Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Illinois Took Works Inc.

Mark J Kwilosz

Brian R Peek

Thomas A Benoit

George Siragusa

Gene R Harris

A vibration dampening clip suitable for securing a tube, such as a brake line, to a motor vehicle frame member includes an anchor portion for connecting the clip to the frame member, a retainer structure for holding the tube and a spring interconnecting the anchor portion and the retainer structure.

Vibration dampening clip

A dampening clip assembly may include a spring mount, a clip member, and a sealing member. The spring mount may include a base, a piston cylinder extending from the base and defining an interior cavity, a mounting surface having a passage formed therethrough, and a spring positioned between the base and the mounting surface. The clip member is secured to the spring mount and configured to retain a tube. The clip member includes a piston extending from a main body. The piston may be disposed within the interior cavity of the piston cylinder. The sealing member may be secured to a portion of the piston, and forms a fluid-tight seal between the piston cylinder and the piston.

Dampening clip assembly

A tie strap assembly includes a strap, a fastener rail or beam and a fastener. The strap is connected to a lock housing, wherein a distal end of the strap is configured to pass into a lock passage of the lock housing to form a loop. The fastener rail is offset from the strap, such that the strap does not directly contact the fastener rail. A fastener is slidably secured on the fastener rail, and is therefore, not in contact with the strap. Wires bundled within the strap do not contact the fastener. Thus, the fastener may be easily slidably adjusted on the fastener rail without interference from bundled wires or the strap.

Tie strap assembly

A clip device is disclosed for removably securing a tube, such as an air conditioning condenser tube, to a bracket, such as a radiator bracket, which includes a slot. The clip includes an annular body having a first and a second edge, the body defining an opening for the removable reception therein of the condenser tube. The body includes a flexible arm having a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end of the arm defines a tooth which lockingly cooperates with the slot. The arrangement is such that the condenser tube passes through the opening of the body and then the body is further moved axially along the condenser tube so that the bracket extends through the opening and next, the body is rotated about the condenser tube such that the tooth engages the slot for removably securing the condenser tube to the bracket.

Clip device

The tree fastener includes split wing fasteners which engage a passageway in a clip base, including flashgates in the passageway which were formed in the molding process initially joining the tree fastener and the clip base prior to driving to the pre-driven position, and further engage a structural aperture in the driven position. The tree fastener further includes a flexible tab which is joined to the tree fastener near the tip of the tree fastener and which extends upwardly within a slot in the shank of the tree fastener and extends through the head of the tree fastener. The flexible tab includes two generally radially outwardly extending interference bumps which engage one of the flashgates in the pre-driven position. The flexible tab can be manually moved radially inwardly so that the interference bumps release the flashgate so that the tree fastener can be urged to the fully driven position.

Tree fastener with flexible tab control

The vent hose cap includes a base and a head. The base includes cylindrical walls and partially cylindrical interior skirt sections. The interior of the skirt sections form an aperture for receiving a vent hose, while the space defined between the cylindrical walls and the skirt sections, including the gaps between the skirt sections, define a longitudinal gas passageway. Radial slots formed in the base provide gas communication from the interior of the gas vent hose to the longitudinal gas passageway. The cap includes a barbed shaft with an H-shaped cross-section for insertion into the base and through the interior of the vent hose.

Two-piece cap for a vent hose

The clip includes two locking arms with proximal segments joining the outer periphery, distal segments forming a tube pocket, and hinge elements between the proximal segments and the distal segments. The distal segments include outwardly turned locking elements. An interior frame joined to said outer periphery includes locking pockets complementary to the locking elements. A tube pocket is formed between the distal segments of the locking arms and a portion of the interior frame. As the distal segments of the locking arms flex outwardly in response to the insertion of a tubular element, the outwardly turned locking elements are urged into the locking pockets.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Mark J Kwilosz