MEANS FOR FORMING CLENCH-TONGUE (E.G., FOR TIEBAND):
(under the class definition) Apparatus, including a punch for cutting out a flap from a sheet metal work portion, and including means to bend the flap to engage and secure plural portions in assembled relation.
(1) Note. Included here is a device which cuts and bends the tongue by either single or plural means.
(2) Note. Included here is a tongue cutting and clenching device, not otherwise classified, which acts on a single work piece.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
243.5+, for overedge assembling apparatus.
432+, for a process of assembling combined with punching, piercing or reaming a part by engagement with the surface of a second part.
509+, for a process of assembling including joining by deforming by overedge clamping of a seated part. 798+, for apparatus for assembling including means to drive a self-piercing work part.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
72, Metal Deforming, subclasses appropriate to cutting and deforming.
413, Sheet Metal Container Making,
1+, for a method of fabricating a sheet metal can.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web,
350+, for a similar device which operates on a nonmetallic material.
