IP Library Granted Patent US 8,186,732
Granted Patent B2
US 8,186,732 · App. 12/448,084 · Granted May 29, 2012

Clamping device

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Patent No.
US 8,186,732
App. No.
12/448,084
Granted
May 29, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hoist clamp device for clamping an object. The device includes a frame, a first clamping part, movably connected to the frame and provided with a first gripping surface, a second clamping part, coupled to the frame, provided with a second gripping surface, and arranged with respect to the first clamping part so as to clamp the object between the second gripping surface and the first gripping surface, in which the first clamping part is movable with respect to the second clamping part in order to clamp the object by moving the first clamping part from a free position into a clamping position, and in which the second clamping part is furthermore provided with a gripping part, provided with the second gripping surface, which gripping part is designed to allow a displacement with respect to the frame as long as a clamping force of the first clamping part on the second clamping part is below a minimum value.

Claims (10)

1. A hoist clamp device for clamping an object, comprising:

a frame;

a first clamping part, movably connected to the frame and provided with a first gripping surface;

a second clamping part, coupled to the frame, provided with a second gripping surface, and arranged with respect to the first clamping part so as to clamp the object between the second gripping surface and the first gripping surface,

in which the first clamping part is movable with respect to the second clamping part in order to clamp the object by moving the first clamping part from a free position into a clamping position, and

in which the second clamping part is furthermore provided with a gripping part, provided with the second gripping surface, which gripping part is designed to allow a displacement with respect to the frame away from the first gripping surface as long as a clamping force of the first clamping part on the second clamping part is below a minimum value, which gripping part is displaceable with respect to the second clamping part at a right angle;

wherein the second clamping part includes spring means and the gripping part is prebiased by the spring means.

2. The device according to claim 1 , in which the second clamping part furthermore comprises a sliding part having a sliding surface which extends towards the surface of the second clamping part past the gripping surface of the gripping part.

3. The device according to claim 2 , in which the sliding surface of the sliding part is displaceable with respect to the gripping surface of the gripping part with a directional component which is at right angles to the gripping surface.

4. The device according to one of claim 3 in which the sliding part is displaceable with respect to the gripping part, so that when an object is clamped, the sliding surface contacts the object and not the gripping surface, as long as the clamping force of the first clamping part on the second clamping part is below a minimum value.

Assignments (9)
SECOND LIEN RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS Recorded Nov 8, 2023
From: UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC
Reel/Frame 065491/0300 →
SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS - SECOND LIEN Recorded Jun 28, 2019
From: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC
To: UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH
Reel/Frame 049629/0322 →
SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS - FIRST LIEN Recorded Jun 28, 2019
From: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC
To: UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH
Reel/Frame 049629/0314 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 27, 2019
From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
To: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC AND FKI INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 049616/0401 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 27, 2019
From: UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH
To: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC AND FKI INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 049616/0444 →
SECOND LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 27, 2013
From: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC
To: UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 031736/0788 →
FIRST LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 26, 2013
From: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC
To: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 031730/0794 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 24, 2012
From: INTER PRODUCT B.V.
To: THE CROSBY GROUP LLC
Reel/Frame 028097/0359 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2009
From: GILLESSE, CORNELIS NICOLAAS
To: INTER PRODUCT, B.V.
Reel/Frame 023086/0012 →