US1434806A

US1434806A - Screw casing

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Publication number: US1434806A
Application number: US558957A
Authority: US
Inventors: Brown Albert
Original assignee: GEORGE W CLEVENGER
Current assignee: GEORGE W CLEVENGER
Priority date: 1922-05-06
Filing date: 1922-05-06
Publication date: 1922-11-07
Anticipated expiration: 1939-11-07

Description

A. BROWN.

SCREW NG.

APPLICATION' FIL AY e, 1922.

L@ Patented Nov. 'Z9 1922.

Patentedi'Nov. 7, 1922. I

STATES PTET] OFFICE.

ALBERT BROWN, F VALE, OREGON, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO GEORGE W.

CLEYIENGER, OF VALE, OREGON.

SCREW CASING.

Application filed May 6, 1922. Serial No. 558,957. n

To all 'whom t Vmay concern.' one end to the other as at l. By having the Be it known that ALBERT BROWN, a citicasing split or open at one side the same zenof the United States, residing at Vale, can be readily expanded when applied in in the county of- Malheur and State of Orethe opening in the wood and as the screw l e gon, has invented certain new and useful is inserted therein.

Improvements in Screw Casings, of which The casing has pressed or otherwise formi the following is a specification, reference beed therein the threads 2 coincident with the tt ing had to the accompanying drawings. threads on the screw S.

This invention relates to certain improve- The' casing, as disclosed herein, is of a MD ments in a screw casing and it is an object type particularly adapted for wood screws of the invention to provide a novel and imand especially in connection with furniture, proved device of this general character musical instruments, refrigerators or other 60- Which is adapted to be inserted Within the wood work. The wall defining the screw work and in which the screw is directly enopening is prevented from rotting by water i5 gaged whereby the hole is prevented from and the screw S can also be repeatedly rerotting and permitting the screw to be removed or applied without ruining the moved or applied indefinitely without enthreads or enlarging the screw opening and larging the screw hole and to further asthereby'preventing the screw fromA worksure the maintenance of the screw in aping or being pulled out. "u plied position. The outer end of the casing isdefined by The invention consists in the details of a laterally disposed flange 3 which is adaptconstruction and in the combination and ed to fit tightly against the adjacent surface arran ement of the several parts of my imof the wood work when the casing is in approve screw casing whereby certain imporplied position. 25 tant advantages are attained and the device Struck fFOIIl 0r Otherwise provided on the renderedsimpler,lessexpensiveandotherwise casing are the prongs or barbs 4 disposed more convenient and advantageous for use, 011 all OutWld lClIle toward the/opening as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. or entrance end of .the casing.l As the ends The novel features-of my invention will expand upon the insertion of aY screw S hereinafter be definitely claimed. therein the prongs or bars 4 will penetrate In order that my invention may be the the Wall defining the screw opening wherebetter understood, l will now proceed to by said sleeve is eectively maintained in 80 describe the same with reference to the acapplied or working position. v companying drawings, wherein: From the foregoing description it is Figure l is a view partly in elevation and thought to be obvious that a screw casing partly in sectiony illustrating a screw casing constructed in accordance with my invention constructed in accordance with an embodiis particularly well adapted for use by rea- 85 ment of my invention and in applied posison of the convenience and facility with tion, y which it may be assembled and operated.

e@ Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 and it will also be obvious that my invention with the casing in elevation, and is susceptible of some change and modifi'ca- Figure 3 is a view in plan showing a blank tion without departing from the prin- 90 of which my improved casing 'may be ciples and spirit thereof and for this formed. reason ll do not wish to be understood as et My improved casing is formed of a sheet limiting myself to the precise arrangement ofrelatively thin metal rolled to conform and formation of the severalparts herein' to the peripheral configuration of the coshown in carrying out my invention in acting screw S', said casing being split from practice except as hereinafter claimed.

Q Luego@ inne? surface of the casing having threads to receive the threads of the scfew, prongs lo' extending ontwardy from the easing, and incline in a direction toward the entrance end of the sleeve.

n testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature.

ALBERT BROWN.