Screw-socket fixture

Claim 1

An anchoring assembly for anchoring a machine screw in brickwork, concrete or stone, said anchoring assembly comprising in combination a machine screw having an enlarged head and a threaded shank of predetermined crest diameter, a workpiece of brickwork, concrete or stone having a smooth wall hole therein, and a generally cylindrical socket within said hole, said screw threadably carried within said cylindrical socket, said hole diameter being larger than the crest diameter of the screw but no larger than 1.1 times that crest diameter, said cylindrical socket having an initially smooth interior and exterior walls, said socket being formed of a material capable of plastic deformation beyond its yield point upon screw insertion, said socket having a wall thickness between 3% and 7% of the crest diameter of the screw, and having an initially outer diameter in a relaxed state in excess of the diameter of said hole and said socket further having means to allow by elastic radial compression the reduction of its outer diameter to that of said hole facilitating insertion of said socket into said hole, the exterior wall of said socket frictionally gripping the smooth wall of said hole, and said socket further having an inner diameter as insertably carried by said hole which is smaller than the crest diameter of said screw, the entire wall of said socket being plastically deformed beyond its yield point as a result of said screw being threaded thereinto and filling at least one half the volume between the screw threads and the wall of the hole so as to provide a high retention force acting on the screw and therebetween the smooth wall socket and the smooth wall hole.