Method for delivering and setting self-piercing rivets

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9776239
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15141547

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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.

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  • HENROB LIMITED

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Blacket, Stuart Edmund Closeburn, AU 27 494
Butler, Michael Cheshire, GB 59 629
Clew, Nicholas Richard Farmington Hills, US 18 226
Craythorn, Rupert Andrew Springwood, AU 7 98
Fuhrmeister, Ralph Runcorn, AU 15 320
Gostylla, Wojciech Camira, AU 30 374
Matthews, Shane Peter Chester, GB 12 175

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