Fastening device for belt connectors

Abstract

An apparatus for stapling a belt-connecting clip fitted to a belt end has a crimping die, a housing fixable relative to the crimping die and forming a vertical guide, and a hold-down device engageable with the clip on the belt end on the crimping die, having an outer guide ring vertically slidable in the housing, and forming a vertically throughgoing guide bore adapted to hold staples engageable through the clip and belt end on the crimping die. A penetrating die has an extension projecting vertically downward through the guide bore and engageable with the staples therein. A spindle/nut mechanism in the housing can vertically displace the penetrating die between an upper position with its extension above and out of contact with the staples, clip, and belt end and a lower position engaged down on the staples and forcing same through the clip and belt end and against the crimping die. A ball coupling between the hold-down device and the penetrating die pushes down the hold-down device and penetrating die until the hold-down device is urged upward with a force exceeding a specific contact force and thereafter only pushes down the penetrating die. Thus the hold-down device will move downward with the penetrating die until the hold-down device engages and clamps the clip and belt end to the crimping die and thereafter the penetrating die alone moves downward to drive the staples through the clip and belt end and against the crimping die.