Improvements in Bolts or Studs for Joining Metal and the like Plates.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 24th Apr., 1897
ISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bolts or Studs for Joining Metal and the like
Plates.
I, JAMES LEROY KENNEDY, of Weeping Water, Nebraska, U.S.A., Dealer in
Hardware, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a fastening device whereby metal
plates or the like can be fastened together to form stove pipes and other articles,
in such manner that the joined parts can be readily disunited if and when
desired.
The improved fastening device consists of a piece of metal rod of convenient
length and diameter which is longitudinally severed after having been screw-
threaded. The two parts are then pivoted together near their respective ends
which are each formed into preferably eccentric-like projections extending at right
angles to the screw-threaded stud.
When joining the overlapping parts of a stove pipe or other pieces of metal or
the like, holes are made therein in the usual manner. A fastener is then taken
and its two halves opened around the pivot pin so that the two projections coincide
to permit their entrance into one of the holes. The two halves of the screw-
threaded stud are then brought together and a nut adjusted thereon; a washer
having been preferably passed over the stud previously. By the aforegoing
operation the two preferably eccentric-like projections press against the under
surface of the metal plate or plates and tightens them together, between the nut
or washer and the said projections.
1000
PERCY R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bolts or Studs for Joining Metal and the like
Plates.
I, JAMES LEROY KENNEDY of Weeping Water, Nebraska, U.S.A., Dealer in
Hardware do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to provide simple means for joining metal or other
plates in such manner that they can be readily disunited when required, and
further, which are especially applicable in cases where access cannot be had to
both sides of the plates being joined such as when joining together stove-pipes and
like cylinders of small diameter.

page_text: Reference being had to the drawing hereunto annexed, Fig. 1 illustrates my
device inserted into apertures made for its insertion, and Fig. 2 shews the device
ready to be secured in place.
The device comprises two members A and B each comprising the screw threaded
parts a and b pivoted together at c and having the flattened parts CD. The
upper extremity of each part a, b has a nitch d.
The method of using my device is as follows:-
Registering apertures e having been made in the plates E, F, the two parts of
the device C, D, as shewn in Fig. 2, are inserted therein. The part a, b are then
closed together and a nut G adjusted over them; rotation of the device whilst the
nut is being tightened being arrested by the point of a screw-driver or the like
being inserted and held in the nitch d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The hereindescribed improvements in bolts or studs for joining metal and the
like plates substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and
illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 19th day of March 1896.
PERCY K. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.