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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7093838 | Gaskets and gasket-like devices including fasteners for gaskets and a method of making and using the same A gasket for sealing between a wall and a gasket support surface, such as between an oven housing and an oven door. The gasket includes a clip, the clip typically being made from a single strand of wire. The wire is bent into a head and a base, the base for engaging... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7065963 | Vibration and heat insulating board A vibration and heat insulating board fixed so as to cover at least part of a heat source while forming a gap against the heat source surface, in order to lessen diffusion of heat from the heat source fixed in a vibration source, in which the heat source and the vib... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6907961 | Apparatus and method for retarding translation between two bodies A rod brake, and a method, including an elastic device, such as a coil spring, array of split rings, or an elastic sleeve, that engages one or more grooves in a cylindrical surface to restrain the rod from longitudinal movement relative to another body, and wherein ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6015251 | Secure threaded fastener A secure threaded fastener, prevented from unexpectedly coming loose, is described. The fastener or a nut or bolt has a coil spring capable of stopping the fastener when the fastener may be unexpectedly rotated in a loosening direction due to an outside f... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5779288 | Low profile latch mechanism A low profile latch mechanism for an access panel that minimizes external structural discontinuities while concomitantly providing external access to engage and/or disengage the latch mechanism for closing and/or opening of the access panel. The latch mec... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5449259 | Thread locking device A thread locking device for securing a male threaded member to a female threaded member at a desired interengaged position. A nut, threaded internally, and a spiral spring in combination form the thread locking device. The spring is mounted in the nut wit... | 09/12/1995 |
| 4883085 | Method of installing a stopper in a fitting and apparatus therefor A method and apparatus for installing a plastic fitting and a line stopping mechanism to a main includes a stopper shaft which is used to remove a completion plug in the fitting during installation, and to control the line stopper mechanism once it is ins... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4832550 | Screw and nut device equipped with a rotation brake In a device for bringing about rotational braking in a screw and nut device incorporating a nut, which is rotatable and displaceable relative to a threaded bar, and a helical spring enclosing the bar, which spring at braking is clamped against the bar, fo... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4309135 | Concrete anchor An improved concrete anchor consists of an expansion nut in the form of a cylindrical coil of a resilient material and a bolt provided with a thread adapted to receive the coil. The thread of the bolt has two sections of different effective minor diameter... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4298297 | Lock nut Improvement in a lock fastener comprising a length of compression spring and a housing therefor permanently fastened to a rear portion of the spring, the turns on the front portion of the spring being free for threadably engaging an externally threaded fa... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4261221 | Control cable positioning device A control cable positioning device including a screw member secured to an end of an inner cable which is disposed slidably within the control cable and having a screw surface formed at a part of the peripheral surface thereof; an outer fitting having an i... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4249426 | Anti-backlash nut having longitudinal flexural members with ramps thereon and means to apply an axial pre-load force to said ramps An anti-backlash nut having one or more longitudinal flexural members with one end fixed and one end free-floating is disclosed which undergoes translational movement along a shaft. This anti-backlash nut is improved by providing ramps at the free-floatin... | 02/10/1981 |
