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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1998
Markus Kressmann, Frankfurt, DE;
Andreas Machill, Idstein, DE;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to an arrangement with two half-plugs for securing in a wall, in which the first half-plug ( ) has two elastic arms ( ) on opposite sides. It also has a stop ( ) as far as which the half-plugs may be inserted into an aperture in the wall ( ). Each of the two elastic arms ( ) has an engagement projection ( ) fitted in such a way that the projections engage on the opposite side of the wall ( ) to the stop ( ) if the first half-plug ( ) is inserted into the wall as far as the stop ( ). The second half-plug ( ) also has two projecting arms ( ) which are fitted in such a way that, when the half-plugs ( ) are fitted together, the arms ( ) engage in the space between the elastic arms ( ) and the plug housing and secure the first plug by fixing the spring arms in the wall. One half-plug ( ) has an actuating slide ( ) with pins ( ) and the other half-plug ( ) has a corresponding guide slot ( ), so that, when the actuating slide ( ) is operated to secure the half-plugs ( ), the pins ( ) are moved through the guide slot ( ). The projecting arms ( ) of the second half-plug ( ) are designed so that the pins ( ) engage in the guide slot ( ) only once the arms ( ) are already engaged in the intermediate space.