Daniel T Hanlon

US Patent:

51844974, Feb 9, 1993

Filed:

Jul 27, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/920037

Inventors:

Daniel Hanlon - Pittsburgh PA
Stuart J. Sandhaus - Pittsburgh PA
James L. Hopkins - Venice FL

Assignee:

S.A.R.G. Research Associates, Ltd. - Sarasota FL

International Classification:

B21J 1532

US Classification:

723916

Abstract:

A magazine for compactly holding and feeding therefrom a quantity of blind rivets to a specially configured rivet table of a blind rivet setting device. The magazine, as part of an automatic rivet feed mechanism, contains a thin elongated strip or ribbon of flexible material holding the mandrel tips pierced through the strip evenly spaced apart. The strip is drawn from the magazine through a transverse feed slot formed through the rivet table generally orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the device. A spring biased retracting device continuously pulls the strip through the feed slot so that the next rivet in succession facing the rivet table is automatically drawn into axial alignment within the rivet table ready for positioning and setting into a work surface.