Fastening system and fastener for shipping containers and the like
CA 1317134 C · Owner: Huck Manufacturing Company · Inventors: Hicks, Marvin R.; Sadri, Shariar M.
Overview
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A pull type fastener including a tubular sleeve and an elongated pin having a disposable pull portion at one end thereof with the sleeve having an enlarged pin head and a shank , a helically splined portion on the pin shank having ridges and grooves and adapted to engage a preselected portion of the sleeve shank bore to move the sleeve material into the spline grooves . The degree of interference between the splines and the sleeve shank , and the relative hardness ratio of the pin to the sleeve being designed such that the sleeve material will flow into the spline grooves without radially expanding the sleeve into interference with the bore of the workpieces being fastened. The result being …
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- Granted May 4, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 4, 2010.
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