Clasp-like sheet metal nut

• US 5,026,235 A
• Filed: 04/02/1990
• Issued: 06/25/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Raymond Corporation (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: The Raymond Corporation (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Muller, Klaus, Mack, Gerhard, Motsch, Uwe
• Primary Examiner(s): Lindsey, Rodney M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US07/502,827
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 411/174, 411/175, 411/84, 411/85, 411/104, 411/285, 411/290, 411/291, 411/523, 411/524
• US Class Current: 411/523
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 31/00 Hand tools for applying fasteners nailing or stapling tools B25C
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 37/02 made of thin sheet material fastening to surfaces F16B37/04 ; used as lock-nuts F16B39/14
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 37/041 Releasable devices F16B37/044, F16B37/045 take precedence

Abstract

A clasp-like sheet metal nut for automatic fitting onto a support plate comprising a threaded leg, which has a thread profile, and a clasp leg, which is connected to said threaded leg via a cross-piece and is provided with a screw through-hole, the two legs running at an angle toward each other in the direction of their free ends and the free end of the threaded leg having an insertion plate protruding obliquely away from the clasp leg, wherein laterally outward-protruding guide fins are formed on one of the two legs.

Claims

1. A sheet-metal nut comprising a thread leg having a thread portion therein for receipt of a threaded member, a clasp leg having a through hole in line with said thread portion and integrally connected at one end to one end of the thread leg by a cross-piece to form a C-shaped structure, said legs inclining toward each other in the direction of their free ends opposite their said one ends, an insertion plate that inclines forwardly and upwardly from said free end of the thread leg away from said clasp leg, a pair of guide lugs integrally connected with respect to and projecting away from one of said legs in a direction remote from the other of said legs, each of said lugs having at their remote end a guide fin that is spaced from and projects laterally outwardly in a direction substantially parallel to the plane of said one leg.

2. The sheet-metal nut of claim 1, where the guide lugs project upwardly from said thread leg.

3. The sheet-metal nut of claim 2, wherein said clasp leg and said thread leg each having two lateral side edges, the lugs extending upwardly from the side edges of and at right angles to the plane of the thread leg, said lugs having upper edges that extend above the thread portion and outer side surfaces aligned with the side edges of the clasp leg, said guide fins extending outwardly from said upper edges beyond the edges of said legs and parallel with the plane of the thread leg.

4. The sheet-metal nut of claim 3, wherein the thread leg inclines toward the clasp leg.

5. The sheet-metal nut of claim 2, wherein the guide lugs project upwardly from the forward end of the insertion plate above the thread portion of the thread leg, said guide lugs having upper ends and said guide fins being connected to the upper ends of the lugs and extending back over the thread leg toward said cross-piece to form an S-shaped structure to the nut.

6. The sheet-metal nut of claim 5, wherein said clasp leg and said thread leg each have two lateral side edges aligned with each other, and said lugs and fins each having outer side edges, the outer side edges of said lugs being spaced inwardly from the side edges of the legs with the outer side edges of the fins being parallel to each other and aligned with the lateral side edges of said legs.

7. The sheet-metal nut of claim 6, wherein the thread leg inclines toward the clasp leg.

8. The sheet-metal nut of claim 6, wherein the guide fins are connected to each other to form a securing leg, said securing leg having a pair of opposed arcuate clamping edges in line with said thread portion and said through-hole for receipt of the threaded member.