This application is a 371 National Phase of International Application No. PCT/ES2006/000171, filed Apr. 10, 2006, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. ยง119 to Spanish Application No. 200500832 filed Apr. 11, 2005, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
The present invention is intended to disclose a clamp for securing shuttering panels which has substantial characteristics of novelty and inventive step.
As is known, in order to produce shuttering surfaces for walls it is necessary to place shuttering panels for walls one beside the other, securing them to one another by means of clamps of various types.
Clamps are known which are of the type that use wedges which are fitted by pressure, and other types of clamps in which, for the arrangement of inclined planes, there are members which produce a compressing action between the adjacent members of the frames of two adjacent shuttering panels.
The present invention is intended to disclose a clamp for securing shuttering panels for walls which is functionally highly efficient and simply constructed, simultaneously obtaining a simple, solid and economic construction, and also being very effective in its application.
Basically, the clamp of the present invention consists fundamentally of two parts forming the securing arms of the clamp which are identical to each other, generally L-shaped, an intermediate support and rotation member and a threaded tensioning rod with which is associated a quick-fix butterfly nut, or alternatively a transverse displacement wedge.
All the parts, except for the threaded rod and the rotation pivots, are produced by pressing and cutting methods, so that great manufacturing economy is obtained.
The two parts forming the arms of the clamp are generally L-shaped, articulated with each other by the ends of the horizontal arms and rotatable about respective points close to the vertices of the L-shape on pivots which pass through an intermediate support member, preferably tubular. The opening and closing of the arms of the L-shaped members is achieved by the screwing or unscrewing of a wing nut coupled on the threaded rod, or by the introduction of a transverse wedge.
The L-shaped parts have double arms, defining an intermediate space for receiving the intermediate articulation support.
For a greater understanding thereof, some drawings of a preferred embodiment of the present invention are appended by way of a non-limiting example, wherein,
As can be seen in the drawings, the clamp of the present invention comprises two approximately L-shaped members 1 and 2, each of which has pairs of active arms, respectively 3 and 4, carrying the protuberances 5 and 6 intended to fit into the recesses 7 and 8 of the profile sections, customarily tubular, which form the frames for respective adjacent shuttering panels 9 and 10 which are to be joined by means of the clamp. The double arm structure on each member of the L-shape can be seen more easily in
In a first embodiment, both members 1 and 2 have respective joining arms 11 and 12 articulated with one another by means of a transverse pin 13 and articulated by means of pins 14 and 15 with an intermediate support member of preferably tubular structure 16,
The rotation of the members 1 and 2 on the transverse pins 14 and 15 makes it possible to tighten and release the clamp, thereby securing the profile sections 9 and 10 of the shuttering panels or releasing same for their dismantling.
The displacement of the members 1 and 2 of the clamp is effected by means of the actuation of a threaded rod 17 on which acts a quick-action butterfly nut 18. The threaded rod 17 surrounds with its end or head 19 the pivot pin 13 which is also articulated on the intermediate tubular member 16.
The openings 20 and 21 of the intermediate support 16 on which the pins 14 and 15 are articulated are slightly elongated, in order to permit not only the rotation of the clamp members 1 and 2, but also the satisfactory alignment of the points of attack of the protuberances 5 and 6 with respect to said pivot pins, thus avoiding offset stresses.
Likewise, the opening of the intermediate support 16 in which the pin 13 is articulated and which is designated by the number 22 in
As can be seen in
By means of the explained constitution of the clamp of the present invention, the result obtained is that the clamp is produced simply by three basic members, that is, the L-shaped double arms 1 and 2 and the inner tubular support member 16, being complemented simply by the threaded rod 17 and the butterfly nut 18. The transverse pivot pins 13, 14 and 15 are clinched for the purpose of greater simplicity, providing a clamp which requires a minimum number of parts for its operation and which does not require any welding of parts such as is customary at present. This latter characteristic, besides simplifying and reducing the cost of the manufacture of the clamp, permits the manufacture of same by means of sheet-metal members which may previously have been provided with an anti-corrosion surface treatment, since, not having had any welding work, it does not subsequently require specific anti-corrosion treatment.
In addition, the members 1 and 2 are identical and are simply displaced on their articulation, which means no functional inconvenience. For this the end regions of the arms 11 and 12 are overlapped as can be seen in
In the variant shown in
In order to prevent the wedge 32 from coming out, it may have a stop of some type on its end 34, produced after its introduction into the clamp.
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200500832 | Apr 2005 | ES | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/ES2006/000171 | 4/10/2006 | WO | 00 | 9/21/2007 |
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WO2006/108893 | 10/19/2006 | WO | A |
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