Blind rivet nut-setting tool
AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
InventorBlaine Vollmer
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Abstract
A method comprising threading a blind rivet nut onto an output shaft of the tool, pressing the blind rivet nut against a workpiece, thereby applying an external force to the output shaft to move the output shaft in a rearward direction along a longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position, activating a first motor to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis in response to the output shaft reaching the second position, thereby further threading the blind rivet nut onto the output shaft, and activating a second motor to translate the output shaft along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction, thereby setting the blind rivet nut on the workpiece.
Claims20
A method of operating a blind rivet nut-setting tool, the method comprising:
- threading a blind rivet nut onto an output shaft of the tool;
- pressing the blind rivet nut against a workpiece, thereby applying an external force to the output shaft to move the output shaft in a rearward direction along a longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position;
- activating a first motor to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis in response to the output shaft reaching the second position, thereby further threading the blind rivet nut onto the output shaft;
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- activating a second motor to rotate an input member about a rotational axis, the input member contacting the output shaft and applying a force to translate the output shaft along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction, thereby setting the blind rivet nut on the workpiece.
A method of operating a blind rivet nut-setting tool, the method comprising:
- threading a blind rivet nut onto an output shaft of the tool;
- in response to the output shaft moving in a rearward direction along a longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position, activating a first motor to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis, thereby further threading the blind rivet nut onto the output shaft;
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- activating a second motor and driving an input member about a rotational axis, the input member contacting the output shaft and applying a force to directly translate the output shaft along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction, thereby setting the blind rivet nut on a workpiece.
A method of operating a blind rivet nut-setting tool, the method comprising:
- threading a blind rivet nut onto an output shaft of the tool;
- in response to the output shaft moving in a rearward direction along a longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position, activating a first motor to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis, thereby further threading the blind rivet nut onto the output shaft;
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- activating a second motor to translate the output shaft along the longitudinal axis in the rearward direction, thereby setting the blind rivet nut on the workpiece,
- wherein the first motor is coaxial with the output shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.