner edges 36RI, 36RL of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L.

[0041] Further described in detail, as understood from FIGS. 5A through 5E and FIGS. 7A through 7D, the outer faces of the inner edges 36RI, 36LI of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L have the engagement slant faces 36RIOT, 36LIOT and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is fixed temporarily by engaging these tapered faces 36RIOT, 36LIOT with an under edge of the wall hole 22H. Then, the screw 32 is screwed into the nut 34 and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is displaced toward the wall 22 in the first direction so as to be drawn toward the inner face of the wall 22. Then the wall 22 is sandwiched between the flange 20FL of the case 20C and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L more strongly to fix finally the object to the wall (refer to FIG. 7C).

[0042] For further ensuring the final fixing of the object by the pair of latch members 36R, 36L, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L as shown in FIGS. 5A through 5E and FIGS. 7A through 7D, comprises backup tapered faces 36RIIT, 36LIIT at counter faces of the inner edges, and furthermore comprises backup tapered faces 20EWT (refer to FIG. 5D) at the back face of the plane wall 20W of the case 20C to which these backup tapered face 36RIIT, 36LIIT abut. Thus, as the pair of latch members 36R, 36L comes nearer and nearer to the wall 22 due to screwing of the screw 32 into the nut 34, sandwiching force of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L may not be weakened even if the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is push by the face of the wall hole 22 so that the final fixing of the object 20 may be securely completed.

[0043] As described above, according to the device 10 of the present invention, as the object 20 just passes through the wall hole 22, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L held to the nut 34 is narrowed to allow passage through the wall hole 22H. When the object 20 has passed through to make the flange 20FL of the object 20 abut to the outer face of the wall 22, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is spread by the force of the spring 38 to lock with the inner face of the wall 22 and the object 20 is fixed temporarily to the wall. Therefore, the object 20 may not fall down from the wall 22 if hands are free from the object 20 such that the object 20 may not fall down until the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is fixed finally by subsequent screwing the screw 32 and the final fixing by subsequent screwing of the screw 32 may become easy.

[0044] As understood by comparing FIG. 7C and FIG. 7D, when a thickness of the wall 22 is large, a screwing depth of the screw 32 under the final fixing state is shallow, however, when the thickness of the wall 22 is small, the screwing depth of the screw 32 under the final fixing state becomes deep.

[0045] Here, in FIG. 3A, a sign 20B represents a back cover of the case 20 and the back cover 20B is fixed to a body of the case 20C by engaging an engagement fin 20BP with an engagement hole 20CH of the body of the case 20. Furthermore, in FIGS. 2, 3A, 3B, 5A-5E, and 7A-7D, a sign 32C represents a cap to be covered onto a head of the screw 32.

[0046] In the above embodiment, the object 20 is integrated as the case 20C of the device 10. The case 20C may be fixed to the wall 22, in which the object itself separately prepared from the case 20C is retained and is fixed to the case 20C by an adequate means. Furthermore, although the pair of latch members 36R, 36L is narrowed by the outer periphery (guiding) slant face 36ROI, 36LOI, the guiding slant face may be disposed at an outer periphery side of the wall hole 22H rather than the pair of latch members 36R, 36L sides. Alternatively, without providing the slant face, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L may be narrowed by fingers to insert the case 20C into the wall hole 22H.

[0047] Now, in the above embodiment, the pair of latch members 36R, 36L are provided, however, one latch member may be used so far as the case 20C may be assembled without slanting when sandwiched by the flange 20FL and one latch member, or alternatively, the wall 22 may be sandwiched by the flange 20 FL and two pairs of the latch members.

[0048] Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the terms outer face, inner face of the wall 22 and outer periphery, inner periphery of the pair of latch members 36R, 36L are used. In these terms, the meanings of inner or outer should be understood as; the term outer means the far side and the term inner means the near side along to the direction for insertion of the case 20C. Therefore, when the wall 22 is a part of a large casing and the insertion of the case 20C is performed from the inside of the casing, the wall face at the inside of the casing should be understood as the outer face and the wall face at the outside of the casing should be understood as the inner face.

[0049] Furthermore, in the embodiment, the case 22C has passed through the wall hole 22H and the flange 20FL and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L sandwich the wall 22; however, an object to be fixed may be formed on the outer face or the inner face and a wall of the object to be fixed having the hole which is aligned to the hole 22H of the wall 22 may be overlapped, and then case 22C may be passed through holes of these walls such that these walls may be sandwiched by the flange 20FL and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L of the case 22C so as to fix the object to be fixed. In this case, an assembled body of the case 22C, the nut 34 and the pair of latch members 36R, 36L may be referred to a fixture jig rather than referred to a fixture device.

[0050] When the case of the object to be fixed is passed through the wall hole, the case may be passed through the wall hole by drawing back the latch members against the resilient member which are disposed in the case and protrude from the outer face by the spring. When the passing through proceeds such that the flange of the case abuts to the outer face of the wall, the latch members spread by the force of the resilient member to engage with the inner face of the wall to fix the object temporarily so that the object may not fall down from the wall when hands are free from the object, and furthermore, the object may not fall off until the latch members 36R, 36L come proximity to the wall face and is fixed finally by subsequent screwing of the screw and then, the final fixing by screwing of the screw may become easy and the secure fixing of the object may be performed efficiently so that high industrial applicability may be provided.

DESCRIPTION OF SIGNS NA NUMERALS

[0051] 10 wall through fixture device [0052] 20 object [0053] 20F hanger hook [0054] 22 wall [0055] 22H wall hole [0056] 20C case [0057] 20CH engagement hole [0058] 20BP engagement piece [0059] 20W plane wall [0060] 20WR recess [0061] 20FL flange [0062] 20R recess [0063] 20GC guide [0064] 20EWT tapered face [0065] 24 latch member [0066] 26 pin [0067] 28 return spring [0068] 30 wall inner face engagement means [0069] 32 screw [0070] 34 nut [0071] 34PR, 34PL protrusion [0072] 34G guide recess [0073] 36R, 36L a pair of latch members [0074] 36RLI, 36LLI inner periphery slant face [0075] 36ROI, 36LOI outer periphery (guiding) slant face [0076] 36RI, 36LI inner edge [0077] 36RIIT, 36LIIT tapered face [0078] 38 resilient member [0079] 38B base part [0080] 38PE folding end