Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Bale and package ties – hose clamps – With tighteners
Patent
1977-05-12
1981-05-05
Frazier, Roy D.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Bale and package ties, hose clamps
With tighteners
B65D 6300, F16L 3310
Patent
active
042650054
ABSTRACT:
A saddle for a U-bolt clamp is formed of a pair of tubular housings arranged to receive and slide axially upon the legs of a U-bolt having a semicircular bight, with the housings connected by a web portion consisting of a pair of parallel planar sections of sheet steel welded together in full face contact and extending transversely between the housings integral therewith. The upper (bight facing) edge of each planar section is curved as a semicircular recess on the radius of the U-bolt bight. The mid portion of each planar web section is, for its entire length between the tubular housings, embossed with deep ribs to provide web stiffeners materially reinforcing the entire web portion of the saddle. The lower edge of each web section is formed with an outturned lateral flange over its full length, which flange lies in a plane normal to the longitudinal axes of the tubular housings and additionally reinforces the web section against horizontal distortion and twist when securing nuts threaded on the ends of the U-bolt legs are drawn up against the lower end faces of the tubular housings to tighten the clamp. The flanges add about 50% more metal to the web area at its narrowest point.
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patent: 3955250 (1976-05-01), Heckethorn
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Frazier Roy D.
Heckethorn Manufacturing Company
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