GB2555467A - Securing a screw in a hole - Google Patents

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GB2555467A
GB2555467A GB1618340.2A GB201618340A GB2555467A GB 2555467 A GB2555467 A GB 2555467A GB 201618340 A GB201618340 A GB 201618340A GB 2555467 A GB2555467 A GB 2555467A
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B13/00Dowels or other devices fastened in walls or the like by inserting them in holes made therein for that purpose
    • F16B13/001Dowels or other devices fastened in walls or the like by inserting them in holes made therein for that purpose with means for preventing rotation of the dowel
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B13/00Dowels or other devices fastened in walls or the like by inserting them in holes made therein for that purpose

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Abstract

A plug having a triangular or square transverse cross section may be inserted into an oversized existing hole in a wall. The body of the plug may be surrounded by fabric that is impregnated with a quick setting material such as plaster of Paris, gypsum or an epoxy resin. In use the material may be wetted and inserted with the plug into a hole. A screw receiving hole 12 is provided. A flange or lip 14 prevents the plug from over insertion. Longitudinal slits 16 may expand as a fixing is tightened in the plug. The plug may be made from plastic, wood or metal. The non-round cross section of the plug helps to prevent the plug rotating as the fixing is tightened.

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(71) Applicant(s):
Alan Stephenson
Horton Road, DATCHET, Berkshire, SL3 9EP, United Kingdom (72) Inventor(s):
Alan Stephenson (74) Agent and/or Address for Service:
Alan Stephenson
Horton Road, DATCHET, Berkshire, SL3 9EP, United Kingdom (51) INT CL:
F16B 13/00 (2006.01) (56) Documents Cited:
EP 0580998 A1 WO 2007/079797 A1
DE 003336809 A
GB191220295A
FR962536 (58) Field of Search:
INT CLF16B
Other: WPI, EPODOC, INTERNET (54) Title of the Invention: Securing a screw in a hole
Abstract Title: Triangular or square cross section fixing plug with filler covering (57) A plug having a triangular or square transverse cross section may be inserted into an oversized existing hole in a wall. The body of the plug may be surrounded by fabric that is impregnated with a quick setting material such as plaster of Paris, gypsum or an epoxy resin. In use the material may be wetted and inserted with the plug into a hole. A screw receiving hole 12 is provided. A flange or lip 14 prevents the plug from over insertion. Longitudinal slits 16 may expand as a fixing is tightened in the plug. The plug may be made from plastic, wood or metal. The non-round cross section of the plug helps to prevent the plug rotating as the fixing is tightened.
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SECURING A SCREW IN A HOLE ’1'
This invention relates to a means for securing a screw in a hole formed for example in a panel or wall. In my British patent EPI 1857981 have disclosed and claimed a method and means for securing a screw in a plug which is itself secured in an over-sized hole by means of a fabric shroud impregnated with a quick-setting material, such as plaster of
Paris, that solidifies around the plug after being dampened with water before being inserted in the hole. The fabric and plaster thus fill the space between the plug and the surface defining the hole, and so hold the plug securely in place, and against rotation when a screw is being driven io home in the plug.
Over-exertion to insert the screw in the plug can result in undesirable rotation of the plug against the resistance offered to it by the fabric and plaster, thus rendering the plug useless to secure the screw, and defeating the objective of securing the screw in the wall or panel. Small integral radial wings have been provided externally on the plug, to increase the resistance of the plug to rotation when the screw is being driven home. But such radial wings provide little additional resistance to rotation of the plug.
The present invention constitutes a valuable improvement over that disclosed and claimed by me in the above-cited patent specification.
-2According to one feature of the present invention a plug for carrying out the methods disclosed in the cited patent has a square or a triangular transverse cross section, preferably uniformly along its whole length, and may also exhibit a twist in successive transverse cross sections from end to end. Such a plug offers substantial resistance to rotation of the plug in the solidified fabric and plaster when a screw is being driven home in the plug.
The plug thus comprises a short length of an appropriate rigid material (e.g. plastics, wood or metal) having a square or a triangular transverse io cross section and a longitudinal hole for receiving a screw. The plug may have at one end thereof a small flange to limit the depth to which the plug may be inserted in a hole. Longitudinal slits formed in the sides of the plug enable it to be expanded by a screw being driven into the plug. If desired, the plug may exhibit a small twist longitudinally between its ends.
The method of using the plug is the same as that described in the aforementioned British patent, to which the reader’s attention is hereby directed for details of the method. Relevant parts of that patent are hereby incorporated in this specification by reference. For the conical plug there shown, the present invention substitutes a plug having a
-3 uniform square or triangular transverse cross section along its whole length.
One plug according to the present invention is shown by way of example in the accompanying self-explanatory drawings, where the figures show respectively side and end elevations, and two isometric views.
The plug, formed of an appropriate suitable rigid material (e.g. plastics, wood or metal), comprises a prism-shaped shank portion 10 having a uniform square transverse cross section along its entire length. It is pierced by a longitudinal screw-receiving hole 12, and carries at one end io an integral shallow flange 14 for limiting the depth to which the plug may be inserted in a hole. Longitudinal slits 16 are formed in the longitudinal sides of the shank portion to enable it to be radially expanded by a screw on being driven into the hole.
In another example of a plug according to the present invention (not shown in the drawings) the shank portion has a uniform triangular cross section (instead of a square transvers cross section), along its entire length.
In this specification, reference to any appropriate or suitable material is intended to imply any material that is suitable for making plugs for securing a screw in a hole.
-4In carrying out one method according to the present invention, the quick setting material comprises an epoxy resin, instead of Plaster of Paris.

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CLAIMS 1. For use in any relevant method claimed in British patent EPI 185798, a plug having a square or a triangular transverse cross section. 5 2. A plug as defined in claim 1, wherein the plug has a uniform square or a triangular transverse cross section along the whole of the plug from end to end. 3. A plug as defined in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the square or triangular transverse cross section twists along the length of the plug. io 4. A plug as defined in any one of the claims 1 to 3, comprising a short length of an appropriate rigid material having a square or a triangular cross section and a longitudinal hole for receiving a screw. 5. A plug as defined in claim 4, having at one end thereof a small flange to limit the depth to which the plug may be inserted in a hole. 15 6. A plug as defined in claim 5, having longitudinal slits formed in opposite sides of the plug to enable it to be expanded by a screw being driven into the plug. 7. Any relevant method claimed in British patent EP1185798 wherein the plug has a square or a triangular transverse cross section. -68. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein the plug has a uniform square or triangular transverse cross section along the whole length of the plug from end to end. 5 9 A method as defined in claim 7 or claim 8, wherein the square or triangular transverse cross section twists along the length of the plug. 10. A method as defined in any one of the claims 7 to 9, wherein the plug comprises a short length of an appropriate material, having a square or a triangular transverse cross section and a longitudinal hole for io receiving a screw. 11. A method as defined in claim 10, wherein the plug has at one end thereof a small flange to limit the depth to which the plug may be inserted in a hole. 12. A method as defined in claim 10 or claim 11, wherein the plug 15 has longitudinal slits formed in its sides to enable it to be expanded by a screw being driven into the plug. 13. A plug as defined in any one of the claims 1 to 6, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and/or as illustrated in the accompanying diagrammatic drawings. -714. A method as defined in any one of the claims 7 to 12, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and/or as illustrated in the accompanying diagrammatic drawings. Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows: CLAIMS
1. A method of securing a screw in an over-sized hole formed in a panel or wall comprising the steps of :5 (a) providing a plug to receive the screw, which plug has a transverse cross section which is square or triangular, and an axial hole in which to receive the screw;
/ (b) enveloping the plug in a fabric shroud which is impregnated with • ( ‘ a quick-setting material, • I <
io (c) activating the shroud thereby to initiate setting of the quicksetting material; and • « (d) entering the enshrouded plug into the hole thereby to fill the hole, and in the course of time to hold the plug securely.
2. A method according to Claim 1, wherein the quick-setting
15 material comprises plaster of Paris, and activation is achieved by dampening with water.
3. A method as defined in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the plug has a uniform square or a triangular transverse cross section along the whole axial length of the plug from end to end.
4. A method as defined in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the plug is twisted about its longitudinal axis from end to end.
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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB191220295A (en) * 1912-09-06 1913-09-08 William Wallace Timewell Improvements in Wall and the like Plugs.
FR962536A (en) * 1950-06-14
DE3336809A1 (en) * 1983-10-10 1985-05-15 Raimund 7730 Villingen-Schwenningen Andris Plastic dowel for light concretes, especially aerated concretes or aeroconcretes
EP0580998A1 (en) * 1992-07-25 1994-02-02 Fischerwerke Arthur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG Metallic expansion dowel
WO2007079797A1 (en) * 2005-12-21 2007-07-19 Fischerwerke Artur Fischer Gmbh & Co. Kg Fastening arrangement

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR962536A (en) * 1950-06-14
GB191220295A (en) * 1912-09-06 1913-09-08 William Wallace Timewell Improvements in Wall and the like Plugs.
DE3336809A1 (en) * 1983-10-10 1985-05-15 Raimund 7730 Villingen-Schwenningen Andris Plastic dowel for light concretes, especially aerated concretes or aeroconcretes
EP0580998A1 (en) * 1992-07-25 1994-02-02 Fischerwerke Arthur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG Metallic expansion dowel
WO2007079797A1 (en) * 2005-12-21 2007-07-19 Fischerwerke Artur Fischer Gmbh & Co. Kg Fastening arrangement

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