Textile beam
AssigneeHayes-Albion Corporation
InventorsArthur S. O'Malley, Eli G. Byrum, Jr.
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Abstract
In a textile beam consisting of a pair of heads threaded onto the ends of a cylindrical barrel, relative rotation between a head and the barrel is restrained by providing on the head a plurality of screws which extend parallel to the axis of the barrel and engage threads on the head, and which are turnable into abutment with a thrust ring carried by the barrel, thereby creating an axial separating force between the head and the barrel which increases the friction in the threads connecting these two parts together.
Claims9
In a textile beam including a tubular cylindrical barrel and a pair of heads each attached to one of the ends of the barrel by engagement between threaded portions provided on the head and the barrel,
- the improvement comprising
- retaining means positioned radially inwardly of said threaded portions on the head and the barrel for applying a separating force therebetween in a direction generally parallel to the axis of the barrel, said force increasing the frictional resistance in said threaded portions to relative rotational movement between said head and barrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.