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.
Claims6
A system for inserting work pieces having respective work piece heads, comprising:
- a guide block having a top portion coupled to a bottom portion, the bottom portion including pilot holes and the top portion including a plurality of studs respectively corresponding to and aligning with the pilot holes and extending from a bottom of the top portion towards the bottom portion;
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- a delivery strip adapted to retain the work pieces respectively corresponding to the pilot holes, the delivery strip including upper and lower strips and retaining a head of the work piece heads therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.