Abstract: A nut (32) for assembling elements of a structure comprises a collar (64) capable of coming into contact with a front face of the structure; a tightening zone having an outer diameter (86) capable of being inserted into a hole of the structure; a deformation zone adjacent to the tightening zone and capable of forming a bulge against a rear face of the structure, opposite the front face; and a tapped portion (65) adjacent to the deformation zone. The nut may include grooving (82) on an outer circumference of at least one part of the deformation zone, a maximum diameter of said grooving (82) being less than or equal to the outer diameter (86) of the tightening zone.

Abstract: In case when an external force in a direction of pulling out from a female member acts on a male member in a fully fastened state, the male member moves in an axial direction, and a position where claw parts of engaging leg pieces engage moves from mounting parts and to contact parts. An engaging slot is formed on the contact part, and the engaging slot therefore engages with the claw part of the engaging leg piece. Movement in the direction of rotation of the male member is thereby restricted, and the male member is moved in state along the axial direction, so that the claw parts of the engaging leg pieces do not engage with engaging holes, and a state in which a vehicle body panel and a trim board are sandwiched by a flange part and the engaging leg pieces can be maintained.

Abstract: An expansion anchor comprising a tubular body, which extends along a longitudinal axis and displays a deformable end portion on which there are obtained longitudinal slots which divide the end portion itself into a series of anchoring fins, and an expansion nut, which is partially engaged onto said end portion and is adapted to be displaced by a screw so as to radially expand said anchoring fins outwards; each anchoring fin being shaped so as to display an annular ridge on its end and two protruding side teeth, which are arranged on the side edge of said anchoring fin at the two ends of the ridge; each anchoring fin further displaying an external friction surface provided with a plurality of annular notches or cavities coaxial to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: Fastening unit and method for fastening components together. The fastening unit includes a blind rivet nut having a set head and a rivet shank, a screw with a screw head and a threaded shank, and a washer held on the blind rivet nut by the screw, and including a torque application surface and a projection projecting over the torque application surface at least in some sections. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an anchor that makes it possible to check the placement condition of the anchor easily to realize efficient and safe check after the placement. An anchor includes an expansion member that permits a shaft part to pass therethrough while being placed between a base portion of an anchor bolt and a spreading sleeve. The expansion member includes wing-like expansion parts that are caused to expand by pressing force exerted in the axial direction of the shaft part. The anchor bolt causes the shaft part to rotate in response to the rotation of the base portion of the anchor bolt, thereby driving a cone nut into the spreading sleeve. As a result, spreading parts spread outwardly. Further, the base portion of the anchor bolt presses the expansion member in response to threaded insertion of the shaft part to cause the wing-like expansion parts to expand.

Abstract: An anchor device includes an expansion bolt and a fastening screw. The bolt has a tubular body. The tubular body further has a central shank and a head, which is integrally made with the central shank and has a full solid body on which a pair of longitudinal reciprocally perpendicular through slots are made which delimit four anchor segments adapted to spread outwards under the bias of the fastening screw. The central shank has a first portion arranged next to the head on which a plurality of longitudinal through slots define longitudinal anchoring tabs which expand radially outwards under the bias of the fastening screw following the spreading of the four anchor segments.

Abstract: In an anchor for the attachment to flat building components including two cover plates and an intermediate support core layer wherein the anchor comprises an expansion body and a wedge body which is inserted into the expansion body and includes an opening for inserting a mounting means, the installed anchor is disposed in an opening of the building component which extends through one cover plate and the intermediate support core plate and into a dead end bore of the other cover plate. The expansion body has spreadable engagement elements, wherein, with the anchor installed, one cylinder zone is in contact with the bore wall of the first cover plate, and a wedging zone spreads out the expansion body in the intermediate support core and in the dead end bore of the second cover plate.

Abstract: The present invention includes a tapered male bolt that presents a frustoconical surface area adapted to the frustoconical inner surface area of a tapered female bushing. The female bushing is provided with axial slots, open alternately on each side. There is also a coupler appropriate for inserting the tapered male bolt into the tapered female bushing, in such a way that the latter's outside diameter is expanded to achieve a tight fit in the holes of the parts to be joined. The weight of joints is lightened, and, consequently, the weight of the structures of which they form part are also lightened.

Abstract: A sprue dowel has a radially projecting embeddable portion (12) and an attachment portion (21) formed as a hollow cylindrical shaft (24) provided with a plurality of spaced from each other, furrowed retaining projections (26, 27) formed on an outer circumference of the shaft and extending parallel to a longitudinal axis (25) of the sprue dowel (11).

Abstract: A plastic connector 1 is provided for connecting an associated support member with an associated plate element. A generally cylindrical elongate neck shaped intermediate zone 5 defines a longitudinal axis and carries on a first end an upper part 2 and on a second end a lower part 3. The upper part is selectively attachable to the associated plate element. The lower part 3 is selectively connectable with the associated support member and includes a cover cone portion 22 defining a generally pointed conical tip S. A plurality of ribs 15, 15′ are arranged longitudinally on the lower part and extend radially outwardly from the lower part by a first height H, the first height being greater than an outer diameter D formed by the intermediate zone 5. A spherical constriction portion 20 is defined between the intermediate zone 5 and the cover cone portion 22 to enable secure connection between the associated support member and plate element and to assist in installation of the connector.

Abstract: A spreading anchor (1) including an anchor rod (2) provided at its front end, when viewed in a setting direction, with a head (3, 30) having at least several regions, which taper outwardly in the setting direction, and extending through an axial through-bore of an expansion sleeve(5) axially displaceable along the anchor rod (2, 20) and having a plurality of axial longitudinal slots (7) extending from a front end of the expansion sleeve (2, 20) and forming at least two, located opposite each other expansion tabs (6) provided at their free front ends with cutters (16), the spreading anchor (1) being supported against an upper surface of a ground (G) and further including rotation-transmitting driver elements for transmitting axial rotation, which is generated during setting of the anchor rod (2, 20), to the expansion sleeve (5).

Abstract: In general a torque controlled blind bolt for securing workpieces is shown and which blind bolt has a core pin with a blind side head and a plurality of threads and a nut adapted to be threaded onto the pin threads; the blind bolt which has a main sleeve structure and an expandable blind side sleeve structure is set by torque applied between the pin and nut which causes the expandable sleeve to be expanded by the pin head and to thereby form a load bearing blind head; the blind fastener includes a grip adjuster structure which defines a cavity having a depth selected to define the grip range of the fastener with the grip cavity generally located externally of the workpieces; an anti-rotation structure is formed between the pin head and the expandable sleeve structure to inhibit relative rotation in response to the torque applied between the nut and the pin.

Abstract: A nut fastener device for a blind hole anchor (FIG. 2) has the nut 14 made frusto-conical with the smallest diameter knurled at 30 and with the largest diameter provided with relieved and back tapered flanks 20. The nut is made integral with a sleeve 10 having flange 12 and a further knurled zone 32, and a sheer zone 16 between the sleeve and nut. During the installation the nut is pulled into the sleeve to expand the sleeve and deform it to the cross sectional shape of the nut so as to provide an angular fix. The sleeve is effectively fixed to the sheet material by the flange on the one side and the deformation of the sleeve on the other side of the sheet. The knurled bands which become axially aligned increase the angular hold of the device in the sheet and of the nut in the sleeve.

Abstract: An expansible rivet for securing together overlapped panels comprises a female member having a plurality of elastic legs defined by a corresponding number of axially elongate notches and a male member having a body portion having axially elongate fins slidably received in the axially elongate notches and a conical free end portion. The fins serve to permit stable coupling of the two members. The conical end portion facilitates the insertion of the male member into the female member.

Abstract: A device for a bore formed in a geological structure, the bore having an outer circumferential wall. A bolt is inserted into the bore. A sleeve secures a first axial portion of the bolt to a first portion of the circumferential wall. Grout secures a second axial portion of the bolt means to a second portion of the circumferential wall; A substantially disk shaped plug limits a passage of grout to between the first axial portion of the bolt and the first portion of the circumferential wall. A retainer is included to retain a grout container in the bore prior to insertion of the bolt means into the bore.

Abstract: Profiled bolt mounting unit for mounting on a structural member, comprising a blind rivet body having a sleeve and a flange for abutting against the structural member provided for mounting purposes with a mandrel having a setting head and a pull stem which may be gripped by a setting tool and detached from the mandrel at a predetermined breaking point (break neck) after exceeding a certain pulling force. The predetermined breaking point is separated by such a distance from the flange that the portion of the mandrel between the flange and the predetermined breaking point acts as a profiled bolt, whereby the mandrel portion remaining inside the blind rivet body after the setting process projects the profiled bolt portion away from the flange.

Abstract: A cone expansion wall plug is provided comprising a threaded rod, an expansible socket, an expansion cone, an intermediate ring and a spacer between the head of the rod and said intermediate ring. During expansion and anchorage of the socket by the cone, the ring and the spacer prevent movement of the socket with respect to the rod. After anchorage, the rod may be screwed into the cone by shearing a collar of the spacer. During expansion, the socket only bears against the intermediate ring through a radial shoulder.

Abstract: An expansion dowel assembly includes an expanding sleeve and a spacer sleeve with a deformable metal sleeve spacer member extending between them. At the outset, the spacer member has a non-circular cross section, however, during the expansion operation, the spacer sleeve telescopes into the spacer member and deforms it outwardly so that it assumes an approximately circular cross sectional shape.

Abstract: A blind hole anchor nut fastener comprises a tubular sleeve and a screw-threaded nut at the end of the sleeve, so that when a screw-threaded mandrel is screw-engaged with the nut, and is displaced axially in the appropriate direction, the nut can shear from the sleeve and be drawn into the sleeve in wedging engagement. The basic nut shape is modified by making it non-circular such as trochoidal (for example) at one end and in so-doing making parts of the surface back-tapered so that in the displacement into the sleeve the non-circular shape helps in anti-rotational hold relative to the sleeve and the reduced volume resulting from the back-taper minimizes actual extension of the sleeve under the wedging action so as to reduce the possibility of the sleeve splitting.

Abstract: A plug assembly comprising a generally cylindrical expansion sleeve having a socket portion which receives a wedging nut. One of the nut and socket portion is tapered such that the sleeve may be radially expanded as the nut enters more deeply into the socket portion. A screw element is threadedly received by the nut and by a clearance opening through the sleeve. The screw element is provided with a head which engages the sleeve on the side axially opposite the socket portion whereby threading of the screw element into the nut draws the latter more deeply into the socket portion. The outer periphery of the sleeve is preshaped to be out-of-round to provide for an interference fit with a cylindrical bore which is to be plugged.

Abstract: A plastic screw anchor for fastening fixtures and other objects to a hollow wall, the anchor including a four-legged diamond-shaped shank whose front legs are joined together by a front apex living hinge and whose rear legs are joined to the front legs by side apex living hinges, the ends of the rear legs defining a rear apex. Secured by a pair of normally outstretched resilient webs to the rear legs of the shank is a flanged socket whose bore lies in registration with an opening formed in the front apex hinge. The diamond-shaped shank is collapsible to form a tongue that is insertable in a hole drilled in the wall to accommodate the socket, the webs then reverting to their outstretched condition to cause the shank which is now behind the wall to recover its diamond formation. When a self-tapping screw is turned into the socket bore, it acts to thread the bore.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly-type tire protector comprising a plurality of annular members disposed substantially parallel to the tire surface and a plurality of link members disposed substantially perpendicular to the tire surface, said annular members being connected together by said link members to form a net, each of said link members comprising a body which is provided at both of its ends with opposing hook-like arm means for interconnecting said annular members, said opposing hook-like arm means defining an opening, a pin disposed upright in said body, said pin having a head portion and a base portion, said head portion substantially occupying said opening, said body of the link member containing a blind hole for receiving said base portion of the pin, and means disposed in said hole for expanding said base portion of the pin within said hole for locking said pin in position in said hole.

Abstract: A dowel construction for anchoring an element in a borehole, comprises, a tubular dowel of a plastic material which is insertable into the borehole and advantageously has means thereon for preventing turning movement thereof relative to the borehole. The tubular dowel has a window opening for accommodating a straddling member which is disposed in the opening between a securing bolt insertable in the dowel and the borehole. The straddling member and the bolt are constructed so that there is a wedge-engagement surface between them which causes radial outward movement of the straddling member into engagement with the borehole when the bolt is moved in a withdrawal direction. Preferably, at least two metal straddle bodies are uniformly arranged over the circumference of the bolt and they preferably have cylindrical outer surfaces which are disposed in the window cutouts of the tubular plastic cage forming the tubular dowel.

Abstract: A mine roof bolt and expansion anchor are provided with means preventing relative rotation of the two in a direction tending to withdraw the bolt from the tapered nut of the anchor while allowing relative rotation in the opposite direction, whereby the bolt may be rotationally advanced into the nut as the anchor remains rotationally stationary to effect expansion of the anchor shell within a drill hole. A conventional, two-compartment resin cartridge is inserted into the drill hole ahead of the end of the bolt carrying the anchor. The cartridge is ruptured and the contents thereof mixed by advance of the bolt and anchor while rotating in the direction preventing relative rotation. Immediately thereafter the bolt is rotated in the opposite direction, thereby expanding the anchor and firmly securing it in the hole. The bolt may then be immediately loaded without regard to the setting time of the resin. Three embodiments are disclosed of the means providing the aforementioned relative rotational action.