Huck International, Inc.

Huck Manufacturing Company

Huck Patents, Inc.

Hendrik E Rosier

Robert B Wilcox

Brian C Mondello

An offset nose assembly for installing fasteners is provided that generally includes a drawbar, a swage anvil and a collet. The drawbar has three portions with the third portion transitioning from the second portion by a chamfer, the chamfer being of a preselected angle that is adapted to positively engage a chamfer of a preselected angle of a piston of a fastener installation tool. Additionally, a generally L-shaped guard assembly is provided that is disposed on the collet to cover a gap defined between the collet and the swage anvil. Also, a deflector is provided that is attached to a nut that is threadedly engaged with the rearward end of a bore in the collet, the deflector having a section of a uniform constant outside diameter that integrally transitions to a section that has an outside diameter that gradually lessens along its length.

Offset nose assembly with improved deflector and guard assemblies

A hydraulic installation tool for installing fasteners is provided, that includes a housing having a first portion adapted to receive a drawbar and a second portion adapted to receive a piston, a gland and a retaining ring. A generally L-shaped drawbar is disposed in the first portion of the housing and a piston, a gland and a retaining ring is disposed in the second portion of the housing. The hydraulic installation tool is useful in securing lockbolt or swage type fasteners.

Hydraulic installation tool

Pneudraulic installation tool

A hand held, hydraulically actuated installation tool installs multi-pieced fasteners having fastener components including a pin and a collar and/or sleeve by applying a relative axial force therebetween by a nose assembly which has a jaw structure for gripping the shank of the pin and an anvil for engaging the collar or sleeve and for severing a pintail portion of the shank after completion of the installation. A power cylinder housing is provided having a cylinder housing section and an integrally formed handle section with hydraulic passageways extending through the handle with internal parting to the cylinder housing. While the nose assembly can be readily installed and removed, the anvil member can be selectively rotated when the nose assembly is installed. A pintail deflector is located at the back end of the installation tool for deflecting the severed pintail portions away from the operator with the deflector having a generally elastomeric body portion with a wear plate adapted to receive the impact of the severed portions of fasteners being installed.

Blind rivet installation tool

An installation tool installs multi-pieced fasteners having fastener components including a pin and a collar and/or sleeve by applying a relative axial force therebetween by a nose assembly which has a jaw structure for gripping the pin and an anvil for engaging the collar or sleeve. A first resilient spring structure is provided to exert an actuating bias on the jaw structure for gripping the pin while a second resilient, spring structure is provided to absorb shock loads experienced by the nose assembly during installation; the first and second resilient, spring structures are constructed to operate substantially independently of each other. A series of openings are provided at the forward end of the nose assembly to define a structure for expelling dirt and debris which would otherwise be trapped therein.

Nose assembly for hydraulic installation tool

Installation tool for setting pull type fasteners

A pintail fastener installation tool includes a nose piston cylinder which surrounds a nose piston having a longitudinal bore which is aligned with a jaw opening of a nose assembly. The nose piston also has a venturi bore which meets the longitudinal bore at an angle. When connected to a source of pressurized air and enabled, the venturi bore creates a venturi effect which suctions detached pintails out of the nose assembly and piston into a container. The venturi bore may be disabled by a slide valve which separates the venturi bore from the air feed. The slide valve includes a ring which is positioned around the exterior of the nose piston cylinder. The slide valve is linearly slidable between an open position, which allows pressurized air to flow from the air feed to the venturi bore, and a closed position, which prevents air flow from the air feed to the venturi bore. A pintail container secured to the nose piston cylinder includes a slotted inner bottle and a slotted outer bottle with ribs. The bottles are rotatable relative to one another. The tool is connectable to a pressurized air hose by way of a rotatable air inlet swivel. The tool is ergonomically designed to reduce stresses on the user and facilitate proper positioning of the tool.

Ergonomic installation tool with selectable vacuum pintail collector

An offset pin puller apparatus usable with a fluid-operated actuator tool for exerting an axial pulling force on a grooved fastener pin projecting through a workpiece. Jaws mounted within the apparatus are held against axial motion while an associated collet moves axially to cam the jaws into clamped engagement with the fastener pin. The jaws are released from the fastener pin by abutment of a jaw release assembly with an inner wall of the apparatus. Such abutment effects an axial and radial separation of the jaws from the collet during a return stroke of the actuation tool.

Offset nose assembly with pin releasing assembly for fastener

Fastener installation tool

A rotatable nose assembly for swaging a fastener collar onto a grooved fastener pin in an application where there is only limited access to the pin and collar assembly. A swaging anvil has parallel flat side faces adapted to fit into a channel-shaped workpiece to facilitate swaging motion of the anvil along the collar surface. The anvil has a rotary swivel connection to the nose assembly such that the flat side faces of the anvil can be rotated to fit different orientations of the channel flanges.

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Kingston, NY, United States of America

Hendrik E Rosier