Grommet
AssigneeShort Brothers PLC
InventorsPaul Magennis, Kevin Quinn
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Abstract
A grommet (10) for use with the face or web of a component such as sheet material for protecting the surface of articles passing through apertures formed in said component, said grommet comprising a generally cylindrical main wall portion (12) having adjacent one axial end thereof an outwardly extending lip portion(14), said main wall portion including a plurality of axially directed resilient fingers (24), at least some of said fingers having means (26) for resisting disengagement of said grommet from said component.
Claims19
A grommet for use with a component for protecting the surface of articles passing an aperture extending through a wall of the component, the grommet comprising:
- a cylindrical main wall portion,
- a lip portion connected to and extending outwardly and annularly from an axial end of the main wall portion,
- a plurality of first resilient fingers defined by the main wall portion,
- a plurality of second resilient fingers defined by the main wall portion, the second resilient fingers being interspersed between the first resilient fingers, and
- barb portions disposed on each of the second resilient fingers for resisting disengagement of the grommet from the aperture,
- wherein the plurality of first and second resilient fingers extend axially from the lip portion, and
- wherein the lip portion is resilient and cooperates with the barb portions to exert an axially compressive force on opposing surfaces of the wall of the component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.