Clevis Hanger

A three-piece fastener system consisting of clevis, clevis pin, and tang. The clevis is a U-shaped piece that has holes at the end of the prongs to accept clevis pin. The clevis pin is similar to a bolt, but is only partially threaded or unthreaded with a cross hole for a split pin. The tang is a piece that fits in the space within the clevis and is held in place by clevis pin. Clevises are used in wide variety of fasteners used in farming equipment and sailboat rigging as well as the automotive, aircraft and construction industries. They are also widely used to attached control surface and other accessories to servo controls in airworthy model aircraft.