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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11548058 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2018

Rivet element supply unit

Applicant:

Broejte-automation Gmbh, Rastede, DE;

Inventor:

Christoph Eusterwiemann, Oldenburg, DE;

Assignee:

Broetje-Automation GmbH, Rastede, DE;

Attorney:

Pauly, DeVries Smith & Deffner LLC

Primary Examiner:

Jermie E Cozart

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21J 15/32 (2006.01); B21J 15/28 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); B21J 15/02 (2006.01); B21J 15/10 (2006.01); B21J 15/14 (2006.01); B65G 3/04 (2006.01); B65G 11/06 (2006.01); B65G 11/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21J 15/32 (2013.01); B21J 15/28 (2013.01); B25J 11/007 (2013.01); B21J 15/02 (2013.01); B21J 15/10 (2013.01); B21J 15/142 (2013.01); B65G 3/04 (2013.01); B65G 11/066 (2013.01); B65G 11/126 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49943 (2015.01); Y10T 29/49956 (2015.01); Y10T 29/53478 (2015.01); Y10T 29/53522 (2015.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments relate to a rivet element supply unit for providing rivet elements, wherein the rivet element supply unit comprises a rivet element provision unit and a handling unit, wherein the rivet element provision unit for conveying the rivet elements comprises a spiral conveyor having a longitudinal axis and a spiral, which extends around the longitudinal axis, wherein the longitudinal axis is inclined to the direction of gravity, wherein the rivet element provision unit has a pick-up region to which the spiral conveyor supplies rivet elements and from which the handling unit picks up the rivet elements for transporting to a rivet element receptacle.

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