Fasteners

• US 5,494,323 A
• Filed: 03/29/1994
• Issued: 02/27/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yu-Hwei Huang
• Original Assignee: Yu-Hwei Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Yu-Hwei
• Primary Examiner(s): Brittain, James R.
• Application Number:
  US08/219,696
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 24/453, 24/607, 24/606, 24/634, 24/635, 24/628, 411/348, 411/347, 292/252, 292/DIG. 50, 292/DIG. 37, 292/DIG. 42
• US Class Current: 292/252
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 63/121 using balls or the like cooperating with notches
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/165 with balls or rollers for connections of rods or tubes engaged telescopically F16B7/1409
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/0642 the plates being arranged one on top of the other and in full close contact with each other
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/42 Independent, headed, aperture pass-through fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45597 Projection member including noninserted spring for engaging and pushing against receiving member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45634 Operator includes camming or wedging element
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/14 Ball

Abstract

A fastener includes a casing having a stepped center through hole and a plurality of steel balls in radial holes thereof around the stepped center through hole, a control bolt formed of a press knob element and an actuating element and received in the stepped center through hole, and a spring mounted around the control bolt, and wherein the steel balls are completely received inside the radial through holes permitting the casing to be separated from the control bolt.

Claims

1. A fastener comprising:

a lock bolt inserted through a hole on a bearing plate in a recessed portion on a first cover shell of a box, said lock bolt having a first head and a second head at two opposite ends disposed on two opposite sides by said bearing plate, said first head having an annular groove around the periphery;

a first spring mounted around said lock bolt and retained between said bearing plate and said second head of said lock bolt;

a stepped bushing received in an elongated hole on a second cover shell of said box, the elongated hole of said second cover shell having an inside annular groove around the peripheral wall thereof, said stepped bushing having a plurality of steel balls respectively received in a plurality of radial holes thereof at the bottom corresponding to the annular groove on said lock bolt, and a top extension rod extended out of said second cover shell;

a knob connected to said top extension rod of said stepped bushing and disposed outside said second cover shell;

a spring mounted around said stepped bushing and stopped between a shoulder portion on said stepped bushing and a shoulder portion on said second cover shell; and

wherein said steel balls are respectively engaged into the annular groove on said lock bolt, when said second cover shell is covered on said first cover shell, causing said stepped bushing and said lock bolt to connect said first and second cover shells;

said steel balls are released from the annular groove on said lock bolt and partially projected into the annular groove on the elongated hole on said second cover shell to allow said second cover shell to be opened from said first cover shell.

2. The fastener of claim 1 wherein the top extension rod of said stepped bushing has an outward flange around a top end thereof retained in a bottom hole on said knob.