Merchandise package
AssigneeCombustion and Controls Company, Inc.
InventorMichael T. Wilkinson
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Abstract
A merchandise package for containing the right size and number of bolts and nuts and a gasket for a flange connection to be used in water, air, gas and steam services. The package includes a substantially rigid plate-like member onto which a substantially flat gasket and a plurality of bolts and nuts are secured. Each of the plurality of nuts is threadingly attached to one of the plurality of bolts and the unit so produced is positioned on the plate-like member with the head of the bolt and with the nut positioned one on either side of a portion of the gasket so as to cause a portion of each bolt to form a bridge over the portion of the gasket.
Claims10
A merchandise package comprising:
- a. a substantially rigid plate-like means;
- b. a substantially flat gasket means positioned flat on said plate-like means;
- c. a plurality of bolt means positioned on said plate-like means, each of said plurality of bolt means including a bolt member and a nut member threadingly attached to said bolt member, said bolt member having a head portion, each of said plurality of bolt means being positioned flat on said plate-like means with said nut member and said head portion of said bolt member in contact with said plate being positioned one on either side of a portion of said gasket means so as to form a bridge thereover;
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- d. means for fixedly securing said gasket means and said plurality of bolt means to said plate-like means.
A merchandise package comprising:
- a. a substantially rigid plate-like means;
- b. substantially flat gasket means positioned flat on said plate-like means substantially centrally thereof, said gasket means having an aperture through substantially the center thereof;
- c. a plurality of bolt means positioned on said plate-like means, each of said bolt means including a bolt member and a nut member threadingly attached to said bolt member, said bolt member including a substantially elongated body portion having a threaded first end and a second end and including a head portion fixedly attached to said second end of said body portion, said nut member having a substantially centrally located threaded aperture therethrough for threadingly coacting with said threaded first end of said body portion of said bolt member, each of said bolt means being positioned with said nut member thereof positioned within said aperture through said gasket means and with said head portion of said bolt member thereof being positioned outside of said gasket means and with said body portion of said bolt member extending over a portion of said gasket means so as to form a bridge thereover, said head portion of said bolt member and said nut member being substantially concentric with the longitudinal axis of said body portion of said bolt means and being larger in cross-sectional area than said body portion of said bolt member so that said body portion of said bolt member is held above the portion of said gasket means which it extends over;
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- d. a substantially flexible cover means for extending over said gasket means and said plurality of bolt means and for being fixedly attached to said plate-like means to fixedly secure said gasket means and said plurality of bolt means to said plate-like means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.