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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Erwin C Witte, Placentia, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microdot Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
85 61 ;
Abstract
A torque limiting nut assembly having a threaded nut member and a spring wrench member which are interconnected by a ratchet like construction in which the magnitude of final assembly torque is predetermined by the torque required to initiate ratcheting of the ratchet like construction and with the ratchet like construction defining a non ratcheting, positive engagement construction for disassembly torque whereby the threaded nut member can be removed.