Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure – Nut – and means to engage substructure on its opposite faces...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-25
2010-06-01
Saether, Flemming (Department: 3677)
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure
Nut, and means to engage substructure on its opposite faces...
C411S187000, C411S466000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07726925
ABSTRACT:
A fastener with a flange having two pairs of parallel sides and arcuate corners. Extending upwardly from the top surface of the flange is an elongated shaft having one region adjacent the flange having relatively thicker threaded walls and another distal from the flange having thinner unthreaded walls. Two prongs are formed by making cuts in opposing straight sides adjacent to the diagonally opposing arcuate corners, and then bending peripheral portions of the flange including the arcuate corners adjacent to the cuts in a direction upwardly by substantially 90°. The depth of the cuts is such that when bends are made, the perpendicular distance between front surfaces of the two prongs is less than an outer diameter of the shaft. When the fastener is inserted in a piece of material, the prongs dig into the surface of the material to prevent the fastener from rotating when a threaded fastener is screwed into the shaft.
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