Mine roof expansion anchor
AssigneeThe Eastern Company
InventorsJohn Lobello, George W. Allen
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Abstract
An expansion bolt assembly of the type used in supporting mine roofs including an expansible shell having a tapered plug movable axially therein to force the outer surface of the shell into engagement with the interior of a drilled opening in the mine roof. The plug is moved by rotation in a threaded opening thereof of an axially fixed bolt, the plug being rotationally fixed with respect to the shell. The invention resides in the structure maintaining the bolt, plug and shell in assembled relationship during insertion into the drilled opening which comprises a circular metal stamping having a central opening through which the bolt is threaded and means for frictionally engaging the sides of the shell.
Claims7
A mine roof anchor assembly comprising:
- a. a threaded bolt:
- b. a tapered plug having large and small ends and a central, threaded opening extending therethrough, into which said bolt is threaded;
- c. a hollow expansion shell having a first open end having an inner transverse dimension larger than the small end and smaller than the large end of said plug, whereby axial movement of said plug into said first open end effects expansion of said shell, and a second open end having an inner transverse dimension larger than the diameter of said bolt and through which said bolt extends;
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- d. a retaining element in generally covering relation to said second open end, said element having a substantially planar portion with a central opening through which said bolt is threaded, and an engagement portion comprising at least two strips formed integrally with and extending from opposite sides of said planar portion, substantially perpendicular thereto, to engage said shell and hold said retaining element in engagement therewith.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.