Patents by Inventor Ralph Fuhrmeister

Ralph Fuhrmeister 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).

  • Method and apparatus for mounting rivets or the like in a flexible carrier
    Patent number: 4404742
    Abstract: A method of making a carrier for rivets or similar articles which includes the steps of guiding a strip of pliable resiliently deformable material to pass an apertured die sequentially driving a number of rivets to the strip with a striker to cause part of the strip to be deformed and stretched into the die and to punch a hole through the strip into which the rivet is driven and held frictionally, with drawing the striker and the die from the rivet and advancing the strip to receive the next rivet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: Furma Manufacturing Co. Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Ralph Fuhrmeister
  • Method and apparatus for riveting
    Patent number: 4106180
    Abstract: Sheet metal pieces are riveted together by punching a hole through the pieces with a rivet the shank of which is driven through them, into an oversize female die, and to a cutter, the pieces being deformed into the die, and the penetrating end of the rivet shank being divided into a number of sections by the cutter, which also spreads these sections apart, the diameter of the die being such that the spread sections of the divided rivet shank may be withdrawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Furma Manufacturing Co. Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Ralph Fuhrmeister
  • Apparatus for riveting
    Patent number: 4019238
    Abstract: Sheet material pieces are riveted together by punching a hole in the pieces with a rivet driven through them and into an oversize female die, which is then moved to move the penetrated pieces towards the head of the rivet. The rivet is further advanced so that the end which has penetrated the pieces is flattened and radially enlarged against an anvil. This radially enlarged end may be withdrawn from the oversize female die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Furma Manufacturing Co. Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Ralph Fuhrmeister