Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure – Prefabricated assembly comprising strip or sheet member...
Patent
1986-03-18
1987-04-28
Smith, Gary L.
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure
Prefabricated assembly comprising strip or sheet member...
411116, 411552, F16B 3910
Patent
active
046610308
ABSTRACT:
A bumper bar comprised of joined together stampings defining a closed box section has a cage attached inside the bumper bar and overlying an elongated opening in the bumper bar. The elongated opening has a major dimension which extends in the direction of desired adjusting movement of the bumper bar relative to the structural member upon which bumper bar is to be mounted. A bolt has a bolt head at least sufficiently smaller than the elongated opening to permit axial insertion of the bolt head through the elongated opening. The bolt head has a major dimension greater than the minor dimension of the elongated opening so that a quarter-turn rotation of the bolt subsequent to insertion through the elongated opening will align the major dimension of the head for engagement with the bumper bar to prevent removal of the bolt from the elongated opening. The cage has a pair of spring tangs struck therefrom and engaged by the bolt head to yield axially upon insertion of the bolt head in the elongated opening and then urge the bolt head axially into enagagement with the bumper bar and also urge the bolt laterally of the bumper bar to a predetermined initial position within the range of lateral adjusting movement provided by the elongated opening to facilitate the alignment of the bolt with the vehicle structural member.
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General Motors Corporation
Leahy Charles E.
Smith Gary L.
Whitcomb, Jr. Adrian H.
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