Means To Lock Bolt Or Nut When Other Is Turned Patents (Class 403/22)
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Patent number: 5763830Abstract: The present invention discloses an inner module container provided for containing active circuit elements for processing and transmitting cable television signals receivable from and transmissible through pins of coaxial cables. The inner module container includes direct access openings for receiving coaxial cable pins for securely connecting to the active circuit elements whereby the pins of the coaxial cables are connected to the active circuit elements without requiring a separate connector outside of the inner module container. In a preferred embodiment, the active circuit elements further include mechanisms for locking coaxial cable pins for directly and securely locking to the coaxial cable pins.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Transystem, Inc.Inventor: Chien-Ping Hsueh
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Patent number: 5758559Abstract: A plastic film cutter for clamping to an upstanding edge of a carton housing a supply of plastic film. The film is pulled across the top of an elongated cutter body which has a groove to guide a sliding cutter. The lower portion of the cutter has a plurality of inverted "U" shaped clamps for fitting over the carton edge. At least one of the clamps has a projection on its inner surface to prevent the cutter from being used on cartons for which it is not intended, that is, cartons which do not have a corresponding cutout to receive the projection.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1995Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: AEP Industries, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Capitao, Jr., Paul H. Hollenbeck
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Patent number: 5737801Abstract: An insert adapted to be positioned within an elongated channel member having a base portion and a pair of parallel sides, with the sides terminating in internally curled edges defining an open side forming a C-shaped channel, the insert having a width to be conformably received in said channel member either for longitudinal movement therein or to be positioned therein to receive the shank or axle of a caster or wheel, respectively. The insert may be either square in cross section and generally rectangular in shape or generally cylindrical with a pair of oppositely disposed grooves formed in the side surfaces of the insert to receive the curled edges of the channel member. The insert also may be provided with a body portion having a pair of oppositely disposed flanges extending from the body to form a generally rectangular outline, the insert being received in the channel member in a longitudinal manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1996Date of Patent: April 14, 1998Inventor: William R. Flood
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Patent number: 5720567Abstract: A splice system having two rails to be connected end to end and splice member having a center part and a pair of end parts sized for insertion in open ends of the two rails. The rails to be connected end to end having first and second opposing walls and a hole in the first walls. The end parts of the splice members having threaded openings adapted to register with holes in the rails. The splice member is connected to the rails with bolts, the arrangement being such that, when the bolts are tightened, heads of the bolts outside the rails are drawn toward first walls of respective rails and end parts of the splice member inside the rails are pulled away from second walls of the rails and tight against the first walls of respective rails thereby to splice the rails together.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1996Date of Patent: February 24, 1998Assignee: Sigma-Aldrich CompanyInventor: Eric R. Rinderer
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Patent number: 5716154Abstract: First and second members are attached together by an attachment device which includes a key hole shaped slot provided in the first member and having an enlarged entry portion communicating with a narrow slot portion. An aperture is provided in the second member and a bolt having a threaded shank and an enlarged head is press fit part way into the aperture of the second member so that the enlarged head is spaced somewhat longitudinally away from engaging the second member. The second member is hung on the first member by inserting the enlarged head of the bolt through the entry portion of the key hole shaped slot and then sliding the second member laterally of the first member so that the shank enters the narrower slot portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Marvin Herbert Miller, David Allen Hoptry
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Patent number: 5688064Abstract: An inexpensive and reliable method and apparatus for selectively coupling the bulb stem of an electrodeless lamp to a rotatable drive shaft does not require side access to a set screw or an RF sealing arrangement. The coupler accommodates angular and eccentric misalignment of threadedly engageable members at relatively low manufacturing costs. A cylindrical coupler connected to the bulb stem is provided with a cylindrical cross-hole extending diametrically through and exposing the proximal end of the bulb stem in the longitudinal bore. A seating lock nut of generally rectangular configuration, and having a pair of opposite compressible turned out comers or "wings", is insertable through the cross-hole and is loosely retained at the intersection of the bore and cross-hole. The seating lock nut is sized, relative to the cross-hole and longitudinal bore, such that, upon being released within the cross-hole, the lock nut is loosely retained.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1996Date of Patent: November 18, 1997Assignee: Fusion Lighting, Inc.Inventor: Bruce Shanks
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Patent number: 5683196Abstract: A flange portion of a ball stud includes a seat surface which abuts a junction face of a concurrent rotation prevention plate. By ensuring that the contact face of the concurrent rotation prevention plate has a larger area than an area of the seat surface of the flange portion of the ball stud, the frictional force between an attached item and the contact face of the concurrent rotation prevention plate is greater than a rotational force applied to the ball stud when a nut is affixed to the ball stud. The ball stud is thus prevented from concurrently turning with the nut during a tightening or loosening operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1996Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Somic IshikawaInventors: Michihito Toyoda, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Keiichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 5628580Abstract: A splice system having two rails to be connected end to end and splice member having a center part and a pair of end parts sized for insertion in open ends of the two rails. The rails to be connected end to end having first and second opposing walls and a hole in the first wall. The end parts of the splice members having threaded openings adapted to register with holes in the rails. The splice member is connected to the rails with bolts, the arrangement being such that, when the bolts are tightened, heads of the bolts outside the rails are drawn toward first walls of respective rails and end parts of the splice member inside the rails are pulled away from second walls of the rails and tight against the first walls of respective rails thereby to splice the rails together.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1995Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: B-Line Systems, Inc.Inventor: Eric R. Rinderer
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Patent number: 5577860Abstract: An attachment device including a cover plate (3) and a fastening element (10) is used for securing a structural component (1) to a solid foundation unit (12). The structural component (1) has an opening (2) formed of a round bore with two symmetrically arranged widening sections (7) located diametrically opposite one another and extending outwardly from the round bore. The cover plate (3) has projections (6) which extend into the widening sections (7).Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventor: Wolfgang Plank
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Patent number: 5551794Abstract: A swivel link, particularly for use for rotative interconnection of two relatively pivotable machine parts (1, 2) or similar mutually articulated members at their adjacent end portions. The swivel link comprises a bolt (4) and two expandable, internally conical sleeves (5', 5"). The bolt (4) is formed with two oppositely directed, conically tapering end portions (4', 4") each intended to be positioned in an attachment hole (3) of one of the parts and to cooperate with one of said internally conical sleeves (5', 5"). A nut (6, 7) engages each of said sleeves to axially displace the respective internally conical sleeve (5', 5") along the tapered end portions, in order to bring the latter into engagement respective attachment hole (3). The bolt (4) is formed with a through-going, central, axially directed bore (8) for rotatively accommodating a shaft (9) having threaded portions for the nuts (6, 7) carrying the conical sleeves.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1994Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Inventors: Arne Aarre, Knut S. Oaland
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Patent number: 5544865Abstract: A support bracket for protective railing may be adjustably positioned on a wall or other surface. The bracket is constructed such that when the bracket is loosely assembled, the placement of a rail segment on the bracket may be adjusted as desired within a limited range in one or more directions. After the placement of the rail segment has been adjusted, the component parts of the bracket are tightened to fix the rail segment in place. When assembled, the bracket forms a sealed unit with a smooth exterior that has a minimal tendency to collect dust, dirt and bacteria and that is easy to clean.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1994Date of Patent: August 13, 1996Inventor: Michael T. Abbaticchio
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Patent number: 5483747Abstract: A lightweight renewable hand-held tool that may be easily renewed in the field including a tool head having a tapered shaft, an expandable sleeve, a hollow handle, and a movement assembly for moving the expandable sleeve back and forth along the tapered shaft in response to a rotation of the hollow handle. The expandable sleeve includes a tapered interior that slidably mates with the tapered shaft. Consequently, rotation of the hollow handle adjustably expands the expandable sleeve, forming a tight fit between the tapered shaft and the interior of the hollow handle. The preferred movement assembly is a threaded nut that engages a threaded stud located at a lower end of the tapered shaft. An antirotation fastener is preferably used to prevent the hollow handle from thereafter rotating during use of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1994Date of Patent: January 16, 1996Assignee: Harrow Products, Inc.Inventors: Alex Thompson, William E. Gagner
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Patent number: 5447030Abstract: A brake booster mounting including a support to which the booster is securable by means of at least one mounting bolt, and a captive nut located on a side of the support opposite to that to which the booster is to be attached and which is engageable by the bolt so as to effect attachment of the booster to the support. The captive nut is held against separation from the support and is also held against rotation by a retainer so that connection of the bolt to the nut can be effected from the side of the support to which the booster is to be attached. A pilot section on one end of the bolt locates within the captive nut so as to thereby automatically position the nut to be cooperable with a threaded portion of the bolt. The bolt also serves to hold separable parts of the booster housing against separation, and is rotatable relative to those parts to permit the booster to be attached to or detached from the support.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1993Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: PBR Automotive Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Nui Wang, Patrick F. Sawyer
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Patent number: 5439084Abstract: Device for guiding a sliding caliper (4) for a disk-brake, comprising a support (1), a screw (2) and a carrier (3). The carrier is rotationally and translationally blocked, except in a direction perpendicular to its axis (3a) by virtue of an open ring (10) housed with a small clearance in a bore (1b) of the support, itself rotationally blocked, and clamping flats made on the external surface of the carrier (3).Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1994Date of Patent: August 8, 1995Assignee: Bendix Espana S.A.Inventor: J. Manual Vila Boluda
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Patent number: 5433551Abstract: A telescoping rod assembly (10) including an outer tube section (12) and an inner tube section (14) that is slidable disposed inside the outer tube section. The tube sections are locked into position relative to each other by a packing washer (18) that is fitted around the inner tube section adjacent the open end of the outer tube and a locknut (16) that is fitted around a inner tube and is rotatably secured to the open end of the outer tube. The inner tube and the locknut are provided with complementary outer and inner non-circular surfaces so as to couple the two members together so that they rotate in unison. The locknut can be tightened down over the packing washer to secure the tube sections into position relative to each other by the simple act of either rotating the outer tube or the inner tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1994Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Inventor: Larry D. Gordon
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Patent number: 5378076Abstract: Device for the precise coupling of two cylindrical parts, especially to form compound tools, with the aid of two cylindrical bodies, one of which has a seat for accepting a pin projecting from the other cylindrical body, it being provided that the front end of the body with the coupling seat be given an inclined wall engageable with an inclined wall branching away from the base of the coupling pin of the other cylindrical body, that the transverse hole in the projecting pin accepts a threaded bush which engages with a cylindrical-headed screw, and that the free ends of the threaded bush and of the screw head have inclined circumferential surfaces engageable with inclined circumferential surfaces defining the transverse holes on the side facing the coupling seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1992Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: D'Andrea S.p.A.Inventor: Ermanno D'Andrea
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Patent number: 5272788Abstract: An interchangeable handle and utility tool head system where different tool heads are used with the handle. The different tool heads have similar shanks with a screw threaded end. The handle has a female coupling on one end to receive the screw threaded shank. A positive securing device prevents rotation of the tool head relative to the handle where a keyway and key system prevents the rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1992Date of Patent: December 28, 1993Inventor: Cecil G. Gilstrap
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Patent number: 5269621Abstract: A fastening device particularly usable to obtain the fine adjustment of the tension applicable by a lever, for example to secure the flaps of a shell or a quarter of a ski boot. The device includes, on the tie rod member of the lever, a seat for a nut which in turn interacts with a threaded pin element for coupling to an engagement hook which is associable with one of the flaps to be closed of the boot. The device has very small dimensions, weight and cost together with simple assembly of the various components.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1992Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Nordica S.p.A.Inventors: Giuseppe De Bortoli, Luca Gallina, Claudio Zorzi
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Patent number: 4957449Abstract: A connector housing unit for an electrical connector having a threaded fastener including a bolt and a nut. The bolt is provided in an outer connector housing of the connector housing unit and the nut is provided in an inner connector housing. A tentative fastening device and a tentative stoppage device are provided on the connector housings and located in such positions that the component parts of the tentative fastening device are engaged with each other at the same time as the component parts of the tentative stoppage device are engaged with each other. The bolt can move within a prescribed range in the axial direction of the bolt as the connector housings remain tentatively fastened to each other. Therefore, the threads of the bolt and the nut will not be damaged if the tentatively fastened connector housings are pried relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yuji Hatagishi
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Patent number: 4931683Abstract: The two bearing brackets (4, 5) of a small motor are clamped by means of stud screws (2, 3) against the respective end face of the motor casing (1). The stud screws (2, 3) extend axially by free bolt ends (21, 31) beyond one bearing bracket (5). Onto these free bolt ends (21, 31), a holding frame for the small motor is placed and is fixed against the bearing bracket (5) by means of a holding nut to be screwed onto the free bolt ends (21, 31). The screw heads (22, 23) provided at the stud screw ends are held positively in the one bearing bracket (4) to prevent their rotation with respect to the casing and onto the other, axially projecting free bolt end (21, 31) an attachment nut (23, 33) is screwed applying firmly against the other bearing bracket (5).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1986Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ronald Gleixner, Anton Heidenfelder
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Patent number: 4904110Abstract: In a shelving system, a columnar post, an outer plate, and a fastening device for fastening the outer plate removably to the columnar post. The fastening device includes a bolt having a threaded shank and a transverse head, which is integral with the threaded shank, and which includes a longer portion and a shorter portion, and fastener, which is threadable onto the threaded shank. The bolt is adapted to be sucessively inserted through an aperture in the outer plate, inserted through an aperture in a front wall of the columnar post, rotated about the threaded shank in a clockwise sense, and drawn outwardly until the longer portion of the transverse head bears against a curved corner where the front wall merges with a lateral flange of the columnar post, so as to prevent further rotation of the bolt in a clockwise sense. The longer portion of the transverse head is conformed to the curved corner so as to bear in surface-to-surface contact against the curved corner.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1988Date of Patent: February 27, 1990Assignee: Unarco Industries, Inc.Inventor: Herbert H. Klein
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Patent number: 4887949Abstract: A retention clip cooperates with a bolt and a flange through which the bolt passes to retain the bolt during blind assembly. Opening 28 in flange 26 receives bolt 24. Retention clip 40 is retained with extension 50 in recess 34 by engagement of the clip with the bolt. The clip in turn retains bolt 24 by engaging head 22 with arms 52. Surface 32 is adjacent to flat 60 resisting rotation of the bolt.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1989Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: John H. Dimmick, III, Stephen W. Jorgensen
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Patent number: 4885834Abstract: Each dual wheel assembly on a tractor or trailer system includes outer and inner wheels mounted on a plurality of studs projecting from a hub. The inner wheel is held in place on the studs by a number of flanged cap nuts and the outer wheel is held in place by a number of wheel nuts. When unthreading the wheel nuts to remove the outer wheel, some of the cap nuts invariably remain engaged with the wheel nuts whereas the cap nuts should all remain engaged with the threaded studs during this step. The device disclosed herein is in the form of a ring having a number of hexagonal holes therein corresponding to the number of wheel nuts so that the ring can be placed over those wheel nuts remaining engaged with their cap nuts to prevent rotation of the wheel nuts when each cap nut is individually spun out through the back side of the removed outer wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1988Date of Patent: December 12, 1989Inventor: Paul J. Beerman
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Patent number: 4872719Abstract: Truck rails for pickup trucks and the like include the use of swivel connectors which permit the rails to be attached concurrently to the truck sides, headache rack, and tool box.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1988Date of Patent: October 10, 1989Inventor: Billy L. Cardwell
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Patent number: 4865337Abstract: A kit of parts for assembling a number of toy vehicles having at least a bucket, two spine members with each having one portion of its length extending at an angle to the other, a support member, three wheels each with an axle therefor, and connectors for all these parts. The parts are all so constructed that they may be assembled together by use of the connectors to form at least a tricycle and a wheelbarrow. At least one of the spine members and the support member is capable of assembly in at least two different positions relative to the bucket to create the differing toys. The kit includes only a relatively small number of parts but is versatile because of the ability of certain parts to perform at least two different functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1987Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Assignee: Martin Robert DislerInventors: Martin R. Disler, Federico D. de la Pena
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Patent number: 4840512Abstract: A fitting for fastening a rail member of a drawer to a rear wall of the drawer includes a supporting member fastenable to the real wall. The rear end of the rail member is held in the support member by a fastening member which is engageable in the supporting member and is screwable into the rail member. The fastening member is clamped to the supporting member by a clamping screw.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1987Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Erich Rock, Helmut Hollenstein
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Patent number: 4836043Abstract: A bolt retainer (10,110) for holding bolts (22,23,122,123) against rotation consists of a flat plate (12,112) having two or more bolt holes (18,20,118,120) therethrough and an upstanding portion (14,114). Specifically configured bolts (22,32,122,132) have surfaces (28,128) that abut the upstanding portion (4,114) thereby preventing rotation of the bolts (22,32,122,132) upon applying a nut (46) thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1985Date of Patent: June 6, 1989Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Leslie C. Morris, John K. Amdall
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Patent number: 4823636Abstract: A wrenchable C-clamp is formed with a hexagonal portion coaxial with a clamping screw and sized to fit standard open end and box wrenches. A user can apply a wrench to the wrenchable portion to hold the C-clamp in a desired position while a clamping screw is actuated.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1987Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Inventor: Charles R. Suska
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Patent number: 4786201Abstract: Modular units are connected to each other with the aid of recesses provided in the edges of the modular units and with the aid of clamping bolts each carrying two nuts and a clamping nut in a mirror-symmetrical arrangement relative to a plane passing centrally through the clamping nut and perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the clamping bolt. The recesses are correspondingly dimensioned and located so that two sets of recesses in a mirror-symmetrical arrangement can receive the clamping bolt with its nuts. A clamping bolt has oppositely threaded ends so that the rotation of the bolt in one direciton tightens both nuts and rotation in the opposite directions loosens the nuts.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1987Date of Patent: November 22, 1988Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbHInventors: Horst Huetter, Helga Kreupl
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Patent number: 4700437Abstract: A clamp comprises a pair of pivotally connected jaws. A spring urges the jaws apart. A screw extends from the first jaw through the second jaw and projects above the second jaw. An operating lever for clamping and unclamping the jaws is screw threadedly received on the screw above the second jaw. The screw may be locked against rotation by engagement of the screw with a seat in the first jaw. With the screw locked against rotation, rotation of the lever around the screw selectively clamps and unclamps the jaws around an article. To adjust the distance of separation between the clamping surfaces of the jaws before rotation of the lever, the screw is axially shifted off its seat on the first jaw and the screw is then rotated with respect to the operating lever to adjust the height of the operating lever along the screw. Thereafter, the screw reengages the seat in the first jaw to prevent further rotation of the screw.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1986Date of Patent: October 20, 1987Assignee: Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiro Hoshino
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Patent number: 4683609Abstract: A handle for a shopping cart comprised of elongated tubular member having opposed securable ends. At each end of the tubular member there is provided a lock pin formation which extends outwardly thereof to be received in an arresting passageway of an attachment portion of a respective handle support arm secured to a shopping cart. A fastener element secures the ends of the tubular member to a respective one of the support arms and extends axially into the tubular member for retention of the lock pin formation in the passageway thereby preventing axial rotation of the tubular member. The end cross sections of each tubular member also constitutes an arresting formation which is nested in a retention cavity formed in the handle attachment portion of each of the handle support arms. This formation is received in close fit in the retention cavity to further prevent axial rotation of the handle.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1986Date of Patent: August 4, 1987Assignee: Cari-All Inc.Inventor: Antoine Trubiano
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Patent number: 4669283Abstract: An electrically operable device for actuating vehicle doors and the like from a central panel location is disclosed, especially for doors having an individual lock, and having electromechanical actuation including an actuating rod adapted to be reciprocatingly displaced, as well as being adapted to assume an unlocked position, a locked position, and an antitheft position. The actuating rod is further adapted to operate the respective control rod operatively connected to the respective door lock. The device includes a reversible electric motor, a transmission, and an actuating mechanism for the drive rod. The device also includes exterior ridges on a spindle-nut and projecting formations which can be overridden, upon completion of the locking stroke, as well as on completion of the unlocking stroke, as well as for carrying out of an antitheft stroke.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1985Date of Patent: June 2, 1987Assignee: Kiekert GmbH & Co. KommanditgesellschaftInventor: Jurgen Ingenhoven
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Patent number: 4617703Abstract: A device for tightening chains, cables or ropes is disclosed. Previously, turnbuckles or load binders, the latter operating on the principle of the lever, have been used to tighten two ends of a chain or cable around an object, or the ends of two chains which have been secured at their other ends. Such devices are hand-operated and accordingly can only apply limited tension to the chain or cable. The present invention provides a device whereby an air-gun or pneumatic wrench or other power tool can be used to tighten the chain or cable to much greater tension. The device utilizes a threaded bolt which is secured to one end of the chain and which, by the rotation of a threaded socket, is drawn through a sleeve to which the other end of the chain is secured, thereby tightening the chain.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1984Date of Patent: October 21, 1986Inventor: Richard J. Schaeffer
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Patent number: 4611943Abstract: A connector for assembling two furniture parts such as a tabletop and an associated table leg. The connector comprises a screw provided with a head and a relatively long shaft and a bushing with outer holding means and a through hole. The bushing is pivotally mounted on a smooth part of the shaft and is axially fixed as one terminal surface thereof abuts the head of the screw and the opposite terminal surface thereof optionally abuts a locking means projecting from the shaft. One of the terminal surfaces of the bushing comprises a contact knob delimiting the turning of the bushing relative to the screw to an angle less than 350.degree. when it abuts a stop projection projecting from the screw. When a table leg and a tabletop are to be assembled the bushing is initially turned into a hole in the table leg by means of a mounting tool.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1985Date of Patent: September 16, 1986Assignee: Inter-Ikea AGInventor: Borje Bengtsson
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Patent number: 4557494Abstract: A running board having a series of lighting elements disposed within an enclosed cavity along the outer edge of the running board, and a mounting structure including a channel on the underside of the running board deck, which channel supports a fastener and secures the fastener against rotation by the mating engagement of a channel rib with a slot in the head of the fastener.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1983Date of Patent: December 10, 1985Assignee: Dee Zee ManufacturingInventor: Dennis L. Elwell
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Patent number: 4506747Abstract: An axle and hydraulic motor mounting arrangement for vehicle wherein the vehicle has parallel sidewalls between which an axle tube is fixably mounted. A hydraulic motor is fixably mounted into each end of the axle tube such that torsional resistance between the motors is provided by the axle tube. The axle tube also resists opposing motion of the vehicle mounting sidewalls.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1982Date of Patent: March 26, 1985Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Lloyd A. Wykhuis
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Patent number: 4475840Abstract: A boat railing is disclosed wherein the stanchions are connected to the rail by a threaded member internally threaded into both the rail and each respective stanchion. An insert adapted for connection to the threaded member can be movably inserted within the rail to provide adjustable movement about the axis of the rail. A combination of the rotative movements of each stanchion on the threaded member and about the axis of the rail enables the bases of the stanchions to be properly fitted to the surface of the boat irrespective of the slope of the surface to which the base is to be attached.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1983Date of Patent: October 9, 1984Inventors: Gervase A. Schmitt, Ronald T. Schmitt
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Patent number: 4316675Abstract: A structural element has a bridge plate secured to it with a median wall of the bridge plate spaced from the structural element and lateral walls from the median wall to the element. Each of the walls has an opening and a plate has wings extending into the opening of the lateral walls and a castellated opening aligned with the opening of the median wall. A castellated nut seats in the castellated opening and has a flange or collar between the brace and the median wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1980Date of Patent: February 23, 1982Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation, "S.N.E.C.M.A."Inventor: Gaston E. E. Melicque
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Patent number: 4303267Abstract: A fastening arrangement for a bumper, especially for a bumper drawn down relatively far on the end of the body at the subframe of a motor vehicle, in which the bumper part to be fastened to the subframe is supported at a cross bearer connecting two vehicle longitudinal bearers with each other. Free ends of the bumper project into the associated longitudinal bearers; each of the free ends being also supported at the frame connection formed by the cross and longitudinal bearers.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1978Date of Patent: December 1, 1981Assignee: Daimler-Benz AktiengesellschaftInventors: Fritz Haberle, Daniel Riechers, Richard Heusel
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Patent number: 4257624Abstract: An extendible and pivotal steering column for a vehicle having a wedge lock extension mechanism for providing an extension and pivotal arrangement of the upper end of the steering column pivotally mounted within the operator station of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1978Date of Patent: March 24, 1981Assignee: Allis-Chalmers CorporationInventor: Kenneth N. Hansen
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Patent number: 4227722Abstract: An improved device for securing a toilet to a soil pipe flange includes a flange fastening nut comprising a guide member and a retaining member connected by a shaft for slidably engaging a slot in the flange, the guide member being above the slot for guiding an opening in the base of the toilet into proper position over the fastening nut, the guide member including a tapped hole into which a bolt may be screwed from above the base of the toilet to secure the toilet to the flange. The invention may also be embodied in a soil pipe flange having a plurality of guide members each including a tapped hole fixedly attached to the upper surface of the flange in positions matching the openings in the base of the toilet.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1978Date of Patent: October 14, 1980Inventor: Luther J. Barber
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Patent number: 4208851Abstract: A fire rated dry wall ceiling support system having fixed, aligned main beam members spliced together in a manner so as to absorb longitudinal compression, as for example resulting from thermal expansion during a fire. Each main beam includes a web surmounted by a bead with flange portions extending laterally outwardly from the web. Each web end includes a tongue extending axially outwardly for locking engagement with the adjacent beam member web and is so configured that the tongues fold in a longitudinal manner and become laterally displaced out of the normal plane of the tongues when the beam members are longitudinally compressed towards one another. Accordingly, the bead means become laterally displaced while moving towards one another in a longitudinal direction and may in fact overlap one another in a longitudinal sense. The system further includes support channels disposed transversely to the main beam members and engaged therewith.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1978Date of Patent: June 24, 1980Assignee: Roblin Industries, Inc.Inventor: Gale E. Sauer
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Patent number: 4113395Abstract: The fork tube and wedge nut of a bicycle stem and fork tube assembly are provided with complementary, non-circular, interengaging abutment areas which substantially enhance and augment the frictional locking relationship between a conventional wedge nut and fork tube by which a stem is secured to a fork tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1977Date of Patent: September 12, 1978Assignee: Wald Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Carlton P. Pawsat, Robert F. Humlong
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Patent number: 4027502Abstract: A centering device for tubularly shaped flexible element couplings that includes a ball retained in a socket and a pin extending through an aperture of the ball, the pin having stop means which allows axial pin movement but prevents the pin from extracting from the ball aperture.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1976Date of Patent: June 7, 1977Assignee: The Gates Rubber CompanyInventor: Robert E. Stuemky
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Patent number: 3966296Abstract: An anti-turn clip is formed having an elongated body with a bolt hole adjacent one end accommodating the bolt clamping a bus bar and a line strap in electrical connection. Arms extending laterally from the clip body adjacent the bolt hole straddle the strap and a tab at the other end of the clip body is lodged in a hole in the bus bar, thereby to prevent angular movement of the strap should the bolted joint loosen.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1974Date of Patent: June 29, 1976Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Eric A. Ericson