Patent ID: 7065862

Claim:
A fixing band-tightening apparatus for forcibly nipping and deforming a projection of an annular fixing band loosely fitted to a workpiece having a shaft-shaped configuration so that a diameter of said fixing band is reduced to fix said fixing band to said workpiece, said fixing band-tightening apparatus comprising: a holding section for gripping a shaft section of said workpiece at both ends in an axial direction to rotatably hold said workpiece in a circumferential direction in accordance with a driving action of a rotary driving source; a stopper section arranged in a lateral direction substantially horizontal with respect to said holding section, for positioning said projection of said fixing band in said lateral direction except for a vertical direction; and a band-tightening section for forcibly nipping said projection of said fixing band positioned by said stopper section to tighten said fixing band to said workpiece.