Nifco Inc.

Nichi-ei Bussan Co., Ltd.

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Kunio Hara

Toshie Tanaka

Kohsaku Yoshida

Shigeru Kimura

Yoshio Kaneko

Teruji Shibayama

Minoru Morisaki

Kosaku Yoshida

Katsuji Yamaguchi

Osamu Kitamura

A wire bundling harness adapted for electrical wiring use, comprising a band to be wrapped around the wires, a buckle in which the band is inserted, and a metal slider which is slidably molded in the buckle as a molded-in part thereof to make it possible that a portion of the metal slider bites the band so that the band is prevented from being moved in the longitudinal direction of the band.

Wire bundling harness

A binding tool in which a fastener row consisting of a plurality of fasteners arranged side by side at a predetermined pitch is fed by increments corresponding to said pitch, a binding tape is fed into the leading fastener in a set position from behind in a tool body, the tape emerging from the front end of the fastener is passed around an object, the leading end of the tape is inserted into the fastener from the front end, the tape end emerging from the rear end of the fastener is clamped by a stopper in the body, the tape is pulled back to be tightened around the object, the tape is secured to the fastener by driving an associated pin thereinto in the body, the tape is cut behind the fastener.

Binding tool

A rivet driver is disclosed, which comprises a guide space through which a rivet belt is fed, feeder means for feeding the rivet belt through the guide space stepwise at increments equal to the pitch of the branch portions, re-directing means operable in an interlocked relation with the feeding operation of the rivet feeder means for bending the branch portion associated with the rivet located at a driving position in the guide space so that the rivet assumes a different orientation from that of the other rivets in the rivet belt, squeezing means for pushing the flange of the re-directed rivet to thereby squeeze out the rivet member from the branch portion, and a restoring mechanism for bending back and restoring the initial orientation of the branch portion bent by the re-directing means and leading the restored branch portion back to the guide space.

Rivet driver

Fixation of a stud on a workpiece is accomplished by depositing hotmelt adhesive agent on a fitting base of the stud, fastening the stud to a rotary tool, rotating the stud with the fitting base pressed against the workpiece and, after the adhesive agent has been activated to a prescribed extent by the heat of friction, stopping the rotation of the stud and pressing the fitting base against the workpiece.

Method for fixing stud on workpiece

A thermal cutout fuse comprises a housing, a first lead wire thrust into the housing, a movable contact connected to the first lead wire, a stationary contact disposed around the movable contact and electrically connected to a second lead wire, a coil spring having resilient force of bending elasticity large enough to support the movable contact and separate the movable contact from the stationary contact, a thermally sensitive pellet having a melting point which conforms to the preset unsafe temperature and disposed within the housing, and a solid member interposed between the thermally sensitive pellet and the movable contact and adapted to bring the movable contact into contact with the stationary contact against the bending elasticity of the coil spring.

Thermal cutout fuse

A fastener for securing in position a string to be used for gathering the skirt of a coat or the open edge of a pouch, for example, is constructed of a housing provided therein with a blind cavity, a sliding member admitted into the blind cavity of the housing, and a spring interposed between the housing and the sliding member; the housing and the sliding member being respectively provided laterally therein with perforations and insertion holes adapted to come into mutual coincidence when the sliding member is pushed into the housing against the energizing force of the spring. Since opposed end portions of a given string can be inserted sidewise through the coinciding insertion holes into the perforations, this string fastener can be used advantageously without requiring the opposed end portions of the string to be always kept in mutual contact. It imposes no limitation upon the length of the string to be tied and enjoys ease of handling.

Fastener for string

A rivet driver for easily fastening a rivet comprising a male shank and a female tube to separate members has a construction such that the separate members may be united by hydraulically driving the male shank into the female tube to thereby cause the female tube to be radially expanded outwardly and that upon completion of this hydraulic driving, it feeds a subsequent rivet to the supply position and is ready for next driving of the male shank into the female tube of the subsequent rivet.

Hydraulic rivet driver

A plastic carrier sheet is attached to containers by passing the sheet, via openings therein, onto funnel members whose large-diameter portions are engaged with the peripheral edge of the containers, passing onto the funnel members, from the small-diameter portions to the large-diameter portions thereof, sleeve members each containing an opening having an edge diameter smaller than the largest diameter of the funnel members and having an edge which is expandable, whereby the sleeve members push the edges of the openings of the carrier sheet toward the large-diameter portions of the funnel members to expand the openings and enable the circumferential portions to ride over and past the peripheral edges of the corresponding containers.

Apparatus for attachment of carrier sheet to containers

In an apparatus for expanding a sheet carrier and fitting it onto containers which comprises a funnel member possessing a radially contractable leading end, a sleeve member for accommodating the aforementioned funnel member, a radially contracting member interposed between the aforementioned funnel member and sleeve member and an axial member disposed within the funnel member and possessing a expanded leading portion, the open end of the funnel member is radially contracted by the forward movement of the contracting member and admitted, in conjunction with the expanded portion of the axial member, into the opening of the sheet carrier and, thereafter, the open end of the funnel member is allowed to resume its original shape. Then, by fitting the peripheral edge of a container into the open end of the funnel member and moving the funnel member backwardly relative to the sleeve member, the opening of the carrier fitted round the outer surface of the funnel member is pushed up the outer surface of the funnel member by the open end of the sleeve member and, as a result, radially expanded in proportion as the outside diameter of the funnel member is increased. Eventually, the opening is caused to ride over the open end of the funnel member and wrap itself round the outer surface below the peripheral edge of the container.

Apparatus for attachment of sheet carriers to containers

A housing unit is constructed substantially in a tightly closed state and divided by a partition into two chambers, one for encasing a fuel gauge and the other a strainer. The housing unit, on being attached to a fuel tank, simultaneously functions to indicate the amount of fuel in the fuel tank and strain the fuel to remove foreign matter therefrom.

Housing unit for liquid gauge and strainer

A thermal cutout fuse comprises a fuse housing, a first lead wire penetrated into the housing interior, a movable contact capable of being turned aslant in the radial direction and energized constantly in the horizontal direction, the movable contact connected to the leading end of the first lead wire, a stationary contact disposed so as to encircle the movable contact, a second lead wire connected to the stationary contact, a solid thermally sensitive pellet capable of melting at a prescribed unsafe temperature, the thermally sensitive pellet disposed inside the housing opposite the movable contact, and a stopper adapted to turn the movable contact aslant and keep it in contact with the stationary contact, the stopper interposed between the thermally sensitive pellet and the movable contact. When the ambient temperature of the fuse reaches the prescribed unsafe level and the thermally sensitive pellet melts, the stopper is deprived of its force tending to press down the movable contact and the movable contact is consequently is sprung up into its horizontal position. Thus, the movable contact is instantaneously separated from the stationary contact.

A blind rivet of plastic material, comprising a shank and a rivet body disposed round the shank and separated into an upper portion and a lower portion such that, when the shank is lifted up relative to the rivet body for the purpose of binding given panels, one of the upper and lower portions of the rivet body is caused to ride over the other of the aforementioned two portions and consequently the rivet body as a whole is expanded outwardly in the radial direction, enabling the panels to be pressed tightly against each other and secured fast in position.

Blind rivet

A blind rivet comprising a shank and a rivet body enclosing the shank, the rivet body containing in the cylindrical wall thereof wedge means and windows possessing spaces for admitting the wedge means such that, when the blind rivet is inserted through holes perforated in advance in the panels to be joined therewith and, subsequently, the shank is slid up the interior of the rivet body, the cylindrical wall of the rivet body is bent outwardly in the radial direction and, at the same time, the wedge means are raised and forced into the spaces of the windows, causing the cylindrical wall of the rivet body to be brought into tight contact with the edges of the holes in the panels and consequently enabling the blind rivet to be secured to the panels.

A thermal cut-off fuse for breaking electric continuity between two lead wires, which utilizes melting and voluminal expansion of a temperature-sensitive member in a sealed state at a prescribed temperature.

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