| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D244909 |
Nut |
July 5, 1977 |
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| D244908 |
Nut |
July 5, 1977 |
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| 7597517 |
Swage collar with internal sealing insert |
October 6, 2009 |
| A swage collar and an internal sealing insert form a swage collar assembly used in combination with a structural fastener to prevent leakage through a connection of workpieces fastened together by the structural fastener. The swage collar has a hollow, generally cylindrical main body por |
| 7568872 |
Lobed drive for hi-lite fastener |
August 4, 2009 |
| A drive socket for a male threaded fastener includes three rounded lobes of equal radius which are located equidistant from the center of the fastener and 120.degree. apart from each other. The drive socket also includes three flat surfaces, each flat surface being located opposite o |
| 7396198 |
Threaded insert for fasteners |
July 8, 2008 |
| A threaded insert for providing stronger threads to a parent material. The threaded insert includes a bushing portion having male threads on the external surface and female threads within an internal bore. The threaded insert also includes keys which lock the threaded insert into a threa |
| 7331744 |
Lobed drive for hi-lite fastener |
February 19, 2008 |
| A drive socket for a male threaded fastener includes three rounded lobes of equal radius which are located equidistant from the center of the fastener and 120.degree. apart from each other. The drive socket also includes three flat surfaces, each flat surface being located opposite o |
| 7331743 |
Lobed drive for hi-lite fastener |
February 19, 2008 |
| A drive socket for a male threaded fastener includes three rounded lobes of equal radius which are located equidistant from the center of the fastener and 120.degree. apart from each other. The drive socket also includes three flat surfaces, each flat surface being located opposite o |
| 7275903 |
Light weight fastener for use on interference fits in automation |
October 2, 2007 |
| A fastener for installation into an interference fit hole within a structure. The fastener may be installed through automated installation methods. The fastener includes an enlarged protruding head at a proximal end of the fastener. Distal the head is a substantially cylindrical shou |
| 7234906 |
Threaded insert for fasteners |
June 26, 2007 |
| A threaded insert for providing stronger threads to a parent material. The threaded insert includes a bushing portion having male threads on the external surface and female threads within an internal bore. The threaded insert also includes keys which lock the threaded insert into a threa |
| 7226262 |
Lobed drive for hi-lite fastener |
June 5, 2007 |
| A drive socket for a male threaded fastener includes a plurality of rounded lobes of equal radius which are located equidistant from the center of the fastener and an equal distance from each other. The drive socket also includes flat surfaces located opposite the lobes and equidista |
| 7192639 |
Chromate free corrosion resistant coating |
March 20, 2007 |
| The chromate free corrosion resistant coating for a fastener contains corrosion inhibiting inorganic constituents, or a combination of inorganic and organic corrosion inhibiting constituents, suspended in a phenol-formaldehyde thermosetting resin. The coating material possesses high |
| 6969221 |
Threaded insert for fasteners |
November 29, 2005 |
| A threaded insert for providing stronger threads to a parent material. The threaded insert includes a bushing portion having male threads on the external surface and female threads within an internal bore. The threaded insert also includes keys which lock the threaded insert into a threa |
| 6736580 |
Lobed drive for hi-lite fastener |
May 18, 2004 |
| A drive socket for a male threaded fastener includes a plurality of rounded lobes of equal radius which are located equidistant from the center of the fastener and an equal distance from each other. The drive socket also includes flat surfaces located opposite the lobes and equidistant f |
| 6672811 |
Threaded insert for fasteners |
January 6, 2004 |
| A threaded insert for providing stronger threads to a parent material. The threaded insert includes a bushing portion having male threads on the external surface and female threads within an internal bore. The threaded insert also includes keys which lock the threaded insert into a threa |
| 6665922 |
Pull stem hi-lite pin with pull groove for swaging collars |
December 23, 2003 |
| A fastener for installation into a workpiece which may be installed by either a swaging operation or a torquing operation. The fastener includes an enlarged protruding head which is proximal to a substantially cylindrical smooth shank portion. A threaded shank portion positioned dist |
| 6655888 |
Lobed drive for hi-lite fastener |
December 2, 2003 |
| A drive socket for a male threaded fastener includes three rounded lobes of equal radius which are located equidistant from the center of the fastener and 120.degree. apart from each other. The drive socket also includes three flat surfaces, each flat surface being located opposite one o |
| 6523834 |
Solid sealant with environmentally preferable corrosion resistance |
February 25, 2003 |
| The faying surface of one or of both of a pair of substrates is provided with a layer of solid polyurethane sealant which is adherent to at least one of the respective surfaces. The substrates are additionally fastened together so that the faying surfaces compress the polyurethane sealan |
| 6499745 |
Solid sealant with environmentally preferable corrosion resistance |
December 31, 2002 |
| The faying surface of one or of both of a pair of substrates is provided with a layer of solid polyurethane sealant which is adherent to at least one of the respective surfaces. The substrates are additionally fastened together so that the faying surfaces compress the polyurethane sealan |
| 6315300 |
Solid sealant with environmentally preferable corrosion resistance |
November 13, 2001 |
| The faying surface of one or of both of a pair of substrates is provided with a layer of solid polyurethane sealant which is adherent to at least one of the respective surfaces. The substrates are additionally fastened together so that the faying surfaces compress the polyurethane sealan |
| 6133371 |
Fluid sealing between faying surfaces utilizing a solid sealant |
October 17, 2000 |
| A sealant for forming a fluid seal between the faying surface of two metallic substrates that are compressively and mechanically joined together. The sealant is a liquid in its pre-cured condition and a dry solid in its cured condition. The transition of the sealant from its pre-cure |
| 5562379 |
Vibration resistant pin and collar fastener |
October 8, 1996 |
| A vibration resistant fastener comprising a pin and a collar. The pin is threaded or peripherally grooved. At a central location, the major diameter of the thread or groove is reduced to a diameter which is still larger than its minor diameter. A collar is threaded or swaged on to the |
| 5533849 |
Self-locking nut for a wheel bearing |
July 9, 1996 |
| A self-locking nut for application to a threaded shaft, especially a wheel bearing nut. The shaft has a spline groove along its thread. A cup-like thrust washer fits on the shaft with a tang in the spline grove to prevent its rotation. It has retention grooves in its wall. A lock ring is |
| 5526669 |
Computer controlled pull gun system |
June 18, 1996 |
| A computer controlled pull gun system for pulling interference fit fasteners into a mounting hole. The pull gun has a rotatable and axially movable mandrel the is driven by a pneumatic motor. An axially movable piston in a hydraulic cylinder of the pull gun is attached to the mandrel |
| 5485762 |
Adjuster to establish and maintain residual tension in a cable system |
January 23, 1996 |
| An adjuster to establish and maintain tension in a cable system including a reference body, and a ratchet member having succession of ratchet teeth each with a pass face and an abutment face. Two pawl members engage the ratchet member, both permitting passage of the ratchet member in the |
| 5439339 |
Externally threaded interference fit fastener with oppositely threaded puller |
August 8, 1995 |
| An interference fit fastener and threaded puller attachment in combination. The fastener has a shank with an external thread and an axial recess with an internal thread, the threads being of opposite hands. The puller attachment is threadly engaged to the internal thread so as to exert a |
| 5231903 |
Reversible ratchet wrench |
August 3, 1993 |
| A ratchet wrench with unitary floating pawl. The pawl has arcuate sides which rest against arcuate walls in the wrench body permitting rotation of the pawl in the body when a detented flat reaction bar slidably contained in the wrench body is positioned against one of two projecting pads |
| 5180265 |
Self locking nut |
January 19, 1993 |
| A lock nut to be threaded onto a threaded shank which has a keyway. The lock nut has a base, a key on the base to fit in the keyway, a peripheral wall with axial angularity spaced apart recesses, and a wave spring. The wave spring has ridges and radial tabs to fit in the recesses. An |
| 5135340 |
Bulged and swelled blind fastener |
August 4, 1992 |
| A fastener for blind installation where only one side of a workpiece is accessible for installation of the fastener. The fastener utilizes two methods of deformation on its blind side. The fastener has a tubular body made of a ductile material with a head at one end. A separate expander |
| 5117667 |
Threaded structural fastener with thread lock and method for making it |
June 2, 1992 |
| A fastener which includes a threaded pin having a notched helical thread to receive a threaded collar which, after being set to a torque, is deformed to move material into some notches on the thread to form a lock to prevent unthreading. The notched thread can be formed by a three-sectio |
| 5109735 |
High strength quick change key type installation tool |
May 5, 1992 |
| A power driven torque tool for turning a socket to set a threaded fastener. A socket drive to drive the socket from its side has a passage through which a key passes. The key is held in a key holder which itself is held against rotation by a bias spring that biases the key away from the |
| 5098238 |
Fastener with internal threaded installation means |
March 24, 1992 |
| A fastener for use in fatigue resistant structures such as aircraft wings. The fastener is installed into interference fit by tool engagement in a tapped hole coaxial with the threaded end of the pin, at the threaded end of the fastener pin. The tapped hole is engaged by a hardened mandr |
| 5011352 |
Deflection type thread lock for a threaded fastener |
April 30, 1991 |
| A fastener includes a threaded pin and an internally threaded collar. The threads can freely be run without impediment during tightening. After the fastener is tightened, a tool engages a shoulder on the collar and presses a deflector against the collar on the pin to deflect it so as to |
| 4971501 |
Self-locking, releasable lock nut |
November 20, 1990 |
| A self-locking lock nut to be applied to a shaft having an axial keyway. It can be applied and removed with or without special tooling by virtue of a camming relationship between the teeth of a rotationally restrained axially biased lock ring, and the teeth of a rotatable nut ring that i |
| 4957401 |
Threaded fastener having minimized length and weight and method to make it |
September 18, 1990 |
| A threaded fastener has a pin with a head, a cylindrical shank, a shoulder with reducing diameter, a radius at the least diameter of the shoulder whose region is work-hardened, and a threaded end, in that order. The thread extends into near-adjacency to the shoulder, and has no more than |
| 4924734 |
Quick release and exchange socket drive |
May 15, 1990 |
| A side-driven installation tool with a base plate in which a drive collar is rotatably fitted. A socket is drivingly fitted in the drive collar. The drive socket has an external peripheral groove. A retainer plate is slidably mounted to the base plate. In one position the retainer plate |
| 4919577 |
Blind fastener |
April 24, 1990 |
| A blind fastener with an axially extending sleeve having an axially extending internally threaded passage therethrough. A head at one end has an axially facing surface thereon with a periphery which is centered on its axis. A mandrel includes an axially extending threaded shank that is |
| 4899045 |
Multiple channel fiber optic continuity test system |
February 6, 1990 |
| An optical system for individually testing each one of a plurality of fibers for continuity. Each fiber having a proximal end and a distal end with a dichroic reflector at each distal end reflective of wavelengths respective to a source of testing light and transmissive to other wave |
| 4877363 |
Blind fastener |
October 31, 1989 |
| A blind fastener having an internally threaded sleeve with a head at one end and a taper at the other. A mandrel is threaded into and through the sleeve, and has a head that bears against a collar which it pushes onto the tapered end of the sleeve. A nut is threaded onto the mandrel to b |
| 4823653 |
Free spinning, self-locking threaded fastener, and method and tool for setting it |
April 25, 1989 |
| A fastener having an external threaded pin, and an internally threaded collar freely spinnable onto the pin so as to be set to a predetermined torque. After the predetermined torque is applied, the collar is dimpled (indented) to lock the collar to the pin. The thread can be smooth so th |
| 4819522 |
Torque-off collar for installation by universal equipment |
April 11, 1989 |
| A torque-off collar having a circular driver section which can be gripped at any rotational angle by a torque tool, and a set of such collars of different size by having driver sections of equal size. A robot tool can randomly grasp such a collar, and can install any member of the set |
| 4815907 |
Eastener for structures made of composite materials |
March 28, 1989 |
| A fastener and a joint including the fastener, wherein the material in which the fastener is set is a composite. The fastener has a shank with an external helical rib that makes a slightly tighter than net to a moderate interference fit in a cylindrical wall of the hole. The rib has a fo |
| 4756652 |
Threaded nut resistant to removal |
July 12, 1988 |
| A security fastener has a threaded body with tool engaging surfaces. It is surrounded by a freely rotatable spinner. When the fastener is tightened down the tool engaging surfaces are removed so there is nothing on the fastener to be engaged by a tool. The side of the fastener is shielde |
| 4671715 |
Lesser shock separation fastener |
June 9, 1987 |
| A shear type separation fastener having a punch piston which shears a ring of material from the head of a bolt to face the shank of the bolt. The punch piston has a face with a shearing edge that presents an advancing point of contact with the bolt head to reduce the maximum force needed |
| 4668583 |
Refractory coating |
May 26, 1987 |
| A carbide coating for a surface intended to be subjected to stringencies of temperature and erosion, such as rocket nozzles, turbine blades, heat shields, and hypersonic structures, formed on a carbon substrate from a halide of hafnium, silicon, tantalum or zirconium, followed by deposit |
| 4649795 |
Structural shroud system incorporating a pyrotechnic |
March 17, 1987 |
| A shroud to protect airborne stores from excessive temperatures generated by aerodynamic friction. The shroud includes a structural member which acts as a cover that comprises a matrix and a pyrotechnic. The autoignition temperature is above that of the temperatures which are generat |
| 4624155 |
Tension limiter for linkages |
November 25, 1986 |
| A tension limiter comprises a rigid body bearing a pair of deflector members which establish a bent path along the body. A stiffly bendable elongated rod extends along the bent path. The rod and the body are connected into a linkage so as to form a part of the linkage. When a tensile |
| 4604953 |
Void-sensing fuze |
August 12, 1986 |
| A void-sensing fuze whose initiation is deferred until after impact forces have terminated. A safety device safeties the fuze until after the ordnance has fired. Thereafter, upon impact the fuze is committed to fire, but fires only after impact forces have terminated. |
| 4593583 |
Torque tool adapted to set a fastener and to secure and retain fastener fragments |
June 10, 1986 |
| A torque tool for applying torque to set a frangible threaded fastener, and to secure and retain detached fastener fragments. The tool drives a hollow spindle and drive socket to which is connected conduitry that leads to suction means such as a vacuum cleaner, whereby the drive socket p |
| 4560425 |
LiClO.sub.4 Containing propellant compositions |
December 24, 1985 |
| A curable energetic composition, comprising a hydroxyalkyl ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid, an organic polyol and lithium perchlorate, and optionally additional substances, is useful as a propellant. |
| 4539872 |
Tool for supplying and driving a sequence of threaded fasteners |
September 10, 1985 |
| A device adapted to be attached to a power tool comprising a reference sleeve with a telescopically received inner drive spindle which functions to admit to the work region a sequence of fasteners to feed them one-by-one, and to transmit to the lead fastener a torque so as to set the |
