Patent ID: 6676348
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: F16B

Abstract:
Expansible anchor for fastening to a panel-shaped building material, having an anchor sleeve with forwardly projecting expansion tongues that can be spread open by drawing in an expander body between the expansion tongues, characterized in that the expansible anchor (10) has a locking connection (20, 36) which engages when the expander body (24) is drawn in between the expansion tongues (18) and connects the expander body (24), in a position in which it is drawn in between the expansion tongues (18) and holds the expansion tongues (18) in a spread-open position, to the anchor sleeve (12), and in that the locking connection (20, 36) has a locking hook (36) which in the engaged stated engages over a free end of a locking tongue (20) arranged substantially parallel to an axis of the anchor, the locking hook (36) being connected to the expander body (24) or the anchor sleeve (12), and the locking tongue (20) being connected to the respective other of those two components (12, 24), and the locking hook (36) and/or the locking tongue (20) being resilient.