The invention relates to the technical field of articles of daily use, in particular to a cord lock for tightening and loosening cord by clockwise and anticlockwise rotation.
In daily life, cords or the like are always used for fixing on shoes, medical protecting devices or other daily articles. Take shoes for example, laces of sneakers or canvas shoes are threaded through shoe holes and are tightened with bowknots or other knots. However, shoelaces always go loose when people take exercise. It may be inconvenient to tie up shoelaces again when people are walking or carry things in the hand. Especially in sports, accidents may easily occur when shoelaces go loose.
Some daily articles in the market are provided with cord locking devices, which are of complex construction, with many small parts. Thus, such locking devices are complicated to manufacture and assemble, costly and unstable in structure, high in rejection rate and poor in use experience. A forceable unlocking mechanism may be adopted during use; however, it is not easy to operate since it can be only loosened by pulling upwards after a cord is tightened, and tightening and loosening cannot be operated alternately for fine adjustment of the tightness. Due to complicated structure and small space, parts are small and easily broken, which leads to the safety problems that cords will be loosened or tightened suddenly or the mechanism can be easily cracked.
Aiming at the shortcomings in the prior art, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a cord lock for tightening and loosening cord by clockwise and anticlockwise rotation, which can be used to loosen and tighten cords by clockwise and anticlockwise rotation, improving efficiency and easy to use.
The technical proposal of the present invention is to provide a cord lock for tightening and loosening cord by clockwise and anticlockwise rotation, comprising a knob, a pawl plate, a hub, a clutch, and a reel; the inner surface of the knob is provided with control ribs arranged oppositely and centered at the circular center of the knob; a plurality of pawl arms are circumferentially arranged around the pawl plate, pawl teeth are peripherally arranged at the ends of the pawl arms, the pawl plate is provided with arc grooves for the control ribs to penetrate, the control ribs can move along the arc grooves by rotating the knob, and the surface of the pawl plate opposite the knob is provided with two pairs of square grooves perpendicular to each other; the inner peripheral wall of the upper end of the hub is provided with ratchet teeth meshing with the pawl teeth, the lower end of the hub is internally provided with a chamber for accommodating the reel, and one side of the chamber close to the ratchet teeth is provided with triangular buckles symmetrically arranged.
The clutch comprises a clutch ring which can elastically deform along the radial direction, the outer side of the clutch ring is provided with positioning blocks corresponding to the square grooves, the positioning blocks can be in slide fit with the square grooves, two opposite positioning blocks are provided with wedge-shaped stoppers, and another two opposite positioning blocks are provided with small elastic arms, the tail ends of the wedge-shaped stoppers extend out of the pawl plate, and the tail ends of the small elastic arms can butt against the two triangular buckles when the clutch ring rotates.
The reel is rotationally mounted in the chamber from the lower end of the hub, and the inner wall of the upper end of the reel is provided with circumferential teeth meshing with the ends of the wedge-shaped stoppers, and when the clutch ring elastically deforms to contract, the wedge-shaped stoppers can separate from the circumferential teeth.
In this technical proposal, the knob, the pawl plate, the hub, the clutch and the reel can be assembled to realize cord tightening and loosening by rotating the knob clockwise and anticlockwise, which is more convenient in use. Among them, the knob and the pawl plate are in close fit, the control ribs are snapped into the corresponding arc grooves, the pawl plate is assembled at the upper end of the hub so that the pawl teeth meshes with the ratchet teeth at the upper end of the hub, the reel is snapped into the chamber from the lower end of the hub, the clutch is mounted between the pawl plate and the reel and comprises the elastic clutch ring, the positioning blocks outside the clutch ring are in slide fit with the square grooves at the lower end of the pawl plate, a pair of wedge-shaped stoppers on the positioning blocks can mesh with the circumferential teeth of the reel, and the small elastic arms butt against the triangular buckles of the hub when the clutch ring rotates; When in use, cords can be tightened and loosened by rotating the knob clockwise or anticlockwise. When the knob rotates clockwise, the clutch ring meshes with the reel, and the reel rotates clockwise to tighten the cord; when the knob rotates anticlockwise, the clutch ring can elastically deform to disengage the wedge-shaped stoppers from the circumferential teeth on the reel and the reel rotates freely to loosen the cord. This technical proposal realizes functions of tightening, loosening, and tightening again and is convenient for daily use.
Further, the knob is peripherally provided with anti-slip threads circumferentially arranged on the knob.
Further, the hub is peripherally provided with fixed flanges circumferentially arranged on the hub, the inner wall of the knob snapped in the upper end of the hub is provided with fixed fasteners, and the fixed fasteners can be snapped in below the fixed flanges so as to prevent the knob from loosening.
Further, the hub is provided with two spacing cord platforms corresponding to the periphery of the chamber, the reel is peripherally provided with slots, the surface of each slot is provided with a cord hole corresponding to each cord platform, the reel is provided with cord passages communicated with the cord holes, and the cord passages are arranged in a U shape.
Further, the inner side of the lower end of the hub is provided with oppositely arranged positioning buckles, the reel is peripherally provided with avoiding notches in movable fit with the positioning buckles, when the avoiding notches of the reel aligned with the positioning buckles can be snapped into the chamber, the cord platforms can be opposite to the cord holes.
Further, the lower end of the hub is peripherally provided with a small fixed lug and a big fixed lug which are oppositely arranged, the end face of the hub corresponding to two sides of the big fixed lug is provided with strip-type markings.
Further, the lower end face of the reel is provided with observation holes corresponding to two sides of one of the avoiding notches, and positioning markings corresponding to two sides of another avoiding notch, and the positioning markings are opposite to the strip-type markings.
Further, the cord lock comprises a base, the upper end of the base is provided with a fixed collar, the inner bottom of the fixed collar is provided with a mounting groove in clamp fit with the fixed lugs, and the fixed collar is also provided with cord grooves arranged oppositely to the cord platforms.
Further, the inner bottom of the base corresponding to the fixed collar is provided with avoiding grooves for accommodating positioning buckles.
Further, the upper end of the fixed collar corresponding to the mounting groove is provided with a detachable mount.
The invention has the advantages that the knob, the pawl plate, the hub, the clutch and the reel can be assembled to realize cord tightening and loosening by rotating the knob clockwise and anticlockwise. When two ends of a cord wind on the slots by way of the cord holes from the cord platform, the knob rotates clockwise or anticlockwise to switch between tightening and loosening; the clockwise-rotating knob drives the pawl plate and the clutch to rotate clockwise, and the reel rotates clockwise to tighten the cord since the clutch meshes with the reel; the anticlockwise-rotating knob drives the pawl plate to turn around and the clutch to elastically deform with the force of friction, in this way, the wedge-shaped stoppers can be disengaged from the inner periphery of the reel and the reel can freely rotate to loosen the cord; the cord lock realizes functions of tightening, loosening, and tightening again and is convenient and practical for daily use.
To clearly describe the embodiments of the invention or the technical proposals of the prior art, the following description is made in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein similar components or parts are usually designated with similar reference signs and will be not necessarily drawn according to the actual proportions.
It should be stated that the functions and methods referred in the invention shall only be common adaptive applications of the prior art. Therefore, the improvement of the invention made on the prior art lies in the connection relation between hardware. The description of the functions and methods of the invention is only for more clearly illustrating and better understanding of the invention.
The embodiments of the invention will be elaborated as follows with reference to the drawings. The following embodiments shown and described are just used for clearly explaining the technical proposal and for illustrative purposes only, and cannot be regard as limitations of the protection scope of the invention.
It should be noted that, unless otherwise specified, the technical or scientific terms used in the present application shall have their usual meanings those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs can understand.
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As previously mentioned, the knob 100 and the pawl plate 200 are assembled and mounted at the upper end of the hub 300. To protect the knob 100 from falling off and make sure its rotational state, the hub 300 is peripherally provided with fixed flanges 340 surrounding the hub 300, the inner wall of the knob 100 snapped into the upper end of the hub 300 is provided with fixed fasteners 120, the fixed fasteners 120 can be snapped in below the fixed flanges 340 to prevent the knob 100 from falling off. When the knob 100 is snapped into the upper end of the hub 300, the fixed fasteners 120 are in movable fit with the fixed flanges 340 to assemble the knob 100 and the hub 300.
As previously mentioned, when the reel 500 is assembled with the clutch 400, the lower end of the hub 300 is installed in the chamber, the inner side of the lower end of the hub 300 is provided with oppositely arranged positioning buckles 360, the reel 500 is peripherally provided with avoiding notches 550 in movable fit with the positioning buckles 360, when the avoiding notches 550 of the reel 500 aligned with the positioning buckles 360 can be snapped into the chamber, the cord platforms 320 can be opposite to the cord holes 530. Thus, the positioning buckles 360 can form a positioning assembly. During assembling, the reel 500 can be mounted in the chamber of the hub 300 through the avoiding notches 550. After assembling is completed, the cord platforms 320 are opposite to the cord holes 530, whereby the cord may be easily threaded into the reel 500 from outside.
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According to the assembled structure and the base structure provided in the embodiment 1 and the embodiment 2, the installation of the cord lock needs the following steps:
This embodiment provides modes of carrying out specific functions of the invention:
Tightening: rotate the knob 100 clockwise, whereupon two control ribs 110 of the knob 100 will rotate to the end of the arc grooves 220 in the pawl plate 200 and push the pawl plate 200 to rotate clockwise, the square grooves 230 in the pawl plate 200 will drive the wedge-shaped stoppers 421 and the small elastic arms 422 in the clutch to rotate clockwise, thus driving the clutch 400 to drive clockwise. By this time, the control ribs 110 of the knob 100 in the arc grooves 220 of the pawl plate 200 hold against the inner sides of the wedge-shaped stoppers 421 in the clutch 400, and the wedge-shaped stoppers 421 mesh with the circumferential teeth of the reel 500, whereupon the reel 500 is driven to rotate clockwise to achieve the object of tightening. The end faces of the pawl teeth 211 in the pawl plate 200 hold against the tooth surface of the ratchet teeth 310 in the hub 300 to fasten assembly of the hub 300, the pawl plate 200, the clutch 400 and the reel 500, which can prevent the assembly from rotating anticlockwise and achieve the object that the cord will not be loosened.
Loosening: rotate the knob 100 anticlockwise (when the knob 100 rotates, the pawl teeth 211 of the pawl plate 200 hold against the tooth surface of the ratchet teeth 310 in the hub 300, and the pawl plate 200 is fixed relative to the hub 300), whereupon the two control ribs 110 in the knob 100 move into the other end of the arc grooves 220 anticlockwise along the arc grooves 220 in the pawl plate 200, the outer sides of the control ribs will push the inner wall of the clutch ring 410 of the clutch 400, then the small elastic arms 422 of the clutch will moves outwardly along the square grooves 230 in the pawl plate 200, the clutch ring 410 radially deforms and contracts to make the wedge-shaped stoppers 421 move inwardly along the square grooves 230, and then the wedge-shaped stoppers 421 will separate from the circumferential teeth 510 of the reel 500, whereby the reel 500 can rotate circumferentially without limitations, and the object of loosening is achieved.
From loosening to tightening again: at the beginning, the two control ribs 110 of the knob 100 stay at the ends of the arc grooves 200 in the pawl plate 200. By this time, rotate the knob 100 clockwise, whereupon the outer walls of the control ribs 110 will drive the clutch 400 to rotate clockwise because of friction generated by mutual compression between the inner walls of the small elastic arms 422 of the clutch 400 and the outer walls of the control ribs of the knob 100, and the clutch 400 will drive the pawl plate 200 to rotate clockwise through the small elastic arms 422. When the clutch 400 rotates to the small elastic arms 422 and touches the triangular buckles 330 on the hub 300, and the triangular buckles 330 will stop the small elastic arms from rotating, at the time when the control ribs 110 of the knob 100 and the clutch 400 move, keep rotating the knob 100 until the control ribs 110 reaches the other end of the arc grooves 220, whereupon the wedge-shaped stoppers 421 on the clutch 400 are pushed towards the circumferential teeth 510 of the reel 500 by the control ribs 110 and mesh with them, the reel 500 is pushed to rotate clockwise, and the cord with ends fixed in the cord holes 530 of the reel 500 is wound into the slots 520, thus, the object of tightening is achieved.
The description of the present invention includes many specific examples. However, it should be understood that the embodiments of the present invention can be practiced without them. In some embodiments, methods, systems and techniques of public knowledge are not elaborated for the purposes of not making confused.
It should be stated that the specific embodiments as shown and described herein is for purposes of illustrating the technical proposal of the present invention and not for limitations. Although the present invention has been described in connection with the foregoing examples, those skilled in the art should understand that they can still make changes on the basis of the foregoing embodiments or equivalents to a part of or all technical characteristics. However, these changes or equivalents and their technical proposals will not depart from the scope of the embodiments of the present invention, and should fall within the scope of the appended claims and description.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2022114558094 | Nov 2022 | CN | national |