Retainer clip

Claim 1

A one-piece push-on type clip for securing a non-rotatable threaded stud in axial relation to a workpiece having an elongated hole for receiving the stud endwise, the clip comprising a hollow non-circular body of sheet metal partly open at one end and wholly open at the other end and having oppositely disposed resilient side portions laterally extending between said ends, said side portions being spaced apart by slightly less than the lesser dimension of said hole, each of said side portions being coined with a generally straight edge to cooperatively grip a locality of the threads of the stud, and each of the side portions when unstressed having an outwardly inclined resilient wing portion divergent substantially from the thread engaging locality, free ends of the wing portions being spaced apart more than the lesser dimension of said hole, one of the wing portions being arranged to be cammed inwardly by a side wall of the hole and the other of said portions being formed with a combination axial and radial take-up and locking shoulder arranged to be urged into partly overlapping abutment with the workpiece adjacent to another side of the hole by radial pressure exerted by said one wing portion in reaction to its engagement with said side wall of the hole.