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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. 23, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
John S McCallister, Christchurch, NZ;
Assignee:
Sim-Tech Limited, Christchurch, NZ;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B / ; F16B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
403257 ; 403326 ; 403317 ; 403377 ; 4034051 ; 403D / ; 92128 ; 92257 ; 92258 ;
Abstract
A connection between a first member (e.g. a piston rod) and a bore in a second member (e.g. a piston) which is formed by two spaced grooves on the first member at least one of which is in register with one of two spaced steps in the bore, and a compression clip mounted in each groove such that when the groove and the step are in register the compression clip is in compression between one face of each groove and one face of the corresponding step and the angle between the compression forces acting on the clip and the longitudinal axis of the bore is in the range 30.degree.-70.degree..