Abstract: The method of the present invention is intended to be used in association with a headed fastener such as a tee nut, but not limited to a tee nut. The present method contemplates embodiments of a riveting pin having protuberances that cause the flared end of the shaft to be flared in one or more discontinuous portions of the circumference of the shaft, whereby “push out” and “spin-out” are deterred. Where the length of the fastener shaft is no longer than the thickness of the material through which it is inserted, a first design of flaring pin is provided. Where the length of the shaft of the fastener employed is greater than the thickness of the material through which it extends, a second embodiment of flaring pin is employed. In the former case, at least one discrete portion of the circumference of the shaft is flared into the wall of the passageway through which the shaft extends.

Abstract: The method of the present invention is intended to be used in association with a headed fastener such as a tee nut, but not limited to a tee nut. The present method contemplates embodiments of a riveting pin having protuberances that cause the flared end of the shaft to be flared in one or more discontinuous portions of the circumference of the shaft, whereby “push out” and “spin-out” are deterred. Where the length of the fastener shaft is no longer than the thickness of the material through which it is inserted, a first design of flaring pin is provided. Where the length of the shaft of the fastener employed is greater than the thickness of the material through which it extends, a second embodiment of flaring pin is employed In the former case, at least one discrete portion of the circumference of the shaft is flared into the wall of the passageway through which the shaft extends.

Abstract: A nail having a shank formed with at least one shallow chipped recess, so as to provide nail recesses of a precise predetermined depth, and a strip of such recessed nails, in which wires are welded to the nails in respective chipped recesses. Two or more such recesses may be formed in each nail.The nails may either be arranged in a diagonally staggered fashion with their heads overlapping, or may be spaced further apart so that they are parallel, with their heads aligned, but in which the heads do not overlap.Also disclosed is apparatus for forming a strip of nails having recesses, and having at least two spaced apart rotary chipping tools, operable to form spaced apart recesses in the nails, at least two wire welding stations aligned with the recesses in the nails and strip wire supplies, and welders to weld the strip wires in the recesses forming the nails into a strip, and a method of forming a wire welded strip of recessed nails.

Abstract: A machine for setting and forming a Tee-nut, of the type having a threaded sleeve and an open lower end on the sleeve, in a workpiece, and having a cylindrical body having an upper opening and a stop, a pin member slidably received within the body and having a top end die portion defining a forming surface, a first resilient device for urging the pin member in an upper normal position, and a second resilient device disposed concentrically around the pin member.

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.

Abstract: A nail containing a predetermined unit weight of metal equivalent to a cylindrical nail having a predetermined diameter and having a shank of regular shape, a point at one end, at least two reduced portions formed in the shank longitudinally parallel to the central axis of the shank, having cross section reduced with respect to such a diameter, and a like plurality of ridges formed between the grooves, planar surfaces lying in planes parallel to one another, and, a head on one end of the nail, and at least two of ridges having ridge crests spaced apart a distance greater than the diameter of the equivalent cylindrical nail.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming nails into a nailing strip, in which nails are welded to wire strips, and having a nail feed, a nail indexing wheel indexing nails into predetermined nail spacings, a nail rotator to bring their heads in a predetermined orientation, a nail handling slide for receiving nails, a wire feed for feeding wire to one side of the nails, electrical welding contacts for pressing the wire against nail and passing a welding current to weld the wire to the nail, a moving device for moving the welding contacts towards and away from the nails, and a movement device for moving the nails along the nail slide.

Abstract: Feeding apparatus for elongated objects having a rotary feed member, having a drive for rotating the same at a high speed, spaced apart parallel grooves formed in the outer circumference of the rotary member spaced apart radially from one another, to receive a single elongated object, angled shoulders formed on the outer periphery of the rotary member, located adjacent respective grooves, a recess formed in the rotary member intermediate its upper and lower ends, an ejection device located in the recess for engaging and ejecting objects at a predetermined rotational position and a generally semi-annular retaining guide, around a portion of the rotary member, for retaining objects in the grooves.