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Nut having a nut body and a cap held on the nut body

Patent Number: 8109707
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Winker, Alexander

The present invention relates to a nut (10, 110, 210) having a nut body (11, 111, 211) and a cap (20, 120, 220, 320) held on the nut body (11, 111, 211), wherein there is/are provided on the outer surface of the nut body (11, 111, 211) an encircling recess (16, 216) or recesses (116) encircling in sections, in which an encircling prominence (23) provided on the inner surface of the cap (20, 120, 220 320) or respectively ...

Composite fastener, belly nut, tie system and/or method for reducing heat transfer through a building envelope

Patent Number: 8109706
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Richards, Joseph P.

A composite fastener, a belly nut, a tie system and/or a method reduce heat transfer through a building envelope. The composite fastener, the belly nut, the tie system and/or the method secure a wall to a backup structure. The composite fastener is constructed from a fiber reinforced polymer that has fibers embedded in a polymeric matrix. The composite fastener has a low thermal conductive value (k-value) and has non-corrosive properties. The belly nut has a fastening hole on a first side ...

Twist-lock anchoring fastener

Patent Number: 8109705
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Brown, Gregory A. M.; Brown, Brian A.

A twist-lock anchoring fastener comprises a head (700), a shaft (715), and a lance (720). The foot is adapted to penetrate through wallboard (105). The shaft length is approximately equal to the thickness of the wallboard so that when the foot lies on the back side (107) of the wallboard and the shaft is rotated, the foot is captured behind the wallboard, completing installation of the fastener. An optional footer (725) for the head contains raised ...

Nut assembly for drain pan

Patent Number: 8109704
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Zdravkovic, Srecko; Lewis, Jeffrey C.

A cage nut assembly for a drain pan includes a nut having a barrel with a barrel end and a distal end opposed thereto. A flange at the distal end has a flange face abutting the drain pan inner surface. A threaded bore is defined along a central axis through the barrel and flange. At least one channel is defined in the flange face and allows substantially complete drainage of a fluid from a sump through a single drain aperture. A cage having a plate with a central aperture receives the ...

Hybrid composite-metal male fasteners

Patent Number: 8105004
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Stephen, Douglas; Stephen, Robert

A composite metal male fastener is provided. The metal fastener includes an elongate hollow shell made of metal. The shell includes a threaded exterior for insertion or retraction from the threads of a female fastener. In addition, the shell element includes a central bore and a radially extending flange. The male fastener further includes a core element made of a composite material including plastic, fiberglass or carbon fiber or the like. In a first embodiment, the core element fills the ...

Method and apparatus for a fastener and a fastener cover including a sealable opening

Patent Number: 8105003
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Persuitti, Kevin J.; Fruland, Benjamin R.; Dahl, Scott

One embodiment of the present subject matter includes a system for fastening a male terminal with a driver. The embodiment includes a body defining an at least partially threaded recess which intersects with a female recess adapted to receive the male terminal. The embodiment additionally includes a fastener having an at least partially threaded body and a flanged head adapted to mate with the driver, the fastener disposed at least part of the way in the first recess, the flange having a ...

Weld assembly

Patent Number: 8105002
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Hsieh, Kun-Chih; Zhao, Jian-Qiang; Zeng, Fan-Peng; Li, Lin-He

A weld nut includes a main body and a flange. The flange is extended outwardly from the main body and surrounding the main body, and comprises teeth disposed evenly on the periphery thereof. Mis-positioning of the weld nut is avoided when soldering the weld nut to a printed circuit ...

Corner-cut corrugated fastener

Patent Number: 8100619
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Curtis, Patrick J.

A corner-cut corrugated fastener in accordance with the principles of the invention includes one or more features to facilitate fastening corner joints. The corrugated fastener includes a corrugated body member having a leading edge and a trailing edge opposite the leading edge. The corrugated body member may have a notch along the trailing edge, or chamfers at opposing ends of the leading edge, or both a notch along the trailing edge and chamfers at opposing ends of the leading edge. ...

Apparatus and method of making a heel-less nail

Patent Number: 8100618
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: McDonald, Daniel P.; Robinson, James W.; Ali, Zafar I; Gabriel, William L.; Ferrell, Alvis H.; Bergstrom, Donald E.

A full-round head nail having an offset head is configured with a gusset formed integrally between an undersurface of the offset head and a superior portion of a shank. The head of the nail is relatively thin, and the shank is positioned radially off center of the round head such that no heel is formed at a point tangential to both the head and the shank. The gusset has a lofted surface tapering radially from a roundness at the zero heel to a taper at the toe. The gusset reinforces the ...

Fastener system with frangible member

Patent Number: 8100617
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Cymbal, William D.

A fastener system having a threaded shaft and a threaded body assembly. The threaded body assembly includes first and second bodies each having a threaded bore. A frangible member couples the two bodies together in an initial configuration. The two bodies are threaded onto the shaft in their initial configuration and, after one of the bodies has reached its final position on the shaft, the other body can be rotated relative to the one body and the threaded shaft thereby severing the ...

Clinch nut to prevent corrosion

Patent Number: 8100616
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Townson, James M.; Dempsey, Kevin T.; Cowan, Michael J.; Vozza, David C.

A clinch nut is used to attach a first panel and a second panel with a space therebetween for accepting a liquid primer. The body has a nut face for abutting a first panel and a threaded aperture through the nut body for receiving a threaded bolt. The nut face has grooves into which the first panel is deformed to clinch the nut body to the first panel. An abutment rises from the nut face a distance greater than the thickness of the first panel so that upon the bolting of the second panel to ...

Press-in element for pressing into a non-pierced or pierced component and also method for the manufacture of the press-in element

Patent Number: 8096743
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventor: Babej, Jiri

A press-in element for pressing into a non-pierced or pre-pierced component, in particular a sheet metal part is described. The press-in element has a head part having a ring surface confronting the component and a neck part which projects away from the ring surface, i.e. from the component contact side. The head part further has a ring-like projection surrounding the neck part with a radial spacing and projecting away from the ring surface and the neck part has a radially outwardly ...

Blind rivet

Patent Number: 8096742
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: Smith, Daniel R.; Davies, John; Jones, Steven V.

A blind rivet assembly is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, a blind rivet has ends that are received within countersinks in one or more workpieces and a mandrel head is completely pulled through the rivet without being severed from a mandrel stem. A further aspect of the present invention includes a mandrel with one or more ribs located on an outwardly tapering ...