Abstract: A mounting device for a mounting member is disclosed. The mounting device comprises a first flange configured to be fitted under a mounting surface and a second flange configured to be inserted in the first flange. The second flange has a first section that is configured to provide a second flange orifice for inserting the mounting member, a second section having a plurality of threads for receiving the first flange, a third section having a plurality of threads, and a fourth section having a plurality of threads. A compression nut having an inner surface is configured to pass over the mounting member and tightened on the fourth section of the second flange over the plurality of threads. A ring is configured to be fitted over the mounting member and between the fourth section of the second flange and the compression nut.

Abstract: A punch tip design configured to be universal in its application with wide varieties of punch assemblies, and various punch body designs from which universal application of the punch tip is exemplified. In some cases, ancillary components used with the various punch body designs enhance ease by which the operator can selectively manipulate the same for alternately securing or releasing the punch tip.

Abstract: A punch tip (16) design configured to be universal in its application with wide varieties of punch assemblies, and various punch body (14) designs from which universal application of the punch tip (16) is exemplified. Ancillary components (34, 16, 50) used with the various punch body (14) designs enhance ease by which the operator can selectively manipulate the same for alternately securing or releasing the punch tip (16).

Abstract: A torque controlling break screw is provided for securing a wire or cable within a connector. The break screw comprises a nut, a thin-walled, hollow screw and a torque limiting feature between the nut and the screw.

Abstract: A hold-down assembly for retaining a portable electronic unit within an avionics equipment mounting tray includes a shaft, a locking collar, and an actuator knob. The shaft is coupled to pivot with the mounting tray. The locking collar slides along the shaft to engage the portable electronic unit. The actuator knob includes a knob body, a ratchet plate having detent holes within the knob body, a ball bearing, and a compression spring within the knob body. As the actuator knob is rotated to move along the shaft, the knob body and the ball bearing rotate with respect to the ratchet plate, and the ball bearing is forced against a spring bias of the compression spring as the ball bearing travels between adjacent detent holes.

Abstract: A fastening device is provided to cover below a front hood of a motor vehicle has an elastic fixing element for mounting a widened area implemented as a radial expansion of a shaft. When the cover is pressed down, the fixing element detaches from the widened area and arrives over the shaft. In this way, the fastening device is made yielding.

Abstract: The ball screw apparatus of an end cap type comprises a ball nut which includes a nut main body having a ball circulation hole penetrating through the nut main body in the axial direction thereof and two end caps respectively fixed to the two end portions of the nut main body and defining two ball circulation R portions between the end faces of the nut main body and themselves. A guide groove for a ball is defined only on the end face side of the nut main body to thereby define the ball circulation R portion, and the shapes of the surfaces of the end cap, which are disposed opposed to the end faces of the nut main body, are defined substantially uniform over the entire peripheries thereof.

Abstract: A sustainer for securing a roof rail to a vehicle surface, which does not require protrusions or bumps to be formed on the vehicle surface to prevent unwanted rotation of the sustainer during tightening of an external bolt onto the sustainer.

Abstract: A self-locking adjustable screw comprising a housing having a generally tubular axial bore extending between openings in the axial opposed first and second ends thereof, a generally tubular downlock element coaxially disposed in the axial bore, the element including a co-axial bore extending between a closed end and an opening in a driving end, screw threads operatively interconnecting the element with the wall of the axial bore for translating rotation of the element into axial movement, a lock pin disposed for axial movement in the co-axial bore, a spring disposed between the closed end of the co-axial bore and the lock pin for biasing the lock pin toward the opening of the co-axial bore, a pin in slot structure for limiting the axial movement of the lock pin, a lock member movably disposed in a radially extending bore interconnecting the co-axial bore with the axial bore such that the lock in its normal position places the lock member in engagement with axial grooves in the wall of the axial bore to preven

Abstract: A device and process for fixing two parts with a captive screw (5) engaged in a threaded hole (3) machined in at least one of the two parts (1,2). The screw (5) comprises over its whole length a bore (6) communicating with at least one radially directed hole (10) opening out on the outer side surface of the screw (5) in its threaded part (5a) and enclosing a component (11) movable in the hole (10). A maneuvering rod (14) is engaged in the bore (6) for locking the screw (5) in place in the threaded hole (3), by placing a part of the rod with larger diameter to coincide with the component (11) which then crushes the threading of the part (3a) of the hole (3). The rod (14) is crimped over the screw (5) by virtue of strips (18). The disclosure applies in particular to the assembly of two walls of a partitioning of the core of a pressurized water nuclear reactor.

Abstract: An anti-vibration arrangement for resisting unthreading rotation between a coupling nut and mated components is disclosed, consisting of a deflectable mandrel extending in a radial plane chordally across an interior bore formed in the coupling nut, which mandrel mounts a slidable ball. The mandrel passes adjacent an outer surface portion of one of the electrical connector components defining a clearance space of a smaller dimension than the ball, while the ball is axially positioned in frictional engagement with the surface portion on either side of the clearance space. Rotation of the nut is resisted only minimally in a direction tending to move the ball away from the clearance space while tending to be wedged by rotation in the opposite direction.