Abstract: A pin retention device comprises a fastener defining a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end along the longitudinal axis, a head at the first end and a threaded portion at the second end, a tubular spacer defining a thru-hole configured to receive the fastener, and a nut defining a threaded hold configured to mate with the threaded portion of the fastener.

Abstract: A fuel battery stack is provided with: hole portions formed in a coolant supplying manifold; cylindrical collar members provided in the hole portions; and fastening bolts inserted in the cylindrical collar members and screwed in a second end plate. On the inner circumferential surface of each of the hole portions, a plurality of projections that support the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical collar member are provided so as to protrude radially inward.

Abstract: A pin retention device comprises a fastener defining a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end along the longitudinal axis, a head at the first end and a threaded portion at the second end, a tubular spacer defining a thru-hole configured to receive the fastener, and a nut defining a threaded hold configured to mate with the threaded portion of the fastener.

Abstract: A vehicle and a compression load limiter assembly for the vehicle are disclosed. The assembly includes a first component defining a first hole along a first axis to present a first wall radially spaced from the first axis. The assembly also includes a second component defining a second hole along a second axis to present a second wall radially spaced from the second axis. The first and second holes generally align with each other to couple together the first and second components. The assembly further includes a load limiter member including a first body portion engaging one of the first and second walls when disposed in one of the first and second holes. The first body portion has a radially compliant feature to allow movement of the load limiter member within one of the first and second holes in response to a force being applied to the load limiter member.

Abstract: A fastener assembly including an elongate fastener adapted to extend through a chamber having a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end; a first seal disposed at least partially at the first end of the fastener to prevent leakage of fluid from the chamber; and a second seal disposed at least partially at the second end of the fastener to prevent leakage of fluid from the chamber. In a specific embodiment, the first and second seals are conical seals and a third seal is provided by a gasket. The invention also provides a method for securing a fluid filled chamber to a surface by using embodiments of the fastener assembly.

Abstract: A detachable fin is secured to a socket imbedded into the bottom layer of a watercraft such as a surfboard, wind surf board, standup paddle board, or kayak for example, by a mechanism including a screw whose head which is captured into a slot in the socket, and which passes through a hole in a spur projecting from the portion of the fin inserted into the slot. Two pivotally joined arms engaged over the screw astride a nut and forming a surrounding sleeve. The arms are locked in place by a padlock hasp, preventing the unauthorized extraction of the fin and a situs for locking to a cable or chain for securing the board.

Abstract: Gas turbine engine systems and related methods involving thermally isolated retention are provided. In this regard, a representative method for attaching a gas turbine engine component includes using a fastener, varying in diameter along a length thereof, to prevent a portion of a component from being crimped between surfaces to which the component is attached such that the component moves relative to the surfaces responsive to thermal cycling of a gas turbine engine of which the surfaces and the component are constituent parts.

Abstract: A threaded connector for securing a panel member to a structure and for adjusting the position of the panel member relative to the structure. The connector comprises an elongate one-piece stud, a first spacer, a threaded nut, a second spacer and a turning formation. The connector permits the panel member to be mounted on the stud and the stud to be rotated to adjust the position of the panel member relative to the structure.

Abstract: A screw assembly element in a first part is provided for use when attaching the first part to a second part using a screw. The assembly element comprises a sleeve arranged in a hole in the first part, the sleeve being cylindrical. At least a portion of the first part extends into the inside of the sleeve.

Abstract: An assembly includes a first part, a second part, a sleeve, and a fastener. The first part has a first hole with a threaded portion therein. Additionally, the first hole has a first counterbore. The second part has a second hole with a second counterbore. The second counterbore is arranged to oppose the first counterbore. The sleeve is inserted into the second counterbore and extends to insert into the first counterbore. The fastener has a threaded end portion and a reduced diameter portion and extends through the first hole and into the second hole. The reduced diameter portion of the fastener is surrounded by the sleeve when the fastener is inserted to mount the first part with the second part.

Abstract: A fan and shaft assembly for a turbofan gas turbine engine comprises a shaft and a fan. Sets of aligned throughbores are respectively of the shaft and the fan, at a junction between the shaft and the fan. Fastening systems are provided for the sets of aligned throughbores. Each fastening system comprises a sleeve received in one of the sets of aligned throughbores and sized to fit without play in the set of aligned throughbores. A head of the sleeve abuts a surface at the junction between the shaft and the fan. A fastener is inserted in the sleeve and extends beyond both ends of the sleeve to clamp the fan to the shaft, the fastener being loosely received in the sleeve. A method for replacing a component of a fastening system retaining a fan to a shaft is provided as well.

Abstract: A wall mounting assembly includes a threaded bolt having a longitudinally extending bore, an anchor bar, a cord, and a bushing configured to plug the hole in the wall. The bolt and anchor bar, attached by the cord, can be introduced through a hole in the wall and, by retrieving the cord, the threaded bolt can be caused to insert through a bolt hole in the anchor bar, and through the bushing aperture plugging the hole in the wall, thereby drawing the anchor bar flush against an interior surface of the wall. A fixture back plate positioned between an exterior surface of the wall and an end of the bolt, can be secured against the exterior surface of the wall by tightening a nut onto the threaded bolt, thereby also securing the anchor bar flush against the interior surface of the wall.

Abstract: A fastener assembly for attaching a fastener to an opening of a sheet material is disclosed. The sheet material is typically located adjacent to a base structure and the fastener assembly affords radial movement of the fastener relative to the opening of the sheet material. The radial movement allows the fastener to be aligned with a desired location on the base structure, e.g. a threaded aperture—after being attached to the sheet material. In this manner, the fastener assembly provides for the placement of the fastener in difficult to reach and/or see locations until it can be attached to the base structure.

Abstract: A device for vibration-damping mounting of a vehicle brake system fluid assembly in a receiving opening includes a stay bolt, an elastic damping element in the form of a sleeve through which the stay bolt passes, a clamping sleeve guided by the stay bolt, and a screw element having an internal thread. The stay bolt comprises a connecting pin and a threaded shank having an external thread onto which the screw element can be screwed in order to move the clamping sleeve axially on the stay bolt towards the elastic damping element. The clamping sleeve and the screw element are in the form of a one-piece clamping element having a bearing shoulder, wherein the axial force generated by the clamping element as a result of the screwing-on movement acts via the bearing shoulder on the elastic damping element. A fluid assembly includes at least one such device for vibration-damping mounting.

Abstract: The fastening is performed by using the fastening bolt of the conventional mass-produced car, the fastening method capable of obtaining “Resonance frequency” of the aimed body and the sub frame rigid collar for car used for the fastening method, are provided by the tightening work with the conventional specified torque, and only by simple work of interposing the sub frame rigid collar for car, without need the work of any special processing.

Abstract: A spacer for an anchor includes a base having first and second sides. The first side is adapted for engagement with an anchor. At least two spikes extend from the second end of the base. An opening is provided within the base.

Abstract: A clamping device with overload protection and a process to connect both elements, which are to be connected, whereby the clamping device is fitted with an element to be connected first, an element to be connected second, which is connected to the first element, and a bracing bolt to connect.

Abstract: A fastener that includes a shaft and a sleeve is provided. The shaft extends along a longitudinal axis that passes through a central portion, e.g., the centroid of a head of the shaft. The sleeve is wrapped partially around the shaft. The sleeve has a gap that separates first and second circumferential extents thereof, a first thickness adjacent the first circumferential extent, and a second thickness between the second circumferential extent and the first circumferential extent. The first thickness is less than the second thickness. The sleeve has a first rotational position relative to the shaft and a second rotational position relative to the shaft different form the first rotational position. The longitudinal axis is in substantially the same location in both the first and second rotational positions.

Abstract: An isolated fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel rail with a clamping method operable to retain an isolating member with respect to the fuel rail. The isolating member operates to isolate the vibratory motion of the fuel delivery system form the attachment point or points. The attachment point is typically a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. Additionally, an isolating ring assembly is provided having a first and second stiffening member with an isolating ring member disposed therebetween. The isolating ring assembly is disposed between a fuel injector of the isolated fuel delivery system and the cylinder head. The isolating ring member operates to isolate the vibratory motion of the fuel injector from the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: It is an object to prevent the occurrence of noise from a hollow of an anchor integrated liner, to facilitate the installation of the anchor integrated liner, and to fix its liner part to its anchor shaft part.

Abstract: Dual load path fastener systems, and methods for their use, are described herein. In one embodiment, a dual load path fastener system includes first and second fasteners. The first fastener has a first end portion, a second end portion spaced apart from the first end portion, and a hole extending through the first and second end portions. The second fastener is configured to extend through the hole in the first fastener with a third end portion of the second fastener protruding beyond the first end portion of the first fastener and a fourth end portion of the second fastener protruding beyond the second end portion of the first fastener. The fastener system of this embodiment further includes a spacer portion configured to support the third end portion of the second fastener in such a way that the third end portion is longitudinally supported independently of the first fastener.

Abstract: A construction system having structural members with pre-manufactured rows of holes for fastening. A first kind of structural member (33, 35 and 35a in FIG. 2) has a row of holes equally spaced at a distance N. A second kind of structural member for diagonal bracing (43 in FIG. 2) has a row of holes equally spaced at a distance equal to the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with the other two sides having a length of N or a multiple of N. A third kind of structural member (24 in FIG. 2) has two rows of holes equally spaced at a distance N, with the holes of one row perpendicularly intersecting the holes of the other row. Large diameter fasteners (60 in FIG. 8), with a cross-hole for a crossing fastener, allow mounting two or more structural members at the same longitudinal disposition to perpendicular sides of a structural member of the third kind.

Abstract: A power-operated, floor stripping apparatus includes a frame, a drive carried on the frame, wheels supporting the frame, a handle to guide the frame, and a cutter blade carried by a head which is pivotally mounted to the frame. The head has a lower end to face toward the floor; upper and lower plates carried by the head at the lower end thereof to grip the cutter blade received therebetween; two posts carried by the lower plate to project upwardly through openings formed in the upper plate, and sleeves extending about the posts above the upper plate, the posts carrying exposed threads; and nut members threadably attached to the posts and having wrench surfaces spaced substantially above the level of the blade, the nuts tightenable to transmit upward force in the posts and downward force to the sleeves, whereby the plates are caused to grip the blade therebetween, the blade having a cutting edge directed forwardly.

Abstract: A structure 10 is resiliently clamped and supported on stud 12. A cylindrical core 38 of the spring sleeve is compressed by nut 34 against a stop 32. The supported structure is biased against the stop 32 by a plurality of spring fingers 40 located at the lower end of the core.

Abstract: An installation system for securing workpieces of composite type materials and including a fastener adapted to be located in aligned bores in such workpieces with a preselected interference fit, with the fastener comprising a pin having an elongated shank, an enlarged head and enlarged diameter smooth shank section adjacent the pin head, and further having a threaded section extending from the smooth shank section to a breakneck groove located in the shank to define a frangible portion at its free end, the breakneck groove adapted to fracture at a preselected axial load of generally low magnitude, a thin gauged expansion sleeve having an inside diameter less than the diameter of the smooth shank section, the sleeve having an outside diameter permitting the assembly of the sleeve into the workpiece bores with a snug fit, the breakneck groove having an axial strength at least equal to the maximum axial load required to pull the pin member fully into the sleeve with the smooth pin shank section expanding the sle

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to the construction of a traveling overhead crane, to enable a desired high degree of precision to be maintained in the attachment of wheel-carrying top girders to the opposite ends of a movable bridge girder. The bridge girder is provided with end plates, to which the respective wheel-carrying top girders are bolted. The end plates are formed with machined annular recesses, surrounding the bolt holes through which the top girders are attached. These machined recesses are so formed that the bottoms thereof constitute a common reference plane. Tubular sleeves of known axial dimension, are received in these recesses and serve to accurately locate the top girders with respect to the predetermined reference plane. The tubular sleeves may in some cases be very short, in the nature of thick washers, for example, or they may be elongated tubes extending through and welded to the top girders.

Abstract: A disc brake includes at least one pin assembly (24) for movably supporting a caliper 14 relative to a torque plate 12. The pin assembly comprises a bolt (54), a sleeve (46) and a pair of arcuate washers (70, 72) which are adapted to accommodate angularity between the pin assembly and the caliper opening (38).

Abstract: The present invention provides a tire assembly capable of use with a tire rim of a tube tire having a valve hole with a first diameter and capable of use with a tire rim of a tubeless tire having a valve hole with a second diameter, the first diameter being less than the second diameter, the tire assembly including an inner tube provided with a threaded air valve stem having an outer diameter less than the first diameter, and a tightening nut provided with a thread for threading engagement with the threaded valve stem, the tightening nut provided on one end with a flange portion having an outer diameter substantially equal to the second diameter.