Patent ID: 6516821
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: A45B,A61H,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
Stageless adjusting/locating device for a stick, the stick being composed of multiple telescopic fitting tubes including at least one mother fitting tube and at least one daughter fitting tube nested in the mother fitting tube, the adjusting /locating device being disposed between the mother and daughter fitting tubes for adjusting a position of the daughter tube relative to the mother tube and for locking the daughter tube in the adjusted position, said adjusting/locating device comprising:a screw member which is a threaded rod having an outer circumferential face formed with an outer thread and upper and lower end faces, a lower end of the threaded rod being integrally connected with a cylindrical fixing section which is inserted into an insertion end of the daughter fitting tube, the upper and lower end faces of the threaded rod being formed with frustoconical surfaces converging in a direction away from the center of the threaded rod; and a locking member which is composed of two semicylindrical bodies, adjacent sides of the semicylindrical bodies being connected with each other via connecting plates, an outer circumferential face of the locking member being formed with multiple annular grooves in which a fastening ring is fixedly inlaid, inner circumferential faces of the two semicylindrical bodies being formed with inner threads, an upper end and a lower end of the inner threads being formed with thick sections converging from thin sections, inner wall faces of the thick sections being formed with semielliptic arch faces arranged to be engaged by a respective one of said frustoconical surfaces upon rotation of said daughter fitting tube in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, the respective one of said frustoconical surfaces thereby causing the locking member to expand the locking member so as to tightly abut against the inner circumferential face of the mother fitting tube and thus adjustably locate the daughter fitting tube.