Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener inventions 04/06

20060088396 - Ada compliant element: An element has a body that is mounted in concrete and a head. The body and the head have co-linear bores, and an expander pin is accommodated in the aligned bores. The expander pin has a head with a color that is identical to the color of the head of...

20060088397 - Hydraulic lift box cover for flatbed trucks: A rigid box cover is hinged to a flatbed truck. Two hydraulic arms raise the cover to a vertical position at the back end of a flatbed trailer and lower it down over the cargo....

20060088398 - Alignment washer: The present invention is an offset washer assembly for use with a fastener (i.e., a bolt, cotter pin, etc.). The washer comprises an inner washer and an outer washer. The inner washer includes a first hole therein adapted to receive the fastener. The first hole passes through the inner washer...

20060088399 - Toggle: The present invention is a toggle fastener for providing a means to attach a screw to a drywall wall. The toggle consists of a unitary toggle member having a wing portion and an elongated tongue portion. The wing portion has a width and opposite ends, the elongated tongue portion extending...

20060088400 - Multiple load path fastener systems: Dual load path fastener systems, and methods for their use, are described herein. In one embodiment, a dual load path fastener system includes first and second fasteners. The first fastener has a first end portion, a second end portion spaced apart from the first end portion, and a hole extending...

20060088401 - Tamper-proof sealing mechanism for various adjustment means: A tamper-proof sealing mechanism for protecting various adjustment/setting means comprises a sleeve (5) having cylindrical bores on either side of its middle wall (14) for covering the adjustment means (1, 2 & 3) from one side and sleeve locking nut (6) or alike from another side. A spring washer (13)...

20060088402 - Flexible fastener: This invention relates generally to a flexible fastener for coupling members. In a preferred embodiment, the flexible fastener may be used to couple members that are non-parallel, non-aligned, or in specific instances when selective compliance in a member is desired. The present invention is directed generally to a fastener that...

20060083599 - Clamping fastener grip length indicator: A temporary fastener includes a grip length indicator. By machining a flattened area into a body of the temporary fastener, by engraving an scale into the flattened area, and by attaching an indicator dot visible in the groove to a moving part of an internal assembly of the temporary fastener,...

20060083600 - Fastening apparatus and a special tool thereof: An invention relates to metals or plastic means for fastening work-piece, especially to a stop backing, anti-detaching thread fastener and its matched specific tool. The invention provides thread fastener and washer, on opposite end faces of which are provided with stop backing teeth respectively, the stop backing teeth of one...

20060083601 - Grommet: A one-piece screw grommet provides improvements in the key areas of screw grommet performance, including lower push-in effort, higher screw retention capabilities, and improved strip torque capabilities. The grommet of the invention that achieves these improvements includes generally a grommet body and a grommet head. The body includes four retention...

20060083602 - Blind fastening system: A threadlike retainer cord is used to bring a flat nut inserted through a surface or wall into position with the hole in the surface for a screw to mate with the threads in the nut. This fastening system provides a simple way to fasten objects together without having access...

20060083603 - Reverse angled threadform with anti-splay clearance: A reverse angled threadform with anti-splay clearance includes inner and outer helical threads, each with respective leading stab flanks and trailing load flanks, the load flanks mutually engaging when an inner member with the inner threads is advanced into an outer member with the outer threads. The inner load flanks...

20060078399 - Blindly installed, reinforceable nuts for joining structural members: A blind nut installed in a structural joint provides an interference fit and a fatigue enhancing benefit to the structural joint. A bolt can be inserted into the nut for additional shear strength and shear continuity. During installation in the structural joint, a first flange of the nut is seated...

20060078400 - Assembly of a nut body in a profiled-section element: An assembly tool (20) for a securing system.(1) The securing system comprises an elongate profiled-section element (2) having a longitudinal slot (6), which is delimited by two flanges, and an elongate nut body (3). The nut body is of a width which is less than the width of the longitudinal...

20060078401 - Washer: A splittable washer shown generally at (10), for example for use in a plumbing installation in which a pipe member is mounted in or connected to an article of sanitaryware, comprises separable parts (18) and (20) which are held together by hinge (16). When the washer is in the open...

20060078402 - Fastener: The present invention relates to fasteners and in particular to fasteners, such as threaded inserts, arranged in use to be self-threaded into a parent material of a workpiece. A threaded insert may fail due to a number of mechanisms, including I) due to rotation caused by the threaded insert being...

20060078403 - Method for the production of a screw, and screw produced according to said method: A screw (1) having a head (2), a shaft (4) that includes a thread (5), and an interior engaging member (3) in the head is provided. The screw (1) is produced from an ultra-high strength steel using a cold forming method....

20060078404 - Spiral drive fastener with engagement ramp: The fastener of this application is designed to facilitate the insertion of rotating power driven tools into the fastener recess. The recess of this fastener generally uses spirally configured driving surfaces and is formed in a counterbore in the upper surface of the fastener. The driving lobes have upper surfaces...

20060078405 - Flute holder: A flute holder comprises a bracket-engaging portion configured to engage a bracket, and a tool-engaging sleeve connected to the bracket-engaging portion and configured to engage a tool. A holding passage is at least partially defined within the tool-engaging sleeve....

20060072979 - Anchor for hollow walls: An anchor (910) for mounting to a hollow wall (W) made of friable material comprises a proximal flanged end (918) adapted to be engaged by a rotatable tool (B) to rotate the anchor (910) about a longitudinal axis (A) thereof and to cause is to gradually engage the wall (W)....

20060072980 - Full-round, offset-head nail: A wire nail for use with a powered nail-driving tool has a full-round head with an axis that is offset from an axis of the integrally formed shank. An outer circumferential surface of the shank is at least as offset from the shank axis in one radial direction as a...

20060072981 - Fixing device with a clip: The present invention relates to a fastener device comprising a clip (200) and a fastener element (100), the clip (200) being formed by a main plate (210) and a backing plate (220) interconnected by a connection strip (230), and the fastener element (100) comprising a tube (110) secured to the...