Patent ID: 6065920
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: F16B

Abstract:
A securing ring, comprising a body made of spring steel and defining a ring opening, said body having a circumference of substantially circular configuration at formation of a slotted gap to define confronting ring ends, said body defining a ring plane and an axis of symmetry and having a radial width which widens, at least along predetermined regions, from the ring ends onwards at both sides of the axis of symmetry, each of said ring ends exhibiting a L-shaped configuration and being extended by a lug jutting out from the ring plane and formed with a throughbore, said lug of one of the ring ends and said lug of the other one of the ring ends being positioned on a same side of the ring plane, with the throughbores of the lugs extending in parallel relationship to one another and to the ring plane.