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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361178 | Cranial flap clamp and instrument for use therewith The disclosed cranial flap clamp includes first and second clamping members and an extension member. A portion of the first member is positionable against inferior surfaces of a bone flap and skull and a portion of the second member is positionable against superior ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7293339 | Low swage load fastening system and method A low swage load fastening system is provided for installing swage-type fasteners to secure a plurality of workpieces together. The fastener includes a pin member having an elongated pin shank to be located in aligned openings in the workpieces. An enlarged head at ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290317 | Blind rivet setting tool A blind rivet setting tool has a construction in which a tubular spring-biased handle gripped by an operator moves axially of the tool. An interlock between a trigger lever and the handle prevents operation of the tool until a rivet held by the tool is properly posi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287944 | Self-riveting male fastener and panel assembly A male fastener formed of heat treated carbon steel for high performance applications, including a shank portion, radial flange and tubular barrel, wherein the barrel has an axial length of 60% or less than the outside diameter and a fastener and panel assembly, whe... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284319 | Self-piercing rivet setting die and apparatus A die (18) for use in a self-piercing rivet setting apparatus comprises a cavity (25) for receiving therein a protruded workpiece zone consisting of respective portions of the workpieces (2, 3) to be protrudingly deformed toward the die through ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7195438 | Swage type fastener A fastening system is provided that includes a fastener having a pin member with a lock groove and crest geometry that is optimized to receive swaged material from collars of materials of different strengths for securing workpieces for different load applications. T... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189243 | Orthopaedic fixation pin extraction An instrument and a method for gripping an orthopaedic fixation pin during a surgical procedure and extracting the pin from bone in which the pin is embedded. The pin has an embedded portion extending into the bone along a longitudinal axis, and a projecting portion... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178213 | Rivet driving anvil retention system and method A driving anvil washer retaining apparatus (12) for a rivet gun (14) includes a magnetized element (21). The magnetized element (21) is coupled to the rivet gun (14) and retains an anvil washer (52) during installation of a ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7047617 | Method of attaching a self-piercing element in a panel and die member A self-piercing element including a shank, a radial flange and a tubular barrel. The flange includes spaced concave surfaces and the annular bearing surface has an area at least four times the concave surfaces. The element is installed in a panel supported on a fema... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7024741 | Fastening structure with a rivet A fastening tool draws a mandrel (5) to allow a caulking portion of the mandrel to deform a stem of a rivet (2) so that workpieces are fastened together. The fastening tool used in this process includes a nosepiece having a protrusion. During caulking,... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025550 | Pull type swage fasteners with removable mandrel A pull type swage fastener including a pin and a collar adapted to be swaged into a locking portion on the pin shank and with a removable mandrel being threadably securable in a pull cavity at the end of the pin shank and with the mandrel adapted to be gripped by an... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6928900 | Tool for shearing bolts A tool for breaking a shaft includes two aligned tubular elements (20, 22), each having an end portion for receiving a contiguous length of the same shaft (2). Means are provided for locking each end portion against rotation relative to the shaft lengt... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6792657 | Method and apparatus for connecting a fastener element to a wall A tubular fastener element (34) is inserted into an opening (44) in a wall (W) until a flange (40) at the trailing end of the fastener element (34) is in contact with the wall (W). Then, an externally threaded end (32) of a rod ( | 09/21/2004 |
| 6662420 | Hydraulic installation tool A hydraulic installation tool for installing fasteners is provided, that includes a housing having a first portion adapted to receive a drawbar and a second portion adapted to receive a piston, a gland and a retaining ring. A generally L-shaped drawbar is... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6497024 | Low swage load fastener and fastening system A fastening system including a two piece swage type fastener with a pin and collar with pin having a shank with relatively wide lock grooves having a generally smooth root contour with the collar having a shank with a wall thickness of excess volume of ma... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6487767 | Method and apparatus for connecting a fastener element to a wall A tubular fastener element (34) is inserted into an opening(44) in a wall (W) until a flange (40) at the trailing end of the fastener element (34) is in contact with the wall (W). Then, an externally threaded end (32) of a rod (28) is inserted into a cent... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6389676 | Blind riveting A method of blind riveting to secure together a plurality of members (26, 27, 28) with aligned apertures, using a blind rivet comprising a tubular shell (11) with a head (13) and a stem (12) extending through the tubular shell. The method comprises the st... | 05/21/2002 |
| 5697141 | Method of securing members together A method of riveting two metal sheets together including the steps of inserting the shank of a blind rivet through superposed oversized holes in the sheets, and deforming the parts of the sheets immediately surrounding the apertures by compression between... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5371933 | Fastener setting tool with offset nose assembly A fastener setting tool including an anvil housing having an offset anvil portion and a collet positioned slidably in the anvil housing and including an offset portion coacting with the offset anvil portion of the anvil housing to defined an offset nose a... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5228610 | Wrist support for hand-held devices An armrest attachable to a tool to provide support for a worker's wrist while the tool is being manipulated or actuated. The armrest underlies the worker's forearm so the weight of the tool is borne partly by the worker's fingers and hand and partly by th... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5208958 | Fastener nose assembly with rearward jaw release A nose assembly attachable to an actuating tool for pulling a pin type fastener through aligned holes in two or more workpieces includes a pin-engagement jaw structure that is locked to or unlocked from the fastener through a lost motion connection. A tra... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5170923 | Nosepiece for installation of blind tubular rivets A nosepiece assembly for a blind pull-through riveting tool has long nosepiece jaws (11a, 11a) for access into deep, narrow cavities. The inside of the nosepiece assembly is provided with a device for locking the jaws together at least when a rivet is bei... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5171115 | Swage collar with pintail and fastening system and method A swage type fastener including a swageable collar member having a pintail member secured thereto to define a pintailed collar; the pintailed collar is operable to be secured to a stud or pin member by an installation tool which applies a relative axial f... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5146773 | Tapered rotatable offset nose assembly A rotatable nose assembly for swaging a fastener collar onto a grooved fastener pin in an application where there is only limited access to the pin and collar assembly. A swaging anvil has parallel flat side faces adapted to fit into a channel-shaped work... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5140735 | Die member for attaching a self-piercing and riveting fastener An improved die member and method of attaching a self-piercing and riveting fastener to a panel wherein a slug pierced from the panel by the riveting fastener is securely staked in the tubular riveting portion of the fastener during the installation of th... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5036572 | Rotatable nose assembly for setting fasteners A tool for swaging a fastener collar around a grooved fastener pin to secure two or more work pieces together includes an axially elongated anvil and collet that can slide back and forth to perform the swaging operation. Localized side areas of the anvil ... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4813261 | Rotatable offset nose assembly for setting fasteners An offset nose assembly for swaging a fastener collar about a fastener pin includes an anvil housing which is rotatably mounted within a tubular sleeve portion of a hydraulically actuated installation tool. A collet is slidably fitted within the anvil hou... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4701993 | Method of installing threaded fastener A threaded fastener for installation in threaded engagement with an initially unthreaded apertured workpiece and which after installation can be removed in the manner of a screw or bolt, has a shank and an enlarged head. At least part of the shank interme... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4598572 | Apparatus and gripping jaw assembly for setting fasteners A tool for setting a fastener which includes a pin having a plurality of grooves adapted to be gripped by a plurality of jaws in a nose assembly of the tool with the jaws being resiliently held in flexible pockets in a manner maintaining the jaws in a des... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4587829 | Lightweight, high pressure fastener installation tool and system A piston-cylinder, pull type installation tool operable from a source of high hydraulic pressure for setting large diameter swage type fasteners including a pin and a collar by application of a relative axial force thereto with the tool having a pair of p... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4299519 | Two piece fastener and installation tool A two piece pull-type fastener is disclosed herein comprising a pin and collar adapted to be swaged into locking engagement with the pin upon setting of the fastener by application of a pulling force to the pin and reaction force on the collar. The pin is... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4189933 | Hand operated lockbolt setting tool A pull-type fastener setting tool is provided comprising a pistol-shaped housing having an abutment on a barrel portion for engagement with one part of a fastener and which also includes a hand-grip portion, a pulling device slidable in the housing and en... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4112811 | Self-dimpling fastener pin A self-dimpling fastener pin for use in forming dimpled fastener joints connecting thin sheets of material including a shank; a head integral with one end of the shank; and, a pintail integral with the opposite end of the shank with the shank, head and pi... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4000668 | Blind bolt fastener installation tool with an apparatus for retrieving severed blind bolt fastener stems An improved blind bolt fastener installation tool with an apparatus for retrieving the stems of blind bolt fasteners, which are severed during the installation of such fasteners, by restraining each severed stem from falling from the installation tool unt... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3996784 | Single operation-triple cycle lockbolt setting device and system A process for seating a lockbolt with a positioned collar, swaging the collar onto the seated lockbolt and breaking off the pintail all in one operation. A single source of hydraulic power pulls a nose piece with gripper jaws to seat the lockbolt and to b... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3991601 | Fluid actuated reciprocating tool A compressed gas hydraulic operated tool for installing pull type fasteners, in which two balanced hydraulic systems reciprocally and sequentially create alternate equal forces in opposite directions through linear interaction, intra-action and reciprocal... | 11/16/1976 |
