Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure – Fastener – or coaxial adjunct therefor – having sidewardly...
Patent
1998-06-30
1999-10-26
Saether, Flemming
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Threaded fastener locked to a discreet structure
Fastener, or coaxial adjunct therefor, having sidewardly...
411113, 411181, F16B 3910, F16B 3704
Patent
active
059716860
ABSTRACT:
A fastener assembly and a method for making the same wherein a non-fanged fastener is affixed to a retainer by the interaction of a tab and a stake. The fastener assembly preferably includes a retainer having a face with an opening and a tab positioned adjacent to the opening. The tab protrudes from the face and extends over the fastener. A staking die forms a stake which extends into engagement with the retainer such that the fastener is retained to the retainer by the interaction of the tab and the stake.
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patent: 3496980 (1970-02-01), Steward
patent: 3738406 (1973-06-01), Williams
patent: 4722647 (1988-02-01), Sawdon
Lewis Carl
Stewart Robert E.
MSD Stamping, Inc.
Saether Flemming
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