Spring arm sleeve
AssigneeBöllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH
InventorsJan Robert Ziebart, Bernd Haesler
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Abstract
A spring arm sleeve, with which a joining element of a joining device is positionable and which comprises the following features: a tubular section which is formed by a circumferential or all-round wall, the circumferential wall comprises in the circumferential direction a plurality of U-shaped apertures regularly spaced apart from one another, which form a plurality of one-sidedly fastened spring arms which are inclined radially inwards into the tubular section and extend from a fixed end in a first longitudinal direction.
Claims19
A spring arm sleeve with which a joining element of a joining device is positionable and which comprises the following features:
- a. a tubular section which is formed by a circumferential wall,
- b. the circumferential wall comprises in the circumferential direction a plurality of U-shaped apertures regularly spaced from one another,
- c. wherein the plurality of apertures forms a plurality of one-sidedly fastened spring arms which are inclined radially inwards into the tubular section and extend starting from a fixed end in a first longitudinal direction, in which
- d. in the first longitudinal direction of the tubular section, at a first length and thereafter at at least one second length, at least three spring arms are respectively arranged in the circumferential direction evenly spaced from one another.
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