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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:
Dec. 16, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald W Gunkel, Lower Burrell, PA (US);
James R Morran, Apollo, PA (US);
Assignee:
Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B / ; F16B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
411 29 ;
Abstract
A preferably aluminum blind setting rivet including a detachable drill tip, preferably of steel, for self-drilling, the drill tip being attached to the rivet mandrel for drilling a hole to receive the rivet and being subsequently ejected from the mandrel during rivet setting.