Blind Rivet Abstract Apparatus for permitting blind rivet elements to be installed utilizing automatic insertion equipment. A blind rivet carrier element having a predetermined width and thickness is adapted for receiving the body of the blind rivet,...
Blind Rivet Abstract A magazine for use in continuously feeding blind rivets into a riveting tool comprising a first elongate paper sheet positioned in a substantially planar configuration and a second elongate paper sheet formed into a plurality of...
Blind Rivet Abstract A blind rivet assembly and tool for inserting same for facilitating blind riveting processes. A carrier element having a removably secured blind rivet body provides for improved automatic insertion techniques. A carrier element h...
Blind Rivet Abstract A blind rivet stem extending through a hollow rivet so that it may be pulled, thereby to expand the tail of the hollow rivet; a collar on the stem has a head fitting in a locking groove within the grip length of the stem so that...
Blind Rivet Abstract A machine for automatically assembling the tubular rivet and pin of a blind rivet assembly. The tubular rivets and pins are fed from supply hoppers along a pair of chutes, one of which carries a sequence of rivets and the other o...
Blind Rivet Abstract For use in pull-through blind riveting a plurality of tubular rivets is received on a reusable mandrel having a head and a stem, each rivet having a recess in its tail end which can accommodate a ring of metal separated by the ma...
Blind Rivet Abstract A blind rivet for fastening apertured sheets comprises a tubular shell having a head at one end, and a mandrel having an enlarged head which when pulled into the bore of the shell deforms the shell to produce a blind head. The ma...
Blind Rivet Abstract In this blind rivet, the sleeve is counterbored from the rear end, and has interior axial splines forward of the counterbore. The bulb-forming lugs project laterally from a shoulder portion of the mandrel that has a diameter suff...
Blind Rivet Abstract A blind rivet comprising a sleeve with a preformed rivet head at one end, and a setting pin telescoped into the sleeve and having a pulling section projecting beyond the headed end of the sleeve and an expanding head projecting b...
Blind Rivet Abstract A tool for setting internally threaded blind-rivet nuts comprises a pliers-type structure having a fixed arm having at one end thereof a hammerhead housing formed with a bore in which a pulling piece is linearly guided. A mandrel...
Blind Rivet Abstract A lock spindle blind rivet assembly is provided which is intended to be received in a hole in a workpiece, and which is made up of a sleeve adapted to be received in the hole, a stem having a forward section with an outer diamete...
Blind Rivet Abstract A blind rivet fabricated out of thermoplastic material and having a sealing ring spaced from the set head. The sealing ring has a diameter larger than the tubular rivet and spaced from the head to be disposed within the through-h...
Blind Rivet Abstract A lock spindle blind rivet assembly is provided which is intended to be received in a hole in a workpiece, and which is made up of a sleeve adapted to be received in the hole, a stem having a forward section with an outer diamete...
Blind Rivet Abstract A blind rivet is injection molden from plastic material. It comprises a female member molded about a male member. The female member is comprised of a flexible tubular wall and a flange about the upper end thereof, the wall defini...
Blind Rivet Abstract A hollow rivet and a setting mandrel are injection molded of thermoplastic material to form a single piece blind rivet or a blind rivet type foot of a fastener for moldings and the like. A draw shank and an enlarged head of the s...
Blind Rivet Abstract In a method for the injection molding of a plastic blind rivet of the type essentially consisting of a shank and a rivet body such that an upward slide of the shank relative to the rivet body causes the leading end of the rivet b...
Blind Rivet Abstract A novel blind rivet is provided wherein the blind head is upset by a pin driven from the exposed side into a core of soft metal contained by a closed tube end which is selectively thinned to result in controlled deformation due t...