The invention concerns to the caster, which is operated simply and braked at once with shaft and wheel by simple operation of brake pedal.
Generally at the bottom part of the object, which includes hospital bed, cart, handcart, mechanical equipment, furniture, chair and 4-wheeled hand cart etc (hereinafter called as ‘cart’), at least more than one castor is installed provides ease transfer of objects including person.
The above castor is, for example, a domestically registered caster in utility model registration No. 20-0396105 (registered Sep. 1, 2005), which is equipped with a wheel, that performs rotation with/without 360° plane rotation centrally supporting shaft, and the mounted brake system of the castor performs brake through hindering of rolling motion of the wheel, which is the method of increasing friction by pressurizing surface of wheel in large.
Therefore, as the above brake system is a plane rotation structure with/without circling according to wheel, and has a negative effect of hiding inward according to moving direction of cart, when trying to brake or to release brake, man must experience inconveniences and troubles to find hidden casters inward of cart with pushing or rotating cart, moreover in worse, for example if the place were too narrow or low, then must have quite difficulties to pull the hidden castor out by hand or put some work tool into the bottom of cart.
Furthermore, in case of fixed type castor, which only requires driving straight ahead, can brake wheel with one brake system, while in case of rotating type castor, which is feasible for 360° plane rotation, has some inconvenient problems to use because of its structural characters, that one brake system to brake castor supporting shaft and another brake system to brake wheel are mounted respectively.
Furthermore, as its structure is to brake by the method of increased friction in large through pressurizing surface of wheel with friction pad of brake system, when braking it is required of braking pressure as considerable force, and also for releasing of braking power it is required considerable force too, so it is not only inconvenient, but also full of troubles frequently.
The invention is purposed to provide the castor, which can perform brake of shaft and wheel at once by easy operated push-type brake pedal.
The another purpose of the invention is to be characterized with the convenient operation anytime as the axis-installed brake pedal to upper part of solid axle can be always installed in expose to the outward direction of castor.
The other purpose of the invention is to be characterized with the extension of life time through the protection from excessive external force by elastic-supported and buffered of each spring of pivot brake part and wheel brake part.
The other purpose of the invention is to be characterized with the reliable brake by each spring of pivot brake part and wheel brake part.
The invention is concerned to the castor, whose shaft and wheel is braked at once, and composed of pivot with axis-installed one pair of wheels, the above pivot, solid axle coupled at upper part and fixed to cart, brake pedal axis-installed to the above solid axle and protruded to one side, pivot brake part operated by the above brake pedal and braking pivot and wheel brake part operated by the above brake pedal and braking wheel, through which the castor can perform ease brake and releasing brake by the using of push-type brake pedal, because pivot and wheel of castor can be braked at once.
The above solid axle (13) is composed of cylindrical body (18) built with opened part (16) downward and top plate (17), main shaft (20) fixed at the center of the above top plate (17) vertically and protruded to body (18) up-down, screw part (21) of main shaft (20) protruded to the above body (18) upwards, main shaft (20) protruded to the above body (18) downwards, screw wrinkle (23) of C ring (22) built at lower section of the above main shaft (20), spline (24) built at lower section of the above body (18) inside in a fixed height and a fixed pitch and pivot brake part of the above main shaft (20) and body (18) inside.
The above pivot brake part is composed of plural supporting plate (27) supporting upper part of spring (26) coupled to fixed body (25) & opened part (16) built at upper part, one pair of shaft holes (28)(29) built at both sides of body (18) horizontally, shaft parts (30)(31) of brake pedal (12) axis-coupled to the above shaft holes (28)(29), coupling screw wrinkles (32)(33) built at inside of the above shaft parts (30)(31) respectively, one pair of turning members (39)(40) fixed by pieces (37)(38) after spline-coupling of coupling parts (35)(36) to the above coupling screw wrinkles (32)(33), working parts (41)(42) protruded to one side of the above turning members (39)(40) respectively, extension parts (44)(45) extended to one side of pressuring part (43) of brake pedal (12) and the above shaft parts (30) (31) built inside and opened part (46) built between the above extension parts (44)(45).
The above pivot (14) is composed of cylindrical body (48) built at opened part (47) upward, bottom part (49) built at lower section of the opened part (47), shaft tube (50) built at the center of bottom part (49) vertically, shaft hole (51) built in the center of shaft tube (50) to be axis-coupled to main shaft (20), protruded pipes (52)(53) built at the front and the rear of bottom part (49) in a fixed height, springs (54)(55) coupled to the protruded pipes (52)(53) respectively, coupling holes (58)(59) of springs (56)(57) built at both sides of the protruded pipe (52) one side, springs (60)(61) inserted to coupling holes (58)(59), cylindrical shaft member (62) built at lower section of body (48) vertically and leaned to one side, shaft rods (63)(64) fixed at the center of shaft member (62) and protruded ambilaterally, one pair of wheels (15) axis-coupled to shaft rods (63)(64) respectively, planar part (65) built the bottom part of shaft member (62) to rise in a fixed height and let wheel (15) not to contact the bottom, spline (67) in a fixed pitch built at rim (66) of wheel (15) inside and spline (24) of solid axle (13) is separated/coupled, wheel brake part to brake and release brake of wheel (15) coupled to guide hole (73) built at the center lengthwise and up-downed by brake pedal (12) and horizontal wrinkle (80) built at lower section of shaft member (62) to be able to couple C ring (22) and washer (79), by which main shaft (20) coupled to shaft hole (51) not to be separated.
Shortening of life time is prevented by preventing friction on ends of reinforced part (120) of main shaft (20) and shaft tube (50) of pivot (14) through the built gap (14a) between solid axle (13) and coupling pivot (14) and up-down one pair of washers (121)(122) to main shaft (20).
The above wheel brake part is composed of guide hole (73) built from the central part of plate body (68) to rim (66) in one-way, member of going up-down (74) up-downed by brake pedal (12) by coupling of both guide wrinkles (131) to guide hole (73), spline (75)(76) built at two-way upper side of member of going up-down (74) and brakes or releases brake wheel (15) by separating/coupling from/to spline (67) built at wheel (15), one pair of brake members (77)(78) at left and right performing seesaw motion by shaft mounted pivot pins (69)(70) on both sides of plate body (68), elastic-supporting parts (71)(72) built by extension to one-way upper part of brake members (77)(78), coupling part (72a) built upward on end of elastic-supporting parts (71)(72), springs (60)(61) to make elastic-supporting parts (71)(72) to elastic-supports downward centrically to pivot pins (69)(70) by coupling to protruded pipes (82)(83) of coupling part (71a) and elastic-supporting hole (81) and spring (130) controlling to couple protruded pipe (128) built on rim (66) and screw wrinkle (129) built on member of going up-down (74) and not to couple splines (75)(76) of member of going up-down (74) and spline (67) of rim (66) when non-brake.
The above elastic-supporting hole (81) composed of air hole (87) built at the center of body (86) to perform uplift movement by coupling to external surfaces of ring type body (86) and shaft tube (50), stumbling block (88) protruded at upper part of body (86) upward, one pair of front and rear protruded pipes (84)(85) protruded downwards of body (86) and coupled upper parts of springs (56)(57) respectively and one pair of left and right protruded pipes (82)(83) contacting upper parts of another springs (60)(61) respectively.
The above pivot brake part is composed of fixed body (25) fixed on the external surfaces of main shaft (20), up-down body (97) coupled to external surfaces of main shaft (20) for up-down and up-downed by brake pedal (12) and revolving body (90) coupled to external surfaces of main shaft (20) for up-down, and braked or brake released by stumbling to up-down body (97) or up-down body (97) & fixed body (25) while up-down revolving by brake pedal (12).
The above fixed body (25) is characterized with protruding type body (100) built at lower part, tilt part (101) & vertical part (102) built in turn at lower section of body (100) and vertical wrinkle (103) built at intersected part of tilt part (101) and vertical part (102) in longitudinal direction of main shaft (20) and vertical wrinkle (103) & vertical protruded part (104) are built in equal space & equal number for coupling & separation.
The above up-down body (97) is composed of air hole (106) coupled to main shaft (20) by building at inside of cylindrical body (105), protruded pipes (107)(108) built on the two-way external surfaces of the above body (105) symmetrically and pressurized by turning members (39)(40) of brake pedal (12), protruded part (111) & screw wrinkle (112) built at lower part of body (105) respectively and built at upper/lower section encountered by symmetrical tilt surfaces (109)(110) and plural vertical protruded parts (113) built at inside of air hole (106), which only allow up-down by coupling to vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25) respectively while maintaining separation distance with main shaft (20).
The above revolving body (90) is composed of air hole (116) built at inside of cylindrical body (115) and coupled to main shaft (20), outward protruded rim (91) built at lower section of body (115), plural vertical protruded parts (104) built at inside of air hole (116) and brake released in case of coupled to vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25) respectively while maintaining separation distance with main shaft (20), plural planar part (117) built at upper part of body (115) in a fixed space, protruded part protruded by rising planar part (117), vertical surface (118) protruded to upper part of planar part (117) by rising and tilt surface (119) penetrated into screw wrinkle (112) of up-down body (97) by building on one side of vertical surface (118) or stumbled by protruded part (111) in a fixed angle.
The above brake pedal (12) is characterized with the exposure outwards in a certain distance (L1) than frame surface (11a) of cart (11).
The invented castor has the effect for usage in safe and convenient by performing of brake of pivot and wheel of castor at once by push-type brake pedal.
Furthermore, the invented castor has the effect to control any time, because the brake pedal installed on solid axle is exposed to the outside of cart, which is equipped with the castor.
Furthermore, the invented castor has the effect to extend life time by preventing excessive external force of pivot brake part and wheel brake part through buffer structure of spring.
Furthermore, the invented castor has the effect to perform reliable brake by buffer structure of spring, so it would be very useful invention.
In following, I try to explain the desirable examples to perform about the invention according to the attached figures in detail. In the explanation of the examples to perform about the invention, the same components in figures were recorder with same symbols as possible, and the related composition of notices and the definite explanation about the function were omitted to avoid the uncertainness for good understanding of the invention.
The invented castor (10), is used for cart (11), like hospital bed, general cart, handcart, mechanical equipment, furniture and chair etc. at least more than 1 pc by installation, and as push-type brake pedal (12) equipped to solid axle (13) can be installed to the outside of cart (11) always in exposed, provides ease operation for user any time, and brake & brake releasing of pivot (14) & wheel (15) is performed at once by brake pedal (12) conveniently.
The above brake method is operated by brake pedal (12), and composed of pivot brake part, which brakes & releases brake of pivot (14), and wheel brake part, which brakes & releases brake of wheel (15), and pivot brake part and wheel brake part are operated at once by push-type brake pedal (12), and brake & releasing brake of pivot (14) & wheel (15) are performed at once conveniently.
The above pivot brake part and wheel brake part is a structure of one pair of splines coupling, which is elastic-supported by spring, the brake of pivot (14) and wheel (15) is performed by coupled spline, and the brake is released by the separation of coupled spline.
Furthermore, spline is protected as the above pivot brake part and wheel brake part are composed for elastic-supporting and buffering by each spring, and brake and brake releasing is performed in quick and convenient as coupling and separation of spline is performed through the rotation of coupling shaft centrically 30° front and rear by brake pedal (12).
The invented castor (10) is largely composed of pivot (14) with axis-installed one pair of wheels (15), solid axle (13) coupled to upper part of pivot (14) and fastened to cart (11), brake pedal (12) axis-installed to solid axle (13) and protruded to one side, and pivot (14) brake part and wheel (15) brake part, which prevents rotation by brake pivot (14) and wheel (15) by brake pedal (12).
Solid axle (13) located at upper part of pivot (14) is, like
The above pivot (14) composed of cylindrical body (48) with built opened part (47) upward, bottom part (49) built at the lower section of opened part (47), shaft tube (50) built at the center of bottom part (49) vertically, shaft hole (51) built at the center of shaft tube (50) to make shaft coupling of main shaft (20), protruded pipes (52)(53) built in a fixed height at at the front and the rear of bottom part (49), springs (54)(55) coupled to protruded pipes (52) (53) respectively, coupling holes (58)(59) of springs (56) (57) built at both sides of protruded pipe (52) one sided, springs (60)(61) to be inserted coupling holes (58)(59), cylindrical shaft member (62) built in lower section of body (48) vertically built to one side leaned, shaft rods (63)(64) shaft member (62) protruded ambilaterally and fixed at the center, one pair of wheels (15) axis-coupled to shaft rods (63)(64) respectively, planar part (65) built by rising bottom part of shaft member (62) to a fixed height to prevent contact of wheel (15) to the bottom, spline (67) built at inside of rim (66) of wheel (15) and separated/coupled from/with spline (24) of solid axle (13) in a fixed pitch, wheel brake part, which brakes & releases brake of wheel (15) while up-down by brake pedal (12) after coupled to guide hole (73) at the center of shaft member (62) lengthwise and horizontal wrinkle (80) built at lower section of shaft member (62) to make coupling of C ring (22) & washer (79) to couple the coupled main shaft (20) to shaft hole (51) not to be separated.
As separated gap (14a) is built between solid axle (13) and pivot (14), even the external force were acted, solid axle (13) upper and pivot (14) of bottom part cannot be contacted each other, therefore pivot (14) axis-coupled to main shaft (20) provides 360° free rotation for main shaft (20) centrically.
The above wheel brake part is composed of guide hole (73) built from central part of plate body (68) to one-way of rim (66), member of going up-down (74) up-downed by brake pedal (12) coupled two-way guide wrinkle (131) to guide hole (73), splines (75)(76) built at two-way upper sides of member of going up-down (74) and brakes or releases brake of wheel (15) by separated/coupled from/with spline (67) built on wheel (15), one pair of brake members (77)(78) left and right perform seesaw motion by shaft-mounted to pivot pins (69)(70) on both sides of plate body (68), elastic-supporting parts (71)(72) built by extension to upper part of brake members (77)(78) at one-way, coupling part (72a) built at ends of elastic-supporting parts (71)(72) upward, springs (60)(61) to make elastic-supporting parts (71)(72) elastic-support downward centrally to pivot pins (69)(70) by coupling protruded pipes (82)(83) of elastic-supporting hole (81) and coupling part (71a), and spring (130), which is coupled to protruded pipe (128) built on rim (66) and screw wrinkle (129) built on member of going up-down (74), and controls not to be coupled splines (75)(76) of member of going up-down (74) to spline (67) of rim (66) when non-brake.
The above elastic-supporting hole (81) is composed of ring type body (86), air hole (87) built at the center of body (86) to perform uplift movement by coupling to external surfaces of shaft tube (50), stumbling block (88) protruded at upper part of body (86), one pair of protruded pipes (84) (85) front and rear coupled to upper parts of springs (56) (57) respectively and protruded to body (86) downwards and one pair of protruded pipes (82)(83) left and right contacted to upper part of another springs (60)(61) respectively.
At upper part of body (86) of elastic-supporting hole (81) lower bottom surfaces of protruded rim (91) built at revolving body (90) surface-contacts, and at the upper part of protruded rim (91) elastic-supported by spring (26), and cylindrical moving body (92) is coupled to brake and release brake while performing uplift movement.
Air hole (93) built at the center of moving body (92) is coupled to upper side of protruded rim (91) in surface-contact method, bottom part of spring (26) is elastic-supported at opened part (94) upward, at outer surfaces of body by connecting of spline (24) of solid axle (13) and spline (95) built at inside of body (48) of pivot (14) circle spline (96) is built, which brakes pivot (14) and wheel (15) at once or releases brake at once.
The brake part of pivot (14) is largely composed of fixed body (25) fixed on the external surfaces of main shaft (20), up-down body (97) coupled to external surfaces of main shaft (20) to up-down and up-downed by brake pedal (12) and revolving body (90) coupled to external surfaces of main shaft (20) to up-down and stumbled by up-down body (97) or up-down body (97) & fixed body (25) while up-down revolving by brake pedal.
At lower part of fixed body (25) protruding type body (100) is built around, and at lower section of body (100) tilt part (101) and vertical part (102) if built in turn built, and at the intersected part of tilt part (101) and vertical part (102) vertical wrinkle (103) of main shaft (20) is built in longitudinal direction.
The above vertical wrinkle (103) is composed to build one tilt part (101) at every 2 steps to couple vertical protruded part (104) of revolving body (90), vertical wrinkle (103) and vertical protruded part (104) are built in equal space and equal number to be coupled and separated.
The above up-down body (97) is, air hole (106) is built inside of cylindrical body (105) coupled to main shaft (20), and at two-way external surface of body (105) protruded pipes (107)(108) are built symmetrically, which is pressurized by turning members (39)(40) of brake pedal (12), at bottom part of body (105) protruded part (111) and screw wrinkle (112) are built respectively built at the encountered upper/lower section of symmetrical tilt surfaces (109)(110), at inside of air hole (106) plural vertical protruded part (113) is built at main shaft (20) in longitudinal direction, which is coupled to vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25) respectively and only allows up-down while maintaining separation distance with main shaft (20).
The above revolving body (90) is, air hole (116) is built at inside of cylindrical body (115) to which main shaft (20) is coupled, protruded rim (91) outward is built at lower section of body (115), if coupled to vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25) respectively while maintaining separation distance with main shaft (20) at inside of air hole (116), then plural vertical protruded part (104), which releases brake, is built in longitudinal direction of main shaft (20), at upper part of body (115) plural planar part (117) is built in fixed space, protruded part (104) is protruded by rising the above planar part (117), tilt surface (119) in a fixed angle at one side of rising protruded vertical surface (118) to the top of planar part (117) is built to be penetrated into screw wrinkle (112) of up-down body (97) or stumbled by protruded part (111) to be braked or brake released.
In above, by the rotation of pivot (14), as end of reinforced part (120) reinforces partial outer surfaces of upper part of main shaft (20) and upper part of shaft tube (50) of pivot (14) result friction and abrasion through mutual contact, so by controlling reinforced part (120) and shaft tube (50) to be contacted by up-down one pair of washers (121)(122), inserted to main shaft (20), the abrasion of reinforced part (120) and shaft tube (50) and shortening of life time are prevented.
The invented castor (10) is the structure of main shaft (20) and wheel (15) being braked at once, altogether and instantly, furthermore, by stepping brake pedal (12) once brake and rising are performed, and by stepping another time brake releasing and rising are performed, therefore it is easy to brake and brake release, also simple to use. the above brake pedal (12) is returned rising by spring (26).
The above brake pedal (12), like
The invented castor (10) is usually by rising action of elastic-supporting hole (81) elastic-supported by springs (56)(57), like
As turning members (39)(40) axis-coupled to shaft holes (28)(29) of solid axle (13) is coupled to both sides of brake pedal (12), with stepping brake pedal (12) to rotate, then shaft holes (28)(29) are performed to do centrically descending rotation or rising rotation.
If the turning members (39)(40) do descending rotation, as two-way protruded pipes (107)(108) is pressurized to working parts (41)(42) up-down body (97) becomes descending, at the moment vertical protruded part (113) is protruded into the inside of up-down body (97) and coupled to vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25), so up-down is allowed but rotation is prohibited, therefore up-down body (97) does descending like
Therefore, like
At the same time of brake of pivot (14), springs (60) (61) elastic-supported elastic-supporting parts (71)(72) descend by descending action of elastic-supporting parts (81) and protruded pipes (82)(83), and member of going up-down (74) coupled to guide hole (73) rises, and brake splines (75)(76) of member of going up-down (74) two-way rise, and coupled to spline (67) of wheel (15), so the rotation of wheel (15) is stopped and brake is performed.
In the invention, because revolving body (90), which brakes pivot (14), and member of going up-down (74), which brakes wheel (15), are elastic-supported by spring respectively, even acted excessive external pressure on brake pedal (12) and brake part in a moment, damage or destruction of them is prevented through elastic-supporting and buffering.
So to speak, when stepping brake pedal (12), revolving body (90) should descend and spline (96) is coupled to spline (95) of pivot (14), and pivot (14) must be braked, like
Furthermore, in case of member of going up-down (74), by stepping brake pedal (12), up-down body (97), revolving body (90) & elastic-supporting hole (81) are descended and then stumbled by fixed body (25) with revolving of revolving body (90), then spline (96) is coupled to spline (95) of pivot (14) and brake of pivot (14) should be performed, like
Therefore, although not braked with non-performance of coupling of spline, but as spline of non-coupled state is coupled and by elastic-supporting power and buffering power of spring with slight revolving of pivot (14) or only slight revolving of wheel (15), so brake of pivot (14) and wheel (15) is performed quickly.
Furthermore, if releasing stepped brake pedal (12), then descended up-down body (97) to the maximum is raised by elastic force of springs (56)(57) and revolved in the opposite direction by tilt surface (119) action of revolving body (90), so up-down body (97) is raised by the action of tilt surface (110).
At the moment, vertical protruded part (104) of revolving body (90) left vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25) penetrates again into vertical wrinkle (103) of fixed body (25), like
As the elastic force of spring (130) is stronger than whole elastic forces of springs (60)(61) elastic-supported elastic-supporting parts (71)(72), usually if wheel (15) were not braked, like
Non-explained symbol, (125) for top plate fixed to cart (11), (125a) for non-coupled coupling hole, (126) for nut, (127) for non-coupled, (74a)(74b) for supporting protruded part to prevent sagging of brake members (77)(78), (24a)(95a)(96a) for screw wrinkle of spline coupling, (15a) for wheel coupling hole, (15b) for wheel cap.
Explained invention above is not limited to the examples of the performance and attached figures, in the non-broken bounded scope of technical idea of the invention various substitution, transformation and alteration shall be possible, and this will be obvious to the person with usual understanding in the technical field, where the invention belonged.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2013-0014842 | Aug 2011 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/KR2012/005618 | 7/13/2012 | WO | 00 | 4/11/2014 |