Patents Assigned to Uni-Star Industries, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5603594
    Abstract: A fastener has a head portion with a torque accepting surface and a cylindrical recess on an external surface thereof defining a pair of axially spaced annular shoulders for acceptance in a circular fastener accepting aperture in a connector component. The aperture has a counterbore for the acceptance and seating of the head portion of the fastener and a channel extending radially of a longitudinal axis of the aperture therein for the acceptance of the fastener in translation, the channel having parallel shoulders spaced slightly greater than the diameter of the cylindrical recess in the head portion of the fastener but less than the minimum diameter of at least one of the shoulders thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Uni Star Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas C. Lincoln
  • Patent number: 5431577
    Abstract: A floating escutcheon prevents contact damage during mating and unmating of pin and socket connectors and comprises a hollow member slidably supported relative to one of the connectors and having a central aperture for the acceptance of the other connector in telescoping relationship only when the angle between a central axes of the pins and sockets is less than a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Uni-Star Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas C. Lincoln