Patents by Inventor Brian C. Mondello

Brian C. Mondello has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Shipping, storing and loading system for fastener collars
    Patent number: 5167327
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for loading fastener collars of the lockbolt variety into a tubular magazine associated with a fastener collar-feeding apparatus. Collars are stacked on an elongated flexible mandrel, after which the mandrel-collar assembly is inserted as a unit into the tubular magazine. The mandrel is then pulled out of the magazine while deforming a collar retainer provided on the mandrel thereby releasing the collars from the mandrel and leaving the collars loaded in place within the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Huck Patents, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian C. Mondello
  • Apparatus and gripping jaw assembly for setting fasteners
    Patent number: 4598572
    Abstract: A tool for setting a fastener which includes a pin having a plurality of grooves adapted to be gripped by a plurality of jaws in a nose assembly of the tool with the jaws being resiliently held in flexible pockets in a manner maintaining the jaws in a desired axial and radial alignment with each other and with the fastener grooves and with the jaws being selectively movable into and out of the pockets whereby manual insertion and replacement is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Huck Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Brian C. Mondello, Hendrik E. Rosier