Cantilevered resilient strut connector
AssigneeBritannia Engineering (Isle of Man) Limited
InventorPeter Curry
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a joint arrangement for joining first and second longitudinally aligned members, said joint arrangement comprising at least one strut arranged to project from at least one of said first and second longitudinally aligned members, said at least one strut comprising a proximal end attached to the member from which it projects and a remote (distal) end arranged to be displaced away from said member, said distal end arranged to abut a complementary stop in/on the other member when said second member penetrates said first member, wherein said at least one strut is a compression strut which acts to resist withdrawal of the second member via compression in the strut.
Claims21
1-32. (canceled)
A joint arrangement for joining first and second longitudinally aligned members, said joint arrangement comprising:
- at least one strut arranged to project from said first longitudinally aligned member in an inboard manner towards the axis of said first longitudinally aligned member or arranged to project from said second longitudinally aligned member in an outboard manner away from the axis of said second longitudinally aligned member;
- said at least one strut comprising a proximal end attached to the member from which it projects and a remote (distal) end arranged to be laterally displaced away from said member;
- said distal end arranged to abut a complementary stop in/on the other member when said second member penetrates said first member,
- wherein said at least on strut is a compression strut which acts to resist withdrawal of the second member via compression in the strut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.