Patent ID: 6446541
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
A device for joining together two rod-like elements of which each has at least one end that shall be joined to a respective end of the other rod-like element, said two ends being placed adjacent one another so as to mutually face each other, wherein the device includes an inner sleeve where the distance from the center of said inner sleeve to its outer wall decreases in the direction of the long axis of said inner sleeve, at least along a part of the extension of said inner sleeve in said longitudinal direction, wherein the inner sleeve is adapted to be fitted externally over the mutually facing rod-like element-ends, wherein the device further includes an outer sleeve where the distance from the center of said outer sleeve to its inner wall decreases in the longitudinal direction of the outer sleeve, at least along a part of the extension of said outer sleeve in said longitudinal direction, wherein the outer sleeve is adapted to be fitted externally over the inner sleeve, wherein the outside of the inner sleeve and the inside of the outer sleeve are configured to achieve a shape-bound connection with each other, wherein the device further includes locking means for locking the two sleeves in relation to one another, and wherein said device also includes connecting means for locking connection of the inner sleeve with respective ends of the rod-like elements, wherein the connecting means comprise recesses and projections, said projections and recesses are configured for shape-bound connection of the inner sleeve with the ends of respective rod-like elements, the recesses have inner sloping abutment sides and the projections have corresponding outer, sloping abutment sides, and said inner and outer sloping abutment sides are configured to abut one another and therewith establish said connection.