System for loading collars onto bolts in large-scale manufacturing operations

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8726486
APP PUB NO 20130272805A1
SERIAL NO

13911963

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Collars having a center opening are conveyed through a feed channel by compressed air to a swaging die tool for bolts. There is sufficient clearance between the collar and the channel to permit movement of the collar as the forward end of the die pin engages a central opening of the collar, the feed assembly or the swaging die tool being moveable sufficiently thereafter to permit a die-pin engaged collar to move forward for engagement with a tail end of a bolt. The collar is loaded onto the bolt and the collar moved forward to a stackup of parts prior to a bolt being moved through an opening in the stackup for engagement with the collar.

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ELECTROIMPACT INCMUKILTEO WA

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Tomchick, Scott C Edmonds, US 7 62

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