Nut Lock Patents (Class 81/10)
  • Patent number: 11897099
    Abstract: A fastener extractor and dislodging tool apparatus includes a torque-tool body, a threaded opening, a plurality of engagement features, and a release bolt. The plurality of engagement features that grips the lateral surface of the stripped fastener is radially positioned around a rotation axis of the torque-tool body. The plurality of engagement features being perimetrically connected around a base of the torque-tool body thus delineating a socket body that removes the stripped fastener. The threaded opening traverses through the base so that the release bolt can be threadedly engaged with the threaded opening, opposite of the plurality of engagement features. When the stripped fastener is jammed within the plurality of engagement features, the release bolt can be threadedly moved into the space between the plurality of engagement features thus dislodging the stripped fastener from the torque-tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GRIP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Paul Kukucka, Thomas Stefan Kukucka
  • Patent number: 11454272
    Abstract: The two lockable stainless and lossless screw pairs at two ends of the bolt are provided both to avoid screw pairs stained or destroyed by strain force from loading and to decrease the cost because of energy consumption in traditional process of bolt or its cost from environmental pollution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventor: Chien-Fang Yang
  • Patent number: 9835195
    Abstract: A bolt-locking apparatus includes a plurality of fitting members 2 and 3 which are relatively non-rotatably fitted to heads of a plurality of bolts 5, and an engaging member 4 fitted to the plurality of fitting members 2 and 3 such that the engaging member 4 straddles the fitting members 2 and 3. Outer peripheral surfaces 2b and 3b of the fitting members 2 and 3 are non-circular in shape. The engaging member 4 includes a plurality of engaging holes (non-circular engaging portions) 8a and 8b which correspond to the non-circular outer peripheral surfaces 2b and 3b of the plurality of fitting members 2 and 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Norihiko Amikura, Satoshi Kagatsume, Masahiko Satoh, Yukio Naito, Satoshi Muto, Tomohiro Nakata, Tsutomu Shinohara, Michio Yamaji
  • Patent number: 9157469
    Abstract: A two-piece locking nut assembly for securing a mantle to a head assembly of a cone crusher. The two-piece locking nut assembly includes an inner nut and an outer nut. The inner nut includes a set of axial bores that each receive a jackscrew. Once the locking nut assembly is in position on the head assembly, the series of jackscrews are tightened to exert a force on the mantle that is counteracted by forces through the inner nut and into the head to create a locking force between the locking nut assembly and the head assembly. The outer nut is turned along the inner nut to hold the locking nut assembly in place. Once the outer nut is moved into position, the jackscrews are removed such that the outer nut continues to apply the locking force between the mantle and the head through the locking nut assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Metso Minerals Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter R. Marks, Edward L. Snow
  • Patent number: 8950292
    Abstract: A device is for tensioning a rod having a threaded portion and includes an actuator adapted to provide a tensioning axial force and a tie-rod adapted to transmit the axial force from the actuator to the threaded portion of the rod. The tie-rod includes a plurality of jaws, the jaws being movable radially between a closed position at which the jaws are engaged with the rod threaded portion and an open position at which the jaws are disengaged from the threaded portion, each jaw having an outer surface. A locking element includes a sleeve slidable axially along the tie-rod and disposable about the jaws, the sleeve having an inner frustoconical surface contactable with the outer surfaces of the jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Didier Declerck, Valérie Loiseau
  • Publication number: 20140150609
    Abstract: A mounting tool for an axle lock nut comprises a pole, an end of the pole is a knocking end and the other end is provided with a suppressing unit and a retaining unit, the retaining unit is in adjacent to a side of the suppressing unit and the retaining unit is protruded out of a tail end of the suppressing unit. The mounting tool is used to position the axle lock nut on an automobile axle and to increase the reliability of operation for mounting the axle lock nut on the automobile axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventor: Pl-LIANG Wu
  • Patent number: 5446774
    Abstract: A tool for checking the required spacing between adjacent fingers of the spud in a control rod drive. The tool is a GO-NO-GO gauge with tight tolerance. The spud finger gauge has two circular cylindrical pins of different diameter. One pin (i.e., the GO pin) has a diameter less than the required spacing between adjacent fingers of the spud. The other pin (i.e., the NO GO pin) has a diameter greater than the required spacing between adjacent fingers of the spud. The spacing is correct if the GO pin passes through the spacing and the NO GO pin does not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harry I. Russell, Bettadapur N. Sridhar
  • Patent number: 4823636
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Inventor: Charles R. Suska
  • Patent number: 4649727
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotatably drivable tool for mechanically joining together threaded nut and bolt components of a fastener assembly to maintain together the assembly and workpieces joined thereby, the tool having a socket portion for receiving the nut of the fastener assembly, and swaging inserts spaced inwardly of the interior wall of the tool socket portion to compress a portion of the nut of the fastener assembly into mechanical engagement with the bolt of the fastener assembly upon driving of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventor: Warren E. Gray
  • Patent number: 4562389
    Abstract: To permit reliable turn-OFF of the motor when the torque of the motor is sufficient to provide for reliable seating of a screw or nut being driven thereby, start conditions of the motor are sensed, either in form of low-current condition or high power factor; high-torque conditions are sensed by low power factor, or high-current, in dependence on the desired torque level which results, respectively, in a comparatively steep phase angle-torque or current level-torque curve. A switch control is energized to turn-OFF the motor current if the phase angles, or the motor current, respectively, are beyond predetermined levels. To prevent in-rush current, or high power factors from affecting the operation of the turn-OFF system, timing circuits are provided to disable the turn-OFF system when the motor is first turned-ON or if the phase angle difference, as determined by time-comparator networks, between current and voltage, is below a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Jundt, Gunter Schaal, Fritz Schadlich, Hans-Joachim Vogt, Steffen Wunsch
  • Patent number: 4392264
    Abstract: A combination tool comprises an elongated lever having a handle at one end, two divergent fingers at the other end, and an aperture between the two ends adapted for engagement with a nut. One of the fingers includes a distal end and claw in spaced relationship thereto which cooperate to provide a fulcrum for movement of the lever, thereby to facilitate the removal and replacement of nuts which are locked on a threaded shaft by a locking member having bendable tabs projecting outwardly therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Inventor: James M. Booe, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4166313
    Abstract: A typical embodiment has an end fitting for a nuclear reactor fuel element that is joined to the control rod guide tubes by means of a nut plate assembly. The nut plate assembly has an array of nuts, each engaging the respective threaded end of the control rod guide tubes. The nuts, moreover, are retained on the plate during handling and before fuel element assembly by means of hollow cylindrical locking cups that are brazed to the plate and loosely circumscribe the individual enclosed nuts. After the nuts are threaded onto the respective guide tube ends, the locking cups are partially deformed to prevent one or more of the nuts from working loose during reactor operation. The locking cups also prevent loose or broken end fitting parts from becoming entrained in the reactor coolant. A tool for selectively locking and unlocking the nuts is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventor: Lewis A. Walton
  • Patent number: 4084460
    Abstract: An air powered hand tool having combined therein nut running and crimping mechanism in which a common cam member is motor rotated to effect run down of a work nut about a stud and is piston driven to effect crimping of the nut in locking relation to the stud; in which an indicator visually indicates to the operator completion of the crimping action; and in which a stop prevents frictional locking of the cam member in the crimping action; and in which the stud is enabled to rise a considerable distance above the nut as the latter is run down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Garofalo