Patent Application
20220049815
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The disclosure relates to mounting assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new mounting assembly for mounting a grease gun to a piece of equipment requiring routine greasing.
The prior art relates to mounting assemblies. Prior art mounting assemblies for grease guns may comprise a brace having a hole positioned therethrough for insertion of a grease gun, surface mounted clips or brackets that engage a grease gun, tubes designed for insertion of a grease gun and for bracketing to a wall, and brackets magnetically engageable to metal substrates.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a connector, which has engaged thereto a first tube and a second tube with the first tube and the second tube being substantially parallel. The first tube is sized so that the first tube is configured for insertion of a grease gun into an upper end thereof. The second tube is sized so that the second tube is configured for insertion of a hose extending from the grease gun.
The connector is configured to be engageable to an object, such as a piece of equipment requiring routine greasing, so that the first tube and the second tube are selectively engageable to the object. The first tube and the second tube are configured for insertion of the grease gun and the hose, respectively, for mounting the grease gun and the hose to the object.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The connector 12 is configured to be engageable to an object, such as a piece of equipment requiring routine greasing, so that the first tube 14 and the second tube 16 are selectively engageable to the object. The first tube 14 and the second tube 16 are configured for insertion of the grease gun and the hose, respectively, as shown in
In one embodiment, as shown in
In another embodiment, as shown in
The first tube 14 has a notch 32 extending thereinto from the upper end 18 so that the notch 32 is proximate to the second tube 16. The notch 32 is configured to position the hose to facilitate insertion of the hose into the second tube 16. The second tube 16 is dimensionally shorter than the first tube 14 so that an upper limit 34 of the second tube 16 is positioned below the notch 32, as shown in
The first tube 14 has a cutout 36 extending thereinto from the upper end 18. The cutout 36 tapers arcuately from a first face 38 of the first tube 14, opposite the notch 32, to a second face 40 of the first tube 14, in which the notch 32 is positioned. The cutout 36 is configured to receive a handle of the grease gun as the grease gun is inserted into the first tube 14.
In use, the straps 22 of each connector 12 are positioned around a framing element of the piece of equipment and the side release buckle 28 is fastened to engage the assembly 10 to the heavy piece of equipment. The first tube 14 and the second tube 16 are configured for insertion of the grease gun and the hose, respectively, for mounting the grease gun and the hose to the piece of equipment, where they are readily available when greasing of the piece of equipment is required.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded.
A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
