Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Weldless building structures
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Application No.: US14012526Application Date: 2013-08-28
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Publication No.: US09267527B2Publication Date: 2016-02-23
- Inventor: Lionel E. Dayton , Richard W. Lukes
- Applicant: NUCOR CORPORATION , ASIA FASTENING (US), INC.
- Applicant Address: US NC Charlotte
- Assignee: Nucor Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nucor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Charlotte
- Agency: Hahn, Loeser & Parks, LLP
- Agent Arland T. Stein
- Main IPC: F16B35/04
- IPC: F16B35/04 ; F16B25/10 ; E04B1/24 ; E04B5/40 ; E04C3/11 ; F16B7/18 ; F16B25/00 ; E04B1/38

Abstract:
A building structure including a first building member and a second building member may be connected by a plurality of fasteners, each fastener having a head, a threaded portion having a through hardness of between HRB 70 and HRC 40, a thread-forming portion of at least HRC 50 hardness enabling the fastener to form threads in at least the second steel building member, and a fluted lead portion of at least HRC 50 hardness with a nominal diameter between 70 and 95% of major diameter, such that the fastener is capable of providing a ratio of strip torque to thread-forming torque of at least 3.0 and a ratio of strip torque to drive torque greater than 6.0 when the second steel building member having a thickness of 0.25 inch and the fluted lead portion having at least one diameter within nominal diameter between 80 and 98% of major diameter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130340382A1 WELDLESS BUILDING STRUCTURES Public/Granted day:2013-12-26
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