Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener inventions 10/08

20080260488 - Pin and grommet fastener assembly: A fastener assembly configured to secure a first panel to a second panel includes a pin and a grommet. The pin includes a shaft connected to a tip. The grommet is configured to snapably secure into a hole of a panel. The grommet includes a central passage. The shaft is... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080260489 - Captured nut assembly: A strip has a plurality of slots therein each which has a captured nut freely rotatable in the slot to be assembled to a work piece.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080260490 - Sheet metal nut: Disclosed is a sheet metal nut comprising a cage part (1) that is fitted with a bottom plate (2), supporting edge sections, and opposite side plates (4, 5). Furthermore, contacting final sections (15, 16) are provided which are disposed across from the supporting edge sections and grip the peripheral zones... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080260491 - Fall-off preventing element and loosening preventing nut: Provided is a fall-off preventing element and a loosening preventing nut, which, by a wire of a coil spring, with a free lower end, being fitted onto a thread groove of a bolt, can prevent fall-off of a nut or loosening of a nut. A fall-off preventing element is screwed... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080260492 - Threaded fasteners with ribbed shanks: A metal bolt or cap screw fastener has a head, a shank of reduced cross section and a threaded portion, which fastener is configured to be manufactured using cold forming automatic bolt making machines of concurrent configuration. The reduced cross section shank provides additional elastic stretch and reduces stress throughout... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080260493 - Bolt and thread rolling die and the manufacture of the bolt: The object of the present invention is to provide a bolt that effectively prevents gouging, seizure and racing between the bolt and nut without the aid of a guide boss and is effective when combined with the case nut. The object can be attained by providing a bolt having a... Agent: Donald S. Dowden Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080260494 - Methods and apparatus for coupling gas turbine engine components: A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine assembly including at least a first member and a second member. The method comprises inserting a threaded fastener through an opening formed in a flange, and providing at least one shank nut including a flanged mating end, an opposite non-mating end, and... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080260495 - Threaded screw fastener with multiple characteristic threads: A fastener with multiple thread characteristics includes a shank and head. The shank has a penetrating tip distal most from the head. The shank includes a first, conventional thread formation formed therein adjacent the penetrating tip and a second, anti-back-out thread formation adjacent the conventional thread formation, between the conventional... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC (illinois Tool Works)

20080260496 - Fastener with visual indicator: A fastener that includes a head portion and a body and is configured to be driven into material. The body is configured for engaging the material and the head portion is constructed to be engaged by a driver of a power nailer. A color coating is applied to a face... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080260488 - Pin and grommet fastener assembly: A fastener assembly configured to secure a first panel to a second panel includes a pin and a grommet. The pin includes a shaft connected to a tip. The grommet is configured to snapably secure into a hole of a panel. The grommet includes a central passage. The shaft is... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080260489 - Captured nut assembly: A strip has a plurality of slots therein each which has a captured nut freely rotatable in the slot to be assembled to a work piece.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080260490 - Sheet metal nut: Disclosed is a sheet metal nut comprising a cage part (1) that is fitted with a bottom plate (2), supporting edge sections, and opposite side plates (4, 5). Furthermore, contacting final sections (15, 16) are provided which are disposed across from the supporting edge sections and grip the peripheral zones... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080260491 - Fall-off preventing element and loosening preventing nut: Provided is a fall-off preventing element and a loosening preventing nut, which, by a wire of a coil spring, with a free lower end, being fitted onto a thread groove of a bolt, can prevent fall-off of a nut or loosening of a nut. A fall-off preventing element is screwed... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080260492 - Threaded fasteners with ribbed shanks: A metal bolt or cap screw fastener has a head, a shank of reduced cross section and a threaded portion, which fastener is configured to be manufactured using cold forming automatic bolt making machines of concurrent configuration. The reduced cross section shank provides additional elastic stretch and reduces stress throughout... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080260493 - Bolt and thread rolling die and the manufacture of the bolt: The object of the present invention is to provide a bolt that effectively prevents gouging, seizure and racing between the bolt and nut without the aid of a guide boss and is effective when combined with the case nut. The object can be attained by providing a bolt having a... Agent: Donald S. Dowden Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080260494 - Methods and apparatus for coupling gas turbine engine components: A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine assembly including at least a first member and a second member. The method comprises inserting a threaded fastener through an opening formed in a flange, and providing at least one shank nut including a flanged mating end, an opposite non-mating end, and... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080260495 - Threaded screw fastener with multiple characteristic threads: A fastener with multiple thread characteristics includes a shank and head. The shank has a penetrating tip distal most from the head. The shank includes a first, conventional thread formation formed therein adjacent the penetrating tip and a second, anti-back-out thread formation adjacent the conventional thread formation, between the conventional... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC (illinois Tool Works)

20080260496 - Fastener with visual indicator: A fastener that includes a head portion and a body and is configured to be driven into material. The body is configured for engaging the material and the head portion is constructed to be engaged by a driver of a power nailer. A color coating is applied to a face... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080253858 - Screwing device with function of twisting force measurement: A screwing device with a function of twisting force measurement comprises: a screw unit having a head and a shank connected to the head; a twisting force measurement unit installed at the head and having a processor and displaying unit and a sensor for measuring a twisting force applied to... Agent: Chih-ching Hsieh

20080253859 - Cage nut fastening system: A cage-nut assembly is configured to securely clamp to at least one panel. The assembly includes a cage including an annular base integrally connected to beams having flat tabs extending from ends thereof. A nut chamber is defined between the annular base and the beams. A nut is positioned within... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080253860 - Anchor assembly for fastener: An anchor assembly for walls comprises a toggle member and a strap member pivotally mounted together, and a locking member. In a first position thereof, the toggle member is aligned with the strap member for insertion through the wall, whereas in a second position thereof, the toggle member extends behind... Agent: Ungaretti & Harris LLP Intellectual Property Group - Patents

20080253861 - Method and unit for shipping a torque limiting assembly: A method for shipping a torque limiting assembly comprises the steps of preparing a male member fitted with an internal thread of the torque limiting assembly, coating the male member with grease, fitting the male member into the internal thread of the torque limiting assembly, and shipping the torque limiting... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080247839 - Tensionable cable bolt apparatus and system: A cable thread insert, the insert integrated into a multiwire cable to provide a threaded portion of the cable. The threaded cable is capable of being used as part of a tensionable cable bolt apparatus and system.... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080247840 - Fastener and fastener tightening/loosening device: A fastener that includes a head part having an internally threaded hole extending from one side of the head part to another side of the head part, an externally threaded shank in threaded engagement with the internally threaded hole of the head part, the shank being externally threaded for threaded... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080247841 - Low swage load fastening system and method: A low swage load fastening system is provided for installing swage-type fasteners to secure a plurality of workpieces together. The fastener includes a pin member, having an elongated pin shank to be located in aligned openings in the workpieces. An enlarged head at one end of the pin engages one... Agent: Intellectual Property

20080247842 - Device to be connected to a screw: The invention relates to a device to be connected to a screw. Said device comprises a plurality of connecting elements (5, 6, 7) which have respective openings (14) and which can be engaged with a thread of the screw. Said connecting elements (5, 6, 7), in a preassembly configuration, are... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080247843 - Fastening system: A fastening system including a fastener having a head, shank, and tip. The shank further includes a knurled section formed between the head and tip portions of the fastener. A washer made of a compressible material is applied over the tip of the fastener and tends to engage and compress... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080240882 - Plastic rivet and removing tool: A molded plastic rivet (10) for affixing two parts to each other when said rivet is inserted through two mutually aligned apertures in said parts, said rivet comprising, a pin (14) having a head (38), a shank (36) and first and second latching offsets (40,42) at the distal end of... Agent: Lowe, Hauptman, Gilman & Berner, LLP (itw)

20080240883 - Threaded insert and method of using same: The present invention is directed to a threaded insert having an internal threaded surface and an external threaded surface. The threaded surfaces have threads that are threaded in opposite directions. Thus, if the internal threaded surface is a right handed thread, then the external threaded surface will be a left... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080240884 - Locking device: A locking device is provided that includes a nut having a body portion and an end portion. The end portion has a proximal end proximate to the body portion and a distal end. The nut has an inner surface defining a nut aperture that extends through the body portion and... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080240885 - Nail: A nail comprises a plurality of umbrella-shaped threads spirally formed on the shank and extended from the nail end to the head, wherein the umbrella-shaped thread includes a top face and an end edge face, in which the outer diameter of the top face is greater than the outer diameter... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080240886 - Deck board fastener with concave prongs: According to the present invention, a fastener for securing a first board to an underlying supporting member and to at least one other board running adjacent and parallel to the first board. The fastener includes a body portion, first and second prongs, and a flange. The first prong extends outwardly... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP