US 11,673,183 B2
Fastener handling devices for fastener setting machines, and related methods
Wojciech Gostylla, Flintshire (GB); and Stuart Edmond Blacket, Flintshire (GB)
Assigned to Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited, Flintshire (GB)
Filed by Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited, Flintshire (GB)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/556,094.
Application 17/556,094 is a continuation of application No. 16/770,096, granted, now 11,241,729, previously published as PCT/GB2018/053527, filed on Dec. 5, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 1720248 (GB), filed on Dec. 5, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0111433 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. B21J 15/32 (2006.01); B21J 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC B21J 15/32 (2013.01) [B21J 15/025 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-line fastener selection device comprising fastener conduit having a first fastener conduit portion and a second fastener conduit portion, and an escapement mechanism located between the first and second fastener conduit portions;
wherein the escapement mechanism has:
a first configuration in which a first barrier portion of the escapement mechanism is configured to block the passage of a leading fastener from a first section of the second fastener conduit portion to the first fastener conduit portion;
a second configuration in which the first barrier portion of the escapement mechanism is configured to permit the passage of the leading fastener from the first section of the second fastener conduit portion to the first fastener conduit portion, and a second barrier portion of the escapement mechanism is configured to block the passage of a trailing fastener from a second section of the second fastener conduit portion to the first section of the second fastener conduit portion; and
a third configuration in which the second barrier portion of the escapement mechanism is configured to permit the passage of the trailing fastener from the second section of the second fastener conduit portion to the first section of the second fastener conduit portion, and the first or second barrier portion of the escapement mechanism is configured to block the passage of the trailing fastener from the first section of the second fastener conduit portion to the first fastener conduit portion.