Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Headed fastener element – Having plastically flowable or deflectable end – e.g. – rivet,...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-25
2007-09-25
Saether, Flemming (Department: 3677)
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Headed fastener element
Having plastically flowable or deflectable end, e.g., rivet,...
C411S070000, C029S525060
Reexamination Certificate
active
11142238
ABSTRACT:
A blind rivet and a method of assembly comprising a tubular shell and mandrel in combination. The mandrel comprises a stem and a radially-enlarged head which in use forms a blind head to the shell to set the rivet, in which either the head of the mandrel or the bore of the shell is formed with a plurality of depressions the bases of which lie on a notional circle having a diameter which, where the depressions are formed in the head of the mandrel, is less than the bore of the shell or, where the depressions are formed in the bore of the shell, is greater than the diameter of the head of the mandrel. The depressions, which are preferably generally longitudinally disposed, define ribs, ridges or other protusions therebetween which in use and on pulling the mandrel into the shell bore extend radially beyond the bore of the shell, so that material of the shell becomes displaced by contact with the ridges and occupies the depressions. The invention may be applied either to pull-through, or self-plugging rivets.
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Kondracki Edward J.
Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
Milladale Limited
Saether Flemming
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