Hook

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10066659-B2
Application number	US-201414769416-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2014
Priority date	Feb 20, 2013
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a hook which is capable of holding multiple objects or an object having a large size of width by efficiently using a space inside the hook, reliably preventing the hanged object from dropping, and allowing the hanged object to be taken out easily.
A hook body has a latch that locks an arm biased toward an outside of the hook body by an arm biasing mechanism, and regulates a displacement of the arm, thereby closing an opening portion. While the latch is biased by a latch biasing mechanism so as to face the opening portion and be present at an arm regulating position for locking the arm, the latch is displaced from the arm regulating position against a biasing force of the latch biasing mechanism so as to unlock the arm.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hook comprising:
a hook body having an opening portion for hanging an object which is configured to be inserted through the opening portion on, the hook body having a front receiving portion for preventing the object configured to be hanged within the hook body from dropping forward; and
an arm that is biased via an arm biasing means to a position toward an outside of the hook body to thereby close the opening portion of the hook body, and is further moveable against a biasing force of the arm biasing means to move the arm away from the outside of the hook to open the opening portion so as to allow the object to be inserted into the hook body;
wherein the hook body has a latch for closing the opening portion by regulating the displacement of the arm by locking the arm which is biased by the arm biasing means,
wherein the latch slidably covers two sides of the front receiving portion in an upward and downward direction of the front receiving portion,
wherein the latch is biased by a latch biasing means such that the latch is displaced upward of the front receiving portion and present at an arm regulating position for locking the arm,
wherein the arm is locked by the latch and the opening portion is closed by the arm when the latch is present at the arm regulating position, and
wherein the arm is unlocked and the opening portion is allowed to be released with the arm displaced toward the outside of the hook body by the biasing force of the arm biasing means when the latch is displaced from the arm regulating position to downward of the front receiving portion against a biasing force of the latch biasing means,
wherein the latch has a stopper portion protruding toward the opening portion, an undersurface of the stopper portion locks a locking portion of the arm,
wherein the stopper portion is located above an upper end of the front receiving portion, and when the stopper portion is pushed downward against the biasing force of the latch biasing means, the stopper portion is displaced close to the upper end of the front receiving portion to broaden the opening portion,
wherein the arm is configured to displace from the outside of the hook body into the hook body while engaging with a top surface of the stopper portion and pressing the latch such that the latch is displaced from the arm regulating position against the biasing force of the latch biasing means,
wherein the latch is configured to return to the arm regulating position by the latch biasing means after being released from a force applied by the arm,
wherein the arm is configured to engage with the undersurface of the stopper portion which has returned to the arm regulating position
wherein the latch has a sliding member which can slide in a long hole formed in the front receiving portion,
the latch is slidably displaced upward and downward of the front receiving portion by the sliding member sliding in the long hole of the front receiving portion.

2. The hook according to claim 1 ,
wherein the latch biasing means biases the sliding member of the latch so as to position the sliding member at a topmost portion of the long hole,
wherein the arm is configured to displace toward the outside of the hook body, allowing the opening portion to be released when the latch is pressed downward along the front receiving portion.

3. The hook according to claim 1 , wherein, the locking portion of the arm is locked by the undersurface of the stopper portion at a position more towards a front side of the front receiving portion than an opening portion side of the front receiving portion.

Assignees

• Sugatsune Kogyo

Inventors

• Osaki Masahiro

Classifications

• F16M13/02

  for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle · CPC title

• A47G29/08

  Holders for articles of personal use in general, e.g. brushes · CPC title

• A47G25/06

  Clothes hooks; Clothes racks; Garment-supporting stands with swingable or extending arms (with lockable hooks E05B69/02) · CPC title

• A47G25/0607

  Clothes hooks · CPC title

• F16B45/02

  Hooks with pivoting {or elastically bending} closing member · CPC title