Fastening device

• US 4,635,498 A
• Filed: 04/18/1985
• Issued: 01/13/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Inventors: Zimmermann, Klaus, Thomas, Michael J., Bailey, Norman R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Makay, Albert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/724,589
• Time in Patent Office: 635 Days
• Field of Search: 74/501, 74/501 D, 248/74.1, 248/74.3
• US Class Current: 74/502.4
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/126 at least one of the sheets, plates, bars or strips having integrally formed or integrally connected snap-in-features
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 1/262 End fittings; Attachment thereof to the sheathing or tube
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2045 and sheath support, connector, or anchor

Abstract

A fastening device is disclosed comprising a first fastener member adapted to be fixed to a sheath and a second fastener member adapted to be fixed to a support. One of the fastener members has a semi-cylindrical socket and the other fastener member has a cylindrical body adapted to engage the socket and be supported thereby for rotary movement. Axial retention means on the cylindrical body and socket prevent their relative axial movement while detent means also thereon engage with each other upon relative rotary movement therebetween and thereafter yieldingly prevent such relative rotary movement therebetween while holding the cylindrical body in the socket.

Claims

1. A fastening device for fastening a bowden wire or cable sheath and the like to a support, said device comprising a first fastener member adapted to be fixed to the sheath and a second fastener member adapted to be fixed to the support, one of said fastener members having a semi-cylindrical socket, the other of said fastener members having a cylindrical body adapted to engage said socket and be supported thereby for rotary movement, axial retention means on said cylindrical body and socket for preventing relative axial movement therebetween, and detent means on said cylindrical body and socket for self forcibly snap fittingly engaging with each other in a radial direction upon relative rotary movement between said cylindrical body and socket and thereafter yieldingly holding said cylindrical body in said socket and preventing such relative rotary movement therebetween.

2. A two-piece fastening device for fastening a bowden wire or cable sheath and the like to a support, said device comprising a first fastener member formed integral with the sheath and a second fastener member formed integral with the support, said second fastener member having a semi-cylindrical socket, said first fastener member having a cylindrical body adapted to engage said socket and be supported thereby for rotary movement, axial retention means formed integral with said cylindrical body and socket for preventing relative axial movement therebetween, and detent means formed integral with said cylindrical body and socket for self forcibly snap fittingly engaging with each other in a radial direction upon relative rotary movement between said cylindrical body and socket and thereafter yieldingly holding said cylindrical body in said socket and preventing further relative rotary movement therebetween.

3. A two-piece fastening device for fastening a bowden wire or cable sheath and the like to a support, said device comprising a first fastener member adapted to be fixed to the sheath and a second fastener member adapted to be fixed to the support, one of said fastener members having a semi-cylindrical socket, the other of said fastener members having a cylindrical body adapted to engage said socket and be supported thereby for rotary movement, axial retention means on said cylindrical body and socket in the form of a collar on one part receivable in a groove on the other part for preventing relative axial movement therebetween, and detent means on said cylindrical body and socket in the form of a flexible arm with a pawl on one part, said arm extending outward and partially about said one part so as to be deflectable to self snap fittingly engage said pawl in a radially facing hole on the other part on their relative rotary movement for yieldingly holding said cylindrical body in said socket and preventing further relative rotary movement therebetween.