Floating barrel nut assembly and related methods
OwnerWilliam Kousens, Tam Nguyeninventors
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Abstract
Disclosed is a floating barrel nut with improved means for retaining a nut in a seat of a segmented cylindrical slug and related methods. In one embodiment, a barrel nut according to this disclosure may comprise: a nut with a threaded shaft and a flange that is chamfered on its lower end; a cylindrical slug that has been segmented along a plane that is parallel to the cylindrical axis, said slug having a head and a foot; two pins; wherein said nut is configured to float between the head and foot of the slug; wherein said shaft features an indentation on opposite sides thereof; and, wherein said pins are attached to the head and foot of the slug and sit in the indentations of the shaft. In another embodiment the pins are bent around the shaft.
Claims15
A barrel nut unit comprising:
- a nut with a cylindrical bore floatably seated in a slug;
- said nut further comprising a flange at its base featuring at least one chamfer;
- a plurality of pins connecting opposite ends of said slug;
- and,
- wherein said pins are operably configured to retain said nut in a floatably seated position.
A barrel nut assembly comprising:
- a nut with a cylindrical bore seated in a slug;
- said nut further comprising a flange at its base;
- at least two pins connecting opposite ends of said slug;
- and,
- said pins being fixed in apertures located along the outer periphery of each of the opposite ends of said slug.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.