Abstract: An apparatus for attaching connectors to the ends of a conveyor belt, has a lamping head with upper and lower pressure applying jaws for first bending a connector element over and around the edge of the belt end, and then driving securing elements through the legs of the connector element and through the belt. Bending tools are arranged for bending over the free, protruding ends of the securing elements, preferably into grooves of the connector element. The upper jaw has centering projections which cooperate with centering recesses in the connector element. Catch pins ahead of the upper jaw provide a precentering. A measuring device permits checking the belt thickness for adjusting the jaw spacing. An apertured rail functions as a holder for the connector and securing elements and also as an abutment for the feed advance as well as for the stopping of the clamping head which is stepped from connector element to connector element along the edge of the conveyor belt end.

Abstract: Mechanism for cutting and clinching leads projecting from circuit boards or the like is operable in two alternative modes: (1) clinching them inwardly, i.e. toward one another, and (2) clinching outwardly. Shifting of one part, a pin, for example, from one operating position in its cut-clinch assembly to another position conveniently converts the device to the operating mode desired.

Abstract: A device for making a composite structural member of the type made up of a plurality of superimposed structural elements secured together by staples includes a guide block disposed above and a receiving block disposed beneath said superimposed structural elements. The guide block has a plurality of elongated grooves having spaced openings whereby staples pass through said openings and through said superimposed structural elements to engage grooves in said receiving member which turn the ends of the staples laterally to thereby secure the staple.