Securing device

• US 3,180,390 A
• Filed: 03/14/1962
• Issued: 04/27/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward H. Ockert Jr
• Original Assignee: Edward H. Ockert Jr
• Inventors: Ockert, Edward H. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/179,821
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• US Class Current: 411/348
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/165 with balls or rollers for connections of rods or tubes engaged telescopically F16B7/1409
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 39/04 with a member penetrating the screw-threaded surface of at least one part, e.g. a pin, a wedge, cotter-pin, screw
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 411/945 Cross key
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 411/999 with retainer, e.g. tether

Claims

1. AN IMPROVED FASTENING DEVICE CAPABLE OF SECURING A PLURALITY OF PLATE MEMBERS TOGETHER AND OF CARRYING STRUCTURAL LOADS IN BOTH SHEAR AND TENSION COMPRISING:

A BOLT HAVING A HEAD, A SHANK, AND A THREADED END, SAID BOLT HAVING AN AXIAL BORE EXTENDING THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE LENGTH THEREOF COMPRISING AN INTERMEDIATE BORE PORTION NEAR SAID BOLT SHANK AND AN ENLARGED STEPPED BORE PORTION NEAR SAID BOLT THREADED END, SAID BOLT SHANK HAVING FIRST AND SECOND TRANSVERSE APERTURE MEANS DISPOSED NEAR SAID THREADED END, SAID FIRST APERTURE MEANS HAVING A REDUCED AREA PORTION AT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID BOLT;

LOCKING MEANS NORMALLY DISPOSED WITHIN SAID BOLT AND MOVABLE WITHIN SAID FIRST APERTURE MEANS TO A POSITION OF PROJECTION AT LEAST PARTIALLY THROUGH SAID REDUCED AREA PORTION OF THE FIRSET APERTURE MEANS AT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID BOLT THEREBY BEING CONSTRAINED FROM COMPLETE PASSAGE THERETHROUGH BY SAID REDUCED AREA PORTION;

A CASTELLATED NUT HAVING INTERNAL THREADS FOR THREADEDLY ENGAGING THE THREADED END OF SAID BOLT AND A COTTER KEY NORMALLY EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SECOND APERTURE MEANS FOR ENGAGING AND PREVENTING ROTATION OF SAID CASTELLATED NUT;