The present invention relates to generally to barriers, and more specifically to barriers that are convenient for quickly finding a correct installation method.
Often, in order to prevent children or pets from leaving a room, or entering/exiting a specific place, a removable passage barrier is installed between two locations, such as between two door jambs of a doorway. With internal pressure generated by pressurized fasteners, the passage barrier can be installed between two locations and a swinging gate can be opened and closed throughout the day. However, in current passage barriers, because a screw of the pressurized fastener can be rotated in the mounting hole, the installer may mistakenly think that rotating the screw applies pressure to the door jambs, which may prevent a complete installation. As a result, consumers may mistakenly believe that the product has been damaged.
A passage barrier facilitates a complete installation by guiding the installer to quickly find the correct installation method.
In a first aspect, a passage barrier includes: a) a substantially right-angled U-shaped frame having four corners, with each of the corners having an outer end, and the outer end having a mounting hole; b) a gate pivotally engaged in the frame; c) a pressurized fastener corresponding to the mounting hole, the pressurized fastener including: i) a screw having a head and a rod, the rod being slidably received in the mounting hole; ii) an adjustment member having a through hole with an internal thread, the through hole being drilled on the rod and rotatable around a rotation axis; iii) wherein the rod has a plurality of engaging parts and a plurality of non-engaging parts on its outer surface, the engaging parts and the non-engaging parts being alternately connected, the engaging parts being located on a circumferential surface of a virtual cylinder with the rotation axis as a cylinder axis and having an external thread engaged with the internal thread, the non-engaging parts being located within the circumferential surface of a virtual cylinder so as not to be engaged with the internal thread; and d) a cross-sectional shape of the mounting hole is substantially the same as the cross-sectional shape of the rod, and the cross-sectional size of the mounting hole is slightly larger than the cross-sectional size of the rod, so that the rod can only be slid in the mounting hole and cannot be rotated.
In a second aspect, a passage barrier includes: a) a substantially right-angled U-shaped frame having four corners, with each of the corners having an outer end, and the outer end having a mounting hole; b) a gate pivotally engaged in the frame; c) a pressurized fastener corresponding to the mounting hole, the pressurized fastener including: i) a screw having a head and a rod, the rod being slidably received in the mounting hole; ii) an adjustment member having a through hole with an internal thread, the through hole being drilled on the rod and rotatable around a rotation axis; iii) wherein the rod has two engaging parts and two non-engaging parts on its outer surface, the engaging parts and the non-engaging parts being alternately connected and dividing lines are located on a circumferential surface of a virtual cylinder with the rotation axis as cylinder axis, the engaging parts being located on the circumferential surface and having an external thread engaged with the internal thread, the non-engaging parts are two opposite sides of a quadrangular prism with the dividing lines as edges; and d) wherein a cross-sectional shape of the mounting hole is substantially the same as a cross-sectional shape of the rod, and the cross-sectional size of the mounting hole is slightly larger than the cross-sectional size of the rod, so that the rod can only be slid in the mounting hole and cannot be rotated.
In a third aspect, a passage barrier includes: a) a substantially right-angled U-shaped frame having four corners, with each of the corners having an outer end, and the outer end having a mounting hole; b) a gate pivotally engaged in the frame; c) a pressurized fastener corresponding to the mounting hole, the pressurized fastener including: i) a screw having a head and a rod, the rod being slidably received in the mounting hole; ii) an adjustment member having a through hole with an internal thread, the through hole being drilled on the rod and rotatable around a rotation axis; iii) wherein the rod has an engaging part and a non-engaging part on its outer surface, the engaging part and the non-engaging part being connected and dividing lines are located on a circumferential surface of a virtual cylinder with the rotation axis as cylinder axis, the engaging part being located on the circumferential surface corresponding to a major arc of the virtual cylinder and having an external thread engaged with the internal thread, the non-engaging part being located within the circumferential surface of the virtual cylinder so as not to be engaged with the internal thread; and d) wherein a cross-sectional shape of the mounting hole is substantially the same as a cross-sectional shape of the rod, and the cross-sectional size of the mounting hole is slightly larger than the cross-sectional size of the rod, so that the rod can only be slid in the mounting hole and cannot be rotated.
In a fourth aspect, a passage barrier includes: a) a substantially right-angled U-shaped frame having four corners, with each of the corners having an outer end, and the outer end having a mounting hole; b) a gate pivotally engaged in the frame; c) a pressurized fastener corresponding to the mounting hole, the pressurized fastener including: i) a screw having a head and a rod, the rod being slidably received in the mounting hole; ii) an adjustment member having a through hole with an internal thread, the through hole being drilled on the rod and rotatable around a rotation axis; iii) wherein the rod has a plurality of engaging threaded parts and a plurality of non-engaging threaded parts on its outer surface, the engaging threaded parts and the non-engaging threaded parts being alternately and substantially smoothly connected and their threads are continuous and dividing lines are located on a circumferential surface of a virtual cylinder with the rotation axis as cylinder axis, the engaging threaded parts being located on the circumferential surface and having an external thread engaged with the internal thread, the non-engaging threaded parts being located within the circumferential surface of the virtual cylinder so as not to be engaged with the internal thread; and d) wherein a cross-sectional shape of the mounting hole is substantially the same as a cross-sectional shape of the rod, and the cross-sectional size of the mounting hole is slightly larger than the cross-sectional size of the rod, so that the rod can only be slid in the mounting hole and cannot be rotated.
In a fifth aspect, a passage barrier includes: a) a substantially right-angled U-shaped frame having four corners, with each of the corners having an outer end, and the outer end having a mounting hole; b) a gate pivotally engaged in the frame; c) a pressurized fastener corresponding to the mounting hole, the pressurized fastener including: i) a screw having a head and a rod, the rod being slidably received in the mounting hole; ii) an adjustment member having a through hole with an internal thread, the through hole being drilled on the rod and rotatable around a rotation axis; iii) wherein the rod has an engaging part and a non-engaging part on its outer surface, the engaging part being located on a circumferential surface of a virtual cylinder with the rotation axis as a cylinder axis and having an external thread engaged with the internal thread, wherein the adjustment member can be rotated on the rod substantially without shaking, the non-engaging part being located within the circumferential surface of the virtual cylinder so as not to be engaged with the internal thread; and d) wherein a cross-sectional shape of the mounting hole is substantially the same as a cross-sectional shape of the rod, and the cross-sectional size of the mounting hole is slightly larger than the cross-sectional size of the rod, so that the rod can only be slid in the mounting hole and cannot be rotated.
While the specification concludes with claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter, which is regarded as forming the present invention, the invention will be better understood from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
In order to give clearer description of the technical problems to be solved, and the technical solutions and beneficial effects of the fasteners and passage barriers described therein, the details will be further described in below with reference to the accompanying figures. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described here are only used to explain the disclosed fasteners and passage barriers, and the drawings and specific embodiments described herein are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure. Rather, the scope of the disclosure is limited only by the claims set forth herein.
When an element is referred to as being “fixed to” or “disposed on” another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or indirectly connected to that element. When an element is said to be “connected to” another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or indirectly connected to that element.
The terms “length”, “width”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer” and other indications of the orientation or positional relationship are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the figures, and are only for the convenience of describing the fasteners and passage barriers, and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation.
The terms “first” and “second” are only used for descriptive purposes, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Thus, the features defined with “first” and “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of these features. In the description, “multiple” means two or more than two, unless otherwise specifically defined.
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The adjustment member 12 may optionally include a plurality of evenly distributed notches 122, and the notches 122 may be used for accepting a wrench or other tools. The wrench or other tools may be detachably inserted into any one of the notches 122 and may be used to drive the adjustment member 12 to rotate by applying force. While one embodiment of the pressurized fastener 10 is illustrated in
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Some of the features in the above embodiments can be combined to form new embodiments, for example, in one embodiment, some of the non-engaging parts can be flat, some of them arc-shaped, or some of the non-engaging parts can have threads, some of them have no threads, and so on.
The above embodiments improve the pressurized fastener and the mounting hole, so that the pressurized fastener can slide in the mounting hole but cannot rotate, thus preventing the installer from mistaking the installation operation by screwing the pressurized fastener when installing the passage barrier, thus leading the installer to give up screwing the pressurized fastener and install by rotating the adjustment member, and facilitating the installer to quickly find the correct installation method.
The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments and are not intended to limit the disclosure. Any modification, equivalent replacement and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the disclosure shall be included in the scope of protection of the disclosure.
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