Expansion Anchor With Additional Expansion Element

Abstract

An expansion anchor includes an anchor bolt and an expansion sleeve which encompasses the anchor bolt. The anchor bolt has an expansion-sleeve expansion region and an expansion-element expansion region. The expansion sleeve has an expansion element which is disposed on the expansion sleeve. The expansion sleeve is radially displaceable by the expansion-sleeve expansion region and the expansion element is radially displaceable by the expansion-element expansion region. The expansion element is disposed on the expansion sleeve on a side of the expansion sleeve that radially faces the anchor bolt.

Claims

1.-15. (canceled)

16. An expansion anchor, comprising: an anchor bolt; and an expansion sleeve which encompasses the anchor bolt; wherein the anchor bolt has an expansion-sleeve expansion region and an expansion-element expansion region; wherein the expansion sleeve has an expansion element which is disposed on the expansion sleeve; wherein the expansion sleeve is radially displaceable by the expansion-sleeve expansion region; wherein the expansion element is radially displaceable by the expansion-element expansion region; wherein the expansion element is disposed on the expansion sleeve on a side of the expansion sleeve that radially faces the anchor bolt.

17. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion element touches the anchor bolt.

18. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion element touches the expansion sleeve radially on an outside of the expansion element.

19. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion element is disposed in a recess which is formed in the expansion sleeve.

20. The expansion anchor according to claim 19, wherein the expansion sleeve is perforated at the recess.

21. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion sleeve has a tongue which radially covers the expansion element at least in a region.

22. The expansion anchor according to claim 21, wherein the expansion element is disposed in a recess which is formed in the expansion sleeve and wherein the tongue radially covers the recess at least in a region.

23. The expansion anchor according to claim 21, wherein the tongue points away from the expansion-sleeve expansion region.

24. The expansion anchor according to claim 21, wherein the tongue projects radially on an outside of the expansion sleeve and/or the tongue forms a barb which prevents the expansion sleeve from being pulled out of a borehole.

25. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion element is a rolling element.

26. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion-element expansion region and the expansion-sleeve expansion region have a respective steepness that is different from one another.

27. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the anchor bolt has an indentation in which the expansion element is disposable and wherein the expansion-element expansion region is formed on a wall of the indentation.

28. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the expansion sleeve is formed in multiple layers.

29. The expansion anchor according to claim 16, wherein the anchor bolt has a driver and wherein the expansion sleeve is driveable by the driver toward a front.

30. A method for using the expansion anchor according to claim 16, comprising the steps of: shifting the anchor bolt relative to the expansion sleeve, and by the shifting, radially displacing the expansion sleeve by the expansion-sleeve expansion region and radially displacing the expansion element by the expansion-element expansion region.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0039] FIG. 1 is a side view of a first embodiment of an expansion anchor according to the invention;

[0040] FIG. 2 is a side view of the anchor bolt of the expansion anchor from FIG. 1 together with the additional expansion elements, but without the expansion sleeve;

[0041] FIG. 3 is a side view of the expansion sleeve of the expansion anchor from FIG. 1;

[0042] FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the expansion anchor from FIG. 1;

[0043] FIG. 5 is a side view, analogous to FIG. 2, of the anchor bolt together with the additional expansion elements and without the expansion sleeve, of a first modification to the expansion anchor of FIGS. 1 to 4;

[0044] FIG. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view, analogous to FIG. 4, of a second modification to the expansion anchor of FIGS. 1 to 4; and

[0045] FIG. 7 is a side view of the individual sleeves of the modified expansion anchor according to FIG. 6.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0046] FIGS. 1 to 4 show a first embodiment of an expansion anchor according to the invention. The expansion anchor comprises an anchor bolt 10 having a longitudinal axis 99, and an expansion sleeve 30, the expansion sleeve 30 annularly encompassing the anchor bolt 10. The anchor bolt 10 has a neck region 14 having an at least approximately constant cross section. Adjoining the neck region 14, the anchor bolt 10 comprises an expansion-sleeve expansion region 15 for the expansion sleeve 30 in front of the neck region 14, in the front end region of the anchor bolt 10, which expansion region is, here by way of example, integral with the rest of the anchor bolt 10. At the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15, the anchor bolt 10 widens on its outer surface toward the front starting from the neck region 14, i.e., the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15 converges toward the back on its outside. The expansion sleeve 30 encompasses the neck region 14 of the anchor bolt 10. The expansion-sleeve expansion region 15 is mostly arranged in front of the expansion sleeve 30. The neck region 14 is circular cylindrical here and the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15 is conical.

[0047] The anchor bolt 10 also comprises a driver 13, for example in the form of a circular ring, which limits an axial movement of the expansion sleeve 30 toward the rear end of the anchor bolt 10, i.e., an axial movement of the expansion sleeve 30 away from the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15.

[0048] At its rear end region opposite the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15, the anchor bolt 10 comprises a load application structure 17, shown here, for example, as an external thread, for introducing tensile forces into the anchor bolt 10. A nut (not shown) having a corresponding internal thread can be arranged on the external thread.

[0049] The expansion sleeve 30 comprises a plurality of slits 42 which extend, starting from the front end face of the expansion sleeve 30, which faces the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15, axially backward into the expansion sleeve 30. The slits 42 separate expansion tongues 31 of the expansion sleeve 30 from one another. The expansion tongues 31 are each free on the front side thereof and on the two opposite longitudinal sides thereof, and are interconnected on the respective rear sides thereof. The expansion tongues 31 are thus free at the front and point axially toward the front, toward the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15.

[0050] The expansion sleeve 30 comprises a plurality of recesses 35 which extend radially outward from the radial inside of the expansion sleeve 30. The anchor bolt 10 comprises, in particular in the neck region 14 thereof, a plurality of radial indentations 18 which extend radially inward into the anchor bolt 10. Each indentation 18 in the anchor bolt 10 is covered by a recess 35 to form an indentation-recess pair. An additional expansion element 40 is arranged in each of the indentation-recess pairs. An inclined wall is arranged at the front end of each indentation 18 and forms an additional-expansion-element expansion region 19 for radially displacing the particular additional expansion element 40 outward.

[0051] The expansion sleeve 30 is radially perforated at the recesses 35. However, the expansion sleeve 30 has tongues 34, each recess 35 being radially covered by a tongue 34. The tongues 34 project radially outward on the expansion sleeve 30. Each of the tongues 34 is connected at the front end thereof to the remaining expansion sleeve 30. The tongues 34 are thus free at the rear and point backward, away from the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15. The tongues 34 are made in one piece together with the rest of the expansion sleeve 30. In particular, the tongues 34 can each be formed by cutting the expansion sleeve 30 in a U-shape.

[0052] When the expansion anchor is mounted, the front end of the anchor bolt 10 is pushed into a borehole in the direction of the longitudinal axis 99 of the expansion anchor 10. By virtue of the driver 13, which limits displacement of the expansion sleeve 30 toward the back end of the anchor bolt 10, the expansion sleeve 30 is also inserted into the borehole. The anchor bolt 10 is then pulled slightly out of the borehole again, for example by tightening a nut that is arranged on the load application structure 17 which is in the form of an external thread. Due to friction with the borehole wall, which friction is generated in particular on the radially outward projecting tongues 34, the expansion sleeve 30 remains behind and the anchor bolt 10 is axially displaced backward relative to the expansion sleeve 30. The additional expansion elements 40 are held in the recesses 35 in the expansion sleeve 30 axially on the expansion sleeve 30, resulting in a backward axial displacement of the anchor bolt 10 relative to the additional expansion elements 40. In the course of this displacement, the expansion tongues 31 of the expansion sleeve 30 run onto the expansion-sleeve expansion region 15 and are pushed by the expansion region radially outward against the borehole wall, and the additional expansion elements 40 run onto the additional-expansion-element expansion regions 19 thereof and are pushed by the expansion regions radially outward against the particular radially overlying tongue 34, which in turn is pushed radially outward against the hole wall. The expansion anchor is fixed in the substrate by these mechanisms.

[0053] In the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, the additional expansion elements 40 are spherical and the indentations 18 are teardrop-shaped, the additional-expansion-element expansion regions 19 tapering toward the front.

[0054] In a first modification of the first embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5, the additional expansion elements 40 are circular cylindrical and the indentations 18 are designed to be correspondingly wider. Otherwise, this first modification corresponds to the first embodiment, and therefore reference is made to FIGS. 1, 3 and 4 and to the description of the first embodiment, which also apply to the first modification.

[0055] In a second modification of the first embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the expansion sleeve 30 is designed in two layers and so as to have two coaxial individual sleeves 51 and 52. Otherwise, this second modification corresponds to the first embodiment, and therefore reference is made to FIGS. 1 and 2 and to the description of the first embodiment, which also apply to the second modification.

[0056] The individual sleeve 51 is arranged within the individual sleeve 52. The tongues 34 are fastened to the outer individual sleeve 52 and are integral with the outer individual sleeve 52. The outer individual sleeve 52 projects toward the front beyond the inner individual sleeve 51.