Method of forming a nut-like member
OwnerAugust J. Saccoccioinventor
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Abstract
The method of forming a nut-like member especially adapted but not limited to use with an earring clip in which a threaded screw provides wearing adjustment. The method includes forming a vertical strip of sheet-like material with a pair of smooth bore openings disposed in longitudinal alignment and provided with a pinched and reformed chordal flat. Thereafter the strip is transversely bent in a generally U-shaped configuration along a line between the openings so as to form a pair of opposed legs each including one of said openings.
Claims6
The method of forming a nut-like member from an elongated strip of formable sheet material such as sheet metal comprising cutting a pair of vertically spaced openings in said strip, said openings being generally circular, forming at least one flat chordally extending across the inner periphery of each of said openings, progressively reforming said flats so as to form generally V-shaped running edges thereon and thereafter bending said strip into a generally U-shaped loop having two opposed generally flat, sheet-like, and generally rigid leg segments such that each of said openings are positioned in one of said leg segments and said openings are axially aligned for receipt of a threaded screw therethrough in a manner wherein said V-shaped running edges threadably engage said screw at at least two axially spaced points therealong.
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