Abstract: The invention is a cold rolling process which converts rods of hot rolled metal into strips with width to thickness ratios as high as approximately 17 to 1. The process cools the rod between successive rolling mills and employs feed backward tension controls to direct the speed of each individual upline rolling mill in order to reduce the thermal and mechanical shock experienced by the rod as it is flattened into a strip.

Abstract: The rotational speed of the rolls of a rolling mill is controlled such that the loops of rolled material between two roll stands have a constant height. The last roll stand in the direction of rolling preferably acts as a guide roller stand, whose speed is controlled. The loop height is controlled by adjusting the rotational speed of the roll stand ahead of the loop.

Abstract: A blind rivet nut setting device includes a drawing mandrel, a motor, an interruptible first drive line for producing a rotational motion of the drawing mandrel, and a second drive line for producing an axial motion of the drawing mandrel. The second drive line includes a drive element and an output element. The drive element is axially movable and a portion of its axial movement length corresponds to an idle stroke with respect to the output element and a second portion of its axial movement corresponds to an effective stroke of the output element. The final point of the path of axial movement of the drive element is predetermined so that the effective stroke finishes immediately at the final point. The length of the idle stroke is adjustable.

Abstract: Method and means for maintaining uniform thickness and profile of a metal strip during hot rolling in a multi-stand hot rolling mill, comprising a two-position looper located between adjacent mill stands and movable between a strip threading position above the rolling pass line of the mill and a rolling position substantially in the plane of the rolling pass line, and a thickness and profile gage movable out of operative relationship with the looper when the looper is in a threading position and into operative relationship with the looper when the looper is in a rolling position, the gage adapted to project a measuring X-ray beam from the thickness and profile gage onto the strip during rolling and at an angle to the strip of substantially 90.degree., thereby minimizing measurement error due to variable angularity between the X-ray beam and the strip during rolling.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a frame and a carriage mounted slidably on the frame. The frame has a work support part and the carriage is equipped with a fastener, the threaded end of which extends through a hole in the work support part. A jack is situated between one member attached to the frame and another on the carriage. Extension of the jack moves the carriage on the frame to retract the fastener part way into the hole in the work support part. Tension springs, connected between a part attached to the frame and another on the carriage serve to restore the carriage to its at rest position relative to the frame when the jack is not extended. A flywheel is mounted on a shaft which engages the head of the fastener.

Abstract: A power driven tool for crimping a collar fitted on a shank of a rivet inlcudes an outer sleeve mounted on a body and having a portion for press fitting on an outer surface of the collar, and an inner sleeve disposed within the outer sleeve and reciprocally movable in an axial direction. The inner sleeve has a chuck for grasping the shank of the rivet. A drive shaft is threadably inserted within the inner sleeve and is driven by a motor in one direction or the other. A cam mechanism is disposed between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve and includes a cam pin mounted on the outer sleeve, and a recess formed on the inner sleeve for engagement with the cam pin so as to prevent rotation of the inner sleeve relative to the outer sleeve. The recess includes a first relief portion and a second relief portion at both ends in an axial direction which permit rotation of the inner sleeve only in one direction and only in the other direction, respectively.

Abstract: In a hand-held riveting apparatus having two pivotal levers for performing the actual riveting operation and a screwthreaded mandrel which can be caused to rotate for screwing on the rivet nut and for screwing out the rivet nut after the rivet setting operation. Provided at the rear end of the apparatus housing which is in opposite relationship to the screwthreaded mandrel is a turning mechanism in the form of a rotary head which is non-rotatably connected to a draw spindle which inturn is connected to the screwthreaded mandrel which projects at the front end of the apparatus.

Abstract: A mandrel assembly is utilized to cold work a hole in a structural member which is present in a confined area. A mandrel and sleeve are slipped through one end of the hole. The mandrel length is threaded so that a nut may be turned along its length. Between the nut and the structural member are jaws which retain the sleeve within the hole while the nut is turned. The outward end of the mandrel is fixed by means of clamping flats formed on the outward end so the mandrel may be drawn through the sleeve within the hole as the nut is tightened against the intermediately positioned washer and jaws.

Abstract: This invention provides a novel nose assembly for an installation tool for crimping or swaging nuts onto threaded bolts to form a lock-bolt combination. The nose assembly is configured such that its spindle has a bight section or slot to receive a projected head of a pull piston. This provides quick engagement and disengagement of the nose assembly from the installation tool that allows easier and faster change without the use of special tooling.

Abstract: An installation and swaging tool for installing and swaging a portion of an insert into a parent material, includes a drawbar having an end for carrying an insert. A moveable swaging member is disposed about and guided longitudinally by the drawbar for swaging an insert at the end of the drawbar. A sleeve and other moving means are provided for moving the swaging member longitudinally along the drawbar, wherein the sleeve comprises a guide surface for moving relative to the drawbar. A pin is placed between the drawbar and the guide surface for limiting the relative magnitude of displacement between the drawbar and the sleeve.

Abstract: A tool for drawing blind rivets, especially self-drilling ones, provided with upsetting pins. The tool is intended to be attached to the driving axle (2) of a hand tool (1) and includes a nozzle (8) with a throughbore (9) of such a design that a blind rivet inserted therein is turned when the driving axle (2) is rotated in one direction. A drawing device (10, 12) draws off the upsetting pin of the rivet when the driving axle (2) is rotated in an opposite direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in a hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts used for integrally securing, for example, two panels to each other with a nut. In the hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts, an air piston fitted in air cylinder is moved to pressurize oil housed in the gun body, causing an oil piston to be retracted, so that a screw mandrel attached to the oil piston at its tip is retracted to the inner part of the gun body, thereby to exert a deforming force to a sleeve of a nut threadedly mounted on the screw mandrel. The hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts comprises an air motor to be rotated by compressed air, an air motor driving air guide passage, an air motor forward/reverse rotation direction changeover mechanism for switching the rotation direction of the air motor, and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting an air motor driving force to the screw mandrel.

Abstract: A riveting tool of simple design adapted for repeated one side riveting of rivet nuts particularly in mass production and also suitable for use with a reversible motor drive is provided with a single-threaded pull mandrel and a dolly with an opening corresponding to the external cross section of the threaded pull mandrel. The dolly is slidably arranged on the mandrel. A claw clutch having an upper and a lower part is arranged so that the upper surface of the body of the dolly contacts the lower part of the claw clutch. A retaining element with an opening corresponding to the external cross section of the threaded pull mandrel is freely turnable on the mandrel and the lower part of the retaining element contacts the upper part of the claw clutch for engagement with the lower part of the clutch. A tightening nut is screwed on the upper part of said mandrel. In another embodiment of the invention, an adjustable stop is fixed on the threaded pull mandrel above the tightening nut.

Abstract: This invention provides a tool for attaching fasteners to a workpiece that includes a slide within a body and a rod threaded into the slide. The outer end of the rod threads into the floating nut of a fastener assembly with an enlargement on the rod centering the nut and the fastener sleeve. The tool includes a die through which the rod extends. A segmented spacer fits around the die to support the workpiece around the opening through it, while the rod, pulled by the slide, draws the fastener sleeve into the opening. The segments of the spacer then are separated and retracted, exposing the die. Further actuation forces the die against the end of the fastener sleeve to flare it outwardly and form a flange for retaining the fastener to the workpiece.

Abstract: A tool for setting blind rivet nuts has a housing having a head defining a head axis, a pulling rod extending along and rotatable about the head axis, projecting axially forwardly from the head, and threadable into a blind rivet nut, and a hydropneumatic actuator including a rear air chamber and a source of air under pressure for axially displacing the rod along the axis between an extended position projecting axially relatively far from the head and a withdrawn position axially therebehind. A pneumatic motor connected to the pulling rod for rotating same in one sense to screw it into a rivet nut and for rotating the rod in the opposite sense direction to screw it out of the nut.

Abstract: A blind rivet setting tool for setting threaded rivet nuts comprises a threaded pin for engaging the rivet, and a rotating mechanism to screw the nut on to the threaded pin before a rivet upsetting operation, and to unscrew the pin from the nut after the upsetting operation. The upsetting operation is performed by imparting an axial movement to the pin. The rotating means is actuated to screw the pin into the nut by applying an axial pressure to the tool and the pin while, when the axial load on the tool is relieved, the rotating mechanism automatically rotates the pin in the opposite direction, for disengagement of the pin from the rivet.

Abstract: An apparatus for setting screw type blind rivets including a power drill having a laterally offset drilling head, and an adapter therefor interchangeable with the normal drill bit, which adapter has a laterally elongated slot adapted for receiving the flatted mandrel of the rivet while setting the rivet.

Abstract: An apparatus for threading a closure which includes a vertically movable nest for receiving a closure shell and a vertically movable threading tool which includes a cylindrical threading member having threads on the outside thereof which is receivable within the shell and is movable in an orbital path to produce threads on an inside curl that has been previously formed on the closure shell.

Abstract: A tool (10) for setting rivet nuts (45) in which the non-rotatable collet (23) moved by handles (11,12) and receives in threaded engagement the mandrel holder (29) so that the mandrel holder (29) is axially adjustable with respect to the collet (23). Mandrels (36) are readily inserted in, secured to and removed from the mandrel holder (29) so that a selected mandrel (36) can be used for each type of rivet to be set against selected anvils (18, 20 and 62). Tool (10) is adjustable in various ways to ease placing the rivet (45) on the mandrel (36), affecting adjustment of the position of the rivet nut (45) vis-a-vis the anvil (18, 20 and 62) for a proper and effective pulling stroke and adjusting the travel of the collet during the stroke.

Abstract: This invention provides an installation tool for a fastener that includes a nut and a tubular portion having an external knurl, the tool including an internally and externally threaded sleeve, a screw extending through the sleeve and engageable with the nut of the fastener, and an internally threaded element engaging the external threads of the sleeve and having an abutment surface at one end. Advancement of the internally threaded element causes the screw to move the fastener axially, forcing its tubular portion into an opening in a workpiece. The sleeve has a die surface at one end and is then advanced to engage the end of the tubular portion of the fastener for bending it outwardly to form a flange.

Abstract: An inexpensive hand tool for setting threaded blind fasteners comprising an hexagonal sleeve having an axially extending unthreaded bore therethrough and a bit having a threaded body extending out of the sleeve and adapted to be threaded into the base of the threaded fastener. An Allen wrench socket is recessed in the opposite end of the bit. By means of an open end wrench for holding the sleeve against rotation and an Allen wrench for rotating the bit, the fastener is collapsed and the base is drawn into the fastener body.

Abstract: A fastener setting tool is disclosed for setting, to a panel member or the like, a fastener including an internally threaded nut portion, a tubular portion extending from the nut portion and a flange portion at the end of the tubular portion. The tool has a driving shaft, a nut member operatively connected to the shaft, a pulling rod threadably connected to the nut member and extending forward to the tool and a mandrel movably mounted to the end of the pulling rod with the end thereof having an externally threaded portion, and a half nut connected to the nut member so as to be rotated with the nut member and mounted on the externally threaded surface of the pulling rod under a predetermined binding force by a ring. The mandrel of the fastener setting tool is furthermore independently slidable with respect to the pull rod and is furthermore associated with a stop clutch which engages the mandrel when pushed back by a blind nut type of fastener so as to prevent further rotation.

Abstract: A power hand tool for setting internally threaded rivets comprising a housing having a motor which drives a mandrel that screws into the rivets and compresses them against an anvil forming part of the housing. The connection between the motor and mandrel includes a spindle driven by the motor and having a chamber at one end which receives a mandrel driver that in turn carries the mandrel. A spring in the chamber behind the driver yieldably urges the mandrel in the direction of the rivet to be set on the mandrel.

Abstract: In one exemplar embodiment a tool for collapsing hollow-wall anchors is disclosed. The tool includes a pair of elongated handles one of which is designed to remain stationary while the other is mounted in a spaced-apart relationship to the stationary handle for limited pivotal movement with respect thereto. One end of the stationary handle has a head including an open-ended base plate with a slot disposed therein for accepting the shank of the bolt of a conventional wall anchor. A jaw member is pivotally attached to one end of the pivotable handle and adaped for reciprocal movement with respect to the base plate of the head. The jaw also has a slot disposed therein for engaging the head of the bolt for exerting an outward axial force on the anchor bolt when the pivoting handle is closed toward the stationary handle to collapse the anchor.

Abstract: An adapter for use with a conventional installation tool normally used for installing blind rivets comprises a universal installer head which is attached to the tool by threading one end of it onto the head of the tool in alignment with the gripping and pulling jaws located within the tool. The other end of the installer head is made to engage the upper surface of a squash nut. A pull shaft has a threaded end for engagement with the internally threaded portion of a squash nut and a jaw engaging end for free passage through the hole in the installer head into the area within the tool where it is gripped and pulled by the jaws in the installation tool. For squash nuts of different sizes, different pull shafts may be used where the jaw engaging end is of the same external diameter but where the threaded end has a different size depending upon the size of the squash nut with which the pull shaft is intended to be used.

Abstract: A tool for toggle-screw anchors in which the anchor sleeve has flanged and threaded ends and an intermediate longitudinally slotted section which collapses radially outwardly (to grip the rear side of a wall while the flanged end is engaged with the front side of the wall) upon movement of the threaded end toward the flanged end, the tool herein being characterized in the provision an elongated body of strip material having a narrow end bent to form a handle and having a wide end with an opening therethrough through which the shank of a hex head actuating screw extends for clamping said wide end between the flange of an anchor sleeve screwed onto said actuating screw and a spacer washer (s) of selected thickness between the head of the actuating screw and the wide end of the body.

Abstract: A tool for the installation of so-called press nuts comprises a draw bar which is axially displaceable in a housing. A draw mandrel having a threaded outer end portion for cooperation with a female thread in said press nut is connected to the outer end of said draw bar, so that the press nut can be secured in a bore of a workpiece by being upset by means of a pulling force from the draw mandrel upon axial displacement of the draw bar into said tool housing. Said draw mandrel is axially unmovably but rotatably connected relative to the draw bar. The rotor of a motor is journalled in the tool housing around the outer end of the draw bar and is drivable in one or the other direction of rotation and is arranged thereby to rotate the draw mandrel thereby to screw same into or out of the press nut before and after the upsetting of same.

Abstract: A tool for toggle-screw anchors in which the anchor sleeve has flanged and threaded ends and an intermediate longitudinally slotted section which collapses radially outwardly (to grip the rear side of a wall while the flanged end is engaged with the front side of the wall) upon movement of the threaded end toward the flanged end, the tool herein being characterized in the provision of an L-shaped body having an elongated tubular leg with an actuating screw extending therethrough and projecting axially beyond one end thereof for screwing of the anchor sleeve thereonto with its flange snugly engaged with one end of the tubular leg while the other end of the tubular leg is engaged by the head of the screw. The body also has an elongated radially extending leg which is adapted to be held against the front side of the wall to position the tubular leg, screw, and anchor sleeve thereon perpendicular to the wall when the anchor sleeve is inserted into the hole in the wall.

Abstract: A rivet nut setting tool having a frame with a head at one end and a grip at the other. A lever is pivotally mounted on the frame and its grip is generally parallel with the frame grip. The lever carries a threaded shaft which extends through an opening in the head. The shaft is rotated to take up the rivet nut to be set, and the grips are squeezed together to set the rivet in the work piece.

Abstract: A pressure riveting unit for blind or one-side riveting provided with a two-arm riveting head, there being a pull stud for hollow rivets on the end of each arm. The head is adapted to be turned through 180.degree., thereby permitting the simultaneous fixing of one hollow rivet blank on one pull stud and the forming of a rivet head on a rivet blank which has been previously fixed on the other pull stud.

Abstract: A tool for setting threaded bushes has a body portion and a mandrel puller rotatably and slidably mounted in the body portion. A mandrel is fixed to the mandrel puller for movement therewith. The free end portion of the mandrel is screw-threaded for engagement with a threaded bush. Means are provided for sliding the mandrel puller relative to the body portion so that the threaded bush strikes the body portion and is arrested thereby. Further movement of the mandrel puller causes the bush to expand and be set in position. The threaded bush is releasable from the mandrel by rotating the mandrel puller relative to the body portion.

Abstract: A tool for setting internally threaded blind-rivet nuts comprises a pliers-type structure having a fixed arm having at one end thereof a hammerhead housing formed with a bore in which a pulling piece is linearly guided. A mandrel having an external threaded part for screwing into a blind-rivet nut removably clamped in this pulling member and can be dislodged by forcing it through the pulling member and out of the end remote from the end of the head at which the blind-rivet nut is to be set. The housing is formed with a stop screw which can be indexed in place to limit the displacement of a movable arm on the housing which arm is connected with the pulling member and establishes the stroke thereof.

Abstract: A manually operable tool for installing blind anchor nuts by pulling an internally threaded part of the nut into a body part of the nut to expand the latter. The tool includes a body member having a bore extending therethrough, an anvil at one end of the bore for engaging the body part of an anchor nut, the anvil surrounding an aperture aligned with the bore, and a grip by means of which an operator can hold the body member to prevent rotation thereof about the bore. A mandrel, which may be changed without the need for external tooling, is positioned in the aperture in the anvil, the mandrel having an externally threaded portion extending outwardly of the anvil and a socket facing into the bore. A shaft is rotatable and reciprocable in the bore of the body member which shaft is provided at one end with a key which fits into the socket on the mandrel in driving engagement therewith, the key being interchangeable without the need for external tooling.

Abstract: A tool for deforming wall anchors is disclosed. The tool is provided with a head, and a pair of elongated handles pivotally extend from the head. A profile follower is sandwiched between the handles to move linearly relative to the head in response to pivotal movement of the pivoted handles. An operating member is movable with the follower to deform a wall anchor attached to the operating member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an installation tool for securing tapped plugs onto panels. In a preferred embodiment said tool includes a threaded rod slidably supported at one end of a first lever, a link pivotably connected at its lower end to said first lever the upper end of which including an opening through which said threaded rod extends and a second lever pivotably connected to said link, said second lever including a protrusion which can cooperate with said first lever to cause the respective ends of said first lever and of said link through which said threaded rod extends to move away from each other during a first movement of both levers toward each other, said link including a protrusion which can cooperate with said second lever after a predetermined rotation of said second lever relatively to said first lever to move said respective ends of said first lever and of said link supporting said rod further away from each other.

Abstract: A tool for placing fasteners of the kind having a threaded first part which is pulled towards and/or into a second part to place the fastener without the need to accurately align the tool with the fastener, comprises a tubular nosepiece providing an annular abutment face for abutting the second part of the fastener and a mandrel which extends through the nosepiece and has a threaded part which projects forwardly of the abutment face for threadedly engaging the first part of the fastener. A draw bar which is rotatable and reciprocable on the tool axis which extends through the annular abutment face at right angles thereto transmits rotary and reciprocating motion to the mandrel through a universal joint whereby the mandrel is given freedom to move pivotally out of alignment with the tool axis. A tube surrounds part of the mandrel and limits the freedom of movement of the mandrel, and is movable along the tool axis.

Abstract: A setting tool includes an adapter for alternately providing rotary and linear motion of the adapter shaft, which engages the fastener. The adapter includes a housing for attachment to a setting tool such as an air gun. A drive member within the housing is secured to the main drive shaft of the air gun for rotation therewith. The drive member includes a perimetrical helical power screw. The adapter shaft extends through the housing and has a rearward end including means such as splines and a spring loaded detent assembly for rotative cooperation with the drive member. The forward end of the adapter shaft engages the fastener. Biasing means are positioned between the adapter shaft and the drive shaft. An inner sleeve positioned about the adapter shaft is threaded for engagement and movement along the drive member. A pick-up means is secured to the adapter shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming corrugations of "zero" pitch in coaxial cable includes a takeup drum which pulls the coaxial cable through a three jaw chuck or head at a speed related to the rotation of the head. The head includes three forming dies and three synchronizing gears which cooperate with the forming dies to synchronize movement of the forming dies for movement about the cable. By causing the takeup drum to pull the cable through the head at a predetermined rate, the forming dies cut parallel corrugations or "zero" pitch grooves in the cable jacket.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a setting tool for toggle bolts of the type which include pressure collapsible shanks, the tool enabling a toggle bolt to be mounted thereon, inserted in an aperture, such as an aperture in a ceiling, wall or the like, and set by activation of the tool into permanent position within the aperture.

Abstract: A metal leveler tool includes a body having a handle portion and a housing. A chuck is received by the body through the housing for linear movement between two limit positions. A movable handle is coupled to the chuck and mounted by the body for pivotal movement about a fulcrum. A machine screw is supported by the chuck to be threadedly received through a workpiece within an area of a dent upon movement of the chuck to one limit position followed by pivotal movement of the movable handle. The housing of the body is supported by an anvil which is supported by the workpiece over the dent. Pivotal movement of the movable handle in the other direction followed by reverse movement of the chuck to the second limit position acts to draw the dented area of the workpiece toward the anvil.

Abstract: A tool for installing an internally threaded tubular rivet. A pair of levers are pivotally connected together with one of the levers having a portion with a hole therein. A tubular anvil is received in the hole and is secured to the lever. A rod extends axially through the anvil and is relatively movable with respect to the anvil. A knob or the like is mounted on the rod and is spaced axially from the anvil for rotating the rod relative to the anvil. The knob has an abutment thereon which engages the other lever so that a relative movement between the two levers will effect a relative movement between the rod and the anvil.