Abstract: An apparatus for forming a vehicle seat, in which two different upper dies are provided above a base table and two different lower dies are movably provided on the base table. At the central part of the base table, there are a pressing means and a rotary means which cause the pressing of one of the two upper dies against one of the two lower dies. Using this apparatus, two different covering members and cushion members are bonded together in good sequence without need for replacement of the dies so as to produce a number of different seats or seat elements.

Abstract: A portable sheet metal joining apparatus is disclosed including a releasable tool carrying cartridge carried by a piston in a hand held gun which is powered by a booster of very compact design which uses standard compressed air to create high pressure hydraulic fluid to activate the gun.

Abstract: Dimpling and riveting a workpiece wherein the workpiece is clamped, the dimpling, drilling and riveting occur sequentially while the workpiece is clamped, and the workpiece is heated prior to dimpling. During clamping a pressure foot force is applied to one side of the workpiece, and during dimpling a force is applied to the opposite side causing slight movement of the workpiece against the pressure foot force. The dimpled recess in the workpiece is about the shape of a truncated cone and a rivet-receiving hole is drilled through the workpiece in the recess. To provide a fluid-tight seal, the minor diameter of the truncated cone is made slightly greater than the diameter of the rivet-receiving hole thereby providing an annular step between the hole and the outwardly diverging wall of the dimpled recess. During upsetting of the rivet the workpiece material is compressed radially around the annular step to provide a fluid-tight seal between rivet and workpiece.

Abstract: A flexibly programmable belling and tension expanding device for plate fin heat exchanger coils is carried on a shuttle or carriage that moves between first and second work stations. An operator assembles a fin plate heat exchanger unit at a work table at one work station while the device automatically bells and expands the hairpin tubes of another unit at a second station. When assembly is complete, the operator signals a programmable controller, and the shuttle brings the device to the one coil after it completes the expanding of the other, and it commences an automatic expanding operation. Then the operator removes the expanded coil and assembles another coil at the second station while the device is belling and coiling at the one station.

Abstract: A working apparatus for applying a working to a work placed on a pallet conveyed by a conveyer by staking a part of the work or fitting an element to work. The apparatus includes a working head vertically moved between a raised working position where the working head applies the working upon the work from beneath and a lowered rest position. A lifting device disposed beside the working head in the lowered rest position moves the working head up and down. An operating device is also disposed beside the working head in the lowered rest position. The operating device is displaced sideways to be brought into cooperation with the working head in the working position and operates the working head to apply the working to the work.

Abstract: The invention relates to a apparatus for manufacturing thermo-insulated compound profiles for windows, doors and facades, wherein two metal profiles to be joined to form a compound profile are provided with longitudinal grooves into which connecting webs forming an insulating chamber together with the metal profiles are inserted, and secured at their base portions, engaging in the longitudinal grooves, by means of the deformation of the retaining strips bounding the longitudinal grooves.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming hinges from strip stock and for applying the hinges to cards and pockets. Hinge blanks including a pair of hinge legs are stamped from the strip stock and the barrel of the hinge partly formed at a first station. The blank then moves laterally to a second station where the legs are bent at a right angle to the hinge body and the barrel further shaped. Thereafter, the hinge continues in the same lateral path to a third station. Here, the formation of the barrel is completed; the hinge legs are driven through a pocket or card theretofore brought to the station; and the hinge legs are then bent over and against the pocket or card to secure the hinge to it.

Abstract: Air spring components and the completed air spring are carried by an air spring unloader, an end cap holder and a tubular member loader of a shuttle mechanism along a track member adjacent an air spring assembly apparatus. The shuttle mechanism is movable to three positions controlled by stop members so that the air spring can be transferred to the unloader, the end cap can be inserted in a recess of the assembly apparatus and the tubular member positioned for processing by the assembly apparatus. Simultaneously with some of these operations the air spring is transferred to a conveyor and the end cap is transferred from a loading support to the end cap holder. The loader and unloader each have a vertically movable cradle with an overarm clamp for supporting and releasing the tubular member and air spring. The end cap holder has a resiliently mounted chuck on a sliding support for transferring an end cap from a recess in the loading support and inserting the end cap in a recess of the assembly apparatus.

Abstract: A small, structurally simple and operationally reliable apparatus for conveying a plurality of juxtaposed elongated objects transversely to a prescribed position, and moving them longitudinally one by one includes at least two pairs of vertically disposed plate members, those pairs being so spaced apart from each other as to support both ends of the objects thereon. The plate members in each of those pairs being placed one upon the other, and alternately vertically movable for conveying the objects transversely. Each of the plate members has a corrugated upper edge defined by a plurality of alternately occurring crests and roots. The crests on the upper edge of one of the plate members in each pair are in staggered relation to those on the other plate member by a distance which is equal to a half of the pitch between the crests. The apparatus further includes a member provided between those pairs of plate members for receiving each of the elongated objects and moving it longitudinally.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for automatically processing an end portion of a tube disposed along a predetermined moving path so as to be movable toward and away from the moving path. A first clamping device is mounted on the base in front of the pointing device along the moving path. A tube press is disposed between the pointing device and the first clamping device for dimpling the tube wall to form axially spaced positioning sections thereon. A second clamping device is disposed between the tube press and the pointing device for clamping the end portion of the tube. A plug feeding device is disposed between the second clamping device and the pointing device for feeding a plug from a position out of the moving path to a position thereon. A plug inserting device includes an inserting nozzle movable in parallel to the moving direction of the tube for inserting the plug into the end portion of the tube. Lubricant is supplied into the tube through the inserting nozzle.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming brush contacts from spools of wire and holders for angular ended wire segments cut from said wires, has a wire feeding means for feeding spools thereof independently of each other, a cutting device for cutting segments from the wires and feeding the segments to a common collection point where the segments are loaded into the holders provided, and a crimping device for crimping the holder to retain the wires therein without causing flaring of the exposed ends. A checking station is provided to determine whether each brush contact contains the requisite number of wire segments and ejection means to eject defective contacts. The completed contacts are collected in such a manner as to prevent damage thereto.

Abstract: In the manufacture of a blind rivet, a threaded mandril is positioned endwise in a flanged, cylindrical, rivet body. The mandril-containing body is then advanced into a work station between a pair of spaced-apart, C-shaped die sections. The die sections are specially shaped so that when they are forcibly brought together with the rivet body between them, they first almost fully encircle and capture the body without physically appreciably deforming it. Then as the die sections bottom against one another, they coin the rivet body thereby staking the mandril in the body while simultaneously forming a pair of precisely sized, diametrically opposite ribs in the rivet body that extend part way along the length of the body intermediate its ends.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus intended for use in manufacturing candles of a type comprising an open container with candle wax composition, wick and wick holder. The invention is particularly related to wick advancing means and mating means in an apparatus for manufacturing such candles.

Abstract: There is disclosed, in combination with an apparatus for the manufacture of a fan wheel having a plurality of inclined elongated blades cylindrically mounted to a pair of end rings and at least one disc centrally keyed onto the blades and carrying a fan wheel hub, a press for fixing the end rings, the disc and the blades to each other, and a blade feed conveyor belt for carrying the required number of blades, to be assembled on the fan wheel, spaced at a distance corresponding to the position of the blades when assembled on the fan wheel, and for feeding the blades to the press.

Abstract: An automatic machine for assembling and banding together the components making up an expansion shell so that the assembly can be conveniently packaged and shipped. In one embodiment, the machine contains a series of work stations arranged to assemble the bolt components within a die. The expansion shell halves are staked to a common strap and the components then passed through a combination forming gage and banding mechanism which aligns the parts in assembly and bands them together using a plastic sleeve. In a second embodiment of the invention, the expansion shells are staked to the strap prior to being loaded into the die.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling articles such as clips, comprising first and second components formed from metallic sheet stock, said apparatus including an outer annular member and second and third dial members mounted within the annular member, the annular and dial members being rotatably mounted in a synchronized manner associated with the cycling of a die press. Pairs of article components are continuously punched with each press cycle and pushed through an opening in a die block to be received and held at rotatably indexing receiving stations in a horizontal orientation in respective ones of a plurality of clamping assemblies formed in each of the outer annular member and second inner dial member, respectively.As the annular and second dial member rotatably index, the respective clamping assemblies pivot unit the first and second article components are held in a vertical orientation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling an aerosol valve which are intended to assemble a valve made up of a valve body, a spring, a stem, a sealing disk and valve cap. In assembling the valve, two vertically disposed sets formed in sequence are indicated by a first "sealing disk-valve cap" set and a second "valve body-spring-stem" set. The sets are disposed one above the other so that their original orientation is retained, and are brought together so as to place the components into a specified position relative to each other in the valve, then the sets are interlocked by deforming the valve cap. In the apparatus employing the method, namely in a mechanism for bringing the sets together, a tip adapted to grip, transfer and dispose the first set above the second one is provided. By virtue of such an arrangement, the assembling of valves involves a minimum of operations and a high-capacity apparatus has been developed.