Rotary installation tools for clinch fasteners
AssigneePenn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp.
InventorsMichael Maloney, Kristina Valko, Jonathan Olson, Brian Bentrim, Qiang Sun, Ronald Dise, KEnt Johnston
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AssigneePenn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp.
InventorsMichael Maloney, Kristina Valko, Jonathan Olson, Brian Bentrim, Qiang Sun, Ronald Dise, KEnt Johnston
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Tooling is held within the nose of a rotary punch and as the tool is rotated and forced against a workpiece a fastener within the tool becomes affixed to the workpiece. The tools have displacers which non-destructively deform and reshape the workpiece without any loss of workpiece material. The tools have various types of displacers including: tapered and arcuate displacers which act in concert to progressively act upon the workpiece; spherical displacers which may be fixed. or a full-circle displacer ring which wobbles as it presses against the workpiece. In the case of fixed spherical displacers, a multi-stroke method can be employed where the tool is rotated after each stroke in a group of installation strokes.
A tool tip for a rotary press punch, comprising:
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