Abstract:
A fastener installation tool for installing fasteners of the type in which a part of the fastener is broken off during installation. The tool is provided with a collection means (21) for collecting broken-off fastener parts during operation of the tool, the collection means being removably connectable to the tool. The tool includes retaining means (28) for retaining the collection means (21) against removal from the tool and the retaining means is air-pressure actuated into the retaining condition. The tool may include resiliently urged shutter means (38) which are held open when the collection means (21) is attached.
Abstract:
A breakstem rivet placing tool conventionally includes a flow restrictions (14) for hydraulic fluid used to drive the tool in a stem pulling direction. This serves to prevent recoil of the tool due to rapid acceleration of an internal piston (4) when the stem of the breakstem rivet breaks. Prior art flow restrictions (14) create a jet (10) of high velocity hydraulic fluid into the tool which may damage components (26) by erosion. A revised fluid damper valve (14' ,14' ' ,14' ' ' ,40,42,42’) deflects and/or diffuses the fluid flow to avoid damage by erosion.
Abstract:
A riveting tool (10) for placing a blind breakstem rivet (20), the tool comprising: a body (11); a nose casing (6) securable to the body, the nose casing having a nose tip (8); a jaw housing (7) inside the nose casing, the jaw housing containing jaws (5) for gripping and pulling a rivet stem (21) in use, the jaw housing having an end which incorporates an aperture through which the jaws are urged towards the nose tip by resilient biasing means (3); and adjustment means by which the distance from the end of the jaw housing to the inside of the nose tip may be adjusted. Preferably the adjustment means are provided by a thread on the nose casing, engageable with a corresponding thread on the body, thereby enabling adjustment of the distance from the end of the jaw housing to the inside of the nose tip. Also provided is a nose casing for a riveting tool, the nose casing having a nose tip or being configured to receive a nose tip, the nose casing incorporating adjustment means by which the distance from the inside of the nose tip to the end of the jaw housing of a riveting tool may be adjusted, and a method for altering the jaw separation distance of a riveting tool prior to gripping a rivet stem.