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Fastener for fastening elongate object

  • US 4,840,334 A
  • Filed: 02/17/1988
  • Issued: 06/20/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A plastic one-piece molded fastener for mounting an elongated object upon a support panel having an aperture defined therein for reception of a portion of said fastener, comprising:

  • means for holding said elongated object, having a longitudinal axis defined therein, such that said longitudinal axis of said elongated object extends in a predetermined axial direction with respect to said holding means so as to define an axial plane within said fastener;

    first, substantially U-shaped leg means having a first leg portion thereof having one end fixedly secured to an undersurface portion of said holding means which is disposed upon a first side of said axial plane of said fastener, and a second leg portion thereof, cantilevered from the other end of said first leg portion so as to be resiliently flexible with respect to said first leg portion thereof and thereby permit entrance of said first substantially U-shaped leg means into said aperture defined within said support panel, having means thereon for engaging undersurface and upper surface portions of said support panel when said first substantially U-shaped leg means of said fastener is disposed within said aperture defined within said support panel, said second leg portion of said first substantially U-shaped leg means being disposed upon a second opposite side of said axial plane of said fastener such that a hollow portion of said first substantially U-shaped leg means as defined between said first and second leg portions thereof is disposed substantially within said axial plane of said fastener; and

    second, substantially U-shaped leg means having a first leg portion thereof having one end fixedly secured to an undersurface portion of said holding means which is disposed upon said second opposite side of said axial plane of said fastener, and a second leg portion thereof, elastically fixed to said first leg portion thereof so as to be resiliently flexible with respect to said first leg portion thereof and thereby permit entrance of said second substantially U-shaped leg means into said aperture defined within said support panel, having means thereon for engaging undersurface and upper surface portions of said support panel when said second substantially U-shaped leg means of said fastener is disposed within said aperture defined within said support panel, said second leg portion of said second subtantially U-shaped leg means being disposed upon said first side of said axial plane of said fastener such that a hollow portion of said second substantially U-shaped leg means as defined between said first and second leg portions thereof is disposed substantially within said axial plane of said fastener whereby said hollow portions of said first and second substantially U-shaped leg means, and said first and second substantially U-shaped leg means, are substantially co-axially disposed with respect to each other along said axial plane of said fastener.

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