Robert Krups Stiftung & Co. Kg.

Rixen & Kaul Gmbh

Norbert Flammann

Edgar Rixen

Stefan Henn

A clamping device that can be utilized to clamp an accessory to a bicycle frame provides a housing that can be attached to the frame. The housing includes a slot that slidably receives an anchor attached, typically, to an accessory. A retaining bar located in the housing includes a shoulder that projects into the slot and that engages a groove in the anchor in a normal resting state. The shoulder, by engagement with the groove, retains the anchor in the slot. The retaining bar can be activated by applying force to at least one of two ends located upon opposing sides of the housing. By applying force to one of the ends, the retaining bar buckles, folds or slides so that the shoulder is moved out of engagement with the groove. The anchor can thereby be slidably removed from the slot.

Clamping device

A household slicing machine wherein a disc shaped rotary knife is mounted in a vertical plane and a guard, which is separable from the housing of the machine, is movable in a second plane that is parallel to the vertical plane of the knife between a first position in which the guard cooperates with an adjustable abutment to conceal the knife, a second position in which the knife is exposed and the machine is ready for use, and a third position in which the guard can be detached from the housing. A spring-biased locking element is reciprocably mounted in the front wall of the housing to extend into an opening of the guard when the latter assumes its second position and to extend in front of an end face of the guard when the latter assumes its first position. This prevents accidental shifting of the guard from the selected position because each such shifting must be preceded by manual depression of the locking element. The guard cooperates with a blocking device which permits depression of a trip in order to start the motor for the knife only in the second position of the guard.

Household appliance and an adjustable guard for its tool

A household slicing machine wherein a disc-shaped knife can be driven to rotate in a first vertical plane and a stop for the foodstuff to be sliced is mounted in the housing in a second vertical plane which is parallel to the first plane. The stop is shiftable at right angles to the first plane to change the thickness of the slices and the adjusting device which shifts the stop relative to the knife has a pair of coaxial sleeves rotatably mounted on the stop and defining a helical path having several sections with different leads. A stationary carrier is provided on a working platform in front of the support and has a follower which extends into the helical path. The extent to which the stop moves relative to the plane of the knife in response to rotation of the sleeves through a given angle depends on that section of the helical path which is being tracked by the follower so that the operator can effect highly accurate or coarser adjustments of the distance between the plane of the stop and the plane of the knife by rotating the sleeves through one and the same angle. The follower tracks a path section of less pronounced lead when the two planes are close to each other.

Adjustable slicing machine for bread and other types of foodstuffs

A household slicing machine wherein a disc-shaped knife is rotatable in a vertical plane in response to starting of an electric motor as a result of depression of a trip which is mounted in the housing of the slicing machine. The trip can be depressed only when a detachable guard for the knife is held in an intermediate position in which the guard and an abutment for the foodstuff to be sliced define a gap wide enough for movement of the foodstuff into the range of the rotating knife. The guard causes a spring-biased blocking device to prevent depression of the trip when the guard is shifted to a position in which it cooperates with the abutment to prevent access to the knife as well as when the guard is actually detached or is held in a position in which it is detachable from the housing.

Household appliance with an adjustable guard for a rotary tool

A household slicing machine wherein a rotary disc-shaped knife is mounted in a housing in a vertical plane to slice foodstuffs which abut against the front side of a stop. The front side of the stop is located in a second vertical plane which is parallel to the plane of the knife and the machine has an adjusting device which can move the stop relative to the knife so as to shift the plane of the front side of the stop nearer to or further away from the plane of the knife and to thereby select the thickness of the slices which are severed from the selected foodstuff. The adjusting device has a stationary component having a follower whose carrier is removably mounted in a working platform which forms part of the housing and is located in front of the stop. The carrier extends through a window of the stop into a helical path which is defined by two confronting cylindrical walls respectively forming part of an inner and an outer sleeve. These sleeves form part of a rotary component of the adjusting device which is mounted on a shaft extending from the rear side of the stop and further having a cap which is snapped onto the outer sleeve and serves to rotate the sleeves when the operator wishes to change the distance between the plane of the front side of the stop and the plane of the knife.

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Solingen, Germany

Norbert Flammann