Joe C Garcia

US Patent:

62448072, Jun 12, 2001

Filed:

Mar 6, 2000

Appl. No.:

9/519335

Inventors:

Joe A. Garcia - Santa Fe Springs CA

Assignee:

Bristol Industries - Brea CA

International Classification:

F16B 3300
F16B 4302

US Classification:

411369

Abstract:

A double seal nut having a wrenching element to which a torquing force is applied, an internal bore running longitudinally through the wrenching element and having a set of screw threads to be mated to a correspondingly threaded bolt by which to hold together a pair of opposing metal workpieces, and a washer base having a bearing surface to be seated flush against the faying surface of a first of the pair of workpieces. The double seal nut includes a Teflon seal ring located within the internal bore to engage the threads of the bolt and thereby block the leakage of fluid in a longitudinal (i. e. axial) direction along the bolt. The double seal nut also includes an elastomeric sealing ring that is snap-fit or molded within a circumferencial groove formed in the load bearing surface of the washer base to block the leakage of fluid from the internal bore in a radial direction along the interface between the load bearing surface of the washer base and the faying surface of the workpiece upon which the bearing surface is seated.

US Patent:

20180339788, Nov 29, 2018

Filed:

May 26, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/606538

Inventors:

Joe A. Garcia - Santa Fe Springs CA, US

International Classification:

B64D 37/32
B64D 45/02
H05F 3/02

Abstract:

Disclosed is an electrically non-conductive (e.g., dielectric) protective cap to enclose the threaded shank of a metallic bolt that connects a fuel tank to the wing of an aircraft. The protective cap has a threaded bolt retaining cavity within which to receive the threaded shank of the fastener after the threaded shank has been pushed through a bolt hole formed in a side of the fuel tank. The protective cap is rotated into mating engagement with the threaded shank of the fastener inside the fuel tank so as to completely surround and protect the shank against a lightning strike during flight. By counting the number of rotations of the protective cap into its mating engagement with the threaded shank of the fastener, an indication is provided of the number of threads of the threaded shank that are located inside the fuel tank.

US Patent:

20170114822, Apr 27, 2017

Filed:

Oct 26, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/922437

Inventors:

Joe A Garcia - Santa Fe Springs CA, US

International Classification:

F16B 39/24
F16B 43/00

Abstract:

An improved counter-bored hex nut of the kind common to the aerospace industry for connecting panels to one another. The hex nut has a positive washer retention feature by which the washer is captivated to prevent the washer from bending away from and/or sliding off the nut. In particular, the improved hex nut has a hexagonal head at one end, to surround a threaded bore and a cylindrical base at the opposite end to surround a counter bore, A coextensive washer retaining lip extends radially from the cylindrical base of the nut so as to encircle the counter bore. A three is applied to the washer so that a cylindrical side wall thereof is bent over and completely around the washer retaining lip of the nut and bided flat against the cylindrical base of the nut below the counter bore.