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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2006
Aiden Robert Dear, Hertfordshire, GB;
Aiden Robert Dear, Hertfordshire, GB;
Avdel UK Limited, Welwyn Garden, Hertfordshire, GB;
Abstract
A shuttle () for feeding tubular rivets (), which are of relatively short axial length compared with their head diameter, along a flexible hose () to a movable rivet-installation tool has an aperture () running parallel to its axis along its whole length. Through this aperture a rivet can be both inserted into, and removed from, the shuttle. It also enables the sideways removal from the shuttle of an elongated mandrel, over the end of which a rivet has been axially fed. The exterior of the shuttle () and the interior of the hose () have similar cross-sections, which are a sliding fit and which co-operate with each other to maintain the shuttle () in a pre-determined rotational relationship with the hose (), to facilitate insertion and removal of the rivet as aforesaid.