Title: Seal

Abstract: A seal of the type having a hollow housing with internal resilient fingers for receiving a shouldered stud of a shackle into one end of the housing into locking engagement with the fingers, in which the opposite end is closed by a plug having resilient legs snapped into engagement with an internal recess in said opposite end. In one embodiment of the invention, the seal is formed of a single piece of molded plastic, with the plug being molded alongside the housing and being attached thereto by a flexible hinge or web. In another embodiment of the invention, the end of the shackle beyond the shoulder projects into a cavity between the resilient legs to lock said legs into the internal recess.

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Inventors: Guiler, Richard S. (Stewartsville, NJ, US)

Application Number: 038325
Filing Date: 1979-05-11
Publication_date: 1980-10-21
Assignee: E. J. Brooks Company (Newark, NJ)
Primary Class(es): 292/322
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

998878	Jul, 1911	Dinsmoor	292/320.
3466077	Sep, 1969	Moberg	292/322.
3717369	Feb, 1973	Stoffel et al.	292/322.
3854482	Dec, 1974	Laugherty et al.	292/322.
3954294	May, 1976	Iwamoto et al.	292/318.

Other Refs: 2342681

Mar, 1974	DE

Primary Examiner: Moore, Richard E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Ross; Robert E.