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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Mathread Inc., Wixom, MI (US);
Michael Garver, Brighton, MI (US);
MATHREAD INC., Wixom, MI (US);
Abstract
A male anti-false thread fastener member having features, including: a shank that has a lead end and a tool engagement end; a head formed at the tool engagement end of the shank; at least one male fastening thread formed on the exterior of the shank as a plurality of thread windings adapted to mate with a corresponding female fastening thread formed in an interior of a female fastener member; at least one male lead thread formed on the exterior of the shank at the lead end that is at least a half winding around the shank and comprises curved profile defined by an arc having a radius approximately equal to a radius of an arc that is tangent to both flanks of a thread profile of the at least one male fastening thread and below the pitch line of the at least one male fastener thread.