Apparatus and system for retaining and installing rivets
AssigneeConveyor Accessories, Inc.
InventorsThomas Willoughby Richardson, Robert Richard Jennings
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Abstract
An apparatus and system for retaining and installing rivets into a belt fastener includes a collated rivet strip comprising connected upper and lower strips and retaining a predetermined configuration of rivet heads therebetween. The rivet strip is used in conjunction with a guide block assembly having top and bottom portions interlocked together. The top portion contains studs aligning with the rivet heads to assist the release of the rivet head from the rivet strip, seating the rivets in pilot holes of the lower portion of the guide block assembly for further driving through the belt fastener and into the belt material.
Claims4
A system for installing rivets, comprising
- a guide block having interlocking top and bottom portions, the bottom portion containing a plurality of pilot holes, and the top portion containing a plurality of studs corresponding to and aligning with the pilot holes;
- a rivet delivery strip adapted for use in conjunction with the guide block and retaining a plurality of rivets corresponding to the plurality of pilot holes, the rivet delivery strip comprising a rivet-driving strip and a rivet-aligning strip and retaining a head of each rivet therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.