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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Powderley, Birmingham, GB;
Assignee:
USM Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
72391 ; 7245317 ;
Abstract
A blind riveting tool of the type employing a reuseable mandrel carrying a plurality of headed rivets to be successively installed has its nose portion provided with members closeable to abut the heads, respectively, during rivet setting and openable to permit passing of a rivet between the members. A part at the front of the tool is conveniently shiftable to hold the members open for reloading of rivets, or for maintaining the members closed during a rivet setting stroke.