Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for delivering fasteners via an intermediate buffer
- Patent Title (中): 通过中间缓冲器输送紧固件的方法
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Application No.: US12941539Application Date: 2010-11-08
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Publication No.: US08850685B2Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Rupert Andrew Craythorn , Ralph Fuhrmeister , Shane Peter Matthews , Wojciech Gostylla , Stuart Edmund Blacket , Nicholas Richard Clew , Michael Butler
- Applicant: Rupert Andrew Craythorn , Ralph Fuhrmeister , Shane Peter Matthews , Wojciech Gostylla , Stuart Edmund Blacket , Nicholas Richard Clew , Michael Butler
- Applicant Address: GB Flintshire
- Assignee: Henrob Limited
- Current Assignee: Henrob Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Flintshire
- Agency: DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Agent Jennifer E. Lacroix
- Priority: GB9816796.8 19980803
- Main IPC: B21J15/02
- IPC: B21J15/02 ; B21J15/32

Abstract:
Fastener delivery apparatus for automatically selecting and delivering fasteners such as rivets to a setting tool. The fasteners are pre-loaded in a package and dispense via at least one fastener delivery tube that interconnects the setting tool to a fastener feeder device. The fastener feeder device releases selected fasteners from the package into the delivery tube. The fasteners are transportable individually or in groups in the tube from the feeder device to the tool. A transfer station attached to the tool or the delivery tube transfers a fastener from the delivery apparatus into the tool, transfer station is adjacent to the tool so that a delivered fastener may be inserted by the transfer station into the tool and a second position in which it is clear of the tool so as to permit the tool or a portion thereof to move towards a workpiece to insert a smooth, rapid and reliable delivery of fasteners of various sizes and types to the nose of a setting tool in any particular order and provides all the fastener types for any particular work cycle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110049176A1 FASTENING MACHINES Public/Granted day:2011-03-03
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