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AssigneeGage Bilt, Inc.
InventorsJoseph BUTVIN, Bruce T. GODFREY, Brian H. LEIGH, Tony P. POTTS
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An air-driven feeder tool is provided for presenting swagable collars one at a time for placement on the shanks of lockbolts and thereby made ready for the application of a swaging tool. The swaging tool breaks off a pintail from the lockbolt and a vacuum system draws the broken-off pintails through a vacuum device and into a receptacle for safe disposal. The feeder mechanism comprises a magazine holding a supply f side-by-side collars, a presentation piece holding a short working collars and a worker-actuable trigger mechanism between the two queues for transferring collars, one at a time, from the magazine to the presentation queue. Two embodiments of the feeder tool are disclosed, each with a unique trigger position.
A feeder for lockbolt collars of the type having an axial through-hole comprising:
A lockbolt installation system comprising a feeder as described in 1 wherein the lockbolt is of the pintail type, the system further comprising a collar swaging tool.
A system for disposing of pintails broken off of lockbolts by a swaging tool with a puller comprising:
A method of installing lockbolts of the type having a shank adapted to receive a swagable collar thereon and comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.