Patent ID: 6371492
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: F16J

Abstract:
Gasket for a motor vehicle component, said gasket having at least one sheet-metal layer defining a plane of said layer and having at least one screw hole for the passage of a threaded shaft of a screw having a screw axis and a thread defining a thread pitch, wherein said sheet-metal layer is provided with means for securing said threaded shaft in said screw hole with said screw axis extending perpendicularly to the plane of the sheet-metal layer so as to secure said screw against loss, said securing means comprising several holding tongues integral with the sheet-metal layer and projecting from the edge of the screw hole, said tongues being distributed over the circumference of the screw hole and arranged at a distance from one another, said holding tongues having edge regions facing the center of the hole and defining, when seen in axial direction of the screw hole, a circular core hole having a diameter corresponding to the core diameter of the screw thread, the width of the holding tongues as well as the thickness of the sheet-metal layer enabling at least the edge regions of the holding tongues facing the center of the hole to engage in the screw thread, at least some of the holding tongues being bent out of the plane of the sheet-metal layer in such a manner that the edge regions of the holding tongues facing the center of the hole are arranged so as to be offset in relation to one another in the axial direction of the screw hole in accordance with said thread pitch, said edge regions of the holding tongues being elastically defletable in the axial direction of the screw hole to such an extent that said threaded shaft can be inserted into the screw hole without turning of the screw shaft.