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EP-4526186-B1 - DEVICE TO FIX ACCESSORIES TO THE CHASSIS OF HEAVY VEHICLES BY AN INDENTED TUBE AND AT LEAST ONE CLEVIS

EP4526186B1EP 4526186 B1EP4526186 B1EP 4526186B1EP-4526186-B1

Inventors

  • LORUSSO, PASQUALE
  • SARDONE, Agostino

Dates

Publication Date
20260513
Application Date
20230307

Claims (11)

  1. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), consisting of a tubular element (2), and at least one clevis (3) equipped with a pair of stop screws (4) and corresponding flanged nuts (5) and a simple screw (6), the clevis (3) being composed by a board (31), surmounted by an annular element (32), the board (31) being provided with a flat transverse cut (33), characterized in that : - The tubular element (2) is provided with a set of equidistant and orderly disposed toothed rows (221), - The annular element (32) is internally provided with a partially grooved profile (321), and - The flat transverse cut (33) reaches the partially grooved profile (321), and is on only one side with respect to the annular element (32).
  2. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to claim 1, characterized in that a pair of prismatic chutes (311) of an almost quadrangular shape and centrally provided with a through hole (3111) are performed at the side ends of the board (31) and on the side of the annular element (32).
  3. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the prismatic chutes (311) of the clevis (3) are made according to any geometry complementary to the shaped heads (41) of the stop screws (4).
  4. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the flat transverse cut (33) has a thickness (h) which is reduced as a function of the clamping performed on the stop screw (4) placed at the flat transverse cut (33) and the corresponding flanged nut (5) thereof.
  5. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the tubular element (2) is composed by a bell-shaped base (21), from which a tube (22) extends.
  6. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the set of toothed rows (221) of the tubular element (2) are equidistant and orderly disposed along the generatrices of the tube (22).
  7. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the partially grooved profile (331) of the annular element (32) is made so as to be suitable to frictionally engage the toothed rows (221) of the tubular element (2).
  8. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the partially grooved profile (321) has at its end an open cylindrical profile (3211) which annularly engages in the cracks between two consecutive teeth (2211) of a toothed row (221) of the tubular element (2).
  9. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized in that a quick-release type cap (7) is constrained at the free and hollow end (222) of the tubular element (2).
  10. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized by being made of an eco-friendly material.
  11. Device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis (3), according to the preceding claims, characterized by being made of fiberglass reinforced nylon.

Description

The invention being the object of the present utility model relates to a device consisting of a toothed tube and one or more clevises, suitable to quickly hook equipped accessories to heavy vehicles, such as for example plastic toolboxes, fenders, and any product to be constrained to the chassis of a vehicle to be mounted. The accessories heavy vehicles are provided with are generally constrained to the chassis by metal brackets by means of bolted connections and such brackets are made in various formats and sizes, depending on the accessory to be constrained. The metal brackets used to constrain the equipped accessories to the vehicle bodies, in addition to being heavy and accordingly increasing the load of vehicle sprung masses, involve installation procedures not always short and easy to perform. A drawback of the metal brackets used to constrain the equipped accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles is for example represented by their cost, due to their manufacturing cycle, notoriously longer and more expensive than moulding a plastic element, as in the case of the invention. A further drawback of the known metal brackets suitable to constrain the equipped accessories is represented in that they are subjected to corrosion phenomena over time and in order to overcome such drawback, they are treated with methods that can avoid oxidation processes. EP 1 209 067 Al discloses a device, suitable to constrain accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles, similar to the preamble of claim 1. The invention being the object of the present utility model represents a performing evolution of the system for hooking accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles, due to the reduction of the number of components required to hook to only one single plastic tubular element constrained to one or more clevises and the latter equipped with a pair of plastic screws and a pair of flanged nuts. An object of the invention is also to provide a device suitable to constrain equipped accessories to the chassis of a vehicle in a simple and quick manner, said objective being achieved in order to facilitate a general constructor in mounting, having to perform only simple holes on the accessory to be installed, in order to constrain thereto one or more clevises, already arranged to be constrained on a toothed tube, made integral with the vehicle chassis by means of a single simple screw. Another object of the invention is to provide a supporting element, for the equipped accessories, of a plastic type and suitable to support the same loads as the conventional heavier metal brackets, said objective being achieved by adopting structural ribs, radially disposed on the entire inner circumference of the toothed tube. An advantage of the invention is to have made an economic and eco-friendly product, with respect to the known metal elements used to constrain the equipped elements of heavy vehicles to the vehicle chassis, still for being made of a plastic material by moulding processes. A further advantage of the invention is to have made a particularly lightweight supporting element, for the equipped accessories of heavy vehicles, in order not to increase the vehicle sprung masses as all the elements composing the invention are made of a high-resistance plastic material. Another advantage of the invention is to use the toothed tubular element and the respective clevises, in order to constrain different families of accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles. These and further objects are achieved by the device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis of the present utility model, described in a preferred non-limiting embodiment of further developments within the scope of the model, with the aid of the attached drawings illustrating the following figures: Fig. 1, an isometric view of the device applied on the surface of a general accessory;Fig. 2, an exploded isometric view of the device;Fig. 3, an exploded and partial isometric view of the device as seen from the base of the tubular element ready to be constrained on a body portion;Fig. 4a, 4b, an isometric view of a clevis, with the elements generating the condition of constraining to the toothed tube. In the attached figures, the device suitable to fix accessories to the chassis of heavy vehicles by a toothed tube and at least one clevis, for the sake of simplicity hereinafter identified as the device 1 and preferably made of a high-resistance plastic material, is depicted. As illustrated in the attached figures, the device 1 consists of a tubular element 2, at least one clevis 3 equipped with a pair of stop screws 4 and corresponding flanged nuts 5, a simple screw 6, adapted to constrain the tubular element 2 to a body T portion and a cap 7. As illustrated in figures 1 and 2, the tubular element 2 is composed by an almost bell-shaped base 21, from which a tube 22 provided with a set of toothed rows 221, the latter being equidi