摘要:
A wire thread insert comprises besides a cylindrical helix consisting of a plurality of coils a moving tang projecting into the interior of the helix for installing the wire thread insert into a receiving thread. The wire thread insert is connected to the cylindrical helix via a bending portion such that the moving tang can be redressed into the receiving thread after installation of the wire thread insert. The wire thread insert is installed by means of an installation tool with a mounting spindle, which installs the wire thread insert in the receiving thread via a moving shoulder and the moving tang. A compression blade provided at the mounting spindle bends the moving tang back into the receiving thread while the mounting spindle is removed from the installed wire thread insert.
摘要:
A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, to receive strips of the nuts from the feed path in side-to-side array for delivery in installation-ready coiled strips to an installation assembly or the like. One embodiment of the collection means includes apparatus for collecting and dispensing the nuts in unconnected linear stacks. Tapping of the nuts is performed by the machine in a "reverse flow" or deferred manner just prior to the nuts being dispensed from the feed path with the tapped nuts maintained in face-to-face spaced array. The machine reverse flow tapping provides for burr clearance between the spaced nuts to thereby assure that tapping burrs will not improperly position the nuts obviating machine jamming and thread obstruction by such burrs. A continuous nut orienting apparatus is operative, upon receiving nuts aligned in face-to-face abuttment but in random angular orientation, to provide successive nut rotational movement about the feed path in predetermined directions orienting the nuts in face-to-face abutting array.
摘要:
A feeding device for multi-headed radial type nut tappers. The device includes a drum having a plurality of sliding guides provided on the exterior walls thereof, and a rotary hopper provided around the upper periphery thereof, and coaxial therewith. The hopper is rotated around its axis for the purpose of feeding nut blanks into the sliding guides from where they are fed to the front of the tapping heads of the nut tapper.
摘要:
A collet-type device for orienting a screw blank relative to wings previously formed on the shank of the blank so that subsequent operations, such as the formation of cutting edges and flutes, can be performed on the shank between the wings. Blank rotating cam surfaces are located in the bore of the collet intermediate a large upper diameter portion and a smaller lower diameter portion to automatically align the wings with longitudinal slots in the lower diameter portion as the blank is inserted in the collet.