Panel fastener

• US 6,409,235 B1
• Filed: 12/28/1999
• Issued: 06/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kason Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Kason Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Finkelstein, Burl
• Primary Examiner(s): ESTREMSKY, GARY WAYNE
• Application Number:
  US09/473,752
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 292/111, 292/57, 292/65, 292/210, 294/37, 294/38, 294/10, 295/13, D 8/344
• US Class Current: 292/210
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6183 with rotatable locking means co-operating with a recess
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2015/1685 Sheet materials
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 9/00 Lock casings or latch-mechanism casings ; Fastening locks or fasteners or parts thereof to the wingpadlock casings E05B67/02; forvehicles E05B79/04, E05B85/02
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 3/045 in the form of a hook hook-like fastenings E05C19/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49922 by bending over projecting prongs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/0915 Cam
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1092 Swinging catch

Claims

1. A panel fastener comprising a unitary casing having two substantially parallel side walls unitarily connected together at one end by a bridge and held together at an opposite end by a tab formed unitarily with one of said side walls, the tab extending from said one side wall to the other side wall with a tab end distal said one side wall being bent over the other side wall, and a hook having a mounting end rotatably mounted between and to said casing side walls and having a catch end extending out of said casing, said hook catch end extending out of said casing adjacent said casing tab in one rotary position with said tab serving as a hook rotary stop.

2. The panel fastener of claim 1 wherein said casing side walls are unitarily connected together at one end by two mutually spaced bridges.

3. The panel fastener of claim 1 wherein an end of said casing tab is swaged over the other of said casing side walls.

4. The panel fastener of claim 3 wherein said other casing side wall has a slot through which said tab extends.