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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:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric Leverger, Epone, FR;
Assignee:
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B 1/304 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B 1/304 ;
Abstract
The article includes a first piece (,) provided with two flexible lugs adopting, in the absence of any force, a position of rest in which they can, over a certain length, be inserted without effort into an opening (,) in a support (,), and a second piece (,) having a fixing foot (,) adapted to cooperate with the first piece so that the fixing foot can be inserted through the first piece (,) as far as a configuration of locking on the support in which the fixing foot (,) keeps the flexible lugs on the first piece (,) separated and in which the first and second pieces (,) are snapped into each other.