초록 ▼

A retention for male and female structural members, including a self-locking selectively releasable locking spring wire or clip received in opposing grooves on the male and female members for locking the two members together, and interengaged threaded formations on the two members for absorbing a ma

A retention for male and female structural members, including a self-locking selectively releasable locking spring wire or clip received in opposing grooves on the male and female members for locking the two members together, and interengaged threaded formations on the two members for absorbing a major portion of any force tending to axially separate the two members.

대표청구항 ▼

An assembly comprising a female threaded member, a male threaded member threaded into said female member, a spring member terminating in free spaced apart end portions and having a curved body portion extending between said end portions, said female member having a radially inwardly opening circumfe

An assembly comprising a female threaded member, a male threaded member threaded into said female member, a spring member terminating in free spaced apart end portions and having a curved body portion extending between said end portions, said female member having a radially inwardly opening circumferentailly extending groove and said male member having a radially extending outwardly opening circumferentially extending groove, said grooves being radially opposed to one another for receiving said spring member when said male member is threaded into said female member, the curvature of said spring member being such that when the spring member is received in both of said grooves it locks said male and female members against relative axial displacement, the groove on one of said male and female members being circumferentailly interrupted to define an opening, said end portions of said spring member extending transversely of said body portion and through said opening for access to enable the end portions to be gripped and moved relative to each other to flex said body portion to a shape where it it entirely removed from one of said grooves to thereby unlock said male and female members from one another thereby permitting said male and female members to be disengaged from one another.