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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2009
Donald Black, Edinburgh, GB;
John Paul Mckeown, Edinburgh, GB;
Mark-paul Buckingham, Edinburgh, GB;
Reactec Limited, Edinburgh, GP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an attachment arrangement that comprises a body, an attachment component and a fastener. One of the body () and the attachment component defines a protrusion () and the other of the body () and the attachment component defines a recess configured to receive the protrusion (). The fastener is operative to resist separation of the body () and the attachment component when the protrusion () is received in the recess. Each of the protrusion () and the recess defines a surface profile () with the surface profiles cooperating with each other to force the body () and the attachment component progressively apart from each other against the operation of the fastener as the body () and the attachment component are rotated in relation to each other when the protrusion () is received in the recess. The body () and the attachment component are rotated about an axis that extends in substantially a same direction as a direction in which the body () and the attachment component move together and apart when the protrusion () is being received in and removed from the recess.