Assembled By Plural Manipulations Of Member Patents (Class 403/353)
  • Patent number: 4155020
    Abstract: A snap-fit fastening system for use in attaching a member to an electric motor utilizes stator through-bolts with specially formed heads and the member includes a plurality of slots formed in a pattern similar to the pattern in which the through-bolt holes of the stator laminates are arranged, but with the slots extending radially relative to the central axis of the stator and being offset laterally relative to the associated holes. An annular flange integrally formed with each bolt intermediate its ends seats on the top laminate to confine deflection of the upper end of the bolt to movement in a generally radial direction. Bullet-shaped extensions integrally formed with the upper ends of the bolts telescoped into the slots so a lip formed in each extension snap-fits the member onto the bolts, the lips overlapping the edges of the slots to lock the member on the through-bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas C. Skare
  • Patent number: 4153234
    Abstract: A handrail assembly adapted for mounting between two spaced parallel surfaces. The handrail member and its mounting brackets are cooperatively configured to enable the handrail member to be supported by the brackets while concealing the brackets and the means which locks the handrail member and its mounting brackets in assembled relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Edward F. Sherwood, Larry M. Markle
  • Patent number: 4150465
    Abstract: An assembly for fastening an insulation batt to a supporting surface. The fastening assembly includes an elongated fastener which is driven into the supporting surface with the head end of the fastener protruding from the supporting surface a distance approximately equal to the thickness of the batt of insulation. The batt is then impaled upon the protruding fastener and pushed down thereon until the head of the fastener protrudes from the surface of the batt remote from the supporting surface. A planar locking clip having a keyhole-shaped opening is then slipped over the fastener head and wedged between the fastener head and the batt. The locking clip is held in place by engagement with the fastener head, and prevents the insulation batt from pulling away from the supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1979
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventor: Edmond P. Gavin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4146342
    Abstract: A fastener system enabling assembly of kit components by an unskilled purchaser without use of tools. A wedge-lock ring is seated in a pre-formed socket in one kit member such as a horizontal shelf. A pin is seated in an opening in another kit member such as a vertical end panel. The pin is then engaged with the ring, and the kit members are drawn together tightly and securely in an assembled position. Disassembly is accomplished simply by tapping the kit members to disengage the pin from the ring. A cam locking member and retractable pin are also disclosed for use with the system. The fastener system is useful in assembling bookshelves, cabinets, tables, chairs, desks and other articles which are marketed in kit form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Inventor: Gunnar Cederholm
  • Patent number: 4145976
    Abstract: A pallet of the knock-down type constructed of a plurality of releasably interlocking parts comprising spaced stringer elements of rectangular cross-section and a plurality of spaced parallel deck-forming members is improved with respect to strength and other factors by providing end caps in each end of each stringer element which act as part of the fastening arrangement of the end deck-forming member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Extrados Company Limited
    Inventor: Ferdinand M. Svirklys
  • Patent number: 4142809
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a hollow rectangular tubular member having keyhole apertures therein with large rounded upper head portions and narrow rectangular neck portions. A cylindrical connector has an axially extending projection at one end with a square neck and circular head which are respectively matable with the neck and head portions of the keyhole aperture for non-rotatable mounting therein. The connector has a radial internally threaded bore for receiving a rod to support associated structures. The connector may be mounted in any of four positions so that the rod extends up, down or laterally. The connector has circumferential and longitudinal grooves to facilitate holding in telescoping relation thereover an associated hollow cylindrical sleeve, which may additionally be locked in place by a setscrew received through the sleeve and into the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Inventor: Irving W. Shell
  • Patent number: 4141225
    Abstract: An articulated shaft assembly particularly useful in forming a flexible drill for drilling vertical holes in a mine shaft roof employs interengaging shaft sections whose opposed ends form a ball and socket mating surface connection with a plurality of driving members interposed between opposed spherical surfaces and with the driving members locking the shaft in axial alignment for torque transmission in one direction while permitting torque transmission in the other direction with the shafts angularly misaligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior
    Inventor: Horace M. Varner
  • Patent number: 4136792
    Abstract: A quick attachment device for a tractor which has lift arms for supporting an implement, such as a loader bucket, lift fork, or the like. The rear side of the implement has two spaced-apart attaching portions in the form of hooks faced toward each other, and an attachment plate is held by the tractor lift arms and the lower edge is first positioned into the lower implement hook and then the plate is slid upwardly until the upper edge is engaged in the implement upper hook. A spring-loaded pin then automatically falls into a hole in the implement to secure the plate relative to the implement and thus attach the implement and plate together. A release cam is attached to the pin for withdrawing the pin and the attachment plate can then be manuevered out of the implement hooks to be removed from the implement when release is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: J. I. Case Company
    Inventor: Charles D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4135837
    Abstract: Shelving assembly includes vertically disposed corner posts interconnected at their bottom ends by base panels secured to the posts by disjointable connecting means and interconnected at their top ends by header panels disjointably secured to the posts together with a plurality of vertically spaced clips disjointably mounted to each post and arranged to support a plurality of shelves except for the bottom shelf which is arranged for disposition in a horizontal attitude and which also is tiltable by virtue of its support along its rear edge by a tilt beam, the shelf which is disposed immediately above the lowermost shelf being arranged to form a tiltable back portion for the device which is disposed in approximately perpendicular relation to the lowermost shelf when tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: The Mead Corporation
    Inventor: James M. Suttles
  • Patent number: 4134698
    Abstract: A coil is wound on a hollow plastic bobbin and mounted in a U-shaped ferromagnetic frame, there being a pair of aligned bosses on opposite sides of the bobbin bore at one end thereof fitting into cooperating slots in the frame. A ferromagnetic core is axially movable within the hollow bobbin and is urged away from the bottom of the frame by a leaf spring. A compact plastic housing covers the bobbin, coil, and the upper portion of the frame, and electric terminals, mounted in pockets at the top of the bobbin, project through slots in the housing to the exterior. Portions of the bobbin are extruded into openings in the base of the terminals to hold them in place, and a pair of tabs on the bobbin interact with slots in the housing, and posts on the inside corners of the housing form abutments to prevent over-insertion of the tabs in the slots. A hook on the bottom of the frame is shaped to be engageable with an opening in external support elements of differing thickness to facilitate installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Inventor: Spencer C. Schantz
  • Patent number: 4134564
    Abstract: A fastener for use in display stands and partitions is provided for securing a pair of elements one to the other. One element is provided with a slot and the fastener is secured to the remaining element.The fastener is generally hook-shaped and is provided with a cam surface which engages with the rear surface of the slotted element to effect engagement. In an alternative embodiment, the fastener has two projections which engage the adjacent surface of the slotted element to urge the two elements together through the opposing action of the hook member projections and the surfaces with which they abut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Inventor: Gary D. Hanna
  • Patent number: 4131381
    Abstract: A structure having a close-fitting opening for freely receiving a shaft is secured to the shaft, usually for rotation therewith, by attachment, as by bolting, to a securement plate that has an opening therethrough with a main shaft-receiving portion and an auxiliary portion, the latter being extended laterally from the main portion and defined by respective rectilinear rail formations which intercept the main portion of the opening and have been slid into and snugly received by respective grooves provided in diametrically opposite sides of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Inventor: Albert K. Alberts
  • Patent number: 4129395
    Abstract: A container lock assembly for securing varying types and quantities of containers onto a platform trailer has a body member including a base portion arrangeable engaging a rail provided on the trailer, and a stem portion extending away from the base portion. Removably attachable to the stem portion of the body member for retaining in place against the rail a container supported on the trailer is a lock pin which is also used to disengage the body member from the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Theurer Atlantic Incorporated
    Inventors: John Theurer, William C. Guenzel, Orville F. Beck
  • Patent number: 4128354
    Abstract: A connecting arrangement for box-shaped support structures connects the upright walls constituting the support structure to one another at upright marginal portions thereof. The connecting arrangement includes upper and lower connecting projections which are rigid with the marginal portions of one of the walls, and upper and lower slots which are provided in the marginal portions of another wall constituting the support structure. Each of the upper slots has an L-shaped configuration, commences at the upper end face of the marginal portion and extends first downwardly therefrom and then toward the side face of the marginal portion. Each of the lower slots has a substantially inverted V-shaped configuration and extends inwardly from the above-mentioned side face of the marginal portion, first upwardly and then downwardly. The respective end zones of the slots are vertically aligned with one another and receive the connecting projections of the first-mentioned marginal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1978
    Inventor: Erich Amrogowicz
  • Patent number: 4125339
    Abstract: A two-part quick-attach detachable, triple-locking connection providing for "two-handed" assembly of cutter-shields to housings in mass production of filament trimmers and the like but requiring "three-handed" disassembly to insure safety in subsequent use of the filament trimmer. An embodiment includes: (1) a housing with a circular interrupted-flange male connection around the lower end periphery, and (2) a shield with a complementary circular interrupted-flange female connection for coaxially yielding to the male flange and, after yielding, for locking to it by a half-turn of relative rotation. The locking is by means of a plurality of inwardly-directed flexible locking fingers, located in the flange interruptions of the female connection and being of a length to snap down into the flange-interruptions of the male connection and prevent unlocking counter-rotation of the male and female connections when they are assembled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Inventors: Charles B. Pittinger, Sr., Charles B. Pittinger, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4121893
    Abstract: A ball and socket coupling in which the ball is positively retained within the socket by means of a cap, removably secured to the socket for closing the open end of the latter and having a hole through which the ball stem extends. The cap hole allows pivotal movement of the ball relative to the socket. The socket and the cap have inter-engaging interrupted threads for securing and releasing the cap by a simple one-quarter turn of the same. A lever is pivoted to the cap and engages between ears on the socket in the secured position of the cap to provide a safety lock. The resulting coupling is much stronger than conventional ball and socket couplings, because the cap forms an abutment face all around the ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: Gilles Morissette
  • Patent number: 4121495
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for blind hole mounting an external appurtenance including safety appliances such as ladder rungs, hand holds, and walkways on a railway freight car. One or more key hole slots are provided through the surface of the car where the external appurtenance is to be mounted. Each slot includes an enlarged bolt head receiving portion through which the head of a fastening bolt may be inserted and a key portion of smaller size forming a continuation of the slot into which the shank of the bolt may be slipped for retaining the fastening bolt in the slot. The relative dimensions of the bolt head and the bolt head receiving portion of the key hole slot are such that the bolt head can only pass through the bolt head receiving portion of the key hole slot when the bolt head is first inserted edgewise through the bolt head receiving portion and the bolt then rotated to a perpendicular position relatively to the key hole slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: ACF Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Lowell L. Malo, James R. Zimmerle
  • Patent number: 4115021
    Abstract: Detachable cultivator teeth shovels and the like are usually bolted to the implement shank and these bolts corrode or rust, or get clogged with dirt or become burred over thus making detachment extremely difficult. The present device includes a quickly attachable and detachable implement to a shank which includes pins extending through the shank and the implement and being engaged by keyhole wedge slots of a locking plate which pulls the implement tightly to engagement with the shank by slight downward movement of the plate, the keyhole slots of which engage over cut away portions near one end of the pins. A set screw screw threadably engages the plate and is then tightened so that the inner ends bears against the shank and holds the assembly firmly in position yet enables the implement to be detached readily and easily when desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Inventor: George N. Loch
  • Patent number: 4114327
    Abstract: A light fixture support is provided comprising a support bar having slots at the extremities which cooperate with inverted "T" members forming the framework for a conventional suspended ceiling to adjustably locate and secure a light fixture within the framework. The slot configuration defined by the light fixture support permits the enlarged extremity of the upstanding portion of the "T" member to be rotated for insertion within the slot, returned to a vertical position, and retained within the slot. If desired, an adjustable support may be provided for accommodating a variety of "T" member spacings or for compact packaging with a light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Inventor: Arthur C. Williams
  • Patent number: 4100710
    Abstract: A tongue-groove connection which includes: a first member having an end face with a groove therein, and a second member having an end face with a part thereof forming a tongue, and engaging the groove of the first member while defining a gap therebetween. Each of the first and second members has cover layer means with a core layer therebetween, while a sealing band is sealingly interposed between the first and second members so as to seal the gap therebetween. The tongue-groove connection also comprises a screw connection by means of which the first member and due to the interlocking engagement of its groove with the tongue of the second member also the latter are connectable to a contruction onto which the tongue-groove connection is to be fastened. The tongue has a guiding surface which during the assembly of the tongue in the groove cooperates with an abutment edge on the groove forming first members for guiding the tongue into the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: Hoesch Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Kowallik
  • Patent number: 4096816
    Abstract: A container lashing system for fastening shipboard containers is provided having a rigid elongated lashing bar with at least one generally ball shaped end and at least one securing fitting having a corresponding generally ball shaped socket with a keyhole shaped opening admitting the ball shaped end and adjacent portion of lashing bar into the socket for securing the end in the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Inventors: W. W. Patterson, III, Eugene F. Grapes
  • Patent number: 4096998
    Abstract: A fuel injector is clamped by a pressure yoke by means of one or two bolts, the pressure yoke being in the form of an oval flatted ring. The yoke can be manufactured from a pipe or a flat bar. The yoke has a flat pressure surface, whereas the body of the injector has an arched bearing surface. A flange on the nozzle nut or the face of the nut can also serve as the bearing surface for the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: Warszawskie Zaklady Mechaniczne PZL-WZM
    Inventors: Eugeniusz Siwak, Andrzej Krainski, Krzysztof Lendzion, Jerzy Wewior
  • Patent number: 4084736
    Abstract: A readily assembled and self-contained motorcycle rack assembly raises a motorcycle from ground level to a stored position on the carrying vehicle. A unique hinged socket connection and an adjustable contour bumper engaging assembly makes it possible to quickly install the rack. It has two inverted simultaneously operable ratchet type jacks which raise the rack assembly and coact with a retention bar to bring the motorcycle and rack assembly into a fixed locked position on the carrying vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Inventor: Jacob M. Jacobs, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4081057
    Abstract: A device for fastening the leaded end of wire ropes to a body. The device mprising a fastening plate of the body having an insertion hole into which the big leaded end of each wire rope can penetrate and at least one fastening hole having the exact necessary dimension to fasten the rope, the insertion and fastening holes being connected to one another through a passage way having a width at least as great as the rope diameter and less than the diameter of the fastening hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Societa ' Ascensori Italiani Riuniti-S.A.I.R. Falconi-S.A.F.O.V. - S.p.A.
    Inventor: Corrado Corradini
  • Patent number: 4072320
    Abstract: A device securably mountable on a ball of the type used to couple with a socket for hitching a trailer to a towing vehicle to provide a coupling element for receiving a coupling member in the form of a terminal eye member attached to the trailer tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Inventor: Leon A. Powell
  • Patent number: 4069539
    Abstract: A wiper device for automotive windshields, headlight glass and the like, comprising a wiper arm and blade combination. The wiper blade has two cylindrical projections receivable in a keyhole opening in the wiper arm. Each of the projections has a flange adapted to cooperate with an arcuate end portion of the opening, permitting the arm to swing between extreme positions and to yield when obstacles are encountered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Inventors: Olle Herbert Klingberg, deceased, by Sven Valfridsson, administrator
  • Patent number: 4068599
    Abstract: A unitizing frame for a pallet, which can be quickly assembled and disassembled from the pallet, utilizing a pair of like panels having a width substantially equal to the lateral dimension of the pallet, the panels being fabricated of square tube stock and including hollow side frame members extending the length of the panel. A pair of panel support bars, of length equal to the other dimension of the pallet, has integral laterally extending plates for frictional engagement with upper and lower surfaces of structural components of the pallet when the bar is manually applied to the side of the pallet. A pair of the plates on the upper ends of the bars has welded thereto upstanding elements for removably interlocking with the lower ends of opposing side frame members for unassistedly holding the panels upright. Rod members, having downwardly turned ends, cross-brace the tops of the frames by insertion of the downwardly turned ends into the hollow tops or into slots in the sides, of opposing side frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Inventors: Lawrence G. Sapp, James F. Slappey, C. Bart Nixon
  • Patent number: 4065176
    Abstract: A chair control mechanism for supporting both the seat and back rest of a chair, including a seat frame with a control member mounted for limited pivotal movement thereon for supporting the back rest. A torsion spring resiliently urges the control member and back rest in one direction. A back hinge is pivotally mounted on the control member and is adjustable with the aid of a threaded adjustment member and a second torsion spring to provide a positive attitute adjustment for the back rest. A back rest strap is provided carrying the back rest at its upper end and having at its lower end a T-shaped bayonet projection received in an elongated aperture in the back hinge in addition to a threaded fastener so that if for any reason the fastener fails, the back rest will not fall off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Stewart-Warner Corporation
    Inventor: Frank J. Fontana
  • Patent number: 4064671
    Abstract: A stabilizer strut extending transversely between grid members in a supporting grid system and the like. The strut includes a pair of leg portions disposed at right angles to one another with each end of the strut including a pair of aligned slot portions for engagement with an underlying grid member. Each grid member includes an upstanding web means surmounted by a bead means wherein the latter receives the pair of aligned slot portions which are open at the non-adjacent, lateral edges of the strut leg portions. One slot on each end of the strut corresponding to one another include a locking projection extending inwardly from the side of the slot at a point adjacent to the open end thereof at the lateral edge of the strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Roblin Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Gale E. Sauer
  • Patent number: 4051985
    Abstract: A carrier adapted to carry a child on the rear of a bicycle includes a tubular frame and a seat portion attached thereto. Brackets mountable on support members of the bicycle feature quick release attaching means allowing fast, simple mounting and demounting of the carrier from the bicycle, without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Irvin E. Berger
  • Patent number: 4050327
    Abstract: A connector to provide a fast-make coupling by which releasably to interconnect a control device to a push-pull control cable assembly. The control device has at least a sheath member and a plunger movable longitudinally within a passage through the sheath member. A connector housing is substantially permanently secured to the casing of the push-pull control cable assembly and releasably attached to the sheath member so as to be longitudinally aligned with the passageway therein. A shuttle plug, which is secured to the core of the push-pull control cable assembly is slidably received within the connector housing and the passageway in the sheath member to which the connector housing is releasably attached. A lug is presented from the plunger and interacts with a socket in the shuttle plug to effect an interconnection that is readily engaged and released, but only when the connector housing is not attached to the sheath member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: Samuel Moore and Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Thomas, Marvin H. Jones
  • Patent number: 4045612
    Abstract: A metal housing for a splice case including a channel member and a plate which extends between the parallel sidewalls of the channel member. The channel member and associated plate thus form a first cavity, open at either end, in which a resilient splice case may be positioned. A passageway is also defined on the other side of the plate and between the outer portions of the parallel sidewalls. Flanges associated with the plate extend out of the channel member such that when the housing is securely positioned on a large pipe or the like, channel side down, the plate will be forced deeper into the channel member to further compress a splice case located therein. The rigid housing acts to protect the splice case and hold it in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Raychem Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Troy
  • Patent number: 4040758
    Abstract: A one piece, sheet metal hanger clip for supporting a grid system member of a suspended ceiling frame from an overhead superstructure. The hanger clip can be utilized in various structural arrangements for suspending grid system members or runners having substantially horizontal flange means for supporting ceiling tile pieces and an upstanding web means with a surmounting bead thereon, the latter being employed to cooperatively engage with the hanger clip of the present invention. In one mode of use, a tongue means protruding from the upper end of the hanger clip is adapted to be engaged within the surface of a non-metallic superstructural framing member which would be formed of wood, for example. After engaging such tongue for initial placement of the hanger clip, both hands of a workman are then free to install a nail through an appropriate hole in the hanger clip to permanently secure the hanger clip to the wooden framing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Roblin Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Gale E. Sauer
  • Patent number: 4037382
    Abstract: A scaffolding element comprises a triangular frame having a vertical member, a horizontal member and a diagonal member and further having a yoke at the free ends of the horizontal and diagonal members. This yoke has an upper arm with an aperture therein to receive the upper end of the vertical member of an adjacent frame and a lower arm. This lower arm has a slot into which the vertical member is received below the horizontal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: Form-Scaff (Proprietary)Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Jacobs
  • Patent number: 4034834
    Abstract: A rotating clutch assembly has an annular axially movable clutch piston for engaging and disengaging the clutch. The piston is moved in one direction by means of fluid under pressure and in an opposite direction under the influence of spring-biased retractor pins. The annular piston is mounted within a housing member and a plurality of the retractor pins transpierce the housing member and engage the annular piston in free-floating, self-aligning disposition, The annular piston is equipped with a plurality of enlarged slots and recesses and the retractor pins are each equipped with an enlarged shoulder portion adapted to be loosely received within the recesses of the annular piston. Assembly of the piston in the housing member is greatly facilitated in that alignment of the retractor pins within the receiving slots of the piston is non-critical and self-adjusting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.
    Inventor: James G. Starling
  • Patent number: 4035097
    Abstract: A connector which may be readily assembled to and disassembled from a guideway, such as, in particular, a box-shaped channel, for the construction of knockdown furniture, shelving and the like. This knockdown connector is characterized by requiring only a standard box-shaped channel without special machining thereof. The knockdown connector and guideway assembly includes a box-shaped channel forming a U-shape transverse cross-section and having opposite internal faces, and a pair of flanges projecting edgewise toward each other. The knockdown connector includes an elongated base member having a pair of lugs at opposite ends thereof respectively; the central portion of the base member is formed with a threaded bore to removably screw a threaded holding member therein; and the lugs are formed with at least one camming face extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the base member and operatively obliquely relative to at least one of the opposite internal faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Inventor: Pierre Bachand
  • Patent number: 4033552
    Abstract: A winch mounted to an automobile bumper and comprising a cable winding drum rotatably mounted between a main drive housing and an opposite end idler housing. The main drive housing has a main lower section of integral box-like construction and an open top closed by an upper housing section. The drive end of the drum and an intermediate drive member are inserted laterally into the lower housing through access openings, and are retained in place by a downwardly inserted retaining plate. The remaining drive components are inserted into the lower housing section through the top opening or positioned in the upper housing section. This construction provides for easy assembly of the drive components, with box-like construction of the main housing being better able to withstand the substantial force loads exerted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1977
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Encho Janaki Kuzarov
  • Patent number: 4031677
    Abstract: Each prefabricated side wall of a transportation type vehicle has a joint surface formed along the lower, inner side thereof for seating thereto the laterally outward edge portions of two flanges which extend laterally outwardly in vertically spaced, parallel relation along each side of a prefabricated floor slab of such vehicle. An upwardly tapered bead along the outer edge of the uppermost of each pair of such flanges enters a recess provided therefor along its respective side wall surface. Also, one half of a plastic-key-interlock joint is formed along the outer edge of the lowermost flange of each pair for interlocking engagement with a second half of each such joint which is formed along each such joint surface. With the side walls substantially perpendicular to the floor slab, upward movement of each tapered bead into its recess also moves the joint halves associated therewith into interlocking engagement with each other, and simultaneously opens up a key-forming passage lengthwise within each joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Rhor Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith W. Tantlinger
  • Patent number: 4027453
    Abstract: A joint construction for connecting together two members, one of the members having opposed side limbs connected by a base defining a trough-like shape, the base having formed therein a re-entrant trough-shaped recess extending longitudinally of the member, the base of re-entrant trough-shaped recess having a plurality of slots adapted to receive hook-shaped tongue elements provided on the other of said members said other member also being of trough-shape and is in contact with the substantial part of said one member when engaged therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1973
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Finspa Engineering Co. Limited
    Inventor: Donald John Henry Bridge
  • Patent number: 4018016
    Abstract: The waiting station comprises at least one wall structure composed of vertical columns, horizontal beams and a mullion, each of said members being contituted of aluminum tubing. Such tubular members are provided with pairs of cooperative interlatching elements, each of such pairs comprising a flanged latch plate that is wholly contained within the opening at one or both ends of a tubular member so that the outer surface of such latch plate is flush with the terminal end of the tubular member, and a Z-shaped catch having one end portion secured to the exterior surface of the wall of a tubular member and having its their end portion interlatchable with the latch plate. In such interlatched condition the two interlatching elements are entirely concealed by the connected end of one of the tubular members and the wall of the other connected tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Inventor: Theodore R. Zale
  • Patent number: 4014195
    Abstract: A cylinder lock has a socket portion formed integrally with the rear end of its cylinder for connection with a flat stamped shaft. The shaft has an enlarged head at its front end and a medial enlargement defining forwardly facing shoulders. The socket has a cavity in which the shaft head is rotatable, a noncircular bore opening rearwardly from the cavity through which the head can be inserted forwardly into the cavity in one position of shaft rotation, and grooves opening forwardly to the cavity in which the head is receivable upon rearward motion of the shaft in another position of its rotation. A coiled expansion spring reacting between said shoulders and the rear of the socket confines the head in said grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventor: Robert D. Grogan
  • Patent number: 4014219
    Abstract: A steering shaft coupling for a motor vehicle steering column constructed to join a steering shaft with a steering gear. The coupling has a pair of coupling parts and interconnecting members assembled to transmit driving torque from the steering shaft to the steering gear during normal operating conditions. The interconnecting members disengage the coupling parts when the steering gear is displaced axial toward the steering shaft in response to an axial force whereby said axial force will not be transmitted to the steering shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: James R. Feustel, Alex Rhodes
  • Patent number: 4014151
    Abstract: Coupling structure for artificial stone parts such as concrete plates etc., have an anchoring member partially embedded in the stone with a head projecting therefrom and releasably inserted in a coupling member of C-shaped cross-section e.g. for suspension but permitting limited turning on an axis longitudinal to the C-groove of the coupling member, so that lateral forces are reacted into the anchoring member. Additional features include support flanges on the anchoring member; bent off portions of the anchoring member with additional members; wire loops for improving anchoring; and special bayonet-like insertion and locking of the head in a particular type coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Mannesmann Leichtbau, GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Erhart
  • Patent number: 4011907
    Abstract: A centralizer having springs ends with inwardly projecting radial lugs for non-weld attachment to an end collar of the centralizer. The lugs can be rounded to allow the spring ends to rotate relative to the end collars while being longitudinally restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1977
    Assignee: Halliburton Company
    Inventor: Henry J. Clay
  • Patent number: 4010501
    Abstract: A life preserver or other body-buoying equipment is provided with straps extending from its opposite sides, and the two pieces of a buckle are fastened to the respective ends of the straps. The two pieces of the buckle can be engaged with one another and disengaged only when the pieces are swiveled toward one another at an angle of less than 90.degree.. The invention includes the two-piece buckle itself as well as the combination of the two pieces of the buckle on the ends of the belt means extending from the sides of such body-buoying equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Assignee: Eagle Rubber Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence G. Cooke
  • Patent number: 4009507
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pivoting device for a door or the like.The door hinge is detachably fixed to the lower wall of the door, with which it can be made integral by rotating the lever fixed to the hinge by a quarter of a turn.The present device can be used with particular advantage for dismantleable doors of metal cabinets containing electrical equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: La Telemecanique Electrique
    Inventor: Alain Lascarrou
  • Patent number: 4007929
    Abstract: A collapsible game racket of generally two-piece construction for tennis or other like sports requiring a head portion having strings and a connecting handle portion. The head and handle portions are detachably connected within the throat area by means of an interlocking and mutually cooperatively associated male and female elements which are fixedly retained in place to the handle and head portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1977
    Inventor: Rubin Figa
  • Patent number: 4004425
    Abstract: In a tandem master cylinder main and secondary pistons are interconnected by a rigid sleeve. One end of the sleeve is secured to one of the pistons, and an inwardly projecting lip or flange on the other end of the sleeve provides an abutment for a head on an axial stem extending from the other piston towards the said one piston. The head is axially slidable in the sleeve and is introduced into it through an opening in the wall of the sleeve, which opening is connected by a longitudinal slot to the end of the sleeve which is provided with the lip or flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Girling Limited
    Inventor: John Flory Pickering
  • Patent number: 3999876
    Abstract: A coupling device including a first member that is formed with a hooked-shaped element having a circular opening and an elongated slot that communicates with said opening, and a second member having a connecting portion that includes a circular bar and at least one leg interconnected thereto, said bar and leg being movable through said slot in oriented relation for location in said opening, wherein the bar is rotatably positioned in the opening in the hook-shaped member for coupling the members together for relative movement therebetween. A resilient friction element is mounted on the first member and partially extends into and obstructs the entrance portion of said slot as formed therein so as to prevent the members from being inadvertently disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1976
    Assignee: FAS/CON Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Isaac F. Manchester, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3990375
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to spool holders for supporting a spool of thread on a sewing machine and particularly relates to a detachable spool holder having spaced depending leg-like portions formed of resilient material for insertion into associated spaced apertures in the cover of the sewing machine so that the spool holder may be readily assembled onto the sewing machine frame and held in relatively tight fitting relationship therein while giving the appearance of a unitary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1976
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: Kenneth D. Adams