IP Library Granted Patent US 11,840,881
Granted Patent B2
US 11,840,881 · App. 16/640,937 · Granted Dec 12, 2023

Finger protection device

Inventors: Andreas Dintheer (Illnau, CH); Andreas Brändle (Hettlingen, CH)
Assignee: ASSA ABLOY (Schweiz) AG
E06B7/367
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Patent No.
US 11,840,881
App. No.
16/640,937
Granted
Dec 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A finger protection device for bridging a gap of a door or window that has a winding shaft with a first end face and a second end face and a roller blind web that can be wound via the winding shaft. The roller blind web is arranged with a first end on the winding shaft and on the winding shaft side can be attached, together with the winding shaft, to a first part of the opening. The roller blind web can be attached with a second free end to a part of the opening. The finger protection device has a first and a second holder, wherein the first holder arranged on the first end face of the winding shaft and the second holder is arranged on the second end face of the winding shaft.

Claims (25)

1. A finger protection device for bridging a gap of a building opening, the building opening being a door, a window, a gate or a hatch, wherein the building opening comprises a leaf to close the building, wherein the building opening has a first part and a second part, wherein the finger protection device comprises a winding shaft with an end-face first end and an end-face second end and a roller blind web which is windable about said winding shaft by means of the winding shaft, wherein the roller blind web is arranged by way of a first end on the winding shaft and is fastenable together with the winding shaft to the first part of the building opening, thereby defining a winding shaft side, and wherein the roller blind web is fastenable to the second part of the building opening by way of a second end,

wherein

the finger protection device comprises a first and a second holder, wherein the first holder is arranged on the end-face first end of the winding shaft and the second holder is arranged on the end-face second end of the winding shaft, wherein the first holder encompasses the end-face first end and the second holder encompasses the end-face second end,

wherein the first and the second holders serve together for fastening the finger protection device on the winding shaft side to the first part of the building opening,

wherein a rail is present, the rail extending in a longitudinal direction of the winding shaft and the rail being fastenable to the first part of the building opening or being an integral component part of the first part of the building opening,

wherein the first holder and the second holder are held in the rail,

wherein the first holder is displaceable in the rail in the longitudinal direction of the winding shaft in a guided manner relative to the second holder,

wherein a position of the first holder is fixable for fastening the finger protection device,

wherein the winding shaft is held in a clamped manner between the first holder and the second holder,

wherein the first or the second holder comprises a base plate for abutment against the winding shaft and a leg which is arranged at an angle on the base plate for fastening to the first part of the building opening,

wherein the base plate comprises a window which forms an access to a spindle of the winding shaft, and

wherein the wound roller blind web forms an outermost surface, as a result of which the finger protection device is realized to be used without a housing in the first part of the building opening.

2. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second holder is also displaceable in a guided manner in the rail relative to the first holder.

3. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and the second holder comprise a base plate each for abutment against the winding shaft and a leg each of which is arranged at an angle on the base plate for fastening to the first part of the building opening.

4. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the base plate comprises a window which forms an access to a spindle of the winding shaft.

5. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and the second holders are displaceable along a longitudinal groove in order to clamp the winding shaft between them.

6. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the longitudinal groove is arranged in a rail and the leg of the first and the second holder is guided so as to be displaceable in the longitudinal groove.

7. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the winding shaft comprises a cover on at least one end face and wherein one of the two holders encompasses said cover.

8. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the respective holder encompasses the respective cover in a non-rotatable manner.

9. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the respective holder comprises an at least partially circumferential apron for encompassing the respective cover.

10. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the winding shaft comprises a cover on each of the two end faces and wherein each one of the two holders encompasses each one of the two covers.

11. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the respective holder encompasses the respective cover in a non-rotatable manner.

12. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the respective holder comprises an at least partially circumferential apron for encompassing the respective cover.

13. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first or the second holders is displaceable along a longitudinal groove in order to clamp the winding shaft between them.

14. The finger protection device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the longitudinal groove is arranged in a rail and the leg of the first or the second holder being displaceable along the longitudinal groove is guided so as to be displaceable in the longitudinal groove.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 12, 2021
From: DINTHEER, ANDREAS; BRÄNDLE, ANDREAS
To: PLANET GDZ AG
Reel/Frame 055572/0760 →
MERGER Recorded Mar 12, 2021
From: PLANET GDZ AG
To: ASSA ABLOY (SCHWEIZ) AG
Reel/Frame 055572/0785 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 17187424 · Aug 23, 2017 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210123299A1 · Apr 29, 2021