Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Externally threaded fastener element – e.g. – bolt – screw – etc. – Pilot end having means enhancing fastening or installation
Patent
1999-07-07
2000-09-19
Wilson, Neill
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Externally threaded fastener element, e.g., bolt, screw, etc.
Pilot end having means enhancing fastening or installation
411412, 411426, F16B 2500, F16B 3504
Patent
active
061202274
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a bolt which has been contemplated to solve problems of prior bolts and to provide the bolt adapted to corrects its own position in a precise direction to permit normal fastening without failure such as slipping, seizure or the like even when the bolt is inserted slantingly into a mating female screw. The bolt comprises a constant diameter columnar portion having a smaller diameter than that of a bolt shank portion and formed on an end portion of the bolt shank portion, formed with normal screw threads, in a direction of insertion with a short tapered portion therebetween, and complete screw threads formed on the constant diameter columnar portion to be equal in pitch and thread groove depth to the normal screw threads on the bolt shank portion.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5863167 (1999-01-01), Kaneko
patent: 5882162 (1999-03-01), Kaneko
Ito Yoshiyasu
Mitsui Yasuhiro
Murase Yoshihiro
Aoyama Seisakusho Co., LTD
Conlin David G.
Tucker David A.
Wilson Neill
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