Screw insert and method of using thereof
AssigneeMasonite Corporation
InventorsRobert C. Allen, Race C. Natta
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Abstract
A screw insert configured for repairing a stripped screw hole. The screw insert comprises three elongated prongs each having a distal end and a proximal end. The three elongated prongs are hingedly connected to each other only at the proximal ends thereof. The three elongated prongs are equiangularly spaced from each other so that longitudinal axes thereof are spaced apart. Each of the prongs has an outer surface and an inner surface. The screw insert is transformable from an open configuration to a folded configuration. The longitudinal axes of the prongs are coplanar in the open configuration. The longitudinal axes of the prongs define an acute angle therebetween in the folded configuration.
Claims15
A screw insert for repairing a stripped screw hole, the screw insert comprising three elongated prongs each having a distal end and a proximal end, the three elongated prongs are hingedly connected to each other only at the proximal ends thereof;
- the three elongated prongs are equiangularly spaced from each other so that longitudinal axes XP thereof are spaced apart;
- each of the prongs has an outer surface and an inner surface;
- the screw insert transformable from an open configuration to a folded configuration,
- the longitudinal axes of the prongs are coplanar in the open configuration;
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- the longitudinal axes of the prongs define an acute angle therebetween in the folded configuration,
- wherein each of the prongs is formed with a central longitudinal rib disposed on the outer surface thereof so as to extend between the distal and proximal ends of each prong along the longitudinal axes thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.