EP0302128A1 - Outil de pose de rivets pour poser des rivets borgnes - Google Patents

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EP0302128A1
EP0302128A1 EP87111206A EP87111206A EP0302128A1 EP 0302128 A1 EP0302128 A1 EP 0302128A1 EP 87111206 A EP87111206 A EP 87111206A EP 87111206 A EP87111206 A EP 87111206A EP 0302128 A1 EP0302128 A1 EP 0302128A1
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Maschinenbau Subotsch and Schwab GmbH
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J15/00Riveting
    • B21J15/10Riveting machines
    • B21J15/30Particular elements, e.g. supports; Suspension equipment specially adapted for portable riveters
    • B21J15/32Devices for inserting or holding rivets in position with or without feeding arrangements
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J15/00Riveting
    • B21J15/10Riveting machines
    • B21J15/105Portable riveters
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J15/00Riveting
    • B21J15/10Riveting machines
    • B21J15/30Particular elements, e.g. supports; Suspension equipment specially adapted for portable riveters
    • B21J15/32Devices for inserting or holding rivets in position with or without feeding arrangements
    • B21J15/326Broken-off mandrel collection
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/53Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/53709Overedge assembling means
    • Y10T29/53717Annular work
    • Y10T29/53726Annular work with second workpiece inside annular work one workpiece moved to shape the other
    • Y10T29/5373Annular work with second workpiece inside annular work one workpiece moved to shape the other comprising driver for snap-off-mandrel fastener; e.g., Pop [TM] riveter
    • Y10T29/53739Pneumatic- or fluid-actuated tool
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/53Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/53709Overedge assembling means
    • Y10T29/5377Riveter

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  • the invention relates to a rivet setting tool for setting blind rivets with a delivery channel extending from the mouthpiece through the device head to the rear for removing the torn rivet pins, with an axial feed device which can be actuated for the upsetting process and which comprises a cylinder-piston arrangement consisting of a pneumatic piston and a working piston comprises, and with a compressed air supply device for actuating the feed device and for removing the torn pins.
  • the rivet With such rivet setting tools, several operations are required. First, the rivet must be sucked in by the device, then the feed device must be actuated to carry out the actual riveting process and then the torn pin must be conveyed out of the device into a pin collecting container.
  • different actuators often have to be operated in known devices, and a constant stream of compressed air is provided, which makes the operation of the device relatively expensive and, in addition, constantly causes compressed air noises. If the device is taken out of operation, the compressed air flow must be shut off using an additional compressed air valve.
  • the invention is based on the object of making available a rivet setting tool that manages for all operations with a single actuator and in which unnecessary compressed air consumption and the noise caused thereby are avoided.
  • the invention is that in a rivet setting tool of the type mentioned an actuation is movable in two operating positions, that the first operating position opens a feed channel valve that introduces compressed air for sucking the rivet into the feed channel and that the second operating position opens a valve for actuating the feed device.
  • the actuating element acts on a valve piston to which a valve tappet is fastened, which moves a valve ball out of its valve ball seat.
  • valve tappet advantageously has a smaller diameter than the valve tappet bore in which it is located, a compressed air passage leading from the valve tappet bore to the delivery channel.
  • a compression spring urges a valve ball into its ball valve seat and that the compression spring is mounted in a central valve slide bore of a valve slide.
  • valve piston comes into contact with the valve slide in the first operating position, while in the second operating position the valve piston moves the valve slide downward and thereby opens a pneumatic piston valve through which compressed air enters the pneumatic cylinder chamber on the pneumatic piston.
  • valve spool is seated in a compressed air supply bore, the inner diameter of which is larger than the outer diameter of the valve spool and that an O-ring seal in the second operating position of the actuator releases a pneumatic cylinder chamber feed bore.
  • the central valve slide bore in the region of the valve chamber is expediently connected to it by a transverse bore.
  • the actuator consists of a pusher that is movable against a compression spring within a guide is.
  • the handle is equipped with a roller that comes into contact with the top of the valve piston.
  • a blind rivet is inserted into the mouthpiece 1.
  • a front sleeve 2 surrounds the clamping jaws 3 and is sealed with an O-ring seal 4 against a clamping sleeve 5.
  • a guide sleeve 6 with the compression spring 7.
  • the rear part 8 of the front sleeve 2 is screwed into the housing 17.
  • a hydraulic piston 9 which is sealed against the housing 17 via O-ring seals 10 and 11.
  • a strong compression spring 12 urges the hydraulic piston 9 into its front position, shown in the figure.
  • the housing is closed at the rear by an end piece 13.
  • a conveying channel 40 leads from the mouthpiece 1 to the rear and opens into a pen collecting container 16. This is sealed to the front by O-ring seals 14 and 15 and has two vent holes 53.
  • the lower part of the housing 17 is closed by a pneumatic piston housing 20, in which a pneumatic piston 19 is seated and is sealed off from the housing parts with the aid of O-ring seals 18 and 21.
  • a pneumatic piston extension 22 projects into a housing chamber 23 which tapers in the housing 17 and is connected to the hydraulic piston 9.
  • An actuator in the form of a pusher 37 sits in a guide 38 and is movable against a compression spring 39 in the housing 37 in two operating positions.
  • the pusher 37 is equipped with a pusher roller 52 which comes to rest on the top of a valve piston 36.
  • the piston 36 has one Valve tappet 41, which extends up to a valve ball 34, which belongs to a delivery channel valve 42.
  • the valve ball 34 is seated in a valve ball seat 44, which is formed in a valve slide 32 and closes off the valve tappet bore 55, which has a larger inner diameter than the outer diameter of the valve tappet 41.
  • a compressed air passage 46 extends from the valve tappet bore 45 and passes through a supply bore 53 the delivery channel 40 is connected.
  • the valve slide 31 is sealed off from the bore in the housing 17 by O-rings 35.
  • the valve slide 31 has a central valve slide bore 50, in which a compression spring 33 is arranged, which urges the valve ball 34 into its valve seat 44.
  • a pneumatic piston valve 43 At the lower end of the valve slide 32, which is extended by a valve rod 29, there is a pneumatic piston valve 43.
  • a compressed air supply is connected to a compressed air chamber 46 into which the lower end of the valve rod 29 projects.
  • the compressed air chamber 46 is connected to the pneumatic cylinder chamber 47 via a pneumatic cylinder chamber feed bore 49. O-ring seals on the valve rod 29 are arranged so that in the second operating position they establish a connection between the compressed air supply into the compressed air chamber 46 through the pneumatic cylinder chamber supply bore 49 with the pneumatic cylinder chamber 47.
  • a compression spring 28 is arranged in the compressed air chamber 46 and urges the valve rod 29 and thus the valve slide 32 upwards.
  • the compressed air chamber 46 and the valve rod are sealed off from the pneumatic piston 19 by means of a retaining ring 25 and O seals 24 and 26.
  • valve ball 34 in the valve seat 44 regulates the passage of compressed air through the compressed air supply bore 48, and no air flows out of the device. If the device is operated by the push button 37 in the first operating position is pressed, the roller 52 presses the valve piston 36 downward, and the valve tappet 41 moves the valve ball 34 out of the valve seat 44. As a result, compressed air passes from the valve slide bore 50 into the valve tappet bore 45 and from there via the compressed air supply bore 38 into the delivery channel 40 , so that a blind rivet, not shown, is sucked into the mouthpiece 1.
  • the valve piston 36 on the roller 52 moves further downward.
  • the valve slide 32 comes into contact with the valve slide 32 and thus moves it and thus also the valve rod 39 downward.
  • a connection is established between the compressed air supply or the pressure chamber 46 filled with compressed air via the pneumatic cylinder feed bore 49 to the pneumatic cylinder chamber 47.
  • the pneumatic piston is moved upwards in the device, thereby causing the hydraulic piston to move backwards against the compression spring 12 in the device, as a result of which the riveting process is carried out.
  • the pusher 37 is relieved and returns to the first operating position.
  • valve ball 34 still releases the valve seat 44, so that compressed air continues to be fed into the delivery channel 40 and the torn-off pin can be conveyed into the pin collecting container 16. If the pusher 37 is completely relieved, the valve ball 34 also returns to the valve seat 44, and the compressed air supply is thus completed.
  • the invention has thus made available a blind rivet setting tool in which constant air consumption is avoided and the compressed air supply in the device is closed during breaks in operation without having to actuate a separate closing valve. So the device comes with a single push button. This considerably simplifies operation, and compressed air consumption and the associated exit noises are avoided during short pauses in operation.

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EP87111206A 1987-08-04 1987-08-04 Outil de pose de rivets pour poser des rivets borgnes Expired - Lifetime EP0302128B1 (fr)

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EP87111206A EP0302128B1 (fr) 1987-08-04 1987-08-04 Outil de pose de rivets pour poser des rivets borgnes
DE8787111206T DE3775768D1 (de) 1987-08-04 1987-08-04 Nietsetzwerkzeug zum setzen von blindnieten.
US07/227,503 US4866972A (en) 1987-08-04 1988-08-02 Rivet setting tool for setting blind rivets
JP63193552A JP2523163B2 (ja) 1987-08-04 1988-08-04 盲リベット取付け工具

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DE3775768D1 (de) 1992-02-13

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