Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure – Member preassembled with substructure at through-passage or...
Patent
1981-03-11
1990-08-28
Wilson, Neill
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure
Member preassembled with substructure at through-passage or...
411107, 411353, 411508, F16B 3704, F16B 3900, F16B 2118
Patent
active
049521071
ABSTRACT:
A captive screw assembly for an edge lighted panel assembly of the type used in aircraft cockpits and the like. A screw carried in a resilient washer having a lip for retaining the screw and deflectable fingers for insertion into a panel opening for retaining the washer and screw in the panel. Typically the plate carries switches and other components and the panel is attached to the plate by the screws which engage threaded openings in the plate or in nuts carried by the plate.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2756795 (1956-07-01), Clingman
patent: 3037542 (1962-06-01), Boyd
patent: 3126935 (1964-03-01), Tuozzo
Dupree, Inc.
Wilson Neill
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