Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener inventions 02/09

20090053006 - Blind fastener and nose assembly for installation thereof: A blind fastener for securing a plurality of workpieces is disclosed. The blind fastener comprises several components, a core bolt, a body sleeve member and a buckle sleeve member. The core bolt includes a tool engaging portion to engage the head of a driver on a installation tool. The buckle... Agent: Intellectual Property

20090053007 - Retrievable toggle bolt with pivot-and-slide engagement: A retrievable toggle bolt for mounting an object on a drywall or other hollow wall structure includes a headless bolt having a threaded shaft with a terminal portion for insertion through a hole in the drywall. A toggle is engaged by a pivot-and-slide engagement configuration with the terminal portion of... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090053008 - Tapping screw: It is possible to prevent a screwing torque from becoming excessively high even when a screw is threadedly engaged into a deep guide hole. In a tapping screw 100 comprising a parallel screw 22, a taper thread 23 provided closer to a tip end of the tapping screw than the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090053009 - Pre-stressing apparatus using a split threaded fastener: A fastener includes a threaded circular ring half divided along a plane intersecting a central longitudinal axis. One of the end walls is formed with a truncated conical load-bearing surface that is seated on a truncated conical thrust surface formed on a circular ring of a stress generator. The load... Agent: Clifford A. Poff

20090053010 - Nut having at least two parts: The invention relates to a nut (300) having an internal thread and at least two parts (301), wherein each of the parts (301) has a section (302) of the internal thread, and said section (302) can be pushed onto an external thread (50) in the radial direction, and wherein the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090053011 - Invisible staple a transparent plastic staple: The present invention will revolutionize the way consumers look at staples, literally. The clear transparent plastic staple, also referred to as the Invisible Staple, staple and staple strip, is made of a clear plastic material therefore admits light without appreciable diffusion or distortion so that objects and colors beyond or... Agent: Jesica Brackett

20090047092 - Coated fasteners: Disclosed are fasteners that include an electrically conductive material and a film-forming composition deposited on at least a portion of the material. The film-forming composition comprises a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound. The fasteners are suitable for use with wood that has been treated with a chrome-free copper containing wood preservative. Also... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090047093 - Thread locking/prevailing torque fastener and fastener assembly: A thread locking fastener assembly comprising a nut anchor defining an internal thread having a longitudinal axis, a leading face and a trailing face, the internal thread, in axial section, having a profile which is symmetric about a first imaginary line extending radially out from the axis, and a fastener... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090047094 - Tolerance compensating fastener: A tolerance compensating fastener comprising a first member having a first member bore and an outer surface having threads, a second member having a second member bore and a spherical portion engaged with the first member, a third member having threads and disposed through the first member bore and the... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20090047096 - Screw: The present invention pertains to a screw with a first thread section comprised of a trailing and a leading thread segments respectively spiraled on a shank and a tip section. Distinctly, the leading thread segment defines a plane surface thereon to convergently engage with an adjacently thread peak on the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090047095 - Thread forming fastener: A thread forming fastener for threading into a nut anchor of a pliable material wherein there is produced during the driving of the fastener a combination of forces that encourages the nut anchor material to flow smoothly and to develop a mating thread in the nut anchor that minimizes stress... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090047097 - Fastening device for heat sink: A fastening device for a heat sink includes a one-piece shaft. The shaft includes a head at one end thereof, an engaging section at an opposite end thereof, a connecting section between the head and the engaging section, and a tray extending above the engaging section. A spring surrounds the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090047098 - Multi-prong push pin apparatus: A pushpin and method of use for the pushpin for inserting into a surface and remaining adjacent to the surface, the pushpin includes a body having a body longitudinal axis, the body also including a first end portion and a second end portion, the body also having a middle portion... Agent: Roger A. Jackson, Esq.

20090047099 - Roofing material fasteners, applicators and method of installation: A roofing material fastener comprises a shank having a length dimension and a point. The shank is adapted to enable it to be driven through at least a first course of roofing material and into a roof deck. A fastener head is positioned in a region of the shank distal... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090047100 - Method and apparatus for fastening components using a composite two-piece fastening system: A method and apparatus for attaching parts. A composite male fastening component is placed through at least a first part and a second part. The composite male fastener component preferably has a threaded portion. A composite female fastener component is positioned adjacent to and surrounding the threaded portion of the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090041559 - Screw with breakaway and methods of using the same: A fastener with a breakaway and methods of using the same. In one embodiment the fastener is a screw having a head and elongated stem, adapted to be easily manipulated by a user when using the screw as a fastener in a hinge or joint. A means of holding a... Agent: Gfd Patents, LLC

20090041560 - Lock nut: A lock nut includes a nut body in which there is a drill hole equipped with an internal thread for a bolt body equipped with an external thread. In the nut, there are provided essentially axial cuts which extend to the drill hole over part of its length. Locking claws... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090041561 - Mechanical connection between a primary nut and secondary nut: The assembly comprises a first and a second nut intended to cooperate with a screw in particular provided in an adjustable tailplane actuator for an aircraft, and a mechanical connection between the first and the second nut comprising means for fusible driving of the second nut by the first nut,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090035089 - Blind rivet: 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... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090035090 - Fastener restraint assembly to prevent rotational loosening of mechanical fasteners, fastener and method: An engagement fitting attaches to a rotational fastener, and is anchored to a point stationary relative to the fastener. A rotational coupling attaches the engagement fitting to an anchor member, allowing uni-directional rotation of said engagement fitting on the rotational fastener, relative to the anchor member, about the fastener axis,... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20090035091 - Threaded bolt and method for its production: A threaded bolt having a shank of basic cylindrical form and with a root end and a head end is provided with a spiral-shaped external thread, which has at least one principal flight and in the vicinity of the root end has at least one lead-in flight, adjoined by the... Agent: The Black & Decker Corporation

20090035092 - Screw for use in thermally loaded surroundings: The invention relates to a screw having a lower and an upper end for connecting a first component to a second component. A hollow space which is arranged in the longitudinal direction is formed in the screw. A medium is filled into this hollow space. The hollow space is configured... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department