Adjustable support pin

• US 3,072,423 A
• Filed: 11/06/1961
• Issued: 01/08/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Roy E. Charlton
• Original Assignee: Roy E. Charlton
• Inventors: Charlton, Roy E.
• Application Number:
  US04/150,450
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• US Class Current: 403/83
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 43/00 Washers or equivalent devices; Other devices for supporting bolt-heads or nuts circlips F16B21/18; for indicating tensile load F16B31/02; forming a whole with the bolt or nut F16B33/00; locking bolts or nuts by means of a fixed plate or ring, or washer-like resilient plates F16B39/10, F16B39/24
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/02 by means of fastening members using screw-thread F16B5/0004 takes precedence; construction of screw-threaded connections F16B25/00 - F16B39/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/025 specially designed to compensate for misalignement or to eliminate unwanted play
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32254 Lockable at fixed position

Claims

1. AN ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT PIN COMPRISING A STUD HAVING TWO OFFSET-AXIS ESSENTIALLY CYLINDERICAL END PORTIONS AND A SHOULDER THEREBETWEEN, A DECREASING-DIAMETER TAPER ON A FIRST ONE OF SAID END PORTIONS, ECCENTRICALLY BORED BUSHING MEANS SLIDABLE FITTED ON THE OTHER SAID END PORTIONS, MEANS ON SAID OTHER END FOR ROTATING SAID STUD, A FLANGE ON THE END OF SAID BUSHING MEANS TOWARD SAID OTHER END PORTION, MEANS ON SAID FLANGE FOR ROTATION OF SAID BUSHING MEANS, AND LOCKING MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID OTHER STUD END FOR LOCKING AN APERTURED MEMBER IN PLACE BETWEEN SAID SHOULDER AND SAID FLANGE WITH SAID STUD AND SAID BUSHING MEANS IN ANY POSITION OF ROTATION.