Abstract:
A threaded fastener system, incorporating a bolt and a nut assembly, wherein the bolt has a threaded lead entry point 22 whose pitch 39 and helix angle are of a higher magnitude than that of those on the body/shank 21 of the bolt.
Abstract:
A screw recess and driver combination that comprises the use of varying frustums of differing cones to provide driver/ recess contact faces that are elliptical.
Abstract:
A thread forming fastener for threading into a nut anchor of a pliable material wherein there is produced during the driving of the fastener a combination of forces that encourages the nut anchor material to flow smoothly and to develop a mating thread in the nut anchor that minimizes stress cracking and radial hoop stress as the mating thread is being formed. The fastener comprises a drive head and a shank extending from the head and having a longitudinal axis, the shank including a core and a thread having a selected axial pitch, a selected thread height and a profile which in axial cross-section includes a leading face, a trailing face and a tip. The leading face is composed of a radially inner concave portion having a first radius and which transitions smoothly to a radially outer convex portion having a second radius, the transition occurring at a point on the common tangent to those portions. The trailing face is composed of a radially inner linear portion which transitions at a selected transition location to a radially outer convex portion having a third radius. The profile also includes a convex blending portion having a fourth radius which blends together the radially outer leading and trailing face portions at the tip. The thread profile produces force vectors during assembly with the nut anchor that provide enhanced mating thread strength and improved resistance to nut anchor thread breakdown.
Abstract:
A thread locking fastener assembly comprising a nut anchor defining an internal thread having a longitudinal axis, a leading face and a trailing face, the internal thread, in axial section, having a profile which is symmetric about a first imaginary line extending radially out from the axis, and a fastener shank having an external thread with a longitudinal axis, a leading face and trailing face, the external thread being received in said internal thread so that said axes are substantially coincident. The external thread, in axial section, has a profile with a radially inner base zone which is symmetric about a second imaginary line extending radially from the shank axis and a radially outer deflectable addendum which is not symmetric about that line so that the addendum prevents axial centralization of the external thread profile in the internal thread profile unless a sufficient axial force is applied to the shank to deflect the addendum.