Emhart Inc.

Andreas Roessler

Harald Knetsch

Norbert Tessarsch

A component installation tool of the type having a rearward stroke to accommodate delivery of a component to the front of the tool and a forward stroke to engage, deliver and install the component at a workpiece, the tool including a housing, a reciprocating mechanism contained therein, a feeder support mounted on the housing, a reciprocal magazine mounted on the feeder support for reciprocation between a component receiving position adjacent the tool and a position for delivering a component in front of the mechanism; and delivery means for delivering a component to a chamber in the magazine when the magazine is in the component receiving position and the mechanism is in the forward stroke.

Component feeder with reciprocal and rotatable magazine

A rivet setting tool for use with double headed blind rivets comprises a collet assembly adapted to engage a pulling head of the rivet mandrel and support segments for engaging the rivet. A single piston drive pulls the collet assembly and the mandrel rearwards relative to the support segments and rivet to set the rivet. Continued movement of the piston further retracts the collet assembly and the support segments to permit delivery of a new rivet at the front of the tool and returns the collet assembly and support segments to a forward position in engagement, respectively, with the mandrel head and the rivet.

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Milford, CT, United States of America

Andreas Roessler