Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Assembling or joining
Patent
1976-08-17
1977-09-13
Moon, Charlie T.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Assembling or joining
29509, 29522, B23P 1900
Patent
active
040472817
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method particularly adapted for use in continuously setting blind rivets having elongated mandrels in suitably apertured material. Such apparatus embodies support means, feed means operatively connected to the support means for selectively feeding individual rivets to a loading station; carriage means operatively connected to the support means including rivet holding assembly means for receiving respective ones of the rivets and being selectively and incrementally advanced from at least a loading station, to a working station, and back again to the loading station; drive means operatively connected to the carriage means for successively advancing the rivet holding assembly means from at least the loading station to the working station, and back again to the loading station; motion producing means for imparting predetermined generally vertical displacement to each of the rivet holding assembly means in response to movement of the holding assembly means between at least the loading and working stations, and rivet setting means for vertically displacing respective ones of the rivets operatively held by the holding assembly means at the working station to set the rivets in the apertured material. The method for enabling the continuous setting of a plurality of rivets comprises the steps of feeding individual rivets to respective ones of a plurality of rivet holding assemblies at a loading station, incrementally advancing the rivets in a first predetermined path such that they travel from at least the loading station to the working station, supporting the material to be riveted at the working station in a generally horizontal plane, such that the rivet is situated above the plane for insertion into the workpiece, displacing the respective ones of the rivets operatively held by the rivet holding assemblies in a second predetermined path such that the rivet carried thereby is set in the material which is to be riveted together.
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Di Maio Anthony E.
Todisco Joseph G.
Marson Corporation
Moon Charlie T.
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