Drive-in dowel

Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Having separate expander means – With hole forming means

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411 37, 411 54, F16B 1304, F16B 1306

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060102888

ABSTRACT:
A drive-in dowel formed as a sleeve (2, 22) provided with a load application element (3, 23) and having a front section formed of a plurality of expansion elements separated from each other by longitudinal slots, with each of the plurality of expansion elements being formed of a trailing expansion tab (8, 28) and a leading expansion tab (9, 29) separated by a flexible transitional region (6, 26) and forming with each other an angle (.alpha.) from about 100.degree. to about 160.degree., with a front end of the leading tab being located closer to a sleeve longitudinal axis (A) than the flexible transitional region (6, 26); and with the sleeve being provided with a plurality of chisel-like cutters (10) on outer surfaces of respective flexible transition regions (6; 26) which substantially do not project beyond the outer diameter of the sleeve.

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patent: 2329471 (1943-09-01), King
patent: 3107570 (1963-10-01), Zifferer et al.
patent: 4460301 (1984-07-01), Wahlstrom
patent: 5755543 (1998-05-01), Culpen

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