Abstract: A driver for a vehicle window regulator, having a pane holder for fastening to a window pane, and a rail slider with a guide region and a sliding insert lying therein. The pane holder has an approximately cylindrical connecting section which is inserted along an axial direction into a holder section of the rail slider and is surrounded by said holder section at least in sections along a circumferential direction, and the connecting section has a receptacle and the holder section has a passage opening, which receptacle and passage opening are arranged aligned with each other along a radial direction, and a joining pin is inserted into the passage opening and the receptacle.

Abstract: Typically, a tie plate assembly for supporting a rail on a tie includes a tie plate and a spike that is driven through the plate into the tie to secure the tie plate to the point. A sleeve is provided on the plate that is inserted into a tie to prevent the deflection of the spike with respect to the ties wheels of a train pass over the tie.

Abstract: A shackle with a closure cross member having a concave cross section is disclosed. The closure cross member is inserted into the lugs at the end of a bail of a shackle such that the concave cross section is disposed between the inner faces of the lugs on the bail. The concave cross section of the closure cross member works to center a wire or rope connected to the shackle closure cross member and ensure that the wire or rope is perpendicular to the centerline of the closure cross member. The concave cross section disposed between the inner faces of the lugs on the bail ensures that the wire or rope connecting a load to the shackle remains normal to the centerline of the closure cross member regardless of the movement or orientation of the load attached to the shackle.

Abstract: A floating fastener includes a base member, a limiter block fastened to one end of the base member and defining an elliptical constraint hole, a locking rod inserted through the non-circular constraint hole of the limiter block and having an annular groove extending around the periphery of the non-circular rod body thereof, a spring member sleeved onto the locking rod and stopped between a stop flange of the locking rod and the limiter block, and a knob fastened to one end of the locking rod and disposed outside the base member and operable to move the locking rod axially relative to the base member and to rotate the locking rod, when the locking rod is moved to the elevation where the annular groove of the locking rod is kept in the non-circular constraint hole of the limiter block, between a constrained position where the locking rod is stopped by the limiter block from axial movement relative to the base member and a released position where the locking rod is released from the constraint of the limiter blo

Abstract: A rivet bolt, which connects a plurality of connection members by rivet joints, is disclosed. The rivet bolt includes a retainer including a connection hole formed through a flange part and provided with a screw part, flat parts and inclined parts alternately arranged around the connection hole in the diagonal direction, and fastening pieces formed at the lower portion of the flange part by cutting, curved projections being formed at lower ends of the fastening pieces, and a bolt including a plurality of elevating pieces protruded from the lower surface of a bolt head so as to be inserted into the retainer, a screw thread formed at the upper end of a bolt body, a plurality of protruding pieces formed at the lower end of the bolt body at designated intervals, and a downwardly inclined extension part and an anti-separation piece formed at the lower portion of the bolt body.

Abstract: An expandable kit (110) that includes an inner member (114), an outer collar (116), and an expandable member (112). The expandable member can be used to cold work an opening of a workpiece (130) and induce expansion of the outer collar in order to retain the outer collar. A method of installing the kit that includes passing a tapered portion of a mandrel through the expandable member to radially expand the expandable member into the structural workpiece. The outer collar is moved axially over the expandable member until the workpiece is compressed or captured between the expanded portion of the outer collar and a retaining end of the expandable member. The inner member is pulled into the expandable member.

Abstract: A blind rivet assembly is provided. In another aspect, 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 includes a mandrel with an outwardly tapering shoulder.

Abstract: A retainer assembly comprises a pin including a head and a flange defining a groove therebetween for engaging a first panel. A grommet includes a collar encompassing the pin and flexible arms extending from a hinge point at the collar. The assembly is initially in a shipped position wherein the flexible arms extend along the pin and are maintained in a pocket between ribs of the pin. The pin is inserted through a second panel until the collar engages the second panel. The grommet bends at the hinge points allowing the flexible arms to slide out of the pocket and adjustable engage the pin and the second panel until the second panel is maintained in position by the flexible arms, collar, and flange. Upon removing the assembly from the panels, the grommet adjusts back to the shipped position and the assembly is ready for reuse.

Abstract: To obtain a mounting structure capable of being applied to mount an object to be mounted by absorbing a central position variation between a pin and a female mounting member in more directions. A cap pin 26 is formed with a long hole shaped male side fitting portion 36 so as to rotate in an arrow R1 direction with respect to a pin 28 and to relatively move slide in a sliding axis X2 direction. Even if a pin axis X1 of the pin 28 and a central axis X4 of a clip 24 are deviated, the cap pin 26 is rotated and slid; and accordingly, the pin 28 may be inserted and fitted to the male side insertion portion 36.

Abstract: The invention provides a fastener (10) which has an actuating means (12), a bias means (14) and a flexible core (16). The flexible core (16) has an engagement means (18) which may be integral with but is preferable separate from the flexible core (16). The actuating means (12) includes a material adapted to contract when activated, such as shape memory alloy. Upon contraction of this material, the engagement means (18) is movable between an engagement position and a disengagement position. The bias means (14) biases the flexible core (16) to the engagement position.

Abstract: A method is provided for assembling a turbine engine. The method includes providing a retro-fit seal ring assembly that includes a plurality of unitary, arcuate ring segments that are circumferentially-spaced about a center axis of the ring assembly. Each of the plurality of ring segments includes a body and at least one integrally formed tooth that extends radially inward therefrom. The methods also includes extending at least one fastener through the body of each of the plurality of ring segments, and removably coupling each of the plurality of ring segments to an outer surface of a stationary component within the turbine engine using the at least one fastener.

Abstract: A screw connection fastens a first construction part to a second construction part. The first construction part has a first passage opening and the second construction part has a second passage opening set up in aligned fashion. A sleeve is attached to the second construction part, which has a sleeve opening disposed in an aligned fashion to the second passage opening, and which is supported axially with one end on the opening edge of the second construction. In addition, a screw going through both passage openings goes through the sleeve opening, and attaches the first construction part to the second construction part. A simplified construction results for the screw connection when the sleeve is attached screw tight to the second construction part, and the sleeve opening has a thread into which the screw is screwed to attach the first construction part to the second construction part.

Abstract: A nail comprises a shank having an expansion portion with two curved expansion limbs defining a free space therebetween, a first straight shank portion and a second straight shank portion located correspondingly before and after the expansion region, the free space being formed as a longitudinal notch starting from the first straight shank portion and extending to the forward end, the notch having a notch base rising in direction toward the forward nail end, and a wedge arranged in the longitudinal notch and bearing against the notch base, the wedge having an upper edge slightly projecting beyond the shank and being displaceable in direction toward and along the rising notch base.

Abstract: A dowel-type pin for connecting structural components, particularly for connecting furniture plates, is in a mounted position held over a portion of its length in a receiving opening of at least one of the plates to be connected. The pin is divided in longitudinal direction and has at least two partial pins which are displaceable relative to each other in longitudinal direction and rest against each other in the mounted position. At least one of the partial pins has an inclined abutment surface which ascends in longitudinal direction for a counter abutment surface of the respectively other partial pin.

Abstract: A screw having a threaded shaft, a head on the shaft and means to permit rotation of the screw. There is a longitudinal slot extending along at least a portion of the threaded shaft to receive a locking member. The invention has a particular application in a wood screw and the locking member is, preferably, a flat body having a sharpen tip. Using the invention a wood screw may be secured against vandalism.

Abstract: A wall plug anchor assembly is provided including a sleeve, a spherical body for flaring anchoring ends of the sleeve which body is inserted from a head end of the sleeve into an unslotted portion thereof, and a driver. By means of the driver, the spherical body is forced forward against concrete material which has entered into the sleeve interior. The operative end of the driver includes a wedge surface by and over which the spherical body can be laterally displaced away from a central axis of the sleeve in a direction of the sleeve walls in a wedge-induced or clamping movement.

Abstract: The wall plug anchor assembly is applicable to heavy-duty and reinforced concrete and the like, of a construction component such as a wall and the like environments. The wall plug anchor assembly includes a metallic sleeve having a head of a respectively greater diameter than the sleeve body, of a metallic material, such as a plastically deformable steel of German steel quality ST 34 or ST 37, and wedge means for permanently modifying the sleeve at a location remote from the crown end thereof, particularly to permanently modify the transverse cross-sectional dimension of the sleeve, for example to enlarge the diameter by plastic deformation of the sleeve walls.

Abstract: A locking pin formed from an elastic material having in its longitudinal direction a symmetrical cross-sectional configuration having two opposite outlines (3,5), one of which (3) is formed by two straight lines extending from the ends of the pin and meeting between the ends to form an obtuse angle and a peak height (12) measured from an opposite straight line (13), which connects two end points of the second outline of the locking pin, the peak height (12) being larger than the diameter of the bore (14), into which the locking pin is to be inserted. The thickness of the pin at any point is less than the diameter of the bore, whereby the end points are positioned on a shoulder (6,7), which is formed at each end of the pin.

Abstract: A tapered pin-key for securing a part and a shaft where the part has a cylindrical bore for receiving the shaft and a keyway tangentially intersecting the bore, and the shaft has a tangential groove shallower than the depth of the intersection of the keyway and the bore. The pin-key comprises two cylindrical surfaces converging at a small angle. The radius of the two cylindrical surfaces, the keyway, and the groove in the shaft, are all equal. The pin-key is placed in the keyway with one face engaging the surface of the keyway and the second face engaging the surface of the groove in the shaft, thereby securing the part and the shaft against relative rotational or axial movement.