Support Sleeve And Arrangement Of Support Sleeve
OwnerPaul Hanrattyinventor
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Abstract
A support sleeve and an arrangement for supporting spaced-apart components or component portions, wherein the support sleeve is of one-part form and comprises a shaft having a first shaft portion, a second shaft portion adjoining the first shaft portion in an axial direction, and a third shaft portion adjoining the second shaft portion in the axial direction, wherein the first shaft portion and the third shaft portion form opposite ends of the support sleeve, wherein the second shaft portion comprises a retaining means that protrudes radially outward in relation to the first shaft portion and the third shaft portion and can be deformed radially inward counter to a restoring force, and wherein the shaft comprises a slot over the entire axial length of the shaft.
Claims20
A support sleeve for supporting spaced-apart components or component portions, wherein the support sleeve is of one-part form, wherein the support sleeve comprises a shaft having a first shaft portion, a second shaft portion adjoining the first shaft portion in an axial direction, and a third shaft portion adjoining the second shaft portion in the axial direction, wherein the third shaft portion forms an end of the support sleeve, wherein the second shaft portion comprises at least one retaining element that protrudes radially outward in relation to the first shaft portion and the third shaft portion and can be deformed radially inward counter to a restoring force, and wherein the shaft comprises a slot over an axial length of the shaft.
A method for producing a support sleeve comprising the following method steps:
- providing a planar, metal strip;
- freeing up at least one subregion that is connected to metal strip via a connecting portion in such a way that the at least one subregion can be bent out in relation to the metal strip;
- bending out the at least one subregion in relation to the metal strip;
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- bending the metal strip in such a way that the metal strip forms a radially encircling wall, wherein the bent-out at least one subregion forms at least one retaining element that protrudes radially outward in relation to the metal strip.
An arrangement comprising a support sleeve, a hollow body and a fastening means, wherein the hollow body comprises two walls spaced apart in an axial direction, wherein a first wall of the two walls comprises a first through-opening and a second wall of the two walls comprises a second through-opening situated opposite the first through-opening in the axial direction, wherein the support sleeve passes through the first through-opening of the first wall, wherein at least one retaining element is arranged on a first side of the first wall facing the second wall, and engages behind the first wall on a second side of the first wall facing the second wall in the axial direction, wherein the fastening means passes through the support sleeve and the first and second through-openings, wherein the fastening means comprises a respective stop element on the mutually averted sides of the two walls, and wherein the respective stop elements can be adjusted in relation to each other in the axial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.