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US 6,684,470 B1Granted
Electroportable device for placing clinch-on nuts or break-off stem blind rivets
OwnerJean-Claude Jouxinventor
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Abstract
Electroportable apparatus for positioning nuts to be set and the setting of blind rivets whose shank ruptures includes a body of the eledtroportable type containing an electric motor, a mandrel, drive part to maintain and pull the head of the rivet and/or to pull, screw or unscrew the nut to be set, as well as a part for pre-regulating the path of the mandrel.
Claims11
Apparatus for positioning nuts to be set and for setting blind rivets, comprising:
- an electroportable body (1) containing an electric motor (2),
- a mandrel (3),
- drive means to i) maintain and to pull a head of the rivet and ii) to pull, screw and unscrew a nut to be set,
- means for pre-adjusting a path of the mandrel (3, 29, 36) permitting, after a pre-regulated course of the mandrel (3, 29, 36), an automatic return, and
- an electronic control means to automatically make an adjustment of a path for a rivet whose dimensions have been selected, wherein,
- the electric motor drives a ball screw (13) connected via levers (5) to a toothed wheel (6) actuating a rack (7) driving a riveting mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.