Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Fastener securing element – Resilient metallic
Patent
1986-01-06
1987-08-18
Ridgill, Jr., James L.
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Fastener securing element
Resilient metallic
403326, F16B 2118
Patent
active
046873996
ABSTRACT:
A retaining ring includes a hole in one end and a slot in the other end for use in determining the orientation of the ring. Such orientation is accomplished by randomly placing a plurality of such rings on a rail for similarly shaped member and advancing the rings along the rail until the holes or slots in the rings pass over a sorting rod. The rings with the holes engaged by the sorting rod are supported by the rod for transfer to another station such as another rail where a stack of the rings may be taped together. The rings with the slots engaged by the sorting rod with fall off the sorting rod in a controlled manner, and may be transferred onto another rail or other suitable support for orienting the other rings in the opposite direction to those which remained on the sorting rod for securing together in stacked relation similar to the rod oriented rings.
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patent: 2595787 (1952-05-01), Heimann
patent: 3469494 (1969-09-01), Frailly
patent: 3535977 (1970-10-01), Baumgarten
patent: 3701303 (1972-10-01), Kondo
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