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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
May. 03, 2002
Malcolm K. Groff, Orwigsburg, PA (US);
Yeu-Tien Yu, Taipei, TW;
LTL Home Products, Inc., Schuylkill Haven, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for manufacturing an anchor device. The method includes providing an elongated mold having an axial hole, a plurality of grooves extending radially from the axial hole, and an enlarged receiving space formed adjacent to the second end of the axial hole; disposing a metal shaft in the axial hole of the mold with an upper end of the metal shaft extending into the receiving space of the mold; injecting a molten plastic material into the mold around the metal shaft in order to fill the grooves and the receiving space; moving a forming die into the receiving space of the mold to depress the plastic material in the receiving space; and retracting the forming die from the mold and removing the integrally formed anchor device from the mold.