Fastening clip

US6209178A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ITW-Ateco G.m.b.H. · DE

Inventors

• Heiner Wiese · Hamburg, DE
• Albert Sbongk · Niederstetten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 8, 1999
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T24/44026
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fastening clip structured to attach a plate-shaped structural part with a second plate-shaped part is disclosed. The parts have fastening openings, one of the openings being oblong. The clip includes a head having a radial conical flange adapted to engage the respective structural part, and a shank having a plurality of resilient legs, the legs being connected to the head at the upper end thereof and forming a conical insertion tip at the free end thereof. The outer sides of the legs have a shoulder adapted to cooperate with the edge of the hole, wherein four legs are provided circumferentially spaced by 90.degree., the legs being separated by relatively broad slots extending from flange to the insertion tip, the maximum diameter of the shank at the level of the shoulders being slightly larger than the shortest diameter of the oblong hole.