Abstract: A two piece fastener includes a pin member having a head and a shank portion having a plurality of grooves thereon, as well as a tubular membered swaged into locking engagement with a predetermined number of the grooves by means of a tool having a swaging anvil. A number of the grooves are combination locking and breakneck grooves defined by first and second radially outwardly diverging sidewalls, the juncture of the sidewalls at each of the grooves including a concave radius portion interconnecting the radially inner ends of the first and second sidewalls, a number of the grooves being located approximate the outer end of the tubular member for receiving the material of the tubular member as it is swaged. The first and second sidewalls are angulated so as to provide a relative force between the sidewalls in the selected ones of the grooves.

Abstract: An anvil for a blind riveting tool comprises an annular disc 23 of resilient nylon-6 material received in a counterbore in the front of a rigid backing or mount 25. When the tool is used to place a blind rivet, the nylon disc contacts the rivet shell head to support it against the pull of the mandrel. The disc is flexible enough to conform to the shape of the rivet head, thus maximizing the contact area and minimizing the contact thrust, and is soft enough not to damage or mark the rivet head surface, which may, for example, be painted.

Abstract: In a blind riveting machine, in which a mandrel having a head is pulled downwardly by reciprocable and openable pulling jaws to draw the mandrel head through the bore of a tubular rivet supported at a setting station by normally closed, openable nose jaws, the nose jaws have yieldable detent means for resisting upward movement of the mandrel, and a reciprocable tube concentric with the mandrel for lifting further rivets along the mandrel, past the opened pulling jaws and nose jaws, to the setting station, has a spring detent which becomes frictionally engaged with the mandrel whereby the mandrel after being lifted with the rivets can be pulled downwardly again so that its head abuts the rivet at the setting station, thereby accurately adjusting the position of the mandrel relative to the pulling jaws, before the pulling jaws again grip the mandrel, in dependence upon the actual size of the rivet next to be set.

Abstract: A blind bolt is of the type comprising a tubular shell 14 through which extends a stem 13 with an enlarged head 12 at one end which, in installation of the bolt, is pulled into the shell 14 to expand it and form a blind head. The stem 11 is provided with two opposed deformations 19 to prevent the shell falling off the stem before installation. Each deformation has a relatively shallow sloping profile with its higher end towards the shell, and the width of the deformation is a maximum at the bottom end of the slope and a minimum at its higher end. The deformations are formed by pinching up portions of the stem between two opposed dies, the shape of the bite between the dies being tapered in the direction along the stem.

Abstract: A mandrel for a blind rivet is made by first forming a mandrel blank from wire stock in a series of cold heading operations which include forming an enlarged head at one end of an elongate stem, and then scraping material from the peripheral surface of part of the head adjacent to the stem and moving the material in a direction away from the stem so as to leave a core and to form a circumferential flange-like boss from the scraped material. The mandrel blank thus produced is then subjected to a rolling operation in which the mandrel blank is rolled between contoured mandrel-rolling dies and thereby formed into a finished mandrel.

Abstract: A self-plugging blind rivet (10) embodies lockingly interengageable members in the form of a headed tubular rivet body (12) with a bore (20) which reduces in diameter towards the head (18), and a mandrel (14) for setting the rivet. The mandrel (14) has a break-off stem (60) and a plug portion (62) which is left in the bore (20) of the rivet body (12) after setting the rivet. The plug portion (62) engages the end of the body (12) remote from the head (18) and has radially projecting longitudinal splines (102) which form grooves in the body (12) when pulled into the reduced diameter region (26) of its bore, and has a cylindrical swaging portion (84) which swages material of the body into parts of the grooves along which the splines (102) have passed so as to lock the plug (62) in the bore (20) and prevent its retraction from the set rivet.

Abstract: A resilient seal 15 for the head 14 of a headed pin fastener member comprises an annular sealing bead 25, an annular boss 24 projecting on both sides beyond the thickness of the bead 25 and having tapered faces 29, 29, and a thin annular web 26 joining the parts 24 and 25. The symmetry of the seal enables it to be assembled on the pin either way round, with the same result.

Abstract: A barb for engagement with a body 13 of deformable material such as nylon has a sharp edge 28 at the top of a relatively steep face 29 forming one side of a trough 32. A ledge or rim 38 projects from the face 29, about halfway up the face 29, and provides an abutment which restricts the extent to which the deformable material can enter the trough. This improves the resistance of the barb against being pulled out of the trough. This form of barb is particularly applicable to fasteners of the type in which a threadless bolt having barbs is embedded in a shell carrying a nylon sleeve.The barb is manufactured by a rolling process in which two dies are successively applied to a cylindrical blank, the first die to form the trough 32, and the second die to form the ledge 38.

Abstract: A two-part fastener intended for securing, e.g., a panel 41 to a frame member 42 comprises a tubular shell 11 and a pin 12. The shell bore contains a tubular insert or slug 14 of resilient nylon material. The exterior of the pin is formed with annular barbs 30. When the pin is inserted into the shell, the barbs 30 engage in the resilient slug 14 to secure the pin and shell together. The pin includes a removable pintail 33 which protrudes beyond the shell and assists in the pulling of the pin into the shell by means of a suitable pulling tool.

Abstract: A collector for the broken-off stems of blind rivets consists of a cylindrical container (20) secured to the rear of the riveting gun head (11). A cylindrical cover (22) closely surrounds the container end and is rotatable around it to a limited extent. The container (20) has an aperture (21), and the cover (22) has a corresponding aperture (23), the cover being biassed by a spring (24) to keep the apertures non-aligned. The cover (22) is rotated by means of a grip (38, 39) to bring the two apertures (21, 23) into alignment to discharge stems from the collector, the aperture (21) being closed automatically by the spring (24) on release of the cover. The container and cover may be of transparent material.

Abstract: Hydraulic operated blind riveting apparatus includes a pneumatic/hydraulic intensifier 23 and a reservoir 45 of hydraulic fluid for making up loss of hydraulic fluid. The reservoir is connected to the hydraulic system by a quick acting priming valve 47, actuated by the pneumatic feed to the intensifier. This priming valve is arranged to open and close before there is any effective change in pressure in the hydraulic system due to the action of the intensifier.

Abstract: A drill embodied in a self-drilling and self-tapping screw has a drill-point comprising a first sharp-pointed tip on the drill axis and a second sharp-pointed tip offset transversely of and axially behind the first tip. First and second cutting edges are inclined similarly to the axis on opposite sides thereof and have the first and second tips respectively at their respective leading ends.

Abstract: A tool for placing fasteners of the kind having a threaded first part which is pulled towards and/or into a second part to place the fastener without the need to accurately align the tool with the fastener, comprises a tubular nosepiece providing an annular abutment face for abutting the second part of the fastener and a mandrel which extends through the nosepiece and has a threaded part which projects forwardly of the abutment face for threadedly engaging the first part of the fastener. A draw bar which is rotatable and reciprocable on the tool axis which extends through the annular abutment face at right angles thereto transmits rotary and reciprocating motion to the mandrel through a universal joint whereby the mandrel is given freedom to move pivotally out of alignment with the tool axis. A tube surrounds part of the mandrel and limits the freedom of movement of the mandrel, and is movable along the tool axis.

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 mandrel has a breaker groove at which it breaks when the rivet is fully placed, leaving the mandrel head plugging the shell. The mandrel head has an integral peripheral skirt which can be deformed outwardly by a tool used for placing the rivet, so that the skirt engages the shell and prevents the mandrel head from being pushed out of the bore of the shell. The mandrel head is adapted to wiredraw after the blind head has been formed so that the mandrel will break substantially flush with the head of the shell when fastening either thick or thin sheets.

Abstract: A tubular rivet for blind placing comprises a cylindrical body 21, an externally thickened tail portion 34, and a head 22 with an internal taper 26 and external taper 25. The rivet is placed by pulling through it the head 42 of a mandrel, the head having a relatively steep taper 43 at the leading end.

Abstract: In a blind self-plugging rivet of resilient nylon-66 material the stem head has an annular projecting barb adjacent the breakneck, and the shell has a short counterbore at its head end into which the barb expands, when the stem head is fully pulled into the shell, to assist in locking the stem head in the shell. At its tail end the shell bore has a plurality of annular faces arranged step-wise, to engage behind the end face of the stem head over a range of possible positions of the latter depending on the thickness of the riveted members.

Abstract: An anvil for a blind riveting tool for locking the plugs of self-plugging blind rivets. The anvil has a central aperture (11), an annular abutment face (13) peripherally of the aperture (11) and a rim (14) radially inwardly of the abutment face (13) and peripherally of the aperture (11). The rim (14) projects forwardly of the abutment face (13) and has a forward end face (16) which is inclined rearwardly and outwardly and provided with generally concave recesses (15) which extend radially across the end face (16) and divide it into a plurality of lands (20) which during placing of a rivet operate to swage part of the mandrel of the rivet into locking engagement with the shell of the rivet.