Hole punch and also a method for the piercing of a workpiece which is present as a foam material and/or as a sandwich material and also a method for the manufacture of the hole punch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10788071-B2
Application number	US-201815958755-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 20, 2018
Priority date	Sep 16, 2013
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

A hole punch and a method for piercing a workpiece wherein a hole punch includes a sheet metal part and a piercing body attached thereto which carries out the piercing function and which is provided with a thread cylinder or can be provided with a thread cylinder, for example by pressing a threaded pin into a centrally arranged passage of the hole punch, wherein the hole punch can also be formed in one piece as a piercing body with a sheet metal-like flange. Furthermore a method is claimed for the manufacture of the hole punch.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a composite strip assembly of a plurality of like hole punches comprising: supplying a plurality of piercing bodies to a tool of a press, drawing a sheet metal strip off from a carrier and supplying it to the tool, and permanently securing the piercing bodies to separately formed sheet metal parts of the sheet metal strip at regular spacings along a longitudinal axis of the sheet metal strip.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the sheet metal strip having plural hole punches is one of cut into lengths including a plurality of the sheet metal parts and rolled up into a coil.

3. A method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the tool is a progressive tool operating in strokes which carries out a plurality of operations for each stroke.

4. A method in accordance with claim 3 , wherein the plurality of operations include attachment of a plurality of piercing bodies for each stroke of the progressive tool.

5. A method in accordance with claim 4 , in which shaping work is simultaneously carried out at the sheet metal strip in the progressive tool.

6. A method in accordance with claim 5 , further including forming claws on the sheet metal parts configured to secure the sheet metal parts against rotation relative to a workpiece via the shaping work.

7. A method in accordance with claim 1 , further including securing the piercing bodies against rotation relative to sheet metal parts.

Assignees

• Profil Verbindungstechnik Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Diehl Oliver
• Lembach Andreas

Classifications

• F16B27/00

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• B23P19/064 Primary

  Deforming the support material only, e.g. the sheet or plate · CPC title

• F16B19/086

  Self-piercing rivets · CPC title

• F16B37/065

  by deforming the material of the nut · CPC title

• F16B39/282 Primary

  Locking by means of special shape of work-engaging surfaces, e.g. notched or toothed nuts · CPC title