Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Structurally defined web or sheet – Including fastener for attaching to external surface
Patent
1995-03-17
1997-02-11
Ahmad, Nasser
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Structurally defined web or sheet
Including fastener for attaching to external surface
24297, 24324, 527411, 5274506, 428131, 428134, 428136, 428156, 428192, 428220, B32B 306
Patent
active
056018991
ABSTRACT:
An integral fastener particularly for use in mounting a sheet material to a structural member with a plurality of threaded studs. The integral fastener in one embodiment is connected to the sheet by a web adjacent an aperture in the sheet. The fastener has an opening that defines multiple flaps. To fasten the sheet material to the stud, the stud is inserted through the sheet aperture and the fastener is pressed on the stud so that it extends through the fastener opening, deflecting the flaps, which engage the threads of the stud. In another embodiment, the fastener is formed within the sheet and defines an opening through which the stud passes. In a third embodiment, the stud comprises a T-shaped flange and the fastener has a slotted opening at an acute angle to the plane of the T-shaped flange to retain the fastener on the T-shaped flange.
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Ahmad Nasser
Cascade Engineering, Inc.
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