Patent ID: 6761268
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: F16B

Abstract:
A screw-holding belt for temporarily holing thereon a row of headed screws, the belt comprising:a belt body made from a plastics and having a row of cutouts that are formed at a given pitch in and along at least one of opposite lateral side edges of the belt body, the cutouts serving for intermittent feed of the belt body during use thereof, latent passage holes formed at the same pitch as the cutouts and arranged longitudinally of the belt body, each passage hole permitting the screw to be pushed off said belt body and being of a diameter larger than an outer diameter of a head or a washer attached to a neck of each headed screw below the head, screw-holding cylinders each formed in and coaxial with a central region of the corresponding latent passage hole, so that a threaded leg of each headed screw is capable of insertion into in the cylinder to be sustained therein, and four stays that continue from a rim defining an upper opening of each cylinder and extend to an inner periphery of the corresponding latent passage hole, wherein all of the four stays extend radially and outwardly in directions each intersecting a longitudinal center line of the belt body at a given angle.