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US 4,339,213 AGranted
Termination anchorage
AssigneeAcco Industries Inc.
InventorWilliam J. Gilmore
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Abstract
A termination anchorage for anchoring a circular termination member having an annular groove into a U-shaped slot contained in a bracket. A coil spring lock surrounds and engages the tubular member and has a tip which engages a hole in the bracket to lock the termination member into the slot.
Claims3
A termination anchorage for a circular termination member where said anchorage includes a bracket having a U-shaped slot contained therein adapted to engage with an annular groove in said termination member;
- the improvement comprising in having a coil spring lock adapted to surround a termination member where the inner diameters of the coils of the coil spring lock are less than the outer diameter of the termination member when the coil spring lock is in an unstressed state, in having a spring tip on said coil spring lock extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the coils, and in having a hole in said bracket adapted to be engaged by said spring tip whereby when the annular groove of a termination member is engaged by said slot, said coil spring lock will lock and engage with said termination member and said tip will engage with said hole to prevent movement of the annular groove out of said U-shaped slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.