Two shot tube retention fastener with anti material peeling feature

• US 8,733,709 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2011
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Newfrey Llc (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Black & Decker Incorporated (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meyers, Jason A., Pilon, Roger E., Tomaselli, Sean A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wujciak, Alfred J
• Application Number:
  US13/324,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20130146720A1
• Time in Patent Office: 896 Days
• Field of Search: 248/49, 248/65, 248/67.7, 248/68.1, 248/74.1, 248/74.2, 248/230.1, 248/230.6, 248/231.71, 243/36, 243/39
• US Class Current: 248/65
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0215 Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/223 each support having one transverse base for supporting the pipes F16L3/23, F16L3/237 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 55/035 in the form of specially adapted hangers or supports
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/32 using mounting clamps

Abstract

A tube retention fastener includes a polymeric material body having first and second walls and a semi-circular sleeve defining a longitudinal cavity. First and second deflecting wings individually connected to one of the first or second walls are directed toward a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal cavity in a non-deflected condition. An elastically resilient material isolation member includes a first portion fixed to the semi-circular sleeve, and first and second contact ends fixed to the first and second deflecting wings. Isolation member free extending portions are positioned and freely extend between the first portion and the contact ends. First and second wing receiving cavities are created between the deflecting wings and the first and second walls in the non-deflected condition. The deflecting wings, the contact ends and the free extending portions elastically deflect into one of the wing receiving cavities when a tube is positioned between the deflecting wings.

Claims

1. A tube retention fastener, comprising:

a body of a polymeric first material, the body including;

first and second walls;

a semi-circular sleeve defining a longitudinal cavity between the walls; and

first and second deflecting wings connected to the first and second walls respectively and directed toward a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal cavity in a non-deflected condition;

an isolation member of an elastically resilient second material including;

a first portion fixed to the semi-circular sleeve;

wherein the first portion comprises first and second contact end fixed to the first and second deflecting wings respectively; and

first and second free extending portions each positioned between and freely extending between the first portion and one of the first and second contact ends; and

each of the first and second deflecting wings includes first and second teeth to increase a surface area of the first and second deflecting wings in contact with the first and second contact ends.

2. The tube retention fastener of claim 1, wherein the body further includes first and second wing connection arms each extending orthogonally from one the first and second walls, each fixed to one of the first or second deflecting wings.

3. The tube retention fastener of claim 2, wherein the first and second deflecting wings are rotatable with respect to the first and second wing connection arms and are elastically deflectable into individual ones of a first and second wing receiving cavity each positioned outward of one of the first or second wing connection arms.

4. The tube retention fastener of claim 1, further including a first wing receiving cavity created between the first deflecting wing and the first wall and a second wing receiving cavity created between the second deflecting wing and the second wall in the non-deflected condition, wherein the first and second deflecting wings, the first and second contact ends and the first and second free extending portions are elastically deflected into one of the first or second wing receiving cavities when a tube is positioned between the first and second deflecting wings.

5. The tube retention fastener of claim 4, wherein the first and second deflecting wings, the first and second contact ends and the first and second free extending portions return elastically from the first and second wing receiving cavities to the non-deflected condition when the tube is received in the longitudinal cavity.

6. The tube retention fastener of claim 1, wherein the isolation member includes a plurality of longitudinal resilient ribs only in the first portion fixed to the semi-circular sleeve.

7. The tube retention fastener of claim 1, wherein the contact end of each of the first and second free extending portions extends toward a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal cavity.

8. The tube retention fastener of claim 1, wherein the semi-circular sleeve defines an arc length greater than 90 degrees thereby resisting removal of the isolation member from the semi-circular sleeve.

9. A tube retention fastener, comprising:

a body of a polymeric first material, the body including;

first and second walls;

a semi-circular sleeve defining a longitudinal cavity between the walls;

first and second deflecting wings connected to the first and second walls respectively, each having a free end directed toward a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal cavity in a non-deflected condition, each free end including first and second teeth; and

an isolation member of an elastically resilient second material having;

a first portion fixed to the semi-circular sleeve;

a plurality of longitudinal resilient ribs directed toward the longitudinal axis of the longitudinal cavity and located only in the first portion; and

first and second free extending portions each freely extending from the first portion and fixed to the first and second teeth of the free end of the first and second deflecting wings respectively, and positioned such that a tube entering the longitudinal cavity between the first and second deflecting wings initially contacts the first and second deflecting wings before contacting the first and second free extending portions.

10. The tube retention fastener of claim 9, further including extending ends of the deflecting wings extending past individual end faces of first and second contact ends of the first and second deflecting wings which allow direct contact of a tube entering between the first and second deflecting wings against the first and second deflecting wings but not directly against the resilient material of the first and second isolation members.

11. The tube retention fastener of claim 9, further including a first wing receiving cavity created between the first deflecting wing and the first wall and a second wing receiving cavity created between the second deflecting wing and the second wall in the non-deflected condition.

12. The tube retention fastener of claim 11, wherein the first free extending portion and the first deflecting wing elastically deflect into the first wing receiving cavity in a deflected condition and the second free extending portion and the second deflecting wing elastically deflect into the second wing receiving cavity in the deflected condition.

13. The tube retention fastener of claim 9, wherein the isolation member further includes first and second contact ends individually fixed to one of the first and second deflecting wings.

14. The tube retention fastener of claim 9, wherein the semi-circular sleeve extends through an arc length greater than 90 degrees and includes first and second arc end points, with a spacing between the first and second arc end points being less than a diameter of the isolation member thereby resisting removal of the isolation member from the semi-circular sleeve.

15. The tube retention fastener of claim 9, wherein the body further includes a first wing connection arm integrally connecting the first wall to the first deflecting wing and a second wing connection arm integrally connecting the second wall to the second deflecting wing.

16. A tube retention fastener, comprising:

a body of a polymeric first material, the body including;

first and second walls;

a semi-circular sleeve defining a longitudinal cavity between the walls;

first and second deflecting wings connected to the first and second walls respectively, each having a free end directed toward a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal cavity in a non-deflected condition; and

a first wing receiving cavity created between the first deflecting wing and the first wall and a second wing receiving cavity created between the second deflecting wing and the second wall in the non-deflected condition;

an isolation member of an elastically resilient second material having;

a first portion fixed to the semi-circular sleeve;

wherein the first portion comprises first and second contact ends fixed to the free end of the first and second deflecting wings respectively; and

first and second free extending portions each freely extending from the first portion to one of the first and second contact ends, the first free extending portion and the first deflecting wing elastically deflected into the first wing receiving cavity in a deflected condition and the second free extending portion and the second deflecting wing elastically deflected into the second wing receiving cavity in the deflected condition; and

each of the first and second deflecting wings includes first and second teeth extending into and individually fixed to the first and second contact ends thereby increasing a surface area of the first and second deflecting wings in contact with the first and second contact ends.

17. The tube retention fastener of claim 16, wherein the body further includes:

third and fourth walls;

a second semi-circular sleeve defining a second longitudinal cavity; and

third and fourth deflecting wings individually integrally connected to one of the third or fourth walls, each having a free end directed toward a longitudinal axis of the second longitudinal cavity in a non-deflected condition.

18. The tube retention fastener of claim 17, further including a second isolation member of the elastically resilient material including:

a first portion fixed to the second semi-circular sleeve;

third and fourth contact ends individually fixed to one of the third and fourth deflecting wings; and

third and fourth free extending portions each positioned and freely extending between the first portion and one of the third and fourth contact ends.

19. The tube retention fastener of claim 16, wherein the isolation member includes a plurality of longitudinal resilient ribs directed toward the longitudinal cavity and located only in the first portion.

20. The tube retention fastener of claim 16, wherein the body further includes a plurality of semi-circular sleeves defining individual semi-circular sleeve longitudinal cavities, and individually including opposed deflecting wings integrally connected to individual opposed walls, each of the opposed deflecting wings having a free end directed toward a longitudinal axis of one of the semi-circular sleeve longitudinal cavities in a non-deflected condition.