Patent ID: 7043827

Claim:
A device for loading a rivet and the like in a rivet holder belt, the device comprising: a hopper for storing a set of rivets and the like at random; a chute which is continuous from the hopper to guide the rivets and the like that are contained in the hopper to a delivery position of a rivet wheel; the rivet wheel having flange bodies with grooves formed on an outer rim periphery of said flange bodies, said rivet wheel rotates to receive the rivets and the like from a lower end of the chute and stores the rivets and the like one by one in each of said grooves; a pushing member which is provided to face a circumference of the rivet wheel to push the rivets and the like stored in the grooves of the rivet wheel into holding notches of a rivet holder belt that is guided along the rivet wheel; and a sprocket which is provided in a trunk of the rivet wheel and feeds the rivet holder belt while engaging with a plurality of engagement holes that are opened along a length of the rivet holder belt, wherein the rivet wheel and the sprocket are placed so that, a grooves-notches aligning means is defined by said engagement holes and a plurality of teeth on said sprocket forming a positional relation between the grooves of the rivet wheel and the teeth of the sprocket, when the engagement holes of the rivet holder belt mesh with the teeth of the sprocket, the grooves of the rivet wheel and the holding notches of the rivet holder belt come into alignment with each other.