Undercut anchor element that can be mounted with positive engagement

• US 7,150,595 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2000
• Issued: 12/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Ireland Ltd. (Simpson Manufacturing Company Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Heinrich Liebig Stahldubelwerke GmbH (Simpson Manufacturing Company Incorporated)
• Inventors: Liebig, Heinrich, Liebig-Hundius, Legal Representative, Ingrid, Liebig, Legal Representative, Heinz Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): Saether, Flemming
• Application Number:
  US10/333,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20040253075A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,332 Days
• Field of Search: 411/29, 411/30, 411/31, 411/57.1, 411/60.2, 411/60.3, 411/72, 411/60.1
• US Class Current: 411/60.3
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 13/066 fastened by extracting a separate expander-part, actuated by the screw, nail or the like

Abstract

An undercut anchor element comprising a shank of an anchor bolt. The shank passes through a base part, which is provided for effecting an anchoring, passes through a spacer sleeve, and at the end thereof is provided with a tightening head. The tightening head can be pulled inside the base part, which is subdivided into anchoring segments by slots provided over a portion of the length of the base part. The slots lead from the front free end of the base part up and into the area of an encircling groove. The anchoring segments have the outer shape of two truncated cones which coincide with their ends that have a smaller diameter. The truncated cone that is located in front in a direction of mounting has an obtuse cone angle of greater than 150° and the adjoining truncated cone has an acute cone angle of less than 30°.

Claims

1. An undercut anchor element comprising:

an anchor bolt having an elongate cylindrical shank,

a fixing head or nut screwed onto a threaded portion of a distal end of said anchor bolt,

a tightening head arranged on a proximal end of said anchor bolt, the tightening head having a conical portion widening toward a proximal free end thereof and terminating at a radially projecting annular projection provided on said free end of the conical portion,

a tubular base component displaceably mounted about said cylindrical shank, said tubular base component having an internal diameter substantially equal to or greater than an external diameter of said cylindrical shank, said tubular base component having on a distal portion thereof a closed sleeve portion and a circumferential groove formed on an outer face of the tubular base component adjacent a proximal end of the sleeve portion, the sleeve portion having a continuous circumference at least at its proximal end,

a plurality of longitudinal slots extending proximally from said groove as a starting point and opening at a free proximal end of the tubular base component to form a plurality of anchoring segments each defined between successive slots,

the end of said anchoring segments being pivotable radially outwards in the distal direction with said groove a pivot point,

said groove being deformable to allow the anchoring segments to pivot when inserted into a fixing bore by an introduction of a tensional force which displaces the anchor bolt and the tubular base component relative to each other,

the anchoring segments each having an external shape comprising two truncated cones, each of said cones having a first end of smaller diameter than a second end thereof, the two cones abutting one another at their respective first end faces, each of said anchoring segments comprising a first and second base surface, said first base surface extending from said groove and having a diameter which substantially corresponds to or is smaller than an external diameter of the tubular base component, when said anchoring segments are in a non-deployed position, said second base surface extending radially outward from a proximal end of the first base surface, a free end of said second base surface forming a cutting edge,

said first base surface being longer than said second base surface, said first and second base surfaces abutting each other to form an angle in a range of 85°

to 95°

, said first truncated cone, defined by the first base surface, forming an acute angle of less than 30°

as bisected by the longitudinal axis of the anchor bolt and said second truncated cone, defined by the second base surface, forming an obtuse angle of greater than 150°

,

the annular projection having an upper boundary surface facing the tubular base component which abuts the free ends of the anchoring segments when said undercut anchor element is in a fully deployed position so as to limit a radially outward spreading of said second base surface against an inside surface of the fixing bore during deployment.

2. Undercut anchor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slots which form the anchoring segments in the base component extend from the end of the base component which is at the front in the fitting direction to a groove side wall delimiting the circumferential groove at the rear in the fitting direction.

3. Undercut anchor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the acute angle is less than 20°

.

4. Undercut anchor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the obtuse angle is more than 160°

.

5. Undercut anchor element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the angle in the range between 85°

and 95°

is substantially at a right angle.