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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2020
Centerline (Windsor) Limited, Windsor, CA;
Arconic Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Robert Wilcox, McGregor, TX (US);
Thomas Kingsbury, Waco, TX (US);
Dan Peter Vanderzwet, Ontario, CA;
Simon Maurice Britton, Ontario, CA;
Donald J. Spinella, Greensberg, PA (US);
Daniel Bergstrom, Natrona Heights, PA (US);
Eric Jean Michaud, Ontario, CA;
Larry Frank Koscielski, Ontario, CA;
Gino Norman Iasella, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
HOWMET AEROSPACE INC., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A collet assembly including an actuator and a collet connected to the actuator. The collet assembly is adapted to be installed on a welding electrode holder having an electrode. The collet is moveable by the actuator from an advanced position, in which the collet is adapted to grip a fastener such as a welding rivet, and a retracted position, in which at least a portion of the collet is retracted into the actuator to enable the electrode to engage the fastener for welding to a work piece, and the collet is adapted to release the fastener.