Abstract: A modular guided keeper base, guided keeper assembly, and related method includes a modular guided keeper base that mounts to a die member. The guided keeper base has an integrated stop for guide pin retention. The guided keeper base can also accommodate a variety of bushings within the base. The guided keeper base is attached to a die member using a mounting flange(s). Mounting fasteners pass through the fastener holes in the mounting flanges and are anchored in the die member to securely retain the guided keeper assembly in place. A retainer ring is mounted in an associated groove in the base over the heads of the mounting fasteners to prevent unintentional unfastening of the fasteners from the die member.

Abstract: A modular guided keeper base, guided keeper assembly, and related method includes a modular guided keeper base that mounts to a die member. The guided keeper base has an integrated stop for guide pin retention. The guided keeper base can also accommodate a variety of bushings within the base. The guided keeper base is attached to a die member using a mounting flange(s). Mounting fasteners pass through the fastener holes in the mounting flanges and are anchored in the die member to securely retain the guided keeper assembly in place. A retainer ring is mounted in an associated groove in the base over the heads of the mounting fasteners to prevent unintentional unfastening of the fasteners from the die member.

Abstract: A punching assembly includes a die base, a sleeve, an adjusting screw, a pull portion, a latching block, an elastic element, a fixing ring and a stop member. A top of the die base is received in the sleeve. The adjusting screw includes a contact end, a mounted end inserting into the sleeve and connecting to the top of the die base, and a latching portion located between the contact end and the mounted end. The pull portion is disposed around the sleeve. The latching block engages the latching portion. The elastic element is disposed around the adjusting screw, supporting the latching block. The fixing ring surrounding the adjusting screw is fixed on the sleeve. The stop member, contiguous with the fixing ring, prevents axial movement of the adjusting screw.

Abstract: A coaxial connector crimping tool has a base, a handle, a transmittal unit and a crimping area. The base has a containment slot, and the containment slot has a guiding structure. One end of the handle is pivoted on an end of the base. Two ends of the transmittal unit are respectively pivoted on a first predetermined position of the guiding structure and a second predetermined position of the handle, and the transmittal unit has an adjustable length. The transmittal unit has an adjustable portion, and the adjustable portion is disposed between the first predetermined position and the second predetermined position. The crimping area is pivoted on the transmittal unit and disposed in the containment slot.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for an improved handheld crimping tool for crimping a wire. The handheld crimping tool includes a head portion having a crimping device positioned adjacent a first end thereof. The crimping device may have an adjustable die cavity to facilitate crimping wires of various diameters. The crimping tool further includes a handle portion having a gripping portion suitably configured to be manually grasped. In one embodiment, the head portion is operable to be rotated relative to the handle portion to position the crimping device in a selected orientation and may be maintained in the selected orientation by a biasing mechanism. The crimping tool further includes a drive mechanism operable to actuate the crimping device. In one embodiment, the drive mechanism may be operable to convert rotational motion to reciprocating motion that generates a linear crimping motion in the crimping device.

Abstract: A apparatus for the paint-less dent repair of vehicles, for applying a leverage force between a rigid internal structure and an inside surface of a panel to be straightened, is disclosed. The apparatus includes an elongated lever, a first tool head attached to the elongated lever proximate to the distal end, and a second tool head attached to the lever between the proximal end and the first tool head. The tool heads are attached to opposite sides of the lever facing opposing directions.

Abstract: A punch assembly for punching or forming sheet metal has a circumferentially extending, horizontally disposed supporting flange that is slideably mounted upon the body of the punch assembly as a part thereof for supporting the punch assembly on a punch press. A resilient tool retractor, e.g., one or more springs is provided within the punch assembly for retracting or elevating the body of punch assembly relative to the supporting flange. Provision is also made for enabling a person to manually change the tool length and thus the feed gap from the exterior of the punch assembly by controlling the distance that the upper forming tool, i.e., the punch extends downwardly below the supporting flange and a lock is provided for securely retaining it in a selected position.

Abstract: A punch assembly for punching or forming sheet metal has a circumferentially extending, horizontally disposed supporting flange that is slideably mounted upon the body of the punch assembly as a part thereof for supporting the punch assembly on a punch press. A resilient tool retractor, e.g., one or more springs is provided within the punch assembly for retracting or elevating the body of punch assembly relative to the supporting flange. Provision is also made for enabling a person to manually change the tool length and thus the feed gap from the exterior of the punch assembly by controlling the distance that the upper forming tool, i.e., the punch extends downwardly below the supporting flange and a lock is provided for securely retaining it in a selected position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hand held micro-adjustable bucking bar anvil having an adjustable threaded spindle for positioning the anvil face to the correct height above the surface of the sheet metal, for shaping new rivet heads to the proper diameter, height, and shape meeting the manufacturer's specifications for riveting sheets of metal together as the riveting process is completed. A further disclosure of this present invention is incorporating a threaded spindle having positioning feet. The positioning feet will maintain the rivet head tolerances as the self-leveling feet reaches the working surface; the feet will align the micro-adjustable bucking bar's horizontal and vertical axis to meet the height, diameter, and shape of the rivet heads. The feet align the bucking bar anvil equally on flat surfaces as well as curved surfaces, while shaping rivet heads.

Abstract: A guide for removable attachment to a conventional pneumatic hammer adapts the hammer for use as a Pittsburgh lock hammer. The guide includes a hollow, open-ended tubular element which defines a fragmentary cylindrical wall, and an adjustable fastener is attached to the exterior surface of the wall for removably attaching the element to the pneumatic hammer.

Abstract: A tool for straightening indentations in sheet metal has a pair of substantially L-shaped rods, one leg of one of the rods being mounted concentrically within a corresponding leg of the other of the rods for movement axially along and rotatable about the common axis. The second leg of the outer rod has a recess shaped for receiving the corresponding second leg of the inner rod so that in a first position the second leg of the inner rod may be nestled within the second leg of the outer rod to provide a cross-sectional profile less than the composite of the two rods and both may be inserted and removed as a unit into and from a hole formed in the sheet metal. The inner rod may thereafter be rotated 180 degrees about the common axis and locked in position for applying a pulling force against the sheet metal. A spring detent locking pin secures the rods in the pulling disposition and also in the insertion/removal disposition of the rods.

Abstract: This device relates to a device or tool for pressing sheet metal toward and to engage a spinning or rotating cylindrical-like mold to forceably deform the metal to assume the shape of said mold. More particularly, it relates to an improved device having a freely rollable or universal ball captively held in a ball bearing racer and thereby effect a substantially frictionless inward movement of said sheet metal against said pressure deforming universally rollable ball.