Locknut and stud device

• US 3,208,493 A
• Filed: 02/13/1961
• Issued: 09/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Horace D. Holmes
• Original Assignee: Horace D. Holmes
• Inventors: Holmes, Horace D.
• Application Number:
  US04/088,866
• Time in Patent Office: 1,688 Days
• US Class Current: 411/322
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 39/32 Locking by means of a pawl or pawl-like tongue
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 411/948 Longitudinal key
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 411/949 Rachet and bolt-carried pawl
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 411/951 Flexible

Claims

1. A FASTENER ASSEMBLY COMPRISING;

A NUT MEMBER HAVING AN INNER RADIAL THREADED SURFACE, AND A SHAFT MEMBER HAVING AN OUTER RADIAL THREADED SURFACE, SAID SURFACES THREADEDLY ENGAGED, SAID SHAFT MEMBER HAVING AN AXIALLY EXTENDING SLOT FORMED ON ITS CORRESPONDING THREADED SURFACE FROM THE AXIAL OUTER END OF SAID SHAFT MEMBER TO A POINT AXIALLY INWARDLY OF SAID NUT MEMBER, A WASHER SURROUNDING SAID SHAFT ADJACENT THE AXIALLY INNER END OF SAID NUT MEMBER, SAID WASHER HAVING A TANG PROJECTING INTO SAID SLOT, SAID NUT MEMBER HAVING AN AXIALLY EXTENDING ANNULAR GROOVE PORTION ADJACENT AN AXIAL OUTER END THEREOF AND COAXIALLY RADIALLY SPACED FROM THE THREADED SURFACE OF SAID SHAFT MEMBER, SAID GROOVE PORTION HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL CONTINUOUS ARRAY OF LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING TEETJ FORMED THEREON AND POSITIONED FACING RADIALLY INWARDLY TOWARD SAID SHAFT MEMBER, AN ELONGATED RESILIENT MEMBER HAVING A FLAT AXIAL BODY PORTION SLIDABLY RECEIVED AND SUPPORTED IN SAID SLOT, AND A TAB PORTION FORMED ON SAID BODY PORTION AT THE AXIAL OUTER END THEREOF EXTENDING TOWARD THE SHAFT AXIS AND ENGAGING THE AXIAL OUTER END OF SAID SHAFT FOR POSITIONING SAID RESILIENT MEMBER IN SAID SLOT, SAID RESILIENT MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED FINGERS EXTENDING GENERALLY FROM THE SIDE EDGES OF SAID BODY PORTION AND AXIALLY SLIDABLY RECEIVED IN AND ENGAGING SAID TEETH FOR LOCKING SAID NUT MEMBER AND SAID SHAFT MEMBER AGAINST RELATIVE ROTATION, SAID FINGERS BEING DISPOSED IN DIVERGING RELATIONSHIP, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID FINGERS BEING GREATER THAN THE WIDTH OF SAID SLOT WHEREBY AT LEAST THE AXIALLY OUTER PART OF SAID BODY PORTION IS SPACED FROM THE BOTTOM OF SAID SLOT, AND SAID BODY PORTION BEING BENT TO FORM SHOULDER MEANS ON AN AXIAL INNER PORTION OF SAID RESILIENT MEMBER, SAID SHOULDER MEANS ENGAGING AN AXIAL INNER PORTION OF SAID WASHER TANG TO LOCK SAID RESILIENT MEMBER IN SAID TEETH ENGAGING POSITION.