| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fastener delivery apparatus for delivering the fastener to a setting tool. <P>SOLUTION: The fasteners are pre-loaded in a package and dispense via at least one fastener delivery tube which interconnects the setting tool to a fastener feeder device. The fastener feeder device releases the selected fastener from the package into the delivery tube. The fasteners are transportable individually or in groups in the tube from the feeder device to the tool. A transfer station attached to the tool or the delivery tube transfers the fastener from the delivery apparatus into the tool. The transfer station is movable between a first position, in which an exit of the transfer station is adjacent to the tool so that a delivered fastener can be inserted by the transfer station into the tool, and a second position in which the delivered fastener can be inserted by making the tool or a part thereof move toward a workpiece. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
