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US 5,000,636 AGranted
Thread lock
AssigneeThe Oakland Corporation
InventorRichard B. Wallace
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InventorRichard B. Wallace
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The method of making a friction locking fastener of the type having in the thread grooves a first deposit formed of a mixture of an uncured epoxy resin and a radiation-curable, film-forming material, and a second deposit of a fluid curing agent and a radiation-curable, film-forming material. The deposits are made in the thread grooves at circumferentially spaced locations so that a very thin coating of the radiation-curable, film-forming material develops at the surface of each deposit. The deposits are subjected to high intensity ultraviolet radiation for a few seconds to transform the coatings developed on the surfaces of the deposits into thin, continuous, flexible, non-tacky protective films which cover the still fluid deposits in the thread grooves of the article. Alternatively, when one or both the resin and curing agent are micro-encapsulated. They may be contained in a single mixture which includes the radiation-curable material. That mixture, when deposited and exposed to radiation, will form a protective film at the surface. The resin will not be polymerized until the capsules are ruptured.
A threaded article provided with a lock-forming material to resist separation from a mating threaded member, said lock-forming material consisting essentially of first and second deposits on the threaded surface of the article, said first deposit comprising a fluid mixture of an uncured epoxy resin having throughout a radiation-curable, film-forming material comprising trimethylolpropane triacrylate and a photoinitiator, said second deposit comprising a fluid mixture of a curing agent for said uncured epoxy resin having throughout a radiation-curable, film-forming material comprising trimethylolpropane triacrylate and a photoinitiator, a portion of the radiation-curable, film-forming material extending throughout each mixture being in the form of an integral, thin, continuous, dry, substantially pin-hole free, flexible, non-tacky outer protective skin existing in and across the entire surface area of each deposit, said skin being rupturable thereby to permit intermixing of said resin, said film-forming material, and said curing agent, to cure said resin.
A threaded article provided with a lock-forming material to resist separation from a mating threaded member, said lock-forming material comprising a deposit on the threaded surface of the article, said deposit consisting essentially of a fluid mixture of an uncured epoxy resin, a curing agent for said uncured epoxy resin, and having throughout said deposit a radiation-curable, film-forming material comprising trimethylolpropane triacrylate and a photoinitiator, one of said uncured epoxy resin and curing agent being contained in microcapsules, a portion of said radiation-curable, film-forming material extending throughout said deposit being in the form of an integral, thin, continuous, dry, substantially pin-hole free, flexible, non-tacky outer protective skin existing in and across the entire surface area of said deposit, said film being rupturable, thereby to permit intermixing of said epoxy resin, said film-forming material, and said curing agent, to cure said resin.
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