Method of making fastening devices

• US 3,183,586 A
• Filed: 03/04/1964
• Issued: 05/18/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gose B. Sellers
• Original Assignee: Gose B. Sellers
• Inventors: Sellers, Gose B.
• Application Number:
  US04/349,202
• Time in Patent Office: 440 Days
• US Class Current: 29/441.1
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 15/00 Making specific metal objects by operations not covered by a single other subclass or a group in this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/165 with balls or rollers for connections of rods or tubes engaged telescopically F16B7/1409
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/42 Independent, headed, aperture pass-through fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49853 of sphere, i.e., ball, in socket
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49915 Overedge assembling of seated part
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49934 by axially applying force
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/75 having a joining piece extending through aligned openings in plural members

Claims

1. A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FASTENING DEVICE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED INCLUDING:

FORMING A HOLLOW BARREL WITH AN ENLARGED HEAD AT THE UPPER END THEREOF AND AN ENLARGED INTERNAL COUNTERBORE IN THE LOWER END THEREOF THEREBY PROVIDING AN INTERNAL SHOULDER FACING SAID LOWER END;

RADIALLY PERFORATING SAID BARREL NEXT ADJACENT SAID INTERNAL SHOULDER PROVIDING A RADIAL OPENING THROUGH THE WALL OF SAID BARREL AND TO PROVIDE A THIN UPSTANDING WALL SEGMENT INTERMEDIATE SAID SHOULDER AND SAID RADIAL OPENING;

DEFORMING THE OUTER WALL OF SAID BARREL ADJACENT SAID OPENING TO PROVIDE A PARTIAL OBSTRUCTION OVER SAID OPENING;

INSERTING A BALL IN SAID OPENING;

DEFORMING A PORTION OF SAID THIN UPSTANDING WALL BETWEEN SAID INTERNAL SHOULDER AND SAID OPENING PROVIDING A LIP PARTIALLY OBSTRUCTING SAID OPENING, WHEREBY SAID BALL IS PERMANENTLY RETAINED WITHIN SAID OPENING AND ADAPTED TO MOVE INWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY BETWEEN POSITIONS PARTIALLY PROJECTING INTO SAID HOLLOW BARREL AND PARTIALLY PROJECTING LATERALLY OUTWARD OF SAID BARREL, RESPECTIVELY.