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Industry: Cam Dowels Conformat

Fasteners are hardware devices that mechanically join or affix two or more objects together. They can be used to close containers or keep flexible materials together. Fasteners used in these ways are often temporary and can be fastened and unfastened repeatedly. Some woodworking joints use internal reinforcements like dowels or biscuits that can be considered fasteners. Furniture supplied in kits often uses cam dowels locked with cam locks. There are three major types of steel fasteners used industrially: stainless steel, carbon steel, and alloy steel.

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Industry: Cam Dowels Conformat

Fasteners are hardware devices that mechanically join or affix two or more objects together. They can be used to close containers or keep flexible materials together. Fasteners used in these ways are often temporary and can be fastened and unfastened repeatedly. Some woodworking joints use internal reinforcements like dowels or biscuits that can be considered fasteners. Furniture supplied in kits often uses cam dowels locked with cam locks. There are three major types of steel fasteners used industrially: stainless steel, carbon steel, and alloy steel.

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A fastener is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together.

Fasteners can also be used to close a container such as a bag, a box, or an envelope; or they
may involve keeping together the sides of an opening of flexible material, attaching a lid to a
container, etc. There are also special-purpose closing devices, e.g. a bread clip. Fasteners used
in these manners are often temporary, in that they may be fastened and unfastened repeatedly.
Some types of woodworking joints make use of separate internal reinforcements, such
as dowels or biscuits, which in a sense can be considered fasteners within the scope of the joint
system, although on their own they are not general purpose fasteners.
Furniture supplied in flat-pack form often uses cam dowels locked by cam locks, also known
as conformat fasteners.
Items like a rope, string, wire (e.g. metal wire, possibly coated with plastic, or multiple parallel
wires kept together by a plastic strip coating), cable, chain, or plastic wrap may be used to
mechanically join objects; but are not generally categorized as fasteners because they have
additional common uses. Likewise, hinges and springs may join objects together, but are
ordinarily not considered fasteners because their primary purpose is to allow articulation rather
than rigid affixment.
Other alternative methods of joining materials
include: crimping, welding, soldering, brazing, taping, gluing, cementing, or the use of other
adhesives. The use of force may also be used, such as with magnets, vacuum (like suction
cups), or even friction.
There are three major steel fasteners used in industries: stainless steel, carbon steel, and alloy
steel. The major grade used in stainless steel fasteners: 200 series, 300 series, and 400 series.
Contents
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1Industry

2Types

3See also

4References

5Further reading

6External links

Industry[edit]
In 2005, it is estimated that the United States fastener industry runs 350 manufacturing plants
and employs 40,000 workers. The industry is strongly tied to the production of automobiles,
aircraft, appliances, agricultural machinery, commercial construction, and infrastructure. More
than 200 billion fasteners are used per year in the U.S., 26 billion of these by the automotive
industry. The largest distributor of fasteners in North America is the Fastenal Company.[1]

Types[edit]

Structural bolt DIN 6914 with DIN 6916 washer and UNI 5587 nut

anchor bolt

batten

bolt (fastener)

Screw

brass fastener

buckle

button

cable tie

captive fastener

clamp (or cramp)

hose clamp
clasps

lobster clasp
cleko

clips

circlip

hairpin clip

paper clip

terry clip

clutch

drawing pin (thumbtack)

flange

frog

grommet

hook-and-eye closure

hook and loop fastener

Velcro

latch

nail

pegs

clothespin

tent peg

PEM nut

pins

bowtie cotter pin

circle cotter

clevis fastener

cotter

dowel

linchpin

R-clip

split pin

spring pin

tapered pin

retaining rings

circlip

e-ring

rivet

rock bolt

rubber band (or bands of other materials)

screw anchor

snap fastener

staple

stitches

strap

threaded fastener

captive threaded fasteners

nut

screw

washers

threaded insert

threaded rod

tie

toggle bolt

treasury tag

twist tie

wedge anchor

zipper

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