Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Fastener securing element – Having elastomeric material
Patent
1993-02-11
1994-03-01
Lindsey, Rodney M.
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Fastener securing element
Having elastomeric material
411107, 411999, F16B 2100
Patent
active
052901327
ABSTRACT:
A fastening arrangement for connecting a first member to a second member which has a threaded bore is provided which includes a bolt having a head on one end and an attached shank with a threaded portion, a flange connected with the first member, the flange having a support surface for supporting the bolt head, and a bore intersecting the support surface allowing for penetration of the bolt shank, the bore also having at least two radially inward protruding guides for centering the bolt shank within the bore, and at least one compliant finger integrally formed and connected with the flange which by insertion of the bolt is deformed to a position to compliantly bias the bolt shank against at least one of the guides and to also retain the bolt shank within the bore.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3853381 (1974-12-01), Morningstar
patent: 4396327 (1983-08-01), Menke
patent: 4640524 (1987-02-01), Sedlmair
patent: 5082407 (1992-01-01), Mickiewicz
De Angelis Gary J.
Gnage Douglas R.
Mura Robert R.
General Motors Corporation
Helms Ernest E.
Lindsey Rodney M.
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