ES42023U - Female member for automatic closures (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

A female member intended for a jump application with a male member of circular cross-section and whose female member can be attached to a support material in the form of a leaf by means of a ring of branches that can be inserted through the material to be applied to said member female; said female member comprising a single piece of sheet metal formed to give a grooved central body part to create a plurality of elastic fingers, the free ends of said fingers being turned radially inward to form gripping grooves of the core, said thickenings being in circular arrangement and defining a central receiving aperture of the male, and a supporting part surrounding said fingers and having its inner lower edge integrally joined to said fingers, said bearing portion extending from its inner lower edge along an inclination upward and outward to give an anvil surface to bias out branches of a ring of branches, said supporting portion terminating in a U-shaped annular flange to create an inwardly facing retaining ring for deflected branches toward outside, and a series of nerves stamped in toward the center from the side of the to the support wall surrounding the fingers, the extension being inwardly of said ribs sufficient to support the elastic fingers against undue lateral outward force. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)