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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7351899 | Quick action drum lug assembly and method Lug assemblies and associated methods of attaching a drum head to a drum body. The lug assembly may comprise a lug body having a seating surface; an elongate link having a proximate end disposed proximate the drum head and a distal end disposed distal from the drum ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7250003 | Encapsulated fastener and method and tooling for manufacturing same An encapsulated fastener includes a nut adapted to receive a bolt. The nut is encapsulated by an encapsulation including an extension, which includes a tube adapted for receiving a portion of the bolt and a flange adapted for engaging a face of the nut. The encapsul... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7011584 | Self-attaching female fasteners and method of forming female fastener elements A method of forming a female fastener including rolling a body portion strip having a midportion and flange portions on opposed sides of the midportion, piercing spaced openings through the midportion, cutting the strip to length between the openings, cold forming a... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6972137 | Process and apparatus for the application of fluoropolymer coating to threaded fasteners A process and apparatus are provided for the application of a fluoropolymer coating to the threads of an internally threaded fastener. The fastener has a body and a threaded bore extending to opposing ends of the body to define opposing first and second openings in ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6955106 | Thread making device A thread making device that has a thread form with controlled height adjustment. The thread making device is formed from a threading cartridge mounted on a threading bar. A thread form with a cutting edge is secured in a pocket on the threading cartridge bounded on ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6561913 | Cold head stamped fastener inserts including selectively removable tangs The present invention provides for fastener inserts and methods of manufacturing the same. The fastener inserts include selectively removable tangs which can be broken away more cleanly than with other commercially available fastener inserts. Further, the... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6471596 | Thread tapping machine A thread tapping machine for tapping female threads into a series of associated articles that are held in an associated stationary fixture includes a housing mounted for reciprocating movement toward and away from the stationary fixture. The housing is ro... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5791997 | Method and apparatus for fabricating one piece all metal prevailing torque locknut fasteners Method and apparatus for modifying conventional internally threaded nut blanks to form one piece all metal prevailing torque locknut fasteners having uniform, repeatable torque characteristics when engaged with conventional bolt threads. This is accomplis... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5791996 | Uniform speed joint and axial piston pump using the joint A uniform speed joint has three or more drive pins one side ends of which are concentrically arranged in one side face of either one of a driving member and driven member, and the other ends of the drive pins are rotatably and slidably arranged in one sid... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5762560 | Fastener and screw means therefor The fastener comprises, in combination, a screw having a threaded shaft, and a fastening strip or sheet having a raised portion provided with an aperture being preformed to have an at least partly helical threadform-defining edge shaped and dimensioned to... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5755133 | Mold for fabricating a screw washer and a screw washer An improved screw washer, and an improved mold for fabricating the improved screw washer. Using a selected metal plate having a thickness thinner than a nominal height demanded for a nut, the invention primarily aims to form an improved screw washer incor... | 05/26/1998 |
| 4721025 | Equilibrium apparatus of cut-off mechanism for high-speed nut former An equilibrium apparatus of cut-off mechanism for high-speed nut former which includes a cutting unit carrying a cutting tool thereon, and a counterweight unit carrying a counterweight unit thereon. The cutting unit and the counterweight unit are connecte... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4468827 | Apparatus for making internally threaded lock nuts An apparatus for forming a lock nut from an annular workpiece including a support member having a central seat for receiving the annular workpiece. Fingers are radially displaceable with respect to the central seat for forcing peripheral indentations into... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4431353 | Fastener assembly An improved fastener assembly may be used to mount a vehicle wheel on a hub. The fastener assembly includes a nut which is rotatable relative to a washer to enable the fastener assembly to be tightened without marring the wheel. The washer has an annular ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4420848 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing welded capped wheel nuts A method and apparatus for wheel nut cap welding in which two capped wheel nuts are axially aligned with their capped ends facing one another and spaced apart from one another by a cylindrical electrically conductive ring the opposite ends of which contac... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4377360 | Channel nut and method of making same A channel nut for space framing systems characterized by having a pair of outwardly and downwardly extending arms which form a channel, a machine nut which is securely fastened thereto, and a resilient spring projecting upwardly from the machine nut. Such... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4338694 | Fastener orienting, tapping and collection system A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, ... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4319477 | Method and tool for producing a bushing structure having a polygonal flange The invention relates to a method and a tool (6,8) for producing a bushing structure (1,2) having a bushing (1) and a polygonal flange (2) said flange initially being formed with a circular circumference (5) having an outer diameter equalling the diameter... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4306654 | Flanged nut fastener strip A strip of fasteners such as pierce nuts is formed from a metal blank with no scrap resulting from the provision of a spacing between adjacent nut bodies, and without the difficulty and expense incident to attaching nut bodies to connecting elements. The ... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4256421 | Self-threading nut This invention relates to a self-threading nut which is utilized to hold a replacement shock absorber within the cylinder housing of a vehicular suspension system commonly referred to as a MacPherson strut suspension system. The nut includes a generally c... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4249444 | Stabilizing means for the cutter of nut former The present invention relates to an improved means for the stability control assembly of a cutter of nut former. This means comprizes a driving roller positioned on the center line of movement of the cutter axis enabling the cutter not to roll driving the... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4227390 | Transfer mechanism for multiple punch presses The present invention relates to transfer mechanism for multiple punch presses with two co-operating pairs of conveyor tongs which are fixed to a carrier element. The carrier element is movably mounted in a housing and driven to-and-fro to the operating r... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4119130 | Barrel nut and method of manufacture A barrel nut particularly adapted for high strength applications, and method of manufacture which results in a great cost reduction as compared with the prior art. The barrel nut comprises a semi-cylindrical barrel element having a recess for the nut elem... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4110858 | Lock nut forming apparatus A heavy duty press mechanism, whose ram is driven by means of an eccentric crank and pitman, carries a head with four aligned indention punches for distorting thread pitch simultaneously on four axially aligned hex nuts. A feed track system feeds a row of... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4070724 | Apparatus for making self-locking internally threaded fasteners with ring-like locking elements A self-locking internally threaded fastener in which the self-locking characteristic is derived from a ring-like plastic patch having a circumferential extent of greater than 180° adhered to the thread-defining surface of the fastener. A method for makin... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4060868 | Powder applying apparatus and process for making self-locking threaded elements Apparatus and process for applying locking patches of resilient, heat softenable resin to internally threaded articles having openings at both ends, in which the threaded portions of the articles, heated to a temperature above the softening point of the r... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4056862 | Method and apparatus for forming a wheel nut with welded cap A stainless steel sheath for a wheel nut is welded to the nut body in limited areas by bringing electrodes into pressured contact with the conical nut end, which is unsheathed, and a section of the overlying the body. A capacitor then passes a short, low ... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4035859 | Apparatus for making self-locking internally threaded fasteners with ring-like locking elements A self-locking internally threaded fastener in which the self-locking characteristic is derived from a ring-like plastic patch having a circumferential extent of greater than 180° adhered to the thread-defining surface of the fastener. A method for makin... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3996834 | Fastening element Disclosed herein is a fastening element which is susceptible of forming a fastener assembly by engagement with a self-tapping screw. An oblique rib is formed within a bore within a blank, or other structural element, close to the end of the bore. The rib ... | 12/14/1976 |
