Patent ID: 7752806
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: A47G,F16M

Abstract:
1. A holding device for permitting alignment of rod-shaped components therein comprising: a foot part, a receiving part for the rod-shaped component arranged on the foot part, a plurality of holding elements pivotally attached to the holding device, the plurality of holding elements being arranged about an axis of symmetry of the receiving part, each of said plurality of holding elements moving between a plurality of incrementally changed discrete positions starting from: a tensioning device fixed to the foot part by which each of the plurality of holding elements can be moved, using at least one connecting element, out of the releasing position, to the contacting position, then to the aligning position and into the holding position, with each of said plurality of holding elements being furnished with a contact region that becomes progressively in greater contact with the rod shaped component as the holding elements move from the contacting positions to the aligning positions and finally into the holding positions, said contact regions having a surface which is convexly arched towards the axis of symmetry and which is slide resistant when in the aligning positions in such a manner that it establishes a higher slide resistance to upwardly directed siding movement of the rod shaped component and a lesser slide resistance to downwardly directed sliding movement of the rod shaped component.