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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:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ulf B Heide, Marblehead, MA (US);
Assignee:
Technical Manufacturing Corporation, Peabody, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428116 ; 248637 ; 428131 ; 428138 ;
Abstract
A honeycomb tabletop where the upper skin has tapped holes formed therein. The tapped holes have a thickened portion at the a top surface of the skin and the tapped holes are characterized by depending extension formed integrally with the tapped holes. Threads are formed on the inner surface of the tapped hole including the sleeve. The depending sleeve effectively increases the number of threads to secure a fastener.