INT ER IOR S I NNOVAT ION fasteners
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MARCH 2020
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Speciality fasteners
fasteners
Clarendon Specialty Fasteners has enhanced its
capabilities following its recent acquisition of a
facility in Meßstetten, Germany. The company,
a stockist and manufacturer of aerospace
fasteners and aircraft interiors hardware, o ers
inserts for honeycomb panels to aerospace
standard NAS1833-1836, which can be made in
a variety of materials to customer specifi cations.
The company also stocks traceable aerospace
standard fasteners and hardware including
NAS, MS, AN, ABS, LN, BAC and AS, plus
commercial products used in seat assemblies
and interior monuments.
The latest news at Clarendon is that it has also
been working on value-added services, including
the Clarendon AIR VMI/Kanban system with RFID
twin-bin technology, as well as products such as
rivets, screws, nuts, bolts, wire-threaded inserts,
quarter-turn fasteners, slides and more.
SECURE
FIXINGS
The flexible interiors of
airplanes and helicopters
used as ambulances and rescue
aircraft require a variety of
equipment, such as anaesthesia
and ventilator kits, patient
monitors, lighting, defibrillators
and resuscitation devices, as
well as emergency backpacks,
emergency kits and fire
extinguishers. All such equipment
needs to kept secure but easily
accessible, able to be efficiently
attached or stowed in the cabin
and accessed in seconds.
In response, VTR is launching
quick-fastening QTCL floor
fixings, as well as finishers
for floor rails and walls, and
blankets that can be used with
existing QCTL fittings, as well
as new developments including
a rack with standard rails.
The range of quick-change
fasteners includes vertical and
overhead fastenings that are
small and light, and vibrationfree
rack attachments that can
be installed without tools. The
attachments are highly secure to
cope with the strong acceleration
of helicopters.
Device Technologies (DTi) is launching an aircraft interiors
savings model, which it says can show how aircraft seating
or interiors manufacturers could make substantial savings
of at least 49% by switching from the legacy nylon grommet
with glue to Spring-Fast grommet edging - with no weight
penalty. According to DTi, the edging can boost task
efficiency by a factor of 9.5.
The claimed savings come from the “significantly
simpler”, less labour-intensive installation process, as
Spring-Fast can be applied with just finger pressure,
with no glue, clean up, fixturing, cure time or solvents.
Inserts for lightweight materials
Fastening technology specialist, Ejot
has developed special fastening
solutions for sandwich panels and other
lightweight materials. Many fi xing points
in light sandwich materials use glued
inserts, but with the use of Ejot’s TSSD
thermal adhesive bonding boss, the
necessary process steps are reduced
to one. The plastic units may be used
as a screw-in boss for self-tapping
Delta PT screws or as a screw-in boss
for NAS-spec.
The Delta PT is a self-tapping screw
for thermoplastic materials and is the
successor of units such as the screw-in
ABS0706.
This type of screw is characterised
by high vibration resistance, long-life
performance, and its potential for
lightweight construction in combination
with the TSSD.
EFFICIENT GROMMET EDGING
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