# US 4,391,546 A · Screw fixing

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- Number: US 4,391,546 A
- Document ID: US4391546A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/223,004
- Filed: 1981-01-06
- Granted: 1983-07-05
- Earliest claimed: 1981-01-06
- Assignees: BICC Public Limited Company
- Inventors: Robert C. Lyon
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4391546A

## CPC

- F16B 37/045: {specially adapted for fastening in channels, e.g. sliding bolts, channel nuts}
- A47B 57/54: consisting of clamping means, e.g. with sliding bolts or sliding wedges {(fixed on cords or the like A47B43/006)}
- F16B: DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D)
- A47B: TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (furniture jointing F16B)

## Abstract

A screw fixing comprising a screw (9) having a nut (1) threaded on it, the screw head and the nut each having a bearing surface facing the other, and a channel (5) having at the free ends of the limbs of the channel inturned flanges (6) directed towards the base (8) of the channel, the flanges defining a slot (10) which is open at both ends, at least one of the flanges having teeth (7) in its free edge directed towards the base of the channel and the bearing surface that engages it having parallel ribs (4) that interlock with the teeth to prevent the screw and nut sliding longitudinally in the channel.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A screw fixing comprising a device and a channel, said device comprising a fitting having walls defining an aperture; a screw having a screw head and a shank, said shank extending through the aperture in the fitting; and a nut threaded on the shank; the screw head and the nut each having a bearing surface directed towards one another, one of said bearing surfaces having parallel ribs which engage said channel; said channel comprising a base and two limbs, each limb having at its free end an inturned flange directed towards the base of the channel, the flanges defining a slot which is open at both ends, said screw slidably fitting in said slot with one of the nut and screw head within the channel beneath the unturned flanges with its bearing surfaces in contact, at least one of the flanges having spaced formed teeth in its free edge directed towards the base of the channel, said teeth interlocking with said parallel ribs of the bearing surface that engages said channel to prevent said device from sliding longitudinally in the channel.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A screw fixing as claimed in claim 1 in which the teeth in the inturned flanges are perpendicular to the major axis of the slot.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1, 2)

A screw fixing as claimed in claim 1 or 2 in which the pitch of the ribs is the same as the pitch of the teeth.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1, 2)

A screw fixing as claimed in claim 1 or 2 in which the pitch of the ribs is double the pitch of the teeth or another small multiple thereof.

### Claim 5

A screw fixing as claimed in any one of the preceding claims in which the nut or the screw head, as the case may be, is non-circular so that it can be passed through the slot and rotated to engage the inturned flanges of the channel.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

A screw fixing as claimed in claim 5 in which the ribs extend approximately parallel to the major dimension of the nut or screw head.