Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Assembling or joining
Patent
1986-09-09
1987-11-17
Moon, Charlie T.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Assembling or joining
29526R, 49388, 49501, 312214, 312257R, B23P 1102
Patent
active
047063637
ABSTRACT:
A method of reinforcing a structural assembly having an elongated panel with spaced front and rear thin metal walls. One of the panel walls is lanced to form a tang transverse to the elongated panel and attached at one end to the wall and having its opposite end free. One of the panel walls is also lanced to form a resilient tang spaced from the transverse tang and longitudinal to the elongated panel which tang is attached at one end to the wall and its opposite end is free. Both tangs are bent away from their respective walls. A reinforcing member is formed having a length slightly less than the distance between the spaced tangs and a thickness slightly less than the distance between the front and rear walls of the panel. The reinforcing member is properly located in the space between the front and rear walls of the panel by sliding it over the longitudinal tang to abut the transverse tang whereupon the resilient longitudinal tang will spring back and engage the bottom end of the reinforcing member so that the reinforcing member is captured between the tangs. A structural member such as the center hinge pin assembly of a two door refrigerator is secured to the reinforcing member through one wall of the elongated panel.
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General Electric Company
Moon Charlie T.
Reams Radford M.
Weidner Frederick P.
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