LOCKING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FIXATION OF COMPONENTS TO TUBES

摘要

The invention relates to a locking device designed to lock objects to tubes or other elongated elements (11) and consists of lock plates (1 8) and lock housings (17). When assembling the locking device to a tube, two lock housings are put together with open sides against each other around a tube with a dimension corresponding to half of a recess (8) which is found on the lock housing's sides and are oriented in the tube's axial direction. The two lock housings then form a closed geometry around the tube and all sides of the locking device have a similar hole pattern. Two lock plates including pins (1) can be assembled by fitting pins in the hole pattern such that half of a lock plate's pins can be assembled in each lock housing. By applying a screw (9) in a threaded (7) hole in the middle of one of the lock housings' cover, the through tube will be pressed against an opposite lock housing at the same time as the lock plates hold the lock housings together. The locking device is then locked by means of contact pressure and friction. By the same hole pattern being found on all sides of the locking device, the assembly of components using the same interface is enabled, on all of the locking device's sides.