F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 16 – B
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
16
B
F16B 19/10 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2101187
ABSTRACT A self-plugging blind fastener (10, 74, 90) suitable for fastening apertured sheets together, and of the type comprising a body (12, 78) having a shank (16), headed at one end, and an axial bore (20) in which is disposed an elongate stem (14, 76, 92) which, in use, is pulled to expand the shank (16) and lock part of the stem (14, 76, 92) in the body (12, 78), has improved means for locking the stem (14, 76, 92) in the body (12, 78). The head end of the bore (20) is of reduced diameter and presents a stop-shoulder (30). The stop-shoulder (30) is an annular skirt (34) partly separated from surrounding material by an annular cleavage (32), and presents a planar stop-face (31, 84) facing away from the head-end. The stem (14, 76, 92) comprises a plug (42) which is connected by a breakneck (46) to a stem-tail (40) for pulling the plug (42) into the bore (20) of the body (12, 78). The plug has an annular locking recess (50) spaced from the breakneck (46), and is radially enlarged on the side of the locking recess (50) remote from the breakneck (46) to provide a plug-shoulder (62) and shank-enlarging means (66, 68, 69). The plug-shoulder (62) presents a planar face (64, 94) for engaging the stop face (31, 84) of the body (12, 78) and deforming the annular skirt (34) into the locking recess (50) during setting of the fastener (10, 74, 90). The planar face (64) of the plug (42) and the planar stop-face (31) of the body (12) may both be at right angles to the axis of the bore (20), or either the planar face (94) or the stop-face (84) may be inclined at an angle not greater than 10° to a plane at right angles to the axis, thereby enabling deformation of the skirt (34) to begin at a lower force than would be required if the faces (64 and 84 or 31 and 94) were parallel. Figure 1
Avdel Systems Limited
Ridout & Maybee Llp
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