Tee-nut with enlarged barrel end

Details Tee-nut with enlarged barrel end Tee-nut with enlarged barrel end

1995-09-11

1997-04-08

Saether, Flemming

Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr

Internally threaded fastener element, e.g., nut, etc.

411176, 411183, 411184, F16B 3928, F16B 3700

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056181442

ABSTRACT:
A tee-nut comprises a flange head, a plurality of prongs extending from the flange head, and a hollow barrel extending from the flange head. The hollow barrel has an internally threaded portion provided at one end of the barrel connecting to the flange head, and an enlarged flarable portion extending from the internally threaded portion and provided at a free end of the barrel. The present invention further discloses a method of forming a tee-nut with an enlarged barrel end, by first swaging out and expanding the free end of the barrel and thereafter threading the unexpanded portion of the barrel.

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patent: 1693957 (1928-12-01), Oakley
patent: 2217026 (1940-10-01), Nickerson
patent: 2222747 (1940-11-01), Klein
patent: 2282851 (1942-05-01), Burke
patent: 2460721 (1946-02-01), Thompson
patent: 3403718 (1968-10-01), Hughes
patent: 5238344 (1993-08-01), Nagayama
patent: 5267832 (1993-12-01), Johnson
patent: 5348432 (1994-09-01), Nagayama

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