Fastener for blind holes

• US 4,318,651 A
• Filed: 04/08/1980
• Issued: 03/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Peter D. Ragen
• Original Assignee: Peter D. Ragen
• Inventors: Ragen, Peter D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Britts, Ramon S.
• Application Number:
  US06/138,465
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 85/3 R, 85/3 S, 85/3 K, 85/1 F, 85/80, 248/546, 411/342, 411/341, 411/340, 411/392
• US Class Current: 411/342
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 13/0808 by a toggle-mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 37/12 with thread-engaging surfaces formed by inserted coil-springs, discs, or the like; Independent pieces of wound wire used as nuts; Threaded inserts for holes mounting devices B25B27/143

Abstract

A fastener for use in plaster walls, ceilings, and the like to support a lamp or plant, includes a conventional screw of uniform diameter, a spring threaded over the screw, and a toggle with a screw threaded hole of large enough diameter to be threaded over the outer surface of the spring. The screw may be capable of engaging the threads in the toggle plate, although the diameter must be small enough so that the spring may be received between the threads of the lag screw and the threads of the hole in the toggle plate. The screw may be a lag screw, a machine screw thread, etc. The screw shank is full-sized, not reduced to receive the helical spring. The spring serves to connect the screw and the toggle plate by being threaded partially one into the other and has the capability of being bent resiliently so that toggle and screw are parallel to each other for insertion into a blind hole, after which the toggle springs back into position and the assembly is screwed together. The spring may be a plastic tube.

Claims

1. In a toggle screw set, a screw having a thread, an intermediate member having an inside diameter less than the thread crest diameter of the screw and larger than the root diameter of the screw thread, said intermediate member having an outside diameter substantially greater than the crest diameter of the threads, and a unitary toggle having a hole provided with at least part of a thread larger than the screw thread to receive said screw and said intermediate member, the thread root diameter of the hole in the toggle being larger than the outer diameter of said intermediate member, and the crest diameter of the thread in the hole in the toggle being less than the outer diameter of the intermediate member and less than the thread crest diameter of the screw, said intermediate member extending axially respecting said screw and connecting the screw flexibly to the unitary toggle, and less than the thread crest diameter of the screw said screw and said intermediate member being screwed telescopically into the hole in the toggle.

2. The device of claim 1 in which the thread of the screw is of the lag screw type, the screw having a machine screw thread on the other end to receive a similarly threaded opening in a support means designed to support a weight.

3. The device of claim 1 in which the intermediate member is a helical spring and the free end of the spring is bent to prevent the toggle from unscrewing over it.

4. The device of claim 1 in which the hole in the toggle is non-complementary in diameter to the diameter of the screw.

5. The device of claim 1 in which the hole in the toggle is non-complementary to the pitch of the screw.

6. The device of claim 1 in which the toggle is provided with partial threads in the opening for the screw.

7. The device of claim 6 in which the intermediate member is a plastic sleeve provided with openings through which the partial threads of the toggle extend to between the thread crests of the screw.