Device for assembling by riveting two or more sections of a structure

Patent 4662556 Issued on May 5, 1987. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 17, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Patent References

1158874

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Apparatus for the automated assembly of major subassemblies
Patent #: 4203204
Issued on: 05/20/1980
Inventor: Murphy

Method and apparatus for the automated assembly of major subassemblies Patent #: 4310964
Issued on: 01/19/1982
Inventor: Murphy

Inventor

Gidlund, Per Adolf L.

Assignee

Atlas Copco Aktiebolag

Application

No. 06/661654 filed on 10/17/1984

US Classes:

227/69, Rotatable cutting tool227/111, Including means to move driver carriage227/152, Means to clamp work227/51, WITH MEANS TO HEAD MEMBER29/34B, Riveting29/526.2, With separating, localizing, or eliminating of as-cast defects from a metal casting (e.g., anti-pipe)29/703Computer input

Examiners

Primary: Sipos, John
Assistant: Ross, Taylor J.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Woodward

International Classes

B23Q 9/00 (20060101)
B21J 15/10 (20060101)
B21J 15/14 (20060101)
B21J 15/42 (20060101)
B21J 15/00 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1983-10-21 SE

Abstract

A device for assembling by riveting two or more sections of a sheet element structure wherein the sections (A, B) to be assembled are supported in a fixed stationary mode. A guide beam (16, 116) is clamped firmly against one side of the sections and supports a selectively movable working unit (17, 117) comprising drilling machines (45, 46) and rivet supplying and installing means (48,49) and a riveting hammer (50). A multiple or single point thrust and rivet bucking means (32, 132) is arranged on the opposite side of the sections (A, B) and comprises clamping force producing thrust elements (34; 134) as well as a rivet bucking die (41; 141). A computerized control system (43, 53) governs the operation cycles of the working unit (17;117) as well as the thrust and rivet bucking means (32; 132).