Threaded insert made of wire
AssigneeBollhoff GmbH Verbindungs - und Montagetechnik
InventorKlaus Kobusch
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Abstract
The invention relates to a wire-type screw thread insert for insertion into a tapped hole of a workpiece. A cylindrical body comprising a plurality of helically wound coils is provided with at least one insertion zone which is bent radially inwards from the outer diameter of the cylindrical body and extends about a circumferential angle of about 360.degree. to 720.degree.. This facilitates insertion of the insert into a tapped hole of the workpiece so that special tools required hitherto may be dispensed with because the wire-type screw thread insert of the invention may be readily introduced into the tapped hole and may be threaded thereinto by a simple tool.
Claims7
A wire-type screw thread insert for a tapped hole of a workpiece, said tapped hole have a plurality of threads and said wire-type screw thread insert consisting of a plurality of coils helically wound about a central axis and comprising a cylindrical main section and at least one end section, said cylindrical main section having a first outer diameter and the threads of said tapped hole having a tapped hole outer diameter which is smaller than said first outer diameter by a predetermined amount, said at least one end section consisting of a terminal end portion having a uniform second outer diameter and an intermediate end portion having an outer diameter decreasing from said first outer diameter to said second outer diameter, said tapped hole outer diameter beina smaller than said second outer diameter, said end section extending for 360.degree. to 720.degree. about said central axis and said terminal end portion extending for at least 180.degree. about said central axis, said end section including drive means for engagement of a tool for threading the wire-type screw thread insert into said tapped hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.