Abstract: Seal cap devices are provided as an integral (one-piece) structure comprising an open-ended cylindrical body member sized so as to surround a threaded shaft of a fastener, the body member including an upper wall having (i) an arcuate interior edge which defines an aperture to allow threaded engagement with distalmost threads of the threaded shaft of the fastener, and (ii) at least one slot radially extending from the aperture. The upper wall may include opposed slots radially extending from the aperture, e.g., a pair of opposed slots radially extending from the aperture that are separated from one another by an angle of about 90°. A sealant material within the cap may therefore envelope the threaded shaft of the fastener and any collar nut associated therewith to provide a reliable seal.

Abstract: Methods for producing a spindle nut, and spindle nuts produced by such methods are disclosed. The method for producing a spindle nut may include producing a blank which has a sleeve portion and a cylindrical outer surface by non-cutting shaping from sheet metal; and forming a thread provided for cooperation with a threaded spindle in the blank by non-cutting shaping, while maintaining the cylindrical outer surface of the sleeve portion.

Abstract: A wiring cover assembly comprises a gasket, a fasten assembly, and a housing. The fasten assembly is used to press the housing on the gasket to form a closed space.

Abstract: An encapsulated fastener includes a nut having a face with a concave gap adapted to receive a bolt. The nut is encapsulated by an encapsulation including an extension, which includes a tube adapted for receiving a portion of the bolt and a flange adapted for engaging a face of the nut. The encapsulation extension is placed on the nut in an overmolding tool, wherein an encapsulation base is injection molded over a portion of the encapsulation extension. The encapsulation base encapsulates the nut and extends into the nut concave gap forming a base foot and washer protrusion. The nut is encapsulated except for its bore which is sealed off during the overmolding process by a spring-mounted mandrel. Alternative embodiments of the invention include tubes with different configurations for contacting the bolt whereby the tube or cylinder is reinforced. A method and tooling for manufacturing the encapsulated fastener are also provided.

Abstract: A threaded fastener comprises a fastener body having a threaded portion, a tool engaging surface, and a head cap receiving bore. The head cap receiving bore has a head cap bearing surface and a head cap retaining surface. A head cap has a rigid base and a central stem extending from the base. The head cap stem is disposed in the head cap receiving bore. The head cap base has a body bearing surface in contacting or near-contacting engagement with the head cap bearing surface. The head cap base further has a head cap outer surface. A head cap retainer interconnects the head cap stem and head cap retaining surface. The head cap retainer comprises a material of sufficient strength and rigidity to retain the head cap on the fastener body in a high-strength, axially non-deformable interconnection that holds the head cap in a substantially fixed and immovable axial position.

Abstract: A connecting device has a nut and a guard adapted to cover the end of a threaded stem which, in use, protrudes from the nut; the guard forms part of a plate, which is obtained in one piece and has a base which carries the nut.

Abstract: A fastener is fixed to a body panel by inserting a second portion of a clip and the body panel between a flange-shaped head and deformed bulge created by crimping a blind rivet inserted into a mounting hole in the body panel. Afterwards, when a fender panel is inserted between a first portion and the second portion of the clip, pressure is applied to the inserted fender panel from above and below by ribs and on the first and second portions, thereby clamping the fender panel between the first and second portions, and fixing the fastener to the fender panel. The fastener is positioned inside an anti-rotation depression in the body panel.

Abstract: Improved fasteners are provided for minimizing deformation in the corner region of the bearing surfaces. The bearing surfaces have a primary bearing surface and a recessed bearing surface. The primary bearing surfaces may be oriented in a hexagonal shape with opposing surfaces parallel to each other. The recessed bearing surface is disposed inwardly from the primary bearing surface and extends from the primary bearing surface to the end of the bearing surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nut (10, 110, 210) having a nut body (11, 111, 211) and a cap (20, 120, 220, 320) held on the nut body (11, 111, 211), wherein there is/are provided on the outer surface of the nut body (11, 111, 211) an encircling recess (16, 216) or recesses (116) encircling in sections, in which an encircling prominence (23) provided on the inner surface of the cap (20, 120, 220 320) or respectively prominences (123, 330) encircling in sections engage.

Abstract: A wheel nut and washer assembly for securing a wheel to a motor vehicle axle. The wheel nut includes a body having a longitudinal axis, the nut body also having an axial threaded aperture and a pair of ends, one end being in the form of a smooth steel external surface. The wheel nut also includes a steel washer having an end terminating in a smooth annular surface in surface-to-surface engagement with the body end thereby maintaining axially alignment of the body and washer enabling relative movement of said body and washer about said axis. A decorative cap on the assembly is configured so that it holds the washer on the nut, a gap between the cap and washer to enable the washer to freely rotate and move laterally relative to the nut.

Abstract: A series of high security fastener constructions feature rotatable anti-theft shrouds mounted on locking wheel nuts and wheel bolts designed for vehicular wheels. Each construction features (1) a fastener body having a first body end adapted to accommodate a key receiving pattern or member, a second body end having thread pattern extending therefrom, and a shroud receiving portion located between the first and second body ends, (2) a shroud concentrically mounted on the shroud receiving, and (3) a shroud retaining system for retaining the shroud for rotation relative to the fastener body such that the shroud will rotate under an applied torque prior to the fastener rotating when it is installed at a design installation torque.

Abstract: A bicycle crank arm apparatus includes an axle having a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein the first end portion has an outer peripheral surface and a threaded inner peripheral surface; an axle bolt having a threaded outer peripheral surface screwed into the threaded inner peripheral surface of the first end portion of the axle; a crank arm having an axle mounting boss defining an opening for receiving the first end portion of the axle therein, wherein the axle mounting boss includes a first fastener for tightening the crank arm mounting boss around the first end portion of the axle; and wherein the crank arm boss is positioned axially inwardly of the axle bolt.

Abstract: A decorative fastener assembly including a nut insert and a decorative cap. The cap includes a flatted portion sleeved over a flatted portion of the nut insert and further includes a flange portion proximate its open lower end. An O-ring seal is compressed between the flange of the cap and the circular enlargement of the nut insert to preclude the entry of moisture between the cap and the nut insert. A top end wall portion of the cap is welded to an annular weld projection on the top end of the nut insert in surrounding relation to the central bore of the nut insert. As the weld projection is melted to perform the welding operation, the cap moves further downwardly on the nut insert to further compress the O-ring seal between the cap flange and the circular enlargement of the nut insert. The cap flange portion proximate its open lower end is then crimped over a circular enlargement of the nut insert.

Abstract: A method of sealing a bore, such as the threaded bore of a fastener, wherein the sealing element is preferably formed in place. The preferred sealing element is formed of a heat softenable plastically deformable material, such as a thermo-plastic resin, which is heated and deformed radially in the bore into a mechanical interlock with the bore inside the surface, such as thread. In the preferred method, a plunger or ram is driven into the sealing element which is supported on a die element in the bore. In the most preferred method, the ram simultaneously heats and deforms the sealing element, sealing the bore opening. The preferred female fastener element includes a generally tubular body portion having an axial bore which may be threaded adjacent one end. The sealing element seals the opening to the bore and the opposite end may be sealed with a disk spaced from the threads and forming a chamber.

Abstract: A wheelnut for securing a wheel to a motor vehicle axle. The wheelnut includes a body having a longitudinal axis, the nut body also having an axial threaded aperture and a pair of ends, one end being in the form of a conical external surface and the other end has wrench flats facilitating the application of torque forces through the wrench flats to the nut body. The wheel has a nut seat surface configured to receive the conical external surface in surface-to-surface engagement, so that a clamping force of increasing magnitude will be applied to the wheel at the seat in response to the application of torque force on the wheel nut.

Abstract: A pliable flat disk of laminated construction having a thin top layer of deformable material bonded to a relatively thicker intermediate layer of pliable adhesive sealant material and a removable bottom layer of release paper covering the exposed surface of the sealant material is deformed during installation to cover and seal the head of a fastener protruding from a surface. The disk is installed and deformed by a tool having an end with a recess slightly deeper than the height of the head of the fastener and an interior slightly larger than the outer periphery of the head of the fastener. The release paper is removed to expose the adhesive sealant material and the flat disk is generally centered and stuck, adhesive side down, onto the fastener head.

Abstract: An improved capped wheelnut of the type including a nut body having a central threaded aperture and a pair of ends, one end being adapted to engage a wheel, and a cap for said nut body at the other end. The cap has an end wall and a continuous side wall which terminates intermediate the ends of said nut body in an annular edge, an insulating washer constructed of material having low heat conductivity, said washer being of annular ring shape and positioned on said nut adjacent the lower end of said cap, a portion of said cap being engaged with said washer so as to maintain said washer in engagement with said nut body so that it will not fall off the nut.

Abstract: A capped wheel nut assembly in which a cap is sleeved over a nut. The cap has an outwardly flared marginal portion at the open end crimped over a circular enlargement on the nut. An O-ring seal is compressed between the marginal portion of the cap and the circular enlargement of the nut, to prevent the entry of moisture between the cap and the nut.

Abstract: The invention is aimed at to provide ornamental nuts and bolts of a solid and high-quality characteristic, which are prevented from breakage and dislodgement due to a shock, which are easily manufactured and assembled, which are easily modified in their design, and which are produced at low cost.An ornamental seal 2 is inserted into a recess 1b formed at the rearward portion of a nut body 1c or into a recess 5b formed in a head 5a of a bolt body 5c, and secured therein. The upper surface of the ornamental seal 2 is protectively covered with a film layer of a transparent or translucent material.

Abstract: A safety lock device when combined with at least one pair of spaced screw fasteners, which by observation indicates tightness of the fasteners or looseness of either or both fastener, and additionally to limit counter rotation of either fastener to a small faction of a turn, characterized by a pair of replaceable caps anchored to each fastener, and a loose lanyard extending between the caps when the fasteners are in tightened condition, also any multiplicity of caps tethered by lanyards.

Abstract: A vehicle locking fastener assembly primarily adapted for locking a vehicle wheel to a hub of a vehicle. The locking fastener assembly may adapt the form of a lock bolt assembly or a lock nut assembly. This assembly is comprised of a cylindrically shaped lock nut body having an end wall which may be in the nature of an end cap and which is provided with an enlarged central opening. The opening of the end cap is formed by a somewhat serpentine edge. A jacket is provided for covering the vehicle lock nut and which also has a cylindrically shaped body extending around and engaging the outer side wall of the lock nut body. The jacket similarly has a transverse end plate formed with a somewhat undulating recess. In this case, the recess is formed by a pair of spaced apart recess-forming walls and with the outer wall generally conforming to and engaging the undulating edge of the lock nut.

Abstract: A coupling for securing a handlebar to a bicycle frame comprising a bowl engaged on a front fork of the bicycle frame, a compression nut threadedly engaged on the front fork and including an annular groove formed in an upper portion thereof, and a sealing ring including a lower portion engaged in the annular groove of the compression nut and including an annular ring formed in an upper portion thereof for engagement with the front fork in order to form a seal with the front fork.

Abstract: A structure for preventing from readjusting an adjustment member, which adjusts an extent of operation by rotating the adjustment member, and more particularly, for preventing from readjusting an adjustment member in a carburetor. The structure for the adjustment member includes a hollow tube of a heat shrinkable resin to be fitted around the outer surface of a rotating operational portion of the adjustment member in such a manner that when the hollow tube is heated to be shrunk, it is securely fixed around the outer surface of the adjustment operational portion. Owing to such an arrangement, it will be impossible to fit a tool or the like onto the adjustment operational portion of the adjustment member once it has been available to the user, thus preventing the readjustment. Even if it is readjusted, the readjustment will be easily recognized during a particular inspection of performance.

Abstract: A plastic capped lock nut includes a metal body having a threaded bore extending axially between transverse opposite end faces and includes an annular wall extending outwardly of one of the end faces to define an open ended cavity for receiving a resilient lock ring mounted in the cavity in coaxial alignment with the threaded bore. An end cap of plastic material including an annular side wall and an outer end engages the lock ring and is sonically welded thereto. The annular wall of the metal body is deflected inwardly tightly against the lock ring to secure the ring in the cavity against rotation relative to the body. The end cap provides protection for exposed threads of a threaded rod or other element extending outwardly of the bore of the lock nut body and ring.

Abstract: In order to be able to use an anti-skid device, particularly for vehicle wheels with pneumatic tires when driven on ice and snow, having a fixing disk, which can be attached to the wheel rim and which remains thereon even when the anti-skid device is not in use, and a supporting disk attachable to the fixing disk by a retaining ring and having a plurality of anti-skid arms engaging over the tire tread without great technical expenditure on a large number of vehicles, whose rims have different hole circles and pitches for the rim screws, the fixing disk with a shaped-on hub carries on its side remote from the supporting disk an adaptor disk, which is connected to the fixing disk by screw connections and which has a plurality of radially directed elongated holes in identical and/or several spacings or pitches.

Abstract: A capped wheel nut assembly in which a cap sleeved over the nut is secured to the nut by an adhesive. The adhesive has sufficient flexibility to eliminate rattle and preferably is a silicon adhesive. The cap has an enlarged marginal portion at the open end crimped over a circular enlargement on the nut.

Abstract: A security fastener has a threaded body with tool engaging surfaces. It is surrounded by a freely rotatable spinner. When the fastener is tightened down the tool engaging surfaces are removed so there is nothing on the fastener to be engaged by a tool. The side of the fastener is shielded by the rotatable spinner.

Abstract: This invention provides a locking fastener in which a nut is provided with symmetrical axial slots extending inwardly from one end, a sleeve surrounds the nut and has ribs in the slots for engaging the thread of a threaded shank received in the nut, and a tubular member extends around the sleeve for pressing the sleeve into an annular groove in the nut for retaining the sleeve on the nut. The ends of a tubular member are bent inwardly adjacent the ends of the sleeve for holding the tubular member on the sleeve.

Abstract: This invention relates to a screw type fastener having a radially enlarged driving head and a thin walled head conforming cap having a skirt which is designed to be folded inwardly beneath the head in a lapped condition beneath the head to conceal the exposed edge of the skirt between an exposed clamping surface of the cap and the under surface of the head of the fastener.

Abstract: A steel nut body has its wrench flats covered by a sheet stainless steel sheath that extends over one of the nut ends to form a cap. The surfaces of the wrench flats are formed with ridges that bear against the inner surfaces of the sheath. The sheath is welded to the nut to resist forces exerted during torquing by bringing a pair of electrodes into pressured contact with the sheath on opposed sides of the nut to produce pressure concentrations at the ridges. An extremely short, high current electrical pulse is then passed between the electrodes. The heating produced by the current at the interface between the sheath and the nut body decreases the electrical resistance of this path resulting in primary current flow path between the two interfaces, through the nut body, to produce resistance welds at the inner faces without substantially modifying the metallurgy of the sheath.