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.
Claims13
A collated rivet strip for retaining a having a rivet head, comprising:
- a rivet-driving strip having a first driving surface and a second driving surface opposite the first surface;
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- a rivet-aligning strip having a first aligning surface coupled to the second driving surface the rivet head being retained between the rivet-driving strip and rivet-aligning strip.
The collated rivet strip of claim 15, wherein a portion of the dimple is detachable from the rivet-aligning strip to create a detached portion.
The collated rivet strip of claim 16, wherein each of the plurality of buttons has a button head, a button underside, and a button recess formed on the button underside, the button recess adapted to receive at least a portion of the rivet head, a diameter of the button head being less than a diameter of the button recess and larger than a diameter of the dimple recess.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.