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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1998
David P Banks, Lake Stevens, WA (US);
James N Buttrick, Jr, Seattle, WA (US);
Charles H Glaisyer, Everett, WA (US);
Darrell D Jones, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Russell C McCrum, Redmond, WA (US);
Philip M Wright, Clinton, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a bucking bar that upsets a shank of a rivet. The bucking bar includes an L-shaped bucking die having a wide section and a thin angular section capable of sliding between an obstacle and the shank. The L-shaped bucking bar consists of Tungsten Carbide. The bucking bar also includes a bucking bar arm coupled to the wide section of the L-shaped bucking die for positioning the thin angular section of the bucking die between the obstacle and the shank of the rivet.