Patent ID: 8430001
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: B25B

Abstract:
1. A socket for securing frangible collar fasteners to bolts and collecting frangible nut portions separated from the fasteners to avoid introducing debris into the work area, the socket comprising: (a) a socket housing having an open first end formed to receive and engage the frangible nut portions of the fasteners; (b) at least one resilient retention member disposed within the socket housing, proximate the housing first end, the retention member being resiliently displaceable to allow each nut portion to enter into the socket housing and remain engaged to the retention member during fastening, and to retain a plurality of nut portions within the socket housing after the nut portions have been separated front the frangible collar fasteners, each nut portion entering the housing being effective to urge preceding nut portions to axially translate into the socket housing away from the socket housing first end, and out of engagement with any retention member; (c) nut ejection apparatus having a first portion disposed exterior to the socket housing and a second portion disposed interior to the socket housing, the nut ejection apparatus being translatable along at least a portion of the socket length to receive and store a plurality of separated nut portions within the housing, and to urge each of the separated nut portions past the retention member and out of the socket first end.