Patents Assigned to ITW- ATECO GmbH
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Patent number: 5196075Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making workpieces of ferritic steel, such as drilling screws wherein the workpiece is made of a transformable chrome steel having a chrome percentage of at least 13%, whereupon a workpiece receives a coating from nickel or a nickel or cobald alloy having a thickness of at least 5 .mu.m, and subsequently the workpiece is heat treated under oxygen free environment at at least 850.degree. C. so as to obtain a desired hardness and corrosion resistance.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1992Date of Patent: March 23, 1993Assignee: ITW-ATECO GmbHInventors: Knut Jansen, Andreas Franziskus, Hans J. Plumer
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Patent number: 5184862Abstract: A detachable carrier device for bulky articles includes a coupling portion and a handling portion. The coupling portion has an elongated aperture adapted to be engaged by the head of a screw threaded into the article. The aperture includes a large diameter portion for initially cooperating with the screw head under no load conditions, and a smaller diameter portion for cooperating with the screw head under load conditions whereby the article can be safely supported and transported by the carrier device.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1990Date of Patent: February 9, 1993Assignee: ITW-Ateco GmbHInventor: Thomas Theobald
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Patent number: 4947594Abstract: A device for adjusting and fixedly securing window frames and door cases or the like within wall openings comprising at least one manually rotatable threaded shaft upon which a fixture is mounted and adapted to be connected with a portion of the frame, the fixture being supported upon a side wall of the wall opening, wherein the threaded shaft is directly supported upon the side wall of the opening by means of a thrust element at its free end, the fixture comprising a shaft nut portion, and wherein the fixture detachably grips the frame portion by means of support portions such that the frame can be fixedly secured with respect to the associated wall of the opening, and is also transversely displaceable.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1989Date of Patent: August 14, 1990Assignee: ITW-Ateco GmbHInventors: Thomas Theobald, Manfred Kross, Hans J. Plumer
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Patent number: 4926719Abstract: A supplementary device for driving screws by means of a power-driven screw driver having a driver blade or the like and the device comprising a holding member extending parallel to the driver blade, variable in its length and having a lateral extension, and a magazine disc releasably attached to and rotatably supported upon the lateral extension, the magazine disc being adapted to receive a plurality of screws arranged upon a circular locus, the axis of the driver blade substantially extending through a point of the circular locus and the screws being supported upon the disc such that they can be removed from the disc by means of axial pressure applied thereto by means of the driver blade.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1988Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Assignee: ITW-ATECO, GmbHInventors: Manfred Kross, Hans J. Plumer
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Patent number: 4925072Abstract: A locking system defined between a stationary support housing defining an interior space to be closed by a closure, and a closure movably mounted upon the stationary support housing between an open, unlocked position and a closed, locked position, includes first and second cams fixedly mounted upon the closure, and a rotatable control element rotatably mounted upon the stationary support housing. When the closure (10) is disposed in its closed, locked position within the stationary support housing (11), the first cam (32) is engaged with a first end (27) of the rotatable control element (25).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1988Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: ITW-Ateco GmbHInventors: Gerhard Masler, Uwe Harder
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Patent number: 4893700Abstract: A damping device, in particular for operating members within motor vehicles comprises a housing including a chamber, a liquid phase medium within the chamber, a shaft extending through the chamber, at least one radial vane attached to the shaft in such a manner that when pivoting the vane in the direction of one of two circumferentially spaced radial stops, the medium displaced out of one chamber portion will flow into the other chamber portion through means of a flow constriction, either the housing or the shaft being stationary and the housing or the shaft being connected with the actuating member, whereby at least one throughbore is defined within the vane and serves as the flow constriction.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1988Date of Patent: January 16, 1990Assignee: ITW-ATECO, GmbHInventor: Rainer Gramss
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Patent number: 4698923Abstract: A cleat system for sports shoes, especially football shoes, comprising a downward opening socket in the outsole, provided with at least two circumferentially spaced first supporting surfaces at the inside thereof facing away from the socket opening, a cleat body, a fastening portion connected to the cleat body through which the cleat body is adapted to be detachably connected to the socket and which has at least two circumferentially spaced mounting surfaces integrally formed thereat facing the cleat body which upon insertion and after rotation of the fastening portion through a predetermined angle of rotation come to lie against the first supporting surfaces substantially under surface contact, a further mounting surface formed integrally with the cleat body which comes to lie against the outsole under pressure from below when the supporting and mounting surfaces are in engagement with each other, and locking means effective between the fastening portion and the socket which resists a backward rotational movType: GrantFiled: November 18, 1985Date of Patent: October 13, 1987Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Heino Arff
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Patent number: 4604772Abstract: A device for tensioning belts or the like, comprising a first portion adapted to have one end of the belt fastened thereto and a second portion adapted to be brought into engagement with a portion of the belt spaced through a distance from one end of the belt and locating the same in the tensioning position vis-a-vis the first portion, whereby the two portions which are formed of synthetic material are adapted to be connected to each other and to the belt in a manner to be pivotable such that upon pivotal movement into the tensioning position a limited shortening occurs in the length clamped by the belt between the two points that have been established, and in that the portions are interlockable in the clamping position via an arresting connection, said arresting connection being releasable by means of an actuation portion accessible from outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1984Date of Patent: August 12, 1986Assignee: ITW-Ateco GmbHInventor: Heino Arff
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Patent number: 4579141Abstract: Filling and discharging valve for inflatable hollow bodies, particularly dinghies, comprising a valve housing having a radial flange adapted to be attached to the inflatable body and a valve seat facing the interior of the inflatable body, the valve seat co-operating with a plate-like valve member. A spring is located within the valve housing and biasing the valve member towards the closed position thereof. Holding means hold the valve member in the opened position. A dead center spring above the valve member includes a dead center spring which is secured to the circumference of the valve housing. The dead center spring holding the valve member in its close position above the dead center and holds the valve member in its opened position below the dead center.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1983Date of Patent: April 1, 1986Assignee: ITW-Ateco GmbHInventor: Heino Arff
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Patent number: 4577904Abstract: A guiding sleeve for head rests at vehicle seats, said sleeve slidingly accommodating a rod of the head rest and having at the upper end thereof an arresting device provided with a handling means and cooperating with an arresting abutment at the lower end of the rod and preventing the rod from being pulled out when the handling means is not actuated, wherein the sleeve bore is provided with an enlargement at the upper end thereof said enlargement accommodating an elongated spring element which has a forward longitudinal side cooperating with the head rest rod and which has a rearward longitudinal side by which it is supported at the wall of the enlargement, with an unlocking element comprised of two parallel-spaced legs arranged in said enlargement, said legs being respectively disposed laterally of the sleeve bore and having the ends thereof cooperating with the ends of the spring element while being adapted to be moved by the handling means towards the spring element in the direction of their longitudinal eType: GrantFiled: January 30, 1984Date of Patent: March 25, 1986Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventors: Heiner Wiese, Rainer Gramss
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Patent number: 4492047Abstract: A cleat for sports shoes, especially football boots, comprising a socket situated in the outsole, a cleat body, a fastening attachment via which the cleat body is detachably connectible to the socket, and a supporting surface formed integrally with the cleat body thereat said supporting surface coming to lie in close contact against the outsole from below, with at least two circumferentially spaced downward pointing bearing surfaces formed at the fastening attachment which, upon insertion and after rotation of the fastening attachment through a predetermined angle of rotation come to lie in close contact against supporting surfaces in the socket under pressure, with the other supporting surface of the cleat body coming to lie in close contact against the outsole under a compression pressure, and with a means of safety against rotation provided between the fastening attachment and the socket.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1983Date of Patent: January 8, 1985Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Heino Arff
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Patent number: 4402641Abstract: A one-piece fastening element of synthetic material, comprising a head and a relatively rigid axial shank adapted to be inserted into the aperture of a workpiece. The shank is formed with two or several axial rows of flexible lamellar radial ribs formed integrally with the shank in circumferentially offset and axially spaced arrrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1981Date of Patent: September 6, 1983Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Heino Arff
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Patent number: 4379358Abstract: A cord adjuster comprising a body 31 having a through passage 32 which is divided longitudinally for the accommodation of cord sections capable of being passed therethrough in side-by-side spaced arrangement, and an arresting member 10 supported on the body for displacement between two end positions, said arresting member being provided with clamping areas 21, 22 disposed in the through passage and cooperating with respective associated clamping areas 45, 46 of the body, in order to clamp the cord sections between them in tight clamping engagement in one end position of the arresting member.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1981Date of Patent: April 12, 1983Assignee: ITW-ATECO GmbHInventor: Guter Wibrow
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Patent number: 4363160Abstract: The invention relates to a fastening element of synthetic material comprising a sleeve-like hollow insert member adapted to be inserted into a prefabricated opening in a carrier plate and engaging beneath the underside of the opening edge by means of an undercut formed integrally therewith, and a head member connected to the insert member for fastening an article at the carrier member, with either the article to be fastened or the head member lying in close engagement with the side of the carrier plate opposite the undercut.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1979Date of Patent: December 14, 1982Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Gunter Wibrow
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Patent number: 4341322Abstract: A filling connection for vehicles driven by internal combustion engines, which is fastened in an opening of the car body and has one section disposed on the inside of the car body adapted to be connected to a line leading to the fuel tank, while a section disposed on the outside is provided with an inner or outer thread onto which a lid may be screwed, and an axially effective sbaling is arranged between the lid and the section disposed on the outside.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Horst Heinke
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Patent number: 4154418Abstract: A one-piece cable strap of flexible plastic material including a socket at one end and a toothed central region along a length and adapted to be passed through the socket. The socket includes locking pawls for engaging the teeth.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1978Date of Patent: May 15, 1979Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Heiner Wiese
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Patent number: 4139314Abstract: A fastener having a generally cylindrical body with a laterally enlarged head spaced frame said body by a web which is transverse to a threaded bore in the cylindrical body and with the body having rib-like extensions disposed perpendicular to the web.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1978Date of Patent: February 13, 1979Assignee: ITW Ateco GmbHInventor: Helmut Albern