Dowel or anchoring means

Claim 1

An arrangement for anchoring objects to support structures, especially support structures of light-weight building materials, comprising an anchoring rod insertable with clearance into an anchoring hole in a support structure, said anchoring rod comprising an elongated stem and a flange of a diameter only slightly smaller than that of said anchoring hole at a leading end of said stem; and means for securing said anchoring rod in said anchoring hole consisting of a plug of a hardenable substance in said anchoring hole in the path of said anchoring rod and having two intermixed components at least one of which is encapsulated in microcapsules, so that the substance is squeezed by said anchoring rod during insertion thereof into said anchoring hole with concomitant rupturing of the microcapsules and resulting formation of an intimate mixture of said components which are displaced by said anchoring rod during advance thereof into the clearance between the anchoring rod and the anchoring hole to subsequently harden therein, said plug being a hollow cylindrical plug having an outer diameter substantially equal to that of said anchoring hole and an inner diameter smaller than that of said flange, said plug comprising a flexible porous carrier sheet coated at least on one side therof with said hardenable substance and wound in several layers to form said hollow cylinder, said anchoring rod being secured in said anchoring hole exclusively by said substance after the latter has hardened.