Blind rivet nut-setting tool
AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
InventorBlaine Vollmer
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Abstract
A blind rivet nut-setting tool includes an output shaft defining a longitudinal axis. The output shaft is moveable along the longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position. The blind rivet nut-setting tool further includes a first motor configured to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis in response to an external force moving the output shaft in a rearward direction from the first position to the second position. The blind rivet nut-setting tool further includes a second motor configured to translate the output shaft along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction.
Claims12
A blind rivet nut-setting tool comprising:
- an output shaft defining a longitudinal axis, the output shaft moveable along the longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position;
- a first motor configured to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis in response to an external force moving the output shaft in a rearward direction from the first position to the second position;
- a drive shaft configured to receive torque from the first motor, the drive shaft engaged with the output shaft at a rear end of the output shaft, such that the output shaft is configured to receive torque from the drive shaft in response to the drive shaft receiving torque from the first motor;
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- a second motor configured to translate the output shaft along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction,
- wherein the second motor is configured to translate the output shaft in the rearward direction toward a third position that is rearward of the second position.
A blind rivet nut-setting tool comprising:
- an output shaft defining a longitudinal axis, the output shaft moveable along the longitudinal axis between a first output shaft position and a second output shaft position;
- a carrier moveable along the longitudinal axis between a first carrier position and a second carrier position;
- a first motor configured to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis in response to the output shaft moving in a rearward direction from the first output shaft position to the second output shaft position;
- a second motor configured to translate the carrier along the longitudinal axis between the first carrier position and the second carrier position;
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- a cam member rotated by the second motor and including a pin arranged in a lobe of the carrier, such that in response to the cam member being rotated in a first direction by the second motor, the carrier is translated along the longitudinal axis from the first carrier position to the second carrier position,
- wherein the output shaft is translated along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction when the second motor moves the carrier from the first carrier position to the second carrier position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.