Patent ID: 6692206
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: F16B

Abstract:
A cage member engageable with a nut member having a threaded aperture, thereby providing a cage nut assembly, said cage member comprising a body configured to encage the nut member and having an aperture formed therein, said aperture configured to allow access to the threaded aperture of the nut member when the nut member is generally encaged by said cage member, said body defining a seam and having at least one protrusion, said protrusion being formed in halves which abut against one another such that said seam is provided therebetween, said protrusion configured to provide that said protrusion is weldable to a mating surface to secure said cage member to the mating surface, and, substantially contemporaneously, said halves of said protrusion configured to provide that said halves are weldable to one another along said seam.