Ergonomic locking pins with eccentric lever

HEINRICH KIPP WERK is now pre­sent­ing anoth­er new devel­op­ment from the lock­ing bolt prod­uct group: mod­els are now being launched on the mar­ket in which the dis­en­gage­ment of the bolt is real­ized by means of an eccen­tric lever. When the user moves the eccen­tric lever beyond the dead cen­ter of the eccen­tric, the bolt dis­en­gages. Advan­tages are the ergonom­ic design, the flat con­struc­tion, a high tem­per­a­ture resis­tance as well as the fast adjustment.

Lock­ing pins are among the stan­dard­ized design com­po­nents that enable fast adjust­ment of mov­ing machine com­po­nents. In most cas­es, a pin is pulled out of its coun­ter­part by pulling the pull knob or ring in order to move machine parts into the appro­pri­ate posi­tion and then fix them there again. With the new lock­ing pins, this process is per­formed by the eccen­tric lever.

A major advan­tage here is that the lock­ing pin remains dis­en­gaged when the han­dle lever is moved beyond the dead cen­ter of the eccen­tric. This solves prob­lems when sev­er­al lock­ing bolts are fixed to a hous­ing, which can­not be reached man­u­al­ly by one per­son at the same time. The oper­a­tor can con­ve­nient­ly release one bolt at a time with­out hav­ing to hold all han­dles in the extend­ed state. This func­tion is oth­er­wise only found on lock­ing bolts with a detent groove, but where the han­dle must be turned in the pulled posi­tion — the process there­fore takes longer. The prod­ucts with eccen­tric levers, on the oth­er hand, are suit­able for con­ve­nient quick adjustment.

Anoth­er plus point is the ergonom­ic shape of the eccen­tric han­dle, which allows easy han­dling with lit­tle effort. The han­dle levers are avail­able in black as well as in traf­fic red and are made of fiber­glass-rein­forced plas­tic. This plas­tic is resis­tant to high tem­per­a­tures and per­mits con­tin­u­ous use tem­per­a­tures of approx. 160 °C and short-term use tem­per­a­tures of max. 250 °C. With regard to the thread­ed sleeves and lock­ing pins, the user can choose between steel and stain­less steel versions.

All thread­ed sleeves are avail­able with fine thread and in 4 sizes (M10x1 / M12x1.5 / M16x1.5 / M20x1.5). The eccen­tric han­dles can be rotat­ed 360° and are sig­nif­i­cant­ly flat­ter than mush­room or T‑handles when unac­tu­at­ed. This also allows recessed mount­ing of the prod­ucts, thus avoid­ing inter­fer­ing contours.