Claims
- 1. A one piece cast metal key for mating with a tubular cylindrical mating keying member having an external axial keying rib thereon, the key comprising a keying part extending rearwardly from a forward end, a neck extending rearwardly from said keying part and supporting at its rear end a keying abutment of regular polygonal cross-sectional shape larger in width than said neck,
- said key further including an axial bore therethrough extending from said forward end to said rear end, said keying part including an axial slot opening extending rearwardly from said forward end for receiving therealong said keying rib of said mating keying member, and said rear end adapted to receive insertably thereinto a threaded mating end of jack screw to extend forwardly through and beyond said neck and into said keying part for threadedly engaging a correspondingly threaded aperture into a forward end of said mating keying member.
- 2. A key as recited in claim 1, wherein said keying abutment has four flat side surfaces.
RELATED APPLICATION INFORMATION
This is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/766,889 filed Sep. 27, 1991, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,158,474.
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