Abstract: A ceiling panel suspension system includes a tapered anchor installing head driver for use in a ceiling anchor pole system for installing anchors and associated support wires from a ceiling or other support structure to be used to support a suspended ceiling. The tapered body of the head driver enables an installer to better visually align the anchor with a previously drilled pilot holes.

Abstract: A serial-connection fitting assembly and a punch apparatus applied therefore are disclosed. The serial-connection fitting assembly includes a plurality of fitting members and a plurality of joining members staggered with the fitting members in alignment. Each fitting member has a conjunction hole radially arranged therein, and a groove indented radially on a top surface thereof with the same axial direction of the conjunction hole. The serial-connection fitting assembly is loaded in the punch apparatus, and the fitting members could be punched into pre-holes of respective plates one by one. Therefore, the labor hour for inserting the fitting members could be saved, and the efficiency for assembling the plates would be increased.

Abstract: A serial-connection fitting assembly and a punch apparatus applied therefore are disclosed. The serial-connection fitting assembly includes a plurality of fitting members and a plurality of joining members staggered with the fitting members in alignment. Each fitting member has a conjunction hole radially arranged therein, and a groove indented radially on a top surface thereof with the same axial direction of the conjunction hole. The serial-connection fitting assembly is loaded in the punch apparatus, and the fitting members could be punched into pre-holes of respective plates one by one. Therefore, the labor hour for inserting the fitting members could be saved, and the efficiency for assembling the plates would be increased.

Abstract: A fastener installation tool that is configured to feed fasteners from a magazine assembly into a housing where one of the fasteners is aligned to a reciprocating tool bit. The fastener installation tool is configured to set the fastener into a workpiece such that the head of the fastener is spaced apart from the surface of the workpiece by a predetermined amount. A method for coupling a first workpiece to a second workpiece is also provided.

Abstract: A U-nut type fastener installation tool, for installing individual U-nut fasteners from a vertically stacked, nested, or collated strip or array of such fasteners disposed within a magazine portion of the tool. The vertically nested, stacked, or collated strip is biased toward the dispensing station or position by means of a spring member, and a wedge-shaped member is adapted to be driven between an endmost one of the nested, stacked, or collated fasteners and the remaining fasteners disposed within the nested, stacked, or collated array of fasteners so as to separate the endmost one of the fasteners from the remaining fasteners of the nested, stacked or collated array of fasteners and drive such endmost fastener onto the edge portion of the support plate or panel.

Abstract: A device and method for placing band on bait for connecting bait first and second components is set forth which includes a loader having a barrel with at one end a retainer to hold the first component against the end of the barrel and at the other end a smaller diameter handle. An elastic band is provided to be received over the handle and to elastically expand as it is passed such as by sliding or rolling from the handle onto the barrel. As the band is moved off of the barrel end it contracts about the bait to provide a band on the bait for holding, for example, a hook or to band together first and second lure components. The retainer may be a barb or a clip. Further means may be provided to interchange between the type of retainer.

Abstract: An automatic stress plate feeder includes a generally horizontal stress plate magazine holding a series of generally flat stress plates each positioned generally vertically on edge therein. An electric motor drives the stress plates through the magazine, to drop them singly at a pickup point where they are picked up by a pair of magnetic arms and positioned generally horizontally beneath a screw gun extension. The screw gun extension includes a compression spring therein, causing it to telescope upwardly to provide clearance for each stress plate to be positioned beneath the screw gun extension and its bit. A screw feeder tube provides for the introduction of a screw into the screw gun extension, and the screw gun is compressed downwardly and operated to drive the screw through the plate positioned thereunder. The securing of the plate to the underlying structure causes the pickup arms to release the plate, whereupon they swing upwardly to pick up another plate to continue the process.

Abstract: By advancing a rotatable feed rod (5) with a threaded part (1) such as a bolt or a nut inserted into a socket hole (6) at a front end thereof, the threaded part (1) is supplied and tightened to an object such as a threaded hole or a bolt. In order to prevent the part (1) from dropping off or dislocating on its way of feeding the part (1) is advanced to the vicinity of the object with the part being restrained by, for example, a closure member (31), and then the part (1) is inserted into the socket hole (6) of the feed rod (5). Finally, the feed rod (5) is further advanced until the part (1) arrives at the object and is tightened thereto.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for feeding and tightening threaded parts, such as bolts or nuts. The apparatus incorporates a holding member longitudinally movable while holding a threaded part at the front end thereof, and a rotary feed rod having an engaging head at the front end thereof adapted to engage the threaded part. A retractable detecting member is used to detect the presence of a threaded part in the holding member. The rotary feed rod is longitudinally movable wherein, first, the holding member holds the threaded part at or adjacent the end of a part feeding passage and is then longitudinally moved to a position where the threaded part is coaxial with the feed rod. The engaging head of the feed rod is then advanced, and substantially at the same time as the engaging head engages the threaded part the holding member is moved backward to allow the feed rod to be advanced. Thus, the threaded part is fed to a mating part, such as a threaded hole or a bolt, and tightened.

Abstract: A part feeding apparatus is adapted to hold a part (10) on a holding portion (12) at the front end of a feed rod (11) and feed it to an intended place. A locking portion (14) at the end of a feed tube (7) is disposed in opposed relation to the holding portion (12). The apparatus includes an operating rod (20) adapted to move into the locking portion (14) to transfer a part (10) from the locking portion (14) to the holding portion (12), and the part once positioned at the locking portion (14) is moved to the holding portion (12). Further, a magnet (23) for attracting the part is retractably installed adjacent the holding portion (12) at the front end of the feed rod (11).

Abstract: The invention discloses an installation for the automatic assembly of the lower socket-bracket of opening leaves, i.e. the part of the fitting intended to be fixed to the lower corner of an opening leaf preferably of oscillating leaf type, in line with its vertical axis of rotation and transferring the weight of the leaf to a bearing embedded in the frame.The automatic installation is essentially formed of an installation 100 for equipping the socket, formed of workstations disposed about a rotary bed-plate and an installation 200 for the automatic assembly of the bracket on the socket formed of work stations disposed in a reference plane P--P. These two installations 100 and 200 are associated together via an automatic transfer mechanism 30.The invention makes possible the equipping and assembling of socket-brackets, completely automatically, all the operations following each other in a continuous flow.

Abstract: A machine for fastening one or more layers of roofing material to an underlayment, and a stackable washer therefor. A chute receives a stack of such washers. A shuttle displaces a single washer to a separated position when moved in one direction, to which the shuttle is biased, and releases the single washer when moved in the opposite direction. A gate, which cooperates with camming surfaces defined upon the respective washers, restrains the overlying washer within the stack against being displaced along with the single washer and restrains the single washer from being displaced from the separated position. Various components are provided by linking a stand-up screw gun of a known type to the shuttle. The stackable washer is embossed so that each such washer and like overlying and underlying washers within a stack contact each other at three or more places, which define tangent planes intersecting planes defined by planar areas upon such washers at angles greater than 45.degree. but less than 90.degree.

Abstract: A device for torquing and untorquing visable or hidden nuts or both disposed on a common circle of centers in the rotor assembly of a jet engine wherein said device comprises a bolt locating platform disposed outside of said rotor assembly, a trunnion assembly rotatably disposed within said rotor assembly, a connector between said platform and said trunnion assembly, a torquing assembly disposed on said platform and extending through and beyond said trunnion assembly, a torque box having a nut socket disposed thereon, said torque box being operably connected to said torquing assembly, a nut inserter assembly for transferring a nut from outside of said rotor assembly to a point within said assembly where said nut is transferred to the nut socket on said torque box and ultimately to a bolt within said rotor assembly and means operably connected to said device for monitoring and measuring the following parameters: bolt location, prevailing torque, applied torque, applied turn angle and/or breakaway torque.

Abstract: A clip-like, C-shaped sheet-metal nut and an assembly device therefor, the nut having a thread leg with an embossed thread portion and a clip leg having a through hole, with the forward end of the thread leg having an upwardly and forwardly inclined insertion plate. A pair of guide webs are integrally formed on the two lateral edges of the thread leg that extend upwardly at right angles to the leg with the upper edges of the webs protruding above the insertion plate and running parallel to the clip leg and with their side surfaces being in a line with the lateral edges of the clip leg to provide a substantially outer rectangular perimeter to the nut.

Abstract: A tool for installing nutplates to a structural part. The tool is portable or useable with a robot. The tool includes a supply of nutplates and a rivet feeding and insertion mechanism. The rivets are inserted in the structural part, followed by the positioning of a nutplate into engagement with the rivets and finally by clamping of the rivets to retain the nutplate in assembly with the clamped rivets.

Abstract: Device for screwing screws through a hole of a plate into a base plate for securing insulating material, the device having a magazine with plates and a magazine with screws. The device has a screw driver which can be moved up and down. The screw driver according to the invention feeds a plate and a screw towards their mating position in line with the screw driver during the upward stroke of the screw driver.

Abstract: A tool for installing nutplates to a structural part. The tool is portable or useable with a robot. The tool includes a supply of nutplates and a rivet feeding and insertion mechanism. The rivets are inserted in the structural part, followed by the positioning of a nutplate into engagement with the rivets and finally by clamping of the rivets to retain the nutplate in assembly with the clamped rivets.

Abstract: An improved and novel lag screw driving apparatus whereby a screw along with a hanger formed thereon is threaded into a wooden ceiling member or the like from floor level. The apparatus comprises a handle having a wire magazine, a wire magazine loader mounted above the handle and through which wires have ingress to and egress from the magazine, a head or holder for an eye-screw mounted on the magazine loader, at least one pair of longitudinally-split sleeves spaced one from another and to which tubular members forming the magazine and the magazine loader are clamped. Each of the split sleeves includes a ledge from which smaller and larger bores in opposing directions extend. A clamping means across the split of each sleeve and to each side of the ledge is provided so that handle tubing and the magazine loader which are inserted into the bores of the sleeve are secured therein. Chamfers along the split are provided.

Abstract: This invention is found in the construction or configuration of the elements in the head of a driver apparatus utilized in securing screws in wooden members and to its relationship with a wire magazine loader mounted to the driving apparatus itself. The invention comprises a head member having a top and an outer wall which encompasses a cavity that forms crossed passageways extending to the top, openings in the outer wall communicating with cavity, atmosphere and magazine loader. The first of such cavity passageways is formed by vertically-oriented walls and a bottom, for containing an eyelet screw. A bar is provided at the bottom, in alignment with the first passageway for supporting the screw eyelet to which a hanger wire is to be threaded.

Abstract: A method for installing a locking nut or bolt includes drilling a bore having at least two diameters in a surface of an element so as to accommodate a fastener assembly having a threaded shaft and a group of elements including a cylinder a locking ring, two retaining rings and a conical spring, serrating an area of the bore having the layer diameter, screwing the fastener assembly into the bore, applying a torque to the group of elements while suppressing the locking ring thereby engaging the locking ring into the serrated area of the bore, retracting an outer sleeve of the tool and tightening the group of elements.

Abstract: Automatic driving apparatus which sequentially inserts screws provided with washers into work pieces includes a chute formed with an opening transverse to its axis. Screws are fed sequentially through the opening into the chute. A driver in the chute is shaped for driving engagement with an introduced screw. A drive mechanism axially moves the driver in the chute and rotates the same in a plane transverse to the axis for thereby engaging the driver with the screw and axially moving the screw with the rotating driver. A magazine adapted to hold apertured washers is provided with a slide which sequentially moves the washers transversely to the chute axis from the magazine to a position of alignment of an aperture in the moved washer with an axially moving screw in the chute. A source of motive power is connected with the feeding mechanism for the screws, the drive mechanism, and the slide for transmitting motive power to the feeding mechanism, the drive mechanism, and the slide in timed sequence.

Abstract: A tool for applying fasteners to a workpiece includes a housing and a punch reciprocally mounted in the housing. The punch includes an elongated slot through which a feed plate that is slideably mounted within the housing passes. A cam stop member is rotatably and slideably mounted in the housing and biased to engage the punch. The punch includes a first surface to rotate the cam such that a punch engaging edge is positioned against the punch. A second surface is defined on the punch at a predetermined distance spaced from the first surface and is engaged by the edge of the cam at an incomplete stroke of the punch. A third surface on the punch is spaced a predetermined distance from the second surface. The third surface rotates the punch engaging surface of the cam away from the punch at the completion of a full stroke allowing return of the punch to its normal position.

Abstract: The present power driver handles fasteners of varying length mounted on a strip or belt, through a touch-down foot which accommodates fasteners of different length to eliminate wasted motion of the driver. The fasteners are also prevented by said touch-down foot from tipping or going into a workpiece at an angle. The depth to which the fasteners are driven into the workpiece is controllable and any irregularities in the mounting of the fasteners on the strip or belt are compensated.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically feeding and setting stud bolts. The apparatus comprises a parts feeder unit for axially arranging stud bolts having threaded portions of different lengths on the opposite ends thereof in a low, a bolt orienting unit for directing stud bolts in one direction, an escapement unit for correctly feeding stud bolts one by one, an impact wrench unit for screwing stud bolts into intended work to set them in position, a pneumatic pressure control unit for feeding compressed air produced by a compressor into the escapement unit and impact wrench unit, and an electric control unit for electrically controlling the units, the arrangement being such that all operations which end up with screwing stud bolts into intended work to set them in position are carried out mechanically.