Abstract: An improved wall fastener for hollow walls, the fastener having two spreadable anchoring blades designed to spread behind the wall following insertion of a screw thereinbetween. The fastener is made of thin sheet metal which has been hardened through a heat treating process, such as quenching. Complementary engaging means on the blades are used to hold the blades together during the heat treatment and to prevent the separation thereof until the screw insertion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 4, 1990
Date of Patent:
July 17, 1990
Assignee:
E. Vassiliou
Inventors:
Thomas E. Nowak, Edward J. Smith, Eustathios Vassiliou
Abstract: An improved wall fastener for hollow walls, the fastener having two spreadable anchoring blades designed to spread behind the wall following insertion of a screw thereinbetween. The fastener is made of thin sheet metal which has been hardened through a heat treating process, such as quenching. Complementary engaging means on the blades are used to hold the blades together during the heat treatment and to prevent the separation thereof until the screw insertion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 9, 1987
Date of Patent:
August 23, 1988
Assignee:
Eustathios Vassiliou
Inventors:
Tom Nowak, Edward J. Smith, Eustathios Vassiliou
Abstract: A fastener useful for securing articles on a hollow wall, made of a thin sheet of metal, shaped as to provide two spreadable pointed thin blades for easy insertion into a wall where after the blades are spread apart by the insertion of a screw to form an anchor resisting withdrawal.
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