Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Internally threaded fastener element – e.g. – nut – etc. – Multipart
Patent
1998-01-20
1999-05-11
Wilson, Neill
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Internally threaded fastener element, e.g., nut, etc.
Multipart
411267, 411270, 411908, F16B37/08;39/36
Patent
active
059020857
ABSTRACT:
A press-nut is adapted to engage with the threads of a bolt by pressing the nut onto the bolt to receive the bolt in an insertion hole thereof. The press-nut comprises a plastic nut body, and a plastic tubular cap member adapted to be coupled to the nut body to contain the nut body therein and to provide the press-nut with its external appearance. The cap member has a wide opening at one end so as to receive and contain the nut body and a small hole at the other end, through which the bolt is inserted. The nut body comprises a base portion, at least two screw portions forming a nut as a whole and having threaded grooves on the inner walls thereof, and spring portions extending from the base portion and connected to the respective screw portions with each spring portion resiliently biasing the corresponding screw portion so as to be pressed upward from the base portion. The outer surface of each screw portion is tapered gradually to reduce the diameter towards the bolt insertion hole on the other end and the inner side of the cap member is also tapered to reduce the inner diameter thereof in accordance with the tapered surface of the screw portions.
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patent: 5427488 (1995-06-01), Fullerton et al.
Emhart Inc.
Murphy Edward D.
Wilson Neill
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