Patent ID: 7229239
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: F16B

Abstract:
1. A system for attachably receiving threaded fasteners at various locations, the system comprising: a substrate comprising a pair of sidewalls which extend parallel to one another in a first channel direction and which have channel-defining surfaces that are spaced apart from one another in a transverse direction to define an elongated first channel therebetween, wherein one or more threaded fasteners are rotatably insertable through a channel opening and inwardly into the first channel at one or more corresponding locations along the first channel, wherein the sidewalls are formed from a deformable material, such that during rotational insertion of each threaded fastener into the first channel one or more threads of the threaded fastener create one or more deformations in the sidewalls, the one or more deformations cooperative with the one or more threads to retain the threaded fastener between the sidewalls, and wherein the channel-defining surfaces of the sidewalls converge toward one another as they extend inwardly from the channel opening until they meet one another at an innermost extent of the first channel.