Readily mounted separable fastener
AssigneeHartwell Corporation
InventorsL. Richard Poe, Clifford A. Davis, William R. Bourne, Jr.
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Abstract
A separable fastener including a stud component and a latching sleeve component, the stud component being arranged for installation, in a sheet member having a rectangular opening, by limited insertion and rotation; the latching sleeve member being installed in a second sheet member, having a rectangular opening, by axial movement.
Claims10
A separable fastener the components of which are arranged for mounting in confrontable rectangular openings provided in thin wall portions of a pair of relatively movable members, said separable fastener comprising:
- a. a stud component including a base portion dimensioned to cover the rectangular opening provided in one of the relatively movable members, an opposing pair of yieldable side tabs, an opposing pair of yieldable latch elements in registery with the side tabs, the areas encompassed by the side tabs and latch elements being equal to each other and the area of the opening in the movable member and being movable between a position in registery with the opening and position at right angles thereto wherein the extremities of the side tabs and the extremities of the latch elements frictionally engage opposite surfaces of the movable member to retain the base portion in place;
- the stud component also including a stud projecting axially from the base portion;
- b. and a latching sleeve component dimensioned to overly and cover the opening provided in the other of said relatively movable members, and including means for attachment to margins of said opening and a latching sleeve arranged for removable attachment to said stud component.
A separable fastener the components of which are disposed on confrontable portions of a pair of relatively movable members at least one of which is provided with a component receiving opening, said separable fastener comprising:
- a. a latching sleeve component including a centrally disposed stud receiving sleeve having radial slits to form a set of radially expansible stud engaging fingers, a surrounding guard sleeve, and an opposed pair of laterally movable latching elements engageable with opposite margins of said opening to secure the latching sleeve component to the corresponding relatively movable member;
- b. and a stud component secured to the other relatively movable member in position for engagement with said fingers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.