Abstract: A portable device for inserting fixing elements into predefined seats in a work piece, the portable device including a drive head; a drive rod extending downward from the drive head; a hollow nose piece slidably fit around a lower end of the drive rod, the nose piece being attached to the head and being movable vertically by a predetermined distance with respect to the head and the drive rod; a magazine mounted on the nose piece at a predetermined angle with respect to a lower face of the nose piece for feeding a first fixing element into a horizontal slot on the lower face the nose piece; and a single-blow drive mechanism providing a force produced by a pressurized fluid to an upper end of the drive rod when the drive mechanism is triggered. The force on the drive rod drives the first fixing element into the predefined seat in the work piece.

Abstract: A portable device for inserting fixing elements into predefined seats in a work piece, the portable device including a drive head; a drive rod extending downward from the drive head; a hollow nose piece slidably fit around a lower end of the drive rod, the nose piece being attached to the head and being movable vertically by a predetermined distance with respect to the head and the drive rod; a magazine mounted on the nose piece at a predetermined angle with respect to a lower face of the nose piece for feeding a first fixing element into a horizontal slot on the lower face the nose piece; and a single-blow drive mechanism providing a force produced by a pressurized fluid to an upper end of the drive rod when the drive mechanism is triggered. The force on the drive rod drives the first fixing element into the predefined seat in the work piece.

Abstract: Tee-nut support assembly to supply Tee-nuts to the driver device of a Tee-nut setting apparatus, and a package of rolled Tee-nuts connected in a strip for such apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus for inserting Tee-nuts in a solid wooden workpiece, the Tee-nuts having flanges and threaded sleeves of predetermined length, the workpiece having a thickness greater than the sleeve length. The apparatus has an anvil, an anvil die supported on the anvil, a through bore in the anvil die extending along an axis normal to the anvil, and a circular cutting edge. A power operated device is mounted so as to be reciprocable towards and away from the anvil. A moveable die is mounted on the reciprocable device in registration with the anvil die. The movable die includes a stub portion which can be slidingly received in the threaded sleeve of a Tee-nut, and which registers co-axially with the through bore in the anvil die. The anvil die is generally frusto-conical and has two outer surface portions meeting at an obtuse angle.

Abstract: A rolled strip of Tee-nuts connected together by flexible means for use in Tee-nut setting machines, and a rotatable table support for such rolled strip of Tee-nuts.

Abstract: Apparatus for setting fasteners in holes in a workpiece, and having an upper register device for engaging a workpiece on one side at a hole, a lower driver device operable to reciprocate to and fro towards and away from the workpiece on another side of the workpiece in registration with the register device and, a feed assembly to supply fasteners to the driver device, and a package of fasteners connected in a strip for such apparatus, and a method of setting such fasteners in a workpiece.