Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Overedge assembling means
Patent
1994-01-06
1996-04-30
Jones, David
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Overedge assembling means
723918, B21J 1526
Patent
active
055112986
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for setting a self-drilling clamping fastener with clamping jaws held in a sleeve-like reception part for gripping a traction mandrel of the clamping fastener, wherein the reception part has an outer threading at its end that is turned away from the clamping jaws and engages a threaded bore of a driving sleeve that can be coupled with a rotary drive, wherein the reception part can be kept from turning.
In a known device for the setting of blind rivets (EP-A-0 213 101), a pot-like bushing is rotatably arranged in a housing, wherein this bushing is, on the one hand, provided with an inner thread and, on the other hand, is tightly connected with the rotary drive. A reception part, carrying the clamping jaws for a traction mandrel of the blind rivet, is provided at its rearward end with an outer thread, wherein this outer thread engages the inner thread of the bushing. During the drilling process, all parts of this device rotate, i.e., also the externally located housing. Upon completion of the drilling process, the direction of rotation of the device must be reversed, for which purpose the housing itself must remain in a fixed position. Either the housing may be prevented from rotating further by holding it in place, or the housing may move a short distance, while the direction of rotation is changed in the direction towards the rotary drive, and is then present at one housing portion.
Upon setting the blind rivet, the direction of rotation of the drive must again be changed in order to bring the reception part carrying the clamping jaws back into the initial position. For this purpose, the housing must be held manually in order to effect an axial movement of the reception part due to the thread engagement. On the one hand, it is problematic when with a setting device in a driven part, a manual intervention has to take place; on the other hand, there exists the danger that during unintentional activation, for example during the drilling process, the operator may be burned as a result of the great generation of heat.
Furthermore, a setting device for blind rivets has become known (EP-A-0 456 269) which works approximately on the same principle as the previously mentioned setting device. Here, an additional coupling is simply provided between the driving sleeve, having the inner thread, and a driving part that can be mounted directly to the driving device, wherein this coupling can be released in that, during retraction of the section of the receiving part provided with the outer thread, after a certain path abuts against the free end of same and penetrates the driving part directly connected with the driving device until the coupling is released. Also with this arrangement, it is absolutely necessary that the user manually intervene at the housing in order to introduce pulling movement after a drilling process, during which the entire setting device portion rotates.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention addresses the task of creating a device of the initially mentioned type, by means of which a fixed outer housing is present during the entire work process, so that the user of the device does not have to engage rotating parts or hold them in place.
According to the invention, this is achieved in that the sleeve-like reception part can be axially moved inside a guiding sleeve, but is secured against turning, in that the guiding sleeve and the driving sleeve can be coupled to each other in a force- and/or form-fitted manner in the direction of the drive rotation, in that the guiding sleeve and the driving sleeve are rotatably arranged in a housing that can be rigidly connected with the housing of the drive, in that the guiding sleeve can be prevented from turning by means of catch elements that are movably arranged inside the housing and in that the guiding sleeve, together with the reception part, can be rotated inside the housing in only one direction in the manner of a free-wheel arrangement.
Since the sleeve-like reception part is sepa
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patent: 5219375 (1993-06-01), Kamata et al.
Jones David
SFS Industrie Holding Ag:
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